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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. And greetings to you. Music lovers, thrill seekers and the conversationalists all across the fruited plain. I am back again here in the saddle and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, three hours straight ahead. This is Friday, right?

So let's go live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida. It's open line Friday. I know I have it on good authority that you people were really ticked off yesterday. I mean, those of you that call, I got an email, me and your callers today are great. I haven't. Oh, yes, that's right. Here we come. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. What kind of what flavor is that. Looks like orange. Something or other. All right, cool, I picked out, so, yeah, I was 70 years old on what was a Tuesday. I don't even remember kept back count to the 12th anyway, they have a delayed seventieth birthday to staff, constantly ignores my expressed wishes that I make a big deal out of it. This one, however, is I look, I don't want to make but I frankly, about 11 months ago didn't think I would see my seventieth birthday.

So it is it is kind of for the first time in my life, it's a big deal. Anyway, it's open line Friday and you can can talk about whatever you want.

As I was saying before I was interrupted with a birthday bash, I had I had it on good authority that a lot of you who called yesterday were just livid. I'm and good. Livid. You were mad. You were angry. You're articulate, well spoken. I'm told that the guest host, Todd Hermann, even told a couple of you that you need to run for office. And of course, I love hearing that because you people think what you think because of me.

CNN says so.

I'm only kidding. Now, I. I understand the passions are just flying out there and they are totally justified.

So much is happening to our country that is just beyond the pale.

And again, you know, I go back.

I don't mean to pound this into the dirt and I don't mean to make a self flagellation thing about it, but.

None of this, I can't say none of this, but the Democrats would not have had this easy a time if there had just been a better.

Understanding on the part of the American people of what liberalism was and what it was on the way to becoming a full fledged communism now. We got Alexandra Steele, Cortez is now saying that she wants the social media companies to censor all conservative media. We got to clean we got to clean up media by getting rid of conservative media. We're going to clean up America by getting rid of conservatism. And she's asking that the media be the people responsible for making this all happen.

Which is not a surprise, the media is no different than a Democrat, is no different than anywhere else, you find a leftist.

So where are we? Well, the Democrats and 10 Republicans and Pelosi just finished a press conference or a live press conference. She was touting a bipartisan impeachment. Bipartisan impeachment, Liz Cheney was one of 10 Republicans that voted to impeach Trump, giving Pelosi that talking point. A bipartisan impeachment. And the disloyalty that is on display here, here we have a Republican president for the first time in 15 years has actually gotten anything done, a Republican president who advanced a conservative Republican agenda for the first time in I don't know how long Reagan and the party throws him overboard, can't wait to be part of his destruction.

In exchange for what becoming part of the establishment and being permanent second tier losers. With honor. Losing with honor, losing with dignity. Good Lord, look at the record of achievement for Donald Trump in the first three years before the pandemic hit. The economy alone, and they're destroying the guy and they have to because they've got to destroy that legacy, they've got to destroy that that record cannot because it's in it's in direct contradiction to what the Democrats and Biden and all of them in the media are now promoting.

So the Democrats and 10 Republicans have impeached Trump a second time. And it means nothing, it's no different than being called a racist by these people. They've done that so often that it's lost its impact, but they keep doing it.

They keep throwing the race card. It has about the same relevance these days is winning a Nobel Peace Prize as. The Nobel Peace Prize has been destroyed, the substance, the honor that it represents, that's gone. If I recall correctly, Pelosi once said the Democrats could impeach President Trump for anything at any time, and I think we just saw that proved. This impeachment article, there's one article it never really says what Trump did wrong. But everybody is out saying that he incited an insurrection.

Never mind that the entire, quote unquote, invasion of the capital began 20 minutes before Trump's speech began. How does that work if Trump's responsible for this? How can it be? And by the way, we now have evidence by way of admission that an Antifa operative was at the forefront. Of this insurrection, antifa, which the Democrats and the media claim had nothing to do with this. We've got this guy admitting CNN has unwittingly even admitted that that happened.

The rioters began attacking the capital 20 minutes before Trump began his so-called insurrection speech. Now, we were among the first to point out here, Trump never said anything in his speech about attacking the capital. Never said a word about attacking the Capitol if he had. As we said earlier this week, you would have never been able to miss this, they would have had it on an endless audio video loop. But that loop doesn't exist because Trump never said it.

Trump never said anything in his speech about attacking the capital again if he had. You would be seeing it replayed in a loop over and over and over again by the drive by media. Now. We're supposed to believe that Trump incited insurrection by saying the election was stolen. That's what they want to get across. That's that's the same kind of controversy that that Jack Rasputin's guy at Twitter used to justify getting rid of Trump's account because he said the election was stolen.

Oh, no, that's an incitement to violence. Twitters said we can't have that. You know, one of the people has been saying the 2016 election was stolen. Eric Swalwell. Nancy Pelosi made him an impeachment manager so he can say the 2016 election was stolen and all the Democrats can and the FBI can work with the intelligence agencies to create a gigantic coup made up of one lie after another. And nobody calls it insurrection. Nobody's worried about how it is motivating Democrats to act and behave.

Nobody says a word about it. They think Swalwell, an impeachment manager. After that happened, Swalwell is now compared Trump to Osama bin Laden. This from a guy who has been bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, Chinese spy, that's her name, right, Fang, Fang, Big Fang, Wang Fang, whatever it is. Swalwell was banging her swallower with bang and bang bang, and he's running around talking about how Trump is Osama bin Laden and he's out there, Fang Fang, a child spy.

You know, totalitarians from Stalin to Mount say, you know what I noticed the other day, by the way? You know, Harold Ford, you know Harold Ford is. Well, Harold Ford is a commentator. He's a he's an analyst for Fox. He shows up on Brett Mazower. He shows a number of Fox shows as what they call him, a contributor. And he's like anybody else. He's doing his his remote shots from home because of covid and the pandemic.

And all his camera shot the other night included a painting. That he has above his fireplace in his home now Ford, who lives in New York because he's got some things with Wall Street. Do you know who the painting is of? Mao Tse tung, I'm. Why would I kid about it? I'll find the photo, I'll find the full I'll give it to Brian will put it on the Denault cam, it'll take me a while during the break to get it.

Yeah, it's.

He's got and I've never seen this angle before. I've never, you know, Harold Ford, when he does his spots on Fox, you don't see this portrait hanging above the fireplace. The camera angle doesn't get it. He's got a portrait of my tongue. It's a gigantic portrait, just big as the fireplace. The guy was only a mass murderer, cultural revolutionist. Anyway, people like Mao, people like Stalin, the Castro brothers, Hugo Chavez.

Ping, they've always accused their political opponents of leading an insurrection. That's how they that's how they roll. That's how they operate. And the same thing is happening here. And I think this business of impeaching Trump. Is a part of me, part of me that says I don't think the Democrats could have done anything better than impeach Trump a second time because it proves how unhinged their jihad against him has been since day one. One, impeachment is not enough.

You got to do it a second time with one article that is about insurrection, which Trump did not do.

On the other hand, that requires the American people to have a certain degree of understanding and awareness and they may not have that, so maybe the Democrats get away with this. But have you noticed, folks, there are fewer and fewer places where you can talk freely about what's going on and if the Democrats and Rasputin, Jack, and what's his face over at Facebook, if they have their way, there won't be any places left. Where you can speak truth to power.

They used to pretend to left you pretend that was important to them. That's when they weren't in power. That Mao painting is my Andy Warhol. Well, that means it wasn't cheap. If the Moul painting above the fireplace in Harold Ford's New York abode is by Andy Warhol, it means it wasn't cheap and it might mean that there is a painting of a Campbell's Soup can on the other side of the mouth page. You ever seen a guy get rich painting a can of Campbell's Soup, that's Andy Warhol.

He did that. So I guess blocking people from being able to express their opinions. Is what Democrats mean by healing. Anyway. It is. Breathtaking to observe what's going, try this headline, 25000 troops and officers securing Washington, D.C. for the Joe Biden inauguration, five times as many as are stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Do you believe this? You know, it's too bad they didn't try this in Seattle and Portland a year ago. Twenty five thousand troops and officers to secure Washington, I thought Biden was popular. I thought this is what the American people wanted. I think the American people voted overwhelmingly for Biden to be for why in the world you need 25000 troops and officers to secure Washington and they're not going to allow anybody there. The Pentagon's putting 20000 National Guard on the streets of Washington in the wake of the assault on the capital.

