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<\/p>\nRUSH: The objective all along, beginning with Trump-Russia collusion, beginning with all the shenanigans during the campaign, the objective all along — and there are many branches to this primary objective \u2013 the primary objective has been to separate Trump voters from Trump. The primary objective has been to convince Trump voters they made a mistake. The primary objective has been to persuade Trump voters that he is a bad guy and is not good for them and not good for the country.<\/p>\n
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This objective has failed. It has failed royally. And now it is in the backfiring stage. How many days have we had to listen to this same rotgut garbage? People are fed up with it. The Democrats have been on display for three straight weeks now. Their basic problem is Trump didn\u2019t do anything. Trump did not commit a crime. Trump has not engaged in impeachable offenses. They can\u2019t name one. They can\u2019t cite one.<\/p>\n
After three years of more money and more investigators and more bias and more abuse of the American bureaucracy than any American can ever remember, they\u2019ve got nothing. They\u2019ve got hearsay, and they have their hate, and they have their rage. But it is precisely because they have nothing that they have failed in their primary objective. They have not persuaded Trump voters they made a mistake. They have in fact cemented Trump voters and glued Trump voters even more solidly to Trump.<\/p>\n
They have created Trump supporters out of people who were ambivalent. This is backfiring on them so big, I can\u2019t even describe it to you. And even the Drive-By Media is getting worried now. I told you yesterday that Pelosi would go ahead and allow this vote if all she had was 218 votes. If Nancy Pelosi could follow her desires, she would pull this impeachment off the table. It has been an utter bomb. It\u2019s going in the wrong direction. If she hasn\u2019t, she is going to signal to a bunch of Democrats, “Look. If you gotta vote against impeachment to keep your seat, then I\u2019m gonna free you to do it.”<\/p>\n
She cannot hold her caucus. There are too many Democrats that have already announced they are going to vote “no” on this. The bipartisanship in this impeachment is going to be in opposition to it. They threw everything they had. They threw the Drive-By Media being totally devoid of any principles. The Drive-By Media willingly, happily threw away every bit of reputation it had left. The Drive-By Media, the American mainstream media has sullied itself, has soiled itself, and has forever destroyed any credibility that it once had.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t work. Going all-in all the time to destroy Donald Trump and to break that bridge from Trump voters to Trump has failed. And now what do they do? They use polling data over and over. They used two years of a Mueller investigation with 40 agents, 500 witnesses, $40 million, they couldn\u2019t find a crime. They couldn\u2019t find collusion. They haven\u2019t found anything because Trump didn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n
They have been reduced to trying to manufacture the illusion of criminal behavior, impeachable behavior, incompetent behavior. They have tried to use what they consider to be Trump\u2019s lack of manners, his ogre-ish personality. None of it has worked. Trump\u2019s approval numbers are higher today than ever. And they are higher today than Barack Obama\u2019s approval numbers at the exact same point in his administration. The polling data run by the Drive-By Media showing support for impeachment is plummeting. For the first time in the Quinnipiac poll yesterday, 51% of registered voters, not even likely, registered voters oppose impeachment.<\/p>\n
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Mitch McConnell has announced today we\u2019re not even gonna do a trial. We\u2019re gonna move immediately for an acquittal. We\u2019re gonna bypass “not guilty” and we\u2019re gonna move for an acquittal.” And the Drive-By Media is beside itself. And the Democrats in the Senate are now bellyaching, whining and moaning for fairness. They want fairness in the Senate trial, despite denying fairness at every stage of the House proceedings.<\/p>\n
Adam Schiff has been exposed to everyone who has paid attention to this as what he is. He is a lying, shameless partisan who is governed by a hate and a superiority complex. Pelosi has been exposed to be what she is. All of these people have let it be known they can\u2019t hide, they\u2019ve chosen not to hide. They\u2019ve thrown away their camouflage. They are strictly motivated by their pure hatred and their anger at having lost the election in 2016.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m watching this today and there isn\u2019t anything new in it. In fact, these articles that the Democrats have put forth today are so weak and so baseless and so absent any evidence that many of the Democrats, when it\u2019s their turn to speak — this is the markup for the articles, the whole House vote. The committee vote will be later today, the whole House vote next week.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s so weak, it\u2019s so bad that most of the Democrats are just getting all their hate off their chest. They\u2019re talking about Stormy Daniels. They\u2019re talking about Michael Cohen. They\u2019re talking about Avenatti. They\u2019re talking about Kavanaugh. They\u2019re talking about Trump University. It\u2019s all coming out. They just hate the guy \u2019cause they can\u2019t beat him. They hate the guy because he\u2019s outsmarted them at every turn. This does not happen to them. They don\u2019t get outsmarted like this. They don\u2019t get tricked like this. They don\u2019t get beaten like this. Certainly not with the media on their side 24\/7.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s all coming out. And the American people watching this, the Trump voters who are watching this who are supposed to have been moved by all this, they\u2019re supposed to have been made guilty they voted for Trump. They\u2019re supposed to be doubting their support for Trump. They\u2019re supposed to renounce it. Trump\u2019s rallies are bigger than ever. They\u2019re more raucous than ever. They\u2019re more energetic than ever. They\u2019re more positive than ever.<\/p>\n
