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<\/p>\nRUSH: Well, it\u2019s like the Mueller doom show out there today. You remember when Trump\u2019s approval numbers jumped down to 39% during the height of the Mueller probe and everybody was panicking, everybody was distraught, everybody was, \u201cOh, my God, there\u2019s nothing there, but they\u2019re gonna get the guy. Oh, my God. There\u2019s no way we compete. Oh, no, this is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
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This is exactly what people are doing today. No matter how many times I tell people, \u201cSnerdley, do not get caught up in the media narrative every day.\u201d People can\u2019t help it. And I understand it. I totally understand it, folks. It\u2019s impossible not to, except for people like me who know exactly what\u2019s going on and why and are constantly attuned to it and aware. That\u2019s why you need to listen here each and every day, particularly on days like this where you think all is lost.<\/p>\n
“Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Bevin loss. Oh, my God. It\u2019s over for Trump. Oh, no.” And then Schiff\u2019s announcing that he\u2019s gonna go public with the hearings starting next Wednesday and then take a day off so the media can lie about what we were told on Wednesday on Thursday, and then another hearing on Friday. I just want to remind you of something. The last time they tried this it was a disaster.<\/p>\n
We had two and a half years, two years of the Trump-Russia, Mueller collusion, whatever. And it was building and building and everybody, \u201cOh, my God. It\u2019s gonna be over. They\u2019re gonna get Trump, oh, my God.\u201d And then Mueller went public, and it was a disaster. Mueller testified, he didn\u2019t want to testify, the Democrats dragged him out of the crypt, they say get up here and testify, he did. It was a disaster. Whenever these people, the Democrats in the media, whenever they can make sure everything goes on in private and then lie to us about what\u2019s happening in private, they\u2019re able to set this mood of doom and gloom.<\/p>\n
Then they get feeling their oats. They think they\u2019ve done it. They think the media has set the narrative and persuaded the American people that Trump finally has got to go. So then they get their oats and they feel confident and they go public with it, and it bombs. Blasey Ford bombed. It all bombed. Kavanaugh, all of this stuff bombs when they go public with it.<\/p>\n
When they have the advantage of privacy, when they\u2019re doing everything behind closed doors and the media is responsible for reporting to everybody what\u2019s going on, like cherry-picking these transcripts of depositions, of witnesses before little Schiff\u2019s committee, they paint this picture, it\u2019s over for Trump. \u201cOh, my God. There\u2019s a quid pro quo. Oh, my God. Trump is digging up dirt. Oh, my God. It\u2019s over.\u201d They go public after they think they\u2019ve persuaded everybody, and it ends up being a disaster.<\/p>\n
Now, Mueller actually was a disaster. But, see, what\u2019s gonna befall them here, folks, is all this buildup. We\u2019re now into three years of buildup. Three years of every claim the Democrats have made, Trump colluded with Russia, Trump stole election, Trump has Hillary\u2019s emails, Kavanaugh had a rape train, whatever it is, none of it ever pans out. They build all these expectations up. The moment of truth comes, the big reveal, in public, and it is met with a thud.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mere moments ago, little Pencil Neck Adam Schiff strode to the microphones to announce the public testimony of witnesses to Donald Trump “digging up dirt on his opponents.” He\u2019s continuing to lie about this. Here\u2019s the statement. Eh, it wasn\u2019t a statement. It was a little announcement that Pencil Neck made just like a half hour or so.<\/p>\n
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SCHIFF: We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place, uh, during the course of the last year. Uh, and the degree to which the president, uh, enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get Ukraine to, uh, dig up dirt on a political opponent. Uh, as well as further a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. Uh, so those open hearings will be an opportunity for the American people to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determinations about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn firsthand about the facts of the president\u2019s misconduct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So remember it was a couple weeks ago Schiff was chairing a public hearing of the Intelligence Committee, and he was quoting the president during his phone call to the president of Ukraine. He said (summarized), “The president ordered the president of Ukraine to ‘dig up dirt\u2019 on Joe Biden and his kid — ‘make it up\u2019 if he had to! He told him nine times to do it, and ‘don\u2019t get back to me until you\u2019ve found it. Furthermore, you\u2019re not gonna get any U.S. aid money until you do.'”<\/p>\n
