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<\/p>\nRUSH: I don\u2019t know any more than you do about the Sidney Powell circumstance. I know a lot of people have been curious to know whether there is something beyond that which has been publicly reported. If there is, I\u2019m unaware of it. I\u2019ve made inquiries. I have not come up with anything more than what you know. We\u2019ll deal with it as it unfolds and manifests itself.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a bunch of different theories going around that she really is not going to stop working, she\u2019s just disassembling herself from the Trump team. I mean, it\u2019s a tough thing to deny that she was ever a part of it because they introduced her as part of it. I mean, she was at that press conference last week. The problem with that press conference last week, folks, it goes way beyond Sidney Powell.<\/p>\n
I mean, if you\u2019re gonna announce — and, Mr. Snerdley, you tell me if you agree with me. I may be a little bit wrong on this, I don\u2019t know. (interruption) Why are you smiling? (interruption) Why? Because you think whenever I allude to the possibility of my being wrong, it\u2019s never the case that I\u2019m wrong. Is that what you mean?<\/p>\n
You call a gigantic press conference like that, one that lasts an hour, and you announce massive bombshells, then you better have some bombshells. There better be something at that press conference other than what we got, such as a hacker who can tell us, yep, everything these guys have said is true. I\u2019ve looked into it. I\u2019ve run the software, I\u2019ve hacked this, I\u2019ve hacked that. Even put him behind a screen, if you want to protect his identity.<\/p>\n
I talked to so many people who were blown away by it, by the very nature of the press conference. They promised blockbuster stuff, and then nothing happened. And that\u2019s just not good. I mean, if you\u2019re gonna promise blockbuster stuff like that, then there has — now, I understand — look, I\u2019m the one that\u2019s been telling everybody, this stuff doesn\u2019t happen at warp speed, light speed the way cases are made for presentation in court, but if you\u2019re gonna do a press conference like that with the promise of blockbusters, then there has to be something more than what that press conference delivered.<\/p>\n
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Now Sidney Powell is supposedly out, jumped the shark, got out over the skis, but apparently she\u2019s still gonna be working along with Lin Wood trying to make the case that she says is there to be made all along. Time, of course, is of the essence now, as it is speedily vanishing. They\u2019re gonna have to act fast.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mr. Snerdley says last night was a sinking feeling all across the MAGAville because of the Sidney Powell circumstance. Is that pretty much what…? (interruption) You know, there\u2019s all kinds of speculation about what\u2019s going on with Sidney Powell. Was she ever really a member of the team? It appears that she was. Did they really ask her to leave, or is she…?<\/p>\n
Some of the Drive-By Media think that it\u2019s impossible to be too conspiratorial for Trump and Giuliani. So the excuse being given that she\u2019s gone because even she\u2019s too wacko for them is being refuted because there\u2019s nothing too wacko for Trump, that Trump will believe anything, and Giuliani will believe anything. So the left is going nuts trying to figure it out, folks.<\/p>\n
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The left is… They\u2019re coming up with some of the most convoluted theories. I might share some of them with you. They\u2019re kind of funny. One of them involved this fictional, dragon-like figure, the Kraken or the Kraken. I don\u2019t know how you pronounce it. I\u2019m not big into that stuff. (laughs) But they\u2019re going nuts trying to figure out what it means, and is she still secretly working on making all of this happen while Trump tries to salvage some credibility by making it look like there is at least one kook that he will reject? (laughs) Ahhh, my friends.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You probably have heard that Professor Dershowitz is saying that Trump still has several constitutional paths to victory. Professor Dershowitz said he thinks the president has several legal pathways to a 2020 election victory. Dershowitz said there are a few constitutional paths for the president\u2019s legal team<\/a>, but he noted that Trump is going to face legal hurdles in all of them. He said, for example, in Pennsylvania they have two very strong legal arguments. One, that the courts changed what the legislature did about counting ballots after the end of Election Day. That\u2019s a winning issue in the Supreme Court. I don\u2019t necessarily support it, but it\u2019s a winning issue in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Changing