RUSH: There\u2019s a big lack of a reveal in the New York Times tax story on Trump. The New York Times did a yearlong investigation of Trump\u2019s taxes. Now, I don\u2019t know where they got the returns. It\u2019s illegal that they have them. Obviously, somebody at the IRS doesn\u2019t care. I mean, the left has infiltrated everything, so obviously that\u2019s how this happened. Doesn\u2019t matter. Once the Times has them, that\u2019s that. But it had \u2019em now for a year.<\/p>\n
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Note when the story runs. They ought not be trying to crowd out the Kavanaugh story, right? This is something, ideally, you\u2019d want to wait until closer to the election. You want to maybe wait a couple of weeks. But, no, they ran this thing yesterday. And now there\u2019s a companion Showtime network documentary on this. So there\u2019s been some collaboration (you might even say some collusion) on this. Why cover up the Kavanaugh story with this?<\/p>\n
This is providing a huge challenge for the cable news networks. “What to do? What to do? We got Trump out there…” They claim he\u2019s mocking Blasey Ford. He wasn\u2019t mocking her. Look, I understand Republican senators saying what they\u2019re saying. “Oh, my God. This is unacceptable. I don\u2019t know why the president did it!” He did it for some reason. Everybody\u2019s pointing out that Trump, just last week, was saying she was very credible.<\/p>\n
Yeah, he did, and we knew when he said that why he said it. He had to! Everybody has to. Before all this is investigated and put to bed, you can\u2019t run out there and start ripping on her. Even if it\u2019s deserved, even if it\u2019s warranted, last week you could not rip on Christine Blasey Ford. There was nothing… There\u2019s no upside to doing it, no matter if you were right. Even if she was lying through her teeth and you could demonstrate it, last week was not the time to do it.<\/p>\n
So Trump joins the chorus, “I find her compelling. I find her very credible.” Well, now she\u2019s not so credible. (She never was.) But now she\u2019s not so credible. There\u2019s all kinds of holes, and Trump just pointed \u2019em out. All Trump did is point out the flaws in her story, which should have happened during the hearings last Thursday. But the Republicans were not gonna go there. They were not gonna challenge her because it just wasn\u2019t smart.<\/p>\n
Especially with that voice that she was affecting, to go after her in any way that would seem like an attack or like you didn\u2019t believe her, would have not been politically useful. But in a normal congressional hearing, committee hearing, her allegations would be challenged and tested. They were not. That\u2019s all Trump did! Trump pointed out the mistakes or the lies or the differences, the prevarications.<\/p>\n
She can\u2019t remember where, when, who. The people she says were there say they weren\u2019t. That\u2019s all he did. Republican senators should have done that last week, but they couldn\u2019t. So Trump\u2019s given \u2019em cover, Trump\u2019s providing shade for \u2019em, and let them go out and rip him for doing it if they want. He understands that. By this time, we have to assume Trump knows what he\u2019s doing. When he goes off-script, he doesn\u2019t step in it. It may look like it, but he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not the big take-away. The big take-away for me is this. One year, the New York Times has been investigating the Trumpster for 40 years. They\u2019ve got tax returns going back who knows how long, and guess what\u2019s not part of the story? Guess what is not part of any income tax story on Donald Trump? Guess what one word you do not see in the report?<\/p>\n
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Anybody want to take a guess? (interruption) What? “Payoff,” did you say? No. That\u2019s not the word. What one word is not in this entire New York Times story? I\u2019ll give you a hint. It was the sole reason the left wanted to get their hands on Trump\u2019s tax returns. (interruption) Russia! 10-4! That\u2019s it! They wanted Trump\u2019s tax returns because their tax returns, they said, would prove Trump colluded because his money came from Russia, because his wealth was because and due to Russian connections.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what everybody on the left was convinced was true, and now here\u2019s the New York Times story. A yearlong investigation of Trump\u2019s taxes going back more than 40 years, and they\u2019re not able to find any Russian money? So now they didn\u2019t find any Russian money, and I guarantee you they expected to. They\u2019re the ones that said this! They\u2019re the ones that said… I\u2019m talking about everybody on MSNBC, CNN.<\/p>\n
Go back a year, go back to the 2016 campaign when everybody was hell-bent on proving that Trump was a Putin stooge. Trump was a toady. Trump was compromised by Russia because it was Russia that enabled Trump to get rich — and his tax returns would prove it, they said! So I guarantee you when the New York Times got these documents, the first thing they did was make a beeline, keyword search, however they search it, looking for “Russia,” “Russian,” Russian names. Answer? Big, fat zilch, zero, nada.<\/p>\n
So now they\u2019re back to something else. Now they\u2019re back to what\u2019s always been said about Trump, that he got rich from his dad. Now they\u2019re saying that all kinds of phony entities were created like shell corporations and other things for Trump and his siblings — not just Trump, Trump and his siblings — to hide money from the IRS. Which, of course, they say is fraud. During all of this time, 40 years, you don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s tax returns have been pored over with a fine-toothed comb by IRS auditors?<\/p>\n
Do you think the New York Times has found something the IRS didn\u2019t know? I mean, after looking at Trump\u2019s tax returns. I think no Russia means gigantic letdown, which we\u2019re not gonna see any evidence of because they\u2019re not gonna write that. But I\u2019m telling you, they were so sure that that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna get Trump and that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna make Mueller\u2019s investigation pay off: Get Trump\u2019s tax returns. If you just think about, you\u2019ll remember this.<\/p>\n
