{"id":242148,"date":"2017-07-26T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=242148"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:11:10","slug":"whats-really-going-on-with-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/26\/whats-really-going-on-with-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Really Going on with Sessions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: None of this Trump-Sessions stuff makes any sense. This kind of open criticism, if it\u2019s designed to make Sessions resign, it isn\u2019t working. And if the objective here is to get him to resign, it means Trump wants him gone. And if he wants him gone, he could just fire him. He\u2019s not doing that. I think one of the reasons why is if Sessions does go — however which way — Trump\u2019s gotta find a new nominee for attorney general.<\/p>\n

A. Who\u2019s gonna take it?<\/p>\n

B. How the hell are they gonna get confirmed, unless they nominate a Democrat?<\/p>\n

\"\"It just doesn\u2019t make sense. So because it doesn\u2019t make sense in the way we are seeing it, it has to make sense in some other way, because none of these people are stupid. I hear all this talk, “You know, Trump is meeting with his staff. His staff is urging him to stop this.” Really? You really want us to believe that Trump\u2019s having meetings with the staff and the staff\u2019s saying, “Mr. President, we really think you ought to dial this down,” as though Trump is unaware of the trouble he\u2019s causing?<\/p>\n

And then after all these meetings with all these staffers advising Trump to dial it back, Trump goes out and doubles and triples down on it? None of this makes sense, unless something is happening here that we don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve been trying to figure out what it might be. I\u2019ve had a couple ideas percolate in there in the cranial cavity of my head, and I\u2019ve come up with a couple of possibilities. I don\u2019t think it is coincidental that we had today an announcement that Sessions is going to start pursuing criminally all of these leaks.<\/p>\n

You know, this has been a big bugaboo for the Trumpster, and this is something that has to please him. But his latest tweets on Sessions were the fact that Sessions didn\u2019t get rid of McCabe and that McCabe\u2019s wife was campaigning for a Senate seat and sending money to Hillary and so forth. He couldn\u2019t possibly be fair. Why didn\u2019t Sessions get rid of the guy? So it appears — at least the casual observer would say — that Trump is upset with Sessions \u2019cause Sessions is a wuss, Sessions isn\u2019t a brawler<\/a>, \u2019cause Sessions isn\u2019t fighting Trump\u2019s battles for him.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we are supposed to think here. None of this makes any sense. I\u2019m watching the Drive-Bys analyze this as though they\u2019re taking it literally. They\u2019re not curious about it. The only reason they\u2019re curious is they can\u2019t figure out why Trump would do it. They believe it\u2019s genuine. They think Trump is genuinely mad at Sessions, genuinely wants him gone but Sessions won\u2019t quit. So Trump\u2019s really doubling and tripling down trying to make him quit. They are not curious beyond this. None of this, on the surface, makes any common sense. The president can let Jeff Sessions go whenever he wants to.<\/p>\n

Between Corn Flakes in the morning, he can call Sessions and say, “Back to Alabama, Dude. It\u2019s not working.” But he\u2019s not doing that, and Sessions is right there in the office saying (impression), “I\u2019m not going back to Alabama, Corn Flakes or not.” He\u2019s staying right where he is. Tell me this makes sense! It doesn\u2019t. Now, I have expressed concern in recent broadcasts about Trump and his treatment of Sessions here, but I\u2019ll tell you what. You know, I think Sessions\u2019 role — and this is where it gets foggy for me as I\u2019m trying to figure out what\u2019s really going on.<\/p>\n

This Russia thing, if I may say it again: There\u2019s nothing here, folks. I know that it is the news of the day every day. It\u2019s the all-day news story of every day, and the Senate and the House have their investigating committees, and they\u2019re still looking for collusion — and there isn\u2019t any, and they\u2019re not gonna find any. The purpose of continuing this investigation is to paralyze Trump and to maybe hope and pray that something pops up somewhere. But there\u2019s nothing there.<\/p>\n

