{"id":294171,"date":"2018-12-10T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294171"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:04:56","slug":"theyre-trying-to-convince-you-to-abandon-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/10\/theyre-trying-to-convince-you-to-abandon-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Trying to Convince You to Abandon Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Aw, man. You know, folks, it\u2019s so frustrating. I have warned so many people, so many times, that we were headed right where we are. Remember when I told you what the objective of this investigation of Trump was? To get his numbers down to 30% or less so that he would lose all of his Republican support and either be impeached or forced to resign?<\/p>\n

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Well, here we are, folks. That is exactly, in a nutshell, what all of this is about. And the icing on the cake for these people would be impeaching Trump and convicting him or waiting \u2019til he leaves office and then indicting him and sending him to jail then. It\u2019s all been so, so predictable.<\/p>\n

You might say, what happened to Russian collusion? What is this stuff about Cohen paying off porn stars at Trump\u2019s behest and somehow this is an illegal campaign contribution when, in fact, do you remember — I don\u2019t know how many times we mentioned this. Members of Congress have set up a fund paid for by taxpayers where women who allege that they\u2019ve been abused by these members of Congress are paid! Members of Congress have a slush fund, essentially, set up where these kinds of things get paid off, and nobody alleges a crime, nobody alleges campaign contribution violations, nobody alleges anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Nobody alleged anything of the sort when Obama was caught cheating on campaign contributions to the tune of $2 million. I mean, Russian collusion? This is what happens when you appoint a special prosecutor and do not list a crime for him to investigate, which is a violation of Justice Department regulations. But they did it anyway. Rosenstein appoints Mueller and says, “Have at it, buddy.” And so Mueller digs up all this stuff and passes some of it off to the Southern District of New York where people said, “Well, it can\u2019t be SDNY, that can\u2019t be bad for Trump.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all bad for Trump. Every bit of this has been bad for Trump from the get-go. Trump has been the sole target of all this from the get-go. And going after all of these ancillary people, like Cohen and Manafort and Papadopoulos, it has all been about Trump. And here we are with the Democrats on the verge of taking control of the House of Representatives — warned everybody what\u2019s gonna happen if they won — nothing but interminable investigations, interminable subpoenas.<\/p>\n

And while it is accurate to say it\u2019s highly doubtful any genuine criminal activity has occurred here, that is irrelevant to the objective, which is to get rid of Donald Trump and, as a by-product, to tell each and every one of his supporters “don\u2019t ever do this again.” To tell anybody who might like to try to run for president under the same techniques and principles that Trump did, “Don\u2019t you try it. This is what\u2019s going to happen to you.”<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s see if we can unpack this and put all the pieces together. And, by the way, some of this stuff is starting to work. I had occasion over the weekend to chat with people, as I do many weekends. And I had two or three guys who are staunch Trumpists pull me aside and say, “The Tillerson stuff really bugged me.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“What do you mean?”<\/p>\n

“What he had to say about Tillerson, that really bothered me.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I said, “Do you realize what Tillerson said about him?”<\/p>\n

“No. What?”<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t know that Tillerson started this?”<\/p>\n

“No. What did Tillerson say?”<\/p>\n

“Well, Tillerson was interviewed by Bob Schieffer at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center over the weekend, Friday night, Thursday, whenever it was, and said that Trump is undisciplined, that he doesn\u2019t read, that he isn\u2019t curious, that he\u2019s not organized, that he basically doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.”<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t know that Tillerson said that.” And these are people that pay attention to the news. They thought that Trump had just launched independently on Tillerson for no reason. It doesn\u2019t matter. The point is that those who were attempting to chip away at the support for Trump, you couldn\u2019t blame them if they\u2019re acting like they\u2019re beginning to have some success at this.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve heard other people talking about Tillerson, “You know, I just wish Trump would stop this stuff, stop the tweeting, stop all this back-and-forth with people that are no longer there and just stick to the agenda.” And, by the way, that\u2019s not a bad piece of advice. It has always been what I have suggested Trump do anyway. In the midst of all this is just get the agenda going, advanced, and he\u2019s done much of it. Undeniably. But get the wall, just publicly focus on it.<\/p>\n

