{"id":309911,"date":"2019-05-23T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309911"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:14:28","slug":"what-trump-vs-pelosi-is-really-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/23\/what-trump-vs-pelosi-is-really-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump vs. Pelosi Is Really All About"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: No, no, no, no. It\u2019s not hard to understand what\u2019s going on here at all. That\u2019s easy. Explaining why this is happening is easy. Explaining the Democrat thinking and their behavior, now, that\u2019s gonna take some work. But explaining why this is happening, why, that\u2019s so simple that practically anybody could do it. You don\u2019t need me for that, although I\u2019m gonna provide you the answer.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Rush Limbaugh back at it.<\/p>\n

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It happens every time I go away, every time, everything blows to smithereens one way or another. I have to come back and try to use some semblance of sanity to put everything back together, which is what we\u2019re gonna do today.<\/p>\n

Happy to have you here and happy to be back. The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and if you want to send an email, it\u2019s ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

Now, the reason all this is happening — and I\u2019m assuming that everybody\u2019s up to speed here on what happened yesterday, Trump and Pelosi. Basically the president told these guys, “You don\u2019t get a do-over on these investigations, and you don\u2019t get to keep doing this. And as long as you keep doing this, we\u2019re not gonna do any legislation.”<\/p>\n

Well, that caused all kinds of outrage, not just in the Democrat Party, but in the media. “What do you mean, you\u2019re not? You know, presidents have to put up with this all the time. Nixon was investigated and he was still president and Clinton was investigated and he was still president.” It\u2019s almost like I heard the media saying that the Democrats have a constitutional requirement to do what they\u2019re doing, and they cannot be stopped, and Trump can\u2019t stop them, and it\u2019s just something that he has to put up with.<\/p>\n

But all this, it\u2019s kind of comical to watch when Trump tells \u2019em, “Look. You know what? I\u2019ve had it with you people. We\u2019re trying to move the country forward. We\u2019re trying to move my agenda forward. We\u2019re trying to bring you in. We\u2019re trying to do some needed things on infrastructure, but I\u2019m not gonna work with you as long as you keep up this investigation stuff.” And they just had a cow.<\/p>\n

Now, what this is all about — and some of you may disagree with me, but it\u2019s really simple. This is all about the fact that they got nothing on collusion with Russia. That\u2019s what is driving all of this, the psychology of it. For two years or two and a half, whatever, I mean, even the time prior to Trump\u2019s inauguration, they have lived, they have breathed every day the belief that Trump was toast. That whether Trump had colluded with Russia or not, somebody was gonna be able to prove it, quote, unquote. They believed it.<\/p>\n

Journalists got up every day for two and a half years believing that was gonna be the day where the magic bullet news story or revelation or leak was going to happen that was gonna blow it wide open. They did everything they could to get Trump\u2019s approval numbers down to the twenties and thirties, and they couldn\u2019t do it. They have failed. They have bombed out royally in an effort they thought was a fait accompli. They thought it was just a matter of time that they were gonna get Trump and they were gonna reverse the election results.<\/p>\n

Now, forgive me if this sounds redundant, but this is what is driving this. Their inability to accept that they failed, their inability to accept that there\u2019s nothing there, their inability to accept that Trump did not collude, their inability to accept that Mueller didn\u2019t find anything, their inability to accept that Trump did not obstruct justice, their inability to accept the fact that they failed in get rid of a Republican president when they believed day in and day out, Democrats and media, that when they want to, they can do it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve launched everything they know to launch at Trump, and it hasn\u2019t succeeded. And they\u2019re beside themselves. It is they who are losing their minds. It is they who are losing their grounding. It\u2019s not the president. It\u2019s not the president that\u2019s off on wild, incomprehensive tangents. It\u2019s these people. It\u2019s Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party and their buddies in the media who are at their wits\u2019 end.<\/p>\n

