Posted on 01/22/2020 11:20:54 AM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, you could be mistaken if you are confused. Greetings, my friends. Great to have you with us. Its 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.
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 its so obvious what this is, folks.
And I think the reason they did it is because they realize that after the first day the publics gonna lose interest in this and very few people its 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. Its clear this is a 2020 campaign issue.
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, thats the last word on it.
But this is a televised fiasco, and its 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. Its painful to watch.
Its 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, Im president. I can do anything I want. And everybody knows that he was talking about firing Mueller in that excerpt.
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 theyre doing.
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 theyre doing things, saying things that they hope will resonate with whoever they think are average, ordinary Americans.
And thats 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 its unjust. If its unfair, its incorrect. If its unfair, its 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?
Well, its 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, thats not what happened in the Clinton trial. The Clinton trial took depositions.
What theyre 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 dont have enough evidence to convict a ham sandwich, much less the president of the United States.
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 dont have enough evidence. It was clear as a bell. They are trying to turn this impeachment proceeding into a pro-Democrat political operation. Theyre trying to turn this into a usual opposition research effort.
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 Ive gotten some notes from people, Im surprised that the chief justice voting so often with the Democrats. Why? The guys 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.
None of this is a mystery. Its always been what its been. Its always gonna be an obstacle, its always gonna be a fight and a battle. Placing it in the proper context where people understand whats 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, lets move on over to the Senate, lets get this done.
They get to the Senate, they dont have enough evidence all of a sudden. Now they want to start calling witnesses. As I said yesterday its another myth, witnesses to what? There arent 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 didnt withhold the money. Ukraine got the money and even more.
I think this is one of the objectives, to get us so frustrated, at our wits end constantly correcting them that we throw up our hands in frustration. But Ive got a take on this that I want to share with you.
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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 hell fold. Folks, he hasnt said much that is the truth since this began.
Now weve 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, Trump from office.
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.
Somehow they remained in the White House after Trump was inaugurated, were holdovers. Nobody knew to get rid of em. 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.
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RUSH: I really think its critical to expose Adam Schiff in this, I think. If were gonna start calling witnesses (well talk about that), get Schiff up there first. Everything revolves around Schiff. You are looking at human slime. I dont like saying that. Youre just looking at a bad guy, folks. Youre 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.
He doesnt have a case telling the truth, so hes 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 its Zelensky, and then he assumes that Lev Parnas was talking to Zelensky when he wasnt and he says this during the Senate trial!
Hes just openly lying about things, and its the poison of this hatred that hes 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. Hes the guy with ties to the whistleblower, Ciaramella who we now know has been working on this for two weeks after Trump was inaugurated.
Maybe forcing Schiff to testify under oath could explain the origins of this entire fiasco.
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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 hes 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.
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 Schiffs own team. The Z that Parnas was talking about is the oligarch who runs Burisma. Thats who Lev Parnas was talking to, and Schiff got hold of that text says and, Oh, no. Hes sending a note to Zelensky. Meaning, This Parnas guy, he knows a lot that he hasnt told us! Hes got an in with the president of Ukraine!
Its not true.
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 Ill tell you, Schiff is so monomaniacal, he was even willing to lie to the Round Mound of the Gavel, Jerry Nadler, whos 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.
This is assuming Nadler wasnt in on it. They both could have been on it. And the Drive-By Medias 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 didnt.
It went to the guy that founded Burisma! Theyre 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 dont know, folks. I dont know how to politely describe what Im actually thinking about the guy. (sigh) Its despicable what the guys doing. He needs to be fully exposed.
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 didnt hear that. Thats all you would have heard about!
Okay. Lets go to the Atlanta. Lets start with Karen on the phones. Im glad you called, Karen. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I am so glad that you are back.
RUSH: Thank you. Me too.
CALLER: When you were sick, I put you at the top of my prayer list. (giggles)
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Im glad to be back, too.
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 theyve been there for years.
