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RUSH: You have got to be kidding me!<\/p>\nRUSH: We\u2019re gonna start with Ralph in Tampa. Great to have you, Ralph. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Really appreciate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Mega dittos. You know, I wanted to call in. I\u2019m extremely upset with Trump and I\u2019ve been a longtime supporter of his. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to meet the precandidate as well as the postcandidate President Trump. And I\u2019m not upset with him because of the CNN headline of the day. On the contrary, it\u2019s because I just feel he\u2019s not sticking up for himself, you know. Premidterm election, Trump was only really flooding the RINOs and the DOJ, mainstream media. But now he\u2019s gotta fight two main fronts, and one is the legislative branch, and now he\u2019s kind of lost the House and the DOJ and the mainstream media. So I just feel like he\u2019s in a corner. We hired a street fighter to really go to Washington and fight for us. I just don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s doing that. He can\u2019t do it via Twitter —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You have got to be kidding me!<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t see it. I don\u2019t see him taking the fight to the Department of Justice. You know, he had Sessions — and again, I\u2019m still a staunch supporter of his —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, you think he should fire Mueller?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think he needs to attack the DOJ from the top down. You know, Sessions was an impediment to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. What do you mean by attack? Because he has done that verbally What do you mean by attack?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you know, Rush, I don\u2019t know if you recall the very first press conference after the midterms when the media was asking him, \u201cAre you afraid of indictments? Are you afraid of impeachment hearings?\u201d He looked right at the camera and said, \u201cListen, I think Pelosi and the Democrats want to come together. I think they want to move America forward. But if they\u2019re not ready to move America forward, I\u2019m ready to dig in, I\u2019m ready to fight \u2013”<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. I need to remind you of a Trump technique that I know you know. It\u2019s slipping your mind, and it\u2019s called pacing. He does it all the time.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, Trump pacing. You remember when what\u2019s her name, the Kavanaugh babe, the woman that accused…? (interruption) Oh, yeah, Blasey Ford. Remember when Blasey Ford came out and made the first charges against Kavanaugh? What did Trump say? He “found her compelling. We\u2019re gonna listen to what she has to say. I thought she was very compelling, and, if this happened, then we\u2019re gonna get rid of Kavanaugh; We\u2019re gonna get somebody new.” He does this all the time.<\/p>\n
How many times has Trump said something and made you think he was caving? It\u2019s what he does. It\u2019s how he begins. Like saying in his first press conference after the election, “I think Pelosi and Schumer are gonna want to work together. I think they\u2019re gonna wanna get things done, and I think we can. I think we can come to agreement on a number of things in the budget, maybe on the wall.”<\/p>\n
He does this to position himself as willing to. He does this to dispatch an olive branch. He does this to avoid appearing inalterably opposed from the outset. I\u2019ve been caught by it early on. That\u2019s why I had to evolve and develop the theory. I\u2019ve given it the name “pacing.” That\u2019s my name for it. So if you Google it, you\u2019re not gonna find this definition. That\u2019s just what I call it, and he did it with Blasey Ford. He\u2019s done it on the Obamacare repeal and replace when it first started.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t tell you the number of times that he has suggested that he could work well with Democrats, and he did it after the election. He did it even after that first press conference. I saw a story last week in The Politico (summarized) “Trump extending olive branch to Democrats in realization that to get anything done he\u2019s gonna have to work with \u2019em.” But he has yet to disappoint. He did not ever join forces with Blasey Ford. He didn\u2019t betray Kavanaugh. He did not betray the Obamacare repeal and replace.<\/p>\n
He has not suggested that maybe we don\u2019t need a wall after all. But, see, I may have gotten a little short with the caller. Because, you know, it\u2019s easy for somebody on the sidelines sitting out here, any of us, to say, “Well, I\u2019ll tell you what! If I were in there, you know what I\u2019d be doing? I\u2019d have fired Sessions and I would have fired Mueller, and I\u2019d have done this and I\u2019d have done that. I wouldn\u2019t put up with it!” Well, you\u2019re not there, and there isn\u2019t anybody but Trump, and to suggest that Trump isn\u2019t fighting back or that Trump is not trying to hold his ground or whatever?<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t know what the term for this is, but I think if you\u2019re of that frame of mind, you may want to step back and ask yourself, “Who else?” You know, I marvel. I\u2019ve always marveled at journalists — reporters and so forth — commenting on the impropriety of people they cover and how the people they cover fall short, come up short. Well, what have you ever done but sit there and comment on other people? What have you done to advance the fight?<\/p>\n
What have you ever done other than to tear something or a bunch of things down? It\u2019s easy from the sidelines to sit there and complain. (impression) “He\u2019s not fightin\u2019 back. He ought to fire Mueller. He ought to fire Rosenstein. He ought to just shut down the Department Justice, and he ought to… he ought to … he ought to indict Comey!” My guess is he\u2019s wanted to do a bunch of that stuff a number of times, and he\u2019s got some people around him telling him to go slow; don\u2019t overreact in that regard.<\/p>\n
The Tillerson thing, I think, is a classic illustration of how the swamp works. In Washington — in polite company within the confines of the deep state, the establishment or the swamp — when you want to call somebody stupid, you say, “He doesn\u2019t read. He doesn\u2019t read the briefing reports. He\u2019s not curious. Why, he even asked me to do some things on treaties that would have been violations of the law.” That\u2019s how you do it in the swamp. Instead of saying somebody has “holes in their head,” you say they “have an open mind.” It\u2019s all phony.<\/p>\n
Trump says things like normal people talk.<\/p>\n
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“Tillerson is a lazy, spoiled brat, and he\u2019s stupid. I was amazed at how dumb the guy was after I hired him.” That\u2019s not how the swamp does it. The swamp says, “Ah, he doesn\u2019t read. He\u2019s not curious! I don\u2019t… I don\u2019t think he… He\u2019s not much of a thinker.” Tillerson said just as bad a stuff about Trump as Trump responded to with Tillerson. They call Trump a liar, but he may be the most honest man in Washington since Washington, in terms of telling you what he thinks — and this is another of the many violations of protocol and comportment and behavior.<\/p>\n
You never tell anybody what you\u2019re really thinking.<\/p>\n
You never, ever do that.<\/p>\n
But Trump does.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Remember, my friends, Trump is right. These payments to the two women are not illegal. They were privately contracted transactions replete with nondisclosure agreements, which are not illegal. There\u2019s nothing indictable. There isn\u2019t a campaign finance law violation, and certainly nothing impeachable in the “high crimes and misdemeanors” sense. But they\u2019re trying to make you think that all of it is illegal and impeachable and indictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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