What Sessions is actually doing that is of profound importance and value is actually implementing the Trump immigration agenda. And Trump is not gonna find anybody else that\u2019ll do that. Sessions is taking aim at sanctuary cities. Sessions is taking aim at the borders. Sessions is working with ICE and the Border Patrol, and it\u2019s working. The number of illegal immigrants getting into the country is way, way down. The number of illegal immigrants trying to get into the country is way, way down.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s so way down that California farmers are openly complaining in the LA Times that they can\u2019t find enough people to pick the strawberries and to pick the fruit, to pick the oranges, pick the vegetables, whatever it is. The cannoli! They don\u2019t have enough people to pick it. They\u2019re worried about having to pay higher wages. That is Sessions\u2019 primary value to Trump. I have to think Trump knows this. None of the people that we\u2019re talking about are stupid here.<\/p>\n

Some of them may be impetuous, and some of them may be, you know, not down the center of the mainstream as we would define. But I would submit to you that most people are off the center of the mainstream rather than perfectly well adjusted and normal. I mean, how many nuts do you have in your family? Everybody has at least one nut in their family, maybe more than one, right? We all do. You know who they are, and they probably know who they are.<\/p>\n

My point is there\u2019s a lot of nuts out there, but the Drive-By… Well, no, wait. But the Drive-By Media analyzes Trump as though he\u2019s the only nut and everybody in America is steadfastly normal, and judging Trump to be a loose cannon nutcase, fruitcake, whatever it is. When in fact, there aren\u2019t that many, quote-unquote “normal people.” So the vast majority of Americans does not see Trump the way the Drive-Bys think everybody sees Trump, which is the way they see Trump. I would submit to you the Drive-Bys are not normal either.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a slew of nuts among those people.<\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley, just so you know, literally nothing of what I\u2019ve said here did I plan to say. I had it all… This whole segment has been improv based on the stuff that arrived here within three minutes of the program open. So now I\u2019m faced with this organizational task. I\u2019ve mentioned all these things, but only tangentially. I need to go back and get into detail with all of them. Which I will do! There\u2019s nobody better. I will do it. I gotta go to these audio sound bites on Sessions because the Drive-Bys are using me as the barometer to indicate how much trouble Trump is in on this Sessions stuff.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom Hagen is my nickname for Anthony Scaramucci. He was the Godfather\u2019s consiglieri. Tom Hagen is out there to TV today. He was on Fox & Friends saying Trump is not trying to get Sessions to quit. He\u2019s just trying to get him to be more loyal. So maybe it\u2019s an effort to put a fire under Sessions to make him more aggressive on things like stopping the leaks and sanctuary cites.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s already doing… Sessions is really kicking butt on the whole Trump immigration agenda. Look, let me go to the audio sound bites. Cookie tells me she could have added 10 more Drive-Byers to this. As it turns out, the sound bite\u2019s 39 seconds. It is a montage of last 24 hours of the Drive-Bys trying to drive a wedge between me and the Trumpster.<\/p>\n

\"\"SHANNON PETTYPIECE: (haltingly) …Rush Limbaugh coming to his defense.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN LEMIRE: He\u2019s also received some support today from Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

HALLIE JACKSON: (rotunda noise) …listening to Rush Limbaugh and to conservative media.<\/p>\n

JEREMY PETERS: The right is starting to break from Trump. You have Rush Limbaugh, the leading indicator.<\/p>\n

NICOLLE WALLACE: Rush Limbaugh on Jeff Sessions: “President Trump is playing with fire.”<\/p>\n

SARI HORWITZ: Rush Limbow (sic) —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

SARI HOROWITZ: — said, “We like the policies Jeff Sessions.”<\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: Rush Limbaugh was saying this is a little bit discomforting.<\/p>\n

KATE BOLDUAN: You\u2019ve got Rush Limbaugh who says it is discomforting and unseemly.<\/p>\n

LAWRENCE O\u2019DONNELL: Maybe Donald Trump, uhh, should listen to Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

