RUSH: Now, you could be mistaken if you are confused. Greetings, my friends. Great to have you with us. It\u2019s Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and yet another three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence. Telephone number here if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n
Now, today is supposed to be the start of the opening arguments in this so-called impeachment trial. Never mind the Democrats could not wait, they turned a debate that was supposed to be about whether to call witnesses before or after opening arguments into their opening arguments. They did their opening argument yesterday as part of — it\u2019s so obvious what this is, folks.<\/p>\n
And I think the reason they did it is because they realize that after the first day the public\u2019s gonna lose interest in this and very few people — it\u2019s gonna be a declining audience rating as it was for all of the other impeachment proceedings the Democrats were in charge of. And so they wanted to get as much out there as they could. It\u2019s clear this is a 2020 campaign issue.<\/p>\n
I just saw Andy McCarthy on TV, and he made a point that what happened in 10 or 11 hours yesterday in the Senate in a normal courtroom nobody would have ever seen, it would have happened in maybe two to three hours. As the lawyers for both sides submit motions to the court, the court rules, there is no public debate about it. The court makes the decision, that\u2019s the last word on it.<\/p>\n
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But this is a televised fiasco, and it\u2019s a spectacle. And so we had 10, 11 hours where the Democrats — I think we also now know why the Democrats, in part, delayed presenting the articles of impeachment, and that was so that they could prepare all of the graphics and all of the video highlights and taking Trump totally out of context. It\u2019s painful to watch.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s painful to watch these people on the Democrat side continue to get away with these mischaracterizations, the outright lies and the out-of-context lies. And one of the biggest ones is their continuing effort to say that Trump wants to act like a dictator, that they quote him as saying, “I\u2019m president. I can do anything I want.” And everybody knows that he was talking about firing Mueller in that excerpt.<\/p>\n
He was explaining to people Article II gives him the power to run the executive branch. Mueller was special counsel. He could fire Mueller any time he wanted. “I can do anything I want.” They have taken that and they have been using it for the past number of months to suggest Trump is saying as president he can do anything he wants about anything. And everybody in that Senate chamber yesterday knows exactly what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
Schiff was unmasked. He was undressed yesterday. He was exposed as lying big time on the entire characterization, the transcript of the phone call that Trump had with the president of Ukraine, Zelensky. But the theme yesterday from the Democrats was McConnell wants to hold a trial with no evidence. And they\u2019re doing things, saying things that they hope will resonate with whoever they think are average, ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s why “fairness” is such a big word in American politics. They think “fairness” is one of these words that cuts through, and if anything is unfair, then it\u2019s unjust. If it\u2019s unfair, it\u2019s incorrect. If it\u2019s unfair, it\u2019s usually the Republicans on the wrong side of it. So they make the case here that McConnell wants to hold a trial with no evidence and this is not fair, whoever does a trial without evidence?<\/p>\n
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Well, it\u2019s up to them to present the evidence. We just keep recycling these things. They keep lying about the same old things and we keep correcting the lies for those that listen to us, people we have a chance to influence here. The House is supposed to provide the Senate the evidence. All McConnell can do is work with what the House has handed him. They keep going, “Well, that\u2019s not what happened in the Clinton trial.\u201d The Clinton trial took depositions.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re even saying about that is a lie, is a mischaracterization. And the reason that all of this is happening, the primary thing that the Democrats are demanding for more witnesses and documents is because they know they don\u2019t have enough evidence to convict a ham sandwich, much less the president of the United States.<\/p>\n
Jerry Nadler, the round mound of the gavel himself on the final day of public hearings pronounced the facts are indisputable, that the Democrats had proved their case beyond any shadow of a doubt. Adam Schiff said the same thing when he wrapped up his sham hearings. And now all of a sudden they get to the Senate, they don\u2019t have enough evidence. It was clear as a bell. They are trying to turn this impeachment proceeding into a pro-Democrat political operation. They\u2019re trying to turn this into a usual opposition research effort.<\/p>\n
And the chief justice is obviously a Never Trumper, and I know a lot of you people called, and you were concerned about that, and I\u2019ve gotten some notes from people, “I\u2019m surprised that the chief justice voting so often with the Democrats.” Why? The guy\u2019s a Never Trumper. The guy wants to get into Georgetown, the guy wants to be accepted by Georgetown, he wants to get favorable pieces in the Washington Post Style section.<\/p>\n
