{"id":330872,"date":"2019-12-09T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=330872"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T20:43:02","slug":"oann-goes-to-ukraine-to-investigate-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/09\/oann-goes-to-ukraine-to-investigate-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"OANN Goes to Ukraine to Investigate Yovanovitch, Biden — and Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Ken in Hershey, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Welcome, sir.\u00a0 Great to have you with us.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, mega dittos, Rush.\u00a0 Looking forward to heading out to the Trump rally tomorrow night.\u00a0 Hey, over the weekend Lindsey Graham was on with Maria Bartiromo and said that once the impeachment got to the Senate, he would try and shut it down as quickly as possible.\u00a0 It would be dead on arrival, in his words.\u00a0 He\u2019d hear out the House\u2019s case.\u00a0 However, he doesn\u2019t plan on calling any witnesses or having Trump present any kind of defense.<\/p>\n

He would not call Pencil Neck or the leaker or Sleepy Joe.\u00a0 I believe this is exactly the kind of thing that drives conservative Republicans crazy.\u00a0 Lindsey Graham: No backbone, all talk, never any action — and he did the same thing with the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.\u00a0 Republicans seem to have been playing defense throughout the entire impeachment process, and once they get the ball, they already plan on punting.\u00a0 Do you believe this is the proper strategy once this thing gets into the Senate?<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m looking for something in my Stack<\/a> here, and I\u2019m asking myself if I printed it, and I may not have.\u00a0 Hang on.\u00a0 Let me look. (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Cause I don\u2019t think I can do this from memory, not a full paraphrase.\u00a0 Hang on a minute.\u00a0 Just hang on a minute.\u00a0 Let me look at the Stack.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 No problem, Rush.\u00a0 Take your time.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Did I print it on or…? It looks like I didn\u2019t print it.\u00a0 But I can.\u00a0 I still have it in the Unprinted Stack.\u00a0 I have an Unprinted Stack every day, an unprinted inbox.\u00a0 Basically, what it is, it\u2019s a report by the One America News Network, OANN, and they did something that you haven\u2019t seen American media do. \u00a0They actually went to Ukraine to interview some people.\u00a0 Has it struck any of you that not one network, not one paper has sent a reporter to Ukraine to ferret this story out?<\/p>\n

The media seems to be reporting verbatim what government officials are telling them, like Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you see — and Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill and Bill Taylor and George Kent and whoever the hell else. Whatever they say is what gets printed. Whatever Clapper says gets printed. Whatever Brennan says gets printed.\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been one investigative story about this.\u00a0 Everything that\u2019s been reported has been what deep state, administrative state officials are saying about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it.\u00a0 So in this instance, it is the deep state running the media.\u00a0 You know, my theory is that the media has been running the Democrat Party, and I still think that\u2019s the case.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t have even the slightest bit of curiosity.\u00a0 The Drive-By Media has no desire to ferret out the real truth of this story.\u00a0 But the One America News Network (a cable news network which is an up-and-coming competitor to the Fox News Channel) actually sent a reporter over there.<\/p>\n

The reporter filed a report that said that Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Maria Yovanovitch were up to their eyeballs in a conspiracy with Ukraine that involved sending American aid money back to Americans to benefit them personally, and that one of the reasons that there hasn\u2019t been this full-court press to help defend Trump and Ukraine is because it isn\u2019t just Biden that\u2019s gotten involved in some shady dealings there.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whole lot of people, Republicans and Democrats alike.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I have not forgotten. Here is the One America News Network story. We had a caller say, \u201cRush, Lindsey Graham said that when they get to the trial in the Senate there aren\u2019t gonna be any witnesses. They\u2019re just gonna say not guilty and move on, nothing to see here. Rush, how come the Republicans don\u2019t want to do the same thing the Democrats do and literally nuke the Democrats when they bring this case forward? Why would we just want to slap it away and say nothing to see here?\u201d<\/p>\n

And he talked about how Senator Graham talked big during the Kavanaugh hearings and promised all kinds of hearings and how the hell that happened and what have we got so far. (Raspberry) Well, the caller\u2019s not alone. I mean, I\u2019ve heard that from a number of people. So I come across — actually this is a story from the Conservative Treehouse<\/a>. These people have done some incredible analytical reporting on the coup.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They have dug deep on all of the FBI shenanigans that Devin Nunes has uncovered. They have done some incredible work on timelines. And they have analyzed at Conservative Treehouse the story that One America News Network produced.<\/p>\n

” In a fantastic display of true investigative journalism, One America News journalist Chanel Rion tracked down Ukrainian witnesses as part of an exclusive OAN investigative series. The evidence being discovered dismantles the baseless Adam Schiff impeachment hoax and highlights many corrupt motives for U.S. politicians. Ms. Rion spoke with Ukrainian former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko who outlines how former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch perjured herself before Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is outlined in this interview is a problem for all DC politicians across both parties. The obviously corrupt influence efforts by U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch as outlined by Lutsenko were not done independently.<\/p>\n

\u201cSenators from both parties participated in the influence process and part of those influence priorities was exploiting the financial opportunities within Ukraine while simultaneously protecting Joe Biden and his family. This is where Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham were working with Marie Yovanovitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the One America News Network story. \u201cImagine what would happen if all of the background information was to reach the general public? Thus the motive for Lindsey Graham currently working to bury it. You might remember George Kent and Bill Taylor testified together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was evident months ago that U.S. charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, was one of the current participants in the coup effort against President Trump. It was Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set-up a narrative helpful to Adam Schiff\u2019s political coup effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Taylor was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (\u201906-\u201909) and later helped the Obama administration to design the laundry operation providing taxpayer financing to Ukraine in exchange for back-channel payments to U.S. politicians and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the allegation here is that American taxpayer dollars, i.e., foreign aid, whatever you want to call it, was sent to Ukraine in exchange for some of it coming back to America to U.S. politicians and their families. And the key to this is that to make this work they had to make sure that what Biden was doing with his kid was not exposed because it would expose everything else going on like it. In other words, that Biden and his kid were not a one-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn November Rudy Giuliani released a letter he sent to Senator Lindsey Graham outlining how Bill Taylor blocked VISA\u2019s for Ukrainian \u2018whistle-blowers\u2019 who are willing to testify to the corrupt financial scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rudy is in Ukraine even now. The Democrats in this committee can\u2019t believe it. They\u2019re characterizing it as Rudy is still trying to rig the 2020 election, they say. That\u2019s not what Rudy is doing. I\u2019ll tell you what has become abundantly clear is that Donald Trump knows exactly what he\u2019s doing with Ukraine, and he knows exactly what he\u2019s trying to expose, and it remains the administrative state. He\u2019s trying to blow it up.<\/p>\n

When he says that he\u2019s draining the swamp, he literally is draining the swamp. And Ukraine did meddle in the 2016 election. There are seven different Drive-By news stories documenting it. And Ted Cruz literally took Chuck Todd to school on it yesterday on Meet the Press. I\u2019ve got the audio of that if I have a chance to get it in here.<\/p>\n

But back to the One America News Network here. \u201cIn November Rudy Giuliani released a letter he sent to Senator Lindsey Graham outlining how Bill Taylor,\u201d the ambassador to Ukraine, \u201cblocked VISA\u2019s for Ukrainian \u2018whistle-blowers\u2019 who are willing to testify to the corrupt financial scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, there are people in Ukraine who have been found willing to come to the United States, tell everybody what went on, and the ambassador blocked visas. Rudy has discovered this and sent a letter to Lindsey Graham as committee chairman in the Senate to expose this. I\u2019m just gonna read the next. You can do with it what you want.<\/p>\n