RUSH: Okay. So why does that scare them? Wait a suh. Why does that scare them? Why does getting things done scare them?
CALLER: Because we wont 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.
RUSH: Well, you know, youre on to something when talking about some people. There are I think people like Schiff, I dont think it matters that Trump gets things done. I dont think it matters. I think its so deeply personal with Schiff that he simply has lost any boundaries of propriety and decency. Hes just a despicable, despicable person doing what hes doing and the way hes going about it. Now, I think more along the lines what you were talking about, Washington has evolved over many generations.
And what is one of the most often heard complaints from the citizens, from people, about Washington? They say, Cant get anything done. It takes so long. Peoples 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, its so big, its so massive, were trying to The people that run for office, campaign, XY & Z promises of what theyre gonna do.
They get elected, and nothing ever happens and I think thats the trick. I think the trick is having convinced us that its really hard to get things done. Its hard to get legislation passed. Its hard to get it passed in two houses of Congress; then the president sign it. Its 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?
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. Its got em scared to death. Their cover is blown. Whether Trump is a businessman or not, doesnt matter. Its 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.
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 dont have to give Iran nuclear weapons to do it. We dont have to arm our enemies. We dont have to let illegals into the country. We dont have to do anything of the sort. Were not guilty.
The United States isnt guilty.
We dont have to apologize for anything.
This is such a major shakeup for what has become the standard, daily perception of Washington and its got people scared to death. Its got people upset, because their game has been exposed. So the only thing they can do They cant run around and try to tell us that all these good things are not good for us. Thats why theyre trying to disqualify all these good things by saying that a corrupt skunk like Trump did it. Thats how theyre trying to disqualify it. Which is how they disqualify, or try to, all their critics: Personally destroy people.
Thats what theyre trying with Trump.
If they are talking about a witness swap, I would say Schiff for Bolton. And be sure Schiff goes FIRST,under oath.
I dunno if anyone saw it, but holy $hit snacks, Lindsey Graham just grew a set of huevos and went all out on Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler. Good job Lindsey Graham.
I hope our Senators can wear noise cancelling headphones. Listening to Schiff listening to himself talk is maddening.
Hasn’t Guiliani been saying he has the evidence of crimes in Ukraine?
WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE PRESENTED TO ANYONE?
Who would he give that to so there could be indictments?
DAMMIT WHEN WILL ANY DEMOCRAT BE ARRESTED???
While I was watching the impeachment opening statements this morning (I am taking a break), my wife, who is apolitical, paused briefly as she was passing through the room where I was watching the spectacle, and pointed to Adam Schiff, who was on the TV.
“There’s something wrong with that guy,” she said. “I guess it’s his eyes. He looks unhinged. Hell, he SOUNDS unhinged.”
Then she went on her way.
Lawless Schiff has so far out-maneuvered Senate Republicans imo, making himself center of mock Senate trial from day one.
Trial is not necessarily about PDJT either. Lawless Democratic elites are ultimately going to wind up in jail imo if they cannot stop PDJT from draining the swamp.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
Schiff is a House manager, selected by Pelosi. How are the Senate Republicans supposed to muzzle a House manager during an impeachment trial? They have no legal or constitutional authority to do so.
Some pearl clutchers on this forum sure like to put down the Republican Senators, even though they've done an excellent job thus far in putting together a managed trial.
The Dems LIE!! The phone call’s main objective wasn’t the Bidens!!!!
Here:
Trump said, I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike
I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it, the memo continues. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think youre surrounding yourself with some of the same people.
The system is flawed imo.
Patriots will ultimately decide in favor of PDJT and a new patriot Congress in November imo.
In the meanwhile, Schiff is arguably bloviating at the trial to get millions of bored impeachment trial viewers to change the channel.
Conspiracy should be on the table for the President’s side. They need to spend time documenting when and by whom started the impeachment talk BEFORE the Ukraine phone call even took place. It speaks to “coup”.
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