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She\u2019s trying to pander to the kooks. She\u2019s trying to talk them out of what they lust for. They lust for impeachment. We have the audio sound bites coming up. By the way, we have some sound bites of Trump\u2019s speech at Normandy today, which even the Drive-Bys are claiming is the best speech of his presidency. Now, the reason they\u2019re saying that is because it is undeniably great but they say the reason it\u2019s great is because he didn\u2019t talk about himself, which he always does. Well, we\u2019re gonna go back to the archives.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t a president in this nation\u2019s history who talked about himself more often than Barack Hussein O, otherwise known as The One. Everything was about Obama. Everything! Every speech, every public appearance was about Obama. We\u2019re gonna demonstrate this. But the point is, Trump\u2019s speech was Reaganesque. You can\u2019t pick it apart. And because of the time difference, I don\u2019t think many people have seen it or heard it. And even if you have, if you\u2019re among those who have watched it or heard it, it won\u2019t hurts to hear excerpts of it again.<\/p>\n
And I was gonna say, before I reminded myself of that, that we\u2019ve got audio sound bites also of Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee, on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, and Wolf Blitzer begging him to impeach Trump! The CNN anchor, Wolf Blitzed, is begging, cajoling, doing anything he can to convince Nadler to follow through and get this done. I find it just overwhelming that on the day… It\u2019s June 6th today, the day that everybody living in Western Civilization and freedom is commemorating the 75th anniversary of what happened at Normandy.<\/p>\n
The preservation of Western Civilization was what Normandy was all about, the preservation of Western Civilization. Defeating Hitler, defeating the German army — defeating Nazism, fascism, and all of that — was about the preservation of Western Civilization. And, of course, the same thing with defeating the Japanese in the Pacific in World War II. But here we are on a day where we are commemorating this great act.<\/p>\n
An act, by the way — a type of warfare — that cannot happen again because of technological innovation. Satellites alone make it unlikely that such an invasion would ever happen again today — and because of that, it is really important to go back and look at it. Because of that, it\u2019s really important to remind people who were not alive (and who don\u2019t care) exactly what it took. I\u2019m not talking about just the uniformed military personnel that stormed the beaches at Normandy. They had to have equipment.<\/p>\n
They had to have massive numbers of airplanes and ships. They had to have massive amounts of ammunition. They had to have massive amounts of food. The logistics alone! If it weren\u2019t for Henry Ford and his modernization of assembly lines… You know, people think Henry Ford invented the car. He didn\u2019t. The Germans did. He invented modern assembly line manufacturing. Without that, we could not have done Normandy. We could not have produced nearly as much of what we needed as rapidly as we did.<\/p>\n
The country came together like we alive today have not seen the country come together. Even after 9\/11, we\u2019ve not seen the kind of unity that existed in this country during the early 1940s as we waged World War II and prepared for the invasion of France at Normandy. So I want to relive some of this as the program unfolds today. I just find it ironic that on this day (actually, she did this yesterday but it\u2019s making news today) that Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat leader of the House of Representatives, is saying she doesn\u2019t want Trump impeached, she wants him in jail.<\/p>\n
This is what leftist dictators throughout history have done. They do it… They put people in jail who have not committed any crimes. They do it without trials. They do it without juries. They do it without any legal representation, and there\u2019s no appeal. The term “rotting away in a jail” is a legitimate term. There are people to this day in Cuba and in China and probably in the Soviet Union\/Russia, who are in political prisons simply for disagreeing with the state.<\/p>\n
You see, that was the normal way of things for most of humanity from the beginning of time. Most people have lived in tyranny. Most people have lived in some form of bondage. Most people — born in their natural state of freedom — had it taken from them practically the moment they were born. That was what life as a human being was like. Coddling up to people in power to exempt yourself from that power is how you survived.<\/p>\n
