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RUSH: Okay, here we go to the audio sound bites. I appeared<\/a> on Fox News Sunday yesterday. I\u2019ve always suggested to Fox News, “You can have me on and put me on the panel that comes later in the show to analyze what I said — and, if necessary, criticize what I said. I\u2019d be willing to do it.” They\u2019ve never taken me up on it. They probably will at some point. So we\u2019re gonna do it here, and we start — and, by the way, for those of you emailing, it was a totally enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n

I never think Chris Wallace is interrupting me. He and I always have an agreement going in that he wants to ask me as many questions as he can squeeze into 12 minutes. He also doesn\u2019t want to get flak from any of you thinking that he\u2019s mistreating me. So he asks me if I\u2019d be kind enough to give him, you know, papal exclusion before the program airs in understanding that all he\u2019s trying to do is get me to say as much as I can about different things.<\/p>\n

So they added three minutes to the segment yesterday, but he said to me, “This doesn\u2019t mean I want you to have longer answers. It means I want to cover more things.” So I\u2019m never offended, and I always try to make my answers as brief as I can with him knowing going in. So that I want you to know going into the first bite… He says, “You say that what\u2019s happening to Donald Trump right now is that the left-wing courts, left-wing media, left-wing bureaucracy are trying to, in your words, ‘sabotage his presidency.\u2019 Sabotage?”<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, actually, yes, and it is driven by two things, actually. The first thing that\u2019s going on, Chris, is in my view, it is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in this country. It\u2019s absurd. There is no evidence. Zilch. zero. nada. The New York Times has run two stories that are basically propaganda on this, one in October and one this past week. And, both stories clearly say no evidence. Nobody they\u2019ve talked to has any evidence whatsoever to suggest it. The second thing I think that\u2019s important for people to remember: People that voted for Donald Trump, people that support Donald Trump really, really believe that they were gonna lose the country if Hillary Clinton won. This is not an idle thought; it\u2019s not an exaggeration. They really believe that the country as founded was up for grabs. It was over if Hillary had won, if the Democrats had another four or eight years to do what they do with the judiciary and so forth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a point, by the way, that I don\u2019t think is understood by people that don\u2019t like or didn\u2019t support Trump, people that opposed him — and this includes even Republicans. Another way of saying this is that most in Washington never thought the country was facing any kind of a crisis, whereas clearly a majority of Americans who voted think there is a crisis. It\u2019s fascinating to me that the people in Washington didn\u2019t, and it comes down to the elites are fine where they live. Their incomes are up; their job security is supreme. They don\u2019t even have to really worry about meritocracy.<\/p>\n

All they\u2019ve gotta to worry about is, you know, politically correct membership status. The effects of their policies don\u2019t impact them. They don\u2019t live amongst a bunch of crime-ridden illegal immigrants and refugees. They don\u2019t have to deal with any of the results of their policies. And, as such, they don\u2019t really experience life like a bunch of Americans who have been stagnating for 15 years in terms of their economic circumstances. And then when you come along and say, “Those people really thought that we were gonna lose the country if Hillary won the election. They really think that.” You know, people pooh-pooh this.<\/p>\n

The media pooh-poohs it and the Washington establishment pooh-pooh. They think it\u2019s insane talk. They think it\u2019s extreme talk. “What do you mean, ‘lose the country\u2019?” It doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re gonna lose America. There\u2019s always gonna be an America. But what kind of America is it gonna be? And I think, to the extent that Democrats want to win again — and I know they do — I think it\u2019s something they should look at. They were actually fostering — and look at what\u2019s happened to them! They\u2019ve lost 1,200 seats all across the country since 2010. Actually, outside the presidential race, you can go back to 2008 to trace this decline.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason this is happening. People were rejecting what the Democrats were doing. People were rejecting en masse every chance they had, every Obama policy. The only thing they didn\u2019t do was vote against him, and we all know why. There\u2019s two primary reasons for that, which we don\u2019t need to rehash here. The fact is that everything on this Obama agenda was repudiated in 2016. It was sent packing. Nobody wanted any more of it. And if the Democrats have any hope of ever winning again, they\u2019re gonna have to stop making fun of people who really thought they were losing their country.<\/p>\n

