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<\/p>\nRUSH: I think something has happened here that the Democrats did not expect — and this is constant, this is common. It is amazing how the formula… Well, it\u2019s not the formula. It\u2019s amazing how this has played out. Let me say what I mean. During the Schiff hearings, in the morning we got all those witnesses and all their devastating assessments. It was all hearsay, but it was pure, unobstructed hatred for Donald Trump — and the only questions were asked by Democrats.<\/p>\n
That was the entire morning. By the time this program started, people were saying, “Oh, my God, Rush, this looks so bad! (mewling) Why can\u2019t we ever catch a break? It\u2019s so bad.” The afternoon session would come, and the Republicans would blow them out of the water, and everybody would feel better. It happened every day of the Schiff hearings. So today we got the first day of the Round Mound of the Gavel and his hearings, and it\u2019s the same thing.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019ve got these three hacks, these three legal scholar law professors and a scripted question-and-answer session with a CNN and partisan left-wing hack lawyer asking the questions, and, man, oh, man, these law professors are just dumping on Trump. “Why, he\u2019s the scourge of the earth. He is the worst example of humanity there\u2019s ever been. This guy should be impeached for calling the news ‘fake news.\u2019 This guy should be impeached because he had a picture of Mar-a-Lago on his State Department website one day by accident. This guy\u2019s horrible!”<\/p>\n
This Feldman and all these people, it was infuriating. It was pure, adulterated hate. And we get the afternoon. All morning long the Democrat lawyer didn\u2019t ask Jonathan Turley any questions. Jonathan Turley is not a pro-Trumpist, but he does not approve of this investigation, this impeachment, because he thinks it\u2019s catch all. He says, “You people don\u2019t have anything. You\u2019re running around here on generalities and your political preferences are dominating everything, and this is a dangerous precedent.”<\/p>\n
What has happened, folks, is after the morning session — a couple hours of intense and partisan anti-Trump hatred — the Republicans got to include Turley. One voice — Jonathan Turley\u2019s voice — has turned this whole thing around. All it took… Now, this is my perspective here having to watch this in little two- and three-minute snatches as you know. But do not doubt my perceptibility talents, and I\u2019m telling you that Turley…<\/p>\n
The equivalent would be letting half the air out of the balloon and stopped it from floating. And now it\u2019s just hovering up there and nobody knows whether it\u2019s gonna crash back down or keep lifting. And I really do think that just a single voice of sane reason in opposition to this madcap, hate-filled partisanship has ended up shifting the balance just like it did during the Schiff hearings. Let me show you what I mean, \u2019cause I have three sound bites from Turley.<\/p>\n
And these… Let\u2019s see. I\u2019ve got… Well, these are all opening statement. This is not even from questions he was asked. But it was the questions he was asked afterwards. When we get those bites, what I\u2019m saying here is gonna have even more weight. But let\u2019s go to with these three \u2019cause will illustrate what I\u2019m talking about. Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, and this is what he said about the “impeachment charges,” quote-unquote, against the Trumpster.<\/p>\n
TURLEY: I really don\u2019t have a dog in this fight. But you can\u2019t accuse a president of bribery; then when some of us note that the Supreme Court has rejected your type of boundless interpretation, say, “Well, it\u2019s just impeachment. We really don\u2019t have to prove the elements.” That\u2019s a favored mantra that it\u2019s sort of close enough for jazz. Well, this isn\u2019t improvisational jazz. Close enough is not good enough. If you\u2019re gonna accuse a president of bribery, you need to make it stick, because you\u2019re trying to remove a duly elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Damn straight! He\u2019s noting, “Where\u2019s the bribery? You guys talked about bribery for two weeks under Schiff and we can\u2019t find it today. You\u2019re moving the target all over the place.” He said, “You\u2019re just trying to get close,” and they are. All they\u2019re trying to do is get close enough. They want a black mark on the Trump resume. They know they\u2019re gonna get an acquittal over in the Senate. This is part of the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve gone through the past two days what they know they face if they lose 2020. They face a 7-2 Supreme Court, conservative Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade threatened. The borders closed. Guns? Nothing done about it the way they want. They\u2019re in abject panic mode here. I do think their attitude, their psychology is screwed up enough, they can think they\u2019re winning during all this because they always do. They think they\u2019re winning because the polls are on their side, except some of them on impeachment aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
They think they\u2019re winning because the press reports their angle every day. But Turley is calling them out here. “You know, you left-wing…” He\u2019s not calling them names like I am, but he\u2019s saying, “You left-wing partisan hacks up here, you can\u2019t just come out and start talking about bribery and then offer no evidence for it. And then you can\u2019t just say that and then forget it and move on to some of these other nefarious things. We are talking about removing a duly elected president, and just \u2019cause you don\u2019t like him, it\u2019s not enough!”<\/p>\n