This in support of the Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Capitol Police, for the inauguration of Plug's Biden, that's in addition to more than 6000 officers who are part of the U.S. Capitol Police who are officers with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. So that's more than 25000 members. Of law enforcement personnel being deployed, that's five times the number of United States military deployed at present in Afghanistan and Iraq. Man, is that not sobering for the inauguration of a new president, something this country has, you know, on on balance celebrated?

I mean, it's. Up until 2016, we had had peaceful transfers of power. 2016 was the first time that that failed to happen, and it is still happening today. Yeah, I hear it is a CNN story, did CNN accidentally prove that Trump did not call for violence at the Capitol?

Yes, they did. We'll have that much else as the program unfolds, open line Friday, 800 eight two two eight eight. It will be right back.

Here's Pelosi at her at her press conference just a moment ago. She could not be more proud of what she has done.

A week ago, on January six, there was an act of insurrection perpetrated on the capitol of the United States, incentivized by the president by the line. A week later, Wednesday to Wednesday, that president was impeached in a bipartisan way. Yeah, by the House of Representatives. Right. So urgent was the matter. You are now working on taking this to trial. Right. You'll be the first to know. And we you know, you better hurry up.

You can't do this over there. You can't do this when he leaves office. You better hurry up with this. This is absolutely so urgent. She hasn't even sent it to the Senate yet. They're working on taking this to trial, and Wednesday, you'll be the first to know when we announced that we are going over there, she means to the Senate so urgent was the Met.

They just want to be able to say they impeach Trump twice. No president's ever been impeached twice. They're doing everything they can to hammer this guy into a political and maybe even an actual death. I don't know. I have never seen anything like this. And I'm telling you, folks, it means they are scared to death of the guy. They think that he's going to rise from whatever ashes they create. They know there are at least 74 million of you that voted for him who are not abandoning him.

They had hoped to effect that, to create that. They haven't been able to and they know it and they're definitely worried about all this. Here's did CNN accidentally prove that Trump did not call for violence at the capitals of PJ Media Story by Matt Margolis.

And it's so obvious Trump was guilty before he even took the oath of office in 2016, the pattern of accusing Trump of heinous crimes that he did not commit is so well-established. That the presumption must be Trump is innocent of anything Democrats claim he did because they haven't proved a damn thing. So how long is it going to be before Rasputin Jack bans this story on Twitter? The political left and their allies in the mainstream media have gloated over the second impeachment of Trump in record time, an article of impeachment alleging Trump incited an insurrection at the capital filed and approved by the House.

But according to a new report from CNN, evidence uncovered so far, including weapons and tactics seen on surveillance video, suggests a level of planning that has led investigators, FBI, to believe the attack on the Capitol was not just a protest that spiraled out of control. A federal law enforcement official says this completely undermines the entire case that Democrats made for impeaching Trump. CNN story also seems to support other reports that the FBI had warned Capitol Police a day before the assault that there was evidence an attack on the Capitol was expected a day before.

CNN reports investigators were given a heads up a day before that. An assault was coming long before Trump ever made his so-called insurrection speech.

You're being lied to left and right by everybody on the left.

Yet again, it's open line Friday. Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up. All right. Here is the Harold Ford photo. Switch it over there, Brian. If you look at the far left of the screen shot there, that's Harold Ford there in the right center. Look at the far left over his fireplace, a picture, a portrait of Mao Tse tung painted by Andy Warhol. And by the way, that looks like a pretty nice New York apartment.

Now, I'm assuming it's New York. I know Harold Ford works on Wall Street or has he's from Tennessee. I don't know if he still has a residence in Tennessee or not, but I'm telling you, as a former resident of New York, those digs are not cheap if, in fact, they're in New York. But man, oh, man, I've not seen that, I've not seen the portrait of Mao Tse, there's a mass murderer.

Cultural Revolution, a mass murderer, and he's got a place of honor in Harold Ford's home.

Man, mean these these people have been further gone to the left that even I knew, and I I'm perhaps the most aware person in America of liberalism, the American left. I really am. I think I've been on these people longer than anybody, and I've been sounding the clarion call longer than anybody. All right. Audio sound bites. Let's start here with Evan Perez, CNN.

This is the story I think that CNN does and accidentally prove that Trump did not call for violence at the Capitol.

This bite means that Trump did not incited it yesterday. CNN NEWSROOM, a report by the senior justice correspondent Evan Perez, about the investigation into the attack on the Capitol last week.

Indications that they're getting, certainly from the evidence that the FBI and prosecutors are now in possession of, indicates that there were people who left the rally where the president was speaking outside the White House. They could not bring any weapons anywhere close to where the president was. They left a little early and then they went to go retrieve some of the items that then were used in the assault on the Capitol. And that includes things like crowbars. We saw people with sledgehammers, people with climbing ropes and climbing gear, people who clearly had trained and know exactly how to use these to get into a building.

And so that's what's leading law enforcement to increasingly believe that there had to be a greater level of planning than was first thought.

This guy doesn't get it. He really doesn't get it. That is the story. This is the story. CNN accidentally Evan Perez does not realize what he reported. Trump didn't call for any of that. Somebody go get me the words Trump demanding people get climbing equipment. Go out and find crowbars, sledgehammers, climbing ropes, climbing gear, Trump didn't incite all that. He never once uttered any of those words. He never once asked people to engage in that kind of behavior.

They even reported to CNN that people left before Trump's speech was even over, which blows up the timeline that Trump speech caused. All that happened, folks. It's the big I don't know how do we categorize this in terms of is it the big lie or was the Russian hoax live bigger than this?

But whatever we not we are not getting the truth out of these people. In other words, in order to destroy Donald Trump, they have to lie. In order to ruin Donald Trump, they have to lie, they have to lie about him, they have to lie about you, they have to lie about all of us. I just look at this and I. I marvel this reporter doesn't have a clue that his report essentially exonerates Trump. Here he is, Robby Mook.

Robby Mook was on CBS This Morning. He is the former Hillary Clinton campaign manager back 2016. And the question Joe Biden wants to pass this massive relief package, but the Senate also has to consider an impeachment trial, how are they going to do both the the massive relief packages for covid 19? So that's what they got on the table. Do they take care of the American people covid-19 relief or they don't get Trump again, impeaching for the second time?

Here's the answer from Robby.

More from what I'm hearing, they're going to try to get this impeachment done as quickly as they responsibly can, because I think there is tremendous urgency to get to work on the covid relief package. As the president elect said last night, this is not partisan. I think in their minds, by the way, this is really about creating a consequence and accountability for the president, inciting this riot again, that's just all over the place, incoherent.

The president didn't incite anything. And CNN is inadvertently established that, but they've got their mantra, they they have their narrative and they are sticking to it.

Do you believe? This on a. It's not to awaken a whole lot of you out there, you you know, it's not being reported, folks, and I don't I'm not trying to be a downer here. There's a great story coming up. I have here Peter Navarro, who just went off on on the Fox Business Channel about what is being done to Trump. But I have to tell you that and, you know, it may be better than I do, you know how bad it is.

I got two birthday cards here and I told the staff, is there money in either because if there's no money in here, I'm not opening them and there was no money. The staff is hurting everybody. No money in my birthday cards. Let me get serious. The amount of unemployment, the number of businesses that have been destroyed in Democrat blue state, oh, and how about this, Mr. Snowden? Have you heard about this? Governor Cuomo in New York and Governor Lightweight in Illinois want to open up bars and restaurants inside service immediately, they don't even want to wait for Plug's his inauguration.

Man, oh, man, was this predictable? New York City and Chicago, three hundred seventy two thousand small businesses destroyed, Dad.

Thank you, Democrats, three hundred seventy two thousand. And counting. Now they want to open up bars and restaurants for inside service. They're saying things like this lockdown can't go on, this can't go. We've got to fix this. Well, this has been the case for over a year. They've been chomping at the bit. They know they're destroying their own cities, but they did it as loyal foot soldiers in a way of getting back at and maybe damaging and harming Donald Trump.