CHRIS JANSING: You have even Rush Limbaugh… When Rush Limbaugh says that the President essentially has gone too far, is he worried at all about losing conservative media?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, the that last one is Chris Jansing. The babe that mispronounced my name as “Limbow” is Sari Horowitz, or Sari Horowitz. I don\u2019t know where she works. It doesn\u2019t say here. Doesn\u2019t matter. You see what\u2019s going on here. But I have said I think Sessions doesn\u2019t… Sessions the most loyal endorser that Trump had. I mean, Sessions endorsing Trump early o… We\u2019ve been through all this. Sessions\u2019 value to Donald Trump is incalculable, as is his loyalty to Donald Trump, as is the seriousness with which he approaches the job of attorney general and all of his government service.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the exact kind of guy Trump needs there. I just have to think Trump knows this. Something about all of this is just off, folks, and we have Tom Hagen out there on Fox today saying, “Nuh nuh nuh nah. He doesn\u2019t wanna get rid of him. He\u2019s just trying to get Sessions to be more loyal.” Maybe it\u2019s just akin to Sessions needs some Red Bull. Give him a little caffeine out there; perk him up. Who knows? But it\u2019s obviously not what it appears to be, or Sessions would be gone already.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s stick with Sessions. Hang on. We\u2019ll get back to the transgender stuff here in just sec and everything else that\u2019s out there. Trump\u2019s rally in Youngstown last night. The contents of the speech and the rally and what that means and how I think some people misinterpreting him, misunderstanding that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Nicolle Wallace.<\/p>\n

You know, she was in the Bush White House. She got married in some lavish wedding ceremony in the Greek isles, I think, and I don\u2019t know why I remember that. I\u2019ve never met her. But I\u2019m well aware of her career in the Bush White House. She had a novel she wrote, a mystery novel after her time there. Anyway, she was the woman that was assigned to work with Sarah Palin during the 2008 McCain presidential campaign and melted down over it. So primarily, she\u2019s a mainstream media Republican analyst. She was on the Today show today talking with Savannah Guthrie, and the question: “If the president wants Sessions gone why not just can him?”<\/p>\n

\"\"WALLACE: We have to sort of hit pause and really look at what\u2019s happening. Our president is cyberbullying, public-shaming a sitting member of his own cabinet. That has never happened before. The fight that he\u2019s having with Sessions is so different with all of his fights with the media, his fights with establishment Republicans, his fights with the former president and his former opponents. Because this was someone who was as popular as he is with that solid Trump base. This is someone who\u2019s more popular than he is with folks like Rush Limbaugh and the hard-core talk radio audience, and this is someone who has more trust and deeper friendships in the Senate than he does. So this is a fight where I don\u2019t think Sessions has any motivation to blink first. A game of chicken. I think that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just can\u2019t… That\u2019s too simple, and it\u2019s too obvious, and it doesn\u2019t make any sense. The only way it makes sense — and it would to a lot of the Drive-Bys and people on the left — is if you think Trump is insane. If you think is unbalanced, if you think Trump is — you know, elevator doesn\u2019t go to the top floor. If you think that Trump\u2019s an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, then this might make sense to you. But Trump is neither of those things. He\u2019s not off kilter, not a wacko. He\u2019s deeply strategic.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been thinking about all of this for a long, long time. There\u2019s something else that\u2019s going on here. I don\u2019t claim to know what it is. I\u2019m just telling you that, to me, none of it makes sense. There\u2019s no reason for this. In addition to that… There may be reasons for it, but we don\u2019t know what they are. There\u2019s always more behind the scenes to every event than we will ever know. So trying to make substantive analysis and judgments of this with limited information and bias or prejudice about who Trump is, I think, can lead people astray, which it is.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think Nicolle Wallace here misunderstands something else. We had a caller on the program yesterday from a devoted Trump voter.<\/a> And I\u2019ve talked to a lot of them, and, believe me, there is nobody else in the Trump administration operation, apparatus, that they hold in deeper regard. And I think this is something else that bugs the opponents of Donald Trump. This bond that he has with his base, his voters — this connection — is something that they envy and at the same time very resent it. They don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n

We had a guy on the phone yesterday (there have been two or three others) saying if Trump appears mad with Sessions, then Trump\u2019s voters are going to be mad with Sessions. They\u2019re not gonna be mad with Trump. They\u2019re going to think that Sessions is maybe not loyal enough to Trump. Trump\u2019s base… What she said here, “This is someone…” She means Sessions. “This is someone who\u2019s more popular than Trump is with folks like Rush Limbaugh and the hard-core talk radio audience.” What is the hard-core talk radio audience?<\/p>\n

