RUSH: Man, oh, man, the surreal nature of all this is mind-boggling. We got this leaker, this whistleblower\u2019s attorney giving up the game! He even used the word “coup” back in 2017. He even said that CNN was gonna be utilized to run this coup to get rid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Now, it seems to me that since we know that, that all the rest of this should kind of just be canceled out. We know this whole thing is manufactured. We\u2019ve known it for a long time. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I don\u2019t mean to sound like I\u2019m learning something I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s just we now can actually, rather than have you rely on my credibility, which is not in question, we\u2019ve got it in their own words.<\/p>\n
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Mark Zaid has been a Never Trumper, a Trump hating guy since 2016, the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower. Now, the way to look at this, imagine if we would have known this at the beginning. If at the very beginning of this we would have known what Mark Zaid said about this being a coup, that he was starting it, that it was going to involve CNN.<\/p>\n
He has described exactly what is happening and what has happened in the House of Representatives. Imagine if this had leaked and we had become aware of it two years ago, where would we be today? We certainly wouldn\u2019t be where we are. And the fact that it has come out, I\u2019m looking at the headline here on drudge: \u201cBolton to Defy White House, Testify.\u201d Why? None of this is real!<\/p>\n
You know, I was talking the past couple days to somebody saying — I don\u2019t know who it is. It doesn\u2019t matter — the president needs to have a substantive response to the charge. There is no substantive charge. That\u2019s the whole point. There is no substantive charge.<\/p>\n
Another friend of mine, when Zaid\u2019s tweets were revealed last night, the whistleblower\u2019s attorney, Mark Zaid, Z-a-i-d, when his tweets were revealed, a friend of mine sent me a note, “You know, Rush, when I write about this stuff, I do everything I can to stay behind the evidence. I try not to get ahead of the evidence. And these guys continue to fool me.\u201d What he meant was he knows what\u2019s going on, but until he sees evidence of it, he\u2019s not gonna write about it.<\/p>\n
I wrote back, “What do you mean you don\u2019t have the evidence? Radical liberalism is the evidence! How do you think I know this stuff before it happens?” He said, “Well, yes, but radical liberalism would not be allowed to be used as the evidence in a court.” We\u2019re not in a court! We\u2019re in a kangaroo court. We\u2019re in a so-called House of Representatives grand jury for crying out loud. And why do they call it grand jury? So Trump didn\u2019t get to have his lawyers in there.<\/p>\n
To me liberalism, radical liberalism, what we\u2019re dealing with is the evidence. But here\u2019s \u201cBolton to Defy White House, Testify.\u201d So what? About what? We know that this is all a manufactured scam. Wait \u2019til we go through the actual transcripts of Bill Taylor, Mr. Unassailable, he\u2019s right up there with Robert J. Mueller the 19th. We can\u2019t criticize. We can\u2019t question Mr. Integrity, Mr. Honorable.<\/p>\n
Do you know this guy admitted in his testimony that the only way he knew something was that he read it in the New York Times? He read it in the New York Times! Just like the FBI submitted stories from New York Times to the FISA judges and it said, “Look, Judge, this is further evidence of what we found.” Well, the problem was the only reason the New York Times had anything was FBI gave it to \u2019em.<\/p>\n
So the FBI gives them evidence of Carter Page and all this stuff going on with the Russia collusion, then the New York Times prints what the FBI gave \u2019em. Then the FBI takes the New York Times story, puts it in the application packet, goes to the FISA court, says, \u201cLook, Judge. Why, even the New York Times knows what we know.”<\/p>\n
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So Bill Taylor said that some of the things he knew he only know \u2019cause he read the New York Times. Well, we know the New York Times is making things up. This thing ought to be shut down is what ought to happen. It ought to be for the sake of preventing embarrassment on the part of all these people, this needs to be shut down. And I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, if things break right over the next week or so, then Pencil Neck is gonna melt away.<\/p>\n
As we talked about yesterday, the quid pro quo is disappearing. There never was a quid pro quo. Oh! Something else that we\u2019re learning. Three of the star witnesses, Tim Morrison, Bill Taylor, and Ivana Yovanovitch or Michelle Yovanovitch, whatever the first name is, I don\u2019t know. You know what all three have admitted?<\/p>\n
