{"id":299972,"date":"2019-02-15T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299972"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:33:28","slug":"the-deep-state-message-in-the-budget-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/15\/the-deep-state-message-in-the-budget-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State Message in the Budget Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We just had the press conference in the Rose Garden after the president signed the budget deal and then declared a national emergency. We\u2019re still working on some of the sound bites from this that I want to share with you, but I want to set the table on this. I want to tell you what\u2019s really going on, and I want to combine a couple things here.<\/p>\n

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I want to go back to McCabe and his book<\/a>. Here is a guy who is writing a book and profiting — earning money — on his admission, essentially, that he was running a silent coup to overturn a presidential election.<\/p>\n

And every one of the people he was working with… McCabe working with Comey and Bruce Ohr and James Baker\/Jim Baker in the FBI, and Clapper and Brennan and all the others. Rosenstein. Not one of them has ever been elected to anything. Not one of them has any kind of a mandate from anybody in the American people to do what they were doing, and they were running an effort to undermine a duly elected president. It was a coup, and the media was in on it, and they continue.<\/p>\n

This coup is continuing, is the point — and the coup, I think, continues in this budget deal. So just hang on here as I draw the lines and connect these things. It\u2019s a multifaceted coup that is occurring. And, again, it hasn\u2019t changed. Even though the news has been hitting the past couple of days that the Mueller report\u2019s got blah in it (and that there might not even be a report, all this), that doesn\u2019t change the objective.<\/p>\n

The objective is still to drive President Trump\u2019s approval numbers as low as they can. That remains their objective, and they\u2019re panicking when they see him at 52% at Rasmussen, 45% at CNN. They are panicking. It\u2019s the exact opposite of what they want to happen. When they come up with a piece of legislation — both parties — like this budget deal that they wanted him to sign, this is part of a coup. This is part of the ongoing effort to get rid of him. I\u2019ll explain this in just a second.<\/p>\n

The effort to go get the Covington guys<\/a> is all part of the effort to create hate about and for Trump and Trump reporters. This Jussie Smollett farce<\/a> is all part of an effort. It\u2019s all part of an ongoing effort to discredit Donald Trump and to portray his voters as a bunch of racist hatemongers. There is pure venom in the minds and the hearts of all of these people in Congress and at the FBI who continue this (for lack of a better term) silent coup that is designed to, even now, overturn the results of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

And these people in the deep state? They are cowards through and through, hiding behind a bunch of different artifices that they have created, such as Russian meddling<\/a>, Russian collusion. They\u2019re doing it for the sake and the future of the country and so forth. Now, how does this relate to this bill? This budget bill — and you have to understand, this is both parties. There are some Republicans that support the president in the Conservative Caucus, but there are a lot of Republicans in the House and Senate who still qualify as Never Trumpers.<\/p>\n

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The purpose of this budget deal — and I want you to consider this when you go back and forth deciding whether you think it was a good thing or a bad thing for him to sign it. I\u2019m not talking about the national emergency, but actually signing the deal as opposed to not signing it, which would have led to another shutdown. I believe — and I think I\u2019m a thousand percent correct about this — the purpose of this budget deal… I mean, you look…<\/p>\n

Let me… Before I tell you that, let me give you some of the contents as we went through yesterday. There is a limit on a number of detainees. There is limit on how much of border and fence can be built. There\u2019s a limit on what kind can be built. There\u2019s a limit on modernization. This bill is filled with congressional edicts telling the president of the United States what he cannot do. Now, it authorizes $23 billion for Homeland Security, but it specifies $1.375 billion for fencing and bordering.<\/p>\n

But there are so many limits on this as to make this practically irrelevant — by design and on purpose, because I firmly believe that what members of Congress (both parties) actually want with this bill is to send a message that nothing is ever gonna happen as long as Donald Trump is president. The attempt in this budget deal is to send a message to you Trump voters that it\u2019s worthless voting for him, that it is a waste of time supporting him, because they are demonstrating that he can\u2019t get anything done.<\/p>\n

They are not gonna let him get anything done. They\u2019re gonna put obstacles in the way and they\u2019re gonna make sure, as best they can, he can\u2019t get anything done. And you are supposed to conclude at some point, “You know what? Maybe we would be better off without Trump. Maybe we would have a better chance of getting something done without Trump, because they hate him so much that they\u2019re never gonna allow anything decent and good for the country as long as he\u2019s there.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they want you saying. It\u2019s no different than what they did to Sarah Palin. They had created so much negativity around Sarah Palin; they convinced all kinds of Republicans it\u2019d be better to just sweep her away. “Yeah, Rush, the media hates her so much. They\u2019ve ruined her, Rush. They\u2019ve destroyed her. I mean, we gotta dump her. We got get rid of her, replace her with somebody.” Remember that? I think this is exactly the purpose of this stupid legislation! It\u2019s not even a budget deal.<\/p>\n

