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<\/p>\nRUSH: This irritating little Pencil Neck creep, Adam Schiff, is bellyaching and whining and moaning over McConnell\u2019s lack of ability or willingness to call witnesses and it\u2019s just so unfair and (impression), “Trump is so bad and Trump is so mean and he so cheated. He\u2019s gonna cheat again. Our elections are perverted, are — are — are corrupted. Trump did this and that and the other thing,” and they have no case. They\u2019ve got no case.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re desperate to try to bring up anything here to throw it against the wall and see if it\u2019ll stick. Something to keep in mind, folks, during this entire proceeding — and I don\u2019t mean just the Senate. I mean from the moment the whistleblower came forward and Schiff began the sham basement hearings last fall, do you realize the president\u2019s case hasn\u2019t even been made? It hasn\u2019t been heard! They didn\u2019t allow it in the House. They didn\u2019t allow any presidential witnesses to come in. They weren\u2019t allowed to… It was a stacked deck.<\/p>\n
The point is, the president\u2019s case is going to consist of blowing this up. I mean, you can\u2019t defend a negative. You can\u2019t. This is why in American justice, the prosecution has to prove its case. You, as the accused, do not have to prove you didn\u2019t do it. So when the president\u2019s lawyers get their chance at this, it\u2019s gonna be to blow up everything the Democrats have done here, which the American people have not heard from the president\u2019s representatives. They\u2019ve heard it here. The American people have heard it on Fox News and some other places.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Cipollone, one of the president\u2019s lawyers, just pointed out in his argument for McConnell\u2019s resolution, meaning the rules, is that it\u2019s exactly like the resolution and schedule that happened in Clinton\u2019s impeachment trial, which passed unanimously 100 to zero. Now, I also… I have to tell you something. I know impeachments have been rare, and they\u2019re not gonna be going forward. They\u2019re gonna be commonplace now, probably. But comparing this to the Clinton impeachment bothers me.<\/p>\n
Just because it was done one way then doesn\u2019t mean it must be done that way always, or just because no precedents were set then means they can\u2019t be set now. The cases are different. Clinton committed crimes, for crying out loud. That\u2019s why he was impeached — and they were serious crimes. They were statutory and constitutional. He lied under oath in a grand jury deposition. He lied under oath on videotape — everybody saw it — and asked other people to lie. That\u2019s what mob bosses do.<\/p>\n
There is no crime. This comparison to the Clinton impeachment procedurally? I guess people are going to do it. But it seems to me that we don\u2019t need to compare our case to anything. We got this. This is a slam dunk. They don\u2019t have any evidence. They don\u2019t have an impeachable offense, and there\u2019s no reason to give them months and months and months to go through the phony, fake motion of trying to make a case on television, on the Senate floor, when they have none — and that\u2019s why McConnell\u2019s rules are what they are.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna shut this down. There isn\u2019t any evidence, they don\u2019t have any, and the Senate\u2019s not gonna be turned in to a back alley where investigations are taking place, which is what the Democrats are demanding in calling it “fair,” and if they don\u2019t get it, they\u2019re calling it a “cover-up,” and people say, “Well, the Clinton impeachment…” Screw what happened the Clinton impeachment! This is the Trump impeachment. It\u2019s bogus. It\u2019s totally manufactured. It\u2019s nothing more than an October Surprise.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a political event. It is opposition research. That\u2019s all this is, because there aren\u2019t any impeachable offenses. They had their own opportunity to find the evidence, to produce the evidence. They don\u2019t have any. They didn\u2019t produce any because there isn\u2019t any. They just had a bunch of noses-out-of-their-joint civil servants and ambassadors who were left out of Trump decision-making, and on that basis, “Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He did not consult us, and we are the experts.”<\/p>\n