Do we talk about the hard-core NBC audience? We don\u2019t. But I don\u2019t look at this way. I\u2019m not sitting here thinking, “You know, Sessions? He\u2019s much more important to me than Trump, much more valuable than Trump.” I don\u2019t look at anything that way, not in this circumstance. I don\u2019t look at it that way. I told you how I\u2019m looking at it. I think it\u2019d be disastrous to get rid of Sessions because of how great he\u2019s behaving on immigration — which, believe me, is the number one reason Trump got elected! The wall, immigration, what all of that means, illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

What it was meaning for the country, for the economy, for our culture, that\u2019s it! And that\u2019s what Sessions is having roaring success on. This Russia thing had nothing to do with the campaign, and yet it\u2019s become the number one news item every day, all day, for now seven or eight months approaching a year. But the Trump voters are tuning that out. They don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything to it. It not gonna matter if there is anything to it.<\/p>\n

Fixing the country, saving the country is vastly much more important than any of that as far as they\u2019re concerned. So Sessions\u2019 value to Trump is not nearly as important in this Russia thing as it is on the immigration side. Trump has to know this. I\u2019m thinking he has to know it. Now, Trump also could be the kind of guy who thinks that Sessions is having nothing to do with the border, that Trump is the guy making all that happen.<\/p>\n

You know Trump made a joke last night in his rally about being up on Mount Trumpmore. Well, he didn\u2019t call it that. Mount Rushmore. And he told them… He said (paraphrased), “I\u2019m joking, but you won\u2019t get it. I\u2019m joking. I\u2019m telling a joke about me on Mount Rushmore, but you won\u2019t get it,” and he\u2019s right. They\u2019re running stories today about how Trump\u2019s ego was out of control last night. He thinks he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore more than anybody else. There\u2019s a cartoon… (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"Somebody ran an editorial cartoon today with Trump standing looking at Mount Rushmore after his face has been carved in it with the sculptor, and Trump is saying to the sculptor, “Look, you made me way too fat and lose the other guys. Get rid of those other guys. Just leave me up there.” (laughing) That\u2019s all from a joke about Trump eventually being on Mount Rushmore. “Lose the other guys.” (laughing) “You\u2019ve got me looking too fat, too big hair — and lose the other guys.”<\/p>\n

Here is Trump from… Let\u2019s see. This is the Rose Garden yesterday, joint press conference with the prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri. No, it\u2019s Hariri. During the program, Margaret Talev (or Talev, I don\u2019t know how she pronounces it) of Bloomberg said (impression), “Talk to us a little bit about whether you\u2019ve lost confidence in Jeff Sessions — whether you want him to resign on his own, whether you\u2019re prepared to fire him if he doesn\u2019t — and why you\u2019re sort of letting him twist in the wind rather than making the call for him.”<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don\u2019t think I am doing that. But I am disappointed in the attorney general. He should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and I would have quite simply picked somebody else. So I think that\u2019s a bad thing, not for the president, but for the presidency. I think it\u2019s unfair to the presidency, and that\u2019s the way I feel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I think he means that. I don\u2019t have any doubt he means that. I have no doubt he was angry over Sessions recusing. Hell, so are we, folks. We didn\u2019t think it was necessary. We thought whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what\u2019s this?<\/p>\n

Here is the next bite, another question from Blake Burman at the Fox Business Network. He said, “The American people, I think, would like to know, do you feel that the attorney general should indeed stay or should he resign? Do you intend to fire him? Why should he remain as the attorney general, given all that you\u2019re doing?”<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before, at a very important level. These are intelligence agencies. We cannot have that happen. You know many of my views in addition to that, but I think that\u2019s one of the very important things that they have to get on with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I told you before, I\u2019m very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. Time will tell. Time will tell.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s too obvious. “I\u2019m disappointed with the attorney general.” Now, do you think it\u2019s a coincidence that today Sessions announces a brand-new investigation into the very thing Trump is complaining about there? Sessions today announced an FBI, DOJ investigation into all of the leaking, the day after the Trumpster says, “I want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, folks. This is too big a coincidence. This makes it look like Sessions has seen the light and overnight decided to get back on board. Trump calls for an investigation into leaks one day, and the next day Sessions announces it. Man, has that Trump got power. Man, does Trump call the shots, is the perhaps hoped-for reaction.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: The Rasmussen Reports has a survey out<\/a> saying that Jeff Sessions is more popular than Eric Holder ever was and Loretta Lynch. And, believe me, they know that at the White House. Here\u2019s a little blurb. This is a Washington Post story. “Current and former [anonymous] Justice Department officials said they hope Sessions holds out, refusing to resign as a means of defending the department\u2019s independence. One [anonymous] former Justice Department official said the president\u2019s anger seems to stem from a misunderstanding about how the department actually works. The White House, he said, should not be interfering with criminal investigations.”<\/p>\n