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This is Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate getting together, because they know when it comes to illegal immigration, these parties are unified, folks. For the most part, the Republicans and Democrats are for open borders. There are exceptions on the Republican side. But there are a lot of Republicans that don\u2019t want Trump to succeed even now. There are a lot of Republicans just after he was inaugurated who don\u2019t want him to succeed. So they come up with a piece of legislation here that is outrageous.<\/p>\n

It is outrageous in its denial of the existence of a genuine emergency at the border. They don\u2019t care. They will deal with whatever mess they create. They don\u2019t care how bad it gets because in their world, the only mess is Donald Trump — and since the Russian effort and the Mueller effort and everything else related to that has failed to get his approval numbers down (and that has been the objective from the get-go), this is the latest effort, and it won\u2019t be long… You mark my words on this.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna be long before some cable news network assembles a panel and one of the themes on the panel is gonna be, “Is the message here really to Trump voters that they\u2019re wasting their time with Trump because he\u2019s so disgustedly hated, he\u2019s so despised that Congress just isn\u2019t gonna work with him? They\u2019re just not gonna let anything get done that Trump wants. Would Trump voters be better off abandoning Trump? Would Trump voters be better off if somebody else could come along and pick up the Trump mantle?”<\/p>\n

This is what this bill is all about. Yeah, this… I mean, the actual contents of the bill that relates to budgeting and the limits on the wall, some of that\u2019s real. Don\u2019t misunderstand. And all of the pork barrel spending, yeah, that\u2019s real too. But I think that the real objective here is to send the message that Donald Trump can\u2019t win. “He\u2019s so hated, he\u2019s so despised, he is so opposed, that you Trump voters, you\u2019re basically spitting into the wind. There\u2019s nothing that can happen here — and we are passing a budget.<\/p>\n

“We in Congress, your Congress, are passing a budget designed to show you how irrelevant and unimportant he is, because not a single thing that he wanted is in this budget — and, therefore, not a single thing that you wanted is in this budget. The hatred and the resentment for Donald Trump has not abated. It has not subsided. It is increasing, it is ratcheting up because he is defeating them at every turn — and I\u2019m telling you, this McCabe…<\/p>\n

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McCabe ought to be in prison, not profiting off of a book packed with lies about the supposed impeachment behavior of Donald Trump. All these people ought to be in the midst of a serious investigation of what they have done and how they have violated Constitution and how they have worked behind the scenes as the cowards they are to try to overturn the election results in 2016 because they don\u2019t like it, and they don\u2019t think somebody like Trump ought to have the right to be in their little club of people who run the country and people who run Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

So now we come to the press conference today, and Trump just owns them! They expect Trump to be whimpering — or they\u2019re hoping that he\u2019ll be whimpering. They\u2019re hoping he\u2019ll be conciliatory. They\u2019re hoping that he will act defeated. They\u2019re hoping that he will recognize the truth, and that is, “These people hate his guts and they\u2019re never gonna let him have anything, and he\u2019s never gonna get one thing toward his agenda,” and they\u2019re hoping he\u2019ll end up being despondent or figure this out — and he just steamrolls them today!<\/p>\n

He steamrolls them today in technique. He steamrolls them today in style. He steamrolled the media that was asking him questions. He even opened it up for questions when they weren\u2019t even prepared for it. So popping up like jacks-in-the-box. (sputtering) “Mr. President…” (sputtering) And then somebody… Who was it? It was NBC White House correspondent Kelly O\u2019Donnell. “Mr. President! Mr. President! Could you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices help to shape your views on this national emergency?”<\/p>\n

His answer was (paraphrased), “Nobody!” He did describe his friendship with Hannity. He talked about me. He talked about Laura Ingraham. He talked about Ann Coulter. But he did not say any of us influenced him. In fact, what he said was (he said this in regard to Hannity, but he meant everybody), “These people support my ideas. These people support my policies. If I believed something else, these people wouldn\u2019t be on my team. They wouldn\u2019t be on my side.” He did not say all of us are influencing him.<\/p>\n

This is another attempt. This question, this whole narrative that Trump\u2019s afraid of me — (snort) and again, 80% of the sound bites today on the roster are the media talking about me influencing Trump! It\u2019s part of this overall effort to tell Trump voters, “He doesn\u2019t even know who he is. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s listening to these outside voices \u2019cause he\u2019s lost.” They are creating false narratives and false circumstances all for the purposes of diminishing his stature in the eyes of all Americans, but especially the people that voted for him.<\/p>\n