It was entirely made up, and it took the Republicans 30 minutes to call him out on it. So for 30 minutes it lived as true for those who watched it! Trump didn\u2019t tell the Ukrainian president any of that. The transcript has been released! There\u2019s no “dig up dirt,” period! There\u2019s no “make up dirt,” period. There\u2019s not even a command. There\u2019s not even a formal request! It\u2019s almost like in a throwaway. “By the way, could you do me a favor?<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re doing some things here,” blah, blah, blah, blah. So Schiff is lying about it, and therefore he\u2019s setting these expectations very high. He says, “Now the American people will be able to see themselves, learn firsthand the facts about the president\u2019s misconduct.” There isn\u2019t anybody that\u2019s gonna testify that the president made up dirt or asked anybody to.<\/p>\n
But he\u2019s lying in this statement here just like he continues to lie, claiming that he has evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. And then he says, “as well as further a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his campaign.” That\u2019s Russia. The guy is still pushing things that have blown up in their faces when they\u2019ve gone public with it. So now the American people are gonna expect all kinds of really bad stuff that President Trump\u2019s been doing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: There\u2019s this phenomenon out there. And I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed it. On a day like this where you\u2019ve got Schiff opening up the hearings to the public, “We\u2019re gonna get Trump, the media\u2019s all over it, we\u2019re gonna get Trump, we\u2019re gonna get Trump.\u201d And then you\u2019ve got the elections, and Virginia finishes the trend. There\u2019s nothing unusual about Virginia going blue. It\u2019s been headed in that direction. The Republicans haven\u2019t put any money in there. It\u2019s sad, it\u2019s disappointing, but it\u2019s not surprising what happened in Virginia.<\/p>\n
Kentucky is being entirely misrepresented. As far as the media\u2019s concerned, the only race there that matters is the governor\u2019s race because the Republican lost it. So they\u2019re telling you Trump\u2019s losing his mojo. So when these days happen, what is the phenomenon? Well, the phenomenon is that Washington Republicans get scared. And they start saying things that make it look like they\u2019re gonna get ready to abandon Trump.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like clockwork. And that\u2019s why I opened the program the way I did. You\u2019ve gotta fight these days because they are constant. The media is filled with nothing but lies, distortions, misrepresentations, and the stuff they don\u2019t cover is just as scandalous as the way they do report the stuff they do cover. So today Lindsey Graham — depending on the day that you look, Lindsey Graham is Trump\u2019s best friend, right? Some days Lindsey Graham, he\u2019s up there defending Trump, he\u2019s side by side, just loves him some Trump.<\/p>\n
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Lindsey Graham said either today or yesterday — he\u2019s chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — said it would be a big problem if Trump asked Ukraine for help investigating Biden. What? No. Why say this? It didn\u2019t happen. Not the way it\u2019s being portrayed. So he comes out, and here\u2019s the phenomena. When Trump bombshells hit or whenever there is even more than the norm of negative news about Trump, these guys get scared.<\/p>\n
They get scared that they\u2019ll be alone and ridiculed and so they begin triangulating. They cover their bases. \u201cWell, that would be a big problem if Trump actually asked Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden. Be a big problem, be a big,\u201d blah, blah. It\u2019s triangulating. And then when Trump survives, guess what? They become his best friends again. Have you noticed this? It\u2019s a singular phenomena among Republicans in Washington.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Graham is by no means the only example of this. He\u2019s just current today. In fact, we\u2019ve got a sound bite of Lindsey Graham, let me find it, number seven. Here it is. It\u2019s not what I just quoted but it\u2019s along the same lines. This was this morning on Capitol Hill, Senator Graham speaking to reporters about Ambassador Sondland changing his testimony. Ambassador Sondland did not change his testimony! That\u2019s another lie. Ambassador Sondland did not change his testimony.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll explain. But, you know, I\u2019m getting tired of this, to be honest. I\u2019m getting tired of having to do it. They come out, they misrepresent what people say, they twist what people say to make it conform with what they want anybody to say, what they want the news to be.<\/p>\n
We have to come in here and clean it up and we\u2019re always second at it because we can\u2019t beat them to the punch, I can\u2019t start the program — well, I could, actually. \u201cFolks, they\u2019re gonna lie about Sondland. Be on the lookout for it.\u201d But that would mean every program I\u2019d have to spend predicting the next day what the Democrats are gonna do, and the media.<\/p>\n
