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RUSH: Now, let’s go to the audio sound bites. Grab audio sound bite number six. We have a montage here of the Drive-By Media suddenly understanding how taxes hurt people. When it’s time to explain the Trump tariffs, now all of a sudden the Drive-Bys seem to know everything about taxes. KRISTEN WELKER: (voice over/b-roll noise) You could pay higher prices on thousands of products like electronics, appliances and furniture, to basic items like clothing, bedsheets, shampoo, and cereal. BEN TRACY: Companies can either take on those costs and make less money, or they raise prices on U.S. consumers, which...

RUSH: Yes, my friends, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rebuffed all of the fact-checkers out there. She came out, as you might remember, and compared climate change to World War II. (summarized) “We only have 12 years to stop Hitler! We only have 12 years to stop the Nazis from taking over the world!” In this case, climate change is Hitler (aside from Trump), and the Nazis are all of the things that we are doing to destroy the planet. Twelove years. We had 12 years. Well, the fact-checkers got in gear. (Not the liberal fact-checkers. The Drive-By Media dutifully reported it...

RUSH: It’s amazing. The Drive-By Media now understands the concept of tax cuts and tax increases, but it took tariffs and a tariff war with the ChiComs for the Drive-Bys to understand it. I’m being ironic and a little sarcastic. They know it and understand it. It’s just that since the Republicans own mantra of tax cuts, since that is a Republican owned belief… Democrats don’t believe in cutting taxes; Republicans do, and the Democrats know it. So whenever the concept of tax cuts comes up, the Democrats and the media have to destroy it, as they did the latest...

RUSH: Man, oh, man, oh, man, the Democrats are fit to be tied. Have you heard about what Rudy is doing? Rudy has announced heÂ’s gonna go to Ukraine to investigate what happened between Biden and BidenÂ’s kid. And the Democrats are beside themselves with this. Giuliani is headed to Kiev to urge the incoming president there to pursue investigations that could help Trump politically by casting suspicions on the origins of the Mueller investigation and the Manafort case, as well as the involvement of Joe BidenÂ’s son in Ukraine. And so the Democrats, they are all over this. The...

RUSH: Now, again, despite everything we think we know, there’s still some things that have surfaced that we don’t know. And, again, the FBI is really insistent — and even Comey last night in his town hall on CNN, they are insistent, they are standing firm, they’re holding firm on the idea that their investigation of Trump-Russia collusion began with Papadopoulos. Even though this has been exposed and nuked every which way from Sunday, they’re standing by it. They are claiming this whole thing began when George Papadopoulos told the Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, that the Russians had a bunch...

RUSH: Do you realize it may well be the Democrat primary race is over? In New Hampshire, Joe Biden is blowing out Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders was up 30 points nationally, he was up 25 or 30 points in New Hampshire, the last poll, and Biden has just launched over Bernie Sanders. This may not be bad, by the way. Don’t misunderstand. When I say “us,” meaning the Trumpster, may not be a bad thing. A bunch of mad Bernie voters might end up voting for Trump before the end of the day, but nevertheless — and Trump’s even tweeting:...

RUSH: Trump’s got an impromptu gathering with the press going on right now. Our microphones are there. I think most of this is over and the primary news of it is over, but let’s JIP it anyway and find out what is being discussed. THE PRESIDENT: — nobody even knows, although the halls of Congress know her very well. For years she’s walked around all over Congress. She came in, and she left supposedly GPS Fusion goes and meets for a short period of time with my son and some other people. They talked about a subject as very well,...

RUSH: Greetings, my friends. The surreal nature of our lives today — those of us who are engaged and enmeshed in politics. The surreal nature, the Twilight Zone nature of all this just continues. Okay. So we got the Mueller report out. It finds no collusion. There never was any. Don’t get me started on this. I’m not only probably driving you crazy, I’m driving myself crazy talking about this. There was no collusion. There was no investigation. All of this is a trumped up hoax. And Mueller didn’t find any because there wasn’t any to find and he had...

RUSH: Look. Remember, folks, James Comey is such a Republican, he was urging everybody to vote Democrat in the midterms. Trump wasn’t even on the ballot. But Comey has been a Republican. I don’t want to waste a lot of time on James Comey, but he was the deputy when John Ashcroft was the attorney general back in the early 2000s for George W. Bush. Ashcroft ended up in the hospital and nearly died from pancreatitis. And the deputy attorney general was Comey. I forget what the specific was, but he took advantage of Ashcroft’s illness and walked into Ashcroft’s...

RUSH: Now, Trump’s taxes. Isn’t it amazing, folks, it was just yesterday, just yesterday, right here on this program, I was talking about how strange it is that nobody in the IRS had leaked Trump’s taxes, after all of this time, knowing full well that the IRS is a government agency and that means there’s got to be a lot of career leftists in there, which means there have to be a bunch of people in the IRS that despise Trump. The Democrat Party has been going bonkers trying to get hold of Trump’s tax returns because they think… You...

