{"id":335117,"date":"2020-01-30T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=335117"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:49:31","slug":"democrats-will-back-down-if-gop-stands-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/01\/30\/democrats-will-back-down-if-gop-stands-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Almost Over: Democrats Know They\u2019ve Been Beaten Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What did I tell you yesterday?<\/a> What did I tell you? So, here comes the big news. Let\u2019s see. This is Thursday, right? So, on Tuesday, late Tuesday, there\u2019s the Drudge headline: “McConnell Says He Doesn\u2019t Have the Votes to Stop Witnesses!” I said, “Don\u2019t believe it. There\u2019s some kind of a play going on here. There\u2019s some kind of a move being made.” Lo and behold, do not doubt me, folks. It was only a matter of hours until we learned that the Republican caucus lunch…<\/p>\n

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What happened is McConnell had, I guess, a 20- or 30-minute meeting with Lisa Murkowski; then an entire caucus lunch, and they came out of there, and the news was exactly what I thought it was gonna be. They don\u2019t have four Republicans who are gonna vote for witnesses, and that\u2019s why the Democrats… This guy from Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, tomorrow supposedly is going to make a motion to allow the chief justice to call for witnesses and the chief justice to call for documents.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know how that\u2019s gonna go because the chief justice is obviously on the Democrat side here. It may be more proper to say that the chief justice doesn\u2019t like Trump. I mean, this we know. The chief justice is a Never Trumper, and yesterday Rand Paul attempted to ask a question that included the name Eric Ciaramella — Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower — and the chief justice said (paraphrased), “We\u2019re not gonna allow that. You can\u2019t trick me! We\u2019re not gonna have the whistleblower\u2019s name here.<\/p>\n

“Everybody knows who it is, but we\u2019re not gonna let it happen here, not on the floor of the United States Senate.” Now, let me tell you what I think is really going on here, folks. It is a little… You gotta see the stitches on the fastball here, gotta be able to see the spin on the curveball. But I want to tell you what\u2019s going on, and, if you\u2019ve been following the Drive-By Media, this may seem not what you\u2019re hearing. But then again, that\u2019s why you\u2019re here. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why you\u2019re here, to get this unique take. There was a distinct change in mood and a distinct change in tone yesterday, and I think that the change of events is a reminder that you in this audience and a lot of people should not listen to establishment Republican squishes or the Never Trumpers. They have been advocating that Trump change his strategy, that Trump admit that it wasn\u2019t a “perfect call,” that Trump do this and do that in the hopes of making this go away. Well, Donald Trump knows — and he\u2019s demonstrated now for how many years running — that\u2019s not how you deal with these people.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t deal with bullies by letting \u2019em have a punch or two at you. The way you deal with bullies is force, and the left and their buddies in the media represent bullies in this entire four-year charade here to overturn election results of 2016. It is my contention the only thing the left understands is force, and I think they will melt if Senate Republicans just stand firm on this, and I\u2019ll tell you why I think they\u2019ll melt here in just a second.<\/p>\n

But if the president had been listening to the advice that he\u2019s getting from some of the (sigh) — well, call \u2019em RINOs or establishment Republicans — I think we\u2019d be in dire straits right now. The president is not listening to them. Trump\u2019s guys, I think, are doing one heck of a job, and they can shut this farce down by tomorrow. One thing that\u2019s happening that you\u2019re not gonna see reflected anywhere in the Drive-By Media: Adam Schiff is figuring out that he\u2019s gonna be discovered and outed as a pathological liar if witnesses are called.<\/p>\n

If witnesses are called and if we get anywhere near the entire process involving this whistleblower, Schiff knows that he is toast. Trump is gonna win this one, folks. He\u2019s gonna win this one, like he won the Mueller episode. You know a lot of people on our side didn\u2019t think Trump was gonna beat Mueller. “Oh, my God. The forces of government are arrayed against Trump! One man can\u2019t beat this stuff back.” But the reason we were always confident here is that they\u2019ve never had any evidence.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t want to sound like a broken record, but in this case, there\u2019s no impeachable offense. There is no high crime or misdemeanor. The whole thing is manufactured and made up. Carter Page is now finally gonna start suing Democrats, the DOJ, and the Perkins Coie law firm. It\u2019s long overdue. Tulsi Gabbard, by the way, has tried to serve Hillary Clinton with a lawsuit. Twice Hillary Clinton refuses service. Hillary Clinton\u2019s running around hiding from the process servers.<\/a> They\u2019ll come up with a trick. They\u2019ll find a way to get her served.<\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s Hillary Clinton, supposedly interested in justice and fairness. She\u2019s out there saying that Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s a Russian agent. Tulsi wants to sue her! Back to all this. Something is up. It looks to me… Despite the momentary glimpses you get as presented by the Drive-By Media, I think the Democrats — not all, I think some of them — are in the process here of caving while trying to disguise what they\u2019re doing. You know the inspector general… There ere 18 witnesses that Schiff had in his underground bunker there where Republicans got no witnesses.<\/p>\n

There were 18. We\u2019ve only heard from 17 of them, and the witnesses we didn\u2019t hear from was the inspector general testimony. That has been redacted. If that testimony ever gets out… Schiff knows he\u2019s lied about Ciaramella, the whistleblower. Schiff knows that he has lied from the very beginning. Schiff knows that he was instrumented in establishing the whistleblower. He was instrumented in directing the whistleblower. He was instrumental in structuring the whole thing — and he knows that if that comes out, if the beans get spilled on that, then what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

