Posted on 06/16/2017 11:36:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, I have a different take. I have a totally different take. Well, I just dont see the doom and gloom. Everybody else does, but I dont.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, its Open Line Friday!
RUSH: Im sorry. Im looking at a couple of really weird people on TV, they caught my attention. Anyway, greetings. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Great to have you. It is Open Line Friday. That means that you get to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about. Monday through Thursday, the program is about what I care about. On Friday, I give you a shot at it. Its 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
I get emails from friends, I get messages from friends, I get green bubble text messages from friends, I get panicked phone calls from friends, My gosh, Rush, when is it gonna end? This just cant continue like this! Ive never seen anything like it! I mean, at some point, dont we have to admit we cannot beat these people and just kind of throw in the towel? This just cant go on!
People are reacting to the media. People are reacting to the independent counsel and all of the congressional investigations, the never-ending, oppressive, try-to-destroy-him coverage of Trump. Then we have the mainstream liberal Democrat shooting up the Republican congressional baseball team at practice earlier this week. And I understand the sentiment.
People ask me every day, Rush, how long can this go on? Rush, come on. When are the Republicans gonna fight back? Rush, come on. This just cant keep happening like this. Never seen anything like this. I understand the sentiment, folks, but I have a different take.
Here we are on June the 16th, 2017. This is an anniversary. Do you know what it is the anniversary of? Im getting blank stares from the other side of the glass. Ill give you a hint. Its a two-year anniversary. Thats right. This is the two-year anniversary that Donald Trump and Melania took the escalator down at Trump Tower and Trump made his famous Im running for the presidency announcement, for which learned appellate courts are still using in their rulings on his executive orders.
Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN)
After Two Years of Attacks, Trumps the Biggest Star in the World
Jun 16, 2017
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, I have a different take. I have a totally different take. Well, I just dont see the doom and gloom. Everybody else does, but I dont.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, its Open Line Friday!
RUSH: Im sorry. Im looking at a couple of really weird people on TV, they caught my attention. Anyway, greetings. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Great to have you. It is Open Line Friday. That means that you get to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about. Monday through Thursday, the program is about what I care about. On Friday, I give you a shot at it. Its 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
I get emails from friends, I get messages from friends, I get green bubble text messages from friends, I get panicked phone calls from friends, My gosh, Rush, when is it gonna end? This just cant continue like this! Ive never seen anything like it! I mean, at some point, dont we have to admit we cannot beat these people and just kind of throw in the towel? This just cant go on!
People are reacting to the media. People are reacting to the independent counsel and all of the congressional investigations, the never-ending, oppressive, try-to-destroy-him coverage of Trump. Then we have the mainstream liberal Democrat shooting up the Republican congressional baseball team at practice earlier this week. And I understand the sentiment.
People ask me every day, Rush, how long can this go on? Rush, come on. When are the Republicans gonna fight back? Rush, come on. This just cant keep happening like this. Never seen anything like this. I understand the sentiment, folks, but I have a different take.
Here we are on June the 16th, 2017. This is an anniversary. Do you know what it is the anniversary of? Im getting blank stares from the other side of the glass. Ill give you a hint. Its a two-year anniversary. Thats right. This is the two-year anniversary that Donald Trump and Melania took the escalator down at Trump Tower and Trump made his famous Im running for the presidency announcement, for which learned appellate courts are still using in their rulings on his executive orders.
Now, lets look at something, just put it in a little bit of perspective here. For two years, the past two years, not just since Trump was elected and not just since Trump got the nomination, for the past two years the entire media-Democrat complex, and for a period of this you have to include the Republicans in it in fact, you might still say the Republicans are part of this complex that has spent millions of dollars and countless hours to investigate Donald Trump.
They have turned over every rock. They have dug as deep as they can. They have used anonymous sources from the deep state. They have made things up. They have even gone so far as to destroy the credibility of their own industries by creating fake news in their effort to get rid of Donald Trump, to produce some information. Some damning evidence of a crime that would have enabled them, A, to deny him the nomination. And after that failed, then to deny him the election. And then after that failed, then to deny him being inaugurated. And then after that failed, now to try to force him out of office.
To the media-political complex, which we would have is to say includes Hollywood and publishing, and of course the media and much of entertainment pop culture, Donald Trump is a nightmare who has come to life. He is a Frankenstein. He is a monster. He is, in their minds, everything they say they detest about human beings.
