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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is John Ratcliffe today. I mentioned this earlier, but I want you to hear him do it. This is very effective. This is a great, great pair of sound bites. It illustrates the phoniness and the moving-target nature of this so-called impeachment inquiry. It\u2019s well done. This was this morning during the House Intelligence Committee hearing with Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and Jennifer Williams, who\u2019s an aide to Vice President Mike Pence.<\/p>\n
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She\u2019s actually a national security agent. She\u2019s tasked over from the State Department. The way I understand it, I don\u2019t know that she was chosen by Pence or just simply assigned there. Who knows? But, at any rate, here is Ratcliffe beginning with his questioning of both of the witnesses…<\/p>\n
RATCLIFFE: Ms. Williams, you\u2019ve never used the word “bribery” or “bribe” to explain President Trump\u2019s conduct, correct?<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: No, sir.<\/p>\n
RATCLIFFE: Colonel Vindman, you haven\u2019t either?<\/p>\n
VINDMAN: That is correct.<\/p>\n
RATCLIFFE: The problem is, in an impeachment inquiry that the speaker of the House says is all about bribery — where bribery is the impeachable offense — no one has used the word “bribery” to describe President Trump\u2019s conduct. None of them. These aren\u2019t all of the deposition transcripts. These are just the 10 that have been released. Six weeks of witness interviews in this impeachment inquiry, hundreds of hours of testimony, thousands of questions asked, thousands of answers given. The number of times that witnesses have been asked any question about whether or not President Trump\u2019s conduct constituted bribery — before Ambassador Yovanovitch was asked by my colleague Congressman Stewart last Thursday — is zero.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop and think about this. Now, imagine also as you hear this that sitting right nearby are all of the Democrats, and the media is packed into this room, and they have just been undressed and exposed. The media has been exposed as willing participants in the Democrats\u2019 effort here to get rid of Trump by reversing the election results. They\u2019ve got nothing. They start out with “quid pro quo” and all these other things and it doesn\u2019t register because they focus grouped it.<\/p>\n
They found the American people were not being impacted by it at all. So they tried other words — bribery and what have you — and bribery stuck because it\u2019s something everybody understands, it\u2019s pretty simple to understand what it is, and it\u2019d be very bad if a president actually did it. And yet nobody has yet accused Trump of it until Pelosi came along after the focus grouping. Here\u2019s Ratcliffe again to wrap it up…<\/p>\n
RATCLIFFE: The answer is polling. The Washington Times asked Americans, “What would be the most damning accusation…?” It didn\u2019t come back “quid pro quo.” It didn\u2019t come back “extortion.” It came back “bribery.” So this case is all about bribery. When Speaker Pelosi says this is all about bribery, she\u2019s promised us evidence of bribery that would be compelling and overwhelming — and instead, it\u2019s invisible.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Because it doesn\u2019t exist. It literally doesn\u2019t exist. So you\u2019ve got Schiff sitting there. He\u2019s been exposed as a fraud. The Democrats know it and the media know it, and they don\u2019t even care. They\u2019re not even daunted by this, I\u2019ll guarantee you. Because as far as they\u2019re concerned this is never gonna escape the hearing room. Nobody\u2019s gonna ever know about this. They\u2019re not gonna spend any time on it.<\/p>\n
Fox News might. That\u2019s not even a guarantee anymore. Fox News might. We definitely do here. I want you to hear next Jim Jordan. This is audio sound bite number 26. This is kind of in progress. This was established earlier that Schiff has lied about not knowing who the whistleblower is, yet is trying to maintain that Vindman does not say it.<\/p>\n
JORDAN: I don\u2019t see how this is outing the whistleblower. The witness has testified in the deposition that he doesn\u2019t know who the whistleblower is. You have said — even though no one believes you, you have said — you don\u2019t know who whistleblower is. So how is it outing the whistleblower to find out who this individual is?<\/p>\n
SCHIFF: Mr. Jordan, this is your time for questioning. You can use it any way you like, but your questions should be addressed to the witness.<\/p>\n
JORDAN: I\u2019d like to.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So this is very, very simple. Vindman said that he told two people outside of those on the call, July 25th call — for which the transcript has been released! We don\u2019t have any reason to even be here. The transcript has been released. Whatever the whistleblower said about it is irrelevant, and he\u2019s not even gonna be called. The whistleblower will not be called to testify. Nobody will be able to cross-examine him. He doesn\u2019t exist, as far as these hearings are concerned, and he was the sole mover. He was the prime mover.<\/p>\n
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Trump releasing the transcript messed up Schiff\u2019s plans. But Vindman admitted that he told two people outside of those on the call. One was George Kent, the bow-tied guy from last week, and somebody from the intelligence community — and as Vindman was on the verge of giving some hint as to the identity, Schiff moved in there and shut it down and said, “We\u2019re not gonna identify the whistleblower. We\u2019re not gonna do it!”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when everyone wondred, “How can he possibly identify the whistleblower when nobody knows who it is? You don\u2019t know who it is.” This what Jordan said. “You\u2019ve said you don\u2019t know who the whistleblower is — even though no one believes you.” He was directing that to Schiff. Schiff has stepped in this big time. If there were just one fair arbiter in that room, they would shut this down.<\/p>\n
Adam Schiff is being exposed as an absolute lying fraud, as is this whole proceeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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