{"id":329521,"date":"2019-11-25T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=329521"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:05:02","slug":"is-pelosi-looking-for-a-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/25\/is-pelosi-looking-for-a-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pelosi Looking for a Way Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have so many people asking me, &#8220;Rush, is this stuff I\u2019m hearing true? That Pelosi may be looking for a way out of actually having an impeachment vote?&#8221; Folks, I\u2019ve got three stories about this, including polling data from the anointed one, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/some-americans-look-persuadable-on-impeachment-but-theyre-not-paying-attention\/\">Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a>, which indicates that support for impeachment is plummeting, and it dropped as the Schiff show was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>And on the other side of it, not only is support for impeachment dropping &#8212; here it is, FiveThirtyEight: Support for impeachment topped out at 47.7% late October, it\u2019s down to 41%, six points down over the last three weeks. YouGov is among the polls registering the decline, with independent support for impeachment dropping from 39% down to 35%. An Emerson College survey found an even more extreme flip among independents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112519-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, you know, the thing about the Drive-By Media that you have to be on the lookout for, they use polling. So here you have Nate Silver chronicling how the impeachment prospect is dropping, the public sentiment for impeachment is plummeting. Is that true, or is it an attempt to manipulate us? Well, there are three different polls that Nate Silver is analyzing here. So I\u2019m gonna take all this under advisement, \u2019cause we talk about polls here frequently, and some of them we cite with acceptance, and others we are automatically dubious of.<\/p>\n<p>And you have to be consistent with this. I mean, you can\u2019t sit there and pick the polls that you like and then start heralding them if you have, like I do, an overall distrust of the genre itself for a host of reasons. But I don\u2019t have any doubt that the American public\u2019s desire for impeachment\u2019s dropping \u2019cause there was nothing in these hearings to excite anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Where were the tapes? Where was John Dean? Where was the evidence of the break-in? They say this is Watergate redux. Where is all the stuff that we had in Watergate? There isn\u2019t any. All we have is a bunch of disgruntled civil servants who are upset that they were not utilized. Nobody\u2019s accusing them of lying, either. &#8220;Why would all of these Trump supporters accuse every one of these civil servants of lying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s accusing them of lying. We\u2019re accusing them of being haughty, arrogant snobs that Trump doesn\u2019t trust for obviously brilliant common-sensical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Here we go. <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bethbaumann\/2019\/11\/24\/evan-a-washington-post-reporter-admits-dems-are-getting-cold-feet-over-impeachment-n2556990\">&#8220;Washington Post Reporter: We\u2019re Hearing Behind the Scenes House Dems Are Getting &#8216;Cold Feet\u2019 on Impeachment.&#8221;<\/a> Politico: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/11\/22\/democrats-house-impeachment-moderates-072972\">&#8220;Vulnerable Democrats Spooked by GOP Impeachment Ad Onslaught<\/a> &#8212; Democrats want the party to step up its defense.&#8221; There are lots of examples today, not in polling data. The polling data is ancillary, but it may be causing the cold feet. There\u2019s lots of stories of actual Democrats telling liberal Drive-By Media that they are very worried about this.<\/p>\n<p>They know the case wasn\u2019t made. Folks, here\u2019s another thing. There\u2019s something that every one of these people from Fiona Hill to Lieutenant Colonel Vindman (O say can you see?), and Bill Taylor and all these other people realize. Any other president that this group of people &#8212; call \u2019em whatever you, deep state, the establishment, the administrative state. Any other person would have been gone by now. The FBI and the intelligence community alone running this hoax against Donald Trump starting in 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112019-IMPEACHMENT-HEARINGS-RUSH-SHAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112019-IMPEACHMENT-HEARINGS-RUSH-SHAM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112019-IMPEACHMENT-HEARINGS-RUSH-SHAM-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Any other Republican, any other elected president who was targeted for destruction this way would long ago have been gone, would have long ago resigned, would have long ago sued for peace, said, &#8220;I can\u2019t take it anymore. I\u2019m outta here.&#8221; Trump is the only guy, and he has beaten them at every turn. He beat them with Eddie Gallagher here in the SEAL case. He has beat them back. Every effort they have tried &#8212; Robert Mueller XIV, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has beaten every one of them back. Now there are stories in the New York and Washington media about how Trump is remaking Washington, and the premise of these stories is that official Washington is being left out, that Trump is forming a new kind of Washington that includes rogue outsiders, people like Rudy and other Trump appointees who are loyal to Trump as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Not Donald Trump the person, loyal to Trump as commander-in-chief. There are lots of stories &#8212; I have \u2019em in the Stack of Stuff today here &#8212; about how official Washington is worried as heck that Trump is changing Washington and getting away with it. I will guarantee you that Trump has inserted a type of energy into Washington these people haven\u2019t seen in a while, and they\u2019ve tried to beat it back, and they haven\u2019t. They haven\u2019t been able to.