{"id":329285,"date":"2019-11-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=329285"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:54:50","slug":"democrats-get-caught-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/21\/democrats-get-caught-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Get Caught Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, something that just happened which has been typical of every day in these hearings. We have the morning session where the equivalent of bombshells are dropped. Today there haven\u2019t been that many, if at all, compared of course to yesterday and previous days, but still there have been a couple of witnesses today, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/21\/fiona-hill-undermines-multiple-democrat-premises-2\/\">Fiona Hill<\/a> and this guy, what\u2019s his name, David Holmes. And he was counselor to the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. And he\u2019s another one of these guys that seems very full of himself, very impressed with himself.<\/p>\n<p>And his opening statement varies greatly with things that he has said later in the day, and John Ratcliffe caught him in a big one. We have two sound bites, numbers 33 and 34. Ratcliffe, Republican of Texas, said to David Holmes, &#8220;You said you heard President Trump say you heard, you heard, you said you heard President Trump say, &#8216;Is he gonna do this investigation?\u2019 and <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/20\/the-real-bombshell-i-want-nothing-from-ukraine-no-quid-pro-quo\/\">Ambassador Sondland<\/a> said, &#8216;He\u2019s gonna do it. He\u2019ll do anything you ask him to.\u2019 That\u2019s what you say you heard. Is that right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Rattcliffe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Rattcliffe.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Rattcliffe-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>HOLMES: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RATCLIFFE: What did President Trump say next?<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: He said&#8230; Whuh? He said, &#8220;Good, what about Sweden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RATCLIFFE: He said what?<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: Sir, he&#8230; Sorry. I need to look at &#8212; back where we are in the middle of the conversation here. Ummm, where are we in the testimony? Exactly. So then they turned the Sweden conversation.<\/p>\n<p>RATCLIFFE: What did President Trump say next?<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: He said, &#8220;Good. What about Sweden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RATCLIFFE: &#8220;Good. What about Sweden.&#8221; &#8220;Good. What about Sweden?&#8221; Why isn\u2019t that in your statement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: Sir, i-i-it\u2019s &#8212; it\u2019s not a word-for-word, every single word in the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But it\u2019s the most important part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: Well, then they turned to Sweden. They turned to the other topic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oEcJSa19R_g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If you\u2019re thinking, &#8220;So what?&#8221; well, the point here is Sweden! We\u2019re talking about Ukraine. Trump turned to Sweden, and this guy didn\u2019t put this in his opening statement. All of a sudden now Trump was so concerned about Ukraine, he\u2019s moving off and talking about Sweden? So Ratcliffe kind of lays it out for Holmes next.<\/p>\n<p>RATCLIFFE: Respectfully, Mr. Holmes, this impeachment inquiry is based on the call the day before where President Trump &#8212; as part of bribery scheme, as part of an extortion scheme, as part of a quid pro quo, according to the Democrats &#8212; demanded investigations in exchange for either military aid or a White House meeting. And the next day you were witness to President Trump receiving word that the bribery scheme was successful, the extortion scheme was successful, and his response &#8212; his response was, &#8220;Good. What about Sweden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES: Yes, sir. The &#8212; the Ukraine portion of that conversation was extremely brief.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So Ratcliffe is pointing out here the bribery scheme, the extortion scheme was just fulfilled, and Trump then said, &#8220;Okay. What about Sweden?&#8221; (impression) &#8220;It was a very brief conversation.&#8221; &#8220;But why wasn\u2019t this in your opening statement?&#8221; Anyway, it may not sound like a big deal to you here, but it\u2019s another catch. Ratcliffe has the witness here trying&#8230; It\u2019s an overheard, I heard, he said, this is what Sondland thought it meant, do whatever you want. Yeah, I heard that. Then the president said, &#8220;What about Sweden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, there was nothing celebratory. There was nothing, no, &#8220;Attaboy, way to go. You got him.&#8221; In other words, folks, we have another bureaucrat imagining something that happened that probably didn\u2019t, and who didn\u2019t put in his opening statement the full context of Trump\u2019s conversation on this call they\u2019re talking about, which is not the call.<\/p>\n<p>This is a call that is not the call. He\u2019s trying to point out to the guy, &#8220;Look, we\u2019re here talking about this call where you people say that bribery and extortion and quid pro quos happened, and all you\u2019ve got is Trump wanted to know about Sweden!&#8221; &#8220;Well, (sputtering) it\u2019s not a word-for-word, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to get to Devin Nunes from this morning from his opening statement and he just crushed \u2019em today, as he has been doing every day in the opening statement, sound bites 8 and 9. Here we go with the first one.<\/p>\n<p>NUNES: How do we have an impeachable offense here when there\u2019s no actual misdeed and no one even claiming to be a victim? The Democrats have tried to solve this dilemma with a simple slogan: &#8220;He got caught.&#8221; President Trump, we are to believe, was just about to do something wrong and getting caught was the only reason he backed down from whatever nefarious thought crime the Democrats are accusing him of almost committing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vaPDMgwwRB8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the next bite he goes through all of the Democrat lies for the past three years. It makes the point that if anybody has got caught here, it\u2019s them.<\/p>\n<p>NUNES: It\u2019s the Democrats who got caught. They got caught falsely claiming they had &#8220;more than circumstantial evidence&#8221; that Trump colluded with Russians. They got caught orchestrating this entire farce with the whistleblower. They got caught defending the false allegations of the Steele dossier, which was paid for by them. They got caught breaking their promise that impeachment would only go forward with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>They got caught running a sham impeachment process. They got caught trying to obtain nude photos of President Trump from Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainians. And they got caught covering up for Alexandra Chalupa, a Democrat National Committee operative, who colluded with Ukrainian officials to smear the Trump campaign. That is the Democrats\u2019 pitiful legacy in recent years. They. Got. Caught.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Every bit of that is true, and here\u2019s the thing that always gets me. Sitting right there listening to this were these two witnesses, including among them Fiona Hill. The witnesses are listening to the actual truth be recited and it\u2019s as though nobody is saying anything. It\u2019s what\u2019s always amazed me about these hearings. Somebody always has the truth in them. Somebody owns it. In every congressional hearing, somebody is saying the truth and somebody isn\u2019t, and the truth never seems to have any impact on any of the witnesses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-IMPEACHMENT-Hill-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-IMPEACHMENT-Hill-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-IMPEACHMENT-Hill-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I were sitting there, if I was Fiona Hill sitting there today and I was prepared to blabber on about the incompetence of Donald Trump and I heard that and I didn\u2019t know about any of it, I would be genuinely curious, and I would want a stop put on this until some of that was explained to me. But, no, because it\u2019s all a show, folks, and everybody has their role here, and it\u2019s Get Trump Day number 15 of these hearings or whatever it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In every congressional hearing, somebody is saying the truth and somebody isn&#039;t, and the truth never seems to have any impact on any of the witnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":329294,"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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Get Caught Again - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/21\/democrats-get-caught-again\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Democrats Get Caught Again - 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