Trump supporters are more eager and chomping at the bit to go vote to show their support for Trump. And why not? If you\u2019re living in the United States of America today, you\u2019re living life and a potential for a good life unlike you have known. You\u2019re living it. You don\u2019t have to be told. You are living it. You turn on your TV, and because the Drive-By Media is all-in on the Democrats and making their case, what do you see? Whining, moaning, a bunch of spoil brats.<\/p>\n
They are so clueless, they don\u2019t have any idea how what they are doing is being seen. You have to know how you are seen if you\u2019re in public life, be it in showbiz, entertainment, politics, which is showbiz for the ugly, you have to know. You have to have a sense of how you\u2019re seen. You have to have empathy. Democrats have no empathy.<\/p>\n The Democrats have no concern how they\u2019re seen because they are acting under their authoritarian impulses and they\u2019re simply trying to will what they wish were true to be true. At the end of the day, Trump didn\u2019t do anything. So they have been reduced to having to make it up. And examples of that are on display today. Once I start listing examples, I wouldn\u2019t know where to stop.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Some Democrat — I didn\u2019t catch her name — just said, “And we\u2019re impeaching the president today because he made up his own foreign policy.” What? You mean the guy that won the election? The guy that runs the American foreign policy made up his own foreign policy?<\/p>\n See, he went outside channels. He went outside the interagency group. He did not rely on the bureaucrats. Horowitz is a bureaucrat. These FBI scammers are bureaucrats. And these bureaucrats, all of them unelected, have been thinking they run the show, they run the FBI, they run foreign policy. The American people wanted somebody else. They wanted somebody outside this apparatus. They elected somebody outside this apparatus. The person they elected is actually operating outside the apparatus.<\/p>\n And so the apparatus is coming after him and trying to convince the people that voted for him that they made a mistake. Their problem in doing that, though, they let Trump voters know that they hate them. These people cannot hide their hate for you. They have no idea. I think they do anyway.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: “Rush, what do you mean?” I check the email. “What do you mean? What do you mean some Democrats are –” Right here it is. Washington Post: \u201cHouse Democrats Brace for Some Defections Among Moderates on Impeachment of Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n Folks, I warned you this was gonna happen yesterday. When that Quinnipiac poll came out, let\u2019s go back and review<\/a>. I wonder if you all realize how often things I say here are repeated elsewhere in the media. And I wonder how many of you say, \u201cYeah, yeah, Rush told us that.\u201d It happened all morning in the hearings today. It happened all afternoon in the Senate hearings yesterday. And now here comes the Washington Post with the story.<\/p>\n When that Quinnipiac poll hit yesterday, 51% oppose impeachment, Quinnipiac is the poll of polls for the Democrats. It\u2019s never shown Trump in a good light. Fifty-one percent oppose impeachment, never been that high. When did it happen? In the midst of the Democrat impeachment effort.<\/p>\n Pelosi can\u2019t pull back on impeachment. But believe me, if she could, she would. Three weeks ago I said Pelosi will not do this if all she has is 218 votes, meaning the bare minimum she needs to pass it. I said that\u2019s not gonna be enough. That\u2019s not gonna be enough to sway the American people. It\u2019s gonna be purely party line, she can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n At the time, the thinking was that she had 235 votes. At the time the thinking was that the 30 or 31 moderate Democrats who were elected in the 2018 midterms that come from Trump districts, the thinking was that the case was solid enough that they could go ahead and vote for impeachment and not imperil themselves.<\/p>\n Then the hearings began, and it became obvious that they had nothing. It became obvious all they had was hearsay and academics testifying what they thought a rotten guy Donald Trump is. A bunch of bureaucrats who were not even on the phone call. The transcript of the phone call shows nothing there. The whistleblower came and went before anybody ever heard from him or saw him. They had nothing.<\/p>\n Those 31 moderates began to get nervous and got more and more nervous as the hearings went on and on \u2019cause the case was not made, despite the media\u2019s bias in analyzing it, reporting it, the case was not made. Then the impeachment number 51%, I will guarantee you the Democrat internal polls are showing this as well. The desire for impeachment is plummeting the more this goes on.<\/p>\n So when the number hit yesterday, I told you, I guessed, educated guess, that Pelosi\u2019s gonna release some of these moderates and that if all she gets is 218 she\u2019ll take it because she can\u2019t pull back. She cannot cancel this. She can\u2019t even delay it. She might try to delay it on the basis that McConnell here demanding an immediate acquittal, moving through an immediate acquittal is gonna deny her side fairness. She could pull it on the basis of the way McConnell says he\u2019s gonna deal with this.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an outside chance. I\u2019m not predicting it. I\u2019m just telling you, don\u2019t be surprised, because McConnell has said (paraphrasing), “I\u2019m not even gonna have the trial. I\u2019m gonna go for summary judgment. I\u2019m gonna pull guilty or not guilty right on the first day. We\u2019re not even gonna get a guilty verdict. We\u2019re gonna dismiss this.”