what legislatures did about counting ballots, the courts don\u2019t have that right. Legislatures maintain the sole right to create election law, like any other law, the courts cannot do it, but the courts here did it. Dershowitz is saying that the Supreme Court would more than likely overturn this. He also said the Trump team has a winning issue in the Supreme Court on equal protection, that some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured while others didn\u2019t. Cured just another way of being altered. Cured just another way of saying they were changed, made up, created out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one of these gigantic — it\u2019s not gigantic — it\u2019s one of these words that makes it sound like fixing something. Yes. We\u2019re curing. Oh, yeah. We are fixing a diseased ballot. We are curing. No, no, no, no. Curing means they can take a blank piece of paper and turn it into a ballot. Curing means they can take a valid ballot, throw it out if they want to. That\u2019s what curing means. Dershowitz says the team has a winning issue on the Supreme Court equal protection. Some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured, i.e., fixed while others didn\u2019t. Bush v. Gore suggests that an equal protection argument can prevail.<\/p>\n We got Dershowitz on audio. Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite number 19. Sunday Morning Futures, Maria Bartiromo. She said, “Can you tell us if you believe there is a path for victory for President Trump amidst all of these charges?”<\/p>\n RUSH: See, that\u2019s what it comes down to. And that\u2019s why you go back to the press conference that Rudy and Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell conducted last week – in fact, I got a note from a very learned friend who was so let down by that press conference. He said, “Man, Rush, after that press conference, I was expecting the evidence. I was expecting something to blow this thing to smithereens. I mean, you don\u2019t go out and do a press conference like that with all of those promised bombshells and then zip, zero, nada? So I was expecting there to be some kind of computer expert or hacker who was then going to provide evidence and an example of what they were talking about that was blockbuster, but there was nothing.”<\/p>\n And he said “my real problem with this is it\u2019s making Trump look like he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. It\u2019s making Trump look like he\u2019s floundering away out there.” The guy was very upset by this. That that press conference, there was nothing to it when it was over, when it was obviously set up to lay the groundwork for some massive, massive news that was going to shake, rattle, and roll the entire election, but it never came.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Jenna Ellis from the Trump legal team just tweeted<\/a> the following. Well, about a little less than an hour ago. The tweet is: “Third Circuit Court of Appeals grants expedited review for Team Trump\u2019s appeal from Pennsylvania.” Now, this, I think, is the case that the federal judge — the supposedly very conservative, Trump-appointed federal judge — in Pennsylvania threw out on Saturday.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Suzanne, Appleton, Wisconsin. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush, and prayers to you every night. We love hearing you. Every time we can turn on the radio and hear your voice, it just lifts all of us.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate that.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I was calling today about my thought about Sidney Powell, and I really think the Democrats and the media are terrified that what she has is enough to stick. I really think that the only thing they can do now is to ruin her stellar reputation, and what they\u2019re trying to do is call her a conspiracy theorist, and they\u2019re trying to call her a crackpot, and get people to think that\u2019s the only thing they\u2019ve got, and I think that they want to go to the Trump team —<\/p>\n RUSH: Ah, ah, ah, ah! But, but, but wait a minute.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: All that may be true, but it\u2019s the Trump team that threw her under the bus.<\/p>\n CALLER: Sure. But I don\u2019t necessarily think they did. I think what they did was smart, because they don\u2019t want to get involved in defending her right now and get distracted from the real thing, which is the fraud. So by simply separating their two investigations, they don\u2019t have to sit and answer questions about her and, “How come you have a crackpot on your team?” and all of this.<\/p>\n RUSH: Ahhhh.<\/p>\n CALLER: They can keep focused on the fraud and she can keep focused on her voting machine investigation, and they can both go at it and the media is off the back of Trump\u2019s team.