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<\/p>\nRUSH: So President Trump went ahead and admitted his mistake, and all has been forgiven. Right? So now we\u2019re back — (interruption) Wait. What? It hasn\u2019t been forgiven, you say? You mean to tell me that, after President Trump walked it back, they\u2019re still beating up on him over this? Why, you could have fooled me. Are you kidding me? The president gave them what they wanted, and they\u2019re still riled up about it? How can that be?<\/p>\n
Welcome, my friends. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone, yet another three hours of broadcast excellence hosted by me. And if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882. If you want to send an email, it\u2019s ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
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Yeah, I thought for sure that if Trump just would say what they were telling him to say that all this would go away and we\u2019d get back to destroying Kavanaugh — uh, wait. Wait. No. We\u2019re not gonna get back to destroying Kavanaugh because that\u2019s partly what this is all about!<\/p>\n
I run the risk of creating friction with certain friends. But I need to ask a couple of questions. I have some people asking me, they\u2019re not anti-Trump like the Never Trumpers are. They may not be enthusiastic Trump supporters, but they vastly prefer Trump to any of the Democrats. But they\u2019re still deeply troubled by what happened or didn\u2019t happen in Helsinki vis-a-vis Trump and Putin.<\/p>\n
And I guess the way to generalize the question I\u2019m being asked is, “Why can\u2019t Trump just understand that he can bifurcate this? Why can\u2019t Trump just understand that he can go ahead and admit that the Russians meddled in the election and understand that that is not conceding that the Russians had anything to do with his victory. Why can\u2019t Trump admit that the Russians were actually trying to hurt Hillary because the Russians expected her to win, nobody thought Trump was gonna win, none of this was about Trump. Why can\u2019t he go ahead and admit that?”<\/p>\n
I tell you. Here\u2019s my question. Whom are we trying to placate in having Trump admit this? What\u2019s the objective? Is it the American people? By the way, Snopes — you know the fact check site? — this is how this propaganda spreads. Snopes has a page up: If the president is convicted of treason, does that mean we get to get rid of everybody in his administration. And the answer is sadly, no. But they\u2019re already up and running with this.<\/p>\n
But hang on, folks. It\u2019s not as bad as you think out there. There are still two or three different Americas, and the deep state part of America really doesn\u2019t have any idea what\u2019s happening in much of the rest of the country, as I will demo in mere moments.<\/p>\n
But, no, seriously. Who are we trying to placate? Or when I say “we,” who are we trying to calm down by having Trump just admit, just admit that the Russians meddled and that Putin was trying to hurt Hillary because he was trying to hurt who they thought was gonna win, why is it so important that Trump do this? I mean, whom is this aimed at? Who we trying to placate?<\/p>\n
Well, the answer seems obvious to me: the media. Now, some people might say, “Well, no, not just the media, Rush. We got half the Republican leadership fit to be tied over this. Trump needs to calm down his own party.” Something about this — we can\u2019t placate the media. There is literally no way, and today\u2019s news — I\u2019m just gonna go through part of the Stack today, just reading headlines, maybe first paragraph — there\u2019s no placating media.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no making this go away. There\u2019s no, quote, unquote, fixing this because there\u2019s no way to ratchet down the efforts underway by the American left to send President Trump back to New York out of office. There\u2019s nothing he can do or say that\u2019s gonna calm that down. So are we trying to placate Putin? Are we trying to placate world opinion? Are we trying to stave off World War III? What are we trying to do? What\u2019s the point here?<\/p>\n
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Let me grab an audio sound bite. I think it\u2019s Fran Townsend. Let me find Fran Townsend. Number 14, audio sound bite number 14. This is Fran Townsend. She was in the Bush administration, foreign policy something or other. She was on CBS This Morning with John Dickerson. She\u2019s a counterterrorism adviser to George W. Bush.<\/p>\n
The question: “You saw the president make his remarks yesterday. What do you believe he thinks about Russian interference in the election and current Russian –” See, “current.” Oh. Folks, you won\u2019t — every sentence I utter reminds me of something I\u2019ve got in the Stack. I\u2019ve gotta be very disciplined here to stay focused.<\/p>\n
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