What criminal investigation? There isn\u2019t a criminal investigation! This is the whole point. The Russia thing is a counterintelligence investigation. James Comey said three different times Trump was not even a target of an investigation. There is no crime. That\u2019s why Mueller should not have even been appointed. There is no crime. They\u2019re looking for one. They\u2019re hunting for one. The White House should not be interfering with criminal investigation. There isn\u2019t one. There hasn\u2019t been even been a crime alleged.<\/p>\n

There has been this collusion-in-general allegation and there have been these unnamed leaks claiming that — well, none of them has gone so far as to name Trump. Flynn, Manafort, Carter Page. And it\u2019s also a myth that the Department of Justice is independent from the executive branch. If Trump can fire the special counsel, then how the hell is the DOJ independent?<\/p>\n

What they mean here about Trump not understanding how the department works, what they\u2019re saying is — remember, now, their ongoing, daily assessment of Trump is that he\u2019s insane or a variation of it, that he\u2019s crazy. I mean, we\u2019ve even got Susan Collins on a hot mic saying that she thinks so, that the country is endangered because Trump is crazy.<\/p>\n

Another hot mic caught Susan Collins insulting a Republican member of the House because he\u2019s so fat and so unattractive. Susan Collins, open mic, complaining about the unattractiveness and the size, he\u2019s so huge, this Republican guy. He\u2019s not in the Senate; he\u2019s a member of the House. So they believe because they think Trump is — how to phrase this. They think Trump needs to be taken away by guys in the little white coats in the little yellow bus.<\/p>\n

They do believe, honestly, folks, they think he\u2019s not there. And as such they think that Trump believes that the attorney general is his personal lawyer, and they think that Trump believes that the attorney general is there to advance the president\u2019s agenda using the Department of Justice to do so. They want you to believe, and everybody else, that Trump is a dunce, a genuine, stupid, uninformed, uneducated dunce. And that\u2019s not an apt description of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

That description of Donald Trump never surfaced until the Democrats got hold of him. Just like I was never a racist or a bigot or any of the other things until the left wing media heard my radio show. Trump was never — you talk to people that worked with him, he might have been unpredictable, might be unconventional, nobody thought he\u2019s insane and not all there, mentally, until the Drive-By Media starts examining him.<\/p>\n

