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<\/p>\nRUSH:\u00a0 So, now some of the transcripts from Schiff\u2019s closed-door meetings, hearings, whatever you want to call \u2019em, are being released, and I\u2019m gonna tell you what we\u2019re gonna find.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m not gonna go out on a limb right now and say that some of those people were lying. But it\u2019s gonna be close, and maybe some of them did.\u00a0 But I just want to tell you, I want to reiterate something.\u00a0 I just saw some of the testimony from some babe — I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry, some woman — who was an ambassador. She had some role.<\/p>\n
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Yovanovitch, I think was her name, and she\u2019s testifying about the odd things the president said, the odd things that the president was talking about.\u00a0 I cannot emphasize for you enough, folks… (sigh) These people in this particular segment, we\u2019re talking about a subset of the deep state, a subset of the administrative state.\u00a0 This subset contains what we would call the foreign policy establishment.\u00a0 It contains elements of the State Department, obviously, but people from the National Security Council with whom the president meets and the intelligence community.<\/p>\n
Maybe throw some four-stars in there, retired four-stars or active.\u00a0 These people are lifelong swamp dwellers. They look at themselves as the permanent government.\u00a0 Even a president is a transient.\u00a0 He\u2019s gonna serve one or two terms. He\u2019s gonna come and go.\u00a0 In these people\u2019s minds — do not doubt me — they run it.\u00a0 They run foreign policy.\u00a0 They run, they set the foreign policy of the country.\u00a0 They are the diplomatic corps.\u00a0 They are the ones who talk to other nations\u2019 representatives.\u00a0 You throw Trump in the mix; he thinks he sets foreign policy — and he does!<\/p>\n
The president does.\u00a0 These people don\u2019t.\u00a0 But the way things have evolved over decades… I think the real beginning of this — and it may even predate this — is post-World War II, for certain.\u00a0 It may predate it.\u00a0 But this is a group of people who view themselves as permanent.\u00a0 I mean, they don\u2019t serve for life, but their positions. They do serve longer than presidents.\u00a0 They are, in many cases, career.\u00a0 So they are immune to presidential appointment.\u00a0 The president will appoint secretary of state or director of the National Security Council and then ambassadors.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s a lot of people in there that you and I don\u2019t know, like in the regulatory agencies that are doing grunt work who we\u2019ve never heard of until they pipe up, like Marie Harf and any number of other people. Sally Yates.\u00a0 Sally Yates is lurking in there in the Office of Legal Counsel, a holdover from Obama. Nobody ever heard her name until she decided that she had to step in and save the country from Trump.\u00a0 She had no power to do it.\u00a0 He\u2019s president.\u00a0 He sets policy. But she didn\u2019t like his!<\/p>\n
So she goes public, “We can\u2019t do that,” with the first travel ban.<\/p>\n
These people do that.\u00a0 They set the policy for the government.\u00a0 They implement it, not the president!\u00a0 I\u2019m not making this up, and I\u2019m not even exaggerating.\u00a0 These people are so full of themselves that you can\u2019t believe it — and they\u2019ve been allowed to do it over the course of years. Various presidents of both parties just accept it, because everybody\u2019s part of the Washington establishment and how it functions and operates.\u00a0 Trump is like throwing a live grenade in a room with all of them.<\/p>\n
So to cut to the chase, many of these witnesses whose testimony is gonna be released by Schiff as part of the resolution that he agreed to to go public, if you ever take the time to read them, you know what you\u2019re gonna find?\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna find these people just disagree!\u00a0 They just say, “Trump, you can\u2019t do that,” even though he perfectly can!\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t done anything illegal!\u00a0 He\u2019s just doing things these people wouldn\u2019t do — and, therefore, he\u2019s gotta be stopped!\u00a0 They have no respect for the office of the president, particularly when he\u2019s in it.<\/p>\n
