{"id":243073,"date":"2017-08-03T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=243073"},"modified":"2017-08-03T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T21:40:57","slug":"general-kelly-limits-access-to-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/03\/general-kelly-limits-access-to-the-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"General Kelly Limits Access to the Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: H. R. McMaster is cleaning house. He\u2019s getting rid of every conservative on the National Security Council.<\/a> He\u2019s Trump\u2019s national security director, and he\u2019s brooming everybody.<\/p>\n

Every conservative and every Trumpist is being broomed out of the National Security Council. There\u2019s something going on there, and I\u2019m gonna delve into it. But I just saw something that I want to comment on, and I didn\u2019t know that it was going on. Apparently, the new chief of staff, General Kelly — a retired four-star, right — has just limited access to the Oval Office. Do you know what\u2019s been going on in there? (interruption) Apparently… (interruption) What? Apparently, the door to the Oval Office has been open and anybody on the staff has been able to walk in there and, say, put an article that they either wrote or that they find interesting from some website or blog on the desk for Trump to read.<\/p>\n

I mean, apparently it\u2019s been an endless parade of people that have been able to get in there. Even when Trump is conducting meetings, that door apparently can be opened. People have been able to walk in there! And that is the epitome of self-interest. Look, folks, I have experience with this. You ought to see my email during the course of a program. You wouldn\u2019t believe it. If I don\u2019t shut it down, I have 30 people sending me things that they think I ought to use, and, if I use it, you know what happens. They call all their friends.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Hey, Limbaugh wouldn\u2019t have had that unless I sent it.” If that kind of stuff\u2019s going on in the Oval Office — if that kind of stuff has been going on — I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s not good, because most of that is self-interest. Some of these people walking in there… I don\u2019t know names; it doesn\u2019t matter. They see something that either they wrote or that their names are part of or that they believe in. They print it out, the salient stuff. It\u2019s gonna be short because of Trump\u2019s attention span. They put it on the desk hoping Trump sees it.<\/p>\n

They hope Trump sees it, says something about it, reacts to it, does something. Then they call all their friends, “Hey, I got a direct line to the president! The president listens to me!” I know that stuff has been happening. That may be one of the sources of all the problems coming out of the Oval Office with so many people having access to it. That\u2019s not how it\u2019s supposed to work. The chief of staff, in a normally functioning White House, does indeed limit who gets in there. You gotta go through him, and that\u2019s what Kelly has just reestablished, or just maybe established. That the door\u2019s closed.<\/p>\n

Anybody who wants to see Trump for whatever purpose has to clear it through Kelly. Now, that can also lead to problems. You know, if Kelly doesn\u2019t want Trump to see certain things that Trump ought to see, well, then Trump is not gonna see \u2019em. I mean, this cuts both ways. But you just can\u2019t have… With the office of the president of the United States, you cannot have an open door with anybody in the world being able to walk in there and drop down a pet issue that they have on his desk to try to get him to talk about it or think about it or react to it or what have you.<\/p>\n

Besides that, nobody can deal with that much stimulation. I mean, if the president\u2019s sitting there and there\u2019s 15 or 20 things deposited on his desk — random things — every day, and he\u2019s going through \u2019em trying to make sense of \u2019em or whatever? It leads to lack of discipline, leads to confusion. It takes highly trained professionals like me to be able to sift through that kind of stuff. I have all kinds of people who want to help. You ought to see the last 15 minutes before this program starts.<\/p>\n

The email I get the last 15 minutes before the program starts is twice what I get in the two hours before it — and the two hours before it is double what most people get in a week! I know how this stuff works. But it shouldn\u2019t be happening in the Oval Office. There is no way. So I\u2019m glad that General Kelly has shut this down, but I\u2019m also concerned that General Kelly has shut this down. Because now who does get in to see Trump? No, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying that enemies get in there. It\u2019s not enemies. It\u2019s people trying to help. This is even worse!<\/p>\n

\"\"If there were enemies depositing stuff in there, that\u2019s easy to deal with. But everybody… At that level of power, folks, the level of self-interest is unavoidable. The number of people who want to remain anonymous? (Snort!) You can count \u2019em on one finger. Everybody wants to be known and everybody wants to have their contribution recognized and everybody wants to be considered in the loop and a powerbroker. If all they have to do is walk in the Oval Office and drop off the latest from the Weekly Standard or whatever it is?<\/p>\n

That may be the way the Trump organization worked on the Fifth Avenue, and I know that Trump had this policy of pitting executives against each other because he liked the competition. He thought it brought out the best in everybody. But here in the Oval Office? Uhh, it\u2019s just not working. We know that some of these people are leaking! I mean, the transcripts now — the full transcripts — of Trump\u2019s calls with the presidents of Mexico and Australia from six months ago have been published in the Washington Post. Now, who can get their hands on those?<\/p>\n

In fact, those transcripts make Trump look pretty good when you get right down to it, and they disapprove that Trump hung up on the guy from Australia. And he was telling the president of Mexico (paraphrased): “Would you stop bellyaching? You\u2019re gonna pay for the wall. You\u2019re gonna pay for it. Stop telling people you\u2019re not.” (interruption) Washington…? (interruption) Well, they can\u2019t blame Priebus for this one. Well, not necessarily. Unless Priebus took the stuff home and called the Washington Post from home. Who knows! I\u2019m not accusing anybody.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you: When you have that many people who apparently have had that kind of access? I mean, if you could walk into the Oval Office and put things on the desk (chuckles), you can just as easily pick something off the desk and take it out if there\u2019s anything there to be picked up and taken out. Not that sensitive documents are lying around on the desktop in the Oval. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. But I was a little shocked is and surprised to see that, and I just had to comment on it, \u2019cause it\u2019s just… I don\u2019t care how smart, I don\u2019t care how compartmentalized, I don\u2019t care how disciplined an individual is.<\/p>\n

\"\"At some point, information overload happens, and then you get paralyzed and then you get confused, and you don\u2019t remember who said what to you. And you don\u2019t remember where you read what. So then you go out and say, “Yeah, they called me from the Boy Scouts and said it was a great job.” Nobody “called” him. They told him that after the event. But in Trump\u2019s world, it equals a phone call. Somebody could have walked in and said, “Hey, Mr. President, we just got a call from the Boy Scouts. They thanked me, wanted to tell you how great…”<\/p>\n

Who knows? I bet it did happen that way. Somebody at Boy Scouts called somebody in the executive branch, in the office of the White House — the West Wing — and in general conversation said, “Yeah, it was great the president came out here. Man, it was great. The Scouts loved him!” This kid walks in, “We just heard the Boy Scouts loved it!” Trump, by the time that he tells the story, they called him. Who knows?<\/p>\n

When you have that much access with this many people, you cannot discount the self-interest at this level of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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