But man, oh, man. The state of the U.S. economy. It's sad and it's all been done on purpose. It is all been done on purpose, largely by Democrats and other Republican votes for all of the spending uncovered relief, but it wouldn't have been necessary if they had not shut down the country. It was never necessary to do that. But they did it. It was never necessary to shut down. Have you seen in the UK?

Where they're talking about maybe mask's forever. That people who live in the UK might face a mandate of wearing a mask for the rest of their lives. Such is the nature of the outbreak there. You know, you. Know what that means? That's just. Another step that the left is taking in trying to control people, I mentioned earlier that the Democrats are going to have to hurry if they want this impeachment article of Trump's to mean anything. Here's Professor Dershowitz this morning, Newsmax TV national report question.

Mitch McConnell said that he would not rush the trial in the Senate before the president leaves office. It would happen after Biden is inaugurated, so this might sound like kind of an odd question, Professor, but when Trump is no longer president, can he still be impeached? Categorically, no.

The Congress only has authority over a sitting president. The Constitution says that impeachment is to see if the president shall be removed if the president can't be removed. Congress has no jurisdiction. If they could do that, they could impeach you and me. I'm over 35 and I can run for president. So can they hold me in front of the Senate, impeach me and say, now, Dershowitz, you can no longer run for president. Can they now impeach Barack Obama?

Can they now impeach Bill Clinton? It's absurd.

Well, that's what they're trying to say they can do. But that's why I said they're going to have to hurry because Dershowitz is right here. You can't impeach. Look at the Constitution, the whole impeachment section does not talk about ex president. Former president, I can't do it. So that's why I say Pelosi had better hurry. But here's the turtle cocain, Mitch says that there isn't going to be a trial before Biden is inaugurated, which means that all this is nothing but academics.

Yeah, that's true. Governor Cuomo, Governor Lightweight, know that the cities, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, probably going to be bailed out. By the Democrat Congress, Biden's proposal is one to two trillion dollars. In new spending, the vast majority of that goes to bailing out Democrats, that is, you knew this was going to happen. Which is why Biden can't even agree to a two thousand dollar check. Only fourteen hundred dollars, because they've got to have the money, which we don't have any way to bail out the cities.

Never mind, Biden promised 2000 dollars throughout his campaign, 2000 dollars to every American. Now it's down to 4500 because they got to bail out these Democrats and these were very loyal and did everything they were asked to do in terms of damaging, harming, destroying Donald Trump.

We'll be right back. It is open line Friday, we always try to get to the phones in the first hour on open line Friday, and we're going to accomplish the mission today. We've got Joseph in Columbus, Ohio. Joseph, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program. Great to have you here. Major player, I appreciate that, sir. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. So so here's my question, and I think it's a no brainer.

Do you think Donald Trump will start a major media company with 80 plus million people listening the first day? Let me turn it around on you. You think it's you think it's a fait accompli, do you think Trump is going to start a humongous media company?

No, no. It's just a question. I know. Oh, you don't have an opinion.

You're asking what I think about. No, no, no. You people always want me to do the heavy lifting. Do none of you have your own thoughts? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I realize that sounded to mean. I don't mean. I was just trying to be funny.

It didn't come off. No, seriously. You want my opinion on that? You don't have one?

No, I think have an opinion. My opinion is yes. I do not want him to do it. I'm just curious if that's because that was wrong.

I just don't know. I here's here's the thing about about this.

Let me ask you specifically, are you thinking of Trump as somebody doing his own show are just owning a massive media outfit that hires other people? But Trump himself is he's on the air now and then, but not regularly correct what you just said.

I don't see him having a show.

Yeah, because I guarantee you one thing that isn't going to happen. Trump is not going to have a daily show.

Yeah. You know why he's it's too big a restriction on freedom. This that I have often told people think that my job is glamorous because I'm a powerful, influential member of the media. You realize I have to be here every day at the exact time. Can't be a second late, can't be 30 minutes late, can't ever go to lunch. There's no way that Donald Trump is not going to him his life in that way. He's not going to do a daily show.

Even if it was only for an hour. He isn't going to do it. There's one day he's going to wake up. Want to play golf? Sorry, I'm not doing anything. It would bomb it because you've got to be there every day that you can. So the question then, dicenzo, is he going to own a massive network?

Well, that's going to take a whole hell of a lot of money.

We're talking billions and billions and billions of dollars. Maybe get the Mexicans to pay for it. Maybe you get Kim Jong un to pitch in, maybe some of the trichomes. It's getting a lot of money.

I don't know that he has it. I don't know that he's going to be able to borrow it if he doesn't have it. I know a lot of people think it's a natural for Trump to do, but I it's this is much harder. Doing something is much harder than just talking about it to really pull this off. Plus, it's a crowded field. Now, you look at the billions that it cost Rupert Murdoch to get Fox off the ground and running.

And look, it just took one day. It took one day for Fox to self inflict damage on themselves to go from first place to third place took one day.

Yep. You know, when it happened. When they called Arizona, when they called Arizona, even though it turned out to be correct, when they called Arizona for Biden, that's that's when it began. And then when the news hit that that Fox, not the primetime people, but but FOX reporters and anchors were not supposed to talk any more any longer about the election having been stolen or being fraudulent or any of that. And it's a sad thing to see.

But that's how precarious this is and they've spent billions and billions of dollars, I don't know that Trump has, but they're trying to wipe him out here, Joseph. They're trying to wipe him out financially. They're trying to wipe him out in every way you can imagine. See, this is what have you stand off on long enough with me, and there's nothing left to be said, you end up being speechless. So that's the. Well, I don't I don't know what Trump's got the slightest idea what he's going to do.

I don't know that that he knows. Aside from I would have to think. That he's going to do everything he can to make sure he does not lose the attachment, the support of the 74 75 million people that that voted for him, now how he's going to do that?

He's just got to be he's got to remain front and center. And fearless. He's going to continue to make himself a target. In other words, the left is trying to shut him up, shut him down, destroy him and wipe him out. I've got I've got a story here of some some poll that shows most or a majority of Republicans. Want to go back to the Republican Party of old and not be attached to the Trump magga make America great again, which I don't believe, I just I don't believe it.

But that's the kind of pressure that that he's going to be placed under, I just in terms of what he's going to do next, I don't know that he knows. I think he's fluid, remaining open, flexible. Trying to stay a step or two ahead, which isn't hard of what the left thinks that he's going to do anyway. I appreciate the call, Joseph. Thank you very much.

I got to go. We'll be back and continue here right after this. Don't go away, folks.

All right. Here you go. Another one this The Washington Post. On January 12, the FBI report warned of war at Capitol, which contradicts claims that there was no indication of looming violence. This is the FBI, The Washington Post reporting that the FBI was warning of a war at the capital. Long before Trump gave his speech. They've been saying that there was no indication of violence until Trump gave his speech, that's his B.S. It is an entire lie.

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I have to Belgin So let's do this one from a Southern Command in sunny south Florida. It's open line Friday. I didn't even after the court switch. Here we are heading off into the second hour of open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network open line Friday means that you can ask anything, you can bring up anything and talk about whatever you wish.

To talk about and remember, I am the politest host in America. Nobody who is invited to call here is made fun of, we do not use you as a as a as a tool, a stool or anything else, you are treated with a modicum of respect, not shown to callers on other talk shows. Most callers are used as props, but not this one. And again, 800 to eight to two eight eight two. Okay. Peter Navarro, now I have I have quoted Navarro a lot to you over the course of the past 12 months.

He's a Trump loyalist. He's in the Trump administration. He's want to trade representatives with the lighthizer. He's. An incredible economist, and he's very upbeat. He's a he's a unparallelled capitalist, unapologetic capitalist, just an all round great guy, and like Trump, he is fearless.

And Newsmax has a story Democrats did violence by impeaching legally elected Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro while insisting Thursday less of yesterday that President Trump was legally elected in November. He's he's not giving up this idea that the election was stolen said that the Democrat Party, quote, did violence, unquote, to the country by attacking the president and impeaching him in a travesty during the last remaining days. He has an office. Now, this is the kind of thing that I think more than Peter Navarro ought to be saying.

Now, I understand I understand the pressure that is being brought to bear on Trump cabinet officials. And I got the story here in the stack. I hope to get all this stuff. Conrad Black today just unloading.

And maybe earlier this week, they've got two of his columns, but he unloading on the disloyal members of the Trump cabinet who can't wait.