<\/p>\n<p>So how does Pelosi get out of this?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think there\u2019s a way. We already know the basic elements of it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So here\u2019s to Pelosi. Here\u2019s how Pelosi gets out of this impeachment vote if she wants to. Not predicting this. But again to refresh your memory, I opened the program by noting that lots of people are asking me if I think there won\u2019t be a vote because lots of people are seeing &#8212; I\u2019ve got stories in the Stack myself.<\/p>\n<p>Just to review, \u201cWashington Post: We\u2019re Hearing Behind The Scenes That More House Dems Are Getting \u2018Cold Feet\u2019 About Impeachment.\u201d The phrase of the day, says the Washington Post reporter, over the weekend was &#8220;cold feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Politico says that vulnerable Democrats, moderates who won election in 2018 in Trump districts, are watching in horror as Trump spends $8 million worth of ads attacking Democrats and impeachment in their home districts.<\/p>\n<p>Politico claims the Democrats and their allies have only spent $2.7 million on pro-impeachment ads. Trump is dwarfing them with $8 million, which of course is a bunch of crap because you can\u2019t ignore the free media that Democrats get from New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>By the time you add all that free media up, it\u2019s gonna dwarf whatever amount of money Trump is spending. But the fact of the matter is the Trump ads are effective in these districts, and these vulnerable Democrats are saying they are spooked by it, and they want not the impeachment to be canceled, they want the Democrats to step up their defense of these people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-326864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102919-Schiff-Pelosi-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102919-Schiff-Pelosi-B.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102919-Schiff-Pelosi-B-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>So how could Pelosi do this? By the way, my instinct is that she can\u2019t. She can\u2019t not follow through with this. She\u2019s got to have the vote, after everything they\u2019ve said about this. And Schiff continues to bleed all over everybody on TV about he\u2019s got the goods. Trump\u2019s misconduct is apparent. Everybody can see it. They\u2019re not walking back anything, even though the Drive-Bys are doing stories on nervous Nellie Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening is the poll data is plummeting. Support for impeachment dropped in some polls up to eight points in the two weeks of the Schiff hearings. In no poll is support for impeachment expanding or increasing. And they all see this. And they are very poll-driven. So if Pelosi wanted to not have the vote, how could she do it? Here\u2019s what I think she could do.<\/p>\n<p>I ran this by the Official Program Observer this morning, Mr. Snerdley, and he thinks that, \u201cOh, God, yeah, I never thought &#8212; that might work.\u201d Here\u2019s how she could do it, folks. She could go on TV, call a press conference and tell a bunch of lies about how successful the hearings were. That we\u2019ve got all of this evidence of bribery and extortion and praise to the hilt all of the civil servant left-wing liberal Democrat witnesses, extol their virtues to no end, praise them to the hilt, praise them by name, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman &#8212; O say can you see &#8212; Fiona Hill, Bill Taylor, George Kent, name \u2019em. Yovanovitch.<\/p>\n<p>And then say that even if she were to get every Democrat in the House voting, the problem is that the process then goes to the Senate where the corrupt Republicans are in charge, where the Republican Party is going to not listen. This is Pelosi speaking, I\u2019m making up the words, but this would be her message. The Republican Party will openly defy the wishes and will of the American people as represented in the vote to impeach in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>And in the trial, the Republicans will be able to call witnesses who will be able to distort and confuse and get away with it because the partisan Republicans who will do anything to protect Trump will be running the trial. And she can continue to set it up as whatever happens in the Senate will be illegitimate because of Republican partisanship, and then present that as the greatest problem facing America. Republican partisanship, Republican defense of Donald Trump. The Republicans\u2019 refusal to stand up for the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, just ladle it on the Republicans and don\u2019t stop. And then tell her wacko, crazed base a truth, that the inherent problem of going to the Senate is that because of the partisanship of the evil Republicans, this president, who we have proven has violated his oath of office will be acquitted because of Republican partisanship, because Republicans will ignore the evidence just like they did with Kavanaugh. They will see to it that this president is protected.<\/p>\n<p>And then she says, ladies and gentlemen, the last thing we want, the last thing this country needs, the last thing this country can put up with and tolerate is this president being acquitted. That would be an outrage to the Constitution. That would be an outrage to the American people. I simply will not participate in a process that ends with this president, who is as guilty as any president has ever been, I will not be part of a process that finds him not guilty. I simply cannot do that to America.