So now Pelosi starts talking about Trump and a cover-up. A cover-up of something that he didn\u2019t do! What in the hell is Trump supposed to have covered up? So it all came to a head yesterday. They\u2019re supposed to have a meeting in there in the White House about infrastructure, Pelosi and Chuck You Schumer.<\/p>\n

\"\"They show up at the White House, hopefully to get an agreement on the amount of spending for an infrastructure bill. And Trump just said (paraphrasing), “You know what? I\u2019m outta here. I\u2019m not gonna do this if you people continue with this investigation stuff. I\u2019m not gonna do it. There\u2019s no legislation, no moving forward as long as you\u2019re doing this investigation stuff.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when Pelosi comes out and says (paraphrasing), “You know what? I pray for the president. I worry about the president\u2019s state of mind. I think the family needs to do an intervention. Clearly the president is highly distressed. And now the president\u2019s engaged in a cover-up.” A cover-up of what? A cover-up of a crime that nobody can find. A cover-up of a crime that did not happen.<\/p>\n

So Trump leaves the meeting, he goes out to the Rose Garden, spends 12 minutes out there explaining to everybody what went on and why he left the meeting. He was not mad. He was not agitated. Well, he might have been a little agitated, but he was not the raging, filled with anger figure that Pelosi and Schumer attempted to characterize him as.<\/p>\n

When he was out there in the Rose Garden, he reminded everybody again of all the cooperation that he provided with this silent coup. He did everything they asked. He turned over documents, millions of pages, 30 hours of testimony by one White House lawyer alone, Don McGahn. He detailed how he didn\u2019t do one thing to stop the investigation, to block the investigation, to obstruct the investigation.<\/p>\n

And then he had the audacity to say that actually the crime was committed on the other side, which it was. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats engaging with the Russians to create the phony dossier, about which there\u2019s even more news today, actually from Sunday.<\/p>\n

So this is where we are. And one of the reasons Pelosi is in this situation is — see, Pencil Neck kind of let the cat out of the bag when he said we can\u2019t do an impeachment because acquittal would not be acceptable. Meaning, they\u2019re not gonna get the votes to acquit the president even if the House does impeach, and therefore they can\u2019t impeach. But their lunatic base is demanding it.<\/p>\n

So Pelosi is trying to hold off her lunatic base. She\u2019s trying to keep them occupied. She\u2019s trying to convince them that she agrees with them that Trump is deranged and insane and needs to go, all the while realizing she can\u2019t actually follow through on any of this. And her party realizes even though there are a lot of people that want to go ahead with this.<\/p>\n

They tried to take down the president of the United States, and they failed — and they can\u2019t adapt. They can\u2019t adjust. They can\u2019t accept it. Now, the right perspective of this is something I\u2019m not sure a lot of Americans are getting. The Drive-By Media is not telling you about these events of the past two days as I just did. The Drive-By Media\u2019s reporting on this as though Pelosi is the final source authority, that Trump is mentally impaired, that we all need to be praying for the president, and that we should ask the Trump family to do an intervention to save the country and get rid of the president.<\/p>\n

This is the angle that people who consume Drive-By Media as their primary news source get. That\u2019s what they\u2019re getting. I saw a poll the other day… Uhhh … Come on, memory! It was… Da-da-da-da I don\u2019t want to take a guess at it. But it\u2019s about the surprising number of people who still don\u2019t know the truth about the dossier, which is a testament to the influential power the mainstream media still has. So the version of events that I just gave you — which is exactly what happened and the reason why — is not what the Drive-Bys, of course, are saying.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re carrying Pelosi\u2019s water and suggesting that Trump is mentally impaired and that he ought to sit there and acknowledge that presidents get investigated by the House of Representatives, that Congress has oversight and the president should realize this and he should cooperate with it. This what all presidents have done. They have willingly cooperated with congressional attempts to destroy them, is what the media is suggesting.<\/p>\n