Sondland did not change his testimony. It is a gross, gross misrepresentation of what he did yesterday. Anyway, this is another example because, okay, the news is that Sondland changed his testimony. \u201cOh, my God. Oh, my God. Sondland says there was a quid pro quo. Oh, my God.\u201d<\/p>\n
So now it\u2019s time for Trump supporters to start triangulating, to cut their losses, to maybe position themselves so if Trump did it, they can always jump off the ship. So here\u2019s Lindsey Graham talking to the media this morning.<\/p>\n
GRAHAM: I\u2019ve read the transcript for myself. I made up my own mind. Volker, the special envoy, said there was no quid pro quo. Sondland has changed his testimony to say he presumes there was. What I can tell you about the Trump policy toward the Ukraine, it was incoherent. It depends on who you talk to. They seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: See? It\u2019s incoherent. I\u2019ve read the transcript. It\u2019s incoherent. Incoherent foreign policy, Ukraine, incoherent. They\u2019re incapable of doing a quid pro quo. So now Trump\u2019s incompetent. Incapable of doing a quid pro quo \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing in this whole field of endeavor with Ukraine anyway.<\/p>\n
Now, the key is the transcript of the phone call is all anybody needs to read. The fact that Trump released it is still what\u2019s guiding all of this. It\u2019s blown up in their faces. And you\u2019re just gonna have to trust me on this. They fully intended that transcript to remain secret. They thought Trump would never release it. They could characterize it however they wanted to as a cover-up, as obstruction.<\/p>\n
But Trump released it so therefore there\u2019s no need for a whistleblower, there\u2019s no need for any of these witnesses, absolutely none. And yet they\u2019re going ahead with it. That\u2019s what these Republicans ought to be saying, not that there\u2019s incoherence here, the incompetence is such that they couldn\u2019t come up with a quid pro quo if they wanted to. Come on.<\/p>\n
Now, Trump will survive this, and then next week all these people become Trump\u2019s best friends, and he\u2019ll be brilliant again, and he\u2019ll be smart again and be out running his enemies, his opponents. What it boils down to is that all the people on our side have to play it fast and loose with the media so that whatever happens, they\u2019re positioned to be able to not be harmed by it. It\u2019s entirely a defensive posture.<\/p>\n
Yet what was so hard about what Rand Paul did Monday night? There\u2019s nothing defensive about Rand Paul and his claim about the whistleblower and the need for prosecution and defending Trump. So what is this all about? Well, you\u2019re at the right place to find out. I\u2019m happy to tell you.<\/p>\n
So Schiff announces about an hour ago that the first public hearings in his impeachment inquiry are gonna be held next Wednesday, November 13th, which \u2013 wait, just double-check something here. It\u2019s Wednesday. Next Tuesday is the Disney+ launch. Well, maybe that is the 13th as well. Disney\u2019s new streaming service. I\u2019m just getting confused. At any rate, November 13th is when little Schiff is gonna begin his public hearings.<\/p>\n
And remember, he\u2019s setting it up by the American people are gonna learn how Trump told them to dig up dirt. Now, nobody has testified to that. So the first day of public hearings will be Wednesday, November 13th. The next day will be Friday the 15th. So Thursday\u2019s gonna be a bye. No hearings so that the media can use Thursday to pound the lies and the misrepresentations of what was said on Wednesday, give the media time to promote whatever they want out of the first hearing.<\/p>\n
So now we\u2019re gonna do… You know, Schiff\u2019s gonna preside over one of his Stalin-like show trials starting next Wednesday, and Schiff is the decider in all these things, as is typical of a show trial. He also announced that his witness on the first day is gonna be none other than the irrefutable, the unattackable, the uncriticizable, the perfect William Taylor. His witness the second day will be Marie Yovanovitch.<\/p>\n
All of these people are gonna say, “Trump went outside the interagency group to people conducting foreign policy, not us. They didn\u2019t know what they were doing. This is dangerous.” There was no word as to when Republicans will be able to call Schiff himself as a witness. Schiff\u2019s never gonna be called as a witness. The Republicans are out there claiming he\u2019s a fact witness because he had a role in shepherding the whistleblower through this, which is in violation regulations, rules, and perhaps even laws.<\/p>\n
But you notice, my friends, who Schiff is not calling here on these first two days of hearings? He\u2019s not calling the whistleblower — who, by the way, Donald Trump Jr. identified in a tweet today. Did you hear about this? AP is saying (summarized), “We still can\u2019t independently confirm name of the whistleblower, so we\u2019re not gonna print the name. But Donald Trump Jr., that pig, he did it!” Everybody knows who the whistleblower is. Anyway, I digress.<\/p>\n