If any particular president happens to embrace them and include them and bring them in then, yeah, everything\u2019s fine and hunky-dory. But if you\u2019ve got a president like Trump who believes he sets foreign policy, he sets trade policy, he determines the economic agenda of the G7 and the G20, not these people, of course they\u2019re gonna rise up in indignation.\u00a0 They\u2019re being replaced.\u00a0 Just like every other… Like the Never Trumpers have been exposed as unnecessary to the conservative movement.\u00a0 Trump is basically exhibiting many of the people the deep state are not needed.<\/p>\n
And in fact, some of them are actually doing great damage, because they\u2019ve got a perverted view of America in the world and American foreign policy.\u00a0 So you\u2019re gonna see people who are acting like Trump has committed crimes simply because he\u2019s doing it differently than they\u2019ve ever done it.\u00a0 And that can\u2019t be tolerated.\u00a0 And I am not… Folks, I\u2019m not exaggerating this.\u00a0 I\u2019m not firing things out of my mouth up against a wall hoping one or two of them stick.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you I know this like the back of my hand, \u2019cause I know people like this.\u00a0 It\u2019s more than a cliche.\u00a0 “We\u2019ve never done it that way! We can\u2019t do that.”\u00a0 How many of you have ever encountered that in a job?”\u00a0 You\u2019re new in a job and you\u2019ve got managerial power, and you want to change up some systems, and the existing staff that didn\u2019t get canned along with their boss say, “Wait a minute.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do that.\u00a0 We\u2019ve never done it that way.” \u00a0Well, that\u2019s what this is, but you throw in a hell of a lot of power. These people are dealing with U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n
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They think they set it.\u00a0 So I\u2019ll guarantee you, they don\u2019t want the whistleblower to testify.\u00a0 What is this business, the whistleblower will answer written questions?\u00a0 What the hell is that?\u00a0 The bottom line is, Schiff does not want the whistleblower to testify.\u00a0 The whistleblower was never intended to be made public because the whistleblower never even heard the phone call.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of an orchestrated scam that is being made to look like, “There are really some upset people in foreign policy.<\/p>\n
“They cannot stand this president.\u00a0 He\u2019s so dangerous! He\u2019s putting America at risk.\u00a0 This is very bad.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to stop him.” What it really is, is Trump just doing things differently than they\u2019ve done, speaking differently than they have, speaking differently than they do.\u00a0 Different objectives than they\u2019ve had.\u00a0 And they just… They\u2019re not gonna sit by and watch their jobs be rendered irrelevant.\u00a0 And a bunch of them are dyed-in-the-wool leftists who do not view American Greatness as something kosher for the world.<\/p>\n
They view America being great again as upsetting all of the plans they put into place for the last 30, 40, 50 years.\u00a0 “American nationalism,” they say, “what the hell is that?\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing special about America.\u00a0 No, no, no.\u00a0 We\u2019re all globalists now.\u00a0 We have this intricately woven web of cooperation and understandings, and we\u2019re not gonna let Trump come in here and…” In other words, Trump has not committed a crime that is impeachable.\u00a0 He\u2019s simply not doing things their way, and they are pushing back.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re doing it in conjunction with Democrats under the guise of impeachment to make it look like… In other words, Donald Trump\u2019s doing exactly what you elected him to do, and these people are trying to stop him. And since they can\u2019t stop him any other way, they\u2019re trying to say he\u2019s doing criminal things, impeachable things.\u00a0 Looked at in that light, it\u2019s not complicated to understand.\u00a0 The whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, can\u2019t stand cross-examination.\u00a0 Schiff would no more subject him to it than he would anybody else.<\/p>\n
The more we are learning of Vindman, the worse it gets, given his contacts.\u00a0 And by “the worse,” I mean, this guy is the aide-de-camp to McMaster.\u00a0 These guys are all thick as thieves.\u00a0 These are people who were part of the National Security Council.\u00a0 They\u2019re under Obama or have deep ties to the deep state, and they simply just can\u2019t abide Trump being president.\u00a0 They can\u2019t abide him coming in, taking over their roles, their jobs, upsetting all the work that they have done.\u00a0 You know what Vindman\u2019s beef is?\u00a0 Vindman\u2019s beef — Lt. Col. Vindman (who Kasich says, “When this guy testifies, things will change”) — is he just doesn\u2019t like Trump\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n
