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RUSH: Ever since Friday when Donald Trump most recently appeared on the big program here I have been asked by people, “Do you think he\u2019s running?” and up until Friday, I didn\u2019t think so. I thought there were other things behind this — and I still don\u2019t know. I\u2019m still into wild guess territory, but now if I had to put money behind the guess I would say he\u2019s running. I really think he is. As of now, I think (in his mind) he\u2019s running. Now, with Trump anything can happen between now and that day that he says he\u2019s going to announce. What is it, he said that he\u2019s going to…? Prior to June, the finale of The Apprentice he\u2019s gonna do something. He\u2019s not going to announce it that day, he\u2019s gonna announce what date he\u2019s gonna announce. <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s obviously promoting the finale of The Apprentice. Ah, just a couple things out there. I think he\u2019s gonna do it. He was in Boca on Saturday making a political speech. He basically said that Romney is not rich enough. He said Romney\u2019s not nearly as rich as he, Trump, is. Trump says he\u2019s a billionaire. Now, remember there was some people at — I forget who it was, a magazine or something — that did a story on Trump claiming he\u2019s lying about his net worth (saying it\u2019s really only $250 million or something) and he sued them, and there was a retraction. <\/p>\n

I think Forbes. I think he opened his books for Forbes or something and Forbes came in and reported that it\u2019s a lot more than $250 million. He sued. Trump sued some author a couple of years ago for libel, claiming his net worth was less than $250 million. The Trump libel case got thrown out, but Trump did go to Forbes, and they looked at the books, and they found it was much more than 250. Here\u2019s the audio sound bite. This is at a Tea Party deal on Saturday in Boca Raton, but this happened to be with Candy Crowley on Sunday\u2019s State of the Union. She said to Trump, “You\u2019re a better businessman, you think? It\u2019s a selling point for you over Romney?”<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I\u2019m a much bigger businessman and have a much, much bigger net worth. I mean, my net worth is many, many, many Mitt Romney. I would love to put that ability to work for this country. So I don\u2019t do it for myself, I\u2019ll be doing it for the country — and guess what? That\u2019s what this country needs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This country needs me. Well, now, you can laugh at that. I\u2019m just gonna tell you something: Everybody that\u2019s serious about running for office thinks that. Why else run? You almost have to. To put up with what that entails, you have to think the country can\u2019t get along without you. The country needs you. You have to have something driving you. Trump is just verbalizing it here — and he didn\u2019t actually say (laughing) that Romney is not rich enough. That\u2019s a caption to a picture of Trump from Boca that the New York Post runs. That\u2019s how they interpret it. <\/p>\n

In fact, the New York Post story: “I\u2019m Better for Prez Because My Net Worth\u2019s Bigger Than Romney\u2019s — Vote for me \u2019cause mine\u2019s bigger. Donald Trump yesterday fired the opening salvo in a macho battle of bank accounts with rival presidential contender Mitt Romney, dismissing the former Massachusetts governor as a ‘small business\u2019 person and saying his own assets are ‘much, much\u2019 larger than [Romney]\u2019s. Trump, whose approval ratings have rocketed upward since he started hammering President Obama, yesterday turned his fire on Romney, considered by many the front-runner…”<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait \u2019til he starts taking on Huckabee because Huckabee is #1 or #2 in some of these polls. “‘I\u2019m a much bigger businessman and have a much, much bigger net worth. I mean my net worth is many, many, many times Mitt Romney,\u2019 Trump told CNN\u2019s Candy Crowley yesterday. … ‘Well, Mitt Romney is basically a small-business guy, if you really think about it. He was a hedge fund. He was a funds guy. He walked away with some money from a very good company that he didn\u2019t create. He worked there. He didn\u2019t create it.'” He\u2019s talking about Bain Capital. “Trump [said] that he had created ‘hundreds of thousands of jobs.'” Here\u2019s part of a speech from Trump on Saturday in Boca…<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I know a lot about books. The man that wrote the second book didn\u2019t write the first book. The difference was like chicken salad and chicken (bleep). I read both books. There is no way that he wrote that first book. His whole aura was caused by the genius of the first book, which was written by Bill Ayers!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s birther claim #2. First you\u2019ve got the birther claim, and now the claim that Bill Ayers wrote Obama\u2019s book. That is the result of research done by an author by the name of Jack Cashill or Cashill (I don\u2019t know how Jack pronounces his name. It\u2019s spelled C-a-s-h-i-l-l. It\u2019s either Ca-shill or Cash-ill) and Jack spent months, and he\u2019s got this entire dissertation. He\u2019s gone back and he\u2019s looked at previous Obama writings. He knows the history: Obama ran up to a deadline on his first book, hadn\u2019t gotten anything written, then he did get something written and he turned it in. It was horrible. <\/p>\n

