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<\/p>\nTODD: There was this partnership, and I think it was… Maybe it was a partnership from afar. It was Rush Limbaugh and you, this audience. I have no doubt that it was this audience and Rush who pushed Donald Trump over the top into becoming president of the United States and for too short of a term. There were people like me who couldn\u2019t get over the personality.<\/p>\n
I had to learn, and I had to learn to be able to say, “I got this wrong” with Donald Trump. But it was a quick process. It was a very quick process of looking at what he did and realizing something — and I want you to know this — that across the country there are people to this day — we\u2019ve had \u2019em in the last 90 days — who are joining this program as a result of Rush\u2019s work and as a result of seeing the media go full force to destroy a man, to destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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And it\u2019s not Trump that they\u2019re going after. It\u2019s you, and Rush has made this point. But I believe there was this partnership. I think that Rush helping push Donald Trump over the finish line was fundamental to making us aware of who we are being fought by. It\u2019s a fumbling way to say it, but who\u2019s fighting us? The mockingbird media is fighting us.<\/p>\n
The deep state\u2019s fighting us. It certainly exists. The talk that it doesn\u2019t exist is madness. We\u2019ve seen it. But the fight. Donald Trump fought the mockingbirds. Now, you can say they won. But did they? They have no longer any pretense, mockingbird media outlets — any pretense — of even needing to care about fairness. Lester Holt has said that hearing both sides of the argument is unnecessary.<\/p>\n
You had CNN announce that biological sex is debatable. They\u2019re not even trying anymore to have any pretense of fairness, which is good for us. Because it means we can finally jettison this leftover belief that Republicans held that if they\u2019re extra nice, they\u2019ll get the media to like them. That was a belief, I lived it, I watched it.<\/p>\n
You know, having someone come and beg me to apologize to Katie Couric because of a tweet, or to apologize to Wolf Blitzer because of a tweet. Beg me! “Well, we need these people, and you\u2019d love Katie if you met her.” I\u2019ve met her. She\u2019s a celebrity. I didn\u2019t love her. Didn\u2019t have any negative reaction, but I know what she is. She\u2019s a liberal. This was the hard-core political types who were saying, “The media\u2019s not our enemy.”<\/p>\n
Well, if you are a believer that we do not want to be pushed over the cliff into this bizarre China model of authoritarianism, corporate authoritarianism, statism, well, then, they are in fact — mockingbird outlets — our enemy, and there\u2019s those that are not mockingbirds. And there\u2019s fewer and fewer of them. This partnership got something to happen that had to happen for us to have a chance to save our country.<\/p>\n
It showed Republicans that you can fight the media and win. Now, President Trump didn\u2019t get a second term, but they showed their hand. They were forced to admit they gamed the system. The TIME magazine article where they said (summarized), “We fortified the election.” They admit, “Yes, we lied to the American people. Yes, we hid information. Yes, we worked with a domestic terror organization.<\/p>\n
Yes! We, in fact, changed the voting rules. Yes, we did this in the last 30 days. Yes, this was all to, quote, ‘fortify\u2019 an election, but we never touched the voting machines. We didn\u2019t do that. That\u2019d be a step too far!” So what do we see now the result of this partnership at least as I say it? Ron DeSantis says he\u2019s gonna sign an executive order: No vaccine passports in the state of Florida.<\/p>\n