RUSH: Let me get started with Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Ed, glad you waited, sir.\u00a0 Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, sir.\u00a0 I support President Trump.\u00a0 You know, I voted for him and all that, but I\u2019m just concerned about his talking to George Stephanopoulos.\u00a0 And I\u2019m sorry, it was simply stupid.\u00a0 I mean, what in the world did he think he was gonna do talking to George Stephanopoulos? (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 Look.\u00a0 I\u2019m with you out there, Ed.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how anybody approved it.\u00a0 It makes no sense<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 No, no, no.\u00a0 Please, don\u2019t blame the staff.\u00a0 President Trump is a very intelligent person.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m not blaming the staff.\u00a0 I\u2019m just saying, a lot of people had to know about this, and I can\u2019t believe that none of them spoke up about it.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Well, and then what he said in response to questions, I mean, it just puts us on the defense.\u00a0 It puts you on the defense. I mean, what have you talked about all for the last hour and a half?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Hey, what have I done for 30 years?\u00a0 This has been the story for 30 years.\u00a0 The attacks never end.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter who the Republican president is.\u00a0 I hear you!\u00a0 I do.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 You know, one thing about this? This is gonna make it really tough for Pelosi to tell her staff not to impeach Trump.\u00a0 I mean, this is gonna… Jerry Nadler\u2019s gonna go nuts in there. Schiff\u2019s gonna go nuts in there.\u00a0 For these Democrats that want to impeach Trump, this is gonna be the icing on the cake for them, and the pressure is going to mount on Pelosi to let them go ahead and do it.\u00a0 Now, there\u2019s a standing theory out there that Trump wants to be impeached, that he wants them to impeach him.<\/p>\n
You know, there\u2019s something that happens in impeachment that nobody is thinking about.\u00a0 Can I share with you what that is?\u00a0 By the way, do you think this is possible?\u00a0 Do you think Trump is trying to steer the Democrats into impeaching him? (interruption) Well, maybe.\u00a0 But our last caller, by the way, I totally sympathize.\u00a0 He turns on the radio today; he\u2019s sick and tired of having everybody here on defensive every damn day because the Democrats are constantly on assault, and he thinks it\u2019s a self-inflicted error.<\/p>\n
(summarized) “Trump did not have to do the interview. He didn\u2019t have to make this comment to Stephanopoulos. He didn\u2019t have to cause this at all.\u00a0 He ought to be focused on saying in office.”\u00a0 I understand. That was Ed from Charleston, South Carolina, and I totally get it. I hate having… “Hate” is the wrong word.\u00a0 It\u2019s just frustrating to have to come in here and remind everybody of the real truth of what\u2019s going on here.\u00a0 But it\u2019s necessary because we are in the process and in the middle of an onslaught from the Democrats on the left.<\/p>\n
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But let me tell you about impeachment.\u00a0 The one thing that everybody forgets about impeachment is that there\u2019s a trial, and the trial — and I\u2019m not talking about Nimrods that don\u2019t know how impeachment works.\u00a0 I know a bunch of Democrats think that if Trump is impeached in the House that that makes Hillary president.\u00a0 You can laugh, you can cry, but do not doubt that there are lots of our fellow citizens who think that\u2019s what would happen.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 There would be a trial in the Senate.<\/p>\n
The House would file its articles of impeachment.\u00a0 That would be the indictments (why Trump has committed “high crimes and misdemeanors”) and it\u2019s political so could be anything.\u00a0 “He colluded!” They can allege anything.\u00a0 Then the House would assign members to manage each of the indictments.\u00a0 Those are called House managers.\u00a0 They are the prosecutors.\u00a0 And Pencil Neck would be able to bring the case on Russian collusion if they wanted to charge that, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
You have one member of Congress (it\u2019d be a Democrat) that would present the case.\u00a0 Now, the president is not just in there as a sitting duck.\u00a0 The president gets to mount a defense.\u00a0 The Senate is the jury, the chief justice of the Supreme Court is the judge, and the Senate passes judgment on whether or not the president is guilty.\u00a0 So the president and his lawyers go in there and call witnesses.\u00a0 “Mr. President, we call James Comey to the stand!\u00a0 Mr. President, we call Peter Strzok Smirk and his paramour, Lisa Page, to the stand!”<\/p>\n
