{"id":333217,"date":"2020-01-10T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=333217"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:00:29","slug":"no-imminent-threat-trump-connected-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/01\/10\/no-imminent-threat-trump-connected-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"No Imminent Threat? Trump Connected the Dots!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So it appears that the Democrats think — and you\u2019ll hear this in the audio sound bites coming up — they think that Trump and Pompeo are lying to \u2019em, that there was no reason to get Soleimani because Soleimani was not planning imminent attacks. Trump has said that he was. Pompeo has said that we have active intel that he was planning attacks. He had hit the Saudi oil field. He had attacked an embassy in Iraq. And they\u2019ve got intel that he was planning to hit the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Do you know how big that embassy is? People have no idea. Our embassy in Baghdad rivals the Vatican in terms of size. There are 16,000 people in our embassy there. It\u2019s a lot of potential damage just waiting to happen. But they\u2019re trying to claim that Trump made it all up, that there wasn\u2019t any intel. Trump said at his rally last night that the reason he didn\u2019t let Congress know first is \u2019cause they would have leaked it.<\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s no doubt about that. If Adam Schiff had gotten hold of this or Pelosi, you know damn well they would have called somebody in the media and tried to sabotage the mission, not because they love terrorists because they\u2019d try to undermine Trump. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. The only thing the Democrat Party has is attempting to undermine Trump at whatever stage and with whatever policy that he happens to be interested in or engaging in. And there\u2019s no question he\u2019s right about it.<\/p>\n

But on this imminent threat, this is really how empty they are and how baseless they are. “Trump didn\u2019t have any evidence. There\u2019s no imminent evidence that Soleimani was going to hit our embassy.” Do you remember — and I pointed this out yesterday — George W. Bush, after 9\/11, after a week or so had gone by, maybe two and the dust had settled and the fake unity had finally evaporated and the Democrats once again became partisan, what did they say?<\/p>\n

They said that George W. Bush didn\u2019t connect the dots. They said Bush is an idiot. They said Bush and his administration are a bunch of fools. It was clear as day what bin Laden was gonna do. The signs were all there. But of course the FBI couldn\u2019t talk to the CIA because of the wall the Clintons had built between various agencies so they couldn\u2019t share data. That was Jamie Gorelick. I\u2019m sure you remember this as I bring it up. But their point was that Bush had all the data. He had all the information to conclude that something was up, but he didn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n

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So Bush didn\u2019t connect the dots and therefore Osama Bin Laden hitting us on 9\/11 was Bush\u2019s fault, even though it was the Clinton administration who twice had a chance to take out bin Laden and both times failed to do so. There were two different occasions where Bill Clinton was told we\u2019ve got bin Laden on a silver platter. One was in Africa. I forget where the other one was. And Clinton decided not to do it for a host of reasons rooted in the fact the world would hate us, we\u2019re a super power, he\u2019s this little terrorist guy. It just wouldn\u2019t have made sense. It wouldn\u2019t have fit with other elements of the Clinton foreign policy.<\/p>\n

But my point is that all of that took place over years. There was no imminent threat, meaning there was no intel saying in the next five days bin Laden\u2019s gonna attack the World Trade Center. But there was all kinds of chatter. So now let\u2019s jump forward to Soleimani and this incident. Trump has done exactly what the Democrats were demanding and accusing Bush of not doing. Trump has connected the dots. We\u2019ve got intel, says this guy, number two in Iran, number one terrorist, planned on hitting a bunch of American targets in addition to the over 600 Americans he\u2019s already responsible for killing. And so we\u2019re gonna take him out.<\/p>\n

So in this case Trump has done exactly what they said Bush didn\u2019t do, and now they want to go after him for war crimes? This is how baseless they are. They are standing in quicksand.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to Monday on this very program<\/a> and something that I, eh, pretty much predicted.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Since they have now corrupted the entire original intent of impeachment, what is to stop them? They can impeach Trump for anything they want if they can get the votes for it — and in the House, they clearly can. So Schiff or some other committee chairman can open hearings on whether or not Trump is usurping his power by not consulting Congress and ordering military action, say, against Soleimani or anything else that might happen in any theater of military operations. Nothing to stop them from doing this other than common sense and political restraint, which they have demonstrated they have none.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right. So there I was predicting they could reopen impeachment, bring Soleimani and terrorism into it. Here\u2019s Eric Swalwell on CNN this morning. Question: “In your briefing from the [regime] on the death of Soleimani, did they tell you that there was a threat to U.S. embassies?”<\/p>\n