The fact that Trump is resisting assisting the Democrats in their mission to destroy him means he\u2019s lost his mind. So Pelosi goes out there today just before the program began and she had a press conference. She flat-out implied that Trump is mentally impaired. You know, they go back to this every time the latest attempt of theirs to get Trump fails. They always revert to Trump is mentally impaired or he is mentally unstable or he\u2019s psychologically incapable. They always retreat to that, and she called for…<\/p>\n

\"\"Honest. I was not making this up. She called for an intervention from family and staff. For what? He\u2019s not an addict. So what are they supposed to intervene on here? What are they supposed to say? “Mr. President, you should realize that it is your duty to be investigated. It\u2019s your duty to help this investigation. If the House of Representatives wants to destroy you, you are hereby called on to help them!” What…? Is that what the intervention is gonna be?<\/p>\n

What cover-up? Trump isn\u2019t covering anything up! This past 2-1\/2 years has been a cover-up of the effort to exonerate Hillary Clinton and all of these people in the Obama administration who ran this little silent coup to get rid of Trump. That\u2019s the cover-up. She\u2019s out there saying that in that meeting in the White House yesterday before Trump went out to the Rose Garden, that he flipped, that he was mad, that he stalked out of that meeting; he was livid.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019s praying for him.<\/p>\n

She said the president is assaulting the Constitution, and what she means by that is he\u2019s not complying and helping them investigate every aspect of his life. They are seeking financial records that have nothing to do with tax returns. They\u2019re seeking financial records of his family and his businesses. It\u2019s unprecedented. No president has been forced to turn these kinds of things over. It\u2019s irrelevant. It doesn\u2019t matter to anything. But they are finding judges appointed by Obama that are giving favorable rulings to this.<\/p>\n

A couple of banks have already turned over records. Wells Fargo and, I think, one other bank has already turned over these records before the administration could appeal these decisions. But if anybody\u2019s losing their minds, it\u2019s Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrat Party right in front of our faces. Pelosi attacked the president yesterday an hour before the meeting! She accused him of committing a crime and then covering it up.<\/p>\n

And all of this… If you\u2019re scratching your head and saying, “What is it that I don\u2019t know? What\u2019s causing all of this? What did the president do that I haven\u2019t heard about?” Nothing! Folks, I\u2019m telling you: This has nothing to do with anything other than they didn\u2019t get him with Mueller, with the media, with the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, MI5, MI6, the Australians. They all conspired to get Trump thrown out of office and overturn the election of 2016, and they failed, and they cannot accept it.<\/p>\n

They are spoiled-rotten, dangerous little children. Pelosi actually is caught in a tight position where she might be struggling to keep her job because there are so many different factions in her party that want the party to do this or that and the other regarding Trump. She knows impeachment\u2019s the wrong way to go, and one of the ways she\u2019s trying to stave that off is she\u2019s telling anybody who will listen that Trump wants to be impeached. “He\u2019s begging to us impeach him. He\u2019s asking us to do it!”<\/p>\n

She\u2019s trying to convince her people that Trump wants to be impeached because he knows it\u2019ll strengthen his reelection bid. It\u2019ll show the Democrats are overreaching and way out of touch. She\u2019s trying to talk the lunatics in her party down and out from impeachment, while not doing that. She\u2019s trying to make them think it\u2019s only a matter of time. (paraphrased) “It\u2019s gonna happen, but the president\u2019s covering things up. Until the president\u2019s more straightforward with us, we can\u2019t move forward with this.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re deranged.<\/p>\n

It is striking to watch this. But then, of course, the mitigating factor is the media not reporting it this way at all. They\u2019re reporting it from the exact opposite standpoint, that Pelosi\/the Democrats are the ones being reasonable, that Trump\u2019s still a criminal. (impression) “He probably did collude. Still can\u2019t find the evidence, but it\u2019s out there! Trump obstructed because he knows the evidence he colluded is there and he doesn\u2019t want anybody to find it. Trump\u2019s losing his mind because he thought he got away with it.<\/p>\n