In fact, grab audio sound bite number 18 just to make sure I get this in as we get into the specifics of the SDNY and Cohen and — oh, unindicted coconspirator. This is a term being thrown about about Trump now. I\u2019m gonna explain the historical reason for that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Lindsey Graham. He was on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Channel<\/a>, and she said, “Why can\u2019t the Senate get on board with the border wall funding? Why won\u2019t they help him?”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>GRAHAM: Here\u2019s the problem. You\u2019ve got the Democratic leader to-be in the House calling border security the “immoral.” If I\u2019m President Trump, Tuesday I would tell Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that we\u2019re going to build the wall where it makes sense. If I were the president, I would dig in and not give in on additional wall funding. I\u2019d want the whole $5 billion, \u2019cause the caravan is a game-changer — 1.6 [billion] is available to the president; he wants five — and after the caravan, if you don\u2019t see the need for additional border security, you\u2019re just not paying much attention. So, Mr. President, dig in; do not give in when it comes to the wall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dig in and demand the wall. That\u2019s Lindsey Graham advising Trump to stay focused on the agenda, which is a good piece of advice. So here we are. The effort is to drive Donald Trump\u2019s approval numbers down. His task is to keep them in the forties. Trump has gotta do whatever he can here to maintain his 45% approval rating, and that\u2019s where staying focused on the agenda is going to matter. So we have a special counsel investigation that starts out with the idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from the Hillary Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

We had it pounded into the heads of the American people for years, months — almost two years — which has led almost half the country believing Russians actually tampered with votes, actually changed the outcome of the presidential election. But when we get down to the nitty-gritty and we have all these sentencing guidelines being published, which give us an idea of the road map Mueller has, there\u2019s nothing there!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about a couple of payments to a porn star and another woman and whether or not Trump authorized these payments to be made by his lawyers Cohen. They are saying if that happened — and Trump is pretty much admitting it in a tweet this morning — then that means Trump knowingly broke the law. He did not break the law. These are campaign… The fact that these are campaign violations that are trying to be hidden is crazy.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re build on the premises of nondisclosure agreements, which are legal, and they are a part of pretty much every employment contract of any serious nature that exists in the country today. So this effort… Whether this is a crime or not, is not the point. The effort is to convince people that Donald Trump has wantonly, openly broken the law while behaving immorally by having affairs with Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels and then ordered his sleaze lawyer to pay them both off.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then he wanted to hide it because Trump knew that it was illegal. No! It not illegal to pay these people off. It\u2019s not illegal, and it\u2019s not illegal to have NDAs. Nondisclosure agreements are not illegal. Trump was not trying to hide campaign contributions in any stretch of the imagination. He was trying to hide his behavior. But he wasn\u2019t trying to hide campaign money or engage in payments in kind regarding campaigns. There\u2019s not enough money here we\u2019re talking about for this to be what the objective was.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve had all kinds of allegations from Flynn violating the Logan Act, Trump violating the Logan Act — and it\u2019s all designed to get Trump\u2019s approval numbers down into the thirties. You can hear the Democrats. Jerry Nadler is talking about, “This is an impeachable offense. The SDNY can indict when Trump leaves office.” Whether or not they will is another matter. But it\u2019s all about creating a mind-set, folks.<\/p>\n

And the Trump people have probably been sitting there while all this is going on being overly confident because, in their world, the candidate can donate as much money as he wants to his own campaign. There are no limits on how much money a candidate can contribute, and Trump could have made these payments himself to the women, but he didn\u2019t. And because he could have and that would have been legal, then he didn\u2019t have to worry about others making payments for him.<\/p>\n

This is what they were thinking. Trump could have made the payments; everything would have been fine. But he didn\u2019t want. He wanted to hide it all for family reasons or who knows what, the standard, ordinary reasons. The fact that he\u2019s trying to cover up illegal campaign contributions is absurd. Just like Trump colluding with Russia to steal an election is absurd. But this is made complicated by the Cohen guilty plea.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing about it is that even though these things do not expose Cohen to any more guilt or any more sentencing time, the Southern District of New York forced him and made him admit in open court that he was directed to make these payments by Trump. The reason for doing that was, of course, to set up the possibility that Trump could be indicted so they could then run around and say this and to make Trump appear to be guilty.<\/p>\n

So we start out with Russian collusion; we had a year and a half or more of never-ending stories from anonymous sources in the intelligence community talking about how America was placed at great risk, that the sanctity our elections was destroyed because Donald Trump colluded with Russia. And here we are, the sentencing memo for Michael Cohen mentions none of that. It\u2019s all about how all important campaign finance laws are as they apply to the rich and the powerful, and we can use them to cut them down to size.<\/p>\n

