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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Harry next, Valparaiso, Indiana. Welcome, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, thank you very much, Rush. Hey, the reason I wanted to call — it\u2019s a very serious question, not facetious at all. And that is, Trump won the election. We voted for him. We control both the House, the Senate. Trump at the head of the Department of Justice. And yet after all of this we look up and Trump\u2019s lawyer\u2019s office is getting raided. Not the Clinton Foundation. Not Perkins Coie. And I don\u2019t understand that. Is there a reason that can be easily explained?<\/p>\n
And I know about the swamp and so forth. But I think if Perkins Coie got raided tomorrow based on what Trump ordered Sessions to do or whatever, this stuff would come to a grinding halt immediately. They would stop. And it\u2019s like punching a bully back. I don\u2019t understand why we\u2019re just letting them — I mean, eventually they\u2019re gonna find something. They\u2019re gonna find a tax return from 1982 where Trump took an extra $200,000 that maybe he wasn\u2019t entitled to, and there will be a “a-ha, we found it.” I don\u2019t understand why they don\u2019t just put an end to it by fighting back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, you know, you say you know about the swamp and you\u2019ve heard that explanation. And that really is the explanation, as unsatisfactory or unsatisfying as it is. Trump, I don\u2019t know how many are in his close circle that would constitute the real Trump administration and so forth, but I\u2019m telling you, he is vastly outnumbered.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m saying this independent of Jeff Sessions. Jeff Sessions is a wonderful guy. He is a tremendous patriot. But he is not — my term for it is he\u2019s not a warrior attorney general. He is someone who has a profound respect for the law and sees the job of attorney general, administering it, managing it on a federal level but not using it as an attack agency or even as a defense agency.<\/p>\n
There aren\u2019t a whole lot of Republicans themselves who are used to going on attack. Republicans\u2019 lives have been spent on defense their entire lives. The Democrats and the left literally do run that town. And that\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said it\u2019s gonna take more than one election, way more than one election to actually stop the direction that we\u2019re headed in and turn it back and reverse it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m like you. Your question is utterly dripping with common sense. We won the election. It was a duly constituted and fair election. We won the presidency. We have the House of Representatives and the Senate. Therefore Trump\u2019s people theoretically staff the president\u2019s cabinet and the American bureaucracy. And by all rights, all of the criminality engaged in by the Clintons and by the Democrats ought to be under investigation.<\/p>\n
It defies common sense. Trump wins and he\u2019s under investigation? And now we learn on an entirely bogus premise, and nobody can end it. And, meanwhile, the collusion and the actual rigging of elections is now widely known and accepted to have been all on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of like the Valerie Plame story. Before that special counsel began its investigation, everybody knew who the leaker was. It was Richard Armitage, who was never charged, who was never fingered, who was never in jeopardy whatsoever, a guy that had nothing to do with it is found guilty!<\/p>\n
The Washington establishment is a very, very powerful, exclusive and august club, and their power resides not in who wins and loses elections. And that is their great strength. They remain in power and run that town whether Democrats or Republicans win the presidency and the House and Senate. Now, it\u2019s not quite that simple, but I\u2019m giving you an overview here. You think that answer doesn\u2019t fully explain this, and I\u2019m telling you it does.<\/p>\n
And, you know, Trump would be desperate to, I think, have Hillary investigated, and he could make it happen. Look, the FISA warrant application, for example, if Trump wanted to, he could make it all public today. The president determines what is classified and what isn\u2019t. I know a lot of people curious why won\u2019t Trump just blow the wall down and reveal all of this?<\/p>\n
You know, everybody\u2019s wondering, did they use the dossier for the FISA warrant application or was there more? Trump can find out, he can demand to see it and he can declassify it if he wants to. And the fact that he doesn\u2019t and hasn\u2019t has a lot of people scratching their heads as to why.<\/p>\n
I have no clue. I can\u2019t answer the question for you. I just know the history of Washington and you tell me, how often do Democrats get investigated for what they do? How many Democrat presidents have been treated like Trump and Richard Nixon have been treated? For that matter, how many Democrat presidents get treated like George W. Bush was treated? Bill Clinton never was, despite what he did. And Barack Obama? To this day, Barack Obama remains clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and a great hero.<\/p>\n
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And I\u2019m telling you all of this that we\u2019re talking about that happened regarding the investigation, Russian collusion, the use of the deep state, Obama and his team did all of that. It\u2019s not Hillary. It was done for Hillary, but it was done to shield Obama in many cases, but to also do his dirty work for him, all of it designed to protect his legacy and some other things as well. It\u2019s a curious, curious thing. I just think it\u2019s gonna take a little bit more time with Republicans actually having electoral power.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the midterms, I think, are kind of important. So is 2020 with the presidential race, if Trump\u2019s on the ballot, it doesn\u2019t matter. When I say it doesn\u2019t, the Washington establishment\u2019s power exists regardless who wins elections; that\u2019s true. But one of the reasons it works is because Republicans are so used to rolling over and not really fighting back because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been always had to do to stay free, if you will, within the swamp or within the establishment.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I know it\u2019s frustrating. You just have to keep plugging away at it each and every day. And, you know, elections matter, and public opinion does matter. A lot of people think that it doesn\u2019t. But it does. And I\u2019ll just recycle a point or opinion that I offered last Friday. From the get-go — and I\u2019m talking about a select few number of people here on this whole Trump-Russia collusion thing — a select few people have known from the beginning that it\u2019s been bogus from the beginning.<\/p>\n
