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<\/p>\nRUSH: We have audio sound bites coming up — an amazing press conference, impromptu. The president on the White House lawn with more media people than I\u2019ve ever seen at one of these things, and it just went on and on and on. And Trump was even more outrageous and on point than he usually is in this press conference.<\/p>\n
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Acosta was standing right next to him for the entire thing. And the point here was to make it plain that Acosta had made the decision to resign, that Acosta was a great labor secretary, Trump really hates to see him go but he wants to go for the sake of a number of people and things. It\u2019s really a phenomenal thing. And if you didn\u2019t hear it we\u2019ll have the sound bites coming up and you\u2019ll be able to get a taste of what this was all about.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Donald Trump today on the White House lawn. He was on the way out to the helicopter. He\u2019s got event somewhere. And the labor secretary was with him, the labor secretary Alex Acosta. The story is that he called Trump today, wanted to resign, didn\u2019t want to be a distraction, didn\u2019t want to take away the focus of this issue on Epstein. Epstein should be the focus, not the labor secretary.<\/p>\n
Trump brought him out there to let him announce it himself. Obviously, Trump has a lot of respect for Alex Acosta and wanted to afford him this opportunity. It went on for 30 minutes. It was classic, classic Trump. The press was shouting things like a gaggle of geese out there going nuts when the old codger shows up every afternoon at 4 o\u2019clock to feed \u2019em. It just was incessant and the camera shutters and the noise, the journalists shouting questions and Trump was answering every question that was sent his way, sometimes two and three times. So here\u2019s how it begins on the way to Marine One before leaving on his trip.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: How many bites at the apple do you get? We\u2019ve gone through 500 witnesses, 2,500 subpoenas, I\u2019ve let them interview my lawyers, because I had nothing to do with Russia. Now that\u2019s come out. There was no collusion. But how many people and how many times, and this has been going on for two and a half years.<\/p>\n
Rush Limbaugh said there\u2019s nobody else in the world that he knows that could have taken it. And on top of taking it, I\u2019ve been a great president. Listen, listen. I\u2019ve done more in two and a half years than any other president. Nobody\u2019s even close. They want to go at it again and again and again. Because they want to hurt the president for the election.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, when he does this kind of thing, “And nobody\u2019s been better. I\u2019ve been a great president. I\u2019ve been one of the greatest presidents ever, maybe the greatest president.” And you just know the Never Trumpers are out there having a cow over this. The Never Trumpers are starting to tweet each other and send each other text messages, \u201cCan you believe this guy? Can you believe how braggadocious? This guy is an embarrassment to all humanity. This guy just makes me sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
I can just see them emailing and texting each other back and forth. No president brags like this. Nobody brags how tough they are, nobody. But when you stop and think of it, go through the numbers here: 500 witnesses, 2,500 subpoenas, Trump let his lawyers talk, if it isn\u2019t obvious that there was no collusion and it\u2019s been obvious since before the first allegation was made and they still won\u2019t drop it, what does that tell you.<\/p>\n
By the way, this is the kind of story that I, in the past, have concluded that a vast majority of the American people are gonna figure out on their own, that they\u2019re gonna see the media overreach, they\u2019re gonna see the media overstep. They\u2019re gonna hear that Trump had 2,500 subpoenas, 500 witnesses, all this cooperation, but I have learned you can\u2019t count on that.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s a very dispiriting thing. And it\u2019s because of the amount of stupidity at the starting point, the amount of genuine stupidity in journalism. And it gets transmitted under the guise of being reported, the hatred and the snark and the conceit and the ignorance are in every news report, and people absorb it that way, and I think some of that stuff transfers to the people who watch, read, and hear this stuff, rather than just taking a moment to examine what they\u2019ve actually just heard.<\/p>\n
You mean 500 witnesses and nobody had the goods? Twenty-five hundred subpoenas and those people didn\u2019t have the goods? And Trump let his lawyers speak and there\u2019s still no collusion? And of course you\u2019re gonna have people say, “Yeah, well, that\u2019s because Trump\u2019s the president, he rigged the game, Rush.” You deal with this and you don\u2019t know how to deal with it. Sometimes you throw your hands up in utter frustration.<\/p>\n
See, I\u2019ve always had a naivete born of optimism, faith in the American people, that at the end of the day they\u2019re gonna see through this. I mean this is blatant. This effort to get Trump, I mean, there is nothing that is either sophisticated or subtle about it. It is a blatant attempt, and I do have faith that people are gonna figure it out. I think Trump\u2019s rising approval ratings indicate that people have figured out it out. In fact, may even be tired of it.<\/p>\n
Here is Trump praising Alex Acosta and ripping Paul Ryan. You just don\u2019t hear that. You never hear this kind of thing said about a fellow politician, maybe on the campaign trail but even then you don\u2019t hear it portrayed this way.<\/p>\n
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THE PRESIDENT: The fact is, he has been a fantastic Secretary of Labor. And Alex called me this morning and he wanted to see me. But I just want to let you know, this was him, not me. Because I\u2019m with him. He\u2019s a tremendous talent. He\u2019s a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard, a great student. And in so many ways I just hate what he\u2019s saying now, because we\u2019re gonna miss him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Now, Trump did a version here of what a previous caller wanted. When Trump says Make America Great Again, a bunch of people say it means Trump wants to make America white again. So Trump points out that Acosta\u2019s Hispanic and that he went to Harvard.<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019re supposed to conclude from this that Trump\u2019s not a racist and that he loves this guy, he\u2019s very smart, but the way the critics are gonna say it, the way the critics react to this, \u201cTrump expressed amazement that his Hispanic labor secretary could have ever gotten into Harvard,\u201d twist it and turn it.<\/p>\n