You think these people want any part of that, testifying under oath in an impeachment hearing about the texts that they sent to each other back and forth?\u00a0 Do you think Comey wants to have to explain his various misstatements of facts, prevarications before various committees in Congress?\u00a0 The fact that the president gets to mount a defense (some semblance of one) is one of the reasons why there isn\u2019t a big, big taste for impeachment outside of these maniacal Democrats.\u00a0 But if Trump is trying to engineer being impeached — and Pelosi has said he is.<\/p>\n
She has been trying to tell her people, “Look, the worst thing that could happen is that we impeach the guy and he\u2019s found not guilty.\u00a0 That\u2019s the worst, especially before the election. That\u2019d be the worst thing that could happen to us, \u2019cause we know the guy\u2019s guilty.\u00a0 I want him going to prison.\u00a0 We can\u2019t put him in prison if we impeach him, even if he\u2019s found guilty.\u00a0 That has to happen after he leaves office in the criminal justice system.”<\/p>\n
So, anyway, I still… Even if that\u2019s the objective, I don\u2019t understand doing Stephanopoulos. I don\u2019t understand bringing the New York Times in this, period. (sigh) There ought to be an understanding that the media can\u2019t be converted to friendly, to supportive — that they\u2019re nothing but opportunists — and if you give \u2019em the opportunity to come in and destroy you, they\u2019re gonna take it.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Maggie in Orient, Ohio.\u00a0 Welcome.\u00a0 You\u2019re next on the EIB Network.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 I want to get to the point.\u00a0 I just want to say — picking up on what you just spoke about with Comey and Page and Strzok and Brennan and Clapper — you know, to me, they\u2019re dirty cops, and they\u2019re the ones who need to be looked in on.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones who possibly need to go to jail.\u00a0 That\u2019s all I have to say about that.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get right to the point.\u00a0 Snerdley said to be concise and get to the point, so…<\/p>\n
The reason I\u2019m calling is I think that Biden, that his son… I think that question that George Stephanopoulos asked Trump had a lot to do with Biden and his son.\u00a0 I think it had to do with what\u2019s going on in the Ukraine, the information surfacing about Ukraine, the information surfacing about their dealings in China. And I think it\u2019s like, um, they\u2019re running interference to try and protect Joe Biden and his son.\u00a0 Does that make sense?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I\u2019m just trying to figure out how asking Trump about accepting information from a foreign government runs cover for Biden and his kid.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Well, those foreign governments would be the Ukraine, where they were investigating his son (audio drops). Biden had somebody fired over there, and the other thing was China and possibly information they have on him and his son there as well.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 But… I know all that, but the Drive-By Media isn\u2019t covering it.\u00a0 They\u2019re not gonna cover it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how Stephanopoulos asking about it and Trump\u2019s answer helps further the pursuit of that case against the Biden.\u00a0 I\u2019m not…<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Well, if more information comes out from those countries, and Trump gets information from them, wouldn\u2019t that have a lot to do with the question that George Stephanopoulos asked him?<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Uh, I\u2019m still trying to get the connection. Trump is asked by Stephanopoulos, “If you get information from foreign government, would you say, ‘Yeah, it\u2019s fine! I\u2019ll take it\u2019?”\u00a0 And you think that means that if the ChiComs or the Ukrainians offered dirt on Biden\u2019s kid, that we now have to accept it, and that\u2019s how the media will have to report it?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know if he has to accept it. But if there\u2019s something there, then that could be the possible dirt that they\u2019re trying to run interference — you know, run interference — on, to try and keep him from finding out anything more if there is anything more about Joe Biden and his son.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let me try to — there already is information that Joe Biden funneled — using his position as vice president — funneled a Chinese government agency into doing business with his kid who didn\u2019t know jack about the business he was in for a big, big one-time payment.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not gonna see this anywhere. The Drive-Bys aren\u2019t gonna cover it. Stephanopoulos is not worried about it. That\u2019s not even in his mind when he\u2019s asking Trump about — they\u2019re trying to entrap Trump. All they\u2019re trying to do is get rid of Donald Trump. They are not worried about one thing happening to Joe Biden. They\u2019re not worried about one thing happening to Hillary Clinton. They\u2019re not worried about one matter of truth ever coming out with these people.