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Schiff is not calling the whistleblower, and he\u2019s not calling the lieutenant colonel, Alexander Vindman, to be a witness, either, in these two hearings — and that\u2019s when the ratings are gonna be the highest. Remember all of the excitement when that doddering special counsel Robert J. Mueller XIX was going to testify? Remember how that blew up on them? Okay. So why is Lt. Col. Vindman, who they\u2019ve really…? I mean, they\u2019ve hyped this guy up.<\/p>\n
“You can\u2019t criticize him, either. Why, he\u2019s a decorated Army lieutenant colonel. He went to West Point, has shrapnel in his body from Vietnam. He\u2019s a Ukraine expert, born there. You can\u2019t criticize him. (sputtering) You can\u2019t… You can\u2019t… You just can\u2019t!” So why\u2019s he not being called? Well, we can only surmise. My surmise is Schiff doesn\u2019t think Vindman is the strongest witness, or it\u2019s possible that he thinks Taylor is the best because Taylor\u2019s unassailable.<\/p>\n
Taylor looks like he is from central casting, U.S. national security official, national security diplomat. William Taylor may be the absolute best first witness as far as images, photo-ops are concerned. Maybe he\u2019s looking at Vindman as cleanup, the guy that\u2019s gonna finally knock it all out of the park. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n
But he\u2019s not putting Vindman up there when the ratings are gonna be the highest and the interest is gonna be the highest, which tells me that he doesn\u2019t think Vindman is the strongest witness. Even though we were told all last week that Vindman\u2019s testimony was the real, honest to goodness most smoking of the smoking guns — that Vindman had the goods, that Vindman was the guy that was gonna nail Trump — and his credibility cannot be impeached. “You can\u2019t challenge him. You can\u2019t disagree. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
“Just like you couldn\u2019t with Obama because he\u2019s the first African-American, you can\u2019t challenge the credibility of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman because he\u2019s a West Point graduate and wears the uniform of the Army.” So not calling Vindman also tells me that Pencil Neck isn\u2019t gonna push this phone call as Trump\u2019s most impeachable offense anymore, which makes sense, \u2019cause the transcript of the phone call is out and it doesn\u2019t jibe with anything anybody is saying about it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So if they\u2019re gonna call William Taylor first instead of Vindman, it means that Schiff is gonna focus on other crimes. I think… Folks, the quid pro quo thing has kind of faded away, and you\u2019ll notice — if you listen carefully — they\u2019re not even talking about it. The media is, but if you listen to Schiff and the Democrats, they\u2019re moving on to something else now: Extortion and bribery. There wasn\u2019t a quid pro quo. The transcript can counter anything Vindman says — and Taylor.<\/p>\n
Vindman is the only one of Schiff\u2019s anti-Trump witnesses who was on the Zelensky phone call. Nobody else was on that call — well, of the witnesses — and since neither Taylor nor Yovanovitch were on the call or know anything about it and they are the first two witnesses, then it would tell me that Schiff\u2019s gonna deemphasize the quid pro quo, but maybe not the digging up dirt — extortion, bribery. “You\u2019re not gonna get the aid \u2019til you dig up dirt.”<\/p>\n
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If Schiff literally tries to make a case that Trump told the president of Ukraine to make up and dig up dirt, then this is gonna bomb exactly like Mueller bombed on \u2019em. David Marcus at The Federalist today: “Desperate Democrats Drop ‘Quid Pro Quo\u2019 Rhetoric, Now It\u2019s ‘Extortion\u2019 and ‘Bribery\u2019 — The hours of transcripts of witnesses in the Ukraine impeachment inquiry rack up and continue to underwhelm, Democrats and their allies in the media have seized on a new tactic. The old … term ‘quid pro quo,\u2019 is about to go the way of the Dodo.<\/p>\n
“In its place the terms ‘extortion\u2019 and ‘bribery\u2019 will fly about like hot air balloons in California wine country. … The supposed justification for this ramping up of the rhetoric is an amendment that Ambassador Gordon Sondland made to his testimony before the impeachment inquiry in which he said that on September 1st, 10 days before aid to Ukraine was released, he told a Ukrainian official that that aid was not likely to flow if a promise was not made to investigate the gas company Burisma, which employed Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n
“Such a promise was never delivered. Though Sondland\u2019s revision of his testimony is being heralded as a bombshell (what isn\u2019t)…” Everything is a freaking “bombshell” to the media today! So this “is being heralded as a bombshell [but] the revelation [by Sondland] doesn\u2019t change the basic facts of the case.” The word “presume” is all over his testimony. (summarized) “I presume there was a quid pro quo. After hearing this other testimony, I presume there was.” But it doesn\u2019t fundamentally change anything.<\/p>\n
