{"id":214290,"date":"2016-08-25T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/25\/trump_converts_the_gop_to_amnesty_\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:12:40","slug":"trump_converts_the_gop_to_amnesty_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/25\/trump_converts_the_gop_to_amnesty_\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Converts the GOP to Amnesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Could you imagine what it\u2019s like to be Jeb Bush today?  Who knew — (laughing)  I\u2019m sorry, folks.  “She\u2019s a bigot!”<\/a>  Who knew. First they tried Marco Rubio. They tried the Gang of Eight.  They tried Jeb Bush. They tried any number of people to convince — they tried me!  They sent emissaries to the EIB Network Southern Command.  They tried everybody they could think of to try to convince the Republican base to support some form of amnesty for illegal immigrants, and — (laughing) — sorry — who knew — (laughing) — I know it frustrates you to hear me laughing.  Sorry. <\/p>\n

Let me regain my composure.  Who knew that it would be Donald Trump to come out and convert the GOP base to supporting amnesty the same week Ann Coulter\u2019s book comes out.  Poor Ann.  Oh, my God, she\u2019s got this book In Trump We Trust, and in it she says the only thing, the only thing that could cause Trump any trouble whatsoever is if he flip-flops on abortion or on immigration, goes amnesty.  It looks like he\u2019s getting close to it, and she\u2019s just beside herself with this.  I mean, what timing. <\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends.  It\u2019s great to have you here.  Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone.  It\u2019s 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. You want to send an email, have a new email address.  It is ElRushbo@eibnet.us<\/a>.  Pardon me.  I have to dry my eyes here.  I was watching CNN today, you know, I really like the Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson.  Pardon the sniffles, folks.  If Snerdley hadn\u2019t shown me this, I would have totally missed it.  I really like Katrina Pierson.  I think she goes in there and stands up for Trump against all kinds of odds. <\/line><\/p>\n

She\u2019s on CNN today, and the subject in the roundtable is Trump\u2019s near flip-flop, not all there yet, but near flip-flop on amnesty and this whole notion that he\u2019s softening his position on immigration.  They asked her to explain what Trump\u2019s doing.  And she said (paraphrasing), “Well, he hasn\u2019t changed his thinking on this.  He\u2019s just changing the words that he\u2019s using.”  I stared at the TV, and there were four other people on the panel, and they started laughing and tried to stop.  They started smirking.  They had to go to a commercial break early \u2019cause nobody could keep up straight face. (paraphrasing) “No, no, no, he\u2019s not changing what he thinks at all.  He\u2019s just changing the words that he is using.”  Well, we\u2019ll get into great detail that only we can do here at the EIB Network and offer the perspective that only we can offer.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay.  Now, some of you might be a little perplexed at my comment about Trump being the Republican to come along and convert the Republican base to supporting amnesty.  We will explain this as the this program unfolds.  I\u2019m gonna tell you, Ted Cruz and the Cruz supporters are all over the place out there, in Politico.  Cruz is saying (paraphrasing), “We told you, we told you, we told you that every Trump policy has an expiration date, and it looks like Trump\u2019s immigration policy has just expired and he is now adopting the policy that we all had.” <\/p>\n

And Jeb Bush is out — well, is it Jeb actually saying it or somebody saying it for Jeb?  Yeah, Trump is out saying, “Don\u2019t doubt me on this, I\u2019m gonna fix it.”  And they said, “Well, that\u2019s exactly what Jeb Bush said.  Jeb Bush\u2019s immigration policy is exactly what Trump\u2019s articulating now, including saying, ‘Trust me, I\u2019ll fix it.'” <\/line><\/p>\n

But it all leads to the question:  Will this cause a problem with Trump supporters?  I\u2019ve done an informal survey here, and apparently it won\u2019t.  That\u2019s why I say, who knew that it would be Donald Trump to come along and convert the GOP base to supporting amnesty?  I don\u2019t see a lot of people preparing to abandon Trump over this.  Maybe Coulter.  Who knows what she\u2019s gonna do.  I mean, her book hits, and it\u2019s just had the rug pulled out from under it. <\/p>\n

What else?  There\u2019s number of other aspects about this.  Let me take a break and give myself time on the other side of this to keep going, but hang in there, folks, because we are just cracking the lid now.  We\u2019ll see what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Speaking of Trump, here\u2019s the Katrina Pierson sound bite that I mentioned.  It was on CNN this morning and here\u2019s who was on the panel.  It was Amanda Cooper (she used to work for Cruz, she was communications director) and Erica Hill.  There were two others there.  Maybe three. A total of five people, including Katrina Pierson.  And they all were on at the same time with head shots.  And the question was, “Katrina, how do you square those two?<\/p>\n

“[Trump] said … and I\u2019m quoting, ‘I just want to follow the law. We\u2019ll work with them,'” meaning the illegal immigrants.  Which everybody up to now thought he\u2019s gonna deport \u2019em.  I mean, he\u2019s saying, “They gotta go. They gotta go.”  What people don\u2019t know, may not remember — and I\u2019m remind you — is that Trump has said they\u2019re gonna come back. But he has made it plain that they\u2019re gonna be deported.  So Katrina Pierson was asked to explain what all this is.<\/p>\n