To just dump all over, Trumpy said this act of betrayal that these people are engaging in is embarrassing and worse.

This president, like I said in the first hour, the degree of achievement, the level of achievement in his first three years in office is unparalleled.

Here's Navarro, I will say to these people on Capitol Hill, knock it off, he was on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo. Stop this. Let the man leave peacefully with his dignity was the greatest jobs president, the greatest trade negotiator we ever had in this country's history. This is just wrong, what they're doing. And you know something, folks? That's it in a nutshell. It's just wrong. We don't need a bunch of flowery language. We don't need 750 word columns describing what's going on.

It's this simple. What they are doing is wrong. What the Democrats are doing and what they have been doing for four years is just wrong.

It's. No more complicated than that. The last thing they want Trump to leave with is his dignity, though. Oh, they want Trump destroyed. They want him ruined. They want him wiped out. They want the family wiped out. They want Jared Kushner destroyed. They want Ivonka destroyed. They want anybody and everybody that had anything to do with making Trump who he is destroyed. I hope I hope Jared Kushner, he's got to be he's got to be aware.

And I think Trump on a pardon, Jared Kushner, for things that happened before Jared was born. Just to make sure they cover everything. Synergies and they're laughing, but I'm telling you what, this is dead serious. I will say to these people on Capitol Hill, knock it off, stop it, let the man leave with his dignity, greatest jobs, president, greatest trade negotiator we've ever had.

Navarro also insisted if the election was held today, Trump would win again, and that's what the Democrats fear. He said, I have never been more pissed off in my life at this place, meaning Washington. And I think 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump feel exactly the same way. Let's go to the audio sound bite we have. Peter Navarro, who was on with Maria Bartiromo yesterday on Mornings with Maria, here is the song.

What we have here is a classic collusive oligopoly and kind of new wine in old bottle. What we saw with this attack on parler was chilling to me. It's you know, it's one thing to the platform, everybody. Twitter allows the ayatollah to tweet, but not the president in the United States. I would add to that one of the things that's really bothered me is the Chinese Communist Party official propaganda organs put things up all the time on Twitter. What happened yesterday was a travesty.

The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president who I believe was legally elected on November 3rd. If the election were held today, he'd be elected again. And if he runs in twenty twenty four, he will be elected then. And I think that's what the Democrats fear. I've never been more pissed off in my life at this place. And I think there's 74 million Americans out there who voted for President Trump who feel exactly the same way.

So I would say that these people on Capitol Hill knock it off. Stop this. Let them man leave peacefully with his dignity. He was the greatest jobs president, the greatest trade negotiator we've ever had in his history. This is just wrong, what they're doing.

It is. That's it. As simply as it needs to be stated. It's just wrong what they're doing. You may not think that has enough impact. But I do. You know, I don't believe in circumlocution, a lot of modern day commentators believe in circumlocution, I do not want no circumlocution is using more words than you need to to make a point. Now, most people not even know they're doing circumlocution, most people are trying to sound brilliant and smart and all this by using as many words as they can think of.

But I'm telling you, the fewer words it takes you to make your point, the more impactful your point will be. Never, ever doubt that folks the fewest words necessary make the biggest impact. And what they're doing is just wrong. You can add to it what they're doing may be criminal, what they're doing, you know, come up with a different adjective, but you don't need to complicate it with a bunch of big three dollar words and so forth just to make it sound like you're up to speed on things.

It's just. Here's a little bit more from from Navarro later on in the in the story, talking about the move by social media companies to block Trump. And the the pincer move, he calls it. A double flank attack to take down parler, that's a world war to a term that some of you youngsters may not know. For Google and Apple, the first part of the pincer was not to allow parlor apps to even be downloaded, said Navarro, calling those moves chilling.

Then Amazon came in for the brutal kill, taking the cloud away from parler, meaning cloud based servers so that it was no longer able to access data. And Amazon wiped out the company one day. Parler had a market cap in the billions in the next day.

Zilch, zero, nada. Navarro said he thinks Parler has one heck of a lawsuit pending Congress must take a serious look at Big Tex and he said that it's not going to happen. That isn't going to happen. You know what I pointed out earlier this week? Big tech, we had Jack, the Rasputin guy, we got Zuckerberg, we got the Google people show up, they're all called up their. To face the music of the American Congress, the House and the Senate, dueling committee investigations into social media.

They must have been called up there five times last year, and what happens, not a thing. Not a single change. No change in the way the social media companies interact, no dialing back of their power. Instead, what happens is a Fallston bargain is made members of Congress. We'll trade off. Any punishment, the social media companies, in exchange for great search results, for example? So Congressman Blue Horn from the state of Nebraska. Can be bought off with the promise of great search results, some people enter his name in the search field on Google and it comes back glowing stories.

Wonderful story.

You'll gladly look the other way while social media does its thing in exchange for campaign donations.

Oh, yeah, campaign donations. So nothing is going to happen. These people it's the last five years is proof they get called up and a big show is made of it. Big, big show is made of all these social media heads, honchos being brought up to face the music and they're never really there and done virtually because of covid. So the sessions are over and they go back like Rasputin. Jack goes back to his Hovell.

Nothing changes. They cancelled Trump's account, forcing other people to cancel their own accounts. And by the way, Rasputin, Jack said they're only now just beginning. Rasputin Jackson is going to take a long time to actually get rid of conservatism on his side, let me hear it. Grab somebody. Number five, here's Rasputin's Jack. It's not just Trump they're after. They are after you.

It's going to take some time just to close a little bit. We are focused on one that is going to be much better and it's going to go on much longer than just this week, the next few weeks going beyond immigration. And so the focus is certainly on this and other ties to rural voters. But also we need to think much longer term around Washington as well and don't believe this is going away anytime soon. Oh, wow.

Rasputin Jack assuring everybody that the purge of conservatism from Twitter, why it's not going to go away anytime soon, because it's going to take a long time to bring it about. It's not just about one account.

He's talking about Trump's. The other thing just just to close out a little bit, we're focused on one account right now, i.e. trumps.

But but but this is going to be much bigger than just one account and it's going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, the next few weeks. It's going to go on beyond the inauguration. They aren't going to stop until you and I are in the dust. That is their objective.

OK, open line Friday. We now go back to the phones. This is Paul in Castro Valley, Castro Valley in California. Great to have you. Hi.

Hey, thanks, Rush. Hey, has anybody noticed that the American vote was lost? It's I mean, all of a sudden with all this political theater, the dust stirs up and guess what's not being talked about anywhere anymore? What's that? The American vote that was lost. That was that. Oh, yeah. Way.

Yeah, the American vote that was stolen. Lost, whatever. Yeah. That ought to be that ought to be the number one focus of everybody wanting to get to the bottom with election reform. That's your point, right?

Yeah, because that's the American voice, sir. That's when we get a chance to peacefully put on a piece of paper what we think.

Look, I have to I have to remind you, I am the lone voice that said that the Democrat Party is not going to stop until they can render elections meaningless.

Well, I've got a good idea for a project for the president when he leaves office, wants to do a tour of eight states and he should go look at the evidence. And when he sees it and put it in his hand, hold up and say, see, look. This is this is what they did to you. And just go from place to, I think, but now hasn't he done that, he did that at Georgia rallies he's talking about there's nothing like the man in person for him to humbly go there and talk to the legislators and say, please show me the information that was shown to you.

It was respectfully just ask them to do this. It will focus the attention back where it needs to be, because he is where the attention of, you know, 75 million people are. And I think that can draw a lot of people in because once the light of truth shines on this stuff, it gets the people that run the media.

You're going to need the media for this to happen. The people that look at Rasputin, Jack, just got through saying that they're not going to stop at Twitter until they get rid of everybody on the conservative side things so that what you want can't happen because there will be nobody to provide the feed. And they're dead serious about this. This is all about their ultimate objective to render elections meaningless. They know we can't get rid of them because then we could not lay claim that we're a democracy so they can't get rid of it.

They'd love to get rid of them if they could, but they can't. So they have to render them meaningless and they've just shown that they can do it. Do you think that these same people are going to turn around the Donald Trump, show up in eight states with an envelope filled with evidence of their crimes and they're going to happily allowed this to be brought? It isn't going to happen. And I have to find another way.