I mean, for crying out loud, when you run a bakery shop and you have the government and the media and thousands of people outside protesting your little, small business demanding you do this or you do that or they\u2019re gonna throw you out of business? That, to them, is not America. To see so many people trying to damage them and harm them for all of these rising political increments? But it\u2019s worse. It\u2019s rampant, runaway immigration, and the crime that comes with it. It\u2019s what\u2019s happening to dilapidation of cities where people live and neighborhoods where people live and the never-ending destructive protests and riots and bombing.<\/p>\n

None of this happens where the elites live. So they don\u2019t face it. It\u2019s always happening out there in flyover country to them. But this was a real sentiment, and the reason that it\u2019s important also is it gives Trump a wide berth. If you think that we\u2019re on the verge of losing the country — and by that, your kids\u2019 futures. If you think we\u2019re on the verge of losing that, you\u2019re not gonna be worried what Donald Trump did on The Apprentice ten years ago and it isn\u2019t gonna make you divorce him.<\/p>\n

The traditional ways of destroying politicians are not gonna work on Trump because he represents too much that is too important to too many people to have it derailed by traditional political games. And that\u2019s why I think that the media can\u2019t destroy Trump, \u2019cause they didn\u2019t make him. And these two points — the fact that people thought we really were gonna lose the country and that people gonna stick with Trump no matter what — are the two things that I don\u2019t think his detractors have bothered to take seriously.<\/p>\n

They ridicule the idea that people think we\u2019re gonna lose the country. They laugh at it. They mock it. They make fun of it. But I\u2019m telling you, it is real. And it\u2019s not over! They\u2019re gonna continue to support Trump because they can see right now there are people that want to take Trump out, led by the media and who knows who else in the establishment. They can see it. They know full well if they could they\u2019d find a way to make Hillary president. Short of that, make Pence president and have the Republican establishment back in charge of things. So it\u2019s still dire consequences as far as Trump voters are concerned.<\/p>\n

Here is the next bite. Question Chris Wallace. You use a phrase which I have to say I only heard for the first time in the last couple of weeks, the deep state. And that\u2019s the notion that there\u2019s an Obama shadow government embedded in the bureaucracy that\u2019s working against the new president. I think some people are gonna think that\u2019s right on and some people are gonna think it\u2019s awfully spoliator.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

WALLACE: You also use a phrase which I have to say that I only heard for the first time in the last couple of weeks, \u201cthe deep state,\u201d and that\u2019s the notion that there\u2019s an Obama shadow government embedded in the bureaucracy that is working against this new president. I think some folks are gonna think that\u2019s right on and some folks will think it\u2019s awfully conspiratorial.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I would love to claim credit for that, but actually I think a reporter by the name of Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept \u2014 who has got a relationship with, what\u2019s his name, Assange. I think he actually coined the term. And I think it works. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any \u2014 who\u2019s driving this business that the Russians hacked the election? It\u2019s the Democrat Party. It\u2019s Hillary. It\u2019s Obama. It\u2019s all those people who just can\u2019t accept that they lost. They\u2019re intellectually \u2014<\/p>\n

WALLACE: And you think they\u2019re behind the leaks, too?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely. Of course they are. They\u2019re trying. Look, they can\u2019t win at the ballot box. You know they\u2019re down 1,200 seats since 2010? They\u2019ve become a marginal party, electorally. All they\u2019ve got is their embeds in the bureaucracy and the judiciary, and they\u2019re pulling out all the stops. There\u2019s no question. This business that the Russians hacked the election? This is a serious, serious allegation that is impossible. The Russians could not have had any impact whatsoever on voting, either how they were cast or how they were counted.<\/p>\n

