{"id":327916,"date":"2019-11-07T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=327916"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:38:43","slug":"donald-trump-jr-calls-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/donald-trump-jr-calls-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr. Calls the Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It\u2019s really great to have Donald Trump Jr. with us. His new book is out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/154608603X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=154608603X\">Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us<\/a>. Welcome to the program, Don. As I say, it\u2019s really great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: It\u2019s great to be with you, Rush. Thanks for having me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DONJRTRIGGEREDAPP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DONJRTRIGGEREDAPP.png 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DONJRTRIGGEREDAPP-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I want to first&#8230; Before we get into the nuts and bullets of what\u2019s happening now, I want to go back to 2015 and even prior. I want to ask you about your family and how all this has affected you. I ran into your sister, Ivanka, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/11\/05\/rush-joins-president-trump-at-maga-rally-in-cape-girardeau\/\">Cape Girardeau rally<\/a>, and I said to her, &#8220;Y\u2019all must be so proud.&#8221; Now, you\u2019re right in the middle of the Russia thing. We\u2019re coming up on election night. It\u2019s the night before the 2018 midterms, and your father and everybody in your family are the targets of vile, vicious attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/11\/05\/rush-joins-president-trump-at-maga-rally-in-cape-girardeau\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-291189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RUSHTRUMPCAPE-e1541477864708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I said to her, &#8220;You must be so proud.&#8221; What I meant was that your father had been elected president. What was that like? I mean, I\u2019m sure your father has been a dynamic figure your whole life like he is for everybody else. But he decides to run for president. I\u2019m sure it was a family decision. What was that like, the campaign? &#8216;Cause I imagine&#8230; I know your dad. Your dad&#8230; I even talked to him a month after the election. He expected a month into it, that all the partisanship would die, and people would fall in line and really admire\/respect what he wanted to do for the country. I told him I didn\u2019t think that was gonna happen. But what was it like for all of you when this viciousness started and the attacks? I\u2019ve tried to put myself in your shoes, and I\u2019ve tried my best to understand it, but I wanted to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Well, listen. It was pretty brutal. I mean, I think that\u2019s part of why I decided to write a book, right? I mean, we went through this thing &#8212; and, you know, he knew what he was gonna get into. Maybe we didn\u2019t realize it would be as bad as it is because I can\u2019t imagine it getting much worse especially over the last three years. I tell the story about going down in the elevator with him on June 16, 2015, and he just looked me in the eyes and the last thing he said before he then walked off to go down the escalator was, &#8220;Now we find out who our real friends are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, it was a great statement for me because it was so telling, Rush, in that he knew it would be vicious. He knew it would be rough. He knew people who had known him for years &#8212; and you\u2019ve seen it all. All these people now, &#8220;Trump\u2019s terrible!&#8221; That\u2019s weird. We\u2019ve had dinner 15 times. All of a sudden, he\u2019s terrible. But, more importantly, he knew all those things, and he did it anyway? And so it has been rough. I mean, listen. I\u2019m a guy. I live in New York City. I have young kids. They go to school in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve gotten exploding envelopes of white-powder substance to our house. I\u2019m the number 2 most threatened protectee of the United States Secret Service after my father because I\u2019m willing to be vocal and speak for him and do so without just giving up and folding. And, so, you know, it really does depend. I mean, it\u2019s amazing to go around the country and see people who have benefited so much, and they tell me the stories about their jobs and businesses expanding and wages going up, and that\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, then you put on the sort of I\u2019m a father of young kids who get to watch this stuff on TV and the viciousness and the brutality and the reporters and the screaming, and it\u2019s so one sided. You know, I just did <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/don-jr-takes-it-to-the-view\/\">The View<\/a> with Kimberly &#8212; it was sort of interesting &#8212; and they talk about the whistleblower. &#8220;You outed him!&#8221; I go, &#8220;What? I outed him? I heard about it on Rush,&#8221; I think you mentioned it last week, &#8220;and I saw it on Drudge Report a few weeks ago, and I literally quote tweeted an article.&#8221; I think it was a Breitbart article with the guy\u2019s name in it. But I &#8220;outed&#8221; him.