RUSH: Pat somewhere out on Long Island. It\u2019s great to have you on the Open Line Friday edition of the program. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m so good, and I\u2019m so excited to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I just wanted to say that if the media is wondering why we\u2019re still behind Trump, we see him as the Paul Revere of this century. If for nothing else, he has exposed this country and what\u2019s going on in this country for what it is. The media, the Democrats, and even some of the Republicans. It\u2019s now starting to look to everybody like it\u2019s us against them, and he\u2019s brought that forward.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me ask you this. You have been a Trumpist from the get-go?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How much…? I don\u2019t want to ask you a leading question, but there may be no other way to do this. Are you proud, are you happy, are you amazed, are you appreciative of how Trump has hung in despite what are political nuclear bombs detonated around him multiple times a day? The guy has hung in, and he has… You know, he may not have the humor quotient that he had during the campaign and he may not be exhibiting all the charm, but he\u2019s still in there. He\u2019s not giving up. He\u2019s not toning down. He\u2019s not trying to curry favor with these people. He\u2019s still tweeting against them. Do you have an appreciation for that?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: An appreciation? I see him as a superhero. He has more courage than anyone else I know, and I give him and his family all our support, because for what he\u2019s endured in the last couple of months — or since he\u2019s even gotten into the campaign — it is astonishing. And, like I said, he\u2019s poured a light on what\u2019s actually been going on for the last couple of years. And people were asleep, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019re asleep anymore.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I appreciated that. I wanted to get that answer but I didn\u2019t want to have to lead you into it, but there was no other way to ask you the question. But I think it\u2019s phenomenal. You know, people who have not been in the public eye and have not been in the swirl political controversy, you watch it from afar, and you see people attacked. You see them lied about. You see their family gone after. You see all this, and you might think it\u2019s reprehensible and horrible. But, man, it pales compared to having it happen to you.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m here to tell you that most people — and you couldn\u2019t blame \u2019em. Nobody\u2019s raised for this, and nobody trains for it. When this kind of stuff happens, when entire national apparatuses mobilized against you, there are very few people that understand what this is like. The closest thing that I can approximate it too is let\u2019s say you\u2019re running a special interest organization and you\u2019re trying to get some legislation. Let\u2019s say you\u2019re running an anti-abortion operation and you\u2019re trying to get legislation passed to further your cause.<\/p>\n
And there are some average, ordinary Americans with incredible stories that would be really valuable if you could get them involved, and you find a way to get a couple involved. And once they get involved, the media descends on them, and here are people from Smalltownville, America, and all of a sudden they are cast as the most evil citizens in this world. They\u2019re dumb, they\u2019re stupid, they\u2019re bought and paid for. The media\u2019s doing anal exams of their lives and their families, and most of them put their hands up.<\/p>\n
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“I didn\u2019t ask for this! You didn\u2019t tell me this was gonna happen,” and they want out of it, and you can\u2019t belay \u2019em. This is one reason where so few really unique, different people run for office, because the media anal exam like this for Republicans is now unprecedented. But the fact — and it\u2019s happening to Trump and it\u2019s happening to his family. It\u2019s happening to his daughters, his sons, his daughters- and sons-in-law, his children, his 11-year-old son, his wife. I mean, any number of these people could go to say, “Dad, it\u2019s not worth this.” His wife could say, “Donald! Donald!” But it\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re all hanging in there. Now, it\u2019s a big deal, \u2019cause there\u2019s nobody… If Trump ever decided to pack it in, there\u2019s nobody yet that\u2019s gonna pick up his mantle, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re all angling for. So I think this all-out attempt to destroy, not just the career, not just the agenda, not just the presidency, but the life of Donald Trump and his businesses, and his family… The fact that he\u2019s hanging in there is something that not very many people could do and even fewer would put up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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