In fact, if you want to say they did, they did their job! Hillary won the popular vote. How could they possibly have had any\u2026? This whole premise \u2014 and it\u2019s been driving news coverage here ever since Trump took office and even before. You don\u2019t need any more evidence than that to suggest and to know that the left \u2014 which is run by Obama and Hillary and the hierarchy in the Democrat Party \u2014 is doing everything they can to undermine, to sabotage, and to prevent Trump from implementing his agenda. There\u2019s no question about it.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There isn\u2019t. I don\u2019t need to add anything. That was well stated, coherently stated, cogently stated, and there\u2019s nobody reasonable who can disagree with it. (interruption) You think somebody can reasonably disagree that they\u2019re not trying to undermine the Trump agenda? Hell\u2019s bells. There\u2019s no question about it.<\/p>\n

We can squeeze one more in here. Question: “You suggest there\u2019s some things that Trump may be doing wrong. You said that you\u2019re skeptical about his idea they\u2019re gonna come up with a new executive order on the so-called travel ban and that this new one\u2019s gonna pass muster with the federal courts. You\u2019re skeptical about that?”<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not so much skeptical. I think they\u2019re going to do it, and I think they should do it, because the judiciary, again, is pockmarked with judicial appointees that Democrat presidents have made for years, and they\u2019re in there for life. As we have seen in the first executive order\u2026 You know, Chris, his executive order hasn\u2019t even been ruled on. The judge in Seattle said (paraphrased), \u201cWell, the president said during the campaign that he wanted to ban Muslims, and\u2026\u201d It\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even using the law to try to stop the president on this. I think what the president has to do \u2014 and I was happy to see it. This rally was something that I hoped he would do, and in the rally he really focused on domestic agenda. Look, here\u2019s the thing. Donald Trump has nobody helping him other than the people that voted for him. Obama had the media; Obama had the judiciary; Obama had all kinds of support. At an Obama press conference, typical question, \u201cWhat enchants you?\u201d I mean, Obama was never challenged seriously by the media.<\/p>\n

Trump doesn\u2019t have any of that. He\u2019s got to keep his supporters on board; he\u2019s gotta keep \u2019em revved up. So the rally was great. But the thing that will really make all this Russia stuff and all this deep state stuff not take hold is getting to work implementing the repeal of Obamacare, getting to work and really doing tax reform, and getting to work and really shore up our borders. Because that is the primary area where people that voted for Trump felt that we were on the way to losing the country. We\u2019ve even lost the definition of immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmigration\u201d today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. That\u2019s not what immigration is. That\u2019s illegal immigration, and we ought to all oppose it. We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate or not. Nobody\u2019s opposed to that. But immigration has been defined now as people flooding the country who are noncitizens. And that\u2019s called \u201cimmigration,\u201d according to the culture of the left.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not much to add there. I mean, what would you add, Brian? Anything much there to add? Anything left unstated? Anything ambiguous about that? I was exceptionally brilliant there, too. So let\u2019s go to the obscene profit time-out and we\u2019ll just continue on this big roll when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Next question from Chris Wallace. He cites the Chris Cillizza piece saying it was very, very smart of me to suggest that Trump get going on the domestic agenda. And he pointed out that by all standards, you know, Trump\u2019s running way behind even Obama. Obama had a lot of stuff done by this time. Trump hadn\u2019t done anything yet. “What do you say to that, Rush?”<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, here I have to tiptoe. (laughs) We\u2019re not talking Republicans and Democrats opposed to Trump. We\u2019re talking establishment versus Trump. Trump is considered to be an outsider. The establishment doesn\u2019t want any part of Trump. They don\u2019t want him to succeed. And I would throw some Republicans in that as well. It\u2019s just the way Washington works. And this is why I think moving forward on this agenda is crucial. You mentioned Obama\u2019s stimulus. Here\u2019s the difference \u2014 and this is what Trump supporters know. It wasn\u2019t a stimulus. It was a payoff to unions, Chris. It didn\u2019t stimulate anything! We don\u2019t have a growing economy. We don\u2019t have jobs being created at a replacement level for those we had lost. We don\u2019t have anything Obama said. He lied about the cost of premiums coming down.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: But, you \u2014 You \u2014 Rush, you may be right, and I\u2019m not \u2014<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. This is important stuff. The \u2014<\/p>\n