There are people behind this investigation, behind this charge, behind this whole movement who\u2019ve known from the moment they first mentioned it that it didn\u2019t happen. There are people who have known Trump didn\u2019t collude, that the dossier is fake, that there weren\u2019t any prostitutes that peed on a bed, none of it is true. The exact opposite is true. And yet what has all this been about?<\/p>\n
All of this has largely been about — not only — but largely been about moving public opinion to anti-Trump, impeachment, or using the 25th Amendment, anything other than an election to get rid of a president like Trump. It has to be backed up by public opinion or the public won\u2019t put up with it. And so most of this has been about engendering negative numbers for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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They have been trying to drive Trump\u2019s approval numbers down to the twenties and thirties. And if they could have done that, then invoking the 25th Amendment, which says he\u2019s unstable, he\u2019s unfit, or actually moving on impeachment, if he\u2019d gotten down to the twenties or thirties the Republicans might have gone along with impeachment.<\/p>\n
But this whole thing has been bogus in terms of substance and reality and truth from the beginning. It\u2019s all been an effort to create vast disapproval, dislike, and anger at Donald Trump. Because if they had succeeded — and they thought they could do it in six months — then getting rid of him becomes markedly easier. You don\u2019t have to wait for an election. Because the American people, by virtue of those numbers, would practically be demanding it. A president with 20% approval, 25% and the never-ending drumbeat that would accompany that, that would have been the way to get the guy out of office and how to overturn the election.<\/p>\n
They needed public opinion. They have failed. They\u2019ve failed to get public opinion. Trump\u2019s approval numbers now steady at 50, maybe 51, some polls 47, 48. But they failed miserably. Now they\u2019re dropping it. Now they\u2019re going to what they really think they might have Trump on is some serious lawbreaking; that\u2019s with his lawyer, Cohen.<\/p>\n
They still don\u2019t have anything. So now their eggs are in the Cohen basket and the midterms. But even if they win the midterms, if Trump\u2019s approval numbers are 45 to 50% there\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna succeed in impeaching him. Well, I shouldn\u2019t say “no way.” There\u2019s always a way they could do it. But it\u2019s gonna be demonstrably harder if his approval numbers stay up. And the economy looks like it\u2019s gonna help keeping his numbers one.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Back to the phones. Tony, Knoxville, Tennessee. Great to have you, sir. I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Maha Rush, Great Smoky Mountain kayaking dittos.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, quick question. This might sound somewhat conspiratorial, but my question is, would you think the establishment Republicans would be willing to throw the elections in November?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Establishment Republicans throw the election just to spite Trump?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. To basically get the Democrats in there, go forward with the impeachment, and they\u2019ll fix everything again in 2020?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, look. As far as I\u2019ll go on that is this. You and I both know that there are a lot of elected Republicans that do not like Trump at all. One of them is Jeff Flake. Depending on what day you talk to him, Bob Corker is another.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s a bunch of them in there. Some of them are running for reelection. Some of them have announced that they are retiring and some of them have announced they\u2019re resigning. But the nub of your question is are there Republicans who would sabotage their own party to get Trump? The answer to that is “yes.” But I\u2019m not basing that on anything I know about this campaign. There were Republicans who said that during the presidential race in 2016.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t remember the names, but there were Republicans that were Never Trump conservative media types who were saying it would be worth losing everything in 2016 if it meant getting all these ne\u2019er-do-well conservatives and Trump people out of the Republican Party. I wish I could remember who it was. There were two or three of them. And I think one of them was prominent, who literally said it would be worth losing everything if it cleansed the party. It might have been some TV Republican strategist or something. I\u2019m not sure which.<\/p>\n
But there were at least three of them that I recall, or maybe it\u2019s three stories. I don\u2019t think it was George Will. I think George Will recently said that he can\u2019t be a Republican anymore. But, no, during the campaign — it might have been some other candidates. For some reason I\u2019m thinking Kasich, but I know that there were Republicans that were thinking if Trump is gonna win, then it\u2019s worth us losing everything if that\u2019s what it takes for Trump to lose.<\/p>\n
Oh, wish I could remember who it was. Maybe we can do some fast research here in the break and find out. But, yeah. If somebody said it once back in 2016, and the anti-Trump sentiment\u2019s still there within certain sectors of the so-called conservative intellectual crowd and the RINO moderate Republican crowd too.<\/p>\n
Whether that\u2019s gonna happen, that\u2019s another thing. It\u2019s easy to talk that way six months from an election. But when you get right down to when the election approaches and so forth, following through on something like that is probably kind of doubtful. But I don\u2019t doubt that there\u2019s some Republicans individually who would do it themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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