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I would have seen the same outrage when people were doxing our family, when those exploding envelopes are showing up to our apartment. You know, they don\u2019t care if that happened to my family and my kids. They don\u2019t mind attacking Barron\u2019s Trump who\u2019s 13 years old. Hunter Biden\u2019s off-limits &#8212; and, obviously, a CIA operative who\u2019s worked for Joe Biden who\u2019s a friend of Brennan and the coup clown guys. It\u2019s pretty sick, and that\u2019s the environment in which we live. So it\u2019s been both amazing and incredibly rough.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, for us looking at it from our standpoint, it\u2019s all surreal. Because, Don, none of this is real. There wasn\u2019t any meddling with Russia, collusion. That was all done on the Democrat side. This phone call to the Ukrainian president is a nothing burger. They don\u2019t have, they\u2019ve never had any evidence about anything. They\u2019re having to make it up. I\u2019ve tried to put myself in your shoes day in and day out, and tried to imagine the frustration. It\u2019s driving me crazy, and I\u2019m not a Trump!<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yeah. (chuckles) Well, it\u2019s pretty bad, and it took me 41 years to realize it, but I\u2019m probably a lot more like my father than I would have otherwise thought. I\u2019m pretty vocal, I get pretty aggressive &#8212; and, you know, unlike many conservatives, if I get called out, I\u2019m gonna push back. I\u2019m gonna fight. So when backed in the corner like we have been&#8230; Don\u2019t forget, I mean, a big part of the story of the book is, &#8220;Hey, I was the number 2 target of the Mueller hoax.&#8221; You know, this thing\u2019s been going for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I think the big outrage about me apparently dropping the name &#8212; even though it was out there in publications for days &#8212; of this supposed whistleblower is that now that the name\u2019s out there, people are realizing, &#8220;Oh, he worked for Brennan?&#8221; You know, they had no problem with Brennan lying to Congress. They had no problem with any of this. But it was so convenient. (impression) &#8220;He\u2019s a good&#8230; He\u2019s a great public servant. Obviously, there\u2019s no bias here. This is all about his disgust for what\u2019s going on.&#8221; Oh, wait, so he\u2019s tied to those guys? Shocking!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This whole thing\u2019s a setup. The guy\u2019s the Pajama Boy. The guy&#8230; He could be the model for Obama\u2019s Pajama Boy health care commercials.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: It was him in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We know the guy\u2019s tied to Biden. We know that he\u2019s tied to Brennan. But I want to go back to something you just said. You said you were the number two target of the Russia hoax thing, that honeypot, that lawyer, Veselnitskaya, that they tried to arrange.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That was Fusion GPS!<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yep.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They set you up in that Trump Tower meeting, and they were trying to arrange for you to say or do something that they could then point to. They were trying to create the crime. They were spying on your campaign.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: A hundred percent.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: When did you first get a whiff that something about that wasn\u2019t right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/154608603X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=154608603X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-327942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bookTriggered.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bookTriggered.png 331w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bookTriggered-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a>TRUMP JR.: You know, basically through the media, \u2019cause, I mean, this was&#8230; Again, what people like to neglect &#8212; and it\u2019s always interesting. I mean, don\u2019t forget, I did 30 hours of testimony in front of the House and the Senate, in front of all of these committees about an unsolicited 20-minute meeting. But there\u2019s been nothing about 33,000 emails deleted &#8212; under subpoena, Rush. What do you think would happen if a Trump did that? How about if a Trump paid foreign operatives to go into the Ukraine, to go into Russia, to collect the dossier dirt, to leak it to the FBI who then leaks it to the press? The press writes a story. The same the FBI that leaked the story to the press utilizes that story as a justification for the FISA warrants to start the greatest coup and the greatest farce in the history of the republic.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve got a better one than that.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: It\u2019s two sided. If I did that, it would be over.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What if your dad had set you up with both the Chinese and the Ukrainians to earn $2 billion a year and you didn\u2019t know diddly-squat about what you were doing and the press found out about it?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Oh, well, this is the one I laugh about. I say&#8230; They go, &#8220;Well, Donald Trump Jr., he\u2019s also the son of a guy with a famous last name and he capitalized on it,&#8221; and I go, &#8220;Yeah, I know. A hundred percent.&#8221; I don\u2019t even hide from that. But we did it at private citizens, as capitalists. We didn\u2019t utilize&#8230; We were international businesspeople, Rush, for two decades. This is what I did. When my father won, he said, &#8220;We will not do any new international deals going forward.