WALLACE: Well, no, I\u2019m not disagreeing with you. I\u2019m just saying at least he passed his program, and President Trump hasn\u2019t passed any of his programs yet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course. It makes my point. Here you had\u2026 I tiptoe again. You have the historic, first African-American president \u2014<\/p>\n

WALLACE: (laughing) You\u2019re not very good at tiptoeing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s television. It\u2019s Fox News. I have deep respect. But, no, seriously. You have the first African-American president; you have everybody falling all over themselves to acknowledge that, to reward that. Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what. But don\u2019t ignore the substance. The voters know that his stimulus\u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter when it got passed; he misled everybody about it. The people of this country are tired of being misled. They\u2019re tired of voting based on what candidates have told them they\u2019re gonna do, and nothing ever changes.<\/p>\n

Trump has a wide berth here, Chris. The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can\u2019t destroy him. But the media thinks \u2014 and when I say \u201cmedia,\u201d let me define: ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, L.A. Times. That cadre. They have a formula, they have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials they don\u2019t like. It\u2019s not gonna work on Trump. He doesn\u2019t fit that mold. They\u2019re trying to every day. It\u2019s kind of comical to watch.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the media went to town on this one, that the media didn\u2019t make Trump so they can\u2019t break Trump. They\u2019re never gonna stop trying to break Trump. But they haven\u2019t been able to do that since the day he announced. They weren\u2019t able to stop him being elected. But that\u2019s not gonna stop them. But they don\u2019t understand why they\u2019re flailing at this. And I\u2019ve seen some journalists today, “We\u2019re not trying to destroy the president. We\u2019re just trying to hold the president accountable.” You are trying to destroy him! You\u2019re trying to defeat his agenda. You\u2019re trying to make sure that what he ran on doesn\u2019t happen, as opposed to trying to help Obama with his.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the interests of time I truncated the question for the previous sound bite that Chris Wallace asked me. I\u2019ll go back and get that. He said, “But, I gotta tell you, by historical standards, by this point Obama\u2019s stimulus had already been passed. President Trump is pretty slow on Obamacare, is pretty slow on repealing Obamacare, pretty slow on tax reform, and there\u2019s a lot of disarray inside the Republican Party on Capitol Hill,” and that\u2019s where I said, “Well, now, here I have to tiptoe.” And what I meant by that was that there\u2019s opposition to Trump on Capitol Hill. Obama didn\u2019t…<\/p>\n

\"\"Look, to the stimulus: The Republicans didn\u2019t have the votes to stop anything Obama wanted to do the first two years. People have forgotten this. But Obama\u2019s election over McCain — and I know we haven\u2019t talked about McCain today. But Rand Paul\u2019s exactly right: We\u2019re lucky McCain did not become president. Rand Paul is exactly right about that. This is purely personal. McCain\u2019s just got his underwear in a wad. It\u2019s a personal thing he\u2019s got with Trump, and maybe some of it understandable. You know, Trump out there saying he doesn\u2019t like military people that got captured like McCain does.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s clearly goosing McCain, McCain has taken it personally, and McCain\u2019s out there on foreign soil ripping into Trump as unstable and his administration is in disarray or what have you. I mean, it\u2019s really beneath… Saying that McCain\u2019s filled with dignity and all. It\u2019s beneath all of that. But the point is, back to this Obama business and the timing framework, the Republicans were able to voice opposition to Obama\u2019s stimulus, but they had no prayer of stopping it, and I don\u2019t know how many Republicans actually voted for it. There was…<\/p>\n

Look at how many people that were not Democrats voted for Obama strictly thinking they were ending race problems in America, and then Obama gets inaugurated, and I\u2019m sure on Capitol Hill there\u2019s a lot of people saying, “You know, if we just go along with the guy and we praise Eric Holder, we can do a lot to ameliorate race relations.” The point is Obama had steady cooperation based on the historical aspect of his presidency, not because of his agenda. The Republicans really didn\u2019t want to do much to stop Obama because they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

