{"id":257764,"date":"2017-12-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257764"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:20:45","slug":"was-trump-the-motivation-behind-the-weinstein-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/12\/was-trump-the-motivation-behind-the-weinstein-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Trump the Motivation Behind the Weinstein Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Do you remember back when the Weinstein story broke in the New York Times we were all saying, &#8220;Why? Why now? Just \u2019cause Hillary lost? But what brought this about?&#8221; People said, &#8220;He\u2019s lost his power in D.C., and he\u2019s been hated for so long, and now people finally have a chance, and Ronan Farrow was&#8230;&#8221; Maybe we were all wrong. Maybe the reason it was time for Weinstein to finally be outed was because it triggered all of this. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Capitol Hill this afternoon, 69 members of Congress. Lois Frankel (our former almost-mayor here) held a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-257845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-121217-Ladies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-121217-Ladies.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-121217-Ladies-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>FRANKEL: The &#8220;me too&#8221; movement as arrived. Sexual abuse will not be tolerated, whether it\u2019s by a Hollywood producer, the chef of a restaurant, a member of Congress, or the president of the United States. No man or woman is above the law.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, and here\u2019s more from Ms. Frankel who once asked me to pose for a photo in a restaurant here and then snuck outside and went around the corner to the Sprinkles Ice Cream store. Q&amp;A. &#8220;Would this be an impeachable offense?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FRANKEL: I think we have to see what we, uhhhh, learn. I think certainly crimes &#8212; uh, violations of the law can lead to that.<\/p>\n<p>LAWRENCE: And history has shown us that we impeach a president for inappropriate sexual behavior in the past. (sic) So I would say history answers that question.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s not what happened. That\u2019s Brenda Lawrence, Democrat, Michigan. Clinton was not impeached for sex. He was impeached for lying to a grand jury. See, these people don\u2019t even know that. These are members of Congress; they don\u2019t even know what Slick Willie was literally impeached over. He was impeached because of Peyronie\u2019s Disease with Paula Jones. Wasn\u2019t what it was. &#8220;History as shown us that we impeached a president for inappropriate sexual behavior.&#8221; No, we didn\u2019t. Maybe we should have gone that way, but we didn\u2019t. Dummkopf.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there\u2019s one more of these but as is the usual case, I\u2019m out of time right now.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no. I remember speculating when the Weinstein story dropped that it might be ultimately aimed at Trump, but back then I did not envision the full strategy that we now see being implemented. Just makes you wonder what happened to the Russian collusion, the Russian hack story. Almost kind of makes you long for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I remember speculating when the Weinstein story dropped that it might be ultimately aimed at Trump, but back then I did not envision the full strategy that we now see being implemented. 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