RUSH: While we\u2019re on the audio sound bites, I\u2019ve got a couple here and I can\u2019t follow this. The second sound bite here doesn\u2019t make sense to me. It was last night, Shannon Bream\u2019s show on the Fox News Channel. She\u2019s got the former deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman on talking about impeachment.<\/p>\n
Now, I don\u2019t know who this guy is. I mean, I\u2019ve heard the name Harry Litman, but I can\u2019t place it. Anyway, she plays a sound bite of me for this guy to react to. So she introduces and plays a clip of me talking about Trump and the deep state, and here\u2019s the first of two sound bites.<\/p>\n
BREAM: Let me play something from probably one of Harry\u2019s most favorite radio shows, Rush Limbaugh. As he laughs. He\u2019s shaking his head “no.” Okay, but this is what Rush has to say about how this whole thing is playing out and what the end result has been.<\/p>\n
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\nRUSH ARCHIVE: Recent CNN poll shows the enthusiasm for the incumbent Donald Trump is almost unprecedented. And, in his own party, his approval numbers are well now past 90%. Everything they have tried has blown up in their faces, and, in the midst of all of it, guess what\u2019s happened? The existence of this so-called deep state has now been shown to be true. The existence of this little cabal of elitists that think they run things is no longer now just somebody\u2019s suspicion.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah, I remember that. It was a good point yesterday. It\u2019s one of the things Trump has done. Everybody\u2019s always speculated that there\u2019s some power behind the throne, some secret group that actually runs things in Washington, and they\u2019re there despite who the president is. And these generally have always been things touted by conspiracy theorists, people that have been labeled kooks in the past.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s exposed it. Whatever you want to call it, the deep state, the elites, the Washington establishment, there\u2019s no question that it exists. And there\u2019s no question that they are ticked off. And there\u2019s no question that maybe the center of it is the national security apparatus, the National Security Council, because within that group is every other group we\u2019re talking about. Director of national intelligence, CIA, military has people in there, State Department, diplomacy. It\u2019s all in the National Security Council or apparatus.<\/p>\n
The whistleblower was on the National Security Council. McMaster, who we now know had ties to the whistleblower, he was the national security adviser for Trump. And that seems to be the nexus. One of the things that we have learned that has upset these people — and, folks, I\u2019m not making this up. It is simple as this. Oh. By the way. Something else that we have learned. It may well be Eric \u201cCharcoal\u201d Ciaramella who released the transcript of two phone calls Trump made, president of Mexico, and was it Australia?<\/p>\n
Remember early on in the Trump administration he makes these two phone calls, and the transcript of these calls leaks. And it is now thought that the whistleblower, the spy, is the leaker of those two calls. And nothing would surprise me. But what upsets these people is that Trump makes phone calls — like the president of Ukraine — he makes phone calls without the National Security Council bigwigs listening in. And they feel left out. This is not the way it works in Washington. Presidents do not exclude the national security apparatus. Presidents let those people listen in because they\u2019re the ones that really do foreign policy. All presidents understand this.<\/p>\n
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Well, Trump began to exclude these people shortly after he was inaugurated because everything he was doing was leaking. You know, another rip on Trump, the transcript of the call he made to the Ukrainian president was put on a super-secret server. And the media and the deep state people are trying to say, \u201cSee, see Trump\u2019s trying to hide it, Trump\u2019s trying to get away with stuff. He\u2019s trying to break the law, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s putting that stuff away.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it was not the reason at all. The transcript of these calls that Trump was making were being kept away from people in his own administration who were leaking. It makes perfect sense, especially after those first two phone calls leaked. And the reason that I know this, we have a story here. And this story is a guy, he\u2019s a financier, he\u2019s a Wall Street guy, his name is Jay Latimer, international businessman, writer, investor.<\/p>\n
He has worked in investment banking for several multinational banks — New York, Hong Kong, and Beijing. And he describes a briefly encounter he had with a member of this cabal. He says, “I recently spoke with an old acquaintance, just out of government, who had worked in the Intelligence Community in Washington. The venue was a neighborhood party in a deep-blue area of the U.S., in one of the highest of high-income ZIP codes.\u201d<\/p>\n
So elite, wealthy liberal Democrats were the people at this party. “As the lone conservative,” writes Mr. Latimer, “I tend to tread carefully in these discussions. However, I thought she might have a conservative bent,\u201d this woman he was talking to, \u201cas she seemed to share my mistrust of government. When she first started working for the I.C., she told me she was waiting to meet ‘the adult in the room,\u2019 as everyone she interacted with seemed clueless,\u201d the intelligence community.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a few years, she eventually realized ‘there was no adult in the room!\u2019 So I was interested in her take on the Trump impeachment process, then just getting under way. When I brought it up, she immediately got excited. ‘It\u2019s worse than you think; it\u2019s worse than anyone knows!\u2019 I wondered what might be worse than what I\u2019ve read. I also wondered which side she felt was acting worse \u2014 Trump or the swamp?<\/p>\n