The Cohen sentencing memo is directed at Trump, even though Cohen was also rich but not in Trump\u2019s league. They engaged in specific intent to make Cohen implicate Trump in court even though it wasn\u2019t necessary to Cohen\u2019s plea. And this is what gives the indication that their real target — and there should be no doubt. The real target\u2019s been Trump all along, not Cohen. The real target all along has been Trump, not Flynn. The real target all along has been Trump, not Manafort.<\/p>\n

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The reason Trump has been the real target is because he won. He is personally detested for any number of reasons, but at the top of them is that he won. He is personally detested because so many millions of Americans voted for him and invested in him and thus turned their backs on the best and brightest in our country: The Washington establishment. He\u2019s hated and despised because they think he is an immoral slug and the American people didn\u2019t care about that.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been able to get rid of immoral slugs any time they want in the Washington establishment. The Democrat Party and the media have been able to take out any Republican they\u2019ve wanted to at any time they\u2019ve wanted to, and they\u2019ve fired everything they\u2019ve got at Donald Trump, and nothing has worked. So they\u2019re now throwing the kitchen sink, which is a couple of payments to a porn star and another woman.<\/p>\n

One of the things they\u2019re accusing… This is a fundamental aspect of this. They\u2019re saying that Trump forced Cohen to involve the National Enquirer in this because the National Enquirer bought the story of Karen McDougal and then she would have it. They didn\u2019t run it. This is being called an illegal campaign contribution because it was in the attempt to keep bad news on Trump out of the media. So the National Enquirer guys were given immunity to come in and testify.<\/p>\n

This is all being said to be the responsibility and fault of Donald Trump, that he poisons everything and everything that he comes in contact with. He ruins everybody; we\u2019ve got to explain this. They get you coming and going. If Trump had paid the payments himself instead of having Cohen do it, he\u2019s entirely legally capable of doing that, and it wouldn\u2019t have been a violation of campaign finance law because candidates can give themselves and donate as much as they want.<\/p>\n

But if that had happened, you know what they would be saying today? “Trump openly violated campaign finance law by paying money and it didn\u2019t come out of the campaign, which is what it was…” No matter which way Trump went on this, this day was going to arrive — or last Friday was going to arrive. So let me take a brief break here and continue to unpack this, because James Comey is involved in this up to his ears, and it is just oppressive. You can\u2019t go anywhere in the media without happening upon this story and from a specific angle.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You notice the Drive-Bys are not even talking about Russian collusion anymore? There never was any Russian collusion and we\u2019re gonna establish that further as we get into the James Comey aspect of this story. Ladies and gentlemen, I had email during the break, “Rush, how are they trying to get Trump\u2019s approval numbers down to the thirties? What do you mean specifically?” Folks, like I told you the fellas I ran into over the weekend (sputtering), “I didn\u2019t like what Trump said about Tillerson.”<\/p>\n

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The whole idea has been to separate you who support Trump from him. The whole point of all this has been to just flood the media each and every day with all of this negative news about Trump — be it stealing the election, being an immoral reprobate — has been designed to get you to have doubts about Trump. It\u2019s specifically designed to make you afraid to publicly proclaim your support for Trump. It is about you beginning to be afraid to support Trump because of the reaction you\u2019re gonna get from people who are being treated to all this salacious stuff.<\/p>\n

Because they can\u2019t get to where they want to go if Trump\u2019s approval numbers hang in the mid-forties or higher. They\u2019ve got to get him down to where they got George W. Bush. They\u2019ve gotta get him down to where they had Nixon. Because there is no indicting a sitting president. They can\u2019t indict. All this talk about the SDNY indicting Trump? That\u2019s not \u2019til he leaves office — and if he leaves in 2024, the statute of limitations has expired. That\u2019s why you hear Jerry Nadler talking about these are impeachable offenses. The problem is, what Trump did paying these two women is not criminal!<\/p>\n

He\u2019s right when he makes that claim.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Trump Calls Michael Cohen Payouts a ‘Simple Private Transaction,\u2019 Denies They Were Campaign Contributions.<\/a>” And he\u2019s right about this! There\u2019s a part of me that kind of resents having to get down into the weeds in this stuff, folks, because it means accepting the premise of these people that are on the attack here. And I\u2019ll tell you what I think.<\/p>\n