The left is not crazy about human beings to begin with. And I dont say that to try to be funny, or Im not even exaggerating. They think that many of the problems that exist on planet Earth would not exist if human beings were extinct. So their starting point is to be angry and enraged constantly and to blame human beings. And in the process they create all these negative characteristics about human beings that they blame and detest. Donald Trump has them all.
In their mind, Donald Trump epitomizes, he encompasses every horrible, rotten, despicable characteristic of human beings. And he beat them. He won the most powerful office in the land. As such, not only did Donald Trump become the president, Donald Trump became the biggest star in the United States. Hes also a star, folks. Do not think that hes just the president. He is a star. Hes the biggest star. Stars are not always universally loved.
Trump loves being a star, by the way. Its one of his earliest objectives, and he has accomplished reaching the pinnacle of stardom. The pinnacle of stardom would be name recognition and everybody in addition to knowing who you are, having an opinion of you. To be obsessed with you, to be consumed by you, Donald Trump has achieved all of this and more by defeating a large group of professionals who hate him, who despise him, who have used every weapon in their arsenal to destroy him. And they have failed.
To date, they have failed. Trump has become bigger than they ever imagined. Trump has become bigger than they ever thought they could be. They resent and despise and hate Donald Trump for a multitude of reasons. And all they know is, they have to get rid of him. Short of that, they have to destroy the stardom aspect. They certainly cannot permit the political identity and ideas of Donald Trump to triumph.
Donald Trump must be destroyed simply because hes there. Donald Trump has to be taken out. He has to be destroyed and ruined politically and, if they can, financially. Make no mistake that thats an objective too. You can read between the lines the latest leaks of the highly respected and immensely respected Robert Mueller, the independent counsel, going after Trumps money, going after Jared Kushner. They are not going to leave one stone unturned in their effort to demolish, to ruin, to destroy Donald Trump. They want to obliterate the star. They want to create a figure of great shame and embarrassment, and they want to take away from him all of his achievements, including his money.
You might think this sounds irrational. Youre right; it is. It is entirely irrational. This degree of hate is irrational. Its unnatural. The fact that they stick with it and maintain it is destroying them. Everything I hear, Trump is in a fine mood. Everything I hear, Trumps enjoying his life as president. Frustrated by things, but, I mean, hes not cowering in the corner fearful and worried and angry.
Hes living his life. Hes doing what he was elected to do the best he can. And hes appreciating and very much adoring his stardom, which is rooted in his presidency. And that upsets them even more. They simply cant get over this. They cant abide it. They cant believe that after two years this is not something thats gone on just the past six months they cant believe that theyve not been able to take Trump out in two years.
Fifteen or 16 Republican candidates were not able to do it. Hillary Clinton couldnt do it. The Democrat National Committee couldnt do it. David Axelrod couldnt do it. The great John Podesta couldnt do it. Nobody could do it. There hasnt been a single soul. James Comey didnt do it. Now theyve turned to Mueller. Mueller, we want you to do it. Rosenstein tried to do it, couldnt do it. Now Rosensteins thinking about recusing himself.
Before this is over, the entire Department of Justice is gonna recuse itself. You havent heard about Rosenstein maybe recusing himself? How silly is that? Sessions recuses, Rosenstein might have to recuse because hes got some involvement with the players here. Its absurd. This is the theater of the absurd. Its obvious what it is.
The Washington Post has a story today written by Amber Phillips: Trump Keeps Creating His Own Personal Hell. Theyre giddy! Theyre excited. Its a bizarre article, and theyre thrilled. (summarized) Trumps helping us! Trumps admitting hes under investigation! Have you heard that one today? Trump tweeted out hes being investigated by a guy (chuckles) Heres what he says: I am being investigated for firing Comey by the guy who told me to fire Comey. Despite everything theyve thrown at Donald Trump, hes still there.
I know nobody cares about this. Have you seen the unemployment numbers today? Claims for U.S. Jobless Benefits Fall by 8,000. The unemployment situation is getting better. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for a second straight week, further evidence of strength of the labor market. Who knew? Did you see that Trump discovered that there was still a panel of American scientists working on the Y2K problem? Do you remember what the Y2K problem?
It was 17 years ago. It was a great conspiracy theory. It was a great fear that a bunch of computers were not gonna make the automatic change to the year 2000 and that airplanes were were fall out of the sky and bombs were gonna be launched. Remember all that? Nothing happened. Trump just found out that theres a group of scientists still studying this, still working and still spending money, still being paid. So hes shutting it down.