The reason that they\u2019re making a big deal out of Sondland is because he\u2019s revising his testimony, bro! He\u2019s revisin\u2019 the testimony. That allows them to characterize Sondland as, “You know what? I got caught lying, and now that Taylor — who can\u2019t be impeached — is telling the truth, I\u2019d better change my story.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to make you believe, that Sondland tried to get away with lying about this, and he\u2019s got caught. So now he\u2019s trying to change it, so he doesn\u2019t go to jail. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to tell you happened here with Sondland, and it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m so sick of having to do this every damn time these people try one of these maneuvers, but it\u2019s the damn truth, folks.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think we don\u2019t even to this moment know how big a blow it was when Trump released that transcript. I\u2019m telling you, folks, it blew up the entirety of Pelosi and Schiff\u2019s game plan.<\/p>\n
What they really wanted was to be able to portray Trump as Nixon in a cover-up and obstructing by not releasing the transcript — and if they hadn\u2019t released the transcript, then everybody would be able to rely on what the whistleblower said. The whistleblower was going to be this event\u2019s Robert Mueller. The whistleblower was gonna be Mueller. The whistleblower was gonna have the goods. Whatever the whistleblower said would be presented as fact.<\/p>\n
Because nobody will see the transcript of the call, so people on the call could lie about it. But Trump blew all of that up by releasing it. So now they have been scrambling, and this is where they are. I just want to remind you again before we go to the break: They spend all this time in secret behind closed doors. Mueller had 2-1\/2 years, not one leak about what he was doing, building up expectations. “Mueller\u2019s gonna have the goods. It\u2019s gonna be disaster for Trump.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s gonna find the evidence that Trump colluded, Trump stole the election, voting machines were tampered with, outcomes of elections were changed,” all this. Everybody was expecting that that\u2019s what Mueller was gonna have. Then Mueller testifies, and we all felt like we had been transported to a retirement home. It was a dud. Now they\u2019re setting themselves up to do the same thing. All of this behind-closed-doors stuff, all these witnesses and Schiff\u2019s selective leaking of the dynamite things they\u2019ve said.<\/p>\n
Now they\u2019re gonna testify in public, and Schiff is relying on the fact that you can\u2019t criticize \u2019em. (impression) “They\u2019re unimpeachable. Their integrity is so above and beyond reproach that you can\u2019t even be in the same room with them! You can\u2019t even look at them, that\u2019s how superior to you they are. You can\u2019t even look at Bill Taylor. You don\u2019t even have the right to breathe the same air as Bill Taylor and Marie Yovanovitch. So don\u2019t even dare think you can criticize them!”<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna show up, they\u2019re gonna look like human beings, and all they\u2019re going to have is their opinion of what Trump has done!<\/p>\n
So we shall see.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So, again, I just want to remind you, folks.<\/p>\n
I made this point at the opening of the program and it bears repeating. Throughout the 2-1\/2 years of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation and Mueller, it was all private. Well, except for the stuff that ran in the media every day. But even then, the sources were all anonymous and unnamed. We didn\u2019t know who they were — and, for the most part, I think it was largely made up, \u2019cause there was never anything to it. Nobody ever had any evidence other than the dossier which was not evidence and had never been corroborated. <\/p>\n
The point is that they spent 2-1\/2 years — the media, the Democrats — building up everybody\u2019s expectations. “Trump did it, Trump\u2019s traitor, Trump cheated, Trump stole the election, Trump worked with the Russians, the Russians tampered with machines,” all of this stuff. Then it came time! The Mueller report came out and it was a dud — and the Democrats didn\u2019t want to live with that. So they demanded that Mueller common and testify, and he did — and that was a dud! <\/p>\n
The lesson is when Schiff and his buddies can behave in private, behind closed doors — and lie to the media about testimony and all that — then, yeah, they can make it look very, very bad. But then they start feeling their oats and they think they\u2019ve got him! They\u2019ve Trump. They\u2019ve now pulled it off and they go public with it?<\/p>\n
Their experience is that it\u2019s been a disaster every time they\u2019ve tried. Kavanaugh, Avenatti, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone. Take your pick of any of these things were going to be the downfall of Trump. Whenever they\u2019ve seen the light of day, it has been an implosion, a disaster for the Democrats. I expect this is going to be the same thing next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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