\u201cI soon learned she was upset with Trump for supposedly talking to Ukraine about Joe Biden. I asked, quite innocently, wouldn\u2019t you expect him to look into it? After all, Trump is the head of the law enforcement community, and Biden\u2019s son was getting over $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian energy company for a position that he was clearly unqualified to hold. Wasn\u2019t that suspicious? She airily waived off my concerns. ‘Oh, everyone in Washington does that kind of thing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
And, by the way, she\u2019s right. Have you seen Hunter Biden\u2019s interviews about this? He doesn\u2019t think he did anything wrong at all. This is the way Washington works. The children of high Washington officials are set up in the way Joe Biden set up Hunter Biden. The way the Clintons have set up Chelsea. It\u2019s just the way of the world, like all parents try to set their kids up or do as much for them as they can.<\/p>\n
In Washington the problem is that they don\u2019t use their own money to do it. They use defense contractor money, they use foreign donations, they do all kinds of things, like in Ukraine, Burisma, ChiCom, it was other countries\u2019 money that Biden used to set his kid up. But this woman that Latimer\u2019s talking to, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t bother me. Everybody does that in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n
No. What really made her mad \u201cwas that Trump had changed the procedures, placing his calls to other heads of state under high classification status, so they could not be seen by others in government. She considered this an outrageous breach of protocol. How could Trump do such a thing?\u201d<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s exactly what I suspected. Trump, after his phone calls were leaked, and they were not the only things that were leaked. Trump started making these phone calls and doing other operations essentially behind closed doors without letting these people in. And they are normally part of the process. They are the foreign policy establishment. When a president calls a foreign leader, they have to be on the call. They have to know what\u2019s going on. They have to provide input. They are involved.<\/p>\n
And Trump has been acing them out because he doesn\u2019t trust them. And they are livid! And this is what literally is behind the whistleblower and all these other things getting this impeachment process going. These are just people who think they run that town, and Trump has run an end run around them and is leaving them out, and they are livid. They are ticked off.<\/p>\n
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They have been rendered irrelevant by Donald Trump. And that\u2019s the biggest insult you could do to these people. Because in their minds they are Washington, they are government, they are foreign policy. And Trump is excluding them. It\u2019s like Trump has taken away their reason to live. He\u2019s taken away their access to power and bragging rights and whatever else they get their jollies doing by being involved in these things.<\/p>\n
“So I pointed out” — this Mr. Latimer continuing — “I pointed out that he had a good reason; Trump was the victim of two major leaks in his first month, where the full texts of his calls were given to the press. Wasn\u2019t that also outrageous and unprecedented? And given the strong possibility of further leaks, wouldn\u2019t classifying his calls be the prudent thing to do? At this point, her eyes flashed in anger. ‘He can\u2019t just change things like that! He\u2019s not a king!'”<\/p>\n
Meaning he can\u2019t just arbitrarily decide to exclude us. Now, who are these people? Well, the first thing to know about \u2019em is that none of them are elected. There\u2019s not a single one of them in this cabal that ever answers to or is accountable to the American people. And in a representative republic, that is a nonstarter. But it\u2019s been this way probably for decades. I will bet you it\u2019s been this way since the post-World War II era.<\/p>\n
This order, this Washington, this world order that John McCain talked about, this is what he was talking about. And letting Trump have access to this, these people think it\u2019s the biggest insult that ever could happen. Some Nimrod like Trump given access to this order that the United States — now he\u2019s excluding these people, and he doesn\u2019t have the right. Who does he think he is, a king?<\/p>\n
When, of course, he has the total right to exclude anybody he wants on these phone calls. He has the total right to send Rudy Giuliani as an ambassador or as an agent of some kind to Ukraine if he wants to because he is in charge of American foreign policy. These people do not think that\u2019s the case. They literally believe \u2013 and I\u2019m not exaggerating — that they are.<\/p>\n
So there are many reasons these people hate Trump. But I\u2019m telling you that while some of it may be policy, a lot of it isn\u2019t. A lot of it is just the fact that he\u2019s taken away their reason to live. He\u2019s taken away their identity. He\u2019s taken away their bragging rights. He\u2019s taken away that which gives them self-esteem.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not factors. They are not relevant when it comes to American foreign policy. And they think they run it. And so Trump\u2019s gotta go. Trump\u2019s gotta go, and he\u2019s gotta be replaced by somebody who knows the way things are done. An average Republican or Democrat who is gonna let these people run the show because presidents come and go and these people are constant.<\/p>\n