Now he turns to Paul Ryan \u2019cause he got a stupid question. He got a question that was designed to bait him. Typical Drive-By question. The question is, it\u2019s an unidentified male voice in the midst of the cacophony. Says, “Mr. President, Mr. President, did Paul Ryan prevent you from making any bad decisions?”<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Paul Ryan was not a talent. He wasn\u2019t a leader. When the people in freedom and great congressmen wanted to go after the Dems for things that they did very badly, he wouldn\u2019t give subpoenas, whereas Nancy Pelosi hands them out like their cookies. Paul Ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker. He was unable to raise money. He lost control of the House.<\/p>\n
The only success Paul Ryan had was the time that he was with me because we got taxes cut. I got regulation cuts. I did that mostly without him, but for Paul Ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. I remember a day in Wisconsin, a state that I won, where I stood up and made a speech, and then I introduced him, and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people. So for him to be going out and opening his mouth is pretty incredible, but maybe he gets paid for that. Who knows?<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, another classic example. People say, \u201cI can\u2019t believe Trump just ripped into \u2013” Trump didn\u2019t rip into anybody. He responded. As far as Trump knows, Ryan started this. There\u2019s a book out there, Politico writer, Tim Alberta writing about the Trump campaign and obvious Trump election, and Paul Ryan is quoted in the book as ripping Trump to shreds.<\/p>\n (paraphrasing) “I was embarrassed. I had to leave town. I had to leave town \u2019cause of Donald Trump. I couldn\u2019t work with the guy. I couldn\u2019t govern with the guy. The guy didn\u2019t know the first thing about how government works. I couldn\u2019t put up with it anymore. I had to leave.”<\/p>\n So Trump gets up and finds out that Paul Ryan, who made some show of trying to work with him, is now telling a reporter that Trump is a disaster, Trump doesn\u2019t know how to do anything, doesn\u2019t know how to make government work, Trump\u2019s a buffoon, what have you, so he\u2019s responding here.<\/p>\n Look, after the Access Hollywood video, which came out when? When was that, October the 14th or something? October 4th, I think. Access Hollywood video comes out, and Paul Ryan was one of the first Republicans — and there were a slew of \u2019em — who said, “Trump, you gotta get out of the race. We can\u2019t have this. We can\u2019t have our nominee be this guy. You gotta quit. You gotta resign. Let us lose with honor.” Remember, they all thought Trump was gonna lose in a landslide.<\/p>\n So now they were excited, here\u2019s a chance to get rid of Trump, put somebody in there as a fall guy that\u2019s gonna lose anyway because we were gonna lose no matter what because Hillary, to these people, was unbeatable. A lot of good that did us. The Republican Party leadership thinking Hillary Clinton\u2019s unbeatable, like the Drive-By Media thought she was unbeatable, the Democrat Party thought she was unbeatable. Gonna win in a landslide.<\/p>\n So Ryan says, “Trump\u2019s gotta go. Trump\u2019s gotta go.” Then Trump didn\u2019t go. Then Trump wins. Now all of those people had to do one of the quickest 180s we\u2019ve ever seen. They had to, within a three-week period, pivot from, “This guy is an embarrassment. We can\u2019t possibly win. This guy\u2019s the death of all of us” to turning around and thanking him and praising him and I remember Ryan did that, and I thought that Ryan was really struggling saying this, but it was one of Ryan\u2019s first press conferences after the election.<\/p>\n You remember this Snerdley? He\u2019s standing there, “This is incredible, this is one of the most incredible events in politics we\u2019ve ever seen, and it\u2019s all because of Donald Trump.” He was trying to make everybody forget about what he had said three weeks ago, meaning Trump\u2019s gotta go, this is unacceptable, we can\u2019t have our nominee be somebody like this. We\u2019re gonna lose anyway, let\u2019s put somebody in there that\u2019s gonna lose so we can lose with honor, all that. Pivot into being one of the biggest advocates and supporters.<\/p>\n And like is the case with even now, a significant number of Republicans in Washington, they didn\u2019t believe it. They still wish it weren\u2019t through. You\u2019d be amazed the number of Republicans who to this moment in time still wish Trump had not won and are still fantasizing about him losing in 2020.<\/p>\n Now, of course the Never Trumpers are in that group, but I\u2019m talking about standard middle of the road Republicans in the House and Senate, not just the Never Trumpers, the literary community. It still is the case. Paul Ryan not a talent or a leader.<\/p>\n The next question from an unidentified reporter, “Mr. President, Mr. President, what do you make of the infighting going on among the Democrats in Congress between Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Squad<\/a>?”<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: I think Cortez, who kept Amazon out of New York, and they don\u2019t like her for that, thousands and thousands of jobs. I think Cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that\u2019s been there a long time. I deal with Nancy Pelosi a lot and we go back and forth and it\u2019s fine. But I think that a group of people is being very disrespectful to her.<\/p>\n And you know what? I don\u2019t think that Nancy can let that go on. Cortez should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect. She should not be doing what she\u2019s doing. And I\u2019ll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know better than I do. She is not a racist, okay? She is not a racist. For them to call her a racist is a disgrace.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-Paul-Ruan-SWAMP.jpg\")
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