This guy had no problem with Biden as the point man in Ukraine. None of these people had any problem with Biden and his kid running a scam deal there. They all knew about it. They didn\u2019t have a problem with it because Obama was implementing their foreign policy. So it didn\u2019t matter. If Trump was implementing — well, I won\u2019t go that far. They\u2019re gonna be opposed to Trump no matter what he does.<\/p>\n
This is why Trump cannot ever move in their direction. It won\u2019t matter. These people, when you boil it all down, seem to think that the president doesn\u2019t make foreign policy, they do. And that\u2019s, in large part, what this is about.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Something else I want to remind you of.\u00a0 Schiff is releasing a bunch of transcripts today, partial transcripts from witnesses who have testified before his committee.\u00a0 There\u2019s only one transcript that matters: The transcript of President Trump\u2019s call with the president of Ukraine.\u00a0 That\u2019s the only transcript that matters, and there\u2019s not a crime in it, there\u2019s nothing untoward in it, there is nothing impeachable in it, there\u2019s nothing irregular in it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had people send me emails.<\/p>\n
“Rush, you know, you love the military — you credit these people left and right — and now you\u2019re treating this Vindman guy…” I know. This is tough.\u00a0 But I can tell you… I can explain this, folks.\u00a0 I just did but let me add something to it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got this permanent cabal.\u00a0 Now, it gets populated by different people.\u00a0 Nobody lives forever. But we have this permanent cabal of people in the establishment, deep state, whatever, who run foreign policy.\u00a0 They\u2019re intelligence people. They\u2019re National Security Council, State Department diplomats, and some military people — and they do it.<\/p>\n
They certainly are there longer than presidents.\u00a0 They outlive presidents.\u00a0 Presidents come and go.\u00a0 These are permanent people, other than the appointees.\u00a0 Most of the jobs we\u2019re talking about are not appointed.\u00a0 They are career.\u00a0 And everybody that works in this position, in this cabal, is loyal not to the president, not to the commander-in-chief.\u00a0 They\u2019re loyal to their superiors within this little subgroup.\u00a0 I don\u2019t question Vindman\u2019s loyalty.\u00a0 I\u2019m not suggesting that Vindman, the decorated military hero with the service of valor in Vietnam…<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s being entirely obedient and loyal to the people that work in the national security apparatus.\u00a0 They don\u2019t like Trump.\u00a0 They think Trump represents a threat to American foreign policy, to the world.\u00a0 Those are the people he works for.\u00a0 In his life, in his world, his superior isn\u2019t the president.\u00a0 Now, you say, “But, Rush, every military man\u2019s commander-in-chief…” Yes, I know, but we\u2019re talking about people here like John Brennan.\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna tell John Brennan to go fly a kite when he tells you something if you have the privilege of working in this august, small, little group of people?<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got Clapper or whoever runs the Office of National Intelligence. You\u2019ve got some military people in here, like you\u2019ve got William McRaven, retired military.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got former General McMaster, who was the national security adviser for Trump.\u00a0 Those are the people that Vindman and the whistleblower are loyal to — and, by the way, up their chain is Obama.\u00a0 In their world, they are obedient to the commander-in-chief, the last legitimate one: Obama.\u00a0 In their world, Trump is not legitimate.\u00a0 He\u2019s an existential threat.\u00a0 But these people all have to do what their bosses tell \u2019em to do, not that they\u2019re not inclined to do it on their own.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like Lois Lerner.\u00a0 Lois Lerner didn\u2019t have to be told to screw conservatives applying for tax-exempt status.\u00a0 She\u2019s a liberal at the IRS knowing full well what her job is.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t need a memo from Obama to know what to do.\u00a0 That\u2019s why there wasn\u2019t a smoking gun memo.\u00a0 So Vindman and this leaker are in their own little self-contained corridor of power. You know, in normal circumstances they work with the president.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it was a blast working with Obama.\u00a0 They had the same agenda: America in decline.<\/p>\n
