His ex-wife, Ms. Willoughby<\/a>, “I think his integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable.” Kelly basically said the same thing, got great integrity, great honor, people that have worked with him have said this. What\u2019d the guy do? What was his job? Why was he so valuable? I think you have to answer that question.<\/p>\nCan you answer the question, Mr. Snerdley? You follow the news. You. Yeah, he was a secretary, but that\u2019s the title. Can you tell me what the job was? There\u2019s no wrong answer here. Dawn, can you tell me? Do you know what his job was? Brian, do you know what his job was? Kraig, do you know what his job was? Okay. Whatever his job was, Kelly considered it of paramount importance, whatever it was. Kelly did not want to lose this guy because he was so important.<\/p>\n
Now, Kelly is a serious man, military general, considered to be an adult in the Trump Romper Room White House. You know how the story goes. What did he do that was so valuable? What did he do that they didn\u2019t think they could find somebody else to do? What did he do that made \u2019em think it was worth trying to hold onto the guy?<\/p>\n
Well, I\u2019ve been trying to figure this out myself using my own real-world and work-related experiences trying to understand it. For those of you who have employees out there, let me just ask you, how many have you had that it would be a real problem if they left? How many of you have had employees — I mean, nobody\u2019s irreplaceable, obviously. But how many employees have you had that if something happened and they either got hired away or were injured or something, or they weren\u2019t there, how many of you have had employees you don\u2019t want to even think about that?<\/p>\n
For those of you who have been in that situation or are in that situation, that may be one thing that would be helpful in understanding this because this guy clearly was that to Kelly. And he was that to quite a few other people. So what did he do? Well, the best description I\u2019ve heard of what he did was he shuffled paper from department to department to department. Meaning, the trains ran on time because of this guy. Meaning, he was paramount in terms of the organization and the flow of things happening when they should and where they should, within the White House.<\/p>\n
The West Wing is a massive complex, but it\u2019s very small. There are a lot of people in there and they\u2019re doing a lot of things in there, and Kelly has limited access to Trump to try to keep people like Omarosa out of there and to keep people from driving in there. So what this guy was doing was keeping everybody in the loop — and, apparently, exceedingly well. Now, you might think, “Well, that doesn\u2019t sound like much,” and it may not to you and me.<\/p>\n
But whatever he was doing, these people considered, “Oh, I don\u2019t want to try to replace this.” Have you ever had an employee you don\u2019t have to tell \u2019em what to do; they do it and then some? Have you ever had an employee that never had to ask you what needed to be done; when they saw something that needed to be done, they did it? Now, granted, you have to have invested some amount of autonomy and freedom in a person, an employee like that. But how valuable are people like that?<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t have to give instruction. You don\u2019t have to give them a memo every day. You don\u2019t have to write down 15 paragraphs what you want them to do the next day. They just do it because they know what it needs to be done. They know you better or as well as you know yourself. In other words, they streamline you. They don\u2019t hold you back. They don\u2019t distract you. They don\u2019t slow you down. You don\u2019t have to spend 15 minutes telling them what to do every day and then another 30 critiquing what went wrong.<\/p>\n
Those people are hard to find. Somebody with whom a manager can invest total trust without worrying about it, those people are really hard to find. Once you find them, you really don\u2019t want to lose them. I have no idea what the guy did other than the descriptions I\u2019ve seen. (interruption) What are you…? (interruption) What are you laughing at in there? (interruption) What in the world…? (interruption) I know. (interruption) Well, no, no. I\u2019m being honest. There are a lot of people who\u2019ll tell you they know what he did.<\/p>\n
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“He was taking paper from office to office!” But it\u2019s obviously more than that. Snerdley\u2019s laughing because, “If you don\u2019t know,” he says, “there\u2019s no way anybody else would know.” So it remains a easily answered question to me as to why Kelly would try to hold onto the guy. “But, Rush! But, Rush! All the evidence in the FBI background checks and they weren\u2019t done on time and they were still open…” I know. I know. “But, Rush, it was sexual abuse, and right down the hall is Donald Trump, and right out the door is Stormy Daniels and the lawyers paying her off and oh, my God !Oh, my God!<\/p>\n
“The NBC video! How could they be so insensitive, Rush? How could they not know what\u2019s…?” I\u2019m trying to explain how all of that could have been subordinated to the guy\u2019s job performance and not because they don\u2019t care about sexual harassment and not because they\u2019re not sensitive to it. It\u2019s because whatever the guy\u2019s doing, he\u2019s not doing that in there — and, again, here\u2019s the quote from one of the ex-wives of which, there are two.<\/p>\n
“I want to be very clear…” This is Ms. Willoughby. “I want to be very clear when I say this. I don\u2019t want to be married to him. I would not recommend anyone to date him or marry him. But I definitely want him in the White House and the position he is in.” This is a woman who has destroyed this guy, in her own way. Both ex-wives have let it be known that he abused them and was physical and bruises and photos and yet she\u2019s saying, “I definitely want him in the White House and the position he is in. I think his integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable. And the majority of the issues he suffers from are very personal and intimate.”<\/p>\n
Meaning they happen within interpersonal relationships of the romantic and semi-romantic kind and not within the… (interruption) No, no, no, no, no. Look, don\u2019t misunderstand me. I\u2019m not defending anything. I\u2019m trying to look at this from outside the prism and the narrative of the Drive-Bys. What they want you to see is that there was a mad sexual harasser on the loose in the White House, and he was hitting on everything, or might have posed a great threat. “No woman was safe, and Trump and Kelly didn\u2019t care, because they don\u2019t care about women.<\/p>\n