&#8221; Hunter Biden &#8212; who\u2019d never done any deals in his life &#8212; magically becomes this international businessman.<\/p>\n<p>You know Burisma. He knows nothing about oil and gas. He doesn\u2019t speak Ukrainian. Minor details. But he\u2019s willing to take $83,000 a month. You know, he had six weeks to prep for that ABC interview and he still didn\u2019t know why the heck he got the job. I say, &#8220;What if Donald Trump Jr. did that? Would you guys have the same &#8216;children are off-limits\u2019?&#8221; If I went to China on Air Force One with my father and came back with $1.5 billion from the Chinese government to invest in my fund, they would lose&#8230; We\u2019d actually solve the fake news media problem, Rush, because their heads would explode and there would be none of them left.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. But, now, this is a reality, nevertheless, that you have to deal with. You know the game is rigged, and you know that the opposition is making it up as they go. You know that they\u2019re trying to ruin you &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; and your father and your whole family. And you also know that they\u2019re not going to stop.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They\u2019re not gonna stop even after you win reelection. They\u2019re gonna keep coming after you because they can\u2019t allow outsiders like you to come in and gain control of the levers of power in government. So&#8230; I know you can\u2019t give away specifics. How often do you meet to strategize how to deal with this? Because you know every day if they\u2019ve got something new to make up or drop, they\u2019re going to do it. I imagine you\u2019d love a day or two of peace, but you know you\u2019re not gonna get it. So how do you deal with it?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: No, we\u2019re at war, and we\u2019re at war for our freedoms. We\u2019re at war for our culture. You know, this is the largest divide between the two political parties in the history of the country. You know, I write a lot in the book about socialism and communism, \u2019cause my mother escaped from it. You know, I grew up with grandparents that lived through that stuff. You know, I spent summers in what was then communist Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you those bread lines that Bernie talks about are not nearly so wonderful. So, I get it. I tried&#8230; Actually, I don\u2019t communicate with them. I do these things on my own. But that was blue checkmark Twitter yesterday. &#8220;Oh, my God! Donald Trump Jr. must have coordinated with the White House!&#8221; All right. The tweet? Like, apparently they haven\u2019t been watching my feed. One of the interesting stories in the book is my father actually calling me, and I get the call from the White House. (impression) &#8220;This is White House operator. The president would like to speak to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, Dad. What\u2019s going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don, you\u2019re getting a little aggressive on social media these days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I go, &#8220;Wait a minute, Dad. (laughing) Dad, I love you. I love you very much. I respect you dearly. I will listen to you on just about anything. This may be the one place, the one place where we may cede a little bit of the high ground here.&#8221; So I\u2019ve had some fun with that. But, yeah, I try not to coordinate with them. But the reality is, yes, we are under the gun. They will continue to do that. We are a threat to the deep state. And, by the way, if you didn\u2019t believe in the deep state before 2016, I can actually understand that. If you don\u2019t believe in them wholeheartedly now, you\u2019re a fool, and their actions have shown us that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/whistleblowers-lawyer-admits-its-a-coup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-Mark-Zaid-All-Tweets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-Mark-Zaid-All-Tweets.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-Mark-Zaid-All-Tweets-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/whistleblowers-lawyer-admits-its-a-coup\/\">Mark Zaid has confirmed the deep state. He\u2019s proudly claimed membership in it<\/a>. And he\u2019s given up the ghost with his &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: He has.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; with these discovered tweets. You guys were the target of an impeachment that began one week after your father was sworn in as president. Actually, it began before that.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Well, it began on November 9th when he did the unthinkable, which was to beat the establishment. The Washington Post dropped their first headline about it 19 minutes after the inauguration, &#8220;The Case for Impeaching Trump.&#8221; Nineteen minutes, Rush, you know, that was about the amount of time that it took Obama to get nominated for the peace prize.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing).<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: That\u2019s the difference between, you know, what we think. On <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/don-jr-takes-it-to-the-view\/\">The View today<\/a> it was funny when they said, \u201cYour father doesn\u2019t take that much heat from the press.\u201d I go, \u201cPlease name someone who\u2019s taken more.\u201d They go, \u201cObama.\u201d I go, \u201cGive me a break.