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Or you stood up against it and got shot. Or you tried to run away from it and live way out in the middle of nowhere so nobody knew what you were doing. The United States of America comes along, and that\u2019s the exception. The United States Constitution, the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence? That\u2019s American exceptionalism. It\u2019s many other things, but that\u2019s the root, I\u2019ve always believed, of American exceptionalism. It\u2019s the idea that human beings are free, and government is there to serve human beings — citizens — not the other way around.<\/p>\n
Now, why is Pelosi suggesting Trump needs to go to prison? Well, she\u2019s trying to keep this mob that wants to impeach Trump at bay, and she\u2019s having trouble. That\u2019s why she\u2019s nervous. She can\u2019t control them — and I\u2019ll tell you what. If that crowd — and they are typified by the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes and all these people running for president. If they start raising serious money, then that\u2019s gonna put even more pressure on Pelosi.<\/p>\n
Money speaks in in politics, and if these people want Trump impeached start getting overwhelmed with contributions, Pelosi gonna be in deep doo-doo. Because in her view, impeaching Trump may mean she loses the House in 2020. And there\u2019s no “maybe” about it. She thinks impeaching Trump will guarantee his reelection. Now, CNN polls already show Trump is thought to be victorious by a majority of Americans.<\/p>\n
We touched on this poll yesterday in relationship to the economy. But a CNN poll is out there. Not only are two-thirds of the American people happy with the economy, but a vast majority of \u2019em think Trump\u2019s gonna be reelected. So Pelosi knows all this. But there\u2019s now so many factions in the Democrat caucus, and there are some legitimate anti-American factions in her caucus. So I\u2019m gonna give her the benefit of the doubt, here. I don\u2019t think Nancy Pelosi is the equivalent of a Fidel Castro yet.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think she really wants to put Donald Trump in jail with the wave of a wand. I think what she\u2019s doing is trying to keep these impeachment monsters at bay by telling them, “Hey, impeachment\u2019s nothing. We gotta put this guy in jail! But we can\u2019t do that \u2019til he leaves office. We gotta beat him in 2020.” She wants that to be the focus. “We can\u2019t put the guy… Even if he\u2019s convicted of impeachment, we can\u2019t help it him in jail. I want him in jail.” That\u2019s supposed to buy them off. That\u2019s supposed to make them back off and be a little patient.<\/p>\n
In her thinking, this mob that she\u2019s trying to control would probably be happier with Trump in prison than just impeached. I could be wrong. She could be, all of a sudden, the modern incarnation of Fidel Castro, and she might want Trump in jail. I don\u2019t doubt that she wants him in jail, but she doesn\u2019t have the ability (like a tinhorn dictator) to put him in jail. That still will have to have through the judicial system, and even if he were impeached and convicted, he\u2019s not gonna go to jail.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna have to try him on things and they\u2019re trying to find evidence on that now with a look-see into the finances and all that. I just think the juxtaposition of all this on the 75th anniversary of D-Day cannot be helping these people in any way. If they think that a majority of Americans want the president of the United States in jail or impeached and thrown out of office, they have totally lost touch with who the people of this country are. Now, I was also at Normandy. I\u2019ve been there twice. I was there during the 50th anniversary…<\/p>\n
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Well, I was there a week after they celebrated the 50th anniversary. But I didn\u2019t get to go see much. It was actually a… I took a quick trip up there from Paris, just \u2019cause if I wanted to see it. I had other business in Paris. And then in 2013, I took a vacation to Europe and carved out a full day (a day and a half, actually) to go up to Normandy and see it all. I posted photos at RushLimbaugh.com from the trip to the cemetery, to the various beaches, Pointe du Hoc where the Rangers climbed straight up the cliffs with the Germans raining machine gun fire down on them. It was…<\/p>\n
When you go there and you see this and you have the knowledge of what happened there, it puts you in awe. You\u2019re standing on hallowed ground, and you\u2019re standing on historical ground, and you\u2019re taking every bit of information you know, visualizing it as you stand there, imagine putting yourself in the middle of it, being part of it, knowing that you weren\u2019t. That ratchets up your profound appreciation. You cannot go to that cemetery… It\u2019s like going to Arlington. You can\u2019t go to the cemetery — and they\u2019re all over. They\u2019re in U.K., they\u2019re in Italy.<\/p>\n
American cemeteries.<\/p>\n
