{"id":233229,"date":"2017-05-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=233229"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:08:37","slug":"interpreting-trumps-tapes-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/12\/interpreting-trumps-tapes-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epic Presidency: Interpreting Trump\u2019s Tapes Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let me tell you the next thing the media is going to have an absolute fit over. It\u2019s already begun, and it is because of a tweet that the president sent out earlier today. Now, I didn\u2019t see the president\u2019s tweet when I first heard about this. I heard something else. I heard a report that the president had warned James Comey that there had better not be tapes of our conversation. That\u2019s what I heard. I don\u2019t remember where. It was during show prep today.<\/p>\n

Very important here. What I heard, what I read was that Trump was “threatening” Comey. “Comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations!” The way that was reported and the way I interpreted that was that maybe Comey had secretly taped Trump, and that Trump had found out about it and was livid and was warning Comey, “You better not use it!” That\u2019s the way it was reported. It turns out, it\u2019s exact opposite.<\/p>\n

Here is Trump\u2019s tweet: “James Comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.” Well, I didn\u2019t have it presented to me that way. The way it was presented to me — the way it was reported — was that Comey had perhaps taped Trump when they\u2019d had dinner and that Trump found out about it and was threatening Comey — “You\u2019d better not release tapes of our dinner or else!” — and it\u2019s the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If anything, Trump is doing the taping and is warning Comey: “If you go out there and start lying about it, I can disprove what you say. So you\u2019d better be careful. That\u2019s what Trump\u2019s tweet really means. Now, I think it is a fascinating misrepresentation. I don\u2019t know if any of you, when you first heard about Trump\u2019s references to tapes of conversations with Comey… I don\u2019t know how you first heard it, but I first heard that it was reported specifically that Comey might have taped it.<\/p>\n

Why? “Because Comey knows Trump\u2019s insane! Comey knows Trump\u2019s a lunatic! Comey knows he can\u2019t trust Trump! So Trump asks him to dinner and Comey goes in there with his iPhone and is taping things to guard against Trump going out there and lying, like Comey saying that he cleared him three times!” That\u2019s not what happened. The New York Times has a story about Comey having dinner with Trump. Trump sees the story and then tweets, “James Comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press.”<\/p>\n

So what this has done… (laughing) Sorry, I have to laugh. I… I\u2019m sorry. (laughing) I can\u2019t… I can\u2019t… (interruption) Snerdley says he can\u2019t believe I\u2019m laughing at a time of crisis. (laughing) I\u2019m sorry. (laughing) Yeah, I guess it\u2019s an explosion, because it\u2019s got everything the media wants. It\u2019s got Nixon. It\u2019s got the tapes. It\u2019s got Woodward and Bernstein. It\u2019s got Deep Throat, maybe! It\u2019s gonna have everything here.<\/p>\n

All we need is Hope Hicks and an 18-minute gap in the tape! (laughing) The media is so desperately to relive Watergate. Journalists who are practicing journalism today who were not even alive during Watergate think this is their Watergate! What is Watergate? It\u2019s when you get a president. It\u2019s when you destroy a president. (laughing) So now Trump\u2019s alluding to the fact he may have to tape him! (laughing) Sorry, folks, I just have to laugh.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So, folks, right when we went to the break, I was laughing about Trump, \u2019cause I tell you what\u2019s happened here with Trump saying he might be taping people in the White House. The media\u2019s gotten as hysterical as they were over his tax returns, as hysterical as they are over the Russians and firing Comey, and NBC Access tape where he talked about pussai. (laughing) They\u2019re just… So I\u2019m watching CNN. As soon as we went to the break, CNN runs a graphic the bottom of the screen, “Source Says Comey Not Concerned About Any Tapes.” (laughing)<\/p>\n

So they already… Somebody reached out. “Are you worried? Are you worried? Trump\u2019s maybe got tapes! Are you worried?” “No, no. You can tell CNN I\u2019m not worried.” (laughing) Who do you think the source is? It isComey! (laughing) Not worried about any tapes! (laughing) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I just… I marvel at the ability to drive these people crazy. They think they\u2019re driving Trump crazy, and they may be. But I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019re losing it, too. They\u2019re literally out of their minds now. We\u2019re watching a descent into insanity. It\u2019s Jane Eyre right in front of us.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you, folks, you want to know why I\u2019m laughing at Trump saying, “Comey better hope there no tapes of our conversation”? (laughing) You remember back during the campaign when nobody could find the 30,000 emails? There were 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails nobody could find, and Trump got tired of everybody asking about it. So Trump said, “Hey, Russia? Maybe the Russians can find the tapes. Russia, if you\u2019re listening maybe you could find the 30,000 emails,” and the Drive-Bys went insane.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump\u2019s out there cracking jokes; they don\u2019t get it. They have no sense of humor. Trump is mocking the fact that everybody knows where these emails are that Hillary has and nobody will produce \u2019em. So he asks the Russians to find them, and the stupid idiots in the media tried to use that as proof that there was collusion between Trump and the Russians over Hillary\u2019s emails. If there\u2019s any foundation… I say that with very loose intentions.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any foundation to these Drive-Bys thinking that Trump was colluding with the Russians, it dates back to (laughing) when Trump ask the Russians to find Hillary\u2019s email. (laughing) That was one of the funniest things I\u2019d ever heard. It still is. So now Trump tweets, “James Comey better…” (laughing) “James Comey better hope…” (laughing) I look at this and I can see Trump sitting there at his phone or wherever he tweets (laughing) this stuff out, “James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press.”<\/p>\n

