polls continue to move like the Fox News poll shows,<\/a> then Pelosi and her gang are going to be emboldened, \u2019cause they believe these polls and they\u2019re gonna be inspired and they\u2019re gonna be motivated to think it\u2019s safe to go ahead and pull the trigger and do this. Now, the media… So far, folks, they have managed — finally managed — to pound so many lies about this phone call between Trump and Zelensky that they\u2019re now getting the polls that they want, like this Fox poll.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Ukraine-Transcript-Trump.jpg\")
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Now, the Democrats in the media and the Democrats in Congress are gonna run with that as proof that the country is behind them and stampede us into impeachment while they can. They learned something from the Trump-Russia thing. They waited and waited and waited. They waited on Mueller. They waited on the FBI. They waited on the DOJ. They waited and waited and waited for evidence, and there wasn\u2019t any. They\u2019re not gonna wait on any evidence this time. They\u2019re gonna get this done before there\u2019s any evidence, so that when evidence does get presented, nobody will believe it.<\/p>\n
I think that\u2019s part of the strategy.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, I think Schiff and… It\u2019s why I said they\u2019re in a race. They want to get this done by Thanksgiving. They want to make sure they get this done without really any evidence. I\u2019ll explain how that could happen, \u2019cause it\u2019s what they\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I want to finish my thought here before we go back to the phones on what I think the Democrats are doing impeachment-wise and we\u2019ll get to the Giuliani Ukraine story. This is an SDNY story, by the way, Southern District of New York. It\u2019s not coming explicitly or expressly from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n
The Southern District of New York, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York, the SDNY, that is considered the district. There\u2019s the Eastern District, which is Long Island, and if you\u2019re a lawyer and you get sent out there it\u2019s like being sent down to AAA. I shouldn\u2019t say that because that\u2019s gonna — but you want to be in the Southern District if you\u2019re gonna be in the New York U.S. attorney\u2019s office. There\u2019s the Western District, Eastern District, Long Island. The offices there I think are in Brooklyn, so it\u2019s not that bad.<\/p>\n
But SDNY is the crown jewel of all of the U.S. attorneys offices and districts. And the U.S. attorney there has been appointed by Trump. His name is Berman. But he\u2019s involving himself in this case. This case is a couple of Russian donors who sought out Rudy, and they wanted to make campaign contributions, like the marijuana farm in Nevada or some such thing, and it\u2019s a question of whether or not these are illegal campaign contributions and so forth. Of course, the media\u2019s putting Russia, Russia, Russia all over the thing \u2019cause these guys are from Russia, but it ought to be Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.<\/p>\n
But the point is, this case, despite what the Drive-Bys are telling you, has nothing to do with Rudy or Trump and the so-called investigation of Biden and his kid in Ukraine. It\u2019s got nothing to do with it. It\u2019s being used to discredit that, but in a legal sense there\u2019s not a scintilla of overlap. And I will explain in greater detail here in mere moments.<\/p>\n
But I wanted to go back to what I think the Democrat strategy here is, because they\u2019re in a hurry for a host of reasons. And they\u2019re trying to get as much done in terms of shaping public opinion without Trump, his team, the Republicans, the White House, being able to officially contradict any of it.<\/p>\n
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So Schiff is able to lie every day about the whistleblowers, for example, and that can happen under the auspices of impeachment. Pelosi has said we\u2019re doing impeachment. So under the auspices impeachment, here comes Schiff lying every day about the whistleblower. The Republicans are not under the official auspices of impeachment because there aren\u2019t any yet, really. It\u2019s all an illusion.<\/p>\n
But the illusion contains the public thinking that there is an impeachment, that it\u2019s happening, and so when Schiff or the Democrats present evidence that it\u2019s part of the impeachment, it isn\u2019t. The Republicans cannot respond to it accordingly in the same forum because it doesn\u2019t happen yet. So Trump\u2019s reaction, his limitations are to tweet and to send emissaries out to various media to refute what is being said.<\/p>\n
And Kim Strassel said Pelosi\u2019s doing this on purpose to limit Republican participation because once the counter-evidence is presented, once all this stuff that Schiff and his buddies are doing is cross-examined and their own case presented, then these poll numbers that exist now like the 51% on Fox are gonna start descending. So Pelosi doesn\u2019t want that to happen. So what the media has done, in consort with the Democrats, is just pound lie after lie about the phone call between Trump and Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
This is another one of these most incredulous things to me. The Steele dossier was never verified, it was never corroborated, there was nothing in it that was ever true, and yet it was the sole thing that propelled the two-year investigation into Trump-Russia collusion. There was never any evidence. This phone call is being used the same way.<\/p>\n
The transcript of the phone call\u2019s been released. Whatever the whistleblowers and however many whistleblowers there are, whatever they say about it is irrelevant because the transcript has been released! It is what it is. It cannot be what the whistleblowers say it is. Doesn\u2019t matter. They keep pounding lies about that phone call.<\/p>\n
Now the Democrats in the media and the Democrats in Congress are gonna run with that “proof” from the whistleblowers that country is behind them, and they\u2019re gonna try to stampede everybody into this impeachment while they can. The mistake that I think they think they made during the Russia collusion scandal, they didn\u2019t strike while the iron was hot, which means they didn\u2019t strike before the public learned about all of their lies.<\/p>\n
