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He says, “Imagine Donald Trump deciding sometime in June, ‘Well I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California so I\u2019ve decided that during the presidential election California has to undergo extreme vetting because we can\u2019t trust their votes. We\u2019re going to shut down voting in [California].'” That\u2019s what this guy\u2019s claiming Trump will say in June, and then he said, “This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We\u2019re not talking hypotheticals anymore.”<\/p>\n
We\u2019re dealing in utter insanity. You know what this is rooted in? This is based on the fact that these people take an out-of-context quote from Trump in a conversation on ABC News about whether or not he can fire Bob Mueller, and during that interview, Trump says, “It\u2019s right there in Article II. I can do anything I want. I can fire Mueller. I can not fire Mueller.” They\u2019ve taken it out of context, and they\u2019re now running around saying, “Trump says he can do anything!<\/p>\n
“‘He can do anything he wants! He is a monarch, he\u2019s a king, he can do anything!” He never said it. He doesn\u2019t believe it. These people know it\u2019s not true, but they have been so immersed in the lie of this for so long, they now believe it — and that\u2019s the root of this. “This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We\u2019re not talking hypotheticals anymore.” He will simply say Californians\u2019 presidential votes don\u2019t count. What, and people are just gonna stand aside and let that happen? Meanwhile, who is it that\u2019s actually trying to overturn an election?<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, who is it that actually went out there and tried to change the Electoral College? Who is it that went out there and pressured electors in the Electoral College not to vote the way they\u2019re required to by law, when the Electoral College convened in December of 2016? This guy, Jason Johnson, is a professor at Morgan State University. He said, “Americans should be terrified of Trump\u2019s ability to overthrow America\u2019s democratic system.”<\/p>\n
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Uhhh… This is insane. There\u2019s no other way to describe this. This insane. The guy really believes it, and it\u2019s the result of the free-flowing poison through these people\u2019s brains and veins and arteries and everything. They\u2019ve literally been lying and consuming so much hatred that it\u2019s become who they are. I can easily throw it back at him. Overthrow America\u2019s democratic system? Who was it that now admits they got FISA warrants that were illegal to spy on a presidential campaign?<\/p>\n
Who was it that used a phony dossier put together by Russian spies, paid for by Hillary Clinton, that was the sole reason there was ever any allegation or investigation of Donald Trump? Threat to the democratic system? And you and I sit here and wonder how in hell is it that people on our side do not see the crisis that we are in the midst of and face. These are people literally attempting to commandeer the next election! They have made no bones about it.<\/p>\n
Schiff has gone to the floor of the Senate and said (paraphrased), “You gotta get rid of Trump now before he steals the next election! We can\u2019t leave it up to the ballot box,” and, meanwhile, these people are running around claiming it\u2019s Trump that\u2019s gonna tell Californians they can\u2019t vote. That\u2019s not what Trump\u2019s gonna do. If Trump does anything regarding California, it\u2019s gonna be to try to win there and just to smoke these people and send it where the sun doesn\u2019t shine. You want to hear funny sound bite? Grab audio sound bite number 1.<\/p>\n
We put together a montage. This is mini-election night redux. Remember the Drive-Bys election night 2016, how the coverage starts out and they\u2019re all confident. They\u2019re all bubbling! They\u2019re all effervescent. They\u2019re so excited because Trump is going down, and Hillary Clinton\u2019s gonna be elected, and the Obama administration is gonna essentially continue — and then dark clouds of doubt begin to obscure the faces of the happy mobs of TV infobabes and anchors.<\/p>\n
By 9 o\u2019clock, they start to see the unbelievable, that Donald J. Trump is going to win — and they can\u2019t believe it. They are shocked and stunned. It was one of the most fun things to watch. If you\u2019re ever bored, go back, find it on YouTube, and watch it again. Last night was so much like that. We have a montage of the Drive-Bys when the reality hits \u2019em that there aren\u2019t gonna be witnesses and that there\u2019s gonna be an acquittal.<\/p>\n
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JOHN BERMAN: Russia, if you\u2019re listening, 2020 is open for investigations.<\/p>\n
MAZIE HIRONO: We are witnessing the coronation of Trump.<\/p>\n
NORAH O\u2019DONNELL: … the worst nightmare for Democrats.<\/p>\n
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CARL BERNSTEIN: … a travesty, a cover-up. This is something for the ages.<\/p>\n
JEFFREY TOOBIN: … a sham, a disgrace. The Democrats failed.<\/p>\n
BRIAN WILLIAMS: I know. I know. I know.<\/p>\n
KIRSTEN POWERS: We just have to sit and wait four years until people vote?<\/p>\n
JASON JOHNSON: This is step one to actual autocracy! I don\u2019t understand how anyone cannot be terrified.<\/p>\n
MARA GAY: Tonight is, really, a capstone and a just total collapse of faith in American institutions. It\u2019s actually quite scary — a very scary moment.<\/p>\n
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ELLIOT WILLIAMS: It\u2019s an insult to the American people.<\/p>\n
PAUL BEGALA: It\u2019s really a tragedy. This thing\u2019s a farce. It\u2019s a sham.<\/p>\n
WOLF BLITZER: Right now, the Democrats look like they\u2019re in trouble.<\/p>\n
JAKE TAPPER: They sure do.<\/p>\n
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: We\u2019re going to return now to our regular programming.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) They were so sure! What did they think there was gonna be a conviction? The media, yes. The media was hell-bent on forcing this to a conviction. They thought that if they could get the witnesses that that\u2019s the end of Trump, that\u2019s it, because they are so deluded, they think that there are witnesses in the Trump administration who have evidence of all these crimes that they haven\u2019t been able to prove yet.<\/p>\n