“America\u2019s nothing special.\u00a0 It\u2019s just maybe a bigger nation than most others but still part of the global deal.”\u00a0 Obama certainly didn\u2019t believe in sophistry like Make America Great Again.\u00a0 “My God, how naive,” they think. “How absolutely childish, how old-fashioned.\u00a0 Great nation? This is crazy,” they think.\u00a0 So you work for somebody that\u2019s tasked you with helping them get rid of Trump because the nation needs to get rid of Trump. America, to survive as they have set it up, Trump\u2019s gotta go. Who are you gonna be loyal to?\u00a0 I can explain this to you, whatever question you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just telling you this whole cabal, in their minds, have amassed much more power than they should have, than they were ever intended to have.\u00a0 They should not be running foreign policy.\u00a0 The president does.\u00a0 But presidents have been at odds with the State Department for all of my life. The State Department thinks they\u2019re in their self-contained little apparatus over there. Sometimes they work with the president. But oftentimes, man, they gotta protect the world from the president.\u00a0 In their world, presidents don\u2019t know half what they know.<\/p>\n
In their world, presidents are just the temporary stewards of some office over in the White House.\u00a0 But to them, that\u2019s ceremonial.\u00a0 They\u2019re doing the real work — and they\u2019re happy nobody sees \u2019em doing it.\u00a0 But when somebody like Trump comes along and takes over — and in taking over is going to attempt to totally wipe out what they\u2019ve done? (Snort!) Well, they\u2019re gonna stand up and say, “To hell with you, bud.”\u00a0 This is exactly what\u2019s happened, and they\u2019ve got intelligence people working with them.<\/p>\n
They incorporated some people in the FBI, as you know — Comey and these people.\u00a0 These are all people protecting their turf at the base element.\u00a0 They\u2019re protecting their turf, as everybody in the establishment is.\u00a0 But these people think they run foreign policy, not the president.\u00a0 “Especially this one!\u00a0 This one is a joke.\u00a0 This one is an embarrassment.\u00a0 This one is… Oh, my God, save everybody from this one.”\u00a0 They\u2019re arrogant and they\u2019re cocky and they have hubris.<\/p>\n
No doubt, in their own minds, they think they\u2019re doing the Lord\u2019s work.\u00a0 They\u2019re just so out of touch.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care about public opinion.\u00a0 It\u2019s irrelevant to them.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even think about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something that is important in the way they do their jobs.\u00a0 They look at you the same way they look at Trump.\u00a0 “You\u2019ve got no business having anything to say about foreign policy.\u00a0 Who the hell are you? Yeah, go vote, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 You don\u2019t get a say in America\u2019s foreign policy!\u00a0 You don\u2019t get a say in foreign aid.\u00a0 You don\u2019t get a say in anything.<\/p>\n
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“You have no idea what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 You have no idea what you know. You\u2019re just a dumb voter — and, in many ways, the nation needs to be protected from you dumb voters, like when you elect somebody like Trump.”\u00a0 This is what\u2019s animating them.\u00a0 Plus, tack on to all this the literally personal hatred they have for Trump.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we find ourselves in the middle of.\u00a0 Now, I want to get to all these polls out there.\u00a0 I mentioned at the top of the program how we are manipulated with public polling data.<\/p>\n
Let me rephrase something — or say something, not rephrase.\u00a0 Let me restate something.\u00a0 We see public opinion: “Forty-nine percent think the president ought to be impeached.”\u00a0 How do we know this?\u00a0 You have to accept the poll or you don\u2019t.\u00a0 But do we really think 49% of the people in this country have sat around thinking about it or talking about it?\u00a0 I maintain to you that public opinion isn\u2019t public opinion.\u00a0 It is a reflection of the effort to manipulate public opinion.<\/p>\n
