RUSH: Wait just second. What do you mean when you say “the end of the DNC”? I don\u2019t remember talking about the end of the DNC.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, when you say that they took such a shellacking in the election and you have these hearings, and when they asked Comey at the hearing, “Do you have proof in all these different states that the election was tampered with?” and he said, “No,” and then the other guy says, “No,” you said, “It\u2019s over.” But, no, it\u2019s not over, because they can\u2019t let it be over because their base is gonna go away. You know, Trump already carried all these blue-collar voters. If they have any more of their base erode, wait until you see 2018 what happens.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well… Okay, I admit I\u2019m confused. I think what you heard me say was the Democrat base has become so demanding and so expecting that there is evidence that the Democrats are scared to death of the day they have to admit — when this investigation ends — that there isn\u2019t any. But just to clarify, I don\u2019t think anything\u2019s ever gonna happen to the Democrat National Committee, and I didn\u2019t mean to imply that. But here\u2019s what I base this on. By the way, I appreciate, Mike, your comment. He\u2019s talking about the monologu in this hour? (interruption)<\/p>\n
Oh, in the opening hour<\/a>. Okay. Glenn Greenwald, who runs a website called The Intercept — and he\u2019s Snowden\u2019s buddy. He\u2019s the journalist that Snowden turned to to tell his story. Now, Glenn Greenwald is way, way out there on the left. He\u2019s left-wing, liberal to the hilt. But he\u2019s not one of the conspiratorial loons, and he posted… This is four days ago now, and the headline: “Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump\/Russia Collusion<\/a>.” Now, I want to put this in a proper timeline, because this story is four days before Comey comes out today and says, “Oh, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what Greenwald says, and I\u2019m gonna give you some excerpts from the piece. “From MSNBC politics shows to town hall meetings across the country, the overarching issue for the Democratic Party\u2019s base since Trump\u2019s victory has been Russia, often suffocating attention for other issues. This fixation has persisted even though it has no chance to sink the Trump presidency unless it is proven that high levels of the Trump campaign actively colluded with the Kremlin to manipulate the outcome of the U.S. election — a claim for which absolutely no evidence has thus far been presented.”<\/p>\n Go back and grab sound bite 23. Look, I want to give you the news of these hearings. I\u2019m gonna intersperse this, because even Greenwald here… Everybody has to report the caveat. There isn\u2019t any evidence, folks. I don\u2019t know how to say this more powerfully and more profoundly than just to say it. There is no evidence that the Russians or anybody else colluded with the Trump campaign to affect the voting, which is what an election is. An election is people casting their votes and other people counting them. That\u2019s what an election is.<\/p>\n A campaign is a different aspect of the election. The election itself occurs on one day and it\u2019s where people vote, and then other people count them. And the Russians had nothing to do with that. And everybody in the intelligence community admits that. But they\u2019re not letting it go at that, because it\u2019s not really about that. Go back to sound bite 23. This is Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the committee, asking Mike Rogers the question: “As of today, Admiral, do you have any evidence that Russia cyber actors changed vote tallies in the state of Michigan?”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpDCin-DC.jpg\")
“We have an ongoing investigation of whether or not there was collusion.” This story, quoting Democrat Party officials, says that the Democrats already know there\u2019s no such evidence, that their base has been misled, that their base has been given all of these expectations, and that Trump is going to be impeached, that Trump is gonna be rendered illegitimate. Here\u2019s the plan: Impeach Trump, put Pence in there, and then scare him out of the Oval Office, and find a way to put a Hillary in. This is what the Democrat Party base literally thinks can happen in the next year, in the next two years.<\/p>\n