RUSH: This is A.B. Stoddard. This is last night, Special Report with Bret Baier, the All-Star Panel. And also on with Bret Baier and A.B. Stoddard, there were other people on there, but the bite is just her. He said, “A.B. Stoddard, there was talk that perhaps this House background check bill could have some kind of chance, that the president might actually be open to this. It doesn\u2019t sound like, A.B., that it\u2019s gonna be moving forward. Any ideas why?\u201d<\/p>\n
STODDARD: No, I mean, the president was going to be the person to keep this going into September. He knows it\u2019s a political liability for him. The polling shows that 90% of Americans don\u2019t think these background checks are strong enough, but then when you go to – I couldn\u2019t believe the margins for banning semiautomatic weapons, and I couldn\u2019t believe the margins for voluntary buyback and other things – this has really changed.<\/p>\n
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Now, maybe that\u2019s not going to show up at the polls next year, but I think Republicans are worried and I think that President Trump wanted to do something on this, and he got scared about the things that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and others were saying about the fact that his base would revolt.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So somehow I enter this fray again that the president was gonna do this. He was gonna expand the background checks, except there were some things that I said. I\u2019m trying to think. Did I say anything about this? I mean, did I issue the — I\u2019m serious, \u2019cause I can\u2019t remember. Did I issue the equivalent of a warning? “Mr. President, don\u2019t do this.” Did I do that? I\u2019ve done that on immigration. DiFi and the comprehensive immigration, I remember — and there was one other that I did, but I don\u2019t think on this.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what Ann Coulter has said about it, but I think for people like A.B. Stoddard I just become the placeholder for whoever \u2013 (interruption) some callers might have? I did. I said, wait. I always say wait. I say, don\u2019t go to the bank on the first reaction Trump has after one of these events. Well, if some caller said it I can\u2019t be held responsible for that. But I don\u2019t even remember that happening.<\/p>\n
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Well, no. I just think I\u2019ve become a placeholder for, \u201cSomebody\u2019s talking to Trump. ‘Cause Trump says things on this that were right, and then somebody got to Trump.\u201d And who\u2019s the somebody? \u201cRush Limbaugh, the vile figure on the radio that we all hate because he makes so much more money than we do.” Or some such other silly. Don\u2019t discount that. It just gnaws at them, folks.<\/p>\n
But I did not warn the president over this. Not on this program. I didn\u2019t do it. If I did it, somebody gonna find that transcript. This is the kind of thing that I would remember. And if I had done it — I\u2019ll tell you, if I had warned it, “You better not do it, you do not know, your base \u2013” I\u2019ve done this on immigration, I will admit it. But if I\u2019d a done this on this background check business and then the president pulls back, I\u2019d a been in here praising him for listening to me, and I didn\u2019t do that. No.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So now CNN\u2019s up there saying Trump backtracks on payroll tax cut after just 24 hours. Why do you think that is? I think he throws things out for the heck of it sometimes, but I think he\u2019s ultimately serious about — but these people start talking, “Trump wanting to cut taxes to avoid recession!” There is no recession. He is taking the narrative away from them by taking the payroll tax cut off the table now. But it\u2019s never off the table permanently. He never throws it away. <\/p>\n
But now they\u2019re trying to say that Trump is erratic, Trump is silly, Trump is stupid, Trump\u2019s disorganized, Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, Trump\u2019s dangerous. It\u2019s tiring, CNN and all the rest of you. You\u2019ve worn everybody out with this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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