{"id":294631,"date":"2018-12-13T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294631"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:52:21","slug":"show-prep-for-the-white-house-trumpster-calls-out-the-congressional-sexual-harassment-slush-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/13\/show-prep-for-the-white-house-trumpster-calls-out-the-congressional-sexual-harassment-slush-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Prep for the White House! Trumpster Calls Out the Congressional Sexual Harassment Slush Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: President Trump granted an interview to Harris Faulkner at Fox News. They just played some. We have some sound bites, and I want you to hear. Here\u2019s the question in the first bite: “What do you want the nation to know about your former attorney, Michael Cohen, being sentenced yesterday?”<\/p>\n

\"\"THE PRESIDENT: Michael Cohen plead guilty to something that\u2019s not even a crime.<\/p>\n

FAULKNER: (interrupting) So —<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Wait a minute. These are campaign… Nobody except for me would be looked at like this. Nobody. What about Congress where they have a slush fund and millions and millions of dollars is paid out each year? They have a slush fund. Millions! They don\u2019t talk about campaign finance anything. Have you ever heard of a campaign finance list? Have they listed that on their campaign finance sheets? No. If it was, it\u2019s not even a violation. No. 3, it\u2019s a civil matter. You know, President Obama had a really big one — 10 times more money, much more money — and, you know what? He paid a fine. I\u2019m the only one that this happens to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s actually true. This is show prep for the White House, \u2019cause this is exactly the point that I made yesterday in the program<\/a>. The slush fund he\u2019s talking about? It\u2019s 268 financial settlements paid on behalf of United States congressmen who had been accused of sexual harassment or abuse by over 250 different women. Congress has a slush fund! They have a fund to pay these settlements — and it\u2019s U.S. taxpayer dollars!<\/p>\n

Nobody ever claims that there\u2019s violations of campaign finance law involved here! Nobody ever claims that this is tampering with elections or unfairly benefiting an incumbent here by having the taxpayers pay off on a sexual harassment claim. Trump is right. They\u2019re going after him for something that 268 times members of Congress have done, and that slush fund is $17 million so far. That\u2019s what\u2019s been made out: $17 million, 268 cases.<\/p>\n

With Obama here, he\u2019s talking about the $2 million, the $2 million campaign finance violation as determined by the Federal Election Commission. Obama illegally used $2 million. He was fined. He was not charged. He was not prosecuted. His “campaign” was fined, not even him. They didn\u2019t even go after him. Next question from Harris Faulkner. “Michael Cohen said he lied in order to protect you. What\u2019s your response to that?”<\/p>\n