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<\/p>\nRUSH: It was fascinating. When the media first started reporting on it, they gave it great huzzahs. I mean, they gave it great coverage. They were very positive about it. And then it\u2019s almost like somebody: \u201cWait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, we can\u2019t do this.\u201d And the coverage turned immediately negative. I\u2019m talking about the tariff deal with Mexico that Trump announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
You ought to go be back — I have \u2019em here, the original news stories, some of the greatest coverage Trump\u2019s ever gotten. Well, maybe not some of the greatest, but at least it was right on, it was accurate and so forth and then you could just see a switch get flipped, and everybody in the Drive-By Media begin lying about it.<\/p>\n
When New York Times comes out, “There\u2019s nothing new about this. This deal was done months ago, and Trump just chose to announce it now. But there\u2019s nothing new here.” And that is a full-fledged crock! There\u2019s never been anything like this done with Mexico and the way Mexico\u2019s reacting and what they\u2019re saying about it is proof of that.<\/p>\n
Anyway, folks, I\u2019m here, I\u2019m on the case. We got Snerdley back. Snerdley spent a couple days up on 42nd Street trying to arrange funding for a new Mac Pro. Anyway, great to have you here. Telephone number\u2019s 800 — (laughing) — 282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
I mean, people were complaining about, \u201cWhy did he announce this on Friday? You never do a major announcement on Friday. It gets buried or it gives the media the weekend to recast it, to reshape it and so forth.\u201d And maybe there\u2019s something to that, I don\u2019t know. But he announced it on Twitter late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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We had a deal with Mexico. And it is something that has never been tried in our lifetimes. The United States — and I mentioned this once after having read this in a Pat Buchanan column. Prior to the income tax being instituted in 1913, the United States government fully funded itself via tariffs. So tariffs have a rich history in our country. They were the primary funding mechanism for government operations. And that was when the government did not have as its job taking care of everybody.<\/p>\n
Do you know that they\u2019re handing out EBT cards with a thousand bucks to illegals as they cross the border in New Mexico now? Wait \u2019til you hear some of this stuff coming up. But I want to show you here — let\u2019s see, I think this is Friday. I don\u2019t have a date on this, but I think it\u2019s one of the first news stories from CNN.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnited States Got Almost Everything it Wanted with Mexico Trade Deal<\/a> — CNN anchor Victor Blackwell admitted Saturday morning on \u2018New Day\u2019 that the United States got \u2018almost everything it wanted\u2019 in the U.S.-Mexico trade deal that was announced Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe \u2018New Day\u2019 coverage began with CNN White House correspondent Sarah Westwood \u2013” this the weekend crew, obviously, \u201c\u2013describing the White House\u2019s intention to \u2018frame this as a victory for President Trump,\u2019 who reversed his original plans to impose a tariff on Mexican imports in response to the country\u2019s concessions, particularly \u2018stepped-up immigration \u2013” We knew this was coming. We told you about this. They shut their southern border and they started arresting people that were arriving, driving, managing the caravans. We also learned the caravan funding is coming from sources within the United States because this is a politically led and crafted invasion that is taking place by American leftists.<\/p>\n And then \u201cTrump Deal with Mexico Likely Ends Catch-and-Release, Defunds Cartels.<\/a>\u201d Reuters: \u201cU.S.-Mexico Migration Deal Boosts USMCA Approval Drive — Mexico Official.<\/a>\u201d So the original coverage on this was exactly true. It was something that was unique, it hasn\u2019t happened before, and it was good for the United States.<\/p>\n Now, what\u2019s the big deal with this? Because it\u2019s still the Trump administration that did it. Even if the New York Times wants to lie about the timing, they can\u2019t claim that Obama did this. By Michael Shear and Maggie Haberman. \u201cThe deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months.\u201d<\/p>\n So what? Well, they\u2019re trying to say Trump is lying. “He\u2019s trying to say he did this and he\u2019s doing this right after his Europe trip. He\u2019s trying to say his tariff threat worked, when in fact this has already been done.”