I'm not trying to pour cold water on your idea. Don't misunderstand. I just don't think it's as easy or going to be as you made it sound like.

I think. Quick time out, folks. We will be back. Don't go away.

Yes. One night in Bangkok, this is Murray Head, minus the Trinidad's singers. Murray had to Trinidad's singers were part of Jesus Christ superstar. Britney broomed them for one night in Bangkok. Do you know that Bangkok. I've always found this fascinating. Bangkok, the name of the city. Bangkok, has the highest number of prostitutes per capita in the world.

And if there were ever a properly named city. That is it. I want to take you back to this program, March thirty first. Of last year, March 31st, 2020. We're in the midst of a lockdown. We're in the midst of the shutdown. And I am scared to death and I am worried. It's something that can't go on. It should not have happened in the first place. This is a little forty second sound bite, but I just before getting to the next two bites, I want to set those two up by playing what I said in March of last year.

I have an overriding sense of foreboding here. I'm really in a dilemma as to how much of what I really think do I share with you. Some of it I can't. I'd be run out of this studio on a rail if I were to tell you some of what I think. And I'm talking about terms of what needs to be done, not the circumstance that we're in, but the solution. Because the overriding sense of foreboding I have is that this cannot go on.

This just can't go on. We cannot go on like this for months. We are going to destroy the country or the economy. However you want to look at it. The favorite word of millennials is sustainable. Well, this isn't sustainable. No, it's not. It never was. And this this was this was so obviously true to me. We couldn't go on this way. And yet New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, happily shut down, happily telling people that they can't go back to their businesses.

Here's Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York Monday in Albany.

We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open.

Oh, man, we must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely. Goodness.

Where the hell have you been? What you just said you could have done back in March of last year. But you rode it out, you and Laurie lightweight, the governor sorry, mayor of Chicago, you guys ride it out all for the purposes of destroying Donald Trump by way of destroying the U.S. economy. Here's Laurie Lightweight also yesterday in Chicago.

I am very, very focused on getting our restaurants reopened. I want to get our restaurants and our bars reopened as quickly as possible. They are going to be one of the safer places in the restaurant space.

In the bar space is much more of an opportunity, in my view, to be able to regulate and control that environment.

What the hell happened? What the hell change to give you more ability to regulate and control that environment. Nothing's changed other than Trump is no longer going to be president and Biden's going to be, you know, what the hell has changed? These people are admitting they have destroyed their state's economy, their cities by this phony, unnecessary lockdown. Now both.

Well, the governor of New York, the mayor of Chicago, now say it's got to be open, we can't go on, you're the guys that did it.

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God bless you on your birthday there. I want to say that first, you know, there's a couple of things I'd like to go over. I was there last Wednesday. But before we get to that, you know, we've got to remember one thing. Cuomo is a fearmonger, number one. And number two, when the White House is being attacked and the president asked for the National Guard to be sent from New York, he wouldn't send them like a few other Democratic governors.

But with that being said, when I was there last Wednesday after the president spoke, it was already a march planned to go to the Capitol that was planned days in advance. And it was a peaceful protest. And we also saw the Supreme Court as well. When I got to the front of the top, a lot of be about 140, 145, we went around the side towards the back, which is where the Supreme Court faces. And there was no violence going on, no fighting going on, nobody storming the building.

It was people up on the stairs and nobody was attacking Capitol Police officers. And if anybody else, the footage of the back of the Capitol for that day, they'll see none of that nonsense happening. That might have been some pushing and shoving around four o'clock as I was leaving on the side, but nothing like that happened. I also noticed there was two kids with a megaphone that came walking through the crowd at the Capitol steps and they said, look at that window.

You can get in there. And now wait a minute.

Are you are you saying that you can't be saying that?

You're saying there was no violence at the Capitol that day on the back side facing the Supreme Court, there was no attacks on Capitol Police. Look at all the footage from the back side of the Capitol. It was all peaceful protesters back there. So let's go out. All right.

But there was elsewhere. So what is important in the front? Yeah, another place you can't see. But when you when I got there, I went around the side towards the train station by the back and there was no barricades. There was nobody saw me.

So I'm going to tie all this together. What's the point? The point is that there was two separate things going on. Of course, if that was what they said or Trump supporters were doing, it's not true. There was people in the back stand against the Capitol Police. Nobody was attacking them. Nobody was breaking through windows. Nobody was writing. They was there was about eight cars.

OK, OK, so you're you're basically saying the Trump people were peaceful, they weren't engaging in anything destructive or damaging, that it was the anti Black Lives Matter people that were doing all of that. And the media is lying to everybody about. That's your point, right?

Yeah, Rush, that's one of my points. The point I'm making is they're not showing the back side where there was no violence, there was no violence on the back side of the capital. There was eight cars parked there, no windows broken. None of them turned over.

OK, and so but when your point is that peaceful Trump people were on the back side.

Absolutely. And now when that report came out last night that said that they got the guy from Utah there, that he went out and bought a hat and he was supposed to be a journalist and they caught him trying to incite people. When I was up on the steps on the back side and I didn't break through any Capitol Police, the steps were wide open back there. When I was up there. There was true preppy looking kids with a megaphone trying to get people to attack the cops and breaking the window.

And I said to them, what he's doing, you're inciting a riot here. That's one. Why would you do that? And they shut their mouths and they walked away from me. And I saw movement one that made sure nobody attacked those cops. But I would love to go through the footage to point those two kids out. And if those two kids were doing it and not going in the front was doing it, it was a lot more of them doing it.

They OK.

All right, all right, all right, all right. We're starting to get repetitive here. We're looking for two kids, needle in a haystack, so forth. I appreciate the the call. Phil, thanks so much. Daniel in New Mexico. Great to have you on the program. Hello.

Mega dittos Rush for Healing and New Year's and birthday. The impeachment. This second impeachment. It's just like when Obamacare was signed and Nancy Pelosi grabbed that giant Mallott gavel and walked down the National Mall. This is a big F you to all of us, 75 million that voted for Trump. That's right. And to let us know our place. Yeah. Who's in charge? They are in charge and we are not. That's their message to us. Now, we don't have to accept that message.

What are you going to do? We can. Well, we. We can get the Tea Parties reorganized, we could start I had an idea of like a. Call it the 75 75 million, if we could get 10 percent of those people to write letters. The corporations, CBS, ABC, NBC, seven point five million letters, you know, this handwritten email, whatever, you don't think that wouldn't get noticed? A peaceful protest of letter writing?

I don't think you'd ever hear of who we are. I don't think you'd ever hear about it. I don't think they would open a single one of them once they found out what was going on.

They probably would not.

But then you go to the sponsors, Coca-Cola, Ford, GM, the national sponsors, and let them know, you know, that people can't cancel their Amazon Prime account people, you know, Netflix.

Did the Obama cancel Netflix? Have you did.

Have you heard what's going on at Harvard? Harvard, I have not Harvard students, current students, undergraduates are demanding that any Harvard graduate who worked for Trump, White, Kayleigh McEnany have her degree taken away from her. They are demanding the students are demanding that any. Anybody went to Harvard who got a degree and hers is in law. She's got an advanced law degree from Harvard. They're demanding that those degrees be canceled and taken away.

Do you think Harvard will do this?

How the hell did they get into Harvard not knowing the First Amendment? Because it doesn't the First Amendment's not a factor anymore. Then how the hell did they get into Harvard? They are not that smart that they are demanding people's right to be taken away.

I don't know you, but they're not that smart. I think it's it's it's it's it's another great example of how they're always a step ahead. These are the students demanding this, not the faculty. The faculty will be next. The fact. Oh, yeah, this is a great idea. This is a students demanding list. Now, what if they what if what if Harvard does it?

What if Harvard says, you know what, we're under a lot of pressure here and we may have made a mistake in credentialing these people with our precious Harvard degrees when we didn't know who they were and they might have misled us and misrepresented who they were with the way things are going, I can see something like this actually happening. A lot of people come on Rush and we've been saying for 30 years, come on, Rush, that will never happen.

While we're watching everything we thought would never happen happened right in front of our faces, right in front of our eyes. So I'll take it back, you think seven point five million people writing letters to Coke and Pepsi? We'll have some kind of an impact. I think Coke and Pepsi have already been threatened. That if they show any kind of support for anybody heading and do with Trump, their advertising will not be accepted, their advertising will not be their purchases will not be honored, and they'll have nowhere to advertise their product.