None of this is a mystery. It\u2019s always been what it\u2019s been. It\u2019s always gonna be an obstacle, it\u2019s always gonna be a fight and a battle. Placing it in the proper context where people understand what\u2019s going on so they can properly judge it is what is important here. They claimed that they had presented enough evidence that slam dunk, president is guilty, let\u2019s move on over to the Senate, let\u2019s get this done.<\/p>\n
They get to the Senate, they don\u2019t have enough evidence all of a sudden. Now they want to start calling witnesses. As I said yesterday it\u2019s another myth, witnesses to what? There aren\u2019t any crimes. There are no impeachable offenses. And nobody witnessed anything. They keep recycling this, “Well, he withheld the money from Ukraine. He was holding it over.” He didn\u2019t withhold the money. Ukraine got the money and even more.<\/p>\n
I think this is one of the objectives, to get us so frustrated, at our wits\u2019 end constantly correcting them that we throw up our hands in frustration. But I\u2019ve got a take on this that I want to share with you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I really think the Republicans ought to bring Schiff in here and put him front and center and I think they ought to call him. I think they ought to make everything the Democrats are doing related to Adam Schiff. This guy needs to upheld front and center as the energy, the face behind this entire thing, because he\u2019ll fold. Folks, he hasn\u2019t said much that is the truth since this began.<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019ve got a story, this is from Real Clear Investigations. Whistleblower was overheard two weeks after Trump was inaugurated. Eric Ciaramella, the whistleblower, two weeks after Trump took office, Ciaramella “was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove,\u201d Trump from office.<\/p>\n
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They began discussing and formulating plans leading to an impeachment or whatever. This is independent of the Russia collusion hoax. Two weeks! This guy and another guy named Misko, Sean Misko, who was hired by Schiff when this whole impeachment stuff got started. Ciaramella, the whistleblower, and there are two Obama holdovers.<\/p>\n
Somehow they remained in the White House after Trump was inaugurated, were holdovers. Nobody knew to get rid of \u2019em. And they were overheard planning impeachment. And here we are two weeks after Trump was inaugurated, before any phone call to the Ukraine, before any of this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I really think it\u2019s critical to expose Adam Schiff in this, I think. If we\u2019re gonna start calling witnesses (we\u2019ll talk about that), get Schiff up there first. Everything revolves around Schiff. You are looking at human slime. I don\u2019t like saying that. You\u2019re just looking at a bad guy, folks. You\u2019re looking at a really bad, poisoned guy. The guy is so partisan that he has just abandoned all pretense of decency — and he cannot tell the truth about any of this.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t have a case telling the truth, so he\u2019s manufacturing things. His latest lying is he made up a lie about Zev Parnas my policy talking with the president of Ukraine, Zelensky, and got the wrong Z! He was not talking with Zelensky. Parnas was talking to some oligarch whose name began with Z. This guy… His mind is so corrupted that he sees a Z in front of a Ukrainian name and assumes it\u2019s Zelensky, and then he assumes that Lev Parnas was talking to Zelensky when he wasn\u2019t — and he says this during the Senate trial!<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s just openly lying about things, and it\u2019s the poison of this hatred that he\u2019s got for Trump. Adam Schiff is typical of this radical left mentality that has taken over the Democrat Party. It is unreasonable, it is indecent, it has no boundaries of propriety. So I think the guy needs to be exposed. I think he needs to be brought front and center. He\u2019s the guy with ties to the whistleblower, Ciaramella — who we now know has been working on this for two weeks after Trump was inaugurated.<\/p>\n
Maybe forcing Schiff to testify under oath could explain the origins of this entire fiasco.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to elaborate a little bit on something I glossed over a moment ago when talking about Schiff and how he needs to be made the face of all of this. This is about the lie that Schiff told about Lev Parnas and who he\u2019s talking to. The news is that this is apparently an intentional lie, that Schiff did not make a mistake; he did not confuse two different people whose last names begin with a Z.<\/p>\n
He knew that Lev Parnas had not spoken to Zelensky but said that he did anyway! Now, this was in a text that Lev Parnas sent to Rudy Giuliani — Schiff\u2019s own team. The Z that Parnas was talking about is the oligarch who runs Burisma. That\u2019s who Lev Parnas was talking to, and Schiff got hold of that text says and, “Oh, no. He\u2019s sending a note to Zelensky.” Meaning, “This Parnas guy, he knows a lot that he hasn\u2019t told us! He\u2019s got an in with the president of Ukraine!”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n
The reason that we know that Schiff did this intentionally is because he redacted the rest of the text message to Rudy that made it clear that Parnas was talking about the guy who runs Burisma, not Zelensky. But I\u2019ll tell you, Schiff is so monomaniacal, he was even willing to lie to the Round Mound of the Gavel, Jerry Nadler, who\u2019s the person he sent this evidence to. He gave it to Nadler to use. He set Nadler up! He facilitated Nadler telling his same lie.<\/p>\n