The mainstream media every day, primary objective, is to manipulate public opinion and create it. Have you noticed, folks, that — well, you may not have. As political scientists look at voter data and as various people, people I respect, by the way, as they examine the cultural shift in America, for example — what was it — 10 years ago, 15 years, gay marriage wouldn\u2019t have — I mean, even Obama was opposed to it. And then transgender rights and all this crap that\u2019s come about because of this.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re left to assume the majority of the country thinks transgenders are a significant portion of the population, that they\u2019ve been discriminated against, that we need to reorder society to accommodate, do we really believe this? Do we really believe that over half the country supports gay marriage? So how did it happen?<\/p>\n
One of the big shifts in electoral politics that has shocked everybody is the shift on the part of educated white liberals to radical liberalism or radical leftism. That is, of all things that has happened in American politics in the last, say, 10 years, that is the most shocking.<\/p>\n
The Democrat Party is not being shaped, for example, by this influx of illegal aliens. Not the primary shaper. The Democrat Party has gone wacko, radical, liberal left. You can see it in their primary and in all their Democrat presidential candidates. It\u2019s radical, radical left. It\u2019s not just the old liberal that it used to be. Well, who has made this shift? And it has been white, educated women, number one, and men second. White, educated Democrats have become radical leftists.<\/p>\n
And so how did that happen? Did these people in mass, intelligent people, by virtue of college educated, did they just all at the same time independently come to the same radical-left belief system? No. The people we\u2019re talking about have been influenced by two major elements of public influence: education and the media. These white, educated suburban men and women are the product of two things: their education as they become adults, and the media.<\/p>\n
And as intelligent people, in their minds, in their own minds, as intelligent people, they only want to listen to other intelligent people. They want to be in the group of intelligent people. Well, what do they think of conservatives? They think conservatives are Deliverance. They think liberals are what you see at the New York Times. Liberals are what you see in the mainstream media. Liberals are the people making movies. Liberals are the people recording hit songs. Liberals are the people writing hip books.<\/p>\n
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So that\u2019s where they go. That\u2019s who they side with. They\u2019re not thinking about anything, per se. Some of them do but, I mean, the point is that they\u2019re being influenced, and that influence then becomes we\u2019re told an expression of public opinion, when it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s public following. Now, you could call it branding, you can call it marketing, what have you.<\/p>\n
But everybody I know that I talk about this stuff with has been flummoxed by how rapidly the so-called mainstream of the Democrat Party has become radical insane, believing some of the screwballest, weirdest radical leftist stuff. It\u2019s because all the years of education and exposure to the media with those two things being considered, the epitome of intelligence or the epitome of hip, that\u2019s where they\u2019re siding, \u2019cause that\u2019s what they think is cool or that\u2019s what they think is smart. But it isn\u2019t dyed-in-the-wool learned decision-making after digesting a bunch of information that would then qualify as public opinion.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s really that these people have been masterfully manipulated. Not saying they don\u2019t believe it, but one of the reasons they believe it is because there\u2019s comfort in believing the same things that other people smart believe. And isn\u2019t it interesting that every Republican president is an idiot? George Bush couldn\u2019t talk. He was a blooming idiot! Trump an even bigger blooming idiot. Ronald Reagan an amiable dunce. Who is it that creates those memes? It\u2019s the media that creates those, along with education.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: What I\u2019m saying is, that many of these people don\u2019t really support this radical stuff. Now, they don\u2019t really believe it, but they support it because it\u2019s hip. They support it because everybody they respect does. It\u2019s not public opinion as presented to you. It\u2019s not that a majority of your fellow citizens have gone over the deep end and think all this oddball, kooky cultural stuff is normal. It\u2019s just that these are the people who must be what the majority, they must be with what they think is smart, with what they think is cool.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m not trivializing it with the use of the word “cool.” In the end it doesn\u2019t matter because it\u2019s used to reflect public opinion. I\u2019m just telling you that if we ever want to overcome this stuff — well, that\u2019s for when I have more time. I\u2019ve gotta make a point very quickly here. Lee Zeldin just tweeted the following: “The transcripts from the interviews of Ambassadors Yovanovitch & McKinley were just released. Will immediately review. Assuming all is accurate, having sat through both, there is NOTHING in there to impeach POTUS for. A Pres can recall an Amb at any time WITH or WITHOUT cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
