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<\/p>\nRUSH: We\u2019ve got a caller coming up talking about Obama being associated with hardcore anti-Semites like Sharpton, Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan. That\u2019s absolutely true, and there\u2019s photographic evidence of it, and when those photos ended up being published in many cases, the Drive-Bys cropped Farrakhan out of the photos. One of the examples is at the funeral for Aretha Franklin. Anyway, the Democrats are demanding that Trump tone it down.<\/p>\n
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Did you love it when Trump said, “I have toned it down. If you want me to tone it back up, I will.” Donald Trump was elected to be different. Donald Trump was elected because people were fed up with politics-as-usual. I\u2019m gonna tell you this: People fed up with politics see the Democrats and the media politicizing everything. It\u2019s not going to send people running to the Democrat Party. Quite the opposite of what the media thinks.<\/p>\n
See, the media and the Democrats obviously think that a majority of the American people want to see the country the way the Democrats do, through a lens of everything being political. And people don\u2019t want to see it that way. The Democrats and the media are telling Trump to tone it down, but they tone nothing down themselves. What was it the mayor of Baltimore said to protesters? (summarized) “We need to give them space to destroy. We need to stand back and let them get it out of their system.”<\/p>\n
They say nothing when Republicans are gunned down. They abuse power to hide Hillary\u2019s crimes to fix elections, to run silent coups against a duly elected president. So the left wants Trump to tone down his efforts at self-defense! That\u2019s what Trump is doing. He\u2019s assaulted. He has said countless times, “If I\u2019m hit, I\u2019m gonna hit back.” When Trump is blamed for the actions of a lunatic, he\u2019s told to be more dignified, remain silent, be like Mitt Romney would be. Be reserved and so forth.<\/p>\n
Supposed to sit back, let Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa wreak havoc?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Democrats wanted Brett Kavanaugh to sit back and take it. You see, the way this works is, a 36-year-old allegation can be made for which there is no evidence and for which four supposed witnesses can\u2019t even place themselves at the place \u2019cause the victim doesn\u2019t know where it happened, doesn\u2019t know when it happened. But it becomes real, and we gotta destroy somebody\u2019s life, we have to destroy somebody\u2019s career, and Kavanaugh is supposed to sit back and just take it.<\/p>\n
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See, those are the old rules of Washington: People under assault take it. “The best way to deal with it,” they are advised, “is to not make waves. Sit there and take it,” and that\u2019s how responsible, reasonable Republicans have always acted. Well, that\u2019s not who Donald Trump is. He wasn\u2019t elected to act that way. If you ask me, the wrong people are being told to tone it down. The left needs to tone down its organized violence.<\/p>\n
The left needs to tone down all of these political stunts that are, in many ways, designed to provoke a reaction from people because they utilize abuses of power and character assassination. The character being assassinated is just supposed to sit there, just supposed to take it. That\u2019s how you get ahead in Washington. If you\u2019re under the gun, you take it. You sit there and take it and realize it\u2019s just politics. “Don\u2019t take it personally, Judge Kavanaugh. Don\u2019t take it personally.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s just politics. Because everybody hates Trump, we can\u2019t let you on the Supreme Court, and you\u2019re gonna have to sit there and that\u2019s the price you\u2019re gonna have to pay for this guy being elected,” and he\u2019s supposed to sit there and take it. He wasn\u2019t supposed to be angry while he was smeared and while his family was threatened and while his life and future were in the process of being destroyed. He wasn\u2019t supposed to say anything. “Just sit there and take it. That\u2019s the rules. That\u2019s the way it works in Washington. Not personal. Just business. Just politics.”<\/p>\n
And then a couple of years afterwards, everybody forgets it and everybody likes Kavanaugh, except Kavanaugh\u2019s life is ruined, and he\u2019s never supposed to want to get even. He\u2019s never supposed to fight for himself. Trump, ditto. He\u2019s not supposed to stand up to this. But that\u2019s who Trump is. They\u2019re not used to it. They thought they would have sent Trump packing. A year and a half ago, they thought they\u2019d be rid of Donald Trump, and they still aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s go to the phones. We have Steve in Pittsburgh with us. You\u2019re up first today, Steve. Thank you for calling. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, I can tell you that last week in front of the Pittsburgh school board, they had a proposal to arm the school police, and it was voted down 8-1. Now, this didn\u2019t happen in a school, but, you know, in a similar situation President Trump came out and said, “If they had an armed guard, this could have been prevented.” And then you have the mayor — Bill Peduto, who is very anti-Trump, very liberal — came out and said that an armed guard would not have stopped them. What we need is more gun control. I mean, how many things have to happen before they realize that more gun control is not the answer; putting someone with a gun that can stop this is?