I think they're. For everybody in the past that you thought ran the show. It's not the case anymore, advertisers don't run the show they used to. And in certain circumstances, if you could get advertisers to participate in a boycott, then, yeah, you could say that they're running the show. But but still somebody is organizing that somebody is still telling the advertisers what to do. The advertisers are not behaving organically. And. The left is there way ahead and whatever you think in terms of conventional wisdom, if you're thinking along the lines of conventional wisdom, you are you're admitting that you're a couple steps behind where things really are right now.

Anyway, I'll try to expand on this and explain what I mean.

I got to take a brief timeout. Much more straight ahead when we get back.

Greetings. Welcome back, my friends. It's open line Friday. El Rushmore's serving humanity. How? Why? Simply by showing up to grab audio. Sound bite number three. This just a random sound bite so far. Doesn't relate to much of anything we've talked about, but it is kind of cute in its own way.

It's our old buddy, little Brian Stelter at CNN. And this happened last Tuesday. On CNN's NEWSROOM, so he is on his own show, is on Sunday morning, Reliable Sources, but he's No.

Whatever the name of his media show is, he's on here with co-anchor Jim Sciutto. Question little Brian, Twitter has now removed 70000 accounts. Facebook is removing all content that mentions stop the steel. Have you ever seen anything like this, little Bryan, in your career, and what is the latest as we see it now? Let me this is astounding. Here you have two media people, First Amendment guys. Talking about actual censorship at Twitter, and they are marveling at it.

They're not the slightest bit upset, they don't think that someday they could be next with one wrong turn.

They just think this is the most amazing thing and Jim Sciutto is asking it, O'Brien, if he's ever seen anything like this before. And what is the latest as we see it go forward now? Normally, I look, I'm going to tell you something back in the old days. Of John Chancelor, Huntley and Brinkley, Cronkite, you'll try this on them. If there had been social media, well, I say that, but, you know, it could I mean, these guys, those old guys were as big a left wing bunch of liberals as this current crop is.

But they were they were working in an environment where it was it was necessary that they fake it. They had to fake being objective. They had to fake having no opinions. They had to fake not being liberal.

But I just I'm David Brinkley. One thing I would not put up with this. But these people just marveling at. Now, listen to little Bryan answer the question here again, the question, have you ever seen anything like this, Bryan, in your career? And what is the latest as we see it go forward?

ISIS is the only parallel that is a similar conversation that Facebook and Twitter other companies are having now. They are wiping away the lies, stop the steel lies, kuhnen lies. But as we all know, lies, we get more lies. In fact, lies are used to cover up old lies. So in order to cover up what happened, what went wrong last week, you say, oh, it was antifa. That's what the president is doing.

And these people are going to repeat that lie today. These companies are addressing supply, but not demand. And demand is the harder part. Hatred and resentment and fear of the other, the vitriol that leads to violence, the white lash in this country, the anti-democratic streak. I just fear there's no way to delete that. There's no way to delete those feelings. That's where you need leadership from trusted figures. The Rush Limbaugh's, the Ted Cruz's of the world.

Are you kidding me? This is insanity. He is now comparing seventy five million of you. Seventy five million Americans who voted for Trump to ISIS. And then says, it's up to me to delete your feelings. As though you're just a bunch of mind numbed robots, you don't have thoughts of your own, you know, Brian, you know, this is not you know, these people are independent thinkers and, you know, maybe you don't know.

These people have believed what they believed long before I came along. Brian, the only thing is that when I came along, there wasn't a voice in national media echoing what they already believe anyway. There's no way to delete the the white last year, not backlashed, the white lash in this country, the antidemocratic you white people white privilege. White supremacy, you are causing a white lash. And it's up to me, a respected figure, and also Ted Cruz, another respected figure, to somehow delete your feelings.

Delete your feelings. Leadership trusted, at least that's good to know that I am still a trusted figure and now looky here, there's a story actually it's a chart we've had to convert it to text going into an exit poll and Axios story, GOP voters choose Trump again. According to Axios Ipsos, a majority Republicans still think Trump was right to challenge his election loss. They still support him. They don't blame him for the Capitol Hill mob and they want him to be the nominee in 2024.

Twenty. This is major media Democrat failure. Trump cannot be separated from his policies and successes. That's why he can't be separated from his supporters.

I will explain when we get back a household name at all. Four Corners of the world. I am Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back every day just to make sure everything on this program is fair.

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I look at here. Axios Axios is a handsome millennial left wing media publication, which means they're a bunch of Democrats, just a bunch of young ones, they've got what they think is a unique format. You don't have a paragraph to say why it matters and then after that, why it matters. Paragraph what you should know in addition. And then the next paragraph will say, what happens if you don't absorb this and then all the rest of it goes on.

It just a different format, but it's basically the same Democrat Party narrative that everybody else in the drive by media is engaged in. So what they did, they went out there and they teamed up with a polling unit called Ipsos. They used to be with AP. I don't know what happened. And they did a poll. Asking Republican voters their opinions of Trump. Now, the article is mostly a chart. And of course, a chart is worthless.

On a radio show, even if I wanted to put it on the Dettol cam and show you, it's still worthless. So because of my commitment to excellence, because of my commitment to professionalism, I've judged this story to be too important, just ignore because it's a chart. So I wrote it myself. We basically converted an Axios chart to text. Because that's what I do, I explain thing with words, other people use pictures, I use words.

Now, according to this Axios Ipsos poll, quote, A majority of Republicans still think that Trump was right to challenge his election loss. A majority of Republicans still support Trump. A majority of Republicans do not blame him for the capital mob. A majority of Republicans want him to be the Republican nominee in 2024. And then Axios explains why it matters to them. They say why it matters. The survey shows why Trump could run again in 2024 and possibly win if he isn't convicted or banned from holding federal office by the Senate.

There we have the purpose of the Axios chart and their story.

They're saying, my God, this guy Trump has survived everything we've thrown at him and these idiot Republican voters would elect him again. Oh, my God, we got to convict this guy so he can't run again, but they're not going to have time to do it, according to Professor Dershowitz. Now, the the Axios poll divides the GOP into Trump supporters and traditional Republican. Thirty six percent in this story identified as Trump Republicans, 56 percent as traditional Republicans.

What is a traditional Republican? Romney, McCain. That's what they want us to believe. The poll claims that 62 percent of Republicans overall think Trump was right. To contest the election results and an even higher 69 percent, don't blame him for the violence at the Capitol. The poll found very little appetite for removing Trump. And among Trump supporters, only one percent favor removing him.

Now, this is a poll of Republicans, but. What this tells me is that Trump is not in any danger whatsoever of being cut loose or abandoned by his supporters. In fact. It may just be the opposite. It may be that the ties that bind Trump supporters to Trump are stronger than they've ever been. I would I would not be surprised if that's the case.

Look at this, 92 percent of Trump supporters want to see him run again in 2020 for. Only 41 percent of traditional Republicans, either Romneys, want him to run, it's still a pretty big number. So Republican voters would choose Trump again, they think Trump was right to challenge his election loss. Now, what does all of this mean as we analyze it further? Well, that's why I'm here, and I will tell you.

It's very simple, and while it's simple, it's powerful. Donald Trump cannot be separated from his policies and successes. This is among his supporters and even among his detractors. They're trying they're trying to separate Trump from his supporters. They can't. And that's why he can't be separated from his supporters, because he can't be separated from his policies and more importantly, his successes. Calling Trump a traitor. And accusing him of inciting an insurrection. Flies in the face of who and what Trump is, it flies in the face of what Trump supporters believe him to be.

You see, folks, Donald Trump supporters. Have no doubt Donald Trump is a patriot. He is. In fact, if there is such a thing as super patriot. There's nobody. In elected politics, who is seen as loving his country any more than Donald Trump does, and I might add that there are quite a few people in elected politics who are not seen as patriotic at all, who are not seen as people who love their country. There are more and more people in elective politics, particularly the Democrat Party side.