See, that\u2019s exactly right. He recalls an ambassador, these people, \u201cHe can\u2019t do that, he\u2019s gotta go. He can\u2019t recall one of us. He can\u2019t throw us out.\u201d But now here to further add evidence to what I\u2019m saying is A.B. Stoddard of the media just a moment ago on CNN.<\/p>\n
STODDARD: The role of Rudy Giuliani and a black ops, rogue foreign policy outside the official channels as an unaccountable private citizen who Mike Pompeo gave the State Department over to, with goals that ran counter to our Ukraine policy \u2013<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Stop the tape. Right there it is! Right there it is! Trump runs foreign policy, not these people! If he wants Rudy Giuliani to do something in foreign policy, he can do it! If Mike Pompeo agrees that Giuliani\u2019s gotta do something, he can do it! These people do not run foreign policy. They are the ones right now running black ops rogue foreign policy because they are running foreign policy in opposition to the president of the United States!<\/p>\n
Rudy was acting as his representative. Just because he\u2019s not from the foreign policy structure administration, just \u2019cause he\u2019s not from the foreign policy movement — Rudy can do whatever Trump tells him to do! This is the point! This is a major thing. This is a major attack on presidential constitutional power that they\u2019re trying to say is criminal and impeachable when none of it is! They are! What they are doing actually is impeachable, if you ask me!<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 No, I\u2019m not exaggerating — and if there\u2019s a better term for it, somebody give me one.\u00a0 I\u2019m telling you that all of this — everything Schiff is doing with the whistleblower\/leaker and all this stuff — is nothing more than Trump-Russia collusion.\u00a0 All of this is a never-ending, continual effort to build an illusion that Trump is massively guilty and that there\u2019s a separate search for truth. “Everybody knows he\u2019s guilty, we just can\u2019t find it. Yet we\u2019re getting close.”<\/p>\n
None of this is true.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got nothing!\u00a0 They never have had anything.\u00a0 Now, what Schiff is doing today is releasing some transcripts from witnesses that have testified in private behind closed doors in his stupid little hearing room.\u00a0 They don\u2019t matter. These transcripts do not matter. The only transcript that matters is the transcript of the phone call between Trump and the Ukraine president.\u00a0 That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
Because there\u2019s nothing criminal, there\u2019s nothing impeachable, there\u2019s nothing untoward.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with what Trump said to the Ukraine president.\u00a0 Trump is president, not these people!\u00a0 A.B. Stoddard: “Rudy Giuliani was running a rogue foreign policy.”\u00a0 No, he wasn\u2019t!\u00a0 He was acting on orders of the president, who runs foreign policy.\u00a0 This cabal of people at the National Security Council, the State Department, military people, intelligence people, they do not run foreign policy.<\/p>\n
They may think they do — and they may have been, actually, under certain presidents.\u00a0 But they don\u2019t constitutionally or any other way.\u00a0 The rogue behavior is theirs.\u00a0 The rogue behavior is on their part.\u00a0 Trying to tell a president he can\u2019t do this, can\u2019t do that? They weren\u2019t elected to do anything.\u00a0 None of these people.\u00a0 So the only transcript that matters is the transcript between Trump and the Ukrainian president, the phone call.\u00a0 The illusion is that Trump\u2019s incompetent, a boob, doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n
“Great patriots are trying to save America from this guy.”\u00a0 It\u2019s the exact opposite.\u00a0 Donald Trump is trying to remake American foreign policy along the lines of making America great again. Not subservient, not guilty, and certainly not responsible for the world\u2019s problems like these people have been doing.\u00a0 This is not hard to understand.\u00a0 The challenge we have is that it all looks legitimate because of the people behind it.\u00a0 “The intelligence community? Why, they\u2019re great patriots.<\/p>\n
