{"id":352818,"date":"2020-06-18T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=352818"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:01:52","slug":"the-bolton-book-will-have-zero-impact-on-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/18\/the-bolton-book-will-have-zero-impact-on-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bolton Book Will Have Zero Impact on the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Bolton book, and we have the Supreme Court decision<\/a> this morning on DACA. Now, both of these things are easily explainable. But just because I can easily explain them, it\u2019s not gonna mollify you. The Bolton book is not gonna have one iota\u2019s impact on President Trump and his reelection campaign. John Bolton doesn\u2019t have any credibility.<\/p>\n

Even the Democrats are out ripping him to shreds because he didn\u2019t have the guts to come talk about what he put in this book before their impeachment committees, and he didn\u2019t do that because he didn\u2019t want to undergo questioning. He didn\u2019t want to have to answer questions about this stuff. But the main reason he didn\u2019t want to do it is, nobody was gonna pay him. He\u2019s making money off of this book. What is it, 29 bucks a copy, hardcover? He withheld all of this stuff. They were begging him to go testify two different times. He refused to do it.<\/p>\n

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Now — now, in the book — he comes out and chastises the Democrats for having a too-limited investigation, looking only at Ukraine? They should have looked at the some of the stuff that he was alleging? He wouldn\u2019t come talk to them about it! This is obvious, what this is. This is holding back information, much of it not true — a lot of it made up — simply to sell books, simply to make some money and to avoid being questioned about it.<\/p>\n

John Bolton knows that the book (as is happening now) is being feted and celebrated by the Trump-hating media. That\u2019s gonna further sales, and that\u2019s all he cares about. George W. Bush was betrayed by Bolton. A number of presidents have been betrayed by him. The real question… You know, I continue to ask this. I\u2019ve been really curious at some of the Trump staffing decisions since day one, and I remember when Bolton was hired.<\/p>\n

You know, the national security apparatus in the White House had undergone a lot of personnel change and people flipping in and out of there, and Bolton was looked at as a steadying influencing, that he was a patriot, that he was pro-America. He was gonna come in there and he was gonna calm everything down an dhe was gonna steer Trump in the right direction.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what he went in there to do. He went in there to try to stop Trump from being Trump, and he failed. So here comes his nose-out-of-joint book. Mattis! Why did Mattis take the gig — the defense secretary, James Mattis? I think all of these military people and all these foreign policy establishment people… I think they all took the jobs in the Trump administration. They\u2019re all deep state.<\/p>\n

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They all wanted their chance at changing Trump\u2019s mind. Trump was going to drain the swamp. Trump was going to end their careers. They wanted in there to try to change Trump\u2019s mind, to influence him. Believe me: To a man, these people think Trump is a dunce. They think they are brilliant, experienced, far more sophisticated in — certainly — the ways of Washington.<\/p>\n

So they think that they\u2019re gonna get hired, and that\u2019s gonna give them entree and that they\u2019re gonna be able to, quote-unquote, “talk sense” into Trump. And, short of that, they\u2019re gonna be able to sabotage Trump. One way or the other, they are gonna make sure that Trump stops being Trump. Remember what the Russian meddling\/collusion was really all about, aside from separating Trump voters from Trump.<\/p>\n

It was really all about covering up the effort that was the coup to get rid of Trump, to overturn the election results of 2016. Well, these guys were just part of it. H. R. McMaster, he had his turn at it. He was national security guy. Then you had Bolton in there. You had James Mattis. Lately, Mark Milley has come out, “chairman of chief joints,” and said, “Ah, would have never gone over to that church if I\u2019da known what Trump would do.”<\/p>\n

All of this is so patently obvious. It\u2019s an effort to undermine, sabotage, or otherwise somehow change Trump\u2019s thinking, Trump\u2019s policies. Because every one of these people need their turf protected, lest Trump pull the rug out from under them by actually draining the swamp. So the fact that Bolton quits with his nose out of joint and writes this book, puts a bunch of things in it that aren\u2019t true (that have already been denied), saving all this “bombshell information” for media adulation and $29.95 per copy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Even Pencil Neck and some of his committee members are ticked off that Bolton wouldn\u2019t come talk to them and is now chastising them for having too limited a scope in their impeachment investigation. Now, one of the claims — and I knew this was BS when I read it before I even heard the denial. Bolton claims that Donald Trump asked Xi Jinping, the Communist Party dictator in China, to help him with his reelection.<\/p>\n

Really? You really think we\u2019re gonna buy that, Mr. Bolton? That in a meeting where you\u2019re there and a bunch of other people there, Trump is actually going to appeal to the leader of China to help him in his reelection effort? Robert Lighthizer, who is the trade representative and is lead negotiator on all the China trade deals, has come out and said he was “in the room.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019s getting a little — oh, gee — a little snarky there because that\u2019s the title of Bolton\u2019s book. He said he was in the room and that it never happened. Grab audio sound bite number 8. Late yesterday afternoon on Capitol Hill at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Trump\u2019s 2020 trade policy, Bob Menendez says to Lighthizer:<\/p>\n

“About an hour ago the Washington Post published the story that says former President Trump, quote, ‘turned the conversation into the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China\u2019s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns and pleading with Xi Jinping to ensure that he would win.'”<\/p>\n

LIGHTHIZER: Absolutely untrue! Never happened. I was there. I\u2019ve no recollection of that ever happening. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s true. I don\u2019t believe it ever happened.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Right. Now, I know Lighthizer, and I know Lighthizer\u2019s daughter, and he\u2019s an honest sort. I\u2019d much, much believe Lighthizer over Bolton. And there\u2019s no way Lighthizer… If there\u2019s proof of this and Lighthizer knows it, there was no way he would stick his neck out like this. The other example — and there are many — is Bolton says that the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, passed him a note that said:<\/p>\n

“This guy,” meaning Trump, “is full of [crap],” except the word wasn\u2019t “crap.” So Pompeo said, “I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I don\u2019t pass notes. I don\u2019t write notes and pass them around like high school kids do. Let him produce that note.” So there\u2019s a challenge to Bolton to produce the note. The other thing that happened was that Bolton literally claimed that President Trump encouraged the ChiCom leader, Xi Jinping, to build concentration camps and to put Muslim Uyghurs (who the ChiComs hate) in the concentration camps.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s absurd!<\/p>\n

These people are flailing away, and they\u2019ve tried so many things to discredit Trump that all they have left are these fringe, extremist things that they might in their minds think Trump is capable of because they don\u2019t know him and because they\u2019ve bought into all of these manufactured images of the guy. But they\u2019re making themselves look like idiots. In fact, Trump signed a bill condemning these concentration camps shortly after the Bolton book came out.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, that bill was in the works for a long time. The time of this was not timed to Bolton\u2019s book. It was on its own time frame. “President Trump signed a bill condemning China\u2019s concentration camps for the Uyghur Muslim community just hours after excerpts from … John Bolton surfaced which claim Trump encouraged [the ChiComs] to build the camps.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t happen. If he had encouraged the ChiComs to build the camps, why would he sign a bill condemning them? But he didn\u2019t. It\u2019s just… I think Bolton is part of this crowd that thinks everybody looks at Trump the way they all do — as a child, as unstable, as mentally impaired — and that they can make anybody believe anything they want about him, and it just continues.<\/p>\n

They make no effort to understand who Trump\u2019s supporters and voters are, and they make no effort to understand who Trump is. They keep trying the same old things. But the proof of the pudding here, folks, is this book comes out in, what, June? The book comes out in June. It\u2019s not gonna have an impact on the election. None of it\u2019s gonna end up being verified. People are gonna forget about it, not gonna believe much of it in the first place anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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