<\/p>\n RUSH: I got you. I got you. You think that they\u2019re distancing themselves from Powell so she can continue to do her work without —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, look, not… Yes they can.<\/p>\n CALLER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n RUSH: The media can do whatever they want. If Sidney Powell is going to continue her work —<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n RUSH: — and if she\u2019s going to continue to announce the various stages of accomplishment of her work —<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: — the media can always say, “Wait a minute, Trump. You fired her. Wait a minute. What\u2019s she still doing out there working on your behalf?” And the Trump team\u2019s gonna have to say (sputtering) “We\u2019re not over… What she\u2019s doing has nothing to do with us.” They have to continue to disavow her, but they can\u2019t —<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a true disavowal. I think it\u2019s just a separation of their two different functions and their two different aspects of going after the fraud.<\/p>\n RUSH: So you don\u2019t believe that Trump believes Sidney Powell is a kook?<\/p>\n CALLER: I don\u2019t think he does, no, and I think that… I just think they want to keep focused on the fraud, and I think the media\u2019s trying to draw them off into a conspiracy theory aspect and get everybody\u2019s attention on that and not on the fraud.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n CALLER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s an interesting theory. It\u2019s an interesting theory out there, Suzanne. And I\u2019m glad you made it through. I\u2019m glad you got through here to share that with you. A number of other people have a variation of that theory, by the way. I\u2019ve been cataloging the emails I\u2019ve been getting on this, and I could basically put \u2019em into two categories.<\/p>\n One category says, “Look, Rush, she\u2019s either a kook… She\u2019s either a nutcase and it\u2019s finally being exposed or she\u2019s a genius.” That basically is how some people are looking at it. Others (the fatalistic crowd) are looking at it as, “I knew it was too good too big true. I knew that somebody who claimed to be able to go get what really happened here is nothing more than a locoweed.”<\/p>\n So there are reactions here that are running the gamut. There\u2019s massive disappointment, by the way. Regardless what really is happening here, there is massive disappointment. But the one thing about distractions is that you don\u2019t want them or, if they exist, that you have to find a way to use them to your advantage, and it was clear to a lot of people that Sidney Powell had possibly become a distraction.<\/p>\n So they wanted to distance themselves from her.<\/p>\n Now, the reasons why are where the theories get interesting.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Very quickly to repeat, Jenna Ellis<\/a> tweeted about an hour ago, “Third Circuit Court of Appeals grants expedited review for Team Trump\u2019s appeal from Pennsylvania.” I have to think that\u2019s positive. I have to think that there is some good news there. We\u2019ll just have to follow it and see. Let the process play out. That\u2019s all anybody has requested. Let the legal process play out. Let it go.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is Dave, Kankakee, Illinois. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n RUSH: I could not agree more. I\u2019d like to know however — not disagreeing — you\u2019ve said whatever we saw at the Trump rallies is just the beginning. Isn\u2019t the point that Republicans do not stand up, they do not oppose, they do not tell these people that are trying to impose tyranny and authoritarianism on us, they don\u2019t tell \u2019em to go pound sand, we don\u2019t push back? Isn\u2019t that the problem?<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh, absolutely. When I said the left-wing media and government, the Republicans fall right into that line, too.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, but you just said we\u2019re not gonna take it anymore. We\u2019re gonna push back now and that the Trump rallies — what evidence of that do you have? I mean, I would love for it to be true.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I mean, the evidence when I said that the Trump rallies were just the beginning, a small taste of it.<\/p>\n RUSH: Ah, yes.<\/p>\n CALLER: Look at all the thousands and thousands of people that came out and spent days of their time doing that. It\u2019s amazing, and that\u2019s just a small taste.<\/p>\n RUSH: And there was the rally over the weekend, a couple weekends ago in Washington. Well, the signs are there. I have to grant you that. The signs are indeed there. Dave, thank you very much. I appreciate the call. Do you realize most hosts would have not known how to pronounce where he\u2019s from, Kankakee, Illinois? Because I\u2019m from near there, I knew how to pronounce it. It rolled off of my mouth and tongue like it was an everyday word that I use. A lot of hosts would have said, “Kuh Kuh Kankaka — Kank -” but I just rolled right off there. Kankakee, Illinois.