Let me squeeze a call from Las Vegas. Linda, I\u2019m glad you called. What do you think\u2019s going on with all of this?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, Rush, so great to be on your show. Thank you. I have a theory. So, one thing that Donald Trump is, is that he\u2019s pretty much a master at managing the media. And some would say manipulating, but I think managing. And I think what is happening is he is playing a little bit of wag the dog here and something else is going on. Sessions is — well, he made that big announcement today about criminal charges, but there\u2019s gotta be something else going on. It may not even be about Sessions, but something that he doesn\u2019t want the media focusing on. He\u2019s working on something, they\u2019re focused on this silliness. In the meantime, he\u2019s getting something else done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think that there\u2019s actually something that Trump is working on that he wants everybody to miss because Trump\u2019s got \u2019em focused on what\u2019s gonna happen to Sessions. So while everybody\u2019s looking over, something we don\u2019t know about is being hatched by Trump and his team in the White House. Well, it\u2019s a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care what the left wing or the Drive-Bys say, she\u2019s right, Trump may be the most masterful media president we\u2019ve had. Now, you might disagree \u2019cause you think the coverage he gets is negative, but I\u2019m gonna ask you something. Every day is the news ever about anything but him? You go try that. You try to become the sole focus of the entire American journalism profession 24\/7 for seven months in a row. Not anybody else could do this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Omaha. This is Joshua. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you here. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m very well. Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that Trump is using his image that the media creates for him as a bully to make Sessions\u2019 job easier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Explain that.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, I think that he\u2019s trying to make him a victim. The victim would be the strongest position in any sort of media outlet. So if Sessions is becoming the victim, then, you know, the media would try to portray him as right or better or something. You mentioned earlier that an anonymous source was starting to root for Sessions. A year ago, who would have ever been saying anything positive about Sessions?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is an interesting take, and it dovetails with my recently evolved theorem. When Sessions endorsed Trump — let\u2019s look at the timeline here — Democrats in the Senate had a cow. They didn\u2019t like Sessions the work with. So they started calling him Beauregard. And they started saying, “Well, it makes sense. Trump\u2019s a racist pig, and Sessions is a racist pig,” and Trump gets elected, and that discombobulates \u2019em. And then Sessions is named as attorney general, and they lost it.<\/p>\n

They dredged up all of these old stories, took stories out of context — jokes and everything — to try to say that Sessions was an advocate of slavery. It was the same type of thing they\u2019ve tried to do with me, in fact. Then they tried to say that he was a racist and that\u2019s why he was not approved as a federal judge the first time when he was nominated, and they just dump all over the guy! Because he endorsed Trump and because he agreed with Trump on the wall and illegal immigration and all, just savaged him.<\/p>\n

Then during the confirmation hearings you remember what happened. Franken and everybody tried to trip him up and just launched into this guy as an abject reprobate. And all of the notion about collegiality between senators just went out the window. There\u2019s an unwritten rule that senators do not criticize each other, that it\u2019s a fraternity. It\u2019s a brotherhood-sisterhood type thing. All that went out the window, because there was so much hatred for Trump and so much disbelief that he had won, and so much inability on the part of the Democrats to think that they had lost.<\/p>\n

So they keep hammering Sessions, and they keep hammering him. And then he ends up somehow with vague links to the Russia story \u2019cause he had a couple of meetings with the Soviet ambassador who went to lunch all the time. I think that\u2019s all the guy did. Kislyak, he ate lunch all day! That\u2019s where everybody met with the guy. He had to be eating lunch all day to meet with people as many as he met with. And, by the way, the guy looks like he ate lunch all day. At any rate, now look.<\/p>\n

Inside of one week, guess who has been put on a pedestal and who now is the recipient of accolades and is being treated with tremendous respect? That would be Jeff Sessions. And why? Because Trump is savaging him publicly. And so all of these hypocrites, all these Democrats in the Senate and all these media people who tried to convince everybody that Sessions was unqualified to be AG \u2019cause he was a racist bigot — and worse — are now defending him and singing his praises because Trump\u2019s after him.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re praising his integrity, and they\u2019re praising his independence. They perhaps inadvertently, maybe have been manipulated into doing a 180 on Jeff Sessions, and now they are busy extolling his virtues? All of this has been caused by Donald Trump\u2019s public statements and tweets. Yesterday, Trump says one of the things he\u2019s upset about is that Sessions hasn\u2019t gotten rid of McCabe at the FBI because of his ties to Hillary Clinton via his wife and her running for the state Senate in Virginia, and he hasn\u2019t looked at the Hillary emails.<\/p>\n

\"\"He hasn\u2019t begun the investigation into leaks, which is a big deal and he\u2019s recused himself from Russia. So today Sessions announces… Well, it\u2019s said that he\u2019s gonna announce a new investigation into all of the illegal, felonious leaking that is taking place. Sessions may be… I\u2019ll tell you what this means. He may be about to open investigations into Democrats. Stick with me on this. Hillary Clinton, Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz — and, believe me, is there ever fertile ground to investigate Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and the DNC and her IT staffer, Imran Awan of Virginia.<\/p>\n