Now this big, long story in the upcoming Showtime documentary with no mention of Russia or Russians finances as part of Trump\u2019s wealth. When they saw that it had to just devastate them. So now they have to go looking for other things in this that will supposedly knock Trump. But I\u2019ll tell you this. Angus King, who\u2019s a senator from Maine (he\u2019s an independent) was telling a couple of journalists (summarized), “You know, you people… If you think that this is gonna hurt Trump, you have got to learn something.<\/p>\n
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“You people on the left…” This is Angus King. He\u2019s an independent; he goes with the Democrats. “You gotta learn something: Every time the New York Times or CNN or the Washington Post attacks Donald Trump, you just glue Trump\u2019s supporters even tighter to him. You think that Trump supporters are gonna be talked out of supporting Trump because of the New York Times? It\u2019s never gonna happen.”<\/p>\n
Angus King said, “This isn\u2019t going to hurt Trump with his base. It\u2019s not gonna cause to happen what you all want to happen. You want to separate Trump from his voters, but this isn\u2019t gonna do it. This is gonna make them stick to him even tighter, because this because this is what they\u2019re expecting you all to do. They\u2019re expecting you to try to destroy him. They expect the media to be joined at the hip with the Democrat Party to take out the guy they voted for and elected.<\/p>\n
“Trump\u2019s voters admire him. Trump\u2019s voters celebrate him. Trump\u2019s voters back him \u2019cause he\u2019s the only person like him out there in politics today that they can support.” That\u2019s Angus King. Only time will tell if this is gonna have some deleterious effect. But, folks, look at all the things that the media\u2019s dredged up since the 2016 campaign that they thought was gonna be the silver bullet.<\/p>\n
Every one of these things they came up with was going to be the final nail in the coffin. The NBC Access Hollywood video.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think this whole thing has been a deep state setup job against both Trump and Kavanaugh, that this whole Christine Blasey Ford thing is a setup. I think the whole thing is a setup, and I\u2019m gonna tell you when I thought that, folks — and I\u2019m not at the point where I can go into details right now. It would not be productive. The minute I saw Dianne Feinstein hold up that letter and talk about having got it? Nah. It just started to smell right there, \u2019cause I know these people, and the evidence of this is right in front of our faces. <\/p>\n
All we need to see is the DOJ-FBI silent coup that was run against Trump on this bogus Russia collusion. Look at all of the allegations against Donald Trump that have turned out to be nothing. Nothing can be proven, established, nothing can be made of them. And they have been never ending, from the moment Trump got in the campaign. The really big things like Trump colluding with Russia. Remember, that\u2019s what finding the tax returns was all about. <\/p>\n
I have to make this point again. The left wanted Trump\u2019s tax returns \u2019cause that was gonna be the end. They were gonna be able to prove it! That\u2019s why Trump wouldn\u2019t release them, remember? They said it would prove that Trump\u2019s wealth comes from Russia. And that\u2019s why Trump is a Putin stooge, that Trump would be nothing if it weren\u2019t for Putin and the Russians. Trump would have gone broke long ago.<\/p>\n
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But Putin and the Russians bailed him out, and that\u2019s why Putin wanted Trump elected and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So now we get news the New York Times has had Trump\u2019s tax returns for a year, and they\u2019re poring through them. At the same time, Showtime network is doing a documentary on the New York Times story and reporting in Trump\u2019s taxes. And would you believe it? They\u2019ve had these documents on Trump\u2019s taxes for a year. <\/p>\n
They ran the big story today, yesterday. There\u2019s not a word about Russia anywhere in the Trump tax return story, and I\u2019ll guarantee you this. When the New York Times got whatever they have of Trump\u2019s tax returns, I will guarantee you the first thing they zeroed in on was trying to find evidence that Trump was doing business — shady business — with somebody or a series of people (oligarchs, don\u2019t you know) in Russia. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m here to tell you that the let join that they experienced when they didn\u2019t find Russia in there nearly destroyed them. So they\u2019ve been look at these things for a year now trying to find an alternate way of destroying Trump with his tax records \u2019cause the Russian angle bombed out. That\u2019s the big take-away on Trump\u2019s taxes, to me: What isn\u2019t there versus what they thought was going to be there. Virtually every one of these attempts to get Trump has been concocted. <\/p>\n
Every one of them has been the result of a created and organized strategic plan, be it the silent coup on Trump-Russia collusion, be it Comey trying to set Trump up with Comey\u2019s being fired. It has been, since Trump was inaugurated — even during the transition it\u2019s been — a series of steps or efforts to get rid of Donald Trump, to overthrow the election results of 2016. <\/p>\n
I think Christine Blasey Ford is an element of that whole movement or that whole desire. The Democrat Party is in on it. They are as much a part of the deep state as the FBI, DOJ people that were doing this. And I think the objective of Christine Blasey Ford — this whole thing; not her specifically. Look, I think she\u2019s an activist and in on it. But that\u2019s neither here nor there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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