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<\/p>\nRUSH: And here we are, right here in the EIB Network, Rush Limbaugh, the nation turns wary and concerned eyes to this program for answers and reassurance. And I say that because I\u2019m getting emails from people: “Rush, it all seems like it\u2019s falling apart. What can you tell us?”<\/p>\n
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: What I can tell you is — and I\u2019m gonna go back and do it — that I predicted all this. And I\u2019m not making this about me. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I know a lot of hosts try to make it all about them. I don\u2019t have to make it all about me. It already is. I\u2019m gonna go back, and I\u2019m gonna go to the archives from two years ago. I warned everybody that we were gonna be right here no matter what Donald Trump did. We are here. We\u2019ve had the opportunity to get ready for this. Everybody has.<\/p>\n
And then after that we\u2019ll get down and break down some of the specifics going on with Cohen, the rat, now testifying before Mueller. Cohen said that he wasn\u2019t gonna have anything to say until after the investigation was over and he\u2019d been sentenced — not sentenced — he wasn\u2019t gonna have anything to say \u2019til early next year about it. But for some reason Cohen\u2019s out there on television talking to George Stephanopoulos. I mean, I don\u2019t know why. Could speculate that the special counsel is behind it. “Yeah, go ahead, rat. Say whatever you want to say out there. Just make sure you say this.”<\/p>\n
The rat has done a total 180 on Donald Trump. A total 180 and the rat has made a calculation that even three years in jail is gonna result in him earning more money from a very adoring media paying him for books and movies and firsthand interviews than anything Donald Trump can do for him or would have done for him had he stayed loyal. This is an illustration of the power of the swamp.<\/p>\n
You know, you can ask questions. What was Trump doing with this guy in the first place? Can\u2019t change that, so, I mean, if you want to ask it, feel free. I\u2019ve had my own questions about some of the staffing choices that have been made, but they\u2019re not mine, and we\u2019re not running things. So we sit here and do the best we can putting it all together.<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s go to back to the audio sound bites, just the archives here and just a couple of sound bites, it\u2019s just a couple of minutes here. Because my emails indicate that a lot of people need a pep talk, which I totally understand. I just want to remind you that we knew this is how it was gonna be. I mean, not to the degree of predicting specifics, but even then this is pretty close. This is November 22nd, the first bite, November 22nd, 2016. This is a couple weeks after the election, just a couple weeks after the election. And all of a sudden everybody\u2019s zeroing in on Russia.<\/p>\n
By the way, again, whatever happened — these people literally think that they\u2019re gonna get Donald Trump in jail over these payments to these women. There is no way that\u2019s gonna happen. Now they\u2019re trying to link Russia to the inauguration. They don\u2019t really have anything that\u2019s criminal on Trump. They\u2019ve got plenty that\u2019s criminal on Cohen. They don\u2019t have anything.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re trying to create buzz that what they have on Trump is criminal. They\u2019re trying to create the narrative and the soap opera script every day that Trump is a hardened criminal, has been for a while, and it\u2019s all now just being exposed, when the truth is they haven\u2019t uncovered anything criminal. They haven\u2019t uncovered anything that\u2019s impeachable. But it\u2019s really hard to resist this never-ending onslaught 24\/7 in the media. Here goes from November 22nd, 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: I feel duty-bound to warn you and to give you a heads-up about what we\u2019re gonna face. Donald Trump\u2019s gonna have perhaps the most embattled presidency in — well, certainly in our lifetimes, and I dare say maybe in modern American history. They\u2019re not going to quit and they are a new kind of stupid. They are not logical. They make no sense whatsoever. But they are going to have the media on their side, and that\u2019s the danger.<\/p>\n And the fight is really just beginning. However evil and intense the election was, I just want to make sure that you are all prepared for what\u2019s coming down the road, because it isn\u2019t gonna be pretty. And it\u2019s gonna be really important for Trump to have people just like him surrounding him, and that is fighters, people who are fearless, who will not be daunted by this onslaught that\u2019s coming. And I think he does in many respects.<\/p>\n END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, I was speaking there specifically about the media and, of course, all of their known associates, which is pretty much everybody in the Democrat Party in the Washington establishment or the swamp. And that has been borne out in spades. Everything predicted there and more has been borne out in spades. And it\u2019s, therefore, to me not surprising.<\/p>\n Now, I can share with you that at this time November 22, 2016, there were a lot of people — I wish I could name names, but I can\u2019t. I don\u2019t have permission to name names, and I guess it\u2019s not necessary. I mean, you\u2019ll just have to trust that these are people whose names you would recognize who were telling me, “Rush, the election\u2019s over. Now everybody\u2019s gonna come together and if Trump plays ball, then he can get these people on his side. I mean, after all, he\u2019s president. And all he\u2019s gotta do is just dial it back a little bit and Trump could be respected.”