He was caught trying to flee the country at Dulles International Airport yesterday<\/a>, last night. Fertile ground. So I\u2019m sure Sessions\u2019 investigation may also include him, Imran Awan. The WikiLeaks leaks. Podesta. Russia. But not from the angle that the Democrats are interested in. If this is announced, if Sessions announces this — when he does — it will follow a week minimum, maybe two weeks, of all of these Democrats defending the honor of Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

Praising his integrity, talking about what a raw deal he\u2019s been getting from Trump. But the point is, go back to the campaign, fast-forward to the transition and Sessions\u2019 nomination to be attorney general, the confirmation hearings. “What a pig! What a racist! What an absolute joke! What a danger! This guy… Beauregard? Ha! We know what that means. The guy may as well own a plantation. He probably still has secret slaves. Beauregard? Who names their kid Beauregard?” They\u2019re out there trying to impugn Sessions.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019ve been defending him and setting him up as one of most integrity filled people of all, \u2019cause Trump\u2019s going after him. He announces an investigation. Because they have spent all of these news cycles praising Sessions and defending Sessions from the evil Trump, now what do they do? Well, they\u2019ve gotta double back. “You know, forget it, he doesn\u2019t have any integrity. He doesn\u2019t have any honesty. He\u2019s not a great guy. He\u2019s doing this investigation, he\u2019s a sop, he\u2019s a coward. Trump starts complaining, look what he does.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the only thing they can do. Folks, there has to be more to this than what we are seeing, because what we are seeing doesn\u2019t make any sense. It just doesn\u2019t. And remember in every event that happens out there, I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re watching a football game, there are things happening that you don\u2019t know, in the clubhouse, on the field, on the sidelines. Same thing in politics. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s really going on. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s being said to Trump behind the scenes. We\u2019re only being told that Trump staffers are begging him to lay off Sessions? Come on. What kind of fools do they think we are?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s envision that. There\u2019s a meeting in the Oval Office, you got Reince Priebus, you got Bannon, you have Kellyanne Conway in there, take your pick. You got Tom Hagen in there, Anthony Scaramucci, these guys in there, “Mr. President, please, please! This is not like you! It\u2019s not helpful. Please back off Attorney General Sessions, it\u2019s gone too far.” Five minutes later Trump\u2019s in the Rose Garden doubling down on what a louse Sessions is. It doesn\u2019t make sense. But this does. Manipulating these people, there\u2019s nobody better.<\/p>\n

Let me put it this way. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve had a more media savvy president. It\u2019s hard to say because we don\u2019t know really how savvy the people were before we were born. But in our lifetimes there haven\u2019t been any. This guy owns it, folks. Forget what they\u2019re saying about it, Donald Trump is the news from the time in the morning when you get up \u2019til you go to bed. He has totally, totally forced the fake media to do nothing but report on him.<\/p>\n

I know, I know, it\u2019s all fake, and it\u2019s largely unfair and it\u2019s mean-spirited and he probably doesn\u2019t like a lot of it, but to commandeer the entire industry of journalism like this? A bunch of people that hate Trump cannot help but give him never ending exposure. Now, I know some people who think Trump gets too much, they wish he would go silent, stay invisible just for two days. He can\u2019t. The media can\u2019t. They can\u2019t ignore Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

So what Trump can do is manipulate them. And it\u2019s possible — I\u2019m just throwing this out there as a theory. I mean, who really knows? But I think it would be a great piece de resistance, because after months and months and months of these people just ripping Jeff Sessions one side up down the other, and now here comes a week where he\u2019s the greatest guy in the world. The media\u2019s so easy this way, by the way. And they\u2019re so predictable and transparent. They do this.<\/p>\n