“The State Department? Looking out for America\u2019s best interests. The media? Objective and fair.”\u00a0 That\u2019s all a crock.\u00a0 We\u2019re dealing with unobjective, unfair, and maybe not even the best qualified people!\u00a0 We may have people who are way beyond their abilities here, the Peter principle. Any number of things could apply.\u00a0 But even that doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 They are not the boss, and they are acting like they are the boss and that Trump is an interloper and that anybody he has doing anything for him is not allowed.<\/p>\n
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And in that, they\u2019re telling us how this country has been run!\u00a0 They\u2019ve been running it.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been setting foreign policy.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones responsible for the world thinking we are destroying the planet with climate change.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones responsible for convincing the world that we are doing great damage because of fossil fuels.\u00a0 These are the people responsible for the idea that the United States owes the world everything because we\u2019ve stolen what we have from the world, that it\u2019s time we paid it back!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s these people who have acknowledged the United Nations should be able to put their hands in our back pocket any time they want just to make it fair.\u00a0 But it\u2019s the exact other way around.\u00a0 Donald Trump has the executive branch.\u00a0 Therefore, he heads the Department of Justice.\u00a0 He heads American foreign policy.\u00a0 He\u2019s the commander-in-chief of the American defense operation.\u00a0 None of these people are either of those things or any of that.<\/p>\n
Yet they\u2019ve operated as though they are — and when they\u2019ve been on the same page as previous presidents, like Obama, then it\u2019s one big, happy family.\u00a0 But this isn\u2019t one big, happy family because Donald Trump was elected in stark, direct opposition to these people.\u00a0 So they\u2019re coming around, “Well, look at this transcript! Rudy Giuliani was making trips to Ukraine.\u00a0 He was talking to the Ukraine president.\u00a0 That\u2019s rogue foreign policy.”<\/p>\n
No, it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Trump ordered him.<\/p>\n
“Well, Rudy Giuliani is not from the foreign policy establishment.”<\/p>\n
So what?\u00a0 Where\u2019s it written that a Trump emissary has to come from your cabal?\u00a0 If Trump wanted to send me someplace, he could do it.\u00a0 You\u2019d have a conniption fit, but he could — and he probably should, but he probably won\u2019t.\u00a0 But he could, he should, and he might.\u00a0 The point is the president runs the show.\u00a0 He was elected to run the show. If the American people don\u2019t like it, next election they say, “Sayonara,” but they\u2019re not gonna say, “Sayonara.”<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s got another rally tonight. Kentucky.\u00a0 The lines are thronged.\u00a0 They are long.\u00a0 The media doesn\u2019t talk about this anymore, because they\u2019re trying to make it look like it\u2019s old hat, no big deal. \u00a0But, see, to show these long lines and to show eager, excited people — average, ordinary, normal Americans who want to go see their president — would counter the idea that he need wants him impeached and thrown out of office.\u00a0 So they don\u2019t show this anymore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you, a majority of the American people do not want Trump impeached and thrown out of office. I don\u2019t care what the hell these polls say, because that\u2019s not what these polls are saying.\u00a0 These polls are reflecting something other than public opinion on that specific.\u00a0 They are reflecting the human nature of people to want to be part of the smart people, the majority, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
Or they are reacting to people they think are smart like the media and like people that teach them.\u00a0 People that teach them, they have respect for \u2019em, and if they think Trump\u2019s the bad guy, then Trump must be a bad guy.\u00a0 “My smart teacher says so.\u00a0 In the media, Trump\u2019s a dangerous guy; I trust the media. I watch the media.\u00a0 I\u2019m not gonna spend my whole life not believing the media.\u00a0 I can\u2019t do that opinion. I gotta believe the media.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s bad guy. He\u2019s gotta be a bad guy.”<\/p>\n
