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<\/p>\nRUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, one of the things I predicted yesterday was that Trump\u2019s executive order would not survive a lawsuit, that somebody would come along and sue Trump on the basis he doesn\u2019t have the executive authority to do what he did even though they were all demanding that he do it. Now, some of you have written me. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re seminar emailers like we had a seminar caller yesterday or whether you\u2019re just playing devil\u2019s advocate.<\/p>\n
But one of the letters, one of the emails I got was somebody saying, “You say Trump is playing these people and is four or five moves ahead of \u2019em. What if it\u2019s the other way around? What if it\u2019s the Democrats are four or five moves ahead of him?” And then they constructed a scenario. “So they demand that Trump do something about separation of families. They demand it, they demand it, they demand it — and Trump caves, and he gives them the executive order, and then they know it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
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“So then they turn around and sue him making his executive order irrelevant, and then they report as though Trump knew it was gonna be irrelevant.” Now, I appreciate this kind of thinking, because I love taking on these questions or these devil\u2019s advocate assertions. The idea that the media is two to three steps ahead of Trump? (laughing) Reality argues against that. If the media were two or three steps ahead of Trump, he\u2019d be gone. He\u2019d be in big, big trouble. His approval numbers would be down in the twenties or thirties like they were able to drive George W. Bush\u2019s numbers down.<\/p>\n
No, no. In this case, they demanded, they demanded… You see, with the media… Remember here, the media is the Democrat Party. So the media\/Democrats, are seeking electoral political advantage over Trump, and in this whole emotional play of children separated from their families, they want the high ground. They want to appear as though only they care about children staying with families, when an examination of real life would prove that they don\u2019t care about that, from Planned Parenthood to AFDC to any number of policies Democrats have enacted that split families up — including silly redefinitions of what a family is.<\/p>\n
But they want the moral high ground, as Democrats, as people who are going to get votes. “They care about the children, and Trump doesn\u2019t, and the Republicans don\u2019t. They\u2019re mean-spirited and all of that.” So they force and they force and they force. They pummel Trump. They have picture after picture. They accuse Trump of not caring! Children are getting sick and dying. They\u2019re being held in cages. You know the drill. So Trump caves — and to prove that the media\u2019s not two or three steps ahead, what was their first reaction when Trump signed his executive order?<\/p>\n
They started claiming victory. They started shouting to anybody listening, “We made Trump cave! We did it. Oh-ho, my God! We still matter! We still matter!” F. Chuck Todd tells Dana Bash, “We made him cave! We made him cave! We can still do it. We can still do it, Dana!” “We can still do it, Chuck! We made him cave. We made…” And then it didn\u2019t take but 30 minutes for one of them to figure out that, yeah, the families are gonna say united but they\u2019re gonna remain in jail! (laughing) So who was thinking ahead of whoever?<\/p>\n
Also, Trump and his people know that this executive order\u2019s not gonna survive the week. So the media\u2019s out there claiming credit for it. The media has now started… They\u2019ve been forced to report things they were omitting and ignoring in demanding that Trump do something with an executive order. Trump legally can\u2019t, which is why this executive order of his is going to evaporate because his executive order cannot supersede a federal statute that has been affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n
This is the Flores ruling that says children can\u2019t be detained any longer than 20 days.<\/p>\n
They have to be let loose after 20 days, regardless where their parents are. That\u2019s how the separation results. Liberal immigration law and policy gave us the separation of immigrant families by requiring that immigrant children, illegal immigrant children cannot be held longer than 20 days. Trump\u2019s executive order says (paraphrased), “Oh, yes, they can. They can be held in perpetuity in detainment centers with their parents.” Well, the law says they can\u2019t do that; that\u2019s why his executive order\u2019s not gonna survive. They had to know this but they did it anyway.<\/p>\n
Now, the Democrats are saying, “He just did it for the temporary political effect. He just did it so that he could have people see that he cares about kids, but he knew.” They\u2019re totally gobsmacked by this, and the news stories that I have assembled here today all illustrate that. Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario “The Pious” has an op-ed in the New York Times: “A Moral Outrage New York Will Not Tolerate<\/a>.” Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite No. 4, No. 5. Andrew Cuomo as predicted here yesterday, suing Trump over immigration, sound bite No. 1.<\/p>\n CUOMO: The basis of the lawsuit is very simple. It is a violation of the due process of the parents and of the children. This executive order I don\u2019t think does anything of legal significance. I think it\u2019s more of a press release than a legal document. And if you read it, it basically says unless they go to a court and get the court to change what\u2019s called the Flores decision, the Flores settlement — which has been a 20-year-long court battle — you can\u2019t implement this.<\/p>\n RUSH: Stop the tape! Right there, stop the tape, stop the tape, stop that, right there, stop the tape, stop the tape. That\u2019s what none of them are reporting! We told you about it. We told you about the Flores settlement 20 years ago. Here\u2019s Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario “The Pious” saying, “You can\u2019t do the executive order he did!You can\u2019t supersede the Flores decision.” He\u2019s right. You can\u2019t. But this is the first time the media or the Democrats are talking about the Flores decision.<\/p>\n They ignored it totally. The New York Times told people it didn\u2019t even exist, that there was no law preventing Trump from what he did in his executive order. Maggie Haberman and her crew at the New York Times were reporting that Trump was lying when he said there was a law preventing him doing what he did with his EO. They said there was no law. Then Trump signs his executive order. Now they\u2019re all talking about the Flores decision preventing Trump from doing it.<\/p>\n They\u2019re the ones who have been totally exposed. Not just the Democrats. The media as well. They never reported a word about this Flores settlement. It\u2019s 20 years old. Meaning, again, that illegal immigrant children separated from their parents \u2019cause the parents are being charged cannot be detained longer than 20 days. So 20 days comes, you\u2019ve got to let them go, parents still in jail; ergo, family separation. How did it happen? Democrat immigration law.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen have been saying. Well, the Democrats haven\u2019t been reporting that because it doesn\u2019t serve their purpose. Now all of a sudden when they want to make it look like Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing and Trump is overstepping his executive authority, now they start citing the Flores settlement. So here\u2019s the rest of the son of Mario Pious in this sound bite.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-062118-Cuomo-CNN.jpg\")
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