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<\/p>\nRUSH: I\u2019m watching this stupid trial. It is obvious that Democrat senators have coordinated Democrat questions for the House managers. They got together, they\u2019ve written the questions and answers in advance. “Do you believe there is any limit to type or scope of quid pro quo in regards to a foreign entity?” This is a question that Schiff is answering. They\u2019re having a cow over what Dershowitz said yesterday.<\/p>\n
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Dershowitz said, “You can\u2019t separate a politician trying to do things to help himself from doing things to assist the country. You can\u2019t say that a president can\u2019t engage in anything that might benefit him because it\u2019s a violation of the Constitution or is a high crime or misdemeanor or impeachable offense. Nothing would ever get done, unless the president actively engages in policies that were harmful to him! That was essentially Dershowitz\u2019s point.<\/p>\n
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They are mangling that and they are distorting it, because it\u2019s one of these hard doses of reality and common sense about how human beings work. Everybody engages in self-interest. The idea that in the case of Donald Trump, self-interest is harmful to the country? Where does that come from? Here is a guy who\u2019s done nothing but improve — by any measure — life in this country, and yet they\u2019re out trying to make the case that Donald Trump is trying to arrange things so he\u2019s improving his own political life, personal life, political prospects.<\/p>\n
You know, if the country were going to hell in a handbasket and the country were triumphing, if he were selling the country out while benefiting, that would be one thing. But it\u2019s the exact opposite of what was happening. It\u2019s such a reverse; it\u2019s such a change in direction. It\u2019s such, as the cliche goes, a breath of fresh air. But these guys in the Democrat Party are actually acting like a president must actually engage in things that are harmful to him in order to be innocent of the charge of abusing his office. It\u2019s just patently absurd, and it\u2019s a great example of how baseless their whole case is.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We started here in Milwaukee. This Jerry. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Donald Trump has tried to ban and stop every witness testifying in the House. He\u2019s now trying to explain John Bolton and the Republicans are trying to stop John Bolton. This has been a great cover-up. If John Bolton has nothing incriminating on Donald Trump, which Republicans seems to be the spin right now, then why are they trying to block John Bolton? If John Bolton has nothing to say that shows extortion by Donald Trump, then why are they trying to block Bolton? Because they\u2019re afraid! They\u2019re scared, Rush. They\u2019re scared of what John Bolton has to say about Trump\u2019s extortion of the Ukraine president.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh, nice try, but dead wrong. In fact, Adam Schiff just tried to make the same point, and there was just a question submitted to the chief justice for the president\u2019s legal team. The Democrats want the president to waive his rights and have every witness they want come up. (impression) “President Trump is the first witness to not wave his rights in a trial like this,” and of course he\u2019s not. Every other president or every other target engages in this. This is a bogus argument, “If you\u2019ve got nothing to hide, why…?”<\/p>\n
The same thing could be said of Schiff. “If you have nothing to hide, why don\u2019t you release the whistleblower testimony and why don\u2019t you let the whistleblower testify?” This is Donald Trump knowing full well he didn\u2019t do anything wrong. The trial as a setup, and he is not gonna hand his political opponents a way to wipe him out, and he\u2019s not gonna sacrifice duly constituted rights to enable him to do so. He\u2019s under no compunction to let anybody testify.<\/p>\n
They have to prove their case, Jerry, and they haven\u2019t done it — and they think Trump can\u2019t defend his case, that\u2019s why they want witnesses? They want witnesses \u2019cause they don\u2019t have a case, Jerry. They don\u2019t have a single impeachable offense. They don\u2019t have bribery. They don\u2019t have extortion. If they did, that would have been in the two articles of impeachment. In fact, let me find the sound bites where this all came up because Schiff was taken to the woodshed by the president\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n
Hang on here just a second. Yeah, grab sound bites 10 and 11. Schiff tried this trick yesterday. He started claiming that Trump has been guilty of extortion and bribery. Well, those two charges are not in the articles of impeachment. You can\u2019t bring those up. You can\u2019t start litigating that when you didn\u2019t put it in the original indictment. Here\u2019s how it went. We\u2019ll have the president\u2019s lawyer responding right after it.<\/p>\n
SCHIFF: We think there\u2019s a crime here of bribery or extortion, conditioning official acts for personal favors. That is bribery. It\u2019s also what the founders understood as extortion.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. So this caused Mr. Philbin, Patrick Philbin, to not stand for it. One of the president\u2019s lawyers went to the well of the Senate and said this…<\/p>\n
\nWH Counsel Patrick Philbin: “If this were a criminal trial in ordinary court & Mr. Schiff had done what he just did…& start talking about crimes of bribery & extortion that were not in the indictment, it would\u2019ve been an automatic mistrial.”<\/p>\n
Watch — https:\/\/t.co\/0c6IWSaX4Y<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/TfJ5RDw0Kq<\/a><\/p>\n
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