That Ukraine is in much better shape now than we were under Obama. That the aid Obama did not give them has been provided and Ukraine is in much better shape. They are much better prepared to defend themselves, their economy is much better after three years of Trump than after eight years of Obama. That hasn\u2019t been released of course. Schiff didn\u2019t release that stuff in his leaks of excerpted testimony to the New York Times.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, the quid pro quo is disappearing, replaced now by obstruction, I pointed out yesterday. And when they go there, that means things are falling apart. Obstruction they went to after Mueller\u2019s collusion failed. Now bribery? (laughing) The quid pro quo has been replaced by bribery, which is following the Mueller meltdown script as collusion is evaporating.<\/p>\n
You know, folks, I made an observation yesterday, and that observation is when these people can control this by having it all done in private like for two and a half years, two years, whatever, the Mueller investigation. There wasn\u2019t one leak.<\/p>\n
Oh, folks. Pardon my interrupting myself here, but I gotta tell you this. You know, ABC News had a whistleblower. Somebody working at ABC revealed that Amy Robach had the goods on Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, and they spiked the story because it would have been damaging to Hillary. They refused to run it. Amy Robach is saying, “Well, my bosses are fine people and I\u2019m not the whistleblower and I had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n
I just was emailed a bunch of pictures of the whistleblower — the leaker — and the pictures… I guess they\u2019re on… Let\u2019s see. It just hit Twitter. Here\u2019s the guy with Elizabeth Warren. Here he is with Pelosi. Here he is with Chuck You Schumer. There he is with Hillary. The guy is the Pajama Boy! He looks just like it. I don\u2019t have time to copy, paste, and send you these pictures right now, but I will as the program unfolds, because there nobody else to do it, \u2019cause I\u2019m the tech wizard here.<\/p>\n If I ask somebody else to do it, it\u2019ll take two hours. I can do it in a two-minute break if I apply myself. There whistleblower with Fauxcahontas, whistleblower with Pelosi, whistleblower with Chuck You Schumer, whistleblower with Hillary Rodham Clinton. This stinks to high hell — low hell — and there\u2019s none of it that is legitimate. But is it not hilarious that ABC\u2019s whistleblower gets canned and then gets hired at CBS? What ABC did, is they investigated. It took \u2019em all of a week to find out what the whistleblower was.<\/p>\n They found out he was at CBS, they called CBS, and they said, “You\u2019ve got a guy that really just stuck it to us,” and CBS said, “No, we don\u2019t. He\u2019s gone. We\u2019ve fired your whistleblower.” So the Drive-Bys are sticking together. In one week\u2019s time, ABC and CBS identified a whistleblower and then canned the guy. Meanwhile (impression), “We don\u2019t know that we should identify the whistleblower identifying Donald Trump and Ukraine. We have to be very, very careful — and certainly whistleblowers can\u2019t be fired.”<\/p>\n Have you heard that? The primary whistleblower protection is they can\u2019t be fired. (Well, not unless they happen to work at CBS or ABC.) Anyway, it\u2019s just… (chuckles) I marvel at the people still taking this seriously as though it is a legitimate political or legal or what have you inquiry when it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s nothing more than a stunt. It\u2019s nothing more than oppo research, and I\u2019m gonna tell you this: If our guys in the media and in the Senate had been more united and tougher, this thing would have imploded much sooner than it\u2019s going to.<\/p>\n But these tweets from Mark Zaid, they\u2019re smoking guns. The guy, the lawyer lays it all out what we\u2019ve been saying for three years. This means that the whistleblower (whose name is Ciaramella) and Lieutenant Colonel Vindman are no longer useful. They went from bombshells to now they are embarrassments, and they will not testify. They have been dropped. I doubt we will ever see or hear about them again except from hopeful media people. Now what we have, is we have State Department functionaries.<\/p>\n This is Mark Zaid, the attorney for the whistleblower — the leaker. “He stated just days after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017 that the ‘coup has started\u2019 and that ‘impeachment will follow.'” Here are the tweets from the whistleblower\u2019s lawyer: “‘#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately.\u2019 … In another tweet, Zaid responded to President Trump\u2019s government account after Trump announced that he was appointing Dana Boente as acting attorney general.<\/p>\n “Zaid wrote, ‘#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place. #rebellion #impeachment.\u2019 In a statement provided to Fox News, Trump campaign communication director Tim Murtaugh said, ‘The whistleblower\u2019s lawyer gave away the game. It was always the Democrats\u2019 plan to stage a coup and impeach President Trump and all they ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller so now they\u2019ve settled on the perfectly fine Ukraine phone call. This proves this was orchestrated from the beginning.'”<\/p>\n Yeah, it does.<\/p>\n You have known it\u2019s orchestrated from the beginning.