<\/p>\n Well, Pelosi could say, \u201cYou know what? Senator McConnell is denying us the fairness, he\u2019s denying the minority fairness,\u201d which would be a laugh, given how they have abandoned fairness on their side. But she could. She\u2019s always been able, if she wanted to, she has always been able to cancel this on the basis of the partisanship and mean-spiritedness and the bigotry and the racism and the sexism and all that of the Republicans.<\/p>\n \u201cLawmakers and senior aides are privately predicting they will lose more than the two Democrats who opposed the impeachment inquiry rules package in late September. … Two senior Democratic aides said the total could be as many as a half-dozen, while a third said the number could be higher.<\/p>\n \u201cSeveral moderates have privately pined for other options, including a censure vote they know they\u2019re unlikely to get. Others have even considered what one moderate called \u2018splitting the baby\u2019: backing one article of impeachment but not the other to try to show independence from the party.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, they\u2019ll vote for one but not the other to show independence in the party. Because these moderates think if they go all-in with their own party, that they\u2019re dead at the ballot box. So she\u2019s got the votes to impeach but here come defections, meaning bipartisanship will be a part of impeachment, but it will be bipartisan support against it.<\/p>\n And if it\u2019s six now or more, it\u2019s only going to get worse because Trump didn\u2019t do anything. And, folks, despite all the noise and all the hate and all of the energy the Democrats have mustered, this has been about one thing. It\u2019s been about trying to break the bond of Trump supporters to Trump. The exact opposite has happened. In fact, you probably will find Democrats openly complaining about it on TV now.<\/p>\n If you watch enough TV, my guess is that some Democrats will start openly complaining about how Trump voters just will not turn on the guy. \u201cWe\u2019ve given everything we got. I mean, we impeached, we had the Mueller investigation, had the Russia investigation, all this, had Stormy Daniels, NBC tape, we had Steele dossier, we can\u2019t \u2013\u201d They\u2019re gonna start complaining about it because they went into this thinking it\u2019d be a slam dunk.<\/p>\n I mean, take out a Republican? That\u2019s easy. That\u2019s Democrat 101. Call up your buddies in the media and get the process started. The list of Republicans destroyed this way is long. Here\u2019s an audio sound bite to demonstrate for you the utter frustration and the hatred and the scattershot approach and the general feeling that Trump shouldn\u2019t be president just because we don\u2019t like the guy. Steve Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee. This is during the debate today on the markup, the House Judiciary Committee on the two articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n COHEN: When he said, \u201cI need a favor, though\u201d he was talking about getting dirt on the Bidens. Michael Cohen told us the president doesn\u2019t come out and say exactly what he wants. He speaks in code. That\u2019s the president\u2019s code. Michael Cohen knows it and Michael Cohen is in prison now. Michael Cohen, who is in prison because he facilitated the payments to Ms. Daniels and the payments to Ms. McDougal. You talk about abuse of power? Abuse of power is having a charitable foundation and taking advantage of the charities and using the money for your own purposes and having to pay a $2 million fine and not being allowed to be on a board ever again because you don\u2019t have the character to be over a charitable foundation. Abuse of power is ripping off people with Trump University and paying $25 million dollars.<\/p>\n RUSH: None of that is in the articles of impeachment. None of it. And now he\u2019s quoting Michael Cohen, who he acknowledges is in jail for, among other things, lying. Michael Cohen made the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Abuse of power, the president speaks in code. He was talking about getting dirt on the Bidens. We didn\u2019t need dirt on the Bidens. Biden provided the dirt. Biden copped to the interference. We just played you the audio of Biden bragging about it.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TIMEGuardians.png\")
TIME magazine name a 16-year-old as Person of the Year. They wanted to name the whistleblower, but then they figured out they couldn\u2019t name him, so they\u2019ve named him Guardian of the Year. TIME magazine, a new award or new qualification, Guardian of the Year, the whistleblower and the witnesses at Schiff\u2019s and Nadler\u2019s hearings.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121119-Trump-Point.jpg\")
<\/a>And I said then that Pelosi, if she could pull this back, would, but she can\u2019t. She\u2019s too deep, she\u2019s too far in. Her media would revolt against her, as would many in her base because this is about nothing more than the continued expression of hate. It\u2019s all it is. These people have an unquenchable hate. It has to be fed every day. It has to be nourished every day. They can\u2019t go a day without being dominated and governed by their hate. Democrat base voters, the mainstream media, you name it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-Tearaway-WAPO-121219.jpg\")
<\/a>But I still think she\u2019s too deep now. And the Washington Post story makes the case<\/a>. \u201cHouse Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a vote to impeach President Trump could cost them their seats in November.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>What Trump was saying, are you gonna get to the bottom of this? Are you gonna investigate it? There\u2019s another thing, too, that Trump was actually soliciting help from Zelensky on getting to the bottom of what happened to him in the Russia collusion case, because Ukraine was involved in that no matter what these people try to rewrite history as saying, Ukraine was involved in it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-DEMS-at-War-AOC-Pelosi.jpg\")
RUSH: Obviously Cortez isn\u2019t on the list. It has nothing to do with her brains or not, which are hard to find.<\/p>\n