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<\/p>\nRUSH: And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain, the shut-down fruited plain. I have to tell you something, folks. I\u2019m really happy to see more and more people talking about opening up now. I mean, I was out there all alone, as I usually am \u2019cause that\u2019s what being on the cutting edge of societal evolution means. But all kinds of people are coming up with great ideas. And we\u2019re gonna throw some of our own into the mix today.<\/p>\n
I must say, this is gonna be a bit of an organizational challenge. You know, someday I\u2019m gonna tell you all how this program comes together. You will not believe it. And I am amazed that I have not had a health breakdown between 11:30 and noon every day for the past 10 years. That\u2019s not a complaint. But it is intense. I work all night the night before and then all morning, and from 11:30 to noon it all comes together and I\u2019ve gotta put it all together. I\u2019m not complaining.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not gonna tell you how the sausage is made. I\u2019m just telling you it\u2019s an organizational challenge, so it may be hopscotching all over the place today. And you have to listen to all three hours to get it, which you do anyway. And that\u2019s why there are three hours to make sure that we get it all in and get to it all. As always, folks, thank you so much for being with us. Cannot thank you enough. It\u2019s such a great ongoing pleasure and uplifting aspect of my life to be able to be here and to know that you\u2019re out there and to know that it all has meaning. It\u2019s terrific. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
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Would it be okay to point out that last week was not as bad as everybody was predicting it was gonna be? I think that\u2019s pretty good news to have to report. It wasn\u2019t Pearl Harbor last week. Remember, they told us the next week and a half could be very, very bad. It wasn\u2019t as bad. None of it has been as bad as has been forecast. None of it has been as bad as has been predicted, which, of course, is a classic trait of the doomsayers.<\/p>\n
Now, it is fascinating today. The Drive-By Media, the Democrat Party, the health and medical elites have all decided to unify around a premise today — and they actually got started late last week and over the weekend — that Trump was unprepared for all of this. That Trump was the last guy to see anything coming. That President Trump got duped. That President Trump wasn\u2019t paying attention. That President Trump is incompetent. And all this is, it is a continuation of the failed efforts to get Trump on Trump-Russia collusion, to get Trump on Stormy Daniels, to get Trump on Avenatti, to get Trump on Michael Cohen, to get Trump on the phone call with Ukraine, whatever. It is just a continuation of that.<\/p>\n
And this shutdown as advocated by many of the people continuing to advocate for it, this shutdown is a political effort to get rid of Donald Trump in the election this November. Now, it\u2019s interesting, Catherine Herridge of CBS News. She used to be at Fox. She\u2019s at CBS News. And Mr. Barr, the attorney general, with his appearances on Fox News late last week, the Catherine Herridge story was said to be a scoop on Friday afternoon.<\/a><\/p>\n Newly unredacted footnotes from the Inspector General Horowitz report on Crossfire Hurricane reveal the FBI was aware the Steele dossier was bogus. That\u2019s not a scoop. You who\u2019ve been listening to this program regularly know full well the Steele dossier was bogus, that it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, the Democrat National Committee. That they used Fusion GPS as the cutout to pay the law firm, Perkins Coie, that made the financial connections so as to give plausible deniability to the Hillary campaign, the DNC.<\/p>\n If you want to put a different flavor on this rather than the fact that there was some kind of big scoop on Friday afternoon showing the FBI was aware the Steele dossier was disinformation, here\u2019s the way to put this in perspective: Obama knew. Hillary Clinton knew. Joe Biden knew. James Comey knew and was an instigator. John Brennan — Obama\u2019s CIA director — he knew and was intimately involved in the effort to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n Andrew McCabe at the FBI knew. Peter Strzok Smirk and his paramour, Lisa Page, knew. The CIA at large knew. MI5 knew. MI6 knew. The professors at Cambridge knew. The professors at Oxford knew. The professors at Harvard knew. The State Department knew. They all knew that Trump was innocent! They all knew there had been no collusion. They all knew the Russians had not tampered with Trump\u2019s campaign or his presidency.<\/p>\n They all knew that what they were doing was bogus. They all knew that what they were saying was bogus. They continued to smear Donald Trump, and to this day they continue to smear Donald Trump by saying he wasn\u2019t prepared for coronavirus, when he was, and was the first… It was Fauci and others — as you will hear in a moment — who in January, February, March were assuring everybody there was nothing to fear.<\/p>\n They all knew Trump was innocent. They all knew they were lying. They all knew Trump didn\u2019t do it — and they continued, as Barr said. They sabotaged. And it\u2019s ongoing. The reason I\u2019m talking about this is that it hasn\u2019t stopped. It hasn\u2019t stopped. They are continuing the effort to get rid of Donald Trump. And, folks, I\u2019m here to tell you that those advocating — many, not all.<\/p>\n Many of the people advocating this ongoing economic shutdown are doing it in hopes it\u2019ll damage President Trump. There is no question about it. This is so unsustainable. It is so unnecessary to this extent. But the real key is whenever anybody brings up any idea, any strategy, any plan to reopen, they universally reject it all. If you see anybody universally reject the concept of reopening, then I\u2019m telling you they\u2019re telegraphing their politics.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s going on here. The American left is looking at this shutdown, and they\u2019re saying, “You know what? This is great. This is a forerunner to the Green New Deal.” Their guys are saying, “We are proving that we can shut down this economy, clean air, stop pollution, stop CO2, eliminate the use of fossil fuels, and still — by virtue of government spending (i.e., socialism) — keep people fed without them having to go to work!”<\/p>\n They are saying that this is exactly what needs to happen to save the planet and that we are in the midst of proving that it can be done, and the proof is that we can get people fed and we can keep them secure and safe in their homes not doing anything — and we can fine them for going to church now. In Michigan, you can\u2019t even go see a friend without being fined. In Michigan, you can\u2019t go to your vacation home. The governor there is out of control.