<\/p>\n They can try this as long as they can or as hard as they want, and they\u2019re gonna convince some people, we have to acknowledge this, but the fact of the matter is that Trump\u2019s tariff threat is the only thing that made this happen, and you can look at the timeline of events and establish this on your own.<\/p>\n The New York Times is literally engaged in fake news, and Trump, you know, he normally hits back at \u2019em and does so in a feisty manner. He was really ticked off over this. He was really ticked off over this one and at MSNBC, goes after them and Comcast, which is the parent company of NBC. Brian Roberts, a Philadelphia leftist and Hillary donor, runs Comcast and now NBC.<\/p>\n So I guess some people think if we would have waited, if Trump would have waited, say, until this morning to announce this, the beginning of the day on Monday or late last night or something leading into the day today, that the New York Times would have had less — they would have still done it. The New York Times still had this story ready to go. It didn\u2019t matter. They were gonna do this.<\/p>\n Fake news doesn\u2019t have any boundaries, folks. Do you know any boundaries that are on lies? If you\u2019re gonna lie, you\u2019re gonna lie. Timing doesn\u2019t matter. The New York Times, nobody in the Drive-Bys is gonna allow Trump the appearance of or any real success whatsoever, particularly now as we\u2019re heading into the 2020 campaign and election and the Democrat and the media\u2019s desperate desire to elect a Democrat here.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not gonna let Trump win anything. We\u2019re not gonna even convey that Trump won anything. We\u2019re not going to allow the image. We\u2019re not gonna allow the photos. We\u2019re not gonna allow the impressions that Trump has won anything.<\/p>\n Any Trump achievement is gonna be miscast and misstated as a Trump lie, which is about all that they have left. The New York Times led the way claiming — and they had no evidence for this, they offered no evidence, anonymous, unnamed sources, administration people from days, months gone by that the agreement had nothing new in it.<\/p>\n And, as usual, the New York Times cites anonymous — I think they\u2019re made-up sources — to back up their fantasy. And never mind that the named Mexican government officials say the agreement\u2019s unprecedented. That\u2019s why I say, you look at the timeline, look what the Mexicans are saying, it\u2019s unprecedented, it\u2019s never been done before. It couldn\u2019t have been months old.<\/p>\n But even if it was — I mean, just for the sake of argument, even if it is months old, it\u2019s still something that worked, it\u2019s still something that makes sense, it\u2019s still something Trump said he was gonna do, and it\u2019s still effective! “Well, Rush, but why does Trump have to lie?”<\/p>\n He\u2019s not lying! The New York Times is lying! The rest of the media is lying! What\u2019s it gonna take to convince people? Two years of four to five times every day lying about Trump colluding with Russia! Once you cross that threshold, it\u2019s like J.R. Ewing said. “Once you get past the integrity problem, life is easy,” or something like that. Once you learn to lie easily, then there\u2019s no holding you back. The New York Times, they don\u2019t view themselves to have been punished in any way or set back by these lies, other than the glaring reality each and every day that Donald Trump is still president.<\/p>\n And let me tell you, that so bothers them, you can\u2019t believe!<\/p>\n And then the New York Times decides to recast everything, and then the rest of the media falls in line.<\/p>\n TARA PALMERI: Democrats questioning if anything in the deal is actually new.<\/p>\n MARGARET BRENNAN: It is unclear what those new measures are.<\/p>\n ALEX MARQUARDT: The deal with Mexico is maybe not so new.<\/p>\n KRISTEN WELKER: What\u2019s new? Democrats are accusing the president of solving a crisis that he manufactured.<\/p>\n JULIA MANCHESTER: This appears to be a bit of an expansion on something that was agreed on before with Mexican officials.<\/p>\n PATRICK GASPARD: He\u2019s falsely hyping a deal that was struck some months ago.<\/p>\n NEERA TANDEN: He took a bad deal, a deal that really does not have any new enforcement.<\/p>\n KATE SNOW: But how much in that agreement is really new?<\/p>\n JOY REID: There was no new deal!<\/p>\n ANNE GEARAN: … it\u2019s old, that these are things that had already been agreed to.<\/p>\n ALEX WITT: The agreement consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take.<\/p>\n GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Basically, Mexico just gave them what they already agreed to.