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, look, I hate to be the one to tell you, but there\u2019s no amount of death, there\u2019s no amount of shooting that would ever get your mayor to change his mind about what he believes, because, you see, it\u2019s really not about guns. He thinks it is and his supporters do, but it\u2019s not really about guns. It\u2019s about something much larger than that. It\u2019s about being able to tell people what they can and can\u2019t have. It\u2019s about telling people that they have freedom of speech, “Except you can\u2019t say this; you can\u2019t say that. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
“But other than that, you got full freedom of speech with us leftists. Yeah, you want to have a gun? You can have a gun except in these circumstances, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why, we\u2019re all for freedom, as we define it.” He mentioned this. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I want to start here with Trump himself. This is an example. I\u2019m sure some people were shocked on Saturday when this was Trump\u2019s reaction speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n
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He was at Joint Base Andrews. It used to be Andrews Air Force Base. In case you\u2019re wondering what is this Joint Base business, well, it used to be Andrews Air Force Base and then there was another military base close by, another branch close by. They unified \u2019em all and call it Joint Base, where multiple services are in the same place. So that\u2019s where Air Force One is parked. That\u2019s where Trump takes the helicopter to get on board Air Force One when he\u2019s gonna travel.<\/p>\n
A reporter said, “Mr. President, do you think you need to revisit…?” See? So a guy goes nuts in a synagogue in Squirrel Hill, and the first question the Drive-Bys have is, “Mr. President, do you think you need to revisit gun laws?” By the way, I need to tell you something. I\u2019ve observed… This is the last time the Drive-Bys have cared about the guns. This guy had an arsenal, and the Drive-Bys have dropped focus on it because they think there is a bigger target, and that is Trump being responsible for this and that and all the other things.<\/p>\n
Anti-Semitism, they think, oh, there\u2019s a lot! Racism. So they\u2019re not really focused on this guy\u2019s guns as much as they would otherwise, and that ought to tell you something. This guy\u2019s loaded with guns. Why are the Drive-Bys not really focusing on that when they always do? Because it\u2019s a political calculation that there\u2019s more fertile ground here, and that would be Trump is an anti-Semite or a bigot or is a racist. Anyway, the reporter says, “Mr. President, do you think you need to revisit gun laws.”<\/p>\n
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THE PRESIDENT: This has little to do with it if you take a look. If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better. This is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect. But if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn\u2019t, and he was able to do things that, unfortunately, he shouldn\u2019t have been able to do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And next up, F. Chuck Todd of Meet the Press — who thought that the Russians were behind the pipe bomber, Cesar Sayoc. Chuck thought that the Russians might be behind that. This guy… That also gets more curious as time unfolds. This guy was a… Have you ever heard of a routine failure? You ever known anybody that was always on the verge of a big score, hitting it big, and never amounted to anything?<\/p>\n
That apparently was this guy, Caesar Sayoc. Anyway we\u2019ll get back to him in a minute. Here\u2019s the mayor of Pittsburgh with F. Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on Sunday. His name is William Peduto, and F. Chuck said, “Is there anything the president personally can do? Is there anything you would like to see him do personally about…?” See how this works?<\/p>\n
So you have somebody clearly mentally unstable who has been a nutcase for a number of years — who hates Trump, by the way, because he thinks Trump is a sellout to the Jewish people — and here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd asking the mayor of Pittsburgh<\/a> (summarized), “Is Trump responsible? Is Trump culpable? Is there something you\u2019d like to see Trump do personally about gun violence?”<\/p>\n PEDUTO: I belong to an organization, a bipartisan organization called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. I don\u2019t think that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques, and churches filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed guards. I think we\u2019re dealing with an irrational person who acted irrationally, and trying to create laws around that is not the way that we should govern.<\/p>\n RUSH: Ha!<\/p>\n PEDUTO: We should try to stop irrational behavior from a happening at the forefront and not try to create laws around irrational behavior to contain it.<\/p>\n
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