<\/p>\n<p>And because of the partisan Republicans, because of the mean-spirited Republicans, because of racist, bigoted, sexist homophobic Republicans &#8212; just really ladle it on &#8212; this president will be found not guilty, and that is something our country cannot withstand. And I, your speaker, will not put this country through that. Even on the day, she could say, even on those days where we care about God, God knows the president is guilty. But the Republicans who also know he\u2019s guilty will do everything they can to shield and protect him because he has corrupted them like he has our great country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-302275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-US-Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-US-Capitol.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-US-Capitol-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, would something like that fly with her wacko base? That\u2019s a tough call. &#8216;Cause her wacko base, they want Trump in jail. They want him shot at dawn. They want the absolute worst that they could imagine happening. So Pelosi\u2019s chore, if there\u2019s anything to this, backing off on it, polling data showing less and less support, she doesn\u2019t have enough votes &#8212; remember she\u2019s got 218 votes, but she doesn\u2019t have 220.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another thing the Washington Post story points out. If she does this she\u2019s gonna need 230 votes for this. She can\u2019t do this, bare minimum. I mean, this guy\u2019s so guilty, if he is just obviously unequivocally guilty, she can\u2019t do this with the barest minimum of Democrats supporting it. So if she pulls back, could she pull this off by telling her wacko base that the absolute worst thing here would be for the president of the United States in an election year, by the way, to be found not guilty?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another thing she could add. Because of the archaic old-fashioned rules of the Senate which will be enforced by the bigoted leader, Mitch McConnell, our great Democrat presidential candidates from the Senate will not be able to campaign during a trial. And the bigoted leader of the Republicans, Senator McConnell, has promised a six-week trial, and so our courageous Democrat presidential candidates would not be able to join the campaign trail during the precious early days of the primary season because they must stay in the Senate during the trial. I will not handicap my precious Democrat presidential candidates by making sure they can\u2019t campaign.<\/p>\n<p>My point is she\u2019s got some avenues she could go down if there is anything to this not having a vote. And if she doesn\u2019t have a vote, then Schiff, you know, they might have to drag him off a ledge somewhere if there isn\u2019t a vote, either.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll just tell you this, folks. I think Pelosi &#8212; with her buddies in the Drive-By Media and elsewhere &#8212; is already laying the blame, laying the groundwork for blaming Republican partisanship as her reason for withdrawing the vote to impeach. It\u2019s still a long shot, but I can see it happening out there.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Anyway, I mentioned the Pelosi possibility of an impeachment offering. How can she get out of this? And I gave you my theory as to how she could do it. And essentially, folks, it is to just pile on the Republicans as mean-spirited, bigoted partisans and how she just can\u2019t, she can\u2019t bring herself to have done all this work to prove the president\u2019s bribery and extortion all to have these partisan, bigoted Republicans declare him not guilty. That that would be so damaging to America that she can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>And also her precious Democrat Senators would not be allowed to campaign during a Senate trial for president. The reason I say this, I think there\u2019s a groundwork being built for this that the Republicans\u2019 partisanship &#8212; it would be a tough sell for her. But in the last few weeks the media has been starting this Trump supporters are a cult narrative. Have you seen that? The use of the word cult to describe Trump supporters is an angry, hot, liberal way of saying partisanship, unmovable partisanship. A Trump cult, they don\u2019t care what he does. There\u2019s no way they will not support him.<\/p>\n<p>And Pelosi and the Democrats are putting this out that Trump supporters are a cult, meaning they\u2019re unmovable, they are inflexible, and members of cults are obviously what else? Fools. They\u2019re idiots. They\u2019re stupid. And so Pelosi and her buddies are spreading this notion that Trump supporters are a cult.<\/p>\n<p>And if she played it right &#8212; and, boy, she\u2019d have to thread the needle perfectly to bring this off without causing a revolt among her screwball base &#8212; but it would be a way for Pelosi to somewhat dissipate this rage, this negative energy toward her and the Democrat leadership that would exist if she cancels the vote.<\/p>\n<p>But folks, she\u2019s between a rock and a hard place right now because the vote, if it was taken today, she\u2019d barely have the 218 that she needs, and she can\u2019t do this with 218 &#8212; well, she can. She can do anything she wants. But 218 with a whole lot of Democrats not voting for it, especially when there aren\u2019t any Republicans at all voting for it.