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve known it from the beginning.<\/p>\n Now, Mark Zaid, in the midst of all this, has issued a statement, and here\u2019s what his statement says: “Those tweets” where he suggested a “coup” is underway and “impeachment will follow” and that they\u2019re gonna get rid of Trump… “Those tweets were reflective and repeated the sentiments of millions of people. I was referring to a completely lawful process of what President Trump would likely face as a result of stepping over the line, and that particularly whatever would happen would come about as a result of lawyers.<\/p>\n Even in his statement, he\u2019s giving up the game that there were people in the Trump administration one week in — Obama holdovers — who were beginning to try to undermine the Trump presidency, and he\u2019s writing this as though he deserves credit for it. “Why, Trump was overstepping the…” He\u2019d been in office one week. Overstepping what? January 2017: “#coup has started” and “#impeachment will follow.” Now, Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s gonna be here at the top of the next hour. He\u2019s got a new book out. I\u2019ve never interviewed Donald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n I know him. I\u2019ve had a couple conversations with him recently. I chatted with him on the golf course, but he\u2019s never been on the program before. So he\u2019ll be here at the top of the hour. We\u2019ll get some of your phone calls in. But man, folks, really, this has never been about anything. All of it has been made up and contrived. Now there\u2019s evidence that the contrivers and the people running this scam have admitted it. So if you ask me, everything that happens from today forward is nothing but the continuation of a soap opera script.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a play.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a Washington, D.C., production.<\/p>\n You know that Monmouth poll that we had yesterday with the devastating news for Democrats with the impeachment data? The media\u2019s not even using it. The media hasn\u2019t even talked about it. They\u2019ve taken one thing from that poll, one result to prove that Trump followers are a cult. It was the Monmouth poll that 62% of Trump voters said there\u2019s nothing you can do to make me not support Trump. So they\u2019ve run with. “See! See! It\u2019s a cult.”<\/p>\n If Trump had a cult following, then Matt Bevin would have won the Kentucky race for governor. That same poll also showed that an even bigger number of Democrats are not gonna be change their minds and support Trump no matter what he does. The same poll makes the Democrat voter group seem an even bigger cult than Trump\u2019s. Anyway, folks, none of this is legitimate. You realize how hard it is to talk about? None of this is legitimate.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: So there\u2019s a little bit more to this Mark Zaid guy, who is the whistleblower lawyer who acknowledged that a coup to overturn the presidential election began one week after — actually, it began during the transition. It began with Flynn. All of this began probably even before the election, if you want to know the truth. That was Strzok Smirk and Lisa Page with their Plan B insurance policy.<\/p>\n Mark Zaid tweeted on January 30th, 2017, “A coup has started, first of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately.” He also tweeted, “Coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place.” “As one falls, two more will take their place.” What was he talking about there? I\u2019ll tell you what he was talking.<\/p>\n Mark Zaid was responding to the news that Trump had just fired Sally Yates. She was the acting attorney general. Remember, Sessions had recused himself. So Trump fired Sally Yates because Sally Yates instructed the Justice Department not to defend Trump\u2019s executive order, the travel ban. It was a temporary ban on the admission of refugees barred travel from terrorist hotbeds. Sally Yates told the Justice Department to ignore the president. So Trump canned her, fired her.<\/p>\n And now this guy\u2019s (impression), \u201cOh, no, no, there\u2019s nothing to see here. I was simply reflecting on what millions of patriots were reacting to when we saw what an abomination Trump was.\u201d I never heard of Mark Zaid before. This is the classic illustration of deep state, folks. I never heard of this guy. But everybody in Washington apparently knows who he is.<\/p>\n I talked to a friend of mine, \u201cOh, yeah, this guy\u2019s well known, Rush. He\u2019s hated Trump since before Trump ran for president. This guy\u2019s a Never Trumper, may be the head of the club.\u201d And he magically ends up as the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower.<\/p>\n July 2017: “I predict CNN will play a key role in Donald Trump not finishing out –” Imagine if we had known this back then? Just imagine how the landscape would have changed. Now, again, folks, we did know. We just didn\u2019t have this backup. But we knew what they were doing. We knew there was no Trump-Russia collusion. There was no Russian meddling in the election. They didn\u2019t change the outcome of anything.