RUSH: The Drive-By Media is convinced that Trump is going to sign something to keep families unified. Trying to follow this as it\u2019s happening. There\u2019s a cabinet meeting going on that is being televised. Well, meaning Trump has allowed the cameras in — and when it leaked that Trump said he\u2019s gonna, quote, “sign something,” unquote, to keep families unified at the border, the media started beating its chest.<\/p>\n
“See, we made him cave! We made him cave! We won! We made him cave, this is the most embarrassing moment for Trump and his presidency. We won! We won.” Now, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen — and whenever it does happen, we\u2019ll tell you what it is. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s gonna be, but let me just say hypothetically, Trump signed something, an executive order that keeps families united under certain present circumstances.<\/p>\n
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Somebody\u2019s gonna sue because that executive order is going to be in violation of American statutory law! Somebody\u2019s gonna sue, and it might even be a leftist who will sue just to continue the problems and keep the issue alive for the Democrats. Whatever Trump signs to keep families together is not gonna end this. It\u2019s only gonna prolong it because this issue they\u2019re not going to let flitter away.<\/p>\n
And if he does sign an executive order, can you…? I can just see this right now. Some leftist lawyer or law firm or legal activist group will come along and file a lawsuit against Trump for exceeding executive authority, and they might even add, “This could lead to impeachment charges! The president is acting dictatorial,” even though it will be action they have demanded. But all it takes is one such lawsuit, and the issue is just refueled again. So let\u2019s keep a sharp eye and see what happens here.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I want to go back to the idea of Trump signing something. Because if he does — if he signs an executive order — in addition to the media saying, “We made you cave! We made you cave, you son of a… (sputtering) You — You — You — We hate you! We hate you! We won! We won! You caved! You caved! You know you were wrong! You know you were wrong! We made you! We made you back up from hating…” However they deal with it. If he does this via executive order, let me explain to you why he\u2019s gonna be sued.<\/p>\n
The circumstances at the southern border… All of this has been set up by the media so that the Democrats can convert all of this into an issue, and the kids that they\u2019re supposedly concerned about are nothing more than the throwaways. They happen to be the ball that\u2019s being kicked around, hopefully advanced down the field. But the Democrats don\u2019t really care about these kids, because they\u2019re gonna try to block anything Trump does. If it\u2019s not letter perfect and if it doesn\u2019t grant them a 1,000% victory, they\u2019re gonna block it because they don\u2019t want this issue to end.<\/p>\n
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They think this issue is gonna take them back to the circumstances of the blue wave, just like they thought the hurricane is in Puerto Rico was gonna do that. Here\u2019s the law, as mentioned previously this week. There is a case called Reno v. Flores. It\u2019s a Supreme Court case. The government either had to release whole families of illegal immigrants in custody or the government had to separate parents from children. That is the governing law here from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It all has to do with seeking asylum.<\/p>\n
There are two things that happen when an illegal family hits the border. In the first sense, the illegal is processed. It takes two hours. They\u2019re separated while that happens, then the family is reunited. If there\u2019s asylum sought, the maximum length of time kids can be held is 20 days, but the asylum case takes much longer than that process. It is this law, Reno v. Flores, that keeps families separated, as affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California. So if Trump writes an executive order that basically overrides the federal law that\u2019s in practice here, somebody\u2019s gonna come along and sue him.<\/p>\n
Somebody\u2019s gonna see him for breaching authority, for overreaching authority, for dictatorial efforts to be an executive out of control, whatever it is, because Trump remains the target. Trump is the target. The kids are not the objective here. Saving the kids, reuniting families is not what this is about. Getting Donald Trump is. So, mark my words: However he does this (if he does), by signing an executive order, somebody\u2019s gonna come along — and probably a leftist — and sue him. And guess what?<\/p>\n
Before the lawsuit\u2019s filed a judge and a court will have been chosen where the judge is friendly, where the lawsuit will not be thrown out as frivolous. It will be allowed to continue, just like happened with Trump\u2019s travel bans, which are entirely constitutional, but a couple of federal judges put the kibosh on it. It had to proceed up the appellate process, which took a year for the travel bans to go into effect. They won\u2019t care if they succeed in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Just the fact that Trump has been sued for exceeding executive authority (or whatever they claim Trump has done here in a criminal or some other kind of violative way) will present another issue, and that is: “Trump dictator! Trump Hitler! Trump pressured, feeling the pressure, knew he was doing wrong by separating families, sought to violate the Constitution in order to fix it.” The only legal fix for this is the United States Congress. It is their law that is in place and that is being observed. They are the only ones who can legally fix this.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t know how easy it would be or how complicated it\u2019s gonna be. Could Congress pass an emergency piece of legislation that says simply, “Family will not be separated at the border”? Well, they can pass anything they want. If Trump signs it, then what happens after that? “Families cannot be separated at the border.” Well, then what do you do? And then somebody\u2019s gonna you sue on that. This is why they\u2019re not gonna let go of this issue no matter what Trump does.<\/p>\n
In the process, the illustration will be plain as day that it\u2019s not about the kids, and it\u2019s not about their families, and it\u2019s not about separation. What it\u2019s really about is allowing anybody into the country who wants to come in, let \u2019em in. That is the Democrat Party policy, and not exclusively the Democrats. There\u2019s some Republicans on that side too. That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. In the process, that\u2019s what they think they can do to separate Trump from his voters. They believe that Trump\u2019s voters are glued to him because of immigration.<\/p>\n