They had to talk a good game to keep their base engaged (i.e., us) but Capitol Hill is actively aligned against Trump. If you ask me point-blank… You know, I\u2019ve heard Paul Ryan\u2019s press conferences on Obamacare, and he swears up and down that we\u2019re gonna be dealing with this in March when everybody gets back from the whatever recess, and before they go on the next one. And yet multiple times a week you\u2019ll see stories in the media that it\u2019s getting less and less likely that any action will take place this year on Obamacare.<\/p>\n

They want you to see that and they want you to get mad and they want you to get depressed and they want you to hate the Republicans. And they\u2019re doing the same trick on tax reform. You know, Reagan didn\u2019t sign his tax reform bill the first time until August of his first year. It took a while. He won in an unchallenged, unquestionable landslide, and “Tip” O\u2019Neill ran the Democrats and they did their best to oppose, but at the end of the day they couldn\u2019t. They had to go along with it. But there is… You\u2019ll never see it because they can\u2019t dare display this on TV.<\/p>\n

But there is unity among some Republicans and Democrats in stopping Trump. And, folks, understand this: It\u2019s not that they opposed the Trump agenda. It\u2019s that they oppose Trump. Trump is an outsider. Trump is an invader. Trump is an interloper. It\u2019s like he\u2019s made his way into Freddie\u2019s Fashion Mart in Harlem. He\u2019s just not wanted, and the last thing that the Washington establishment — the thing they fear — is Trump succeeds. I can\u2019t tell you how much they fear this. Republicans and Democrats alike. I\u2019m not naming names.<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Cause, look, there are plenty of Republicans that are full-force behind Trump. I\u2019m thinking of guys like Jim Jordan and the conservative caucus, that they\u2019re a hundred thousand percent behind Trump. But you\u2019ve got some establishment types that would not be unhappy if the Trump agenda fizzled. To the extent that Trump is able to get his agenda passed, that\u2019s just another bit of evidence that an outsider can come in and upset the applecart and govern. So Trump has got opposition everywhere he\u2019s going, and it takes many different faces and forms.<\/p>\n

Some of it on the Democrat side, the opposition to his agenda is substantive. And on the establishment side, he\u2019s opposed just because he\u2019s an outsider, and he\u2019s making no bones. Look, Trump… One thing Trump doesn\u2019t do is soft sell himself. I mean, when he\u2019s coming after you, he tells you he\u2019s coming after you, and he tells you why. So he\u2019s thrown the gauntlet down here. Now, the Republicans in the House and Senate are on record the past eight years being opposed to Obamacare. They have to come through on this. They\u2019re on record. They have won elections based on their promises to get rid of this.<\/p>\n

There have been numerous repeal votes that didn\u2019t have any teeth.<\/p>\n

But they still had the votes. They still took them.<\/p>\n

Tax reform? I know that there are many Republicans who are dead serious about it. A lot of them. The Democrats want no part of it, but they can\u2019t stop it because they don\u2019t have the numbers. So, once again we\u2019re faced here with Trump needing to get the Republicans on board with his agenda. This is where Trump needs to be Trump. This is where Trump needs to show off his prowess as a negotiator and as a guy that “does deals,” quote\/unquote. This is a guy, he\u2019s told everybody we got too many dumb leaders that don\u2019t know how to do deals?<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s time to go in there and do deals.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s time to do deals on tax reform and repealing Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Just get the balls rolling!<\/p>\n

And, of course, immigration. We don\u2019t have to wait for the wall to be built on this. We can start enforcing immigration law right now — and I think we are, in fact. And you can see how the media\u2019s having a bunch of kittens over that as they\u2019re writing stories about how (impression), “ICE agents are treating every illegal immigrant like Elian Gonzalez and they\u2019re storming homes and they\u2019re throwing innocent women and children out and (flummoxed).” They\u2019re doing their best to characterize this as typically inhumane Republican behavior, when it\u2019s simply the enforcement of the law.<\/p>\n