The overall opposition to Trump has been real and total from the get-go. But I think Trump surviving the release of the Access Hollywood video sent them into orbit. That was the kill shot. That\u2019s what has taken out any other candidate in the history of politics, something like that, a secret video or video that\u2019s been revived from the past that shows a candidate in the light that Trump was shown in there. This is the grab-them-by-the video with Billy Bush.<\/p>\n

That Trump survived that has sent these people into orbit. That has been a weapon, primarily the Democrat Party, but the Washington has used. And I, therefore, find it ironic that they\u2019re going after a guy here basically on sex. We started out with Russian collusion and tampering with the election and threatening the very dignity of the essence of America, our elections, and that\u2019s gone. There never was anything to it. The Steele dossier was used to get the FISA warrant. Comey even now is saying that they got the FISA warrants when they couldn\u2019t verify the Steele dossier. They hadn\u2019t verified it. And the reason they hadn\u2019t is because it couldn\u2019t be verified because it was made up!<\/p>\n

\"\"And so now we\u2019re going after a sitting president on the basis that he had sex with a porn star and didn\u2019t want anybody to know about it. That\u2019s being called an impeachable offense now, because he paid the women not to talk. And he had his lawyer get hold of the National Enquirer and buy up one of the stories and then not run it. That\u2019s called an in-kind campaign contribution, therefore illegal. And Trump is maintaining that these are simply private transactions. They were not campaign contributions.<\/p>\n

And they weren\u2019t! He is exactly right about it. These were nondisclosure agreements, the ever-popular NDA. Every NDA can be called a hush-money payment. How many NDAs do you think Harvey Weinstein had? They\u2019re common. How many people have them in employment contracts? You sign an NDA when you join a company. You sign an NDA when they fire you and give you a severance. You sign an NDA in any number of circumstances, and they\u2019re upheld. They are part of virtually every employment contract, every severance agreement, every legal settlement.<\/p>\n

The fact that it may or does prevent an issue from being raised against you in a campaign is irrelevant! But they want you to believe that Trump had these women sign an NDA \u2019cause he knew that if it ever went public it could harm his campaign and therefore Trump committed a crime. What\u2019s the crime? Preventing political opponents from finding out things that he\u2019s done in his life? That now is impeachable? That now is indictable?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s irrelevant. The fact that an NDA may or may not prevent an issue from being raised against you in a campaign is, in a strict legal sense, irrelevant. And if, let\u2019s say you\u2019re a candidate and you\u2019ve got known controversies in your past and you want to clear the decks before you get into a campaign, so you go to people with whom you\u2019ve had what some might consider to be questionable relationships, and you pay them, and they sign a nondisclosure agreement, it\u2019s all perfectly legitimate! These are private transactions engaged in by two people.<\/p>\n

If somebody says, “Yeah, I\u2019ll sign the NDA” and takes money for it, you\u2019ve got a perfectly legal transaction. And they\u2019ve been upheld in courts time and time and time again. There\u2019s nothing criminal about them. But the way they\u2019re being reported on is the exact opposite. That Trump knows he\u2019s a sleaze, that Trump knows he\u2019s a reprobate, that Trump knows that if you knew him the way everybody else close to him knows him, that you\u2019d hate him and would never vote for him and so he\u2019s gotta cover that up, and the fact that he did is now being called a crime.<\/p>\n

If you want — again, this is crucially important. If you want to get rid of every imaginable controversy you think you\u2019ve been involved in before you run for office, and you get hold of the people that might have been involved and offer to somehow compensate them if they\u2019ll sign an NDA, legal from front to back. You use your own money or someone else\u2019s money and then reimburses them is of no consequence because it isn\u2019t a campaign expense.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the Trump campaign has been relying on this in their relative silence in pushing back. This has been going on for weeks now or months now, not just leading up to the Cohen sentencing documents being released on Friday. Every politician or would-be candidate would have to fear committing a felony if they\u2019re able to turn this or these into felonies.<\/p>\n

And as I point out, members of Congress already have a fund that they all agree comes from taxpayer dollars that pays off people who make allegations of sexual misconduct against sitting members. And nobody ever says that those are campaign contribution violations. Nobody ever says that that slush fund represents a grand total of illegal campaign contributions to all the members of Congress who have benefited from it.<\/p>\n