This is assuming Nadler wasn\u2019t in on it. They both could have been on it. And the Drive-By Media\u2019s completely ignoring this, even though it was uncovered by Politico. The Politico is who uncovered this. Politico uncovered the fact that Schiff knowingly misrepresented this text message from Lev Parnas claiming that it went to the president, Zelensky, of Ukraine, when it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
It went to the guy that founded Burisma! They\u2019re completely ignoring this in the media because it exposes Schiff to be the obsessed liar that we have said he is. The guy is just… (sigh) I don\u2019t know, folks. I don\u2019t know how to politely describe what I\u2019m actually thinking about the guy. (sigh) It\u2019s despicable what the guy\u2019s doing. He needs to be fully exposed.<\/p>\n
By the way, did you hear about Mayor Pete? Did you hear what Mayor Pete did, trying to endear himself to the black community? Mayor Pete said that he prefers Popeyes chicken to Chick-fil-A. Did you hear that? He made a big deal out of pointing out that he thinks Popeyes chicken is much better than Chick-fil-A to a black audience. Now, can you imagine if a Republican did anything like that? You would not be… (interruption) No, I didn\u2019t hear that. That\u2019s all you would have heard about!<\/p>\n
Okay. Let\u2019s go to the Atlanta. Let\u2019s start with Karen on the phones. I\u2019m glad you called, Karen. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I am so glad that you are back.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Me too.<\/p>\n
CALLER: When you were sick, I put you at the top of my prayer list. (giggles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. I\u2019m glad to be back, too.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I listen to you all the time, and I hear you ask people, “Why are they so afraid of Trump?” and I have a theory. My theory is that he runs the country like a business. You have to get things done, and he gets things done, and he could get everything done that we need done where they\u2019ve been there for years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So why does that scare them? Wait a suh. Why does that scare them? Why does getting things done scare them?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because we won\u2019t have to pay these big old salaries, and they would only have to come maybe twice a year to legislate, and maybe we should go back to the day where it was volunteer; you did it for your country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, you\u2019re on to something when talking about “some people.” There are… I think people like Schiff, I don\u2019t think it matters that Trump gets things done. I don\u2019t think it matters. I think it\u2019s so deeply personal with Schiff that he simply has lost any boundaries of propriety and decency. He\u2019s just a despicable, despicable person doing what he\u2019s doing and the way he\u2019s going about it. Now, I think more along the lines what you were talking about, Washington has evolved over many generations.<\/p>\n
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And what is one of the most often heard complaints from the citizens, from people, about Washington? They say, “Can\u2019t get anything done. It takes so long.” People\u2019s expectations are so low because of how long it takes to get things done — and people in Washington, they further us thinking that. They further the belief. “Oh, it\u2019s so big, it\u2019s so massive, we\u2019re trying to…” The people that run for office, campaign, XY & Z promises of what they\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n
They get elected, and nothing ever happens — and I think that\u2019s the trick. I think the trick is having convinced us that it\u2019s really hard to get things done. It\u2019s hard to get legislation passed. It\u2019s hard to get it passed in two houses of Congress; then the president sign it. It\u2019s really, really hard — and in that way, they get to maintain the status quo where they are the beneficiaries. So here comes Donald Trump. You want to talk about an earthquake?<\/p>\n
In three years, look at what one man has been able to get done, not just get done, but change a bunch of garbage that was for the bad into good. It\u2019s got \u2019em scared to death. Their cover is blown. Whether Trump is a businessman or not, doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s simply the fact that he can get in there and get things done. He can stop illegal immigration. He can cut taxes. He can cause the biggest economic boom that we have seen in 50 years.<\/p>\n
He can create the lowest unemployment — with policy! It can be done. This is what has them upset. The American people can now see it can be done. It can be done in three years. It can be done in two years. It can be done with the right guy at the top. It can be done — all the while making America great again. We don\u2019t have to give Iran nuclear weapons to do it. We don\u2019t have to arm our enemies. We don\u2019t have to let illegals into the country. We don\u2019t have to do anything of the sort. We\u2019re not guilty.<\/p>\n
The United States isn\u2019t guilty.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t have to apologize for anything.<\/p>\n
This is such a major shakeup for what has become the standard, daily perception of Washington — and it\u2019s got people scared to death. It\u2019s got people upset, because their game has been exposed. So the only thing they can do… They can\u2019t run around and try to tell us that all these good things are not good for us. That\u2019s why they\u2019re trying to disqualify all these good things by saying that a corrupt skunk like Trump did it. That\u2019s how they\u2019re trying to disqualify it. Which is how they disqualify, or try to, all their critics: Personally destroy people.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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