But this is what it\u2019s always been going to look like. You think the queen of England would just sit around while a bunch of people said, “We don\u2019t think we need a monarchy anymore?” ‘Well, let\u2019s throw it up for a vote and if people think I should go back to living, you know, in a flat two-bedroom brownstone, fine, we\u2019ll see what happens.” She\u2019s not gonna put up with it. Well, people in power just don\u2019t throw it open to a vote. That\u2019s why you have power so you can basically say votes don\u2019t affect me. That\u2019s the point of having power, to be immune from votes. It\u2019s really what we\u2019re talking about here when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n

So Trump to start doing he\u2019s deals and he needs to start being smart, showing us the smart. He needs to get up there and get in these rooms and get whoever is standing in the way, get \u2019em in a room, bring up there, be public or maybe not. Maybe don\u2019t put \u2019em on display, maybe quiet meetings here or there and sit down and talk to \u2019em and sell \u2019em on it from the standpoint of what\u2019s good for America, whatever it takes, however he does deals, do it. That\u2019s what I think.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think the more he does this the greater insurance, that he\u2019s gonna have a wider berth even, that he\u2019s going to have. This is why he was elected. Trade deals are all well and good and, you know, NATO and go around this international and foreign policy stuff, fine and dandy, very, very important. But the stuff so far that\u2019s happened with the miners and putting them back to work, there have been a lot of good things and he detailed a lot of it at the rally on Saturday, that\u2019s not being reported on. So all of that was good, too.<\/p>\n

But you get going on Obamacare, that\u2019s such a biggie, and it\u2019s gonna implode. The danger I fear with Obamacare is it\u2019s gonna implode anyway. It\u2019s designed to. It\u2019s designed to kind of black hole itself. It\u2019s designed to suck itself into oblivion. And when it does, then you have a crisis, then you have an emergency. The plan was for Hillary to be in the White House when this happened so that we could then move almost automatically to either everybody on Medicare or single payer or what have you.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got to get in gear and get your reform plan in there and start working on it before this thing totally folds in on itself. And the speed with which Obama was able to do things versus Trump is irrelevant. The circumstances were all different. Yeah, Obama had opposition. I\u2019m not denying that. But the opposition Trump faces is entirely different. Now, one thing before we go to the break, \u2019cause I\u2019ve had some emails, “Hey, Rush, we hear you on the Russian bit. Can you move on?”<\/p>\n

Look at this. CBS This Morning just today. Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook stated that Russia could have been the reason Clinton lost the election. I\u2019m telling you, folks, they\u2019re not gonna let go of this. I\u2019m gonna keep telling you this \u2019til I\u2019m blue in the face. This assertion is what provides the opportunity for all the other attacks on Trump. This allegation, which is preposterous and absurd and unprovable because it didn\u2019t happen, that the Russians are the reason Hillary lost?<\/p>\n

What that means is the Russians stole the election for Trump. You\u2019ll note there\u2019s no specificity here. They\u2019re just taking the fact that all these intel people say the Russians were trying to hack. The Democrats are not gonna give this up. They will never admit they lost because of their ideas. They\u2019ll never admit they lost because Hillary was a lousy candidate that nobody wanted anymore. They\u2019ll never admit any of that. They\u2019ll never admit they were rejected by the people. The only way they ever lose is if the people do stupid things as a result of cheating or lying or if there\u2019s theft.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna continue this business on the Russians because if the Russians stole election, Trump and everything he does is illegitimate and we don\u2019t have to do it and we can oppose all of it because it\u2019s not what the people really wanted. And they\u2019ll even claim that they\u2019re favoring the entire democratic process. Obviously the people didn\u2019t vote for Trump if it took the Russians putting him in the White House. That means people don\u2019t want Trump\u2019s agenda. Do not let this slide. It\u2019s the only thing they\u2019ve got, the Democrats and the media, to justify the continued attacks on the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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