The publishers rejected it or something like this, and finally when the book about his father got submitted, everybody said, “We\u2019ve never seen any writing like this from Obama. We\u2019ve never seen this.” So then they started comparing it, Jack did, to other writers and they found what he says is an unmistakable comparison between the way Bill Ayers writes and Obama\u2019s first book. Now, Ayers is out making jokes about this now. You know, Ayers goes out and tries to speak to these future little Pentagon bombers, little kids out there who aspire to the same things Ayers did: Blowing up people and things. <\/p>\n

One person said, “I understand that you wrote Obama\u2019s first book,” and Ayers said, “Yeah, I wrote it,” and then that person put that video all over YouTube: “Ayers Admits to Writing Obama\u2019s Book!” So here\u2019s Trump bringing this up. Next, Trump\u2019s gonna be talking about David Rockefeller and New World Order and the Trilateral Commission and how they picked Obama. But despite all that I still think… I don\u2019t know. Right now I think Trump is running.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jonathan in Reston, Virginia, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, good afternoon, first-time caller here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got a kind of small difference of opinion with you on Democrats and redistribution of wealth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Notice how Democrats always use a conduit. They don\u2019t give money directly to the people. They give it through a union — as in the GM bondholders. They give it to the green crap industry instead of the oil industry. They give it to AARP. See, if Democrat politicians were sincere, they would be in favor of eliminating all corporate subsidizes, right? Instead, they give it to their, quote, unquote, “rich special interests.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a second, though. There is direct transfer payment. You know, WIC student loans are a direct transfer payment, a lot of them are given. Food stamps. There are all kinds of direct, common, ordinary payments. Everyday welfare payments. There are all kinds of Democrat from the Democrat Party to you payments.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You are correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Earned-Income Tax Credit. Now, you might argue that goes through the IRS, but who likes them anyway no matter what they do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. I have another quick comment I\u2019d like to make on Trump. I don\u2019t trust him. I think the only reason why he\u2019s decided to throw his name in the ring is he\u2019s concerned about the Democrats coming after the real estate sector of the economy. You know how the Democrats went after the oil industry, the health care industry —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the financial industry. So now Trump is concerned. He\u2019s seeing all this transpire, and he\u2019s like, “Whoa, they can come after my industry next, but if I get to be…”<\/p>\n

RUSH: In what way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In what way?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, like in what way could he see them coming after the industry down the road? I could make the case they already have come for real estate people. They\u2019re coming for everybody, for crying out loud. I know what you\u2019re saying. You\u2019re looking for the thing that is the catalyst. “Okay, there\u2019s one thing that made Trump do this,” and what you\u2019re essentially saying is he\u2019s trying to protect his own. “When it happens to everybody else, I don\u2019t care, but now they\u2019re gonna start messing in my backyard, okay, I\u2019m gonna do something to stop it.” That\u2019s basically what you\u2019re saying, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. So what could they do to real estate that would finally get him off his duff, say, “Okay, I gotta stop this?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, eliminate some of the subsidies which they\u2019re already talking about doing, the mortgage interest deduction? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — eliminate some investment interest as well?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Possible. It\u2019s possible. You know, his candidacy\u2019s not even official yet. The whole thing is in its infancy. For example, he said on this program Friday that he would tax the ChiComs 25% because of how they\u2019re screwing us. Well, he says he\u2019s a conservative. That\u2019s not a conservative thing. A foreign tariff, that\u2019s just gonna raise the price of imports to this country and the cost of living. That\u2019s not, quote, unquote, “conservative solution to a problem.” All that stuff he\u2019s gotta get fleshed out, and at this point, with Trump you don\u2019t know what\u2019s talk and what isn\u2019t yet, even the whole deal if he\u2019s running. It\u2019s one of those things sit back and wait for what ultimately happens — and still people are trying to figure out, “Why is he really doing this?”<\/p>\n

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