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<\/p>\nRUSH:\u00a0 Trump and McCain.\u00a0 This issue continues to expand and grow, and I\u2019m gonna cut through all of the Twitter clutter and give you the nub of what\u2019s going on here.\u00a0 Yesterday in a series of tweets, President Trump told the story of how John McCain screwed over the entire country when he failed to vote to get rid of Obamacare, the repeal and replace of Obamacare.\u00a0 He said that it was a last-minute thing after many promises that he would vote with the White House.<\/p>\n
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This is Trump telling people that they had assurances upon assurances from Senator McCain that he was gonna vote to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u00a0 Now, Jim Acosta, CNN, found a, quote-unquote, “source” who told him that that wasn\u2019t true.\u00a0 Some former aide to McCain told Acosta that Trump is lying.\u00a0 McCain never promised the White House he was gonna vote to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u00a0 So Acosta\u2019s running this all over Twitter, and — I don\u2019t know — probably put it on the air at CNN, basically saying he\u2019s got a source (an unnamed McCain aide) claiming that Trump is lying about this.<\/p>\n
Well, Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes… Mercedes is in the communications shop of the White House. Matt Schlapp runs CPAC. At the time, Matt Schlapp was the key White House guy counting votes on this issue<\/a>.\u00a0 Every president, every White House, every West Wing has a guy that stays in touch with Capitol Hill — a liaison — that keeps the West Wing informed on the status of legislation the White House is interested in, kind of like a presidential whip.\u00a0 Not out there actually whipping votes, but he is the vote-counter.<\/p>\n “Everybody was worried he would flip-flop when it mattered, and he did.\u00a0 He did on the flight to Washington.”\u00a0 Schlapp says, “Acosta, I was tracking Senator McCain up until the vote, and everyone was told that he was solid on his vote against Obamacare, but all of us knew that McCain was unpredictable.\u00a0 None of us, including the president, are lying about this.”\u00a0 So Matt Schlapp is putting his reputation out there, assuring Acosta that whoever is talking to him is telling him falsehoods.<\/p>\n That McCain had assured the White House over and over again he was gonna vote to repeal and replace, but that they always knew he could change his mind because he was McCain.\u00a0 So on the flight to Washington is when Schlapp found out McCain had changed his mind (if he was actually ever be truthful with him in the first place) about the intent of his vote.\u00a0 Now, of course this doesn\u2019t satisfy Acosta.\u00a0 Acosta thinks everybody but him is lying and so forth.\u00a0 So given all of this, you can understand why Trump and Matt Schlapp and everybody else in the West Wing would be livid.<\/p>\n McCain, according to them, led them to believe he was a solid vote to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u00a0 He had campaigned on it!\u00a0 He had made a big deal out of how bad he thought Obamacare was.\u00a0 But then he comes in and at the moment of truth, he\u2019s the last vote, gives his famous thumbs down, and kills the repeal. And Trump feels like he was lied to, misled, and what have you.\u00a0 So now there\u2019s all kinds of news stories about the feud between Trump and McCain.<\/p>\n Snerdley, you may not know this.\u00a0 Do you know that MSNBC on Saturday and Sunday — like from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. — is running never-ending repeats of All the President\u2019s Men?\u00a0 (interruption) Oh, yeah. They\u2019re running the movie of how Woodward and Bernstein got rid of Nixon.\u00a0 They run this so that their audience can get set up for the impeachment of Trump, and now CNN has got this series called Tricky Dick, which is designed to get their audience prepared and set up for the impeachment of Trump.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MattSchlapp.jpg\")
He\u2019s in touch with the whips.\u00a0 He\u2019s in touch with the Republican leaders in the Senate and the House, and he knows how who is going to vote, and it\u2019s up to him to count the votes, and he reports to the president what the latest is.\u00a0 Matt Schlapp told a reporter that somebody might want to fact-check what Jimmy Acosta is saying, because Matt Schlapp says that what Acosta tweeted isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 Matt Schlapp said, “McCain met with me in my office and pledged to support every version of repeal and replace and said he would lead the charge.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/McCain-Thumbs-Down.jpg\")
Washington Post:\u00a0 “‘The McCain Family Deserves Better,\u2019 Republican Senator Says as Trump Continues to Lash Out.”\u00a0 “The McCain Family Deserves Better.<\/a>”\u00a0 From TheHill.com:\u00a0 “Anderson Cooper Blasts Trump Over McCain Attacks: ‘He\u2019s Punching a Person Who is Dead.<\/a>‘”\u00a0 This is from CNN, by the way, running and promoting a documentary called Tricky Dick.\u00a0 Do you know why they\u2019re doing that? Do you know what MSNBC is doing? (interruption)<\/p>\n