The beans are gonna get spilled on the Biden caper. The Democrats have so much at stake here. They want to make it look like it\u2019s Trump who is at great risk, but it is the Democrats. Schiff is at great risk if he values his credibility and his reputation, and so is Biden. I don\u2019t think, at the end of the day, either of those two actually want anything they\u2019ve done in this regard to be exposed. Now, they\u2019ll be huffing and puffing about the need for witnesses and the bias of Republicans and the fact that Republicans don\u2019t want to get to the truth.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just huffing and puffing. Schumer was so out of control today that Fox News cut away from his press conference. (impression) “We are faced, going forward, with the very kind and nature of government we were going to have if Donald Trump cannot be removed from office.” He didn\u2019t say that but it\u2019s what he means. “If Donald Trump cannot be removed from office, we may not ever be able to keep the kind of government we have.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. So the bottom line here: I\u2019m not sure. I don\u2019t think they have the votes to call witnesses, and I think they know it — and I think that what isn\u2019t being reported and probably nobody will ever admit. But I think there are a lot of people on the left, Democrats, secretly happy about this. When this is all over, folks, just like all the rest of this stuff has been over, it is Adam Schiff who\u2019s gonna look stupid. It is Adam Schiff who is going to be exposed. You know, one thing about Trump.<\/p>\n

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They ridicule the fact that he watches Fox News and that he comments on what\u2019s happening on Fox News. But Trump is a TV expert and veteran. He can spot TV reality potential. The people he has brought on to represent him are pretty good on TV. They know how to use television far better than the Democrats do. The Democrats don\u2019t want to put Hunter Biden up there. The Democrats don\u2019t want Joe Biden talking about this at all. Remember the best thing about this.<\/p>\n

One of the best things about this going on right now is the slow strangulation of the Biden candidacy and the ascendancy of Crazy Bernie. This has got the Democrats so worked up, they don\u2019t know what to do about it, folks! I didn\u2019t think Crazy Bernie had a chance. Now it\u2019s getting close to 50-50 he might make it, and Trump can beat him easily. Bernie is a nasty, snarly guy. He\u2019s a nag. He has leeched off government his whole life. It\u2019s a slam dunk, and they know it. They\u2019re worried!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Pelosi. I guess this is at a press conference — yeah, weekly press briefing — just today. It\u2019s only eight seconds long, but this makes my point in my in-depth analysis in the previous half hour.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: Well, he will not be acquitted. You cannot be acquitted if you don\u2019t have a trial, and you don\u2019t have a trial if you don\u2019t have witnesses and documentation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the best they\u2019ve got now. (impression) “He\u2019s not gonna be acquitted in a trial because you don\u2019t have a trial” unless you have witnesses and documentation.” What did I tell you? They\u2019re trying to dirty up the acquittal. That\u2019s all they can do here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: ABC News is running a story. (interruption) What are you laughing at? What…? I know I\u2019m a naturally funny host, but what\u2019s so funny? (interruption) Oh. Well, if a lamebrain… If you clear a lamebrain leftist to go through and they hang on, that\u2019s why half my brain\u2019s tied behind me just to be equal, fair with them.<\/p>\n

Anyway, ABC News is reporting that the trial ends tomorrow. Now, they\u2019re quoting Republican sources, but they still ran with the story. Everybody knows this thing… I told you at the beginning of the week it was gonna end this weekend, \u2019cause it\u2019s the Hawkeye Cauci. The Democrats have to get out there and they haven\u2019t made a case, and I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you there\u2019s a lot of Democrats who would love to get Adam Schiff out of the spotlight yesterday. Do not doubt me on this. You\u2019ll never get the satisfaction of them admitting it.<\/p>\n

And in public, they\u2019ll back him up (as, of course, they would), but privately, they\u2019re cursing this guy, \u2019cause they all think they had Trump dead to rights, and they had a stacked deck. They had Schiff not granting Republicans any rights, any witnesses — they had the media on their side — and they still can\u2019t get rid of the guy! Jerry Nadler and Schiff? Are you kidding me? These are the two stars they think they had. Anyway, here is Schiff. This is two Schiff sound bites here. This is from today. He held a press conference. Maybe “waving the white flag” would be a way to describe it. See what you think here…<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right. They\u2019re waving the white flag. There\u2019s Pelosi out there — we just had her sound bite — (summarized), “Well, he won\u2019t be acquitted. You can\u2019t acquit if you don\u2019t have a trial. You don\u2019t have a trial if you don\u2019t have any witnesses.” So now we haven\u2019t had a trial! (laughing) What we just sat through here has not even been a trial, and Schiff is now back with, “Well, we can\u2019t have a trial here without witnesses, and therefore we haven\u2019t even had a trial.<\/p>\n

“No impartial oath, no witnesses, that\u2019s what they have to deliver for the American people. No trial, no vindication.” What did I tell you? They are trying to dirty up the acquittal. That\u2019s all they can do, and they\u2019re gonna try to blame the Republicans — and, of course, Mitch McConnell, the Turtle — for stacking the deck (chuckling) when the deck stacking has been all Democrats all the time since this began.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Tim in St. Joseph, Michigan, you\u2019re next. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, good afternoon from the great state of Michigan where our president\u2019s gonna be in Detroit today at the Dana Corporation and talking about the impact of new trade agreement. I\u2019ve been wondering, if I\u2019m Bernie Sanders and I\u2019m sitting there looking at the fact that this is probably my last campaign for president, that I got hornswoggled out of the nomination the last time, and there\u2019s a chance that three Republicans may vote in favor of questioning — which would maybe throw it to a tie, the chief justice would then have to make the tie-breaking vote — I\u2019m just wondering if Bernie might pull something like voting “present.” That\u2019s why he\u2019s not voting for it or against it but “present,” which would then allow him during the next vote — which is for acquittal — to go ahead and vote against acquittal. I\u2019m just wondering what you think about that.<\/p>\n