RUSH:\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m amped up. I\u2019m amped up.\u00a0 I have dug deep into this inspector general report.\u00a0 I\u2019m telling you, if the absolute detail and truth of this — and it\u2019s not complicated. It\u2019s one of my objectives today: Make the complex understandable.\u00a0 It is not complicated. If people could be made to be well-versed on how outrageous, scandalous, dishonest, whatever it is — unconstitutional, treasonous, whatever label you want to apply — then it would cancel out everything that\u2019s followed.<\/p>\n
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(griping impression) “Rush, you better be talking about impeachment today.\u00a0 That\u2019s where this is going.” I am talking about impeachment today.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about the entire cabal, the entire effort to discredit and to remove Donald Trump and overturn the 2016 election, which continues to this day — and this impeachment is as bogus as was the Trump-Russia collusion story, the attempt to peddle that.\u00a0 It\u2019s as made up as the Steele dossier is made up.<\/p>\n
There is nothing legitimate.\u00a0 There is nothing real.\u00a0 Now, Trump and his people have to deal with it.\u00a0 They voted articles of impeachment out of the committee.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna have a full vote in the House on Wednesday.\u00a0 But as is always the case, this depends on public opinion, and the Democrats are losing it.\u00a0 That\u2019s not gonna stop them.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t stopped them so far, but it\u2019s the only way they\u2019re gonna get punished — and that\u2019s gonna be at the ballot box, and they are going to take a drubbing.<\/p>\n
Even Pencil Neck got protested at his own town hall meeting out in California. (interruption) Yes!\u00a0 You hadn\u2019t heard that? (chuckles) Well, it\u2019s a good thing I\u2019m here today.\u00a0 You know, many hosts have already cashed it in for the year, taking extended vacations.\u00a0 But not I.\u00a0 In fact, we\u2019re even gonna be here on December 23rd.\u00a0 I wanted to be here on Christmas Eve, and the staff said, “What are we, Bob Cratchits?”\u00a0 I said, “Okay, I get it.” Eh, I understand it. I understand it. But we\u2019re gonna be here a week from today. We\u2019re gonna be here all week this week and then next Monday.<\/p>\n
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained its 10,000th point since Donald Trump was elected.\u00a0 Folks, we have had the stock market go up 10,000 points in three years.\u00a0 “Well, Rush, that\u2019s just the rich people.\u00a0 That\u2019s just Wall Street.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the hedge funds.”\u00a0 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.\u00a0 If you have a 401(k), if you have any kind of a savings plan or investment plan — if you have any plan at all — you are invested in the stock market.\u00a0 You may not even know it.<\/p>\n
You may not even know what shares you own, but you\u2019re there, and it matters to you.<\/p>\n
The stock market, under Trump, has become unstoppable.\u00a0 But the point is do you remember shortly after Trump was elected and even beforehand, all of the Never Trumpers and all the experts — conservatives included — predicting the stock market would tank, that we would have an immediate recession.\u00a0 The simple fact of the matter is that people who have been predicting negative things, frightening things, doom-and-gloom scenarios, do you realize not one of them has been correct or even close?<\/p>\n
And, you know, there\u2019s something really fascinating about this all this.\u00a0 Success is usually infectious.\u00a0 For example, during the 1980s, the Republican establishment did not like Ronald Reagan, and they did everything they could to prevent him from winning the Republican nomination in \u201976, then again in \u201980, and they never thought he was gonna beat Jimmy Carter.\u00a0 They believed all the preelection polls that Reagan was gonna lose, until about two days before the election; then the real polls began to get published.<\/p>\n
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After Reagan was elected, it was the biggest transformation. Why, all these people that hated Reagan and wanted to be in his administration. They wanted to be in the bright lights that surrounded Ronald Reagan. All of these Republican establishment types that hated his guts wanted to stand in the glow.\u00a0 By the time the second term came around, they had already put in place their plan to undermine him and to make sure there wasn\u2019t gonna be another conservative Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