<\/p>\n They\u2019re pointing out that this is a golden opportunity to “save the planet,” and sure enough, reading my tech blogs over the weekend, there already maps, charts, and graphs demonstrating how much cleaner the air is in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey since the shutdown. The left is on the march. They have many objectives. All of their objectives are tied… Most of them. I can\u2019t say all.<\/p>\n Many of their objectives are tied to this shutdown continuing. At the top of the objective list is getting rid of Donald Trump. Now, the next opportunity they think is gonna be the election in November. I don\u2019t think they seriously believe that they can start brand-new impeachment hearings, and Pelosi says she\u2019s not bringing Congress back \u2019til the end of May. So there\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna be able to mount new investigations and new hearings, new witnesses.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t have enough time. So the election is it. That\u2019s what they\u2019re targeting. That\u2019s when they get rid of Trump, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do in maintaining the economic shutdown, which is not sustainable, folks. This simply cannot go on. And it\u2019s time to start paying attention — anytime you see it — to people advocating for it going on. Let me share with you some headlines that are indicative of what\u2019s coming here.<\/p>\n New York Times: “He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump\u2019s Failure on the Virus.”<\/a> They go on and detail Trump\u2019s travel ban, how he got fooled at every turn, how he wasn\u2019t paying attention, how he didn\u2019t care because he doesn\u2019t care about people, how his instincts are bad, how he listened to the advice of the wrong people.<\/p>\n They have anonymous sources in this story. They don\u2019t have any evidence in this story. They\u2019re misrepresenting the Peter Navarro memo supposedly warning Trump of massive amounts of death, that Trump ignored and didn\u2019t pay any attention to because Trump is incompetent. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites to back this up, as you will hear. But there\u2019s a counter to all of this that\u2019s mounting.<\/p>\n There is a massive effort underway to reject the left-wing political claims, and they are taking place under the guise of being public service oriented and health related. The New York Times wants you to think that their only concern here is public health and that Trump endangered it and risked it. They have no desire for you to understand that this is a political objective.<\/p>\n Who said that?<\/p>\n Answer: Dr. Fauci on January 21st, right in the middle of when the New York Times says that Trump was unprepared, that Trump was asleep at the wheel, Trump wasn\u2019t paying attention, Trump doesn\u2019t care about people. “That was not the only time Dr. Fauci…” By the way, folks, when it comes to his health credentials and qualifications, no objection from me to Dr. Fauci. I have no intention of attempting to discredit Dr. Fauci in his area of expertise.<\/p>\n But I\u2019m sorry. Whether we reopen schools or have elections or reopen the economy, I don\u2019t think Dr. Fauci should be turned to as the decision-maker. The fact that the media goes to Dr. Fauci for the answer to these questions is also a political indication of the objective at hand. “Coronavirus is not a major threat for the people in the United States, and this is not something the citizens should be worried about,” said Dr. Fauci on January 21st.<\/p>\n He was “asked about how deadly the virus is and if Americans should be worried… That was not the only time Dr. Fauci made such a misleading statement. In an unearthed audio from January 26,” five days later, “Dr. Fauci assured Americans that the coronavirus is nothing to worry about. ‘The American people should not be worried or frightened by this. It\u2019s a very, very low risk to the United States,\u2019 Dr. Fauci said on The CATS Roundtable [hosted by] John Catsimatidis.”<\/p>\n He\u2019s a grocery store magnate in New York. “Dr. Fauci added: ‘It isn\u2019t something that the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about.\u2019 Notwithstanding what Dr. Fauci had said, U.S. President Trump decided to issue a travel ban five days later.” Now, how does Dr. Fauci get away with this?<\/p>\n If you want to talk about promoting unpreparedness, how does Dr. Fauci get away with not being held accountable for the things he said — and he\u2019s not alone. Other people were saying similar things back then, many of them Democrats in New York and in California. Why does only President Trump face any accountability, and why is it that President Trump\u2019s the only guy said to be unprepared here? 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<\/a>The Steele dossier was bogus. The Russians sources in it were bogus. There was nothing in it that was ever true. And yet we get some late Friday afternoon scoop, unredacted footnotes from Inspector General Horowitz\u2019s report reveal the FBI knew it, the FBI knew that portions of the — folks, this is crucially important. You may think, “Hey, Rush, what about the coronavirus?” Stick with me. It\u2019s all related. It\u2019s all related to the effort that they have mounted since — well, I think it\u2019s before Election Day 2016. You know what Barr said. Barr said it\u2019s one thing for these people to try to sabotage a campaign. But they didn\u2019t stop. After Trump was elected, they continued the efforts to sabotage the presidency. And they all knew.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg\")
This effort to portray Trump as unprepared is as bogus as the Steele dossier. It\u2019s as bogus as the phone call to Ukraine\u2019s president. It\u2019s as bogus as anything involving Stormy Daniels, the Trump-Russia collusion bogus hoax — which is a silent coup. They all knew. Tom Fitton has done yeoman\u2019s work in uncovering all of this, and he has tweeted that they all knew<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041320-MAP.jpg\")
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<\/a>From a website called Tech Startups, “Did Public Health Officials Mislead Us?” Pull quote: “Coronavirus is not a major threat for the people in United States, and this is not something the citizens should be worried about.”<\/a> Who said that? (interruption) You think it\u2019s a pull quote from the Tech Startups? Let me read to you again: “Coronavirus is not a major threat for the people in United States, and this is not something the citizens should be worried about.”<\/p>\n