This is how this all happens.\u00a0 People are not coming to these opinions after their own time and study.\u00a0 They\u2019re simply reflecting what they\u2019re hearing other influential people tell them.\u00a0 And I\u2019m gonna tell you: Thank God for the alternative media.\u00a0 Thank God for us, all the other radio shows, telephone shows, Fox News. Because if it wasn\u2019t there, Trump would have never been elected, A, and B, would have been toast by now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: George in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u00a0 You\u2019re next, George.\u00a0 Glad you waited.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, Rush.\u00a0 Yeah. (chuckles) Longtime listener.\u00a0 What I wanted to tell you is — it\u2019s a comment I have to make — I\u2019m surprised that Vindman is not being investigated by the Army for an Article 32.\u00a0 This man was privy to a conversation between the president and another head of state, and if he leaked that information to the whistleblower, he should be charged with conduct unbecoming, which is dismissable from the Army and loss of benefits.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand why they\u2019re not doing this.\u00a0 It would also give —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Now, wait, wait. Hold it a minute.\u00a0 That\u2019s a good point.\u00a0 Answer your question: Why are they not doing it?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Because they\u2019re part of the effort to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s another little tick to this too.\u00a0 You know Vindman has a brother and he\u2019s also in the military — and he\u2019s a JAG, okay? Guess where he works or where he worked?\u00a0 In the White House?\u00a0 You know what the odds of two brothers with different MOSes in the army working in the White House are?\u00a0 They\u2019re so astronomical that you can\u2019t calculate them.\u00a0 They had to be placed there.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Well, exactly.\u00a0 They\u2019re twins, by the way.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 They\u2019re not just brothers.\u00a0 They\u2019re twins out there!\u00a0 You don\u2019t know where one or the other is.<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019d be interesting to see who put them both in the White House, because one\u2019s a lawyer and the other one\u2019s in intelligence.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I can tell you… Pfft! Well, I can\u2019t tell you. I mean, I could intelligently surmise that it all stems from the tree with the guy at the top of it named Obama.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019ll guarantee you…\u00a0 We talked about this a moment ago.\u00a0 We do have an Army lieutenant colonel who overheard a phone call and then ratted the president out to a whistleblower — who\u2019s not a whistleblower, he\u2019s a leaker.\u00a0 Now, he gets away with it and is a hero!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 “Well, because the assumption is the president shouldn\u2019t be president.\u00a0 He\u2019s not qualified. Vindman is saving the country from Trump.\u00a0 He\u2019s being a patriot.” This is what Schiff and his team are saying.<\/p>\n
But like I said, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is following orders, George, and he is being obedient.\u00a0 He\u2019s being loyal to his boss, who is not the president.\u00a0 His boss is either the National Security Council head honcho or the CIA director — or actually, the deputy director of operations runs that joint; so whoever that is.\u00a0 Or John Brennan.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll guarantee you, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman does not think he works for the president.\u00a0 He works for the foreign policy establishment, and they\u2019re out to protect America from the president.<\/p>\n
(interruption) You have a question?\u00a0 What\u2019s your question? (interruption) Yeah, he\u2019s not been fired.\u00a0 If Vindman has been fired… (chuckling) There\u2019s no way.\u00a0 We\u2019d have heard.\u00a0 If Vindman\u2019s been…? No, no.\u00a0 Vindman hasn\u2019t been fired.\u00a0 If Trump were to try to get this guy out of the White House at this point, all hell would break loose.\u00a0 No, I think Vindman\u2019s in a safe house.\u00a0 (I\u2019m joking.)\u00a0 Vindman testified.\u00a0 He\u2019s got protected status now.\u00a0 Anyhow, George, thanks.\u00a0 Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n
By the way, a JAG officer. Judge Advocate General is what the acronym JAG stands for.\u00a0 Most people think JAG is a TV character \u2019cause there was a show called JAG.\u00a0 My cousin Dan was a JAG in the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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