<\/p>\n<p>And I heard Schiff on CNN Sunday, you know, why haven\u2019t you had the vote yet? You know, CNN wants to vote. (imitating Schiff) &#8220;I need to reflect further. I need to consult my constituents. I need to go home and consult my caucus, I need to consult the leadership, I need to consult \u2013&#8221; What is there to consult? You guys think you\u2019ve proved the case.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also something else Pelosi knows, folks. They don\u2019t have the truth. There\u2019s not one aspect of her hearings that have been the truth. There\u2019s not one aspect of her hearings that have featured an impeachable offense, much less a bunch of them. There\u2019s not one bit of evidence they\u2019ve produced that suggests bribery or extortion.<\/p>\n<p>So their case has no evidence. And the minute it goes to trial in the Senate is when the evidence would be forthcoming. When Republicans can call witnesses, including Schiff, Schiff is a fact witness because he collaborated with the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella. Schiff collaborated with Ciaramella, the whistleblower, to get all of this going. They put him under oath. He would refuse to show up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-013019-Rush-EIB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-013019-Rush-EIB.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-013019-Rush-EIB-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>What do they got to hide? Why wouldn\u2019t Schiff want to? If Schiff\u2019s got the goods on Trump, if Schiff\u2019s got unequivocal evidence of Trump misconduct, why wouldn\u2019t he want to show up in a Senate trial? But he won\u2019t. The point is Pelosi knows they are withholding all kinds of facts their own witnesses who testified in that basement room.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sandy\u2019s deposition, Mark Meadows said in a tweet today: \u201cMark Sandy deposition should be released immediately. Some of his answers provided important context,\u201d about everything they think they\u2019ve got Trump on, extortion, bribery, and all the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi knows all this, is my point. Forget the made for TV statements of Trump being guilty of misconduct, bribery and extortion. She knows they don\u2019t have such evidence, and when they go to the Senate, that\u2019s gonna get exposed. So we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, on this cult business, CNN headline: \u201cNew Book Says There is a Cult of Trump.\u201d Washington Post: \u201cRepublicans Convene the Cult of Trump.\u201d Enquirer.com: \u201cImpeachment Inquiry Proved America Can\u2019t be Saved from a Cult Called the GOP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s everywhere, they\u2019re putting it out there. This is like that montage we had, gravitas, when Cheney was chosen to be veep by W. Cult. You look for it, you\u2019ll see it. This is to set the stage that Republicans are so partisan, they\u2019re so, so partisan, they\u2019re angry, they\u2019re dumb, they\u2019re fools, nothing will ever, ever separate them from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So she\u2019s building toward this if she wants to somehow get on the off ramp. I\u2019m not predicting it, but I\u2019m just telling you how she could do it in my estimation.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Roy in Joplin, Missouri, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you much, Rush. My wife and I listen to you every day. We are both conservatives. And I thought with all the hearings and all the nonsense that the Democrats are doing, they should feel completely stupid \u2019cause they look stupid. Everybody here in southwest Missouri thinks, &#8220;Man, they could have spent that money a lot better, helped the old people, helped the veterans, that sort of thing.&#8221; Also, the senator (sic), Elijah Cummings, that died earlier? I heard him two weeks before he died on CBS make the statement that the only way Trump was gonna get back into office was over his dead body. Two weeks later, they were putting him in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, yes. Elijah Cummings, member of Congress, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I had forgotten that. I remember that Al Green, congressman, said, &#8220;We gotta impeach Trump because if we don\u2019t, he\u2019ll be reelected.&#8221; I had forgotten that Elijah Cummings said that Trump would be reelected over his dead body &#8212; and, as Roy here points out, Elijah Cummings died. Huh!<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ryan in Anchorage, Alaska, it\u2019s great to have you here, Ryan. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos, Russia, Rush, from the town that we affectionally he will called Los anchorage. As far as government policies go we\u2019re a snowy San Francisco or a Seattle. Snerdley told me to get right to the point and I had a follow-up on your Pelosi one since I\u2019ve been sitting here listening. I\u2019ll get right to it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I understand the president\u2019s kid with a stick and a beehive way of prodding opponents and throwing the media into a frenzy, and I really appreciate it. You know, I think Trump should type up a beautiful, signed certificate of appreciation to Adam Schiff thanking him for his rising approval ratings, and what is this, his fourth exoneration.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, what do you think the impact would be?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Obviously the media frenzy and, you know, they have to deny everything that Trump does. No matter what he does, they have to deny it, they have to refute it, they have to oppose it. So if he\u2019s thanking him, then it just throws the media into one more frenzy, by thanking Adam Schiff for his great numbers.