<\/p>\n Okay, look, folks, let\u2019s stop having fun with this. We\u2019ve got fraud going on, we\u2019ve got kooks saying some odd things. If we don\u2019t fix this, we\u2019re finished. If we don\u2019t get this fraud ironed out, if we don\u2019t get this taken out of the system, if we don\u2019t expose this for what it really is and how it happened and get rid of it, then we are forever going to be enmeshed in election fraud and therefore no election going forward is going to be legit. It\u2019s taoo important to be left to conspiracy theorists. I don\u2019t think it is, but just with them, I mean.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Man, oh, man, oh, man. So I make a little mistake. I said that Chris Bedford, I thought, may have been one of the founders of The Federalist. I have heard from 10 people, “He was not! He was not! He was not! He didn\u2019t found it! He didn\u2019t found it! He was somewhere else!” Whoa, are these people protective of their turf. Okay. So he didn\u2019t found it. Fine. He writes there, and I\u2019m gonna share elements of his piece in due course.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Kevin, Birmingham, Alabama. Glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re up next on our big program. How are you?<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m in the middle of three generations of listening. My now 79-year-old father introduced me to you in 1992. I have since introduced you to my now 30-year-old son, and we\u2019re all big fans.<\/p>\n RUSH: I appreciate it. That is fabulous, and I cannot thank you enough. I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n CALLER: So back to the Sidney Powell thing. I think the Trump team had to distance themselves for the simple reason over the weekend at NewsMax she gave an interview that the first state she was gonna blow up is Georgia. That\u2019s her words. And she said something else that got my attention, it must have got their attention, she said something along the lines that Doug Collins actually beat Kelly Loeffler, and so if that affects the Georgia Senate races, the Trump team can\u2019t be part of that. I\u2019m not saying whether it\u2019s true or not. I kind of hope she does prove all of that, but I think the Trump team had to distance themselves in case it cost them the Senate.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes. ‘Cause remember it\u2019s a three-person race, nobody got over 50%.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: She alluded in one of the interviews over the weekend —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, you know, they put something else out. They said that the reason they had to throw her under the bus, throw her overboard is what she said about the governor there, Brian Kemp. She said that Brian Kemp was being blackmailed and bribed by a bunch of communists in Venezuela because he had bought the Dominion means and put them into service in Georgia and that he was part of the conspiracy.<\/p>\n Now, I know Trump has had problems with Kemp off and on, but when you got somebody on your legal team claiming a Republican governor is in bed with Venezuelan communists going all the way back to Hugo Chavez, then you\u2019ve got somebody who has — I think the phrase that was used by some is “jumped the shark.” But your theory could be the operative theory as well.<\/p>\n I\u2019m struck by how many people think this is a head fake, that Sidney is not really out, that Sidney has been reassigned while making it look like she\u2019s been thrown overboard and under the bus, which then frees her to actually move in ways that she wants independently of the campaign and apparently without the imprimatur of the campaign, thereby and therefore not implicating the campaign in anything that she does but that her work is appreciated.<\/p>\n It\u2019s always fascinated me the various thought processes that accompany such unexpected, shocking – I mean, this is the last thing anybody expected to happen. They thought Sidney Powell was actually the brains of that legal team. And then for this to happen, it just doesn\u2019t compute. Anyway, Kevin, I appreciate the call very much.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me start with the piece I highlighted moments ago. This is from Christopher Bedford at The Federalist, where I erroneously referred to him as a founder. I must have heard from now 12 people. “He didn\u2019t found it! He\u2019s just a schlub! He didn\u2019t… He\u2019s just a writer. Get it right!”