RUSH: It is amazing to watch. The Democrat Party is literally losing its mind here, folks. That’s what you’re watching. That is what we are watching take place here. And I’m gonna try to chronicle this and sensitize all this down to its base elements, take the complex and make it understandable here, what is going on. This is what the slow creep of insanity looks like. And if it were happening to a family member of yours, you would be in a state of panic right now and you would be seeking expert advice on what to do about...

RUSH: Are you ready for this? Nancy Pelosi says that Donald Trump is goading Democrats into impeaching him to solidify his base. Donald Trump is trolling them. There’s another story — what’s her name — Karen Tumulty, the Washington Post: Trump is trolling us in the media and we have to stop falling for it. And what she’s upset about — you know, Jerry Falwell Jr. put a tweet out there saying Trump is owed two additional years on his presidential term because of the two years that have been wasted on this phony coup attempt. And so Trump retweeted...

RUSH: I want to demonstrate for you here at the top of this hour what being on the cutting edge of societal evolution means. It was only yesterday on this program that I discussed one of the characteristics of Trump derangement system. One of the techniques of the left — and I’m gonna let you hear it. I’m not gonna say the whole thing here because I’m gonna play it in a moment. But it was the monologue where I encouraged everybody to live in the present because that’s where your life is. That’s where happiness resides. That’s where the...

RUSH: Strzok Smirk and texts between himself and Lisa Page. This is fascinating. These two FBI spooks were watching the news media while they’re running this coup to get rid of Trump and they’re seeing a bunch of stuff in the media that they didn’t leak, Strzok Smirk and Lisa Page. So they’re texting back and forth. We know this because Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, senators, have sent a letter asking for clarification on this. Apparently Strzok Smirk and Lisa Page were texting each other that the CIA was leaking stuff. There was stuff in the media about the attempt...

RUSH: The thing off the top to me today is Pelosi. I find this as rich as it can be. Pelosi as gathered her Democrats together to tell ’em a couple things. A, do not go down this path of impeachment, do not do it, and do not respond to exuberances in our party, and by that she means the Millennial socialists like AOC and some of the others. She says (paraphrasing), “We won the 2018 midterms by talking about mainstream media things like jobs and health care and tax cuts and all of this kind of stuff.” Of course,...

RUSH: Get this. Lindsey Graham, who’s chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has written a letter to the special counsel. “Dear Mr. Mueller: Thank you and your team very much for the professional and thorough manner in which you conducted your investigation.” They didn’t. This is just Senator Graham being typically Washington polite. This investigation was a sham. The report is a sham. As Emmet Flood’s letter details, it is not the prosecutor’s job to exonerate anybody, and just because he couldn’t exonerate Trump on obstruction did not give him the right to list all of the crap in this report...

Let’s go to the Papadopoulos himself — who, by the way, I’m gonna be interviewing next week for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter. He was on with Chatsworth Osborne Jr., last night, Tucker Carlson. The first question: George, “Briefly describe your experience with [this honey trap that] you believe was sent to spy on the Trump campaign by the Obama administration?” PAPADOPOULOS: She was very suggestive, as you can understand. Younger — you know, very flirtatious — and I right away understand that this wasn’t a Cambridge assistant. She barely spoke English. She was very flirty and was...

RUSH: The president promised to bring back manufacturing jobs. The headline from the Wall Street Journal: “U.S. Steel to Invest $1.2 Billion at Pennsylvania Mills — United States Steel Corp. outlined plans Thursday for the biggest upgrade of its steelmaking operations in decades by investing more than a $1 billion in its plants near,” the steel city. “The company also intends to build a cogeneration plant at its coking coal ovens in nearby Clairton to decrease emissions by using waste gases from the coking process to generate electricity.” Wherever you look. You want the Never Trumper take on this? I...

RUSH: During the busy broadcast today, folks, I’m gonna be going back to yesterday for audio sound bites. Attorney General Barr was spectacular later in the day yesterday when we had gone off the air, we had concluded our program, and I wanted to play also for you the second half of the Mazie Hirono slander assault on the attorney general. I want to mix that with things that happened this morning. They’re all interrelated. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, let’s go back to yesterday. Here we are starting with audio sound bite number 26. I want you to hear this....

RUSH: The Democrat Party is now in full meltdown. They are in full meltdown. Do not make the mistake of thinking they are running things, that they are in control of things. In fact, it’s so bad that the Drive-By Media is getting all over Nadler and some of the other Democrats for being ineffective and not being able to pull off what the media wants them to pull off in terms of going out there and getting Trump. It is breathtaking to behold this. Folks, we had this fiasco in the Senate yesterday, and after Mazie Hirono, I shared...