{"id":299981,"date":"2019-02-15T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299981"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:24:30","slug":"what-a-performance-by-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/15\/what-a-performance-by-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Performance by the President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I just want to go back. What the president did is he signed the deal and then declared a national emergency. I predicted last Wednesday, a couple days ago<\/a>, that this today is what would happen…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: El Trumpo is gonna sign this bill whenever it\u2019s presented to him, and he\u2019s gonna declare a national emergency. The $1.375 billion will take us through the end of this fiscal year, through the end of September. It will be used to complete current under-construction projects. Declare a national emergency, go use this other $23 billion. The Democrats will go to court, shut it down, bring it to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n

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They will claim Trump doesn\u2019t have the constitutional authority, that this is not a national emergency like a hurricane would be or an earthquake or some such thing. He\u2019ll declare the national emergency and let it wind its way through the courts through the balance of this year, probably find its way through by the end of the fiscal year and, bammo, then get a favorable ruling on it, which he will ultimately at the Supreme Court if it goes that far. And, bammo, here comes the other $23 billion and then the next two years Trump is building the wall in the run-up to the 2020 presidential campaign. That, my friends, is what I see.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was based on reading a couple news stories and having an understanding that there probably wasn\u2019t gonna be a shutdown because there\u2019s no leverage for the president in doing that. Now, also, I made mention earlier that this legislation is actually more a political weapon aimed at Trump. It\u2019s designed to make you conclude that supporting Trump is a waste of time \u2019cause he\u2019s never gonna be able to get anything done because Washington doesn\u2019t want to work with him. I\u2019m gonna give you some evidence of this by the details of what\u2019s in this bill in the next half hour.<\/p>\n

Now, one more bite. Kelly O\u2019Donnell of NBC, the White House correspondent, actually stood up and said (impression), “Mr. President, can you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices helped to shape your views on the national emergency?” Now, his answer… He started off with Hannity, and he said (summarized), “Look, Hannity\u2019s a friend of mine for 20 years. I love Sean Hannity, he\u2019s a good friend, but let me tell you something.<\/p>\n

“If I weren\u2019t holding the positions I hold, Hannity wouldn\u2019t be supporting me. He\u2019s not supporting me. He\u2019s supporting my issues,” and that\u2019s true! These people have got it in their heads — and it\u2019s all part of the effort to make you think that Trump is so underqualified, has no business doing this, it\u2019s all part of this ongoing coup that is being waged on many fronts. And, of course, they mention my name in the question with all these other conservative commentators. And when it came time to mention me, this is what he said…<\/p>\n