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<\/p>\nRUSH: Mary Jo, Western Illinois, as we return to the phones. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network today. Hi, Mary Jo.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks a lot. You talk about not trusting what the ChiComs tell us.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019m not real sure that I believe what this government\u2019s telling us. I think this is a major power grab, and they\u2019re overrunning President Trump on this whole thing. In Illinois, we have 102 counties, 52 counties have the virus. So we got 50 counties that don\u2019t. I\u2019m one of them. And in Chicago, we\u2019ve had 101 people killed in the first three months of this year, and you have 73 deaths in the whole state of Illinois. I mean, that\u2019s just —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, wait, wait, wait. The 101 people killed, you mean not coronavirus?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Murders. Shootings. You know how it is in Chicago.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah, the neighborhood stuff that goes on all the time. Sure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. And we\u2019ve had 73 deaths in the whole state, and they\u2019re — I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s really getting scary to me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, one of the things that — before I was absent for a couple weeks, you go back to 2009 and 2010, the swine flu numbers in this country are staggering.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Tell people to go to that website and look it up. We never heard a word about it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, we didn\u2019t. We didn\u2019t shut down the government. We didn\u2019t do anything to change people\u2019s behavior. We didn\u2019t make people stay at home. We didn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Do you think — I don\u2019t know. I think sometimes Donald Trump is almost too trusting, that he trusts these people. I don\u2019t trust \u2019em at all, that Fauci and what\u2019s her name.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know he\u2019s in a tough spot.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I know. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. And I, as the expert communicator, I\u2019ll bet you that I can voice exactly what you fear is happening here. And because it has happened throughout the Trump administration. Here\u2019s what happens. Some kind of crisis — like let\u2019s go back to the first six months. Trump tried to work with the system to get Obamacare repealed and replaced. The Republicans in the House thought that he actually was guilty of colluding with China so they didn\u2019t help. For the first six months, Trump tried to work within the system and found out that the system was trying to subvert him.<\/p>\n
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Trump wanted unity — he thought there would be — he told me this. He thought there would be unity. After enough time went by the Republicans finally figured out this whole Russia thing was a scam, it was a hoax, and so they began working with him on things. And you are believing that Trump should have known from the get-go that he was not being helped and should have run roughshod over these people from the get-go. So now we come to this. You believe that Trump ought to know that there are forces arrayed against him rather than trying to help him in the health community here —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — and you\u2019re worried — he\u2019ll figure it out, but it\u2019s gonna take a while because Donald Trump likes people. He invests in people. He gives them a chance. And it doesn\u2019t take long. Once he finds out that they\u2019re not working to help him or subvert him, then he does what you want him to do. And you\u2019re fearing he\u2019s not there yet. You\u2019re fearing he\u2019s still relying on people who are trying to undermine him.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I think he\u2019s too trusting. I think he\u2019s not mean enough.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s not trusting. It\u2019s desirable. He wants this to work.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He wants the people that are in these positions to be helping him. He wants everybody to work together to fix this. He\u2019s gonna give them the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. He has, I think the thought, that everybody is for the good of the country, and that\u2019s not true. We can see that everywhere.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a hope. I think he knows that\u2019s not the case simply by the presence of CNN every day and the way they broadcast and the snarkiness in the briefing. He knows. But Trump believes he can overcome all of that. He believes he has the power to persuade and overcome. And up to now he\u2019s been able — look what he did in the rebuilding of the economy in three years. The fear for me is look how little time it has taken to wipe it all out. At any rate, I know exactly, I know exactly how you feel out there, Mary Jo. I\u2019m glad you called. I gotta go.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Joey in Austin, Texas. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mega prayers, Rush. Nice to hear your voice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I kind of want to shift gears to something. I don\u2019t know if this could be a positive; I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s even a reality. But I\u2019ve sort of watched the president\u2019s interactions with the experts, the medical experts and what is traditionally parts of the… I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