Who think America is the problem in the world? Donald Trump supporters know it is a powerful thing to consider him a patriot, a patriot above all else. He rebuilt the military. He rebuilt the borders, he rebuilt the economy, he rebuilt trust in law enforcement. His actions, not his words, but they're powerful to his actions, define him. Just like social media is defined by grotesque attacks on speech trumps, actions defined him, Trump's achievements define him, Trump's accomplishments, his efforts define him.

Washington Republicans think Romney, McCain at all. They can't convince Trump supporters to abandon Trump. Why? Because Trump's policies are part of the bond. And I've been talking about this bond that Trump has with his supporters in 2016. I am certain I was the first to see it, I think I saw it before Trump and his people did. Trump is the only body, the only person. Who can break the bond, nobody else created it, Trump didn't the media didn't create demand, Trump did.

Only Trump can ruin himself. And he hasn't he hasn't even come close. Fox. Donald Trump is as conservative as his supporters, WASHINGTON Republicans do not share the policy preferences of the vast majority of Republican voters, and that's just the way it is. Trump delivered on his promises. Washington Republicans run from theirs. Oh, yeah, they make them they are making promises during campaigns left and right. They get elected, they run away from the promises, they surrender to media pressure.

At the drop of a hat, Donald Trump surrenders to nobody in media and calls them fake news and challenges them each and every day.

In truth, folks, Washingtonians, the Washington political establishment, they don't just have a Trump problem. They have people problems, they have policy problems, they don't connect with people. They're not even trying to the Democrats sure as hell don't the Democrats have no interest in connecting with people. Democrats want to dominate people. Democrats want to control people. Democrats want to rule. There's no desire. They have no desire for a bond between their voters and themselves.

So they don't connect with the people who make the country work. Not personally, not on policy, Donald Trump does, and you're seeing the evidence they can't break him. They can't break this bond, they have tried now for four years and counting and they are unable. To persuade you to abandon Donald Trump. Trump fights policy battles for the people of this country and the results speak for themselves. And he's loved and appreciated for it. It's all it takes.

Republicans at the national level are going to be lost in the political woods until they accept the fact. That they offer nothing to Republican and independent voters beyond the R next to their name and I'm sorry, but the R next to the name is not enough to defeat. The guy with the D next to his name. You can say it's marketing, you can say it's branding, you can send whatever, but the guy with the R next to his name is not going to automatically beat.

The guy with a default D next to his default Democrat's going to win every time if he's up against a standard, ordinary, everyday Washington Republican. Make America great again, Magga, not going anywhere, you know why? Because it's the right thing to do. Make America great again. Among Trump supporters, it is an controversial. It's. And not even fighting words, but to the American left, make America great again. Is reason enough to destroy the guy attempting to make it happen?

That's why Trump can't be separated from his voters, because he cannot be separated from his policies and. His successes now before we go to the break and a couple of sound bites here, and I'm a little late to this, but I still want to get to it. I want to make sure that it happens on this program. You heard the name John Sullivan. Gateway pundits Web site, they posted video of an Antifa activist named John Sullivan, this was yesterday.

That was recorded after the attack on the Capitol, this guy talking about how he tries to blend into the crowd. This is a guy who was arrested, a Black Lives Matter Antifa operative arrested for the capital riot, caught on tape admitting. That he posed as a fake Trump supporter and a fake reporter, CNN even interviewed this guy as a witness on the night of the riot. And he's a phony. He's a fake. He's antifa Black Lives Matter, made to look like a Trump supporter.

So yesterday on the Gateway Pundit website, they posted video of this guy, John Sullivan, recorded after the attack on the Capitol, this guy Sullivan talking about how he tries to blend into the crowd. The portion of video here is kind of it's all fake.

I learned that already. I'm going to wear a Trump hat. I'm going to wear Trump had I bought one today. I was wearing a Trump out at the at the Trump rally during the daytime because I was, like, not happening, bro. Oh, I was just a journalist. I use that all the time. Know I'm just in journalism here recording. I got my camera on my shoulder. Luly of my big eyes camera.

I can't run my I got my camera, my shoulder right here. I can I can easily fake them out. I can make it myself looking a journalist. Make myself look at Trump supporters. So here we have. This clown mitting. What we all knew. Antifa Black Lives Matter set this up. Using themselves as fake Trump supporters and fake journalists. Then over on CNN on the night of January 6th, Anderson Cooper interviewed this guy as if he was a reporter.

Who witnessed Trump supporters rioting? Here's Anderson Cooper. John, you filmed this moment on your phone. Just can you describe what happened? Yeah, so basically all the protesters kind of storm to get into the chamber, we tried to get into like the main entrance, right when you walk down the hallway.

So he's acting like a Trump supporter in this interview with Anderson Cooper, who is a journalist extraordinaire. Right. I mean, this guy values his journalist credentials as much as any of them do, and he's interviewing a fake. Who's making CNN look like a bunch of idiots? This guy, John Sullivan, pretending to be in this interview as if he's a reporter slash Trump supporter who merely witnessed Trump supporters rioting, and they still want to maintain this fraud that Trump caused all of this.

There's too much evidence now to indicate that that didn't happen. Brief break, back with more right after this. I just got an email from a very, very, very good friend who said, Rush, as usual, you make a brilliant point. Political suicide comes from betraying your base, not from even overzealous efforts on behalf of the base. Feel like I need to explain that just a little bit, political suicide comes from betraying your base, not from overzealous efforts on behalf of the base.

I mean, you can go overboard. You have as long as you are supporting the base, they're never going to abandon you. They're never going. Just to leave you stranded, even in a worst case scenario, if Trump was naive in thinking some of his supporters would not get carried away, he was still working for his base. The guy here is talking about the speech. Even the worst case scenario, if Trump was naive in thinking some of his supporters wouldn't get carried, one of the words he's making a speech, he's encouraging people to go to the rally.

If he's not even think some of them aren't going to go crazy down there, he's still working for the base. He's not abandoning them. He never abandoned his base. Donald Trump never has done that, but the Republicans impeaching Trump in the House are betraying those who elected them. They've not yet articulated a new agenda and they can't. We are to understand only that they support the Trump agenda without Trump. That's what they want you to believe, the Romneys.

Well, I don't know if I throw Romney in that group, but.

There are some Washington Republicans. Who are attempting to convince you? That they love the Trump agenda, they just don't want Trump being anywhere, don't fall for that, by the way. They wouldn't know what to do with the Trump agenda. They don't believe it. They don't believe in it. They're trying to give Trump credit. But they could never implement the Trump agenda, I don't believe in it, they don't believe in the tax cut agenda. They really they say they do.

They try to make it look like they are captive to that identity, but they're not.

So it's an important point, political suicide comes from betraying your base, not from overzealous efforts on their behalf.

Let's let Larry in front.

Royal Virginia, great to have you, sir. You're up next on Open Line Friday. Hi.

Well, it's not a rush. You're in my prayers. Thank you very much, sir. You're welcome.

I've got two items for you. First, I want to thank you and Katherine, as I receive the whole rest of your collection as part of that promotion you did. I'm looking forward to reading them to my grandchildren, and I'll be making a donation to the panels.

Thank you very, very much. I appreciate it. Really. Okay.

The second thing was that I was at the rally and I'm very frustrated with all the nonsense going on now, and I really need some levity. So I was hoping you would give us the back story on real. Why do I dump?

Well, because when I move to Sacramento, 1984, I was driving around. I needed to get familiar with the area because I'm going to be doing a radio show there. So I need to get out. And I'm driving through this town that the population size. Did you have a number on it there? Nobody will admit to living there. And then I'm driving home, they got they got cars with no tires on on the porch, on a front porch, and you got washers and dryers on the first floor.

What is this place? And I offered I offered to move there if they would rename it Limbaugh California. I offered to move there to rename it to raise property values. And they rejected me. So that's that that's the back story of real.

And if they were just renamed it Limbaugh, I would have moved there and there would have never been any jokes about it.

Hi, how are you? Great to have you with us. Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.

And hang on, he just said not Mr. Certainly has the subject of Brian Mast. And Jake Tapper did come up. That did not come up yesterday or the day before. All right, here we go, grab soundbytes 19, 20 and 21 if you want out there. Crash crashes The busy broadcast engineer today nickname because it usually happens that the program crashes two or three times. It never crashes running. It hasn't happened yet. Today, the knock on for Mickum.

