{"id":266411,"date":"2018-03-02T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=266411"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:03:09","slug":"john-kelly-defends-himself-on-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/02\/john-kelly-defends-himself-on-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kelly Defends Himself on Rob Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The chief of staff, John Kelly, has seen fit to defend himself in the midst of all of the so-called White House chaos<\/a>, about which we went into great detail in the first hour of the program today. And Kelly is saying, “I\u2019ve got nothing to resign over. There\u2019s literally nothing in here I have to resign over.”<\/p>\n

And he talked about Rob Porter. You all remember Rob Porter. You remember who this is. This is the guy that nobody knew existed. And he was apparently very important, very valuable. He was what\u2019s called a paper pusher. But not in a derogatory way. Apparently this is the guy that went from Trump to Kelly to wherever getting things signed, agendas known and distributed, kept the trains running on time, was apparently extremely good at it.<\/p>\n

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This is the kind of guy — and I remember asking those of you who have employees, do you have anybody you never have to give directions to? Do you have anybody that just knows what you want done and does it? Within the confines of their job. I don\u2019t mean people usurping your power. I mean, loyal people that know exactly what you want done and you don\u2019t have to tell \u2019em. Things very rarely go wrong, but if they do, you\u2019re gonna get a snapdragon answer for it and an explanation.<\/p>\n

Those employees are very valuable. In fact, they\u2019re invaluable. It\u2019s a combination of initiative, self-starting, not waiting for direction or instruction, confidence. Those are all characteristics that are really tough to find. And not everybody has them, and particularly has all of them in one package. And replacing somebody like that is a daunting task that you don\u2019t want to do. People in those positions in many cases can write their tickets.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how valuable they are. Because they take away distractions. They take away the minutia of your life or your job and allow you to focus on what it was that made you in the first place, allow you to focus on doing what you do that put you where you are in the first place. It could be paying the bills. It could be whatever. It\u2019s stuff that you know that if they do it, it can be directing and managing other people. Whatever it is, you know it\u2019s gonna get done. If there\u2019s a link in the chain that\u2019s weak, it\u2019s not this particular guy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, apparently that\u2019s what Rob Porter was. That\u2019s what he was to Trump. It\u2019s what he was to Hope Hicks. It\u2019s what he was to the chief of staff. And so when the allegations came from two of his ex-wives that he had beaten \u2019em up and abused them, they didn\u2019t want to believe it. ‘Cause if any of that\u2019s true the guy\u2019s gotta go. And Kelly is apparently still being raked over the coals for not reacting immediately by getting rid of the guy when his two ex-wives spoke up.<\/p>\n

And Kelly, I guess he met the press today or issued some written responses, I\u2019m not sure what; but when this came up, he said (paraphrasing), “Look. He denied it. The first time I asked him about it, he denied it. And this is not a guy that ever lied to us. He denied it. He said his two ex-wives are making it up. It wasn\u2019t true. I got nothing to apologize for. I got nothing to resign for,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n

So it later was established that it\u2019s gonna be very, very hard to defend the guy and he had to go. They didn\u2019t want him to go, and it\u2019s simply because of his value to them. It\u2019s not personal. It\u2019s not that they were defending or taking up the side of a guy that mistreats women, mistreated his ex-wives, believe me, it\u2019s not that. They don\u2019t want to have to try to replace the guy. People like this are very, very hard to replace because people like that are very unique.<\/p>\n

Fundamental in this kind of guy is somebody you never worry is trying to take your job, either, is never trying to ace you out, never trying to undermine you. These people are really rare, that they have every characteristic you need, unquestionable loyalty and supreme confidence. And it\u2019s not that they can read your mind. Nobody can do that, except husbands are expected to. (laughing) Slap me. It is that they learn fast on the job and the experience teaches them what their boss wants done and how and they just do it.<\/p>\n

So they didn\u2019t want to get rid of the guy. And Hope Hicks apparently was dating him. And they don\u2019t think Hope Hicks dates abusers. I mean, none of this made any sense to \u2019em. But then I guess they learned the incontrovertible truth that the guy was or had been very abusive, two ex-wives, and is gone. And so that\u2019s all part of the chaos in the White House.<\/p>\n

I got some emails during the break, “Mr. Limbaugh, are you denying these stories of chaos?” Well, I\u2019m not in a position to deny them. I\u2019m just telling you I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s to the extent being reported, because most of it doesn\u2019t make sense. Most of it is contradictory. The real story here is what has always been the story from the first day Trump was inaugurated and that is who is leaking this stuff? Who is calling the media and telling them this stuff?<\/p>\n

Now, the media is entirely capable of making it up. But I don\u2019t believe they\u2019re making all of it up. I do think there are people in Trump\u2019s administration telling them these stories, and they\u2019ve been there from the get-go. And a couple of them are known. And it didn\u2019t make any sense. You know, it was widely suspected that Bannon was one of these early leakers that was calling the New York Times. And people said, “That can\u2019t be. He was Trump\u2019s strategist. They would not undermine him.”<\/p>\n

“Well, you don\u2019t know. These guys take these jobs. They try to parlay them into personal advancements.” That\u2019s above my pay grade. I couldn\u2019t imagine taking a job like this and first thing wanting to do is undermine the guy that gave it to me. But, see, I\u2019m not a Washington denizen. I don\u2019t live in that world, and so my advancement in life or career is not based on doing it in that town and going through the steps, the recipe that you have to take.<\/p>\n

Believe me, the media runs that town, left-wing socialism runs that town socially and professionally, and if you want to matter, you\u2019ve gotta kowtow to \u2019em. So, yes, I think a lot of this chaos is being amplified and made up, and I think it\u2019s coordinated. And I think much of it is because Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything. Mueller still doesn\u2019t have anything on the original reason for his being impaneled as special counsel. And that\u2019s collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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