<\/p>\n The first I knew of it having any success was actually last Friday when the Mexicans moved to shore up their border and sent 6,000 troops to their southern border — and this is before Trump announces it. But if all of this is simply Trump taking advantage of something that\u2019s already happened and recasting it, well, where was the original reporting on this? Where was the original story if it\u2019s months old? Do you remember seeing it, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) It didn\u2019t exist because it\u2019s fake news! There was no agreement months ago. Do you think the Drive-By Media is just gonna ignore that?<\/p>\n If Trump had signed a deal with Mexico months ago to succeed in getting Mexico to limit immigration, where were Mexico\u2019s actions in the past months? Why did Mexico only start acting on Friday? (Or maybe it was Thursday.) Here\u2019s Trump on CNBC Squawk Box this morning. He called into the show. Joe Kernen is the show. He said, “We heard you levied some criticism at the New York Times for saying this deal with Mexico was all in the works and that nothing happened from the tariffs and this had all been done before that. Can you go into exactly what else was part of that deal that you haven\u2019t really outlined yet?”<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: We purposely said we wouldn\u2019t mention it for a little while because it has to be brought by their legislative body. It\u2019s gotta be taken to a vote. So we didn\u2019t bring it up. Most people that know answer, Joe, and it\u2019s another very powerful tool in addition to the very powerful tools we got. We had none of these tools, or virtually none, or they were just being talked about. They\u2019ve been talked about for 20 years with Mexico. The New York Times wrote a story like I already made the deal. It\u2019s nonsense.<\/p>\n We talked about it for months and months and months, and they wouldn\u2019t get there, and we just said, “Hey, look, if you don\u2019t get there, we\u2019re just gonna have to charge you hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes,” and we would have been just fine. I spoke with the president of Mexico — I get along with him very well — and we made this deal. But this is something the U.S. has been trying to get for over 20 years with Mexico. They\u2019ve never been able to do it. As soon as I put tariffs on the table, it was done. It took two days.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah. That\u2019s exactly right, and they just can\u2019t stand that. They just can\u2019t stand it. They can\u2019t stand Trump succeeding. They can\u2019t stand Trump predicting what\u2019s gonna happen and it then happens. They can\u2019t stand conservatism at all appearing to be effective and working. They have to discredit it; they have to destroy it each and every time they perceive it to be happening. I saw a story when I was reading my tech blogs today. I\u2019m always looking for illustrations and examples of the Drive-By Media and how they slam conservatism.<\/p>\n “Yeah! Yeah! There\u2019s no conservative bias. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re pro-credible bias. The bias is toward credibility. They\u2019re not anti-conservative!” That\u2019s how they mask it and shade it, and this is a bit of what the New York Times is trying to do here. Although this isn\u2019t about conservatism, think of Trump has conservatism, and you\u2019ve got the same modus operandi here. They simply cannot allow Trump to appear to be successful. They cannot allow the image. They cannot allow the reality.<\/p>\n So they have to recast it and restate it. And, believe me, it\u2019s nothing to them anymore to lie. Go back and read Jim Rutenberg shortly after Trump was elected on the front page of the New York Times, where they admitted that they had to throw the old tenets of journalism out in covering this guy. (summarized) “Journalists have to get rid of journalism and now have to become activists. It\u2019s only way to deal with this guy, the only way to stop him. Traditional journalism won\u2019t do it.” There\u2019s no mystery what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The French News Agency today is following the New York Times\u2019 lead and reporting that this deal with Mexico was done months ago, and Trump is just faking that it had to do with the tariffs. It says here, “For many, [it] was vintage Trump behavior: trigger a crisis and let it simmer for a while, then declare it resolved and take credit.”<\/p>\n Declare a crisis? How did Trump “trigger” the crisis at the border? Trump declares a crisis? You mean there wasn\u2019t a crisis at the border until Trump\u2019s triggered something? How does Trump trigger a crisis on the border? What\u2019s clear is that he alone is trying to do something to stop it, along with the president of Mexico. In fact, you know what? It could be said, folks, that Mexico, with the president there, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador… Do you people like it when I use my Mexican accent to pronounce these names or not? Does it irritate you or not? (interruption)<\/p>\n Okay, well, I\u2019ll stick with it. (interruption) Well, I took Spanish for two years in high school. So it qualifies me. Lopez Obrador — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — has done more to stop illegal immigration in the United States than any person currently elected in Congress. You heard Trump saying in that sound bite, “We\u2019ve been trying to get something like this done for 20 years.” Twenty years encompasses which presidents? That would be Slick Willie, George W. Bush, and Barack Hussein O. But Trump is the first guy to get it done, and these guys want to argue about when Trump got it done?