You call the medical expert or even the educational expert group, it usually belongs to the political left, you know, and he treats them as experts. He doesn\u2019t answer their questions. He brings them up to the microphone to ask their questions. And as you were talking about, you know, modeling and all these different things.<\/p>\n
I just have noticed how the left, the Democrats have been treating these experts that are traditionally under their tent and wondering if something similar is happening here as has kind of happened with the African-American vote, that there\u2019s an unintended consequence as they continue to falsely report the statistics, falsely play around with these people who are professionals as they start to, you know, think about migrating away from the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Um… (sigh)<\/p>\n
CALLER: You may have to help me interpret (chuckles) what I\u2019m trying to say here as a radio professional.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m not sure I get it. Are you suggesting that the Democrats are worried about the defection of African-American votes to Trump, and so the…? What?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m saying that I\u2019m seeing that happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Which experts might turn on the Democrats?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, let\u2019s just think of generally —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You think Dr. Fauci is gonna turn on the Democrats? Is that what you\u2019re asking me?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I just… I\u2019ve noticed, like, as I watched the pressers and different things, he\u2019s had to call out reporters. He\u2019s had to call out people on the left for misquoting him, for misrepresenting the things that he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, don\u2019t be fooled. Don\u2019t be fooled by that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The original number of 2.2 million\u2019s out there, isn\u2019t is it? Despite Dr. Fauci correcting it, it\u2019s still out there, isn\u2019t it? The president\u2019s even using it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I went back and because I was downloading the beta while talking to the last caller. I\u2019ll admit I was doing two things at once. So I was relying on the transcription of the caller while downloading \u2019cause I was having trouble downloading. We got a network oddity here that won\u2019t download full-bore betas. I had to forget the network and then re-add it and do a bunch of stuff. I\u2019m doing this while talking to the guy on the phone because I multitask.<\/p>\n
So, anyway, I went back and read the transcript of the guy\u2019s call and his point actually was very, very important. What he was getting at was this. Now that these ostensibly apolitically but culturally liberal experts are seeing their work trashed because Trump is leading it — see, his point was this. You have these experts. Let\u2019s name \u2019em. You got Fauci and the rest of the experts — I don\u2019t mean this as a direct criticism of Fauci so don\u2019t anybody call him and up and say that Limbaugh\u2019s trashing. That\u2019s not the point here. Listen very carefully.<\/p>\n
These experts love to portray themselves as apolitical. They\u2019re not liberal; they\u2019re not conservative; they\u2019re not Republican; they\u2019re not Democrat because that is how they establish credibility. That is how they establish that they\u2019re not biased, and they love the idea that they are apolitical, and the media will present them as apolitical even though they\u2019re not apolitical is the point. They are culturally liberal while acting apolitical. And their work at NIH, wherever it is — not just Dr. Fauci. I\u2019m talking about this entire federal level of experts that we didn\u2019t elect and we don\u2019t even know who they are, we don\u2019t know their qualifications, we\u2019re just told that they\u2019re experts. And we are told that they\u2019re apolitical.<\/p>\n
But what they are are cultural liberals. They are seeing their work trashed because Trump is leading it. They are secretly grimacing. They would love for all this to be happening with Obama as president. But they are grimacing because it is Trump. They think because Trump is president, that their work is being trashed because Trump is leading it. And the caller\u2019s point is the equivalent of the black community seeing how the emperor has no clothes with the Democrats. The black community is finally seeing how much good the Trump economy did for them versus 50 years of literally nothing and no improvements under a series of Democrat presidencies and so forth.<\/p>\n
And this is what Trump is trying to convey, but he has these verbal — my point is that Trump knows that these guys would rather him not be president. He knows that these experts think that their work is being tarnished because it is Trump that is promoting it. Does this make sense? It would be like me being worried that CNN starts praising me. Uh-oh. These people are concerned, these experts, that it is Trump bringing \u2019em up and Trump letting them speak and Trump that is touting their work, and it\u2019s embarrassing. It\u2019s just something that they privately probably seethe over. And this is what the caller was getting at, the correlation between that and the African-American community seeing how much benefit there was with the Trump economy, the Trump administration, versus 50 years of basic stagnation with the Democrats. So it was a valid point.<\/p>\n
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Now, here\u2019s something else. I keep going back to California. I\u2019m sorry. As a layman and somebody of unending curiosity, it just puzzles me all to no end that California is not a much closer ground zero or many more cases. And here\u2019s a story from the Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge. “Sweden Decides -” and the left loves Sweden, do they not? Crazy Bernie, they all love Sweden.<\/p>\n