{"id":224057,"date":"2017-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=224057"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:44:32","slug":"its-not-a-witch-hunt-its-a-silent-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/03\/its-not-a-witch-hunt-its-a-silent-coup-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Coup Against President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: President Trump is wrong in his Facebook post from last night. This is not a “witch hunt” that\u2019s going on here, and Democrats know exactly what they\u2019re doing. They know exactly what they\u2019ve got. The Obama administration left all this stuff in place for \u2019em to use. It\u2019s not a witch hunt. There is the execution of an attempt at a peaceful coup. A peaceful coup to oust Donald Trump is what we are witnessing. It\u2019s been orchestrated by Obama and the Democrat Party. It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n

It is not a witch hunt. They\u2019re not blindly hoping they find things as they open doors. They know what\u2019s behind the doors. They put the stuff there! Now, look, while all of this is going on, there are other things happening that are not even showing up on the back page. Speaking euphemistically. There aren\u2019t any back pages on websites and TV broadcasts. But it\u2019s being shelved back to the back. That\u2019s what\u2019s being done to the Obamacare repeal. Rand Paul is trying to bring people\u2019s attention to it and it\u2019s tough to crack through.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to mention this to get it out there and I hope to circle back to it, but a bunch of Republicans, senators who really now… It\u2019s a House bill, so senators literally are not entitled to see it. So Rand Paul\u2019s not being denied anything here, but he does have a vested interest in Obamacare being completely repealed and replaced. And there is a repeal-replacement bill somewhere. It\u2019s behind locked doors, it\u2019s under lock and key, and the Republican leadership isn\u2019t letting anybody see it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nobody knows why, but the informed speculation is that it doesn\u2019t do much, that it is being called “Obamacare light” and really isn\u2019t going to make much of a difference at all. And that is why the Republican leadership doesn\u2019t want anybody seeing it right now. There\u2019s even a couple allusions to the fact that there might be a couple entitlements in it as part of the replacement. So, things that also matter are out there and are happening, and they\u2019re taking place while everybody is looking at this other stuff.<\/p>\n

Now, this is not a diversionary tactic. This stuff is real here. This coup, this silent coup that is taking place is real. I\u2019m not suggesting that the Obamacare repeal people are using all this as a diversion; it\u2019s just what\u2019s happening. Jeff Sessions should not have recused himself.<\/a> He\u2019s got nothing to be defensive about. He didn\u2019t do anything wrong. He certainly should not resign, which is now what the Democrats are asking, which was predicted.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Everything — virtually everything — that has led to Jeff Sessions recusing himself from whatever investigations there are into the Russians hacking the election is fake news. The questions that Al Franken was asking Senator Sessions during his confirmation hearings were based on a fake news story, that now famous dossier made up of totally fraudulent, phony allegations about Trump — such as hiring prostitutes to urinate on the bed in the Moscow hotel that Obama and Michelle had slept on. Totally false, fake.<\/p>\n

Questions are being asked of Sessions about that, and it all just descends from there. Fox News reported moments ago that, you know, Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice, and “Obama Administration Officials Set Up Jeff Sessions\u2019 Meeting With the Russian Ambassador…<\/a>‘” It happened in 2016. “It turns out [Senator Sessions] spoke to the Russian ambassador on the invitation of the Obama administration.'” You can read this at TheResurgent.com. Fox News, here: “The first came at a conference on ‘Global Partners in Diplomacy,\u2019 where Sessions was the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

“Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, The Heritage Foundation, and several other organizations, it was held in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention. The conference was an educational program for ambassadors invited by the Obama State Department to observe the convention. The Obama State Department handled all of the coordination with ambassadors and their staff…” This ambassador, this Russian ambassador has been to the White House countless times, as ambassadors do.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s met with Obama over 20 times<\/a>. Do you know that the Russian ambassador, with whom all of these Trump people are talking about rigging the election…? Do you know that this ambassador was at Trump\u2019s speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, and he was seated with the Democrats? Do you know that he\u2019s one of the best friends of Chuck Schumer? Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something. The real Russian link to be investigated, if you really want to get to the bottom of what\u2019s happening…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna tell you the first lie. The first lie is that Donald Trump loves Vladimir Putin. The second lie is that Vladimir Putin loves Donald Trump. The third lie is that Putin and Trump have had numerous dealings together because of this mutual bromance that they have, and Trump and Putin are cooking up all kinds of things to benefit Trump personally. Lie number four: Because they want all of this, Trump and Putin worked together to hack the election to deny her rightful victory to Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Those are the lies that establish everything else that follows. The truth of the matter is if you want to get to the real Russian link — if you want to discover what the real Russian link to be investigated is — it is the Russian link to Obama. We\u2019re in the midst of an out-of-control insanity. We\u2019re in the midst of a news cycle, the details of which I don\u2019t think even most of the Drive-Bys even are clued in about. They\u2019re just reporting it by rote as it is leaked to them, as it is handed to them.<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s any sabotage going on here, it starts with Barack Obama and the Russians.<\/p>\n

Now, the first lie… How many of you are under the belief because of what you\u2019ve heard in the news that Trump and Putin love each other? Putin loves Trump, Trump loves Putin, and they\u2019ve had dealings, and they\u2019ve got private affairs going on back there. They\u2019ve been making money with each other, deals, whatever it is. You\u2019ve heard that Trump did not criticize Putin, and you\u2019ve heard that Trump responded very unfavorably when he thought Putin complimented him and praised him.<\/p>\n

And so it got started — a narrative — that Trump and Putin are buddies! I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s any evidence for that. I think it\u2019s another lie. I think it\u2019s another false narrative that\u2019s out there that sets up all the rest of this. Who was it in 2012, shortly before the campaign, the presidential election…? Obama was meeting with Putin\u2019s number two, Dmitry Medvedev. There\u2019s an open mic and Obama was overheard — and this was reported — “You tell Vladimir that I\u2019ll have a lot more flexibility after the election.”<\/p>\n