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<\/p>\nRUSH: As I mentioned, President Trump has doubled down on his criticism of McCain. Let me set this up for those of you who… Well, you may think you know the whole story. Donald Trump\u2019s problem with John McCain predates his comment during the presidential campaign of not respecting military people who get captured. But he made that comment during the presidential campaign, and… This, again, is something that I don\u2019t… The thin-skinned reaction to that by McCain shocked me.<\/p>\n
I would think as a United States senator, somebody with his educational background and military background, a thick skin would just naturally have developed. But, you know, I think one thing that we\u2019re learning is that these exalted members of the D.C. ruling class who think of themselves as elite and special? I think they have some of the thinnest skin in this country. I think they think they are above any criticism from outside.<\/p>\n
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If you look at Bush… The Bushes are part of the D.C. ruling class, but look how they were treated. George W. Bush and Karl Rove were routinely destroyed by the D.C. media, the Washington ruling class. But since it was the ruling class that did it, the Bushes understood it, and they knew that it was not personal. They knew it was political and that once Bush left office, he\u2019d be back to his exalted position as an ex-president.<\/p>\n
But the criticism from outside the ruling class? These people can\u2019t take it. I was stunned at the McCain funeral. I was stunned that at the funeral for John McCain the overriding objective was to be critical of, and respond to and answer, Donald Trump! At a funeral, where you\u2019re supposed to be focusing on the salvation of the soul of the deceased, instead it became an attack marathon on Donald Trump! What kind of thin skin is this?<\/p>\n
People we elect as leaders are supposed to not have this kind of thin skin. They\u2019re supposed to be above all of this. They\u2019re supposed to be confident and secure in who they are, that these little things are no more than gnats yapping at the ankles. But this criticism of McCain that Trump offered must have really — must have really — gotten to him, because after that, all McCain needed to hear about was this dossier, and he took the lead on getting a copy of it.<\/p>\n
He sent somebody from his staff on an airplane over to the U.K. to get an actual hard copy of the thing. He brought it back, and it was McCain\u2019s aide — I think it was — who gave it to BuzzFeed, who then circulated it to the rest of the Drive-By Media. BuzzFeed, of course, published it. You know, McCain single-handedly came to a position where he was going to get rid of Trump. He was gonna destroy Trump, all because…<\/p>\n
Look, it was more than the comment about not respecting military people that get captured. McCain really believes, \u2019cause there was a press conference or some… Maybe it was on the floor of the Senate. I forget where it was. But McCain was dumbfounded over Trump\u2019s agenda of nationalism and making NATO members pay their fair share, pay their dues, redoing trade deals so that other nations would have to deal with us more fairly, stop taking advantage of us and picking our back pockets.<\/p>\n
McCain was righteously offended by this, and he\u2019s out there saying, “Why in the world would we want to come along and destroy the post-World War II order that we built?” Well, that was an admission of what the ruling class did and their globalist intentions for the country. Post-World War II is where the Cold War was created by divvying up parts of Europe to the Soviet Union and to not the Soviet Union, to create the Cold War and create this permanent confrontation. So we create NATO, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and all that.<\/p>\n
We set ourselves up as the leaders of the globalist movement, and that\u2019s what the world order that McCain was talking about was. This is what the ruling class of Washington signed onto And of course, once you sign onto a globalist agenda, then the United States as a separate entity or nation is gonna play second fiddle, because the globalist intention is larger than any one nation in it. And this was what Trump was railing against.<\/p>\n
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He didn\u2019t understand this, he didn\u2019t approve of it, he didn\u2019t like it. What happened to America being the leader of the world, not some consortium of people that can\u2019t lead anything without us? Why do we give them a chance to pick our pockets in trade deals? Why do they demand that we defend them so they don\u2019t have to pay for a military? Why is all of this on us? And at the same time it\u2019s on us, all these other nations are running around ripping us to shreds criticizing us — and Trump said, “None of this makes any sense.<\/p>\n
“This is stupid! You wouldn\u2019t run a business this way. Why would we run a country this way?” McCain was righteously indignant over Trump\u2019s attack on this globalist order with the United Nations and diplomacy and the State Department at the top of the pecking order. Then Trump comes along and makes his comment about McCain not being respected because he got captured, and that\u2019s all it took. McCain never got over it, and he became one of the spearhead leaders of this dossier — which is phony, fake, fraudulent.<\/p>\n
Not a word of it is true. None of it\u2019s ever been verified. You know the deal on that. Trump never backed down, and McCain never got over it, to the point that his funeral was not totally but largely devoted to criticism of Trump from the various people that spoke eulogies and so forth. So Trump has been recently criticizing McCain, again, once it has been now been widely reported McCain\u2019s role in the dossier procurement and its promotion. Anybody involved with the dossier was singularly purposed toward getting rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
McCain was in that crowd. So just this afternoon in Washington, there\u2019s a meeting in the Oval Office with the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, and a reporter said (paraphrased), “Why are you attacking Senator McCain? Seven months after Senator McCain died! It\u2019s so bad. It\u2019s so… It\u2019s so hurtful. It\u2019s so… Why are you doing it? Why are you doing that, Mr. President? Why are you attacking McCain?”<\/p>\n