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<\/p>\nRUSH: Yeah, we\u2019re working on the audio of it right now. I just watched the White House press briefing, a little bit of it. In fact, I wasn\u2019t watching it. I had it on in there. And I had the audio button turned to TV audio, and I heard this incessant yelling and shouting and two and three people talking at the same time. I said, “Ah, somebody\u2019s replaying the debate.” And I looked up and it was the White House press briefing. It was outrageous.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s like the press corps has decided to do the debate. It\u2019s like they\u2019re so ticked off at what Trump did that they decided to conduct the White House press briefing today and replicate what made them mad about the debate. They asked Kayleigh McEnany a question — and, by the way, every question, “Will the president finally denounce white supremacy?” She was asked this question five times. Maybe more than that. And she kept answering the question. She kept offering the evidence. He has constantly denied white supremacy. He has condemned it. He\u2019s never spoken in favor of it. Not once. Not ever.<\/p>\n
They kept demanding, “Will he denounce white supremacy?” And two and three of them at the same time. And when she was answering, the reporter or reporterette would continue talking. I looked up, and I said, “What the hell is this?” These people are ticked off at this debate. Honestly, it looked to me like the White House press corps got together and they decided to turn the press briefing into what they thought the debate was, how the debate sounded, you know, with Trump and Biden talking all over each other and Chris Wallace trying to get in there and impose some sort of order on the circumstance.<\/p>\n
It was the height of unprofessionalism on the part of the media. Kayleigh McEnany read about five — we\u2019re working on the audio of this. You can tell me if you think I\u2019m overplaying it or exaggerating a bit, but I don\u2019t think so. Kayleigh McEnany read about five quotes, but they weren\u2019t good enough for the press corps. It\u2019s like she wasn\u2019t answering the question. And they kept hammering. They kept hammering question after question, trying to make Trump look like a racist.<\/p>\n
Then I thought, “What is this? I mean, what really is this?” And you boil it down, it\u2019s desperation. In the first place, Trump hasn\u2019t ever not condemned white supremacy. He\u2019s never spoken in favor of it. I said, “It\u2019s ridiculous.” As I pointed out to you yesterday, he quit the Reform Party when David Duke joined it. This is back in the 1990s. It was Ross Perot\u2019s party. Good Lord, the man has done everything he possibly can to denounce it. One of his best buddies is Herschel Walker, the great football player the University of Georgia, the Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys, and Herschel Walker is out there endorsing Trump left and right.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a racist bone in his body, there\u2019s not a racist bone in his vocabulary, and yet they keep hammering this. It\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, the race card. You think everything else they\u2019ve thrown at Trump would work: Russia collusion, Ukraine phone call, impeachment, whatever, COVID-19. Now they\u2019re back to what? The old reliable race. They are so desperate to paint Trump as not just a racist, a white supremacist. It seems to me they\u2019re just gonna keep asking the question every day \u2019til the election \u2019cause it\u2019s all they got.<\/p>\n
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And they\u2019re gonna keep demanding that Trump denounce white supremacy as though he never has. And they\u2019re gonna ask every Trump representative, like Kayleigh McEnany, “Will the president condemn white supremacy?” Now, she handled all this like a champ. She didn\u2019t lose her cool. She kept talking. But, man, folks, it was the height of unprofessionalism. And the reporters were agenda driven. It went on for three and a half minutes.<\/p>\n
Now, we can\u2019t play, we don\u2019t play, we never play audio sound bites three and a half minutes. But we\u2019re gonna give you a taste of it when get the audio. It\u2019s just moments ago, so we are still working on it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have the audio sound bites from the press briefing that I opened the program with describing. And I just want you to hear this. Now, remember, I\u2019ve got the audio on. I\u2019m not looking at the TV. I\u2019m doing other things with show prep. But I\u2019m hearing cross-talk, two and three people, sometimes four people sounds like, shouting at each other. Nobody is stopping to listen to anybody.<\/p>\n
I said, “What the hell is this?” I look up, and it\u2019s the White House press briefing. And I\u2019m convinced that the media has decided to treat Kayleigh McEnany the way they think Trump treated Biden. I know that\u2019s what they were doing. That\u2019s what it looked like. I mean, the media wouldn\u2019t shut up. They\u2019re asking her constantly, “Will the president condemn white supremacy?” She says, he has, he has, whatever her answer was, they weren\u2019t even letting her make the answer. They were talking over her. Here\u2019s how some of it sounded.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: This has been answered yesterday by the president himself, the day before by the president himself on the debate stage, the president was asked this. He said “sure” three times. Yesterday he was point-blank asked, “Do you denounce white supremacy?” And he said, “I\u2019ve always denounced any form of that.”<\/p>\n
I can go back and read for you in August 2019: “In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.” In August of 2017, “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.” I have an entire list of these quotes that I can go through with you. He has condemned white supremacy more than any president in modern history.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So there\u2019s her statement. That\u2019s the first time she was asked, and it wasn\u2019t enough. We have John Roberts of Fox News here.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: But just to clear it up this morning, can you, naming it, make a declarative statement that the president denounces it.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: I just did. The president has denounced this repeatedly.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: You read a bunch of quotes from the past.<\/p>\n
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MCENANY: The president was asked this. You\u2019re contriving a storyline —<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: — and a narrative.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: I\u2019m just asking you to put this to rest.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: I just did. I read you all the quotes.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: You read past quotes.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: If you need to see them in writing, I will put them in an email.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: Can you right now denounce white supremacy and the groups it espoused.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: I just did.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You heard her. You heard her. The sound bite\u2019s 40 seconds long where she denounced, all the quotes. I\u2019ll share with you in a minute what he\u2019s getting at. It\u2019s so obviously a setup. Up next is Paula Reid. Paula Reid is the CBS White House correspondent, and she goes at it with Kayleigh McEnany.<\/p>\n
REID: His record is very mixed on this issue.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: His record is not mixed in the slightest. (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: It is very mixed.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: And when you go back in history you can see that — (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: I have that history right here.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: — that Jesse Jackson has praised the president as someone who served underserved communities. This president with Mar-A-Lago, it was the first Palm Beach club open to African-Americans and Jews. And in fact — (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: But his record is mixed. He has not been consistent on the issue of white supremacy.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: He has been entirely consistent. (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: Has this White House – (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
MCENANY: Let me speak, Paula. Paula, we\u2019re not having a debate on a cable news network. Right now you need to let me finish. (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: You\u2019re saying he condemns it. I have the record right here.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: You need to let me finish. (Reid interrupts)<\/p>\n
REID: His record is mixed.<\/p>\n
MCENANY: It\u2019s quite funny the media goes haywire about interrupting in debates and then chooses to pursue that very same tactic themselves. This is a White House briefing. You ask the question and give me time to answer.<\/p>\n
RUSH: She\u2019s exactly right. I am convinced they decided to replicate what they thought the debate was and they were going to pretend they were Trump, she was Biden, and they were not going to let her answer anything, interrupt everything constantly, even though Biden\u2019s the one that started all the interrupting.<\/p>\n
But you heard the press. “But his record is mixed, his record is mixed, he\u2019s not been consistent on the issue, the record is mixed. You\u2019re saying he condemns it. I have the record right here. And his record is mixed on it.”<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s John Roberts, grab sound bite number 27. This was back on Fox News after the briefing. Trace Gallagher said to John Roberts, “Kayleigh McEnany said that yesterday post-debate the president did denounce white supremacy. Was there ambiguity in that statement? What is all this?”<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: It was my wife, Kyra Phillips, of ABC, who asked —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: — him that question yesterday.<\/p>\n