Southern District of New York, which is where Mueller handed over some of this stuff, remember when that happened, “Mueller must not have much here, sent over to SDNY, federal case over there, Mueller\u2019s not doing it, must be nothing here.” That was a head fake all along because all of this, it doesn\u2019t matter where it comes from, SDNY, special counsel, Department of Justice, James Comey, it\u2019s all guaranteed.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what these people are afraid of. The degree of hatred that they have for Donald Trump and the degree of fear and the intensity of this opposition to him goes beyond even my well-known ability to analyze it. It\u2019s irrational. Some things are obvious. They don\u2019t like Trump \u2019cause he\u2019s an outsider. They don\u2019t like Trump because he beat them. The idea that they don\u2019t like Trump \u2019cause he\u2019s immoral, give me a break.<\/p>\n

They stood behind one of the most immoral guys ever in the White House, Bill Clinton, and they told us sex is nobody\u2019s business. It didn\u2019t have any impact in the way he led. Remember all of that? They\u2019ve stood behind more the morality in the White House starting with JFK, LBJ. The idea that these Washington establishment types are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow is a mocking joke.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Never Trumpers, too! They\u2019re sitting there, “So offended. This man is so, so brusque, has a so gross, he\u2019s such an offense to our sensibilities.” What sensibility is he an offense to? “Well, he\u2019s an offense to the collegiality and the comity with which we all get along with here and so forth.” The crease in the slacks kind of stuff? What is this? The idea that these people are moral paragons of virtue, the Washington establishment? How many illegitimate kids do you think there are in this group?<\/p>\n

How people have engaged in extramarital sexual activities or other things. They\u2019re acting like Trump is this gigantic affront to the national sensibility? When it comes to the Never Trumpers, the things they have supposedly devoted their lives to, Trump is implementing many of those things, and they still can\u2019t come to support them.<\/p>\n

I know Trump threatens their fundraising, Trump threatens their relevance, because if a guy like Trump, an outsider with no practical political experience can come in and get a major economic boosting tax cut, a guy like Trump can come in and actually make a serious dent in illegal immigration, which they all are in favor of, by the way, then why do we need experts telling us how to do it?<\/p>\n

Why do we need experts and only experts elected — and in administrations and the bureaucracy — to implement these things? And why do we need great thinkers publishing their great think pieces in magazines and websites and so forth if a guy like Trump from the outside who\u2019s never done it can come in and do it and do it faster and quicker and more efficiently than they could if they had the chance? Well, this cannot stand!<\/p>\n

So now we\u2019re gonna say that a president who had sex with a porn star and somebody else has committed impeachable offenses because he paid to keep them quiet. The group that defended Bill Clinton on the basis of sex and ignored a legitimate rape allegation (and swept that aside, had no interest in pursuing that) is now doing everything they can to drive Donald Trump supporters away from him on the basis that he\u2019s broken the law with these nondisclosure agreements.<\/p>\n

Is the United States federal court for the Southern District of New York, the now famous SDNY…? Are they expert in federal campaign law violations? I don\u2019t think so. And they don\u2019t have the last say. A Clinton appointee, federal district judge in Manhattan is the final say? There hasn\u2019t been a Cohen trial. The SDNY and its preposterous view hasn\u2019t been tested. None of this has been tested in court, just like Mueller\u2019s charges against these rogue Russian troll farms.<\/p>\n

All of these charges that Mueller has made that supposedly link Russians to the campaign will never be tried! By design, Mueller\u2019s allegations will never be tested in court, just as these allegations against Trump have not been. I know. The National Enquirer actually is the group that had the goods on John Edwards, and look at all the trouble the establishment went to to try to bury that and sit on that, keep us from knowing about that.<\/p>\n

But here with Trump, they are leading the charge. So the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York cuts a deal with Cohen; throws in these campaign counts to smear Trump. Trump\u2019s name is not in the indictment. It\u2019s all about smearing Trump. It\u2019s all about driving his numbers down into the thirties, and it\u2019s all about creating doubt among Trump supporters. It\u2019s all about making \u2019em go soft.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about, “Gee, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if I can stand by anymore and watch these tweets. I just don\u2019t know.” As the onslaught of smears continues, as the allegations of criminal activity and potential indictable offenses continue to be plastered all over the media, the expectation is that Trump supporters will eventually soften and abandon because it simply will not be worth the hassle to remain a Trump supporter. That\u2019s what we\u2019re in the midst of here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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