If they can force Trump to do something that angers his base on immigration, that makes it easier to come into the country and stay illegally — if they could force Trump to sign something that they can report, “Trump has caved on immigration,” that\u2019s all they would have to report. They can\u2019t wait for that to happen. That\u2019s what they think will happen. That\u2019s how they think they will separate Trump from his voters.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, a little history for you. This Ninth Circuit decision, the Flores ruling that governs the separation of families and how long kids can be detained (maximum 20 days). That decision was forced by… It was a lawsuit from a liberal amnesty group, a bunch of activists, and they are now the ones who are forcing the separation of children! All of this happened with liberal activists demanding this kind of thing. It was all part of a giant scheme to create sympathy and angst so that we could just stop all of this at the border.<\/p>\n
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“Just let these people in,” which remains the objective of all of this. “Just stop the processing and stop the examinations! Just let \u2019em in.” That\u2019s the Democrat Party policy. Now, the same leftist amnesty activists who brought us the Flores ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, they\u2019re not gonna let Trump detain whole families for longer than 20 days. so now the decision is, “Well, let\u2019s send some additional judges down there, some administrative judges to process these cases faster.” There are any number of things suggestions here.<\/p>\n
Making Trump cave on immigration separating… This not about separating illegal alien children from their parents. This is about separating Trump supporters from Trump. It\u2019s what this objective is all about. Look, folks! The omnibus spending bill, all of that money, and Trump did not get his wall. The No. 1 promise he made. Whether symbolic or not, there still isn\u2019t a wall. All of this still going on. The left thinks they\u2019re very close to forcing some Trump voters to rethink their support.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna remind those voters, “Hey, Trump promised you the wall. Look at that omnibus spending bill, and not a dime went for the wall \u2019cause Trump didn\u2019t fight for it!” That is what they\u2019re gonna say, and there\u2019s not any money for a wall now while all this is going on, and now Trump is forcing families apart. So, it\u2019s very clear to see what this is.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Say, does anybody know, anybody remember why this law was written as it is in the first place, where families and kids are separated? Does anybody know why that was written? Do you want to know? Would it matter to you to know why? It was written to discourage this kind of illegal immigration! And it didn\u2019t work. Parents sent their kids up unaccompanied anyway.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: No. The left makes me feel conflicted all the time. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to believe now, and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to think in order to be considered a good guy. Well, you would all agree I\u2019m a good guy. In fact, I\u2019m one of the goodest guys of the good guys. I\u2019m the Mac Daddy of good guys. So it was not a cabinet meeting that Trump had. It was in the Cabinet Room. There were a bunch of senators up there, and the discussion of what to do at the border and so forth, separating kids from their families.<\/p>\n
I watched media reaction after the meeting portion being televised concluded, and there was Dana Bash. I think that\u2019s an appropriate last name for what CNN\u2019s doing these days, by the way: Dana Bash. She\u2019s commenting on the optics of the meeting! She said there\u2019s only one woman in the meeting. She said, “That\u2019s just a blown optic opportunity. That is so insensitive, to be having a discussion on families and to only have one woman in the meeting?” So I\u2019m thinking, “Well, wait a minute, now.”<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t feminism all about making women able to escape these stereotypes, such as that women\u2019s place is in the home raising and nurturing the kids while dad\u2019s out there slaying dragons and bringing home the bacon so that the family can eat every day? We\u2019re supposed to blow those stereotypes to smithereens. But yet when there\u2019s not “enough” women in a picture where families are being discussed… Militant feminism is encouraging women to abandon all of these traditional cultural arrangements, like traditional family, nuclear family, having kids and so forth.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not supposed to be constrained by all that. So which is it? Well, obviously the answer is, she was offended that it\u2019s a bunch of aging white guys in there discussing families as though they are the least qualified, see? And if you add to it, we\u2019re talking Hispanic families, and a bunch of aging white guys talking about Hispanic families? Why, no wonder we\u2019ve got a problem, reports Dana Bash — and so you can\u2019t win. There were people in that room seriously trying to address the issue. And what happens?<\/p>\n
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They are ripped and criticized because of identity characteristics, and what they were saying wasn\u2019t even commented on. So I\u2019m just warning you — and you know this without me telling you — no matter what “solution,” quote, unquote, is arrived at here and is applied, it isn\u2019t gonna be the end of this. It\u2019s only gonna be the next phase of how the left seeks to keep this alive with ever increasing energy and so forth. Let\u2019s see here. I\u2019m gonna give you some media examples here. This is from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
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I said as recently as last week that the events that are gonna determine the November elections haven\u2019t even happened yet. Ha! Well, this is exactly what I meant. Who could have predicted this? I mean, we could have predicted that the left is gonna keep nipping at the ankles of Trump, but the specifics? I mean, nobody could predict that. So this whole episode, once again, establishes my primacy at opining and prescience. The issues that will make the 2018 elections haven\u2019t even happened yet. Two weeks ago, this was not an issue.<\/p>\n