\"\"So CNN, “Source Says Comey Not Worried About Any Tapes.<\/a>” (laughing) They\u2019re all breathlessly waiting for the White House press briefing, and Fox has their own graphic. The Fox graphic is: “Awaiting White House Briefing After President Warns Comey About Leaks to Media.” (laughing) Then there\u2019s another tweet under that one from earlier this morning. Trump tweeted: “As a very active president with lots of things happening, it\u2019s not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy.”<\/p>\n

Now, this is in reaction to the Drive-Bys literally going hysterical over different versions of stories being told at different times of the day regarding Rosenstein at the Department of Justice and Comey being fired and Trump saying he did it. “No, Rosenstein did it! No, I did it.” The press secretary\u2019s out there trying to keep it all straight, and Trump says, “Hey, there\u2019s so much going on with me, nobody can keep up. My surrogates don\u2019t know what\u2019s what from day to day because in my presidency, there\u2019s lots of stuff happening.”<\/p>\n

I wish people would take a moment to step back and realize what an epic presidency this is and realize we are never gonna see anything like this again our lifetimes, and we\u2019ve never had it prior to this in my lifetime. I mean, normally we get idiots like Jimmy Carter, who do great damaging things. I mean, while Trump is doing all this, the country is vastly improving! As I have detailed today. Some of the core things that were destroying the guts of this country are being reversed. And it\u2019s…<\/p>\n

This is so outside what everybody has accepted as establishmentarian norms. And then the media\u2019s acting like it\u2019s the end of everything sacred, and I just have to smile at it. (interruption) No, don\u2019t misunderstand. I know there\u2019s some serious things going on. It leaking is deadly serious. (sniffles) You know, when I laugh — I\u2019m sorry — I get sniffles, folks. But the leaking which I talked about in the last hour, is a serious thing.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was predicted. The Drive-Bys have become hysterical over Trump\u2019s tweet that Comey had better be careful if he starts leaking \u2019cause there might be tapes. Spicer is back doing the daily briefing. Here just a sample…<\/p>\n

SPICER: I assume you\u2019re referring to the tweet, and I\u2019ve talked to the president. The president has nothing further to add on that.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Why did he say that? Why did he tweet that? What should we interpret from that?<\/p>\n

SPICER: As I mentioned, the president has nothing further to add on that.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Are there recording devices in the Oval Office or the residence?<\/p>\n

SPICER: As I\u2019ve said for the third time: There is nothing further to add on that.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Does he think it\u2019s appropriate to threaten someone like Mr. Comey not to speak?<\/p>\n

SPICER: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s… That\u2019s not a threat. He simply stated a fact. The tweet speaks for itself. Uh, I\u2019m moving on.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Ah, I like the way they\u2019re playing this. “There\u2019s nothing more to say. The president will have nothing further to add.” “Well, does he feel he can threaten Comey?” “He nothing further to add.” “What do you mean? He thinks appropriate to threaten somebody like Comey not to speak?” “It\u2019s not a threat. It\u2019s simply a fact. The tweet speaks for itself. I\u2019m moving on. The president has nothing further to add.” (laughing) Look, folks, I\u2019m not sitting here naive. It could well be that the Trump White House is out of control. Hell, who knows?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still telling you this is fun to watch this happen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m having fun watching the media spin out of control, whoever else is also. ‘Cause I\u2019m telling you: On the other side of this, there is all kinds of good news happening that is related to the Trump agenda. I\u2019ve shared it already today. If you missed it, check RushLimbaugh.com later, as we update the site. We update it much more frequently now. We can update it practically instantly. You don\u2019t have to wait \u2019til the end of the day for the whole show to be updated. It\u2019s all worth the contrast that we\u2019ve made today, taking note of it, if you missed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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