“Now they won\u2019t let it go because they know he still did something!” That\u2019s the way they\u2019re covering it in the Drive-Bys, that Trump remains the problem.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Pelosi. This was from her weekly press conference today. This is near the end of it, and even though I mentioned her saying it, I wanted you to hear it yourself because it\u2019s — it depends on the mood you\u2019re in. You could hear this and just get literally smoking outraged. I mean, just angry as all — who does this woman think she is?<\/p>\n

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Then you temper that and you realize that these Democrats are teetering on the edge of sanity here. I cannot emphasize enough how they have been destroyed by the fact that Mueller found nothing. And I\u2019ve got even more to tell you about that that is even more outrageous than you know or than you think. They had it all planned.<\/p>\n

They had it all figured out, just like they believed their own soiled polls that showed Hillary Clinton winning in a landslide, they believed, even if they knew at first that it was all made up, they eventually came to believe that Trump had colluded with Russia and that Russia had impacted the election results and stolen the election from Hillary.<\/p>\n

And if they didn\u2019t believe that, they believed they were gonna be able to convince enough people to drive Trump\u2019s numbers down and that Trump was gonna be forced out. They just knew it was gonna happen. And even before Mueller was appointed, they knew it was gonna happen. They had the media running the show for them. They had the Times and CNN and the Washington Post, four stories a day for all those first two years, they just knew it.<\/p>\n

And then the Mueller report comes out, and I\u2019m telling you, folks, that caused more psychological damage among Democrats than you will ever know. Have you ever at any point in your life been certain something you desperately want is either going to be provided, you\u2019re gonna get it, or it\u2019s gonna happen? I mean, you are as certain as it is possible to be, you have no doubt, and then you don\u2019t get it?<\/p>\n

This is what has happened to them, except in this case the stakes are more than just expecting a gift or a job or a raise or whatever it is that in your personal life you can maybe relate to. These people, we\u2019re talking about the presidency and an election, and they were dead certain they were going to be able to reverse it. And they put all of their cards in Mueller. And when Mueller didn\u2019t come back with anything, it wrecked \u2019em, and they still haven\u2019t gotten over it, and they can\u2019t move forward, and they are still now trying to make it happen.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to make it happen in other ways. They\u2019re trying to make Trump crazy. They\u2019re trying to force him out. They\u2019re trying to force his family and his friends to give up on him. They\u2019re trying to make you give up on him. They\u2019re trying to do anything. They\u2019re trying to stall any kind of an agenda. They\u2019re trying to make sure that immigration crises at the border get worse.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t like the economy getting better. They are willing to do anything to get rid of this guy and the fact that he won\u2019t take the bait and lose his temper and get mad at \u2019em and go off and do a Nixon speech like, \u201cYou won\u2019t have Dick to kick around,\u201d is driving them batty. And it is that that is imperiling our nation, they being on this teetering edge of sanity is what is causing us problems, not Donald Trump. Now, here\u2019s Pelosi. This is what she actually said, the end of her press conference, I guess it was about an hour ago.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: Now, this time, another temper tantrum. Again, I pray for the president of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He didn\u2019t have a temper tantrum. He just simply refused to talk to them about infrastructure if they\u2019re not gonna give up this stupid investigation stuff. He didn\u2019t do anything. What they\u2019re investigating, there\u2019s nothing to find there. He knows it. They know it. They won\u2019t give it up. He says, \u201cI\u2019m not gonna move forward on anything with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elections have consequences and this is what losing the House means. And it\u2019s gonna be really tough to get anything of consequence done anyway because the Democrats have the House. But now temper tantrum? He didn\u2019t have a temper tantrum. There\u2019s no need for an intervention. In fact, I watched a little bit of this Trump rally in Pennsylvania last week or earlier this week. The days run together.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, to my estimation, appears to be the first president who looks to be getting younger in office. He looks to be getting more vivacious, more vim and vigor, more energy. He actually looks younger to me. By this time in his administration, Obama was starting to sprout the gray hairs and the stress of the job was showing up. Trump doesn\u2019t appear to be showing anything of the sort. He literally seems to be getting younger to me. That just doesn\u2019t happen. This office ages the occupants.<\/p>\n