<\/p>\n I\u2019m gonna tell you, this just keeps going. I mentioned last week that we\u2019re in a race with the people who ran this coup to try to overturn the election results. Bar and Durham are in a race to try to get to the finish line first, and they better pick up the pace. This stuff just keeps piling up every day, keeps happening every day, we need some names named. It\u2019s about time. We know enough already to know what the FBI did. We know who the bad actors were. We know how the game was run. We know how it was rigged against Trump. We know he was spied on.<\/p>\n They\u2019re collecting data, they\u2019re doing their investigation. These things take months! You know, we don\u2019t have months on this when we\u2019re talking about the court of public opinion. And public opinion is being established and formed each and every day with stories like this.<\/p>\n But look, I don\u2019t mean, Maggie, to depress you. But don\u2019t make any bets on seeing that Joe Biden and his kid\u2019s story and funny money from China ever in the New York Times. Just like Crazy Bernie would not condemn Hillary\u2019s emails when he had a golden opportunity in a debate, he would not do it. They\u2019re not gonna do it \u2018cause none of them are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.<\/p>\n If one of them starts ragging on Biden and the deal he did for his kid, Biden\u2019s gonna unload on what he knows about the — None of \u2019em are clean. They\u2019ve all got skeletons. They\u2019re politicians, for crying out loud. They\u2019ve all got skeletons in their closet. They\u2019ve all made shady deals somewhere. They\u2019ve all got more money than they should have based on their government salaries. They\u2019ve all used the power their position grants them to grease skids for family members and friends.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the way of the world! That\u2019s another thing Trump represents upsetting. That\u2019s one of the reasons you want in the club, to be able to take care of yours and your own. If you got a bunch of kids that are absolute reprobate losers, you can make sure at least they\u2019re gonna have enough money to be losers and not have to earn their own living in life if you have the right connections.<\/p>\n And to hell with getting into college. Screw that step. Just get some foreign government to hire \u2019em to do something they\u2019re never gonna do, pay \u2019em $2 million, invest it wisely and you don\u2019t have to worry about the reprobate kid anymore. Membership in the Washington establishment has a lot of perks and a lot of benefits. But only if the establishment\u2019s up and running and in charge of things.<\/p>\n To the people in the Drive-By Media and in Washington, D.C., the deal made between Joe Biden and his kid is one of love and compassion and something any parent would do for a child. And as far as they\u2019re concerned, Maggie, there isn\u2019t any crime, there\u2019s no impropriety, there is no conspiracy. That is what you get to do when you rise to certain heights of power. This is how you get to use it. This is what you get to do. This is why everybody wants to be in the Washington clique.<\/p>\n They\u2019re not gonna turn on Biden and his kid, especially when one of Joe\u2019s sons has died. They\u2019re not gonna do that. Joe just loves his kids. And besides that, the thing benefited the Chinese and kept them from nuking us and it kept them from getting mad at us, Joe struck a great deal. So what if his kid benefited. Somebody tell me Chelsea Clinton hadn\u2019t been — 600 grand from NBC for showing up and never having been on TV. It\u2019s how the world works there.<\/p>\n But, yeah, in the alternative media, you\u2019re reading about the scandal with Biden not just with the ChiComs, Ukraine as well. Meanwhile, here\u2019s Manafort going to jail for the rest of his life. You\u2019re scratching your head, what the hell for, when over here Biden\u2019s basically doing all that and more and is running for vice president with that on the resume. He\u2019s qualified to deal with other nations. Looks at experience in helping grease the skids for his kid in Ukraine. What? Well, you don\u2019t need to know the details. Just know that Joe had the smarts to pull it off. The guy knows how to work with our friends and with our enemy.<\/p>\n Oh, okay.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, here\u2019s Trump talking Stephanopoulos (paraphrasing), \u201cYeah, if some reprobate in Norway calls me I\u2019d listen to him.\u201d Oh, my God. This guy\u2019s gotta go. This guy\u2019s an existential threat. This guy is scum. He\u2019s gotta go. We can\u2019t have this kind of guy in our club.<\/p>\n And it does boil down to why the hell was he talking to them? Well, he wanted to show Stephanopoulos the new paint job for Air Force One. Very proud of that. Which it does look good. I have to tell you.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Jackson, Ohio, Larry, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.\u00a0 And before I start, I have to say dittos, dittos, dittos, and more dittos.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Thank you very much, sir.\u00a0 Appreciate that very much.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 You\u2019re welcome.\u00a0 I truly do love the show.