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<\/a><\/p>\nHe wanted to find out if a potential future president, Biden, had done things that would make him a blackmail target. Let me share with you a thread, a Twitter thread from Scott Adams, the noted cartoonist<\/a>. He is not a conservative. He\u2019s a smart guy — and as all smart people, he doesn\u2019t call himself a conservative. He probably lives his life that way. He\u2019s Mensa smart. Lots of degrees in economics. He\u2019s a trained hypnotist, if you didn\u2019t know that. But he looks at things differently, is the point.<\/p>\n He is by no means any part of conventional wisdom, which I admire, and I want to share with you his take on this entire Ukraine thing, which he believes (and admits) is something very few people have thought of, and that the Democrats and the media are doing their best to suppress this. He says this entire response to Trump\u2019s phone call with President Zelensky in Ukraine has been “[t]he best persuasion play of the past year. Democrats\/press brainwashing the public to not ask the only relevant question about the ‘perfect call'” that Trump had with Zelensky in Ukraine.<\/p>\n He says, “The only relevant question is this: Is there a legitimate national interest in finding out if the guy leading the polls” on the Democrat side “to be our next president has any blackmail potential from Ukraine?” That\u2019s the only relevant question. As far as he looks at this, that\u2019s all that matters on this. Not what the whistleblower made up. Not what the deep state and all of these civil servants had to say about this or that and the other in their testimony.<\/p>\n The only thing that is relevant is: What the hell was Trump getting at here? Is there a legitimate natural interest in finding out if Biden could potentially be blackmailed if he were to be elected president? Now, a lot of Democrats are gonna smirk when they first hear this. They\u2019re gonna say (snickering), “Trump worried about blackmail? Trump is the most blackmailable president.” No, he\u2019s not. In fact, the truth about Donald Trump is he may be the cleanest politician Washington has had. I don\u2019t know of anybody who has been investigated more than Donald Trump.<\/p>\n I mean, it\u2019s not even close, and they don\u2019t have anything. They don\u2019t have an impeachable offense. They don\u2019t have a crime. All they have is a bunch of made-up allegations. They have attempts to plant evidence. They have attempts to create evidence with the intelligence community, the FBI leadership at the time. But they haven\u2019t found a single thing! All they had in the Trump-Russia collusion thing, of course, is the dossier, and that was all made up, and it was…<\/p>\n You know, when Trump was first told about the golden showers story, he thought that he was being blackmailed right then by Comey. Do not doubt me on this, by the way. This is the January 6th meeting of 2017. It\u2019s before Trump\u2019s inaugurated. The day before is when Comey and Brennan and Clapper had the White House meeting with Obama, and they decide to tell Trump about the dossier and the gold showers, \u2019cause they want that in the news. They want the dossier out there.<\/p>\n The best way to make it news is to report that the president-elect has been told about it. So Comey, Clapper, Brennan go into the meeting. After the meeting, Clapper and Brennan leave and Comey says, “Mr. President, I want you to see something here,” and he shows him the golden showers story. Trump\u2019s immediate reaction was, “This didn\u2019t happen!” He thought he was being blackmailed. Donald Trump is not blackmailable. Joe Biden? The same can\u2019t be said. Something smells to high wherever throughout the entire Biden political career.<\/p>\n So Scott Adams says, “That should be a top national concern. Especially since Russia probably finds out anything Ukraine knows. Ukraine corruption in general matters, but nothing so much as possible influence over our next president. So treating it as the top corruption risk involving Ukraine is sensible. Does it matter if Trump\u2019s inner thoughts were only about re-election? No.” It doesn\u2019t matter a hill of beans. “As long as he is working on a national priority, he is allowed to benefit politically.”<\/p>\n If Trump is genuinely trying to find out if Biden has done something so bad that he could be blackmailed… Trump loves America. He does not want America set up. He doesn\u2019t want America used, taken advantage of by all these small-fry countries. Everybody knows this by now. If Biden would subject the United States to such blackmail, he wants to find out about it. Now, if he also benefits in the process, that\u2019s not a problem according to the reasoning here of Mr. Adams. “Imagine a President Biden negotiating with Ukraine when he knows they probably (or might) know more about Hunter than we know. Does he go hard at them when it could be bad for his son?”<\/p>\n Probably not. So does Ukraine have leverage over the United States, say, in European missile defense or whatever — pipelines, natural gas, energy, whatever it is? If the Ukrainians have leverage over the next president, it weakens the United States. This is a centrally important thing. Lev Parnas, who I told everybody — and, by the way, I want to thank Sean Hannity. Sean Hannity went back to the archives of this program and the Dittocam<\/a> on one of his programs last week. We, on this show back in November, predicted that this clown, Lev Parnas, would be one of Adam Schiff\u2019s future bombshells, and it turned out to be exactly right.<\/p>\n We have the audio sound bites to back up the assertion. So Scott Adams says here, and, by the way, this next point is really crucial. \u201cLev Parnas tells us that getting Ukraine to announce an investigation was the focus because no one trusted Ukraine to do the actual investigation. Getting them \u2018a little bit pregnant\u2019 with a public announcement creates pressure for them to follow through.\u201d<\/p>\n So everybody\u2019s misunderstood this. On the phone call, Trump asked and demanded — and in subsequent meetings with other people, Trump was demanding of Zelensky that you announce the investigation into Biden. Now, everybody on the left and the media has said, \u201cThis is just Trump trying to win politically. This is Trump trying to embarrass Biden. This is despicable. This is impeachable.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not what Trump was doing. Trump wanted them to publicly announce it so that they\u2019d be on the hook. It\u2019s one thing for Zelensky on the phone to tell him, “Okay. Okay. We\u2019ll investigate.” They hang up and nothing happens. But if Zelensky is forced to publicly announce the investigation — and, by the way, none of this ended up happening, and Ukraine still got all of its money.<\/p>\n So, \u201cIf we accept the obvious, that finding out if Biden could be unduly influenced by Ukraine is a top national priority, and no one trusted Ukraine to do the right thing via normal lower level contacts, what option did Trump have? He used Rudy to \u2018hack\u2019 a broken system, shake the box, and put pressure on Ukraine, any legal way he could.<\/p>\n Now, \u201cWe don\u2019t impeach presidents for operating differently than we would have done in the same situation. Trump ONLY operates differently, hacking one system after another, generally successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n And then Adams concludes, “If the way I just framed things is the first time you have thought of it this way, and it probably is, you know why I say making you blind to it is the best persuasion play of the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, his point is that there\u2019s a simple explanation for what Trump did, what he asked and what he wanted to happen and what he wanted to know that has not been forthcoming. Now, the rejoinder to this is why doesn\u2019t Trump announce, why doesn\u2019t Trump say this?<\/p>\n There are there are certain things that you hold in reserve, certain things that you need to protect in internal matters, phone calls with foreign leaders. You can\u2019t be seen as somebody that\u2019s gonna blab to the world everything that happens in a phone call, or nobody\u2019s gonna pick up the phone and talk to you.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092719-Trump-Ukraine-2.jpg\")
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\u201cThe wide repudiation of the House Democratic betrayal of the Constitution is already beginning. As a historian myself, I think it\u2019s important to document these reactions. Consider historian Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s analysis for the National Review, which was subtitled: \u2018The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n