\u201d The press took an eight year vacation. It\u2019s why they\u2019re so energized now. Under the Obama administration there was nothing he could do wrong, regardless of the idiocy of the some of the policies, regardless of sending $150 billion to Iran &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They all wanted to be &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: &#8212; a state sponsor of terror. It\u2019s insanity.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They all wanted to be Obama\u2019s best friend. They still do. Look. You said something, you\u2019re cramming a lot in here. You just said something that\u2019s kind of profound. I want to go back to it, and it\u2019s a huge difference. When Biden got elected VP, his son started working for foreign companies, traveling with his dad &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; to arrange these deals. When your father got elected, you and the rest of his children stopped working on international deals. Correct?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Correct. We stopped doing new deals. Now, we had deals that we started in 2010. You can\u2019t walk away from a building halfway through, but we stopped doing new deals. In our hotels, if someone from a foreign government comes in, we literally write a check back to the U.S. Treasury for the profits associated therewith. And that\u2019s the nuance. That\u2019s the false equivalency that the media refuses to acknowledge, refuses to run, and they still get there and they\u2019re still trying to make sure they got the audit and they just pretend like it\u2019s not actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the difference. You know, we were international businesspeople for decades. We gave it up. It\u2019s a big part of why I\u2019m so into politics \u2019cause frankly I did most of our international business. I did our deals abroad, and now that I can\u2019t find or hunt for new deals, I got another thing.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I\u2019m not gonna be is bored, Rush. So it\u2019s allowed me to create a platform to go help those who are willing to fight for my father in the House, in the Senate, in governors\u2019 races and to ultimately help my father. Because for me as an American, as a patriot, as a father of five young kids, there is nothing more important than fighting for this country and making sure that we save this republic from these crazy people.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019re talking with Donald Trump Jr., new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/154608603X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=154608603X\">Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us<\/a>. You have a couple more minutes? I gotta take a spot break here. Can you hang on for a few?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Of course. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. We\u2019ll be right back with Donald Trump Jr., folks, so hang on. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And we\u2019re back with Donald Trump Jr. New book hot off the press destined for the top of the New York Times best-seller list, which is gonna irritate the New York Times. Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking at the blurbs on the back. Ted Cruz says: \u201cFor far too long the left hammered away at our values. We did nothing. Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s new book is a road map on how we fight back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What are we gonna do? I mean, you know who your enemies are. It\u2019s the American left. They seem to be expanding in certain demographic ways. What is the best way, do you think, to beat these people back?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Again, you know, I think it took a personality like Trump to be able to do that. We do have to fight. We have to be vocal. We\u2019ve had this sort of mentality, Rush, of turn the other cheek and we have our principles and, you know, everybody\u2019s so loud about their principles on the stump speech but when they\u2019re worried about getting a negative article written about them in a liberal publication they fold like a cheap rug.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100918-Kavanaugh-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100918-Kavanaugh-Trump.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-100918-Kavanaugh-Trump-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I mean, you can\u2019t assume that you\u2019re gonna get a fair shake from the media today who\u2019s made a cognizant decision to be the marketing arm of the Democrat Party. And so we have to be vocal, we have to fight, we have to be willing to stand up. And, again, I think Trump has shown that to Republicans who wouldn\u2019t have done that. I mean, whether it be through the travails going on right now in pushing back or whether it be through things like Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, think of another Republican who in the same situation as my father was with Kavanaugh when all of the craziness was going on, even though everyone knew it was nonsense, how many would have actually stuck with him through that, would have taken the heat and said, \u201cNo, no, no, we\u2019re not gonna let these guys ruin that guy\u2019s life. We\u2019re gonna stand by him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s an excellent point, and we made note of that at that time. A lot of people would have folded, a lot of presidents, a lot of previous one. \u201cDon\u2019t even get any of that stuff near me,\u201d they would have said.