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<\/p>\nRUSH: Trump just had a little press conference on his way to Air Force One. He was on the lawn of the White House on the way to Marine One to head out to Andrews Air Force Base, or Joint Base Andrews now, because he\u2019s winging his way to Michigan.<\/p>\n
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It was another one of these press conferences where you can\u2019t see the press, so they get no face time. You can only see him, and he\u2019s conducting them like an orchestra, pointing to them. And you know what the main question they were asking him? Everybody\u2019s outside. “Why aren\u2019t you wearing a mask, Mr. President? Why aren\u2019t you wearing a mask?” He said, “I want the country back to normal. We don\u2019t wear masks when things are normal.”<\/p>\n
See, wearing a mask is a shortstop to destroying normal. Everybody\u2019s running around wearing a mask, I mean, for crying out loud, that\u2019s massive fear. These people, these media people are all wearing masks outside, and they know it. They know what the mask is. They are purposefully trying to conjure and stir up more and more fear to go along with the bad economic news. And Trump is defying them by not wearing a mask.<\/p>\n
And then he went out, “You know, I can\u2019t even understand the questions you people are asking me \u2019cause you\u2019re hiding behind these masks. I can\u2019t even understand what you\u2019re saying.” He said he does not want mail-in ballots, too much fraud possible, says he wants the churches opened. Talked about what a great relationship we have with Russia, better relationship that we have now, and that the G7 economic summit may in fact be on for a live meeting at Camp David and the White House. Not a Zoom, not a teleconference meeting.<\/p>\n
He then said — get this — that he\u2019s been taking hydroxychloroquine for two weeks and he\u2019s still testing negative. I was blown away by the reaction that got last week. I mean, Neil Cavuto even made above the fold on Drudge for the first time in his career. Cavuto said it\u2019s the height of irresponsibility, that this could get people killed, that this drug kills people, that Trump said, “What have you got to lose?” And Cavuto says nothing but your life. This drug hasn\u2019t been approved. This drug is killing people. It\u2019s giving people heart attacks. This is irresponsible.<\/p>\n
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He went on a rant about how the president should not be taking the drug and if he is he shouldn\u2019t be telling anybody he\u2019s taking the drug. So Trump doubles down, yeah, I\u2019ve been taking it two weeks. So the media\u2019s out now looking for stories of people that have taken the drug and have died. They found one woman that\u2019s been taking it for 19 years, she finally died. She\u2019s not taking it for coronavirus. She\u2019d been taking it for malaria and lupus. She\u2019s 89 years old. She finally died. These are the kind of tricks the media\u2019s out there continuing to play.<\/p>\n
Anyway, he\u2019s taken it for two weeks. Still testing negative. And he may be going to the rocket launch next week. He said he wanted to put the press in the rocket and launch them wherever the rocket\u2019s going. Said it was a joke \u2019cause no one was laughing and they don\u2019t know when he\u2019s joking \u2019cause they have no sense of humor, so he has to make sure to tell \u2019em.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Audio sound bites, Donald Trump. This is on the White House lawn on the way to the helicopter to catch Marine One as he\u2019s on the way to Michigan. Here he is talking about mail-in ballots. A reporter said, “You said the review of federal funding for Michigan was unrelated to flooding there. Is it related to mail-in voters?”<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: We don\u2019t want them to do mail-in ballots because it\u2019s gonna lead to total election fraud. So we don\u2019t want them to do mail-in ballots. We don\u2019t want anyone to do mail-in ballots. Now, if somebody has to mail it in because they\u2019re sick — or, by the way, because they live in the White House and they have to vote in Florida and they won\u2019t be in Florida — if there\u2019s a reason for it, that\u2019s okay. If there\u2019s a reason. But if there\u2019s not, we don\u2019t want to take any chances with fraud in our elections.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right. So look, the president\u2019s concerned about it, and I didn\u2019t mean to imply that I\u2019m not. I just don\u2019t want to get too cute by half on why these blue state governors are keeping their states locked down. Mail-in ballots… Look, these blue states, they figure they\u2019re gonna win anyway. They figure that they\u2019re gonna elect — they\u2019re gonna nominate, they\u2019re gonna vote for — whoever the Democrat nominee is. In this case, Biden.<\/p>\n