The one at Normandy is just… You can\u2019t hear a sound except for the birds chirping, and there are thousands buried, and there are people walking around. You can\u2019t hear a sound. The solemnity immediately grabs you. I remember, I came back from that trip, and I described a little bit of it, and since Trump did this great, great speech today… I\u2019m gonna play that, and my comments were about six-minutes long back in 2013. Rather than say it again, I\u2019m just gonna replay what I said back then. I read the transcript, and, as you can understand, it was really good. So I\u2019m gonna do that again, in addition to weaving all of the other news that\u2019s out there into all of this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, look. Don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here. “Hey, Rush, Pelosi not just throwing that line off. They want Trump in jail!” I know they want Trump in jail. I\u2019m saying Pelosi is saying this right now. She got… There\u2019s a multi-purposed strategy being implemented here. The first thing she\u2019s gotta do, in her mind… Now, look. I\u2019m just telling what I think she thinks. I\u2019m not endorsing it, agreeing with it, or anything. She doesn\u2019t want to impeach Trump right now. Flat-out, she just doesn\u2019t want to do it. She doesn\u2019t want it to happen.<\/p>\n
She thinks they\u2019ll lose the House majority. She thinks Trump will be reelected almost automatically. She doesn\u2019t want to do it. She remembers how the Republicans got damaged even after they successfully impeached Bill Clinton. Clinton wasn\u2019t convicted, but he was impeached. It\u2019s forever on his legacy — and Clinton even was penalized. He lost his law license. He was found guilty of suborning perjury, among other things, in the Paula Jones case.<\/p>\n
Even at that, the Republicans ended up paying a steep price for doing it because Clinton\u2019s numbers were pretty good. Trump\u2019s numbers are not anywhere near impeach level. You gotta be down to 20%, 30% for this. He\u2019s nowhere near that. He\u2019s 44, 48%, in some polls over 50. So it\u2019s not gonna work, and she knows it. So she wants to keep these people at bay. “I want Trump in prison.” They do want Trump in prison! They want Trump in prison. Pelosi may not be the equivalent of the Fidel Castro of the day, but there are plenty of people in that party who are, folks.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s hoping that the prospect of Trump going to jail after he leaves office will be an even bigger desire than impeachment, especially if she can make them believe that that would happen as soon as Trump loses in 2020. So I\u2019m under no illusions what the left wants. It\u2019s one of the reasons I opened here by describing what leftists and dictators around the world have done historically. They jail their political opponents! What the hell is happening here? This Trump collusion story, what is it ultimately?<\/p>\n This is all a political operation. It\u2019s not legal. It\u2019s not intelligence. It wasn\u2019t a genuine FBI criminal investigation. It wasn\u2019t even a legitimate CIA intelligence or counterintel investigation. It was made to look like that, but this was a political operation started by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And what was its purpose? To criminalize political opposition. Well, that\u2019s exactly what leftist dictators and people who run tyrannical countries do with their political opponents! The American left today is not the Democrat Party of old.<\/p>\n You know, you wouldn\u2019t have to look hard today to find — within the mainstream of the Democrat Party — a bunch of people who don\u2019t think Normandy is anything to celebrate, who don\u2019t think there\u2019s much of America worth celebrating. Make no mistake about it. There are people — and this is not news, actually. They\u2019ve mentioned prosecuting Trump at the SDNY, the Southern District of New York, Manhattan. You remember Mueller passed off a bunch of cases to them during the so-called investigation. So I\u2019m not under any illusion. I think Pelosi, for now, is trying to use that as a carrot to keep her caucus in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: She knows that she is losing control. She's trying to pander to the kooks. She's trying to talk them out of what they lust for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":303893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-Politico-Mag-TEARAWAY-060619.jpg\")
<\/a>There\u2019s a Politico story that just happens to come out a day after Pelosi says she wants Trump in jail. Headline: “How Trump Could Be Prosecuted After the White House,<\/a>” by Renato Mariotti. “Impeachment is a big question mark, but an outline of the case against an ex-President Trump is already taking shape.” So I did not mean to imply that she was using a throwaway line. She\u2019s trying to buy time and make sure (or hope) that Nadler and the rest of the malcontents in her party do not start the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n