SWALWELL: In the multiple briefings I\u2019ve received on this, they have not shown imminence. But they have also now consistently shown that the president — whether it\u2019s on Russia, Ukraine, or Iran with this recent Wall Street Journal reporting — puts his interests above America\u2019s interests. And this Wall Street Journal reporting seems to be more consistent with who Donald Trump is, that over the holidays, GOP senators who would be crucial to him for the impeachment trial were urging him to take actions in Iran, and that\u2019s connected to what he did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. Now they\u2019re folding this into their whole impeachment thing, that Donald Trump doesn\u2019t do anything for America that isn\u2019t good for Donald Trump first — and then you heard the word “imminence.” “I didn\u2019t see any imminence in the…” This imminence business can be nuked easily (I showed how to do it in the first five minutes of the program today), and turn it right back on them with Bin Laden or any other terrorist they fail to take out when we had the chance, when they were running the show.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Before we get to breaking that down any further, last night Shannon Bream on her show on Fox, which is called Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream, she had as her guest a former deputy national security adviser, K.T. McFarland. And they were talking about Trump\u2019s decision to take out Qassem Soleimani and U.S. foreign policy toward Iran in general.<\/p>\n

And to set things up, Shannon Bream introduced — well, she used me and Pelosi to illustrate the difference in the two sides on this. Here\u2019s the sound bite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BREAM: Rush Limbaugh takes on critics of the president\u2019s America first foreign policy.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: It\u2019s not about how bad they are, it\u2019s about how good we are, protecting the people in a way that prevents war.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This country (deep sigh) for too long, has had a foreign policy that is rooted in the notion that we provoke the rest of the world. That we are the problem, that we\u2019re not the solution. And that it is our superpower status that is the problem. We\u2019re too powerful. It isn\u2019t fair. We\u2019re too big. It isn\u2019t fair. And the rest of the world hates us because of that. None of that is true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that is — if I say so myself, that is a perfect description of the Democrats and their view of the United States, particularly in foreign policy. That\u2019s probably the most perfect description there\u2019s ever been of the Democrats, offered there by me. And of course Pelosi got close to it. It\u2019s not about how bad they are. It\u2019s about how good we are. And in her view, we ain\u2019t very good with Trump at the top. That was her whole point. It\u2019s not about how bad they are, see?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always about us, folks. We\u2019re always the ones with the deficiency. We are always the ones with the problem. We\u2019re causing the problem; we\u2019re not solving anything. So Shannon Bream threw it to K.T. McFarland, said, “So what do you make of those who are drawing the line between the president\u2019s actions and the innocent lives lost on that Canadian plane that they shot down?”<\/p>\n

\"\"MCFARLAND: Donald Trump is the guy who says, \u201cI\u2019m gonna put America first,\u201d and he\u2019s running against people who are saying, \u201cLet\u2019s blame America first.\u201d And I think it\u2019s a tragedy not just for the country and the political divisiveness in the United States, but other countries look at us and then they conclude, well, America is so dysfunctional, America can\u2019t get its act together, democracy is finished, and I think they feel they can take advantage of us. It really does handicap the ability of the United States to conduct foreign policy, if foreign nations look at us and they see us divided and weak because it\u2019s a fundamental rule of foreign policy, weak at home, divided at home, weak abroad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And that\u2019s exactly — she\u2019s right. So the Democrats are trying to affect is that perception because their hatred for Trump has now gone way beyond even the irrational. So they\u2019re trying to get Trump on war crimes. Now they\u2019re trying to say Salami was not planning any attack, there wasn\u2019t any imminent threat. “I didn\u2019t hear imminent.”<\/p>\n

Let me one more time walk everybody through this. After 9\/11, the World Trade Center towers go down, the Pentagon hit, another airplane downed by its passengers in a field in western Pennsylvania before it could hit its intended target. After this happens, the Democrats start chomping all over George W. Bush for failing to connect the dots and stopping bin Laden from committing the atrocity. All the intel was there. Well, we couldn\u2019t connect any dots because of the previous administration putting walls up between the FBI, CIA, and other domestic intelligence agencies. They couldn\u2019t share data.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, the point was, in 1999 and the year 2000 there was nothing imminent, meaning next week, next month on the part of bin Laden, but there they were ripping into Bush for not doing something about it a year in advance. So here\u2019s Trump, got data, got intel on the intentions of Soleimani, including hitting our mammoth embassy in Iraq. He takes him out and the Democrats, “There was nothing imminent. There was nothing imminent. This is a war crime. I haven\u2019t seen any imminent –”<\/p>\n

So everything they accused Bush of being lackadaisical on, they now want to say that Trump has usurped his powers. I tell you, folks, at the end of this one, like everything else, they\u2019re standing in quicksand, they\u2019ve got nothing. Because remember, everything that they\u2019re doing is designed to force public opinion away from Trump. They\u2019re trying to ratchet up his negative numbers. That\u2019s what they have failed miserably to do. That\u2019s what they are continuing to try to do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m convinced that part of Pelosi\u2019s reason for holding onto the articles was waiting to see, “Okay. We\u2019ve got an impeachment. Trump has actually been impeached. We\u2019ve done it.” They were hoping for a massive plummet in Trump\u2019s approval numbers. And guess what? The numbers went up. Just like Clinton\u2019s did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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