\u00a0 If the president, who can run rings around those leftist hacks in the mainstream media, if he can\u2019t go into the belly of the beast and confront them directly, how does he ever go toe-to-toe with the ChiComs or the Norks or stare down Vladimir Putin over installation of missile defense in Poland?<\/p>\n And besides, for people who only listen to the Drive-Bys and the mainstream media, he has an opportunity to reach that audience and speak directly to them about media lies.\u00a0 And they can\u2019t possibly hope to keep up with the president anyway.\u00a0 He runs circles around those jerks.\u00a0 They\u2019re just wedded to their leftist political dogma.<\/p>\n My point is, what is there to gain by it?\u00a0 It\u2019s my old adage, you could be hurt by something you do and not be hurt about something you don\u2019t do.\u00a0 I would maintain to you that not doing Stephanopoulos would not hurt him at all, but doing Stephanopoulos, particularly knowing who Stephanopoulos is and how ABC cuts and pastes and mischaracterizes, the downside is much greater doing Stephanopoulos than not doing it.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, but he has an opportunity to reach that audience that he wouldn\u2019t normally reach and tell them about media lies.\u00a0 Some of that has to stick when he says you\u2019re fake; your polls are fake and phony.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 But they\u2019re only reporting one thing:\u00a0 The president says that he would do it again.\u00a0 The president would accept foreign contribution, that he would accept foreign information again.\u00a0 That\u2019s the only thing they\u2019re reporting.\u00a0 That\u2019s all anybody thinks the president said to Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Henry in Denver. It\u2019s great that you waited. Appreciate your patience. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s the greatest moment of my life. I just wanted to tell you. This is a hypothetical, a hypothetical situation, what happened with Trump in the interview. If they impeach the president of the United States —<\/p>\n RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n CALLER: — over a hypothetical situation and a comment that\u2019s gonna really show the Dems what they really are. I do not believe that will happen and I\u2019m a supporter for him straight up. I have not lost confidence in him. He\u2019s one of the greatest presidents ever.<\/p>\n RUSH: Did you vote for him?<\/p>\n CALLER: I voted for him and will vote again 2020.<\/p>\n RUSH: So this thing with Stephanopoulos doesn\u2019t bother you today?<\/p>\n CALLER: It doesn\u2019t bother me. It\u2019s a hypothetical. He doesn\u2019t lose his First Amendment rights just because he\u2019s president.<\/p>\n RUSH: You know, this is actually a very good point. Henry, thank you. I\u2019m glad you used that word. Trump\u2019s answering a hypothetical. As we\u2019ve been pointing out, he hasn\u2019t even done it yet. Remember the Mueller report says that the Russians made countless attempts and Trump turned them down, he didn\u2019t do it. So Stephanopoulos is asking him, \u201cWould you do it?\u201d \u201cHell, yes, I\u2019d do it.\u201d Would you call the FBI?\u201d \u201cHell, no I wouldn\u2019t call the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n So now CNN is running a graphic all day quoting Trump saying that he\u2019s an honest guy and they\u2019re trying to make it look like Trump\u2019s a liar. They got this graphic headline: Trump: “I\u2019m an honest guy.\u201d And viewers are supposed to think that Trump is so full of it, but what did he lie about? He didn\u2019t lie to Stephanopoulos about anything. He doesn\u2019t lie to them, period.<\/p>\n I mean, he asked the question, \u201cWell, if you get a call from a foreign source, would you \u2013” \u201cYeah, yeah, I probably would.\u201d That\u2019s not lying to them. Trump wasn\u2019t dishonest in his interview with Stephanopoulos. CNN is attempting to make it look like he lied through his teeth in this interview and all he did was address a hypothetical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: It does boil down to why the hell was he talking to them? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":296149,"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\/04\/APP-040919-Rush-EIB-Flag-Ponder.jpg\")
It was obviously a play made on the basis of the vice president having the power to make the deal for the benefit of his kid. It\u2019s widely known, but it\u2019s not gonna be pursued. He\u2019s a Democrat. It\u2019s not gonna be pursued. The media\u2019s not gonna talk. You\u2019re only gonna read about that by John Solomon<\/a> or Sara Carter.<\/a> You\u2019re only gonna hear about it on Hannity.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-061319-Stephanopoulos.jpg\")
RUSH:\u00a0 Hey, I love all perspectives.\u00a0 I think one of the things that\u2019s helped me over the years is making sure that I talk to people on the phones here because you\u2019re the first guy today to not worry about this at all.\u00a0 If Trump\u2019s afraid of talking to Stephanopoulos, you don\u2019t want Trump to be afraid of talking to Stephanopoulos.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s afraid of it.<\/p>\n