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“They don\u2019t care about women being abused, and they don\u2019t care about sexual abuse. So they didn\u2019t care until they got caught.” That\u2019s the narrative they\u2019re trying to spread. But I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m not gonna join it. So I\u2019m looking for an alternate explanation for this, using real-life experience guided by intelligence. So the correct result was achieved: The guy\u2019s gone. He\u2019s histoire, he\u2019s out of there. All the questions are being talked about now have to do with the process by which he became histoire.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the FBI director, Christopher Wray, “testified that the FBI delivered a preliminary report on Porter to the White House in March of 2017,” 11 months ago, “and a final background check investigation in July of 2017. This conflicts with the White House timeline.” That\u2019s another thing the media cannot contain themselves. They\u2019re so excited, \u2019cause to them this means the White House lied again! (impression) “Just like they\u2019re lying about Russian collusion, now they\u2019re lying about this, and the FBI director really unmasked \u2019em up there in that testimony yesterday.<\/p>\n
“The FBI director — who\u2019s got a score to settle anyway because the FBI director\u2019s really mad at Trump for trying to destroy the FBI over the Russia thing…” This is how they\u2019re playing it out there in Drive-By Mediaville. So, anyway, the FBI was then “asked to review the information again. They delivered a follow-up in November after their final background check presentation, July 17th, they were asked to do it again. They delivered a follow-up in November of 2017 and they closed the file last month,” which was what? January.<\/p>\n
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“Domestic abuse allegations against Porter are reported to have been in the write-up delivered to the White House by the FBI in July before Kelly became the chief of staff.” So you can see that same kind of Vaseline that Joe Kennedy III had on during his response to the State of the Union, the Drive-Bys all have it on today. I mean, they are drooling out there over this little bit, that this guy was into sexual abuse and the FBI background check had told the White House this even back in July before Kelly came on board.<\/p>\n
The continuing developments and revelations are causing the story to last much longer than most news cycles do, even in the current media environment. And the reason is simple: It has become “the” story. Everything else the Democrats have tried to get rid of Trump is fizzled or bombed one way or the other. This is something brand-new. “Oh, my God, this is a new reason to get out of bed and hope and pray that this is the day that we get Trump!” And who is a guy nobody ever heard of before this started. As the military would characterize, the guy was a staff puke.<\/p>\n
He was a behind-the-scenes staff puke, but he made sure everybody was where they were supposed to be at the time they were supposed to be there. He made sure that everybody in a loop was informed of exactly what they were to be informed of and when. And if a “where” was involved, he took care of that. He apparently was a guy that you could say, “Do this, this, this, this, this” one time, and he did that and more. So that\u2019s basically where this is, except… Well, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n
I want to read to you what Chuck Todd and his buddies are saying about why the story\u2019s lasting so long, it\u2019s because they think… Well, they don\u2019t admit this. This is gold. This is gold. This is the golden showers come to life. It may be fake and phony, the dossier, but now! Now we got a guy who may have actually done that kind of stuff! As I say, envision the Vaseline coming out of the corners of any journalist\u2019s mouth and you\u2019ll get an accurate portrayal of where they are today and what it is that\u2019s motivating them.<\/p>\n
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BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: The main reason the Porter story has legs in the Drive-By Media is it\u2019s a great way for them to turn women voters against Trump and the Republicans for the midterms. Make no mistake, this is how this is all gonna be used. “Republicans hate women!” The same old page from the playbook. It gives them an excuse to regurgitate all of the anti-women allegations against Trump.<\/p>\n
Just like the dossier being presented to Trump by Comey gave the media open license to talk about the dossier as real news once it was presented to Trump. This story provides them endless opportunities to regurgitate all the previous anti-women allegations against Trump, which are being seen now in almost every Drive-By Media article, which runs through these previous allegations like they\u2019re stations of the cross.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know this statement from the ex-wife, Ms. Willoughby, ex-wife of Rob Porter, can you not hear Hillary saying this same thing about her husband? Let me read it to you again. “I would not recommend anybody date or marry him, but I definitely want him in the White House in the position he\u2019s in. His ability to do his job is impeccable. The majority of the issues he suffers from are very personal and intimate.”<\/p>\n
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Isn\u2019t that essentially what the Democrats did say about Bill Clinton? And he wasn\u2019t some paper pusher! He was pushing a lot of things, and it wasn\u2019t paper. That\u2019s exactly what they said. I mean, not word-for-word, but that\u2019s the point they were all making about Bill Clinton. Now of course they\u2019re all doing their 2020 hindsight thing and saying, “We didn\u2019t realize at the time.” BS, you didn\u2019t realize at the time. You knew exactly what you were doing at the time.<\/p>\n
And the Trump White House is in a way no different here. They got a guy they like, the job he was doing. The administration didn\u2019t depend on it. The party didn\u2019t depend on it like the party did depend on Clinton. But the parallels are pretty interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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So what is it about this guy that made the chief of staff, General Kelly, apparently step in it at first by defending him and talking about his integrity, which his ex-wife is doing here.