Now, in some of these states there are key precincts that Trump won. But the economy is the key here for why these prolonged shutdowns, and the economy is the key under the guise of public health. Plus, since Trump is so eager to reopen, they can\u2019t be for anything Trump is for, folks. They have to be opposed to everything Trump is in favor of. That\u2019s just the law.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s just an existing rule in the Democrat Party: “Trump\u2019s for it, we\u2019re against it; Trump\u2019s against it, we\u2019re for it,” and if Trump wants to reopen, they can\u2019t be for it, even where it\u2019s documented to be working, they still can\u2019t be for it. “But, Rush! But, Rush! I thought this would always be the time we would unify.” Don\u2019t give me that! The Democrats are not interested in unifying ever — even with you!<\/p>\n
The Democrats want to behave as authoritarians and powermongers over you. They don\u2019t want unity with you. That\u2019s not the objective. Here\u2019s Trump answering the question about hydroxychloroquine. The question: “How long do you expect to take that drug, Mr. President?”<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: I think it\u2019s another day. I had a two-week regimen of hydroxychloroquine, and I have taken it, I think, just about two weeks. I think it\u2019s another day, and I\u2019m still here. I\u2019m still here, and I tested very positively in another sense. So this morning, yeah, I tested positively toward negative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So all these original outcries from people were, “He\u2019s gonna kill himself! He\u2019s gonna get other people to die! It gives you a heart attack! Oh, my God. It\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s irresponsible!” Now he\u2019s admitting he\u2019s just about to wrap up two weeks on it, and that the drug is being administered by White House doctors. The controversy over this drug remains, and it\u2019s its own conspiracy theory now.<\/p>\n
There are people who believe that this drug works. They think they\u2019ve got evidence documenting it works, but there\u2019s no new money in it. It\u2019s 20 bucks a dose — 20 bucks a curative dose, 20 bucks for it to help you. There\u2019s no new patent money to be made in it. It\u2019s patented 50 years ago. It\u2019s a malaria drug.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here is Dolores in San Antonio. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello. Rush, I have been taking hydroxychloroquine 200 milligrams a day for over four years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I have — and it\u2019s not even for rheumatoid arthritis. It\u2019s for an immune disorder, and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Lupus?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I had polymyositis.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And so the doctor — well, it\u2019s almost five years, will be in November — thought it would be beneficial because —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: How many heart attacks have you had? How many heart attacks have you recovered from?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have had none.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How many brain seizures?<\/p>\n
CALLER: None.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How much diarrhea?<\/p>\n
CALLER: None. (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: It doesn\u2019t look like anything\u2019s happened to you from taking it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, the only inconvenience is that I have to see an eye doctor every six months, and I have to have a very thorough eye exam every year because, like my ophthalmologist said, you know, after seven years of taking it — and I\u2019m not quite there yet — but after seven years of taking it, it could cause me to be colorblind.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Colorblind?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, a racist society it could help you. What does your average dose cost?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Per month it\u2019s $48, with my insurance.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Forty-eight a month?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why, that\u2019s chump change.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, compared to some medicines that other people that I know have to take for other various reasons.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I was gonna say…<\/p>\n
CALLER: And, you know, considering, you know, it\u2019s like my doctor said, if I was to relapse it would kill me. I mean, I almost died originally anyway. And how she explained it when she prescribed it to me is —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Quickly, quickly, quickly.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — it will just build a wall around my immune system and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — keep me from —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Kind of like wearing a prophylactic around your immune system, in a way, like a Trojan, around…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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