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, Reuters. I\u2019m not through with the Drive-By Media recasting and reshaping Trump\u2019s Mexico deal now. Instead of taking the New York Times route and claiming that Trump didn\u2019t get anything new in his deal with Mexico, this is a story about the former head of the World Trade Organization during the Obama years claiming that Trump violated international law and held Mexico hostage (chuckling) with his threat of tariffs.<\/p>\n
\nOn Friday, the Mexicans were already acting. They\u2019d already shut their southern border.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-NY-Times-061019-001.jpg\")
<\/a>And it didn\u2019t take long for the New York Times to come out with fake news and recast the whole thing. \u201cMexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-060719-bORDER-mEXICO-iLLEGAL-IMMIGRATION-Wall.jpg\")
And Trump just fired both barrels and admitted that in many people\u2019s estimation this is not being presidential, but I\u2019m not gonna stop hitting back. This is outrageous. This is totally fake news. And there were some people who thought that it was announcing this on Friday via Twitter that gave the Drive-Bys this whole weekend to reshape this the way they wanted to do it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-NY-Post-TEARAWAY-061019.jpg\")
<\/a>You can\u2019t believe how it bothers them, \u2019cause they fired all the ammo they\u2019ve got, every weapon they\u2019ve got. He\u2019s still there, still standing. That\u2019s what irritates them, as much as anything, is that they can\u2019t seem to find a way to get rid of him. “Trump Blasts New York Times Over Report on Mexico Deal.<\/a>” By the way, let\u2019s grab audio sound bite number 3. This is a montage. Remember, now, on Saturday the original reporting on this was good. “America got everything it wanted! Unprecedented deal with Mexico.” All of it good.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-060619-Mexico-Border-Immigrant-Illegal-001.jpg\")
RUSH: Why didn\u2019t you guys report this then, then? Hmm? If this stuff is old news, where was and is your reporting of it? We just heard from George Stephanopoulos at ABC. We\u2019ve heard from NBC, CNBC. We\u2019ve heard from all of them in this little montage we had. Where is the news? If this old news, where\u2019s your reporting on it? I don\u2019t remember the stories, “Trump and Mexico agree to deal to limit immigration through Mexican southern border.” I didn\u2019t see this. I\u2019ve never seen that story.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RIH-112118-Social-Media.jpg\")
And, you know, there\u2019s this big… This is a departure, not about Mexico tariffs here. Hang on for just a second. I just want to mention this while I remember it. There are allegations from conservative organizations that social media is targeting conservatives<\/a>, that there is an anti-conservative bias at Twitter and at Facebook. So this tech blogger said, “No, no, no! There\u2019s no anti-conservative bias. There is a pro-credible bias,” and this is how they do it. So you got these young little Millennials reading this.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-111418-Mexico-Border-Caravan.jpg\")
“Yeah, well, it happened months ago. It\u2019s just Trump is trying to claim his tariffs did it.” They\u2019re not even denying that Trump made this happen. They\u2019re just trying to say he\u2019s lying about the timeline. The fact of the matter is, Mexico has done more to stop illegal immigration with this deal — in this country, illegal immigration — than any person currently elected in Congress. The entire United States Congress has shown, once again, to not even be relevant in this issue. No wonder they all hate Trump.<\/p>\n
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I mean, it\u2019s just pathetic here. Now the former World Trade Organization guy under Obama claims that Trump forced this on them and it\u2019s akin to holding them massage. So it all fits. And, by the way, Trump wasn\u2019t through, and the Drive-Bys are irritated over this. Trump tweeted out, “We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the Immigration and Security deal with Mexico, one that the U.S. has been asking about getting for many years.<\/p>\n