Brian Mast, I know Brian Mast, I've attended Saagar dinners with him, he's a member of Congress from down here, West Palm Beach area. And. He got into a bit of a dustup. With a single simple question, Jake Tapper of CNN. Essentially smeared. Brian Mast. Who lost his legs defending America in Afghanistan? So this all starts on Wednesday on the House floor, debating the article of impeachment against President Trump. Here is Brian Mast, Republican in Florida, a portion of his remarks.

Number 19 arrives with a very simple question on January six, thousands broke the law by taking siege of our capital here with us inside.

Has any one of those individuals who brought violence on this capital been brought here to answer whether they did that because of our president? We're going to let this go. There's 30 seconds of silence as he's waiting for an answer to his question, 30 seconds of silence on the House floor. I have to fill it up. Otherwise, all hell will break loose. Crash's board may crash and they can't have that. So I got to fill it up here.

But 30 seconds of dead silence waiting for an answer that he did not get. It's about over not to resume here would Brian Mast, it appears I will receive no answer. I will yield my time back.

The question again was, has any one of those individuals who brought violence on this capital, have they been brought here to answer whether they did it because of our president?

No. And they won't be because they didn't. This is it's been firmly established, the timeline, the the actual contents of Trump's speech, he didn't encourage any of the stuff that happened. Well, this that you just heard him incensed Jake Tapper at CNN. Later on Wednesday, CNN special coverage of the House impeachment vote. Jake Tapper had this to say about Brian mask's remark.

Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don't know what is. I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States. Whoa, I don't know about his commitment to democracy in the United States, lost his legs fighting for democracy abroad. Although I don't know what his I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States. How do you separate it?

I thought Brian Mast suffered his injury defending the United States. In Tapper's world, he was over there helping out Afghanistan, but. In the process, he was not. Defending his own country. Well, Brian Mast responded the next day, Fox and Friends Steve Doocy said, I'm sure that you would defend Tapper's right to say anything he wants to about you. But the last part of it, he was he was questioning your commitment to democracy. Right?

I can say this emotionally. My commitment to democracy, to my country is unwavering. I love this place so much, it literally breaks my heart to see the divide that exists in it. I love our democracy for all of our problems. There is no government that I would rather be a part of anywhere in this world. And to strengthen that and keep it strong, we have to ask those questions. It's not the opposite of that where we don't ask those questions, don't ask lawmakers.

Did you take the time to to ask somebody or interview somebody or have a hearing that has to be the foundation of having justice, asking questions and waiting for the answer in silence until somebody gives it to you or taking their silence as an answer. And that's my response. I love this place.

Well, there you have it. So he felt the need to explain himself in the face of Jake Tapper's question. Did you find it interesting that Brian Mast felt the need to defend himself and Jake Tapper doesn't? Seems to be out of face, it seems to be exactly 180 degrees out of phase to me, if anybody, what? Those who said that. Don Lemon, why don't you. OK, Don Lemon, when did he say that? All right, well, I don't I don't I don't have that sound bite I'm talking about Jake Tapper, if you ask.

Well, Don Lemon has been saying things like that for I don't know how long they all have at CNN in this case, Jake Tapper.

I just think if anybody has an explanation, that's Doohan's Tapper, not Brian Mast. Brian Mast lost his legs in Afghanistan doing his duty, and he's got to defend himself. Yeah, OK, so you got Don Lemon calling everybody that supports Trump a clansman, it's silly, but that's the American left today. I don't know why anybody is surprised that it just continues to irritate me, that anybody is surprised by it.

It's been widely known and explained to these people are and we've chronicled how they're getting more and more radical leftist as the days go by and apparently not enough people wanted to listen or take me or it seriously.

Look, I got one more sound bite here. It's kind of it's Brit Hume. It doesn't really fit with the previous bites.

But I have discussed his point here. And I want to I want to get this out there. So grabs sound bite number 22. This is Brit Hume Wednesday night on Tucker Carlson. And Tucker's question to Brit Hume, Fox News is reporting that cocaine, Mitch. Thinks impeachment will help the Republican Party get rid of Donald Trump and the stain that he has left on the party. Now there's got to be a reason it doesn't make obvious sense and it's not orderly and peaceful.

So why are they doing it? And here's here's Brit Hume response.

Republican Party, they're saying what we don't want is this guy hanging around in two years, going the congressional elections and worst of all, running for president again after that, because, you know, he'll pull off a segment of the Republican vote and make it unavailable to ordinary Republicans, regular Republicans, and be a curse on them. And the other thing is they're furious with him. They believe in their bones that he cost them the two special elections in the state of Georgia, which they manifestly should not have lost.

A lot of Republicans stayed home offended by Trump. That's the reason the Republicans are turning away from they. They think he's bad news politically.

So establishment Republicans think Trump is a curse on their party. And that's what I want to get to here. Brit Hume, who knows establishment Republicans when he sees them, that's that's what they think Trump is to blame for all of this. Trump is to blame for 75 million people voting for a Republican for president, Trump is to blame for one of the greatest economies ever in this country. Economic rebounds. Trump is to blame for all of these new trade deals that finally put the U.S. on the side of advantage.

Trump response for all of these things and by God, they're going to fix it. They're going to get rid of Trump, they hate him, they hate him, they hate Trump's supporters.

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All right. One more audio sound bite here, my friends, on Open Line Friday. This happened Wednesday in Washington on the House floor during debate on the article of impeachment that Trump caused an insurrection out there. Representative Matt Gates of Florida, a Republican, was speaking from the floor of the House before the rioters tore through that glass.

Speaker Pelosi stood at that rostrum and tore through the president's State of the Union speech, inciting anger, resentment, division.

I denounced political violence from all ends of the spectrum. But make no mistake, the left in America has incited far more political violence than the right. For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing or there cheerlead for it and they fundraised for it. Now, some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame. Well, they lit actual flames, actual fires, met gates on fire on the House floor.

Now, he's right. Pelosi did have her copy of the president's State of the Union message, and she started ripping it page by page, ripping it to shreds, you know, when she did that. She did that right after the president awarded me the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's what sent her off. Because of me getting that medal that night and she was cheered and praised for it. It was infantile, it was childish, it was immature, but that's the left and they applauded her for it.

But that's that's that's what Gates is talking about. Here's Katherine Richmond, Virginia, as we head back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hi.

Hi, Raj. So great to hear your voice. Thanks for fitting me in. Oh, you bet. I was wondering if asked by Chris Wallace if you would go back on his Sunday show. You're asking what I when I accept the invitation. Yes. Probably not, but not for the reason you're thinking, why wouldn't you, because this whole year I've been rejecting invitations from any number of people and if I all of a sudden accept one, then I've made a lot of enemies.

Not that I guess that matters at this stage, but my my value base is such that, you know, I've been turning down and I don't you know, it's not a lot, but but well, actually, it is for a whole lot of reasons that they've stated they wanted to talk to me. Some want to talk to me about the Medal of Honor. So I'm going to talk about my my diagnosis. I'm going to talk about politics, the issues of the day.

And I just reject because I can't do them all. And I've decided if I can't do them all, I'm not going to do one.

So if I turn around and accept it and I don't know if I'm gonna get him attention or not, but I can't imagine doing it because then I would irritate and anger so many other people at this stage.

It's, you know, and it doesn't bother me. I have never been snootily will tell you I have never been somebody that needs face time, meaning I don't I see a TV camera and I'm not drawn to it. In many ways, I'm repulsed by it, but I certainly am not drawn to it. I'm not somebody who feels the need to be on TV. I don't I don't have a desire that, hey, I saw you on TV, man.

It was cool. I'm not one of those people. A lot of people love being on TV, but. And I've had my my run at it, and it's not that big a deal to me, so that's that's the long answer. You think I should accept? Is that why you wanted to know?

Well, Hasumi says that you shouldn't because it would bolster their ratings out there.

Oh, yeah.

Part of me says, yes, you should because there's always a good, robust conversation. And now that I feel Fox News has been kidnapped, it would be a really good conversation.

It might. But I guess, you know, one on one interview is not going to change the fortunes of Fox News.

I wish I had that kind of power, but I. But I don't. I mean, it might matter for a day or two anyway.

Kathy, I got to go. I'm out of time. I just noticed I don't mean to be rude, but we'll be back, folks. Wrap it up.

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