But Trump seems, in some ways, seems to thrive on this. ‘Cause I don\u2019t think there is anybody else in the Republican Party, and maybe in the Democrat Party, who could put up with for a couple of days what Trump gets and has got. They couldn\u2019t put up with it for a day. They\u2019d be suing for peace or they\u2019d be resigning. But he seems to thrive on it. And he seems to thrive on driving \u2019em crazy.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s get started with how all this built up. We have a montage here Monday and Tuesday. What started all of this off, Pelosi starting to feel heat from the Trump-hating base and some of the radical members of her caucus. The Democrats on Monday and Tuesday were at the boiling point wanting to impeach Trump and get rid of him right now.<\/p>\n

SHEILA JACKSON LEE: In the Nixon impeachment, a year before he was impeached, the American people were at 19%.<\/p>\n

DAVID CICILLINE: It is time to open an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n

VAL DEMINGS: We\u2019re at the point of opening impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n

DAN KILDEE: I\u2019m personally much more open to it now.<\/p>\n

KATIE HILL: I am not at all ruling out impeachment.<\/p>\n

PRAMILA JAYAPAL: Start that impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n

JACKIE SPEIER: An inquiry into impeachment is required.<\/p>\n

STEVE COHEN: You throw the book at \u2019em. Start impeachment inquiries.<\/p>\n

JOAQUIN CASTRO: Start impeachment. That\u2019s what it\u2019s come to.<\/p>\n

MAXINE WATERS: My position on impeachment is what it has always been, and that is the president of the United States of America needs to be impeached.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was Auntie Maxine. Always good to hear from her, Auntie Maxine. Impeached for what? They didn\u2019t find anything. You see, they\u2019re going nuts here. He needs to be impeached for being innocent. He needs to be impeached for having the audacity for not having been found to have colluded! He needs to be impeached for getting away with it! He needed to be impeached because we couldn\u2019t find any evidence, and that means he\u2019s an even bigger criminal than we thought. He\u2019s gotta get impeached because we hate his guts. He\u2019s gotta be impeached because we can\u2019t force him out.<\/p>\n

Well, Pelosi knows this is going nowhere in the Senate. It\u2019s not what she wants to do. But she\u2019s a gotta placate them, because all of these people — and this is a bunch of Democrat representatives. I\u2019m not gonna bother giving you their names. They\u2019ve all got rabid voters out there that are propelling them. These are the people that think Twitter is the American public. They think what\u2019s on Twitter is a majority of public opinion. So here is Pelosi yesterday in Washington after meeting with Democrats, she\u2019s talking to reporters and said this.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: We do believe that it\u2019s important to follow the facts. We believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States, and we believe that the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up. In a cover-up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cover-up? Of what? A cover-up of a crime he didn\u2019t commit. In fact, there never was a crime that Mueller was looking for. It was always a counterintelligence investigation. There never was a crime. He was not given a crime. They looked for a crime. They were hoping to make up some crimes, and they did make up some crimes for Manafort and Flynn.<\/p>\n

But they were unable to make up any crimes about Trump. So what\u2019s he covering up? He\u2019s not covering up anything. The fact is, that\u2019s what she\u2019s gotta say to placate the rabid members of her caucus who want to start impeachment proceedings now. She\u2019s gotta hold \u2019em off while making them think it\u2019s eventually gonna happen. Then yesterday, this is in the Rose Garden, the president speaking to reporters after having walked out of his meeting with Pelosi and Chuck You Schumer.<\/p>\n