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Correct.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, Don, your life before all of this was whatever it was, but your life did not feature the kind of media mockery and hatred and disrespect. I mean, the Trump family in New York, and The Apprentice show, you guys were doing great things for the city, the city loved you. You saved the roller rink, you did a number of great things. How surprising was this total turn to outright hatred for you and your family once your father\u2019s political career got in gear?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Again, not entirely surprising. You know, but that\u2019s sort of the evolution of the Democrat Party. And I say that because, again, I\u2019m from New York City, I get it. I have plenty of friends that were Democrats. But even they and many of them today have a hard time arguing the Democrat platform and I think that\u2019s the point I make throughout the country and in the book, which is today\u2019s Democrat Party is not your grandfather\u2019s Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>You know, JFK would be like an Alt-Right neo-Nazi fascist according to them today. And I think there\u2019s such a great tradition of, you know, some of these people in working class America, \u201cDon, if my grandfather knew I was voting for a Republican he\u2019d be rolling over in his grave.\u201d I go, \u201cHow many genders would your grandfather think there are? Talk to me about what he would think about today\u2019s Democrat Party platform,\u201d and that\u2019s sort of when the light goes off.<\/p>\n<p>So I literally go out and speak to people. I speak to college campuses. Like I said, I just did <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/11\/07\/don-jr-takes-it-to-the-view\/\">The View<\/a> with Kimberly. We will put ourselves in there to be heard. And not everyone\u2019s gonna listen. And I can assure you there\u2019s no one less tolerant than a leftist preaching tolerance so it wasn\u2019t entirely surprising, Rush, but there\u2019s also sort of a hidden &#8212; there\u2019s a hidden vote that still exists. The example I use is Kimberly convinced me to take her to this restaurant on Valentine\u2019s Day on the Upper East Side of New York, and this is not exactly a conservative stronghold, as you\u2019re aware.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, been there numerous times when they wouldn\u2019t let me in.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Yes, exactly. And so I\u2019m sitting there and I\u2019m going, \u201cOh, no.\u201d Everyone\u2019s giving me side eye and I\u2019m looking, \u201cWho am I gonna have to take a swing at to defend my girlfriend here?\u201d And we have this dinner and I\u2019m sort of annoyed about the whole thing throughout the thing. And we pay our check, we get out, we leave, and this old lady comes up and she says, \u201cYou!\u201d out loud, I mean, it\u2019s small restaurant. I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, boy, here we go.\u201d It\u2019s a little harder to punch an old lady, right? I\u2019m just kidding. I\u2019m just kidding, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m saying, \u201cOh, no here we go. This is why I didn\u2019t even want to go out.\u201d And she just goes, \u201cYou guys have the biggest \u2013&#8221; you know, there\u2019s a word, maybe not for radio, but it starts with a B and ends in an S. \u201cAnd I love it. You guys fight, you don\u2019t give in,\u201d and she\u2019s screaming this at this restaurant. And so everyone all of the sudden is looking, and I thought everyone was giving me side eye, and literally Rush, everyone stood up and started clapping.<\/p>\n<p>They came over and started shaking hands and giving me selfies. So in this bastion of liberalism, this place where, you know, 2% of the people are conservatives and I thought everyone was hating on me, there was actually a lot of love. But they just didn\u2019t know how to react. They were so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, everybody thought \u2013 (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-283137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Trump-Family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Trump-Family.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Trump-Family-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>TRUMP JR.: &#8212; by the media.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, everybody thought they were the only ones in the room that did and didn\u2019t want to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: Correct. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; so once that old lady got the gonads up and went up and do it, that cleared the way for everybody else to tell you how much they love you.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP JR.: One hundred percent.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, I appreciate your time. I wish we had more but we\u2019re down to the end, 30 seconds, and I just didn\u2019t want to end this thing rudely. I wanted to wish you the best. Something my wife says to me, she reminds me all the time about your dad and you, is that none of you had to do this. Run for president and deal with all that, you didn\u2019t have to do it, and yet you do. And you are. And you\u2019re not quitting or giving it up.<\/p>\n<p>And she has tremendous appreciation. A lot of people do. And I\u2019m glad that happened to you at La Grenouille because the more that happens the more it can inspire you. I know you don\u2019t need it but it\u2019s great to see it nevertheless. 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