But during those eight years, the Republican establishment wanted to be Reagan\u2019s best buddy.\u00a0 They wanted to be on every Air Force One trip.\u00a0 They wanted to be at every Reagan party. They wanted every White House invitation.\u00a0 With Trump, that is not happening.\u00a0 We have unparalleled economic success.\u00a0 We have record-low unemployment — 50-year, record-low unemployment.\u00a0 We have every economic indicator up and through the roof.\u00a0 We have African-American unemployment at a record low, Hispanic unemployment at a record low.<\/p>\n
African-American job approval for Trump is 34%, ditto Hispanics.\u00a0 This is an out-of-control success train.\u00a0 It\u2019s an unstoppable success train.\u00a0 Where are all the Republicans who want to get on board?\u00a0 Where are all the Never Trumpers who want to get on board?\u00a0 They\u2019re not there.\u00a0 They\u2019re working even harder to undermine Trump.\u00a0 They\u2019re joining forces with the left and with the Democrats to undermine Trump because this…<\/p>\n
Folks, let me tell you something. What Trump has done on the ground in real terms in terms of transforming the American economy… Go back to the years of Obama. What were we all being told?\u00a0 “This is a new era, an era of decline. We must adjust our expectations!”\u00a0 “This may be the first generation,” you were told, “that your kids will not do better than you.\u00a0 This may be a new dawn in America where we have to admit that our best days may be behind us.”<\/p>\n
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Furthermore, we were told that we deserved this because the previous great days of America might not all be justified because of the inherent racism and bigotry and colonialization and whatever other offenses America had committed along the way to becoming a superpower.\u00a0 This is what we were told, and the globalists were having a field day, because they were on the way to succeeding in cutting America down to size.<\/p>\n
And then along comes this buffoon and starts talking about making America great again, and it resonates with 63 million Americans who want to live in a great country, who understand the potential for all kinds of freedom and liberty and the things that liberty and freedom make possible — and so what\u2019d the critics do?\u00a0 “That\u2019s just secret code for, ‘We want to go back to slavery.'”\u00a0 Yep, that\u2019s what the left has said: “Make America Great Again” means we gotta turn the clock back 200 years.<\/p>\n
We want to go back to where white, Christian men ran the show.\u00a0 It was a total lie.\u00a0 It continues to this day.\u00a0 It is a gigantic blasphemy on the whole concept of making America great again.\u00a0 All it means is let\u2019s get back to our founding principles — which, by the way, are the definition of conservatism, and they\u2019ve got nothing to do with racism or bigotry or homophobia or any of that.\u00a0 They have to do with individual liberty and freedom and the idea that the single citizen is the focus of this country, not the state, not the government.<\/p>\n
The citizen and his civil liberties and freedom.<\/p>\n
“Well, we can\u2019t have that!”<\/p>\n
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Donald Trump is doing so much damage, but most of the damage is what you really can\u2019t see and people don\u2019t talk about.\u00a0 The damage is that Donald Trump is demonstrating that all of this folderol about America\u2019s best days being behind us, about adjusting your economic expectations lower, is all a bunch of garbage.\u00a0 America can continue to grow. Economic opportunity can continue to expand. Wages can go up. Lifestyles can be improved. Standard of living can rise. Life expectancy can rise. America can still lead in every facet: Technology, military, defense, projection of power.<\/p>\n
All of these people prior to Trump, the experts, the know-everythings, are being proven wrong every day. Pick a name: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, every enemy of Trump, every Never Trumper that you can think of, they\u2019re all being proven wrong, and they can\u2019t stand it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not merely that Trump is implementing the things they have devoted their lives to and they hate him. It\u2019s that he\u2019s doing it when everybody beneath him says it can\u2019t be done anymore. Not only is Trump exposing the existence of the deep state, exposing the existence of the secret cabal that actually think they run things, they\u2019ve been forced out from behind whatever woodwork they were hiding.<\/p>\n