I think they\u2019ve learned their lesson. They\u2019re not going to repeat the mistake they made. The mistake they made was waiting for Mueller. They waited two years for the evidence! They were damn sure the evidence was there. They were damn sure Mueller was gonna find it. They waited. They put all their eggs in Mueller\u2019s basket, and it was a dud. They waited two years and there was nothing. They\u2019re not gonna wait two years on this. They want Trump gone now. They want Trump gone before the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s why the Democrats are out there right now saying they have all the evidence they need. They\u2019ve got it all from that Trump phone call. That\u2019s all we need to impeach the guy. Then they\u2019re gonna throw in this Wall Street Journal story about the two guys trying to pressure Giuliani or get Giuliani to help them make campaign contributions or something.<\/p>\n
But what they\u2019re doing is continuing to pretend that what the Schiff whistleblower claimed that Trump said actually happened. That\u2019s the lie they are perpetuating. And they\u2019re not gonna wait for evidence to contradict \u2019em, not gonna wait for Mueller to come back and say there\u2019s nothing here, not gonna wait for whatever the equivalent of that. They\u2019re not gonna wait for the evidence. They\u2019re not gonna wait for the opportunity for Trump to respond to it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna create, as best they can, public opinion supporting impeachment and removal on the basis of this illusion and all of these lies. That\u2019s what is happening now. It\u2019s all a game. It\u2019s very serious, don\u2019t misunderstand, but it\u2019s all a game.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Phil in Dayton, Ohio, as we head back to the phones.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. As far as everything going on with China, Hong Kong, the NBA, and now the Democrats\u2019 response or lack of response, it just goes to show that the Democrats\/Democrat Party don\u2019t care about civil rights whatsoever. They\u2019re not the party of civil rights. All they care about and their true tenet is their hatred for America, and you can square everything they do —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — within that single point.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly. That\u2019s my point. They don\u2019t even care about the little guy! They\u2019ve gotten by all these decades supposedly caring about the little guy, the downtrodden, protecting them from evil corporations and evil Republicans and evil conservatives. They don\u2019t care about the downtrodden. They don\u2019t care about the homeless. Look at them. They don\u2019t care about your health care.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t care about prescription drug prices. They just give you lip service to all this stuff, when all they care about is their power. What they care about is using whatever tools they have to enrich themselves and their kids — as in the case of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. Now, you said, “It\u2019s hatred for America.” Do you really mean…? Do you think that\u2019s what\u2019s driving them?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Not necessarily hatred for America at the core that they genuinely hate America. But they hate what America represents now, and obviously its founding. I think it\u2019s gotten to a point where they want to progress so much that America inherently is holding them back and they are… Like you just said, they\u2019re seeing that power slip away.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That is so well said.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. What they want, America is holding them back. How? How does America hold them back? You\u2019re on to something big here, Phil. How does America hold the Democrat Party or the American left back?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, ever since our founding, the Constitution. I mean, that right there is the only thing standing in their way.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, in a general sense, but the specifics would be: The big problem is there is an opposition, and the opposition has freedom of speech. That\u2019s what I think they detest the most, which puts them in the same chair as the ChiComs., The same chair. The Chinese communists do not tolerate dissent. They do not permit it. What\u2019s the American left doing today? Go to any college campus; you can\u2019t dissent. You cannot use anything but politically correct language. America — its Constitution — is holding them back from what they really want.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I got an email during the break. “Rush, you keep talking about this transcript and that the whistleblower can\u2019t possibly add anything to it or make it any worse. Well, what is it?” I said, “You know, it\u2019s a great question.” It\u2019s one of these things where I erred. I assumed incorrectly that most of you would be well aware of what Trump said on the phone call with the president of Ukraine. But then it hit me. (Snort!) “Stupid me! Wrong!”<\/p>\n
Most people don\u2019t know! They believe what the whistleblowers are saying! What they\u2019ve heard is Trump say, “It was a perfect call. It was a perfect call. There\u2019s nothing on this call. I didn\u2019t do anything; I didn\u2019t say anything. There\u2019s nothing.” But they\u2019re not publishing the transcript of the call. They\u2019re simply relying on Schiff and the constant references to the whistleblowers and all that. So let me give you the essence of what Trump said.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the sum total of Trump\u2019s comments about Biden. Ready? This is from the transcript of the phone call. Quote, “The other thing, there\u2019s a lot of talk about Biden\u2019s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that. So whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me.”<\/p>\n
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