{"id":4440,"date":"2016-01-18T18:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:02:47","slug":"trump_talks_religion_at_liberty_university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/18\/trump_talks_religion_at_liberty_university\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Talks Religion at Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Braden in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Great to have you, sir. Glad you waited. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks, Rush. We love you out here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, aside from Trump\u2019s big rhetoric, he is the perfect establishment candidate, \u2019cause of his lifelong liberal views. You know, Trump and Cruz are diametrically opposed. Trump has many liberal views, where Cruz has been rock solid forever. You know, the reason Trump said Cruz was a nasty guy this weekend is because he tries to personally destroy every person that goes against him. He\u2019s attacked Levin, he\u2019s attacked Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg. He called Michelle Malkin “dumb.” You know, he\u2019s exactly like Obama in that he just wants to destroy personally his opponent.<\/p>\n


\nYou know, Megyn Kelly with her bloodiness. You know, I\u2019m scared to death for the country to have another president like that, and I think if Trump asks Cruz to be his vice president, because of Cruz\u2019s principles, he would turn it down. You know, as a matter of fact, I think Trump actually voted for Obama in 2008. You know, he was a registered Democrat for seven years prior to the election of Obama. And in New York, Democrats voted for Obama 91% to 9%. And in 2009 he hailed how great the people were that Obama surrounded himself with. And he\u2019s supposed to go this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hold it. I\u2019m not gonna deny that, but he was by no means the only one. I mean, half the Republican Party did, too, if not more. And when they picked Eric Holder to be the attorney general, I about puked, as I listened to one Republican conservative intelligentsia member after another praise the choice of Eric Holder. I had to listen to Newt praise the choice of somebody to run the National Security Agency. We were falling all over ourselves after the election. This is very key.<\/p>\n

We were falling all over ourselves to praise the new, young president and to make everybody understand that there\u2019s no racism here. “I\u2019m not one! Look, I love Obama.” My only point is, Trump might have done that. He wasn\u2019t alone. There were a lot of people on our side did it for purely personal, calculating reasons. We haven\u2019t had any principled opposition to Obama I can think of since the campaign of 2008. McCain did not even run any opposition to Obama, when you get right down to it. We haven\u2019t had any since this campaign. This is the first time there\u2019s been any.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ted Cruz has, since he got in. And, you know, you didn\u2019t say that when he first got in, that he was a great person. Trump says that he\u2019s got this great judgment, that he\u2019s just so smart. That\u2019s not smart. I\u2019m just a lowly handyman out here trying to make a living, and I knew better than to vote for Obama in 2008. Trump\u2019s this big billionaire, you know, smart guy, and I\u2019m smarter than him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know who Trump voted for. I do know that people have accused Trump of voting for Obama have apologized for it.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Well, let me say this. His proof that — this weekend he said he did not vote for Obama, and his proof of that is that he gave money to McCain and went out to eat with McCain and his wife in 2008 before the election. Well, that doesn\u2019t mean anything, because he also gave money to Harry Reid during the — even during the Tea Party uprising time he gave money to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, and — wait for it, wait for it, Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but everybody knows this, and they don\u2019t seem to care out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I don\u2019t understand. We have to have principles. Trump, he claims to be this hardliner on immigration. You have to be consistent and in 2009 he was promoting how great the DREAM Act was. He s says what he thinks needs to be said to the right person just like you were talking about Liberty University and how he —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, we\u2019ve got had to sound bites coming up, too. I\u2019ve got a bunch of those just waiting. In fact, now might be an opportune time since you have transitioned right into it. So, Braden, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s start with sound bite 30. Trump is at Liberty University today, and Fox News carried, what, about 75% of it? Everybody did. They bumped out in time for this program. Trump finished right before this program started, too. All who have proper instincts know that if they\u2019re doing something around noon, except for Obama, you stop, as this program\u2019s about to begin. Trump did. Here\u2019s what he said about the Bible and Christianity. Well, this is not the Christianity quote. This is just the Bible quote. At Liberty University this morning.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I wrote The Art of the Deal, I wrote many best-sellers, like The Art of the Deal, everybody read the — who has read The Art of the Deal in this room? Everybody. I always say — (laughter) — I always say, a deep, deep second to the Bible. The Bible is the best, the Bible. The Bible blows it away. There\u2019s nothing like the Bible. But The Art of the Deal was about — in fact, there are a few of them right over there. But The Art of the Deal was the best-selling business book, and Obama didn\u2019t read it and Kerry didn\u2019t read it. But we can do things with our country that will be so good. But I\u2019ve always used that word, incompetent, they\u2019re incompetent. Now I don\u2019t care anymore. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s pure improv. I asked some devout Christians earlier, “Does it bother you when Trump says the Bible blows it away?” “Oh, no, that doesn\u2019t bother us.” I said, “It doesn\u2019t? It doesn\u2019t sound disrespectful, the Bible kills it, the Bible is the best, the Bible blows it away?” No. No. He\u2019s right. Okay. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if people say, “I don\u2019t like that talk about the Bible. You don\u2019t say the Bible blows it away. You don\u2019t say the Bible kills it.”<\/p>\n

See, I think, you know, putting his book second, his audience eats that up. They\u2019re not out there offended at how dare he. And yet people that don\u2019t get this connection, this bond, “Oh, my God, this is outrageous, who could dare compare their book to the Bible? Nobody would ever.” Like David Brooks and that crowd, “Oh, my God, this is horrible, give us somebody in a gray suit and a red tie, give us somebody boring and dull. Oh, this is scary,” is what they say. Now we have other bites from Trump at Liberty University today. Let\u2019s just start with the first one in order. Here we go.<\/p>\n