RUSH: Trump commutes the sentence of Roger Stone. The media was glued to the courthouse where Stone's sentence was announced and so forth. Can you think of anything that matters less to the people of the country than what was gonna happen to Roger Stone? But there the Drive-Bys were. They were all glued. Back on February 20th of this year, they were all glued to the courthouse.
They couldn't wait for Roger Stone's sentence to be announced. They knew that if Stone was sent to jail, it was just a matter of time before Trump was sent to jail. February 20th, 2020. And I asked even back then, do you think if Trump commutes or pardon's Stone, that they're gonna impeach him again? And they're talking about it. Here's Pencil Neck yesterday on This Week, George Stephanopoulos, "Hey, is this commutation of Stone's sentence, is it an impeachable offense?"
SCHIFF: It's an impeachable offense if you abuse the pardon power to protect yourself from criminal liability. We already presented a case with overwhelming evidence and they refused to convict then. And indeed, of course, during that impeachment we warned that if they left him in my office knowing that he'd committed impeachable offenses, that the damage he could do between now and Election Day could be severe. And here we are now 130,000 Americans dead, we have no idea just how bad the damage would be.
RUSH: Wow. Those 130,000 American deaths are all Trump's fault. Did you know that? They're now prepared to make that case? And, man, this is really, really bad. It was an impeachable offense. This commutation of the sentence of Roger Stone is an impeachable offense. It isn't impeachable! Of all things it isn't, it isn't impeachable. It isn't illegal.
Here's Pelosi yesterday morning, CNN, State of the Union the name of the show, Dana Bash said, "You called the president's commutation of Stone's sentence an act of staggering corruption. Is it an impeachable offense?"
PELOSI: It's staggering corruption. But I think it's important for people also to know that it's a threat to our national security.
RUSH: What?
PELOSI: The whole impeachment process was about our national security. Why we are -- the Supreme Court on these cases was to find out about the Russian connection.
RUSH: No, it wasn't.
PELOSI: And we will continue to pursue that. This case was about the Russian connection.
RUSH: There was no Russian connection. You see how they do this? The Supreme Court to look at the Russian connection? There is no Russian connection. Pelosi, go see the Mueller report. There is no Russian connection. But they keep it alive because, I'm telling you folks, the people that watch mainstream media still think that there's something there between Trump and Russia precisely because the media hasn't let it go. They've undersold and downplayed what the Mueller report conclusion was.
But this threat to our national security, the whole impeachment process was about our national security, Supreme Court was to find out about the Russian connection and we will continue to pursue that? There isn't anything.
So, folks, I want to show you something. Put that slide up there, Brian. For those of you watching on the Dittocam, this is a screen grab Fox News recently, and again we'll give you the data, we'll put it at RushLimbaugh.com. Commutations by president. I don't know what the length of time here is. For example, the number under Trump's name is 10 commutations. Under Obama 1,715. George W. Bush, 11. And Bill Clinton 61.
I've got some differing numbers here that don't jibe with this at all. But they are the same in terms of percentage. I don't know which of these are accurate now. But that number, 10 -- let's look at this -- the ones that are up there, 10 commutations by president -- we're talking impeachable offense? Ten. This is commutations and pardons. Obama, 1,715 commutations and pardons. Bill Clinton, 61.
And again, I don't know if these are first-term numbers because, you know, Obama served two, George W. Bush served two, and Clinton served two. Trump has only served one. So I'm assuming that these are first-term numbers. The other set of numbers I have are not sourced, so I'm not even gonna share them with you except that they're the same percentage-wise.
But the point of this is that Democrat presidents commute and pardon more people than Republican presidents could even think about. In the case of Trump, 10 over the course of this first term. And you're being led to believe that Trump is doing this and commuting every sentence or pardoning people for personal, political, and legal benefit when nothing is even close to the case.
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RUSH: Okay. I figured it out once I had time to start deciphering things. The numbers -- and put 'em back up there, Brian. These are commutations only that Fox News flashed, commutations only. Ten from Trump, 1,715 from Barack Hussein O, 11 for George W. Bush, 61 for Clinton, and those numbers are, by the way, for both terms of Bush, Barack Hussein O, and Clinton.
Now, if you add pardons, then the numbers change. You can take that slide off of there now, Brian, thank you. So if you add commutations and pardons, Clinton in his two terms, 459 people. George W. Bush, 200 people. Barack Hussein O, 1,927 people. And there wasn't a complaint about any of them. There wasn't a whine or moan or any concern about the threat to democracy, the threat to the rule of law, the threat to national security, not a one.
There was nothing but sycophanting sucking up. Whatever Obama did, the Drive-By Media was there running the risk of getting anal poisoning. They couldn't help themselves. It's an important point. Not one of those pardons and commutations out of the 1,927 people was of any concern to anybody. You didn't dare, especially if the pardoned or commuted happened to be a minority. It didn't matter if they were terrorists, it didn't matter if they were really bad actors, if they were minorities, you really didn't say anything about it. Donald Trump, as of July 11th, 36 people.
Now, granted, Clinton-Bush and Obama, these are two-terms numbers, so eight years. But Trump has a long way to go to catch up here, 36 pardons and commutations. So again the number, Clinton, 459; George W. Bush, 200 people; Obama, 1,927; Donald Trump, 36. And who are they having a panic attack over? You got it. Because that's the only thing that matters, getting rid of Donald Trump.
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RUSH: And I'm looking here at the Obama numbers and when he announced these commutations and pardons, and many of them were in his last week in office, second term.