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, he could do that in a tweet. Now, you know, it\u2019s interesting. I ran into some Trump supporters over the weekend, and here it came again. They love the guy, but it\u2019s almost as though they say it by rote. It\u2019s almost as though they think they have to say it because saying they\u2019re a Trump supporter, ah, it\u2019s a little dicey, so to cover they say, \u201cI wish he\u2019s stop tweeting.\u201d They said this to me. I\u2019m the wrong person to say that to.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;You don\u2019t have to justify your support for Trump to me. It makes perfect sense. I support Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, but I just wish he\u2019d stop tweeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-111419-Schiff-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-111419-Schiff-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-111419-Schiff-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s just not presidential and it just \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you something. You know why he tweets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s just his personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No. Stop and think about it. It is the only way he can get his legitimate side of any story out there. When\u2019s the last time you saw a story on the economy? When\u2019s the last time you saw a story on consumer confidence on jobs, on rising wages? You don\u2019t see \u2019em. Trump has to tweet this stuff. Trump knows that his base is loyal. It\u2019s how he keeps the troops up. It\u2019s how he keeps the troops engaged. Look at him as a general or a commander.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not tweeting simply because it\u2019s his personality. He\u2019s communicating. And it\u2019s the only way much of what he tweets is ever out there. If he stopped doing it, then a vast majority of his side of every story would not ever be in the public domain. Like I think, was it this morning or one day last week, I think it was this morning he tweeted: \u201cAnother record day on Wall Street, stock market was an all-time high. Thank me.\u201d Or \u201cenjoy\u201d, something like that. Nobody\u2019s talking about that.<\/p>\n<p>The news about the stock market is how it\u2019s on the verge of plunging, it\u2019s on the verge of blowing up, it\u2019s on the verge of evaporating. And then there are stories about how the economy is flimsy, it\u2019s not really legitimate and so forth. It\u2019s the only way he can get his side out there. It\u2019s the only way he can respond, if he wants to, to the daily outrages in the impeachment hearing.<\/p>\n<p>And I think most people say &#8220;I wish he would stop tweeting&#8221; as a way of eliminating what they think is gonna be criticism when they announce that they\u2019re Trump supporters. A lot of people are afraid to do that. And some of them are legitimately afraid. There\u2019s violence perpetrated against Trump supporters in some places. Trump supporters are the targets of intimidation. If they\u2019re discovered, some of them are thrown out of restaurants, protested and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>So when you have somebody say, &#8220;Yeah, I\u2019m a Trump support, but I wish he\u2019d stop tweeting,&#8221; it\u2019s supposed to mitigate, mollify whoever doesn\u2019t like hearing that somebody\u2019s a Trump supporter. But you can forget him stopping tweeting. He\u2019s not gonna stop tweeting. And if he did what you say, you know, put together an absolute like an accommodation or some sort of a sign of appreciation for Adam Schiff, he does that, I think, each and every time he sends a tweet out about these people. Make no mistake, it irritates them, \u2019cause they can\u2019t control it.<\/p>\n<p>All they can do is mock it and make fun of it, and run stories, Trump continues to lie to his cult following. Now that I\u2019ve pointed that out to you, I want you to pay attention, I want you to notice the increasing frequency with which Trump supporters are referred to as a cult.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t believe what I\u2019m seeing. CNN is doing a story that does not involve Donald Trump being a criminal. CNN\u2019s doing a story that is not about Washington. CNN\u2019s doing a story that has nothing to do with Donald Trump needing to be kicked out of office. I haven\u2019t seen CNN do a story that does not involve Trump in months. They\u2019re doing a story about a sheriff in Alabama who was killed. I didn\u2019t know CNN knew where Alabama was except on college football Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Kevin in Howell, New Jersey. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s an honor to speak with you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Before I get to my point, I just want to let you know my grandfather was a die-hard Rush fan. He was hard-of-hearing &#8212; and when he would listen, the whole block wasn\u2019t allowed to make noise.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Every day.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. I understand that, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: To my point, you said a few different reasons&#8230; I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m a little bit nervous. You said a few different reasons why Pelosi might back &#8212; not why she might back off, about how she might explain to her base how she might back off. But she knew all those reasons before she started the impeachment trial. She\u2019s gonna claim that she didn\u2019t realize how &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, there\u2019s one thing she didn\u2019t know. There\u2019s one thing they miscalculated. This is an excellent question. 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