And then when Lamar Alexander came out and said (paraphrased), “You know what? I don\u2019t need any witnesses. We don\u2019t need any witnesses. This thing is a farce as it is. I\u2019m voting ‘no\u2019 on witnesses,” the air went out of the collective media balloon. It was like a giant fart, folks. These people just lost every bit of gas that they had stored up, and you could see \u2019em deflate right before your very eyes — and that\u2019s how it sounded. They really thought they were gonna get a conviction if they could just get to witnesses, just get to witnesses.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ll tell you, we\u2019re not far away from the postmortem. In the postmortem, you wait and see what happened. The media is gonna start dumping on some of the House managers. They\u2019re gonna say, “You know what? The Republicans did it right. The Republicans could have put a bunch of members of Congress up there as the president\u2019s defense team. They could have put Jim Jordan in there, could have gone and got Ratcliffe and all that, but they didn\u2019t do that. They went and got some topflight lawyers — and what\u2019d the Democrats do?<\/p>\n
“The Democrats gave us radical, partisan nincompoops — Schiff, Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries.” The postmortem is gonna be Adam Schiff is not the Hollywood success story everybody anticipated — and Nadler certainly isn\u2019t. “If the Democrats had just gone out and gotten a big bunch of lawyers like Richard Ben-Veniste and others of Watergate experience to argue the case, it would have been far better.” You wait and see. When this thing settles, the media is gonna want some scalps, \u2019cause they have been convinced they could get a conviction in this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We have a great little sound bite here from F. Chuck Todd, NBC News Special Coverage of the Impeachment Trial, and during a discussion about the Republicans eventually voting to acquit Trump, F. Chuck Todd said…<\/p>\n
TODD: I think the thing that\u2019s uncomfortable here is the idea that if you basically can harness enough support in the public, you can bulldoze — you can essentially bulldoze the Constitution, perhaps, or you can… (sputters) And look, we are a democracy. That is what we are. We\u2019re a happy. Uhhh, w\u2019re a democratic republic. But that is — I mean, we are —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
TODD: — essentially saying if you commit impeachable offenses, you can get away with it if you\u2019re popular now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is this guy for real? So Trump\u2019s so popular now? I thought everybody hated Trump! I thought Trump was reviled. I thought was despised! I thought he was hated. Now all of a sudden, Trump is so popular he can bulldoze the Constitution! Have you guys forgotten about William Jefferson Blythe Clinton? His popularity rose like a skyrocket during his impeachment. This is the sound of utter futility. It is the sound of total frustration.<\/p>\n
‘Cause I\u2019m telling you — folks, do not doubt me on this — atevery phase of this, the original allegation Trump cheated, stole, colluded with Russia. They thought, they thought they might be able to prevent him being inaugurated. So he gets inaugurated; here comes Comey, the Steele dossier. They really thought that they were going to be able to create a groundswell of public opinion among people who were supposed to be shocked and outraged.<\/p>\n
“This is the guy we voted for! Screw that. We want it back! Throw him out.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what they were hoping for. That\u2019s what they were trying to create. They wanted to create distance between Trump and his voters. They wanted Trump\u2019s voters to have an awakening, to realize, “Oh, my God, the guy\u2019s a traitor? Get him out of there!” Then the Steele dossier. “You mean he hired prostitutes to pee on the bed that Obama slept in? Get him out of there!” Every phase they thought going in that it was gonna get him, failed.<\/p>\n
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Then Mueller, the Mueller investigation. Oh, folks. That was gonna be the orgasm of all orgasms. That was gonna be Trump gone the day the report came out. The important thing here psychologically is at every phase of this they, in the media, have convinced themselves that they were going to turn Trump into Nixon and he was gonna resign — and at every phase, they\u2019ve failed, and you\u2019re listening to this failure.<\/p>\n
“My God. You know, the thing that\u2019s really uncomfortable here is the idea that you can harness enough support in public…” Here we go, see? Disdain for the American people again. “Damn you people! Why do you have to like this guy? Why do you have to so publicly support this guy? If we didn\u2019t have to deal with you, we could get rid of this guy. Just because you like the guy, he can go trample the Constitution.” That\u2019s not what he means.<\/p>\n
“Just \u2019cause you like the guy, we can\u2019t destroy him.” That\u2019s what this all really means. F. Chuck doesn\u2019t care about the Constitution. He doesn\u2019t even know that we\u2019re a representative republic, not a democratic republic. We\u2019re a representative republic. As far as Chuck Todd\u2019s concerned, it\u2019s the media that should have the power to determine who\u2019s elected and who\u2019s thrown out of office and who\u2019s hated and who\u2019s liked — and they can\u2019t make you hate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
They can\u2019t make you dislike Donald Trump, and they can\u2019t stand it — and do not question me on this. This is exactly what this is. They think they have the power ever since Watergate — well, even before that, but Woodward and Bernstein — and the fact that they cannot alter public opinion on Trump has them feeling impotent to the point that they\u2019ve never experienced it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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