<\/p>\n Whoa. Man, these people and their turf. Holy smokes. I just made a little error. At any rate, his point here in the piece, “Election Fraud Problems Are a Threat to Our Country and Too Important to Be Left to Conspiracy Theorists<\/a> — On Friday, Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell told Glenn Beck ‘our forces\u2019 have confiscated a voting company server in Germany linked to alleged pro-Joe Biden fraud committed by Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n “Both the military and the voting company in question have denied this claim. On Saturday, Powell said Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his secretary of state are ‘in on the Dominion scam\u2019 and they ought to be investigated for ‘financial benefit received about that time.\u2019 On Sunday, President Donald Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released an official statement disassociating Powell from the campaign\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-112320-dershowitz-fox-1.jpg\")
<\/a>DERSHOWITZ: In Pennsylvania, they have two very strong legal arguments. One, that the courts changed what the legislature did about counting ballots after the end of Election Day. They also have a winning issue in the Supreme Court on equal protection, that some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured while others didn\u2019t. They have to show enough contested votes under those two legal theories to change the outcome. The other legal theory they have, which is a potentially strong one, is that the computers, either fraudulent or by glitches, changed hundreds of thousands of votes. There, there are enough votes to make a difference, but I haven\u2019t seen the evidence to support that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-mediaite-TEARAWAY-112320.jpg\")
<\/a>And threw out in kind of a mocking, making-fun-of-the-Trump legal team way. So maybe they\u2019ve asked for an appeal to the third court of appeals, and they\u2019ve granted an expedited review for the appeal from Pennsylvania. It could be that\u2019s what she\u2019s talking about. As I say, we track all this stuff down. It happens in real time. We\u2019ll get as much info as we can.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-110520-Traverse-City-mail.jpg\")
CALLER: So they can too! Because now the media can\u2019t jump all over Trump every time they\u2019re on and say, “What do you got this crackpot Sidney on your team for?”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-110520-Trump-hats.jpg\")
CALLER: I believe we\u2019re in a revolution. I think the people of this country are rising up. I think the left-wing media and the government are about to find out how big a dog is on the other end of that chain they\u2019ve been tugging on. We\u2019re not ignore accept the voter fraud, just as we\u2019re not gonna accept all these Draconian government lockdowns. I believe the Trump rallies were just a small taste of what\u2019s coming. I also believe that when the people are afraid of the government, it\u2019s tyranny. But when the government fears the people, there\u2019s liberty. And I think it\u2019s our duty to stand for liberty.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-111720-Maga-march-T-2.jpg\")
There\u2019s the good piece that I just discovered in The Federalist, Christopher Bedford. I think he\u2019s one of the founders, in fact, of the website. “Election Fraud Problems Are A Threat To Our Country — And Too Important To Be Left To Conspiracy Theorists.”<\/a> And this is not just a little disguised criticism of Sidney Powell. It\u2019s much more than that. It\u2019s really kind of a slap in the face.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SidneyPowell-e1593021640689.jpg\")
RUSH: That Doug Collins beat Kelly Loeffler?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>“This came as news to every single person watching, including those still involved in Trump\u2019s re-election campaign. When Frank Luntz, a TV gadfly and Republican pollster, pointed out how difficult it is to accept this late-in-the-game distancing,” meaning: What do you mean you throw her overboard now? We\u2019re not buying this! “Ellis accused him of having a ‘micropenis.\u2019<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-111720-Maga-march-T-3.jpg\")
But we need to find this out now. We need to find it out as soon as possible. It means that there should be no artificial time limits. It means there should be no artificial limits of any kind that are designed to prevent the discovery of what actually happened. You know, I want these people to succeed with these scandals. I really do.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/APP-112020-Dominion-Rush.jpg\")
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s above everything else. That\u2019s precedence. That takes precedence. That\u2019s why I say there can\u2019t be any time limit on this, I mean not any irresponsible time limit. This is too serious. There needs to be a serious effort to get to the bottom of it. People need to know what happened if indeed something did.<\/p>\n