Well, folks, this is exactly what we elected Donald Trump to do. So the bottom line is, they\u2019re trying to kick Donald Trump out of office for doing exactly what you elected him to do. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. All the rest of this is just blather. All the rest of it is just a bunch of garbage thrown up against the wall hoping a lot of it sticks so that you\u2019ll be confused. It\u2019s no more complicated than Donald Trump is actually doing what you elected him to do, and official Washington is intolerant of it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what? I forgot to air his Harry Litman response to my point. So grab sound bite number 5. So I said in the sound bite that one of the great things that\u2019s happened here is that Trump has now exposed the existence of this private, secret cabal that thinks they run Washington and the government.<\/p>\n
Whereas before, people thought, “Nah, only conspiracy theory kooks believe that.” So here is this former deputy assistant attorney general, Harry Litman, responding. Shannon Bream says, “So here Rush says Democrats are helping the president by going after him and they ended up exposing deep state in the process. Your response?”<\/p>\n
LITMAN: (snickering) I don\u2019t know where to start, especially with Rush on the deep state. It\u2019s a hundred percent clear (snickering) there are no due process protections at this point. The ultimate call rests with Schiff and what he said — and, given the track record, I think it\u2019s very justified. If they\u2019re trying to use this to relitigate Steele dossier or Burisma — something that doesn\u2019t have anything to do with Trump\u2019s actual behavior — then they will say, “We won\u2019t do it.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Pfft! I\u2019ve read the transcript, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I literally don\u2019t. He makes a joke about my observation Trump\u2019s exposed the deep state then goes off talking about the dossier and Schiff and due-process rights and so forth. So I have no clue what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s go to the phones here. We\u2019ll get to the Savannah Guthrie, Nikki Haley sound bites in mere moments. We\u2019re gonna go to Northern Virginia, the north Washington suburbs in Virginia. This is Chris. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Great to be on with you. Yeah, this definitely is a D.C. suburb up here. Listen, I had to call. I\u2019ve just been so frustrated with the dismissal of the deep state conversation. I worked 12 the years in the intelligence community. I eventually had to get out because I couldn\u2019t take the corruption anymore. It\u2019s exactly what people say it is. It\u2019s exactly what the so-called conspiracy theorists are saying, and I get so tired of this dismissal of saying that it\u2019s not there.<\/p>\n
People feel like it\u2019s their duty — regardless of what politicians, regardless of what the elected officials want — that they have this solemn duty to maintain something, and it supersedes everything. It supersedes any sort of conversation or desire by the American people. They feel that they have the right to do whatever they need to do to maintain their control, and it infuriates me that the media and everyone are so dismissive of the concept.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, they\u2019re dismissive because they want to try to keep it under wraps. They\u2019ve gotten away with portraying people who talk about it as conspiracy kooks for so long, that\u2019s been a very successful way to keep it under wraps. This is why I think it\u2019s monumental what Trump has done. There\u2019s all kinds of ways to look at this. You can look at this as, “Oh, my God, these people are trying to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n
“Oh, my God, this is horrible! Oh, my God! Trump… No.” The other way to look at it? Look at what Trump is exposing. He\u2019s doing exactly what he was elected to do. He\u2019s exposed these people, and he\u2019s bringing into clear view for anybody who wants to pay attention exactly who they are and how they operate. And, by the way, making end runs around them. Not including them, for example, in the phone call to Ukraine. Not including them after leaks of phone calls.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly what he was elected to do. It\u2019s exactly what “drain the swamp” means. He can\u2019t get rid of them, but he can certainly render them irrelevant. He can deny them access. And it is driving them nuts. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re coming back and talking about him being so unqualified and so unsophisticated and so strange to the ways of Washington. These are people… You say that these are people, that they have a right. I think it\u2019s worse than that.<\/p>\n
I know what you mean. I think what you really mean is they have a sense of entitlement. They are not elected, and yet they think that they have a duty to protect the American people from themselves because the view of the American people is one of ignoramuses, dunces, people that don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. And these people have this added attitude of superiority about them. And when you boil it all down, nobody elected \u2019em.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not accountable to anybody, and it\u2019s about time that the American people found out that there\u2019s a large group of people — unaccountable, unelected — who think that they are entitled to make foreign policy despite who wins elections. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. And so here we now have an eyewitness, a guy who actually had to leave it — and basically, they\u2019re a bunch of incompetents to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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