\"\"If I spent tomorrow\u2019s show ripping Donald Trump, they would spend the next two days talking about how substantive I am, how serious, I\u2019m not like the other bombastic people out there. And it would last as long as I went the other way. They\u2019re that transparent.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve told you over the years: “We\u2019re gonna toy with the media today. I\u2019m gonna say something, just between you and me. Don\u2019t tell them. They\u2019ll hear about it at Media Matters, and the headline the next day is gonna be ‘Limbaugh X.'” And it always works, does it not? Well, if I can do it, certainly Trump can. And I think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on. We\u2019ll find out. It won\u2019t be long before we find out what this really is.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is Eric in Baltimore, a noted conservative area of the country, according to the president. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, and mega dittos from a listener since 1992.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Your earlier caller from Las Vegas, I believe, pretty much stole my thunder. I agree with what she said. I would just like to make note that this seeming rift between Sessions and Trump, that\u2019s just the toilet paper in the trees. It\u2019s what\u2019s really going on behind the scenes, and it\u2019s incredible to me to know that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That wasn\u2019t a caller from Las Vegas. That was me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the administration strategy, the immigration strategy with no leaks.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: With no leaks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Have you noticed the leakers seem to be concentrating on Trump, other things that are happening —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Russia, primarily.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right. And Sessions is very quietly implementing the agenda with virtually no scrutiny or —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, this is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — criticism from the media.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I agree with this. Well, the guy from Las Vegas did make this point but you have expanded on it. The thing is that Sessions\u2019 real value to Trump in terms of his agenda is he is single-handedly moving Trump\u2019s immigration agenda forward.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The Russia thing was not an agenda item, I mean, during the campaign. This whole Russia thing, there was nobody endorsing Trump because they knew the Democrats were gonna be — I mean, the true Trump agenda, the number one reason he got elected was immigration, illegal immigration, getting a handle on it, building a wall, stopping it, what that meant for the culture, what it meant for employment, what it meant for sanctity of the United States. And Jeff Sessions is leading that agenda item and doing so marvelously well. It makes no sense to get rid of him. And you\u2019re right, there aren\u2019t any leaks about it; it\u2019s just happening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve also correctly identified that what Trump has done, magnificently, I think, is he\u2019s put Sessions in the position where the media have to defend Sessions because they perceive Trump to be their mortal enemy. Now when Sessions goes ahead and does things that the media don\u2019t like, how do they criticize him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that won\u2019t stop \u2019em. But no, that\u2019s exactly right. If that is what has happened here, it\u2019s pretty crafty. They hated Sessions, a racist, bigot, middle name Beauregard, probably a secret slave owner, all that stuff they were trying to imply. They hated him. They hated him. Didn\u2019t want him to get confirmed. Now because Trump\u2019s being so mean, he\u2019s magically acquired all this integrity and honor, sad what Trump\u2019s doing. Now he announces an investigation into the leaks, and they\u2019ve gotta go back to trashing the guy.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Georgia, this is Wilton. Great to have you, Wilton. How you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wilton, what kind of phone are you using?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m using an iPhone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man, your call sounds clear as a bell to me. Are you making a FaceTime call or using the phone number?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir, I\u2019m just using the phone number.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, you\u2019ve got a good connection here that\u2019s noticeably different.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, great.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: It is good. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to say Attorney General Sessions has gotta go, and I\u2019m probably gonna upset a lot of people, but coming from the Senate, you know, these 100 deliberative people who constantly look out for each other, he\u2019s no longer in the Senate. He represents law and order. You\u2019re either following the law or you\u2019re not. So when sanctuary cities are still in place, in complete contradiction to what President Trump wants, it needs to be addressed immediately. When somebody is leaking, it needs to be addressed immediately. And he\u2019s done none of those things, and certainly should have never recused himself from the Russia investigation based on what we now know, which was all false.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On the recusal —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the regulations that are established, you could make the case that he had to. It\u2019s arguable, he probably might have been able to skate by, but legal people tell me that the regs are such that a law and order guy would recuse himself. On the immigration side I actually think Sessions is moving the ball on these things. Sanctuary cities —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Slowly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying. Sanctuary cities are telling him to go to hell, and what you\u2019re saying is, he shouldn\u2019t let them tell him to go to hell. He needs to send them to hell, he needs to respond, and if they\u2019re gonna behave lawless, he needs to bring an action on them immediately. But he\u2019s taking the case to them.<\/p>\n

Now, I understand your thinking. He comes from the Senate where everything takes 10 years to get done. “It\u2019s a deliberative body. There are many staff members and many reports are written,” and blah, blah. I get that. But I tell you, on the immigration side, Trump is not gonna be able to find anybody who could get confirmed now that will do any better. I firmly believe that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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