Now, it\u2019s interesting: After his opening statement, Turley have not asked any questions. Very few. In fact, he was asked, “Mr. Turley, did you write these words in the Wall Street Journal?” and the stupid lawyer read the words. “Yeah, but that\u2019s not the context.” “That\u2019s a yes or no. I don\u2019t care about your context! Yes or no, did you write those words?” “Yes.” So there\u2019s lawyers are enforcing their stupid, “I\u2019m not interested in your context. This is a ‘yes\u2019 or ‘no\u2019 question.” Just like, you know, lawyers do to scared-to-death citizens on the stand in your common, everyday trial in circuit court.<\/p>\n
Now here is Turley continuing on that theme…<\/p>\n
TURLEY: My testimony lays out the criminal allegations in the previous impeachments. Those were not just proven crimes. They were accepted crimes. That is, even the Democrats on that Judiciary Committee agreed that Bill Clinton had committed perjury. That\u2019s on the record, and a federal judge later said it was perjury. In the case of Nixon, the crimes were established. No one seriously disagreed with those crimes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There are no crimes here! There\u2019s no evidence of any crime here. (angrily) “He needs to be impeached because he called the news ‘fake news\u2019! He called the news the ‘enemy of the people.\u2019 He needs to be impeached because the Mar-a-Lago picture was on the State Department website. He needs to be impeached because he won. He needs to be impeached because he colluded with Russia.” No, he didn\u2019t. “Well, yes, he did. We believe it, so it happened,” and then Turley told the Democrats they are the ones who are abusing power by rushing into all of this.<\/p>\n
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TURLEY: You have such a short investigation it\u2019s a perfect storm. You set an incredibly short period, demand a huge amount of information and when the president goes to court, you then impeach him. Now, does that track with what you\u2019ve heard about impeachment? Does that track with the rule of law that we\u2019ve talked about? If you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It\u2019s your abuse of power. You are doing precisely what you\u2019re criticizing the president for doing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Bingo in everything. It is Biden who demanded a prosecutor get fired in exchange for aid to Ukraine, which was never forthcoming, by the way. I don\u2019t need to go through that again. Yeah, the president goes to court to stop you from getting his tax records, to stop you from getting his secret conversations with lawyers and you say he\u2019s abusing his power? You are by seeking them in the first place and by trying to hurry this thing up.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no wonder why Turley was not asked any questions by the round mound of the gavel\u2019s lawyer. But the Republicans did ask him questions and we\u2019ll have some of those. I\u2019m just telling you, here you had these three obviously partisan hacks dressed up and disguised as legal scholars and law school professors who are experts in policy and it just took one voice, it just took one voice to properly characterize the extremeness of the Democrats on this.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: The three Jonathan Turley sound bites that we played were not from his opening statement. They actually were from questioning this afternoon. What happened was that the ranking Republican on the committee, Doug Collins, asked Turley an open-ended question. “Mr. Turley, since you were not asked any questions for the most part during the morning session, I want to ask you your general thoughts on all this,\u201d and he just let him run.<\/p>\n
So Turley essentially got an open-ended question to expand and advise his opening remarks. And those three sound bites were an answer to the question that Collins asked, which is open ended. Basically, “Mr. Turley, what do you want to say to all this?” And so Turley got a chance to react to the partisan extremism and the hackery that had gone on all morning. And he called \u2019em out on it perfectly. And, see, all it takes is one voice.<\/p>\n
Now, I say that from my perspective watching it. I don\u2019t presume to be able to tell you how average Americans walking through airports, seeing it on CNN hear it, but anybody paying attention to it, it was unmistakable. Turley nailed \u2019em. Turley nailed what they\u2019re doing. He nailed their motivations for it, and he made it clear he\u2019s got no dog in the hunt, meaning he\u2019s not a pro- or anti-Trumpist. He\u2019s a constitutionalist first.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here\u2019s Turley. Audio sound bite 25. Listen, \u2019cause this is a money sound bite.<\/p>\n
TURLEY: My testimony lays out the criminal allegations in the previous impeachments. Those were not just proven crimes. They were accepted crimes. That is, even the Democrats on that Judiciary Committee agreed that Bill Clinton had committed perjury. That\u2019s on the record, and a federal judge later said it was perjury. In the case of Nixon, the crimes were established. No one seriously disagreed with those crimes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. So he\u2019s reminding everybody Clinton literally committed crimes. Now, you knew that because you listen here regularly, and I\u2019ve known that and told you. He committed perjury. He suborned perjury (for those of you in Rio Linda, that means he asked people to lie) and he lost his law license for a year. But there was a crime there — and with Watergate, there was the perception of crimes, although I\u2019ll never forget my dad.<\/p>\n
My dad was so livid at what happened to Nixon. My dad… Until he died 18 years later, when the subject of Nixon came up, my dad lost it. Whoever dared bring up Nixon to my dad (impression), “Tell me what he did! Name one thing! What did he do?” And nobody could name anything. People wilted and faded away into the carpet when my dad was really mad. “What did he do? Nobody can tell you what Nixon did!”<\/p>\n
Anyway, you can tell people what Clinton did. He lied under oath. Okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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