<\/p>\n There\u2019s another tweet later in July 2017, Mark Zaid: “We will get rid of him, and this country\u2019s strong enough to survive even him and his supporters.” Note that in this tweet Mark Zaid included you in his hatred. He hates Trump and he hates you. Us. And this is exactly the point that we have been pounding here. That we actually may be the real targets of the hatred because if it weren\u2019t for us, Trump would not have been elected. And make no mistake, they hate us.<\/p>\n These radical leftist deep state Washington establishment types literally hate us. The evidence of it is all over every mainstream media outlet: New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS. Zaid tweeted that the coup would occur in many steps. And it wasn\u2019t just Mark Zaid. Another one of the whistleblower\u2019s lawyers, Andrew Bakaj, tweeted in August of 2017 that Trump ought to be removed under the 25th Amendment.<\/p>\n And to repeat Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director, the whistleblower\u2019s lawyer gave away the game. It was always the Democrats\u2019 plan to stage a coup and to impeach President Trump, and all they ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller; so now they\u2019ve settled on a phone call. This proves this was orchestrated from the beginning. It certainly does.<\/p>\n And, by the way, when Zaid was tweeting all of this rotgut back in 2017 the phone call between Trump and Ukraine\u2019s president has not even happened, and it wouldn\u2019t happen for two years. Now, stop and think of that. Then he says it\u2019s gonna happen in stages, that CNN is gonna be instrumental in it.<\/p>\n This is a big deal, folks. They\u2019re attempting to overturn a duly constituted and legal election. This is not just politics-as-usual. This is a direct assault on the Constitution. It\u2019s a direct assault on the American voter by a bunch of people who don\u2019t want to have to put up with what voters do or think. You elect the wrong person and they\u2019re gonna try to take your choice away from you, and they\u2019re gonna try to destroy the people you vote for as a means of destroying you and dispiriting you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: This whistleblower's attorney giving up the game! He even used the word "coup" back in 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":327897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ROBACHCLINTONVERITASAPP.jpg\")
<\/a>“I was very surprised they spiked it but that\u2019s their business, they can do what they want to do.” Anyway, the whistleblower at ABC who told everybody, went over and is now working at CBS, except he\u2019s not. They\u2019ve already identified him and fired him! CBS has fired the ABC whistleblower<\/a>, while at the same time they\u2019re defending this Pajama Boy clown so-called whistleblower trying to nail Trump!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APPZAIDCiaramella.jpg\")
We got mid-level, upper-tier career State Department diplomats playing their careerist angles to try to save themselves with the establishment, to establish their own reputations within the establishment. They\u2019re all adjusting their stories. Another friend of mine thinks that we\u2019re gonna see this blow up even before Barr and Durham issue whatever they\u2019re gonna issue, their report or what have you. Now, Mark Zaid has issued a statement. You may not have heard his tweets. I\u2019ve made an assumption that everybody knows what I\u2019m talking about here, and maybe I should inform you.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/360-Mark-Zaid-Coup-Has-Started-1-of-4.jpg\")
“The coup comment referred to those working inside the administration who were already, just a week into office, standing up to him to enforce recognized rules of law.” Wait a minute. You say that this is no big deal; this is just the result of people in the White House who one week in recognized what an abomination Trump was? Mr. Zaid, Trump had not made the phone call to Ukraine yet. That didn\u2019t happen until 2019. That happened two years later, 2-1\/2 years later. So these guys…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/360-Mark-Zaid-Coup-Tweet-45-Years-4-of-4.jpg\")
Mark Zaid was cheering on Sally Yates, cheering on an executive branch employee for refusing to carry out a lawful presidential order. However, this guy\u2019s call for a coup did not stop there. In May of 2017, Mark Zaid tweeted, “Johnson 1868, Nixon 1973, Clinton 1998, impeachment hearings. Next up, Trump.” And in June of 2017 he tweeted, “45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of Donald Trump. I\u2019ll be old, but it will be worth the wait.” In July 2017, Mark Zaid tweeted, “I predict CNN will play a key role in Donald Trump not finishing out his full term as president.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032219-Deep-State.jpg\")
If you want an illustration of deep state, this is it, folks. People you\u2019ve never heard of, people that were never elected, but they are career Washington elitists. Amazing, isn\u2019t it, how the whistleblower just happened to find this guy as a lawyer? How do you think that happened?<\/p>\n