<\/p>\n And I said, “What makes you think that?” And I started getting gobbledygook as explanations. What I detected was it\u2019s what these people hoped. They hoped that all of a sudden this opposition to Trump would end because the election was over and it was time to move on to what\u2019s next. And I have to tell you that I was dumbfounded hearing this from people who are students of the media, who know the media as well as I do and then know the Democrats.<\/p>\n I said, “You really, really think that now that the election\u2019s over, there\u2019s going to be some sort of unification around the idea that Trump won, some kind of acceptance?” And they told me, “Yeah.” And I learned later it\u2019s because that\u2019s what they hoped would happen. They didn\u2019t want to have to go into battle and defend Trump every day. They didn\u2019t want to have to do this. And it wasn\u2019t even about them. They\u2019re not being assaulted. They\u2019re not being attacked, the people I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n You know, I draw the analogy — I mentioned it yesterday<\/a>. I had a dinner party at the house years ago when Sarah Palin was getting this same kind of treatment. And one of the invited guests asked if they could bring a couple people who were “really, really nice and really would love to show up,” and I said… (sigh) My instincts were, “No. I don\u2019t know who they are.” But I trusted the friend and said, “Yeah, go ahead and bring \u2019em,” and these two guys spent most of the night telling me how we had to throw Sarah Palin overboard because the media hated her now and there was no way of saving her and it\u2019s time to get rid of her and find somebody else. I was just…<\/p>\n Well, this is a dinner party of my own that I walked out on early and caught my flight to LA, which I was gonna be doing later that night anyway. I was aghast because here we had people basically suggesting that we need to kowtow and cave to the media. They essentially said, “The media\u2019s destroyed her, Rush, so we gotta let her go,” and I just… I said, “The media\u2019s destroyed her so we have to let her go? It\u2019s not about us, in this sense. You know, you have always in matters like this. You\u2019ve got many different groups of people, but basically two.<\/p>\n “You\u2019ve got the group that\u2019s in the arena, and then you\u2019ve got the spectators — and I always marvel at the spectators acting like they\u2019re in the arena when they\u2019re not, telling everybody what they would do and what ought to be happening, when they wouldn\u2019t last a day in the arena! But they feel confident and free to judge everybody who\u2019s in it,” and they rip \u2019em or they praise them or whatever, but they themselves wouldn\u2019t last a day in it! I said, “Sarah Palin\u2019s not… She hasn\u2019t done anything to be thrown overboard! She hasn\u2019t done a damn thing wrong.”<\/p>\n “Yeah, but, Rush, they\u2019ve destroyed her. Don\u2019t you understand? She can\u2019t be saved. We have to find somebody they\u2019re not going to destroy.” I said, “You really think we can do that?” Well, here we are with Trump. Now, I haven\u2019t heard it to quite that degree, people who think we need to throw Trump overboard. But I\u2019m starting to get people frustrated that the media\u2019s not coming around and won\u2019t come around, and I\u2019ve been trying to tell people, “They\u2019re never gonna come around!” These people are not going to stop.<\/p>\n They\u2019re not gonna stop of their own accord until they think they\u2019ve succeeded. That\u2019s why it\u2019s gonna be an ongoing battle, and that\u2019s why there\u2019s only one guy who could withstand all this and continue to fight back against it, and that is Trump. You know, we have three dogs. (This is funny.) One of the dogs is obviously the leader. They\u2019re women. They\u2019re females. And one of the dogs will go whenever anybody\u2019s walking by, this dog will go to the gate and start barking and protecting the homeland and all that.<\/p>\n The other two stand about 10 feet behind, and they start barking too. “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! You listen to us.” But they\u2019re not on the front lines. It\u2019s funny to watch, and this is what this is. We got people on the front lines, we got people not on the front line and some of the people not on the front lines are trying to act like they are, but they don\u2019t have the guts to go there. “Trump\u2019s gotta do this, Trump\u2019s gotta do that, Trump\u2019s gotta…”<\/p>\n If we start modifying in order to lessen media criticism — or to, even worse, try to get media approval — what do you think happens to what we\u2019re trying to accomplish? It means somebody\u2019s caved on it. So this was imminently predictable. I don\u2019t even think it took that much intelligence to predict this. It just required a bunch of serious observation. Now, here\u2019s the next bite. This is from January 23, 2017, three days after Trump was sworn in<\/a>…<\/p>\n BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n RUSH: You go back and you look at Obama when he\u2019s inaugurated in 2009. He\u2019s got a lot of people on his side. He had the media. He had the media big on his side and the whole the Democrat Party on his side. He had a lot of people backing him up. He had a lot of people pushing him forward and validating. Trump has no one except the people that voted for him. Trump has no one in Washington. He\u2019s got his advisers. He\u2019s got some Republicans. But the entire Washington establishment is opposed to him.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-Tear-RUSH-SHOW-11-22-16.jpg\")
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