{"id":241508,"date":"2017-07-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=241508"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:31:30","slug":"my-analysis-of-trumps-new-york-times-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/20\/my-analysis-of-trumps-new-york-times-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"My Analysis of Trump\u2019s New York Times Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s other audio sound bites, including from President Trump\u2019s interview in the New York Times, many of you wondering why would he do that. Can I tell you about this interview? And of course he dumped on Jeff Sessions. He has been obviously irritated by Sessions\u2019 recusal from the day it happened and he hasn\u2019t been able to forget it. And I must tell you we\u2019ve got a sound bite of me expressing total disbelief that Sessions would recuse — to Al Franken, for crying out loud. It all happened during interrogation, the confirmation hearings with Al freaking Franken.<\/p>\n

\"\"It was irritating. But there were three reporters for the New York Times that did the interview. One of them was Maggie Haberman. You know what she said? She could not believe how upbeat Trump was. She couldn\u2019t believe when she actually had a chance to talk to him, he was nice, that Ivanka brought in one of her kids, and Trump said show \u2019em how you can speak Chinese, a 6-year-old, not Russian. He said, “Show \u2019em how you can speak Chinese.”<\/p>\n

Can you imagine, would that have not been great if Trump says to Ivanka, “Hey, have your kids show the New York Times reporters how well they can speak Russian.” But it was Chinese. Anyway, she couldn\u2019t believe that Trump was as engaging and nice and upbeat. They expected to encounter somebody beaten down, ready to give up, beg for mercy or what have you, because that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to create, and they got just the opposite, and they were shocked by Trump\u2019s attitude, which was positive and upbeat, engaging and nice.<\/p>\n

And you can tell reading that interview, he was happy, he enjoyed answering those questions the way he did. I haven\u2019t heard a lot of it, but I\u2019ve read it. And I was really quite stricken by it. Not stricken. It shocked me, in a way, positively, of how open and real Trump was in this interview.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: President Trump sat for an interview with the New York Times. They put the audio of it on their website. There were three reporters, among them Maggie Haberman, who used to be a Politico. The reporters were all shocked at how engaged Trump was, how upbeat he was, how happy he seemed. Ivanka, as I say, brought in his granddaughter, six years old. He proudly asked her to show the reporters how she can speak Chinese, which she did. But he unloaded in this interview on Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which, frankly, I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job I would have said, “Thanks, Jeff, but I\u2019m not gonna take you.” It\u2019s extremely unfair, and that\u2019s a mild word, to the president. So he recuses himself. I then end up with a second man who\u2019s a deputy.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: And he doesn\u2019t particularly like that guy. But the Sessions recusal was kind of shocking. I remember when it happened, and I said why?<\/a> All because of Al Franken questioning during confirmation hearings? I said, “This doesn\u2019t make any sense.” Trump\u2019s attitude was that if Sessions hadn\u2019t recused there would be Mueller. We would have a special counsel. But since Sessions recused, that meant that there was no Trump ally who could stand in the way of the appointment of the special counsel, which is unnecessary. I must admit I was perplexed.<\/p>\n

But I tell you also what I thought. I thought when I saw this last night, and I read it, I didn\u2019t hear the audio until just now. I read this last night, and I said, “He\u2019s sending a signal to Sessions he wants him to resign.” He doesn\u2019t want to fire him. Sessions was one of Trump\u2019s earliest supporters. He\u2019s kind of like Mike Flynn in this regard. Sessions was early with Trump, and it was about immigration, it was about the wall.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure how many of you remember, but Jeff Sessions was one of the first mainstream Republicans in the United States Senate who went all-in with Trump. He went to rallies, and Trump was proud to stand next to him and pointed him out whenever he was at a rally, brought him up on stage, let it be known that he was being considered for attorney general. Trump loved him! He was Trump when it came to the issue of immigration and law and order.<\/p>\n

And this recusal just blindsided him. I\u2019ll tell you why. I think Trump believed, since Sessions was so willing in the Senate to go against amnesty and to go against comprehensive immigration reform, I am convinced that Trump thought that Sessions was a fighter just like Trump sees himself. And then when Sessions recused, Trump was surprised.<\/p>\n

So this was, I think, an invitation to resign last night. Sessions came out today and says no way, I love this job, I\u2019m very tuned to it, I want to serve my country, and I\u2019m gonna continue to do this as long as it\u2019s appropriate. So he sent the message back that if you don\u2019t like me here you\u2019re gonna have to fire me \u2019cause I\u2019m not gonna resign.<\/p>\n

I got notes last night from people. “Do you believe Trump would do this? Do you believe Trump would shame his own attorney general like this?” And I said, “It doesn\u2019t surprise me. This is not the first time Trump has done things like this. Won\u2019t be the last time, whether in the political realm or not.” But he clearly has been carrying this around for a long time.<\/p>\n

The Russian investigation — and I don\u2019t know for a fact, but I know for a fact that Trump is irritated to all get out by this \u2019cause he didn\u2019t do anything and there wasn\u2019t any collusion. The Russians had nothing to do with the outcome of the election. And if I were in Trump\u2019s shoes I would be so livid about this I wouldn\u2019t be able to contain myself the way he is. It is that absurd. This is totally ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Now, this Mueller investigation with no limits and no time limits and no financial limits, Mueller can go investigate anything and in fact said he\u2019s going to. He\u2019s going to investigate Russians that rented apartments at Trump Tower all the way back in 2008, for crying out loud. Any Russian Trump has ever known or spoken to is going to be investigated. What this really is is the biggest opposition research program that there\u2019s ever been, sanctioned by taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

You have all Obamaites and Clintonites that are Mueller\u2019s lawyers here, 13 or 14 of them now. They have no limits on money, no limits on area, they can go anywhere, there are no time limits. They can dig up every bit of dirt there is on Donald Trump in preparation of the 2020 election. If nothing else comes of this, the oppo research that Mueller and his crew will create for the Democrats to use against Trump in 2020 is striking. Here is Sessions, audio sound bite number seven, this morning at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n