They now are openly admitting their own existence. And they are demonstrating what their objectives are, and it\u2019s to reverse all of this that\u2019s happened in the last three years. So Trump\u2019s exposing them and he\u2019s also demonstrating that a conceptual, policy driven return to the founding principles of America actually can work, still does work.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no need to take the word of think tank or academic experts anymore because they have just been nuked by real life. And don\u2019t think they don\u2019t know it. Carly Fiorina was on CNN a moment ago. (imitating Fiorina) “Every Republican has a duty to vote to impeach country. Character is the coin of the realm for me, character, character, character is the foundation from which everything springs, and Donald Trump has no character.”<\/p>\n
Carly Fiorina, who has done what? Character? I remember when we tried that against Bill Clinton, remember that, Snerdley? Back in 1992, the campaign, Clinton, we attempted to tell people that this guy is a big mistake because his character sucks. You know what they said to us? We don\u2019t care about the guy\u2019s character as long as the economy\u2019s doing great. In fact, we were kind of wishing we were getting as much as he does.<\/p>\n
This attempt to go after character bombed out against Clinton, much to our chagrin and surprise. But we learned from it here at the EIB Network. We learned what a waste of time it is. Besides, how do you define character? If you don\u2019t like somebody that tweets, if you don\u2019t like somebody that talks like a guy now and then, well, then you can say we don\u2019t have any character, but I\u2019ll take the character of Donald Trump over Obama\u2019s any day or James Comey\u2019s or Andrew McCabe\u2019s or John Brennan\u2019s or James Clapper\u2019s. I\u2019ll take Trump\u2019s character any day.<\/p>\n
“But, Rush, but, Rush, Trump lies all the time.” Donald Trump is probably one of the most straightforward, honest about what he\u2019s really thinking about things people you\u2019ll ever run into. That\u2019s another thing that bothers them.<\/p>\n
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So I have some questions. How is it that Robert Mueller and his vaunted staff of Hillary Clinton donors and lawyers, how did they not determine the Steele dossier was garbage? The IG report is out, and it is clear the Steele dossier was made up. It was gossip. Much of it was overheard being repeated as jokes in a bar. It was a fraudulent, it was phony, it was used to get FISA warrant applications four times. It\u2019s an abject series of lies.<\/p>\n
How come Mueller and his staff weren\u2019t able to find that? Without the Steele dossier, there would never have been any warrants, and without those warrants the Trump campaign would have never been spied on. Without that they wouldn\u2019t have been able to plant all these supposed allegations made by anonymous sources in the intelligence community and elsewhere. It seems like a simple place to start.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re Mueller and you\u2019re gonna do an investigation, you want to find out what\u2019s up here, how do you not discover what the Steele dossier was? How do you not discover who paid for it? How do you not discover how phony it was and how it was used, how do you not discover the FISA court was lied to? How come Mueller couldn\u2019t find this out when the IG found it out in a week? Why didn\u2019t Comey\u2019s FBI determine the Steele dossier was garbage at the very beginning? Oops. They did. They used it anyway. They knew it was garbage.<\/p>\n
Comey is still out lying saying that he didn\u2019t know that and he thought there were many more materials used in the FISA application than the Steele dossier. He\u2019s lying through his teeth about this. It\u2019s almost like Comey\u2019s good friend Robert Mueller was just another hack trying to run Trump out of office. The real question, why did we all have to wait for the Horowitz report to find out Trump was a victim of abuse of power?<\/p>\n
We have to wait three years into this, when Devin Nunes has been documented to be true. He wrote his memo February 2018, FISA report: The dossier compiled by Christopher Steele on behalf of the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Devon published this in a memo, everybody pooh-poohed it, everybody said Nunes is lying, everybody said Nunes needs to be kicked off the Intelligence Committee. Everybody said Devin Nunes is sick, Devin Nunes is a partisan, we can\u2019t listen. He was dead-on right. Almost two years ago.<\/p>\n
Why did we even have to wait two years for this Horowitz debacle? You know what all these investigations have turned up, very simply? Among other things, but one of the big standouts, Donald Trump is the only person in Washington who did not abuse power. In this whole sordid affair, Donald Trump is the only person who didn\u2019t abuse power and, in fact, was a victim of abuse of power, not a violator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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