So now weve got an independent counsel, Mueller. Hes got 13 people or more working with him. Hes hiring new people all the time, most of them liberal Democrats. For two years for two years they have looked under every rock. For two years, theyve overturned every stone. Theyve done everything they can. Theyve employed the Russians. Theyve used the Russians. They tried to use the prime minister of Australia.
Theyve done everything. They cant do anything, cant find anything to actually indict Donald Trump or anybody working for him in two years. So what are they going to find in the next two years that no one has found in these two years? The answer is probably nothing, but thats not the point. Theyre not looking for anything now. If they find it, thats gravy. What theyre doing now is simply creating (or trying to) the illusion that Trump is a corrupt, dishonest, mean-spirited, horrible guy who needs to go.
But this is where I have a slightly different take on this, the two-year anniversary of Trump and Melania speeding down the escalator at Trump Tower, where he said he doesnt appreciate military people who get captured like McCain and a number of other things. For two years, the media-political complex and all their allies have been using the same tactics on him, and for two years hes survived it and as you survive these things, you get stronger. This is where some of you may differ with me in interpretation.
But Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Every day they try to destroy him. Every day they try to take him out. Every day they try to diminish him. But what are they actually doing? I have a sound bite coming up later in the program, a disgusted sound bite from media people. Charlie Rose and Jeffrey Goldberg contemplate the reality that Trump isnt gonna quit, that hell not be impeached, and hes gonna be president for four years.
They actually contemplate that as though, Oh, my God! Do you realize this could happen? Its kind of like Charlie Rose and Brokaw discussing the fact that they didnt know who Obama was and were gonna vote for him anyway. Theyve just awakened to the reality here that its been two years and nobodys laid a glove on the guy, not really, not in terms of making him quit. Theyre nowhere near articles of impeachment. They cant do it til the Democrats win. Not even the feckless Republicans will go there, although I have separate thoughts on them coming up.
Lets look what has been reported. The director of the FBI who, by the way, The Daily Beast now says is Washingtons favorite left-wing sex symbol. James Comey. (interruption) Do you know who Comey is? Is he sex symbol. No way, right? But leftist women in Washington think hes at the top of that list. The director of the FBI was afraid top of dinner with Trump alone. He hid behind a curtai; he was so scared! He didnt want to be seen or noticed. The most respected man in America today, Robert Mueller and hes only the most respected cause hes trying to destroy Trump.
Hes the latest one theyve called on to do it. Hes got a reputation beyond reproach. The great Robert Mueller is so afraid that hes gonna be fired by Trump that hes leaking all over Washington trying to prevent Trump from firing him, trying to make it politically unfeasible. Muellers never done this before. Mueller is the king of integrity. Hes the prince of propriety. He would never engage in leaking!
We were assured that this kind of leaking is beneath the great Mueller, and yet every day the special counsel is nothing more than a faucet. Its turned wide open. I have no doubt that hes doing all the leaking because the word went out that Trump might fire him too. So leaking all these things theyre looking into like money laundering and stuff like this is designed to make it harder for Trump to do it. But wait. Im only halfway through this, so hang on.
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RUSH: You dont think Donald Trumps a star? Donald Trumps bigger than the Beatles. Donald Trump is bigger than Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Maher doesnt even compare. Donald Trump is bigger than Carl Sagan. Im trying to pick left-wing stars and heroes here. Donald Trump is bigger than Bill Gates. Donald Trump is bigger than Steve Jobs. Donald Trump is the biggest star in the world today. And do not doubt me. It grates. It grates on everyone.
I dont know how many Washington political class members get all concerned about the stardom, but the popularity and the name recognition, everything they seek, the power, the adulation from supporters, Donald Trump has it, and they dont. Especially on the Democrat party side. They dont. And there are very few Republicans either who can even approach Trump in the size and scope of his devoted base of support comprised of real Americans. And it grates on them.
I believe all these people are afraid. I think Mueller is afraid. I think his own cabinet, Trumps own cabinet respects him so much, may be so petrified they make it known how much they respect him. They praise him of their own volition in that cabinet meeting. Im not finished yet.
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RUSH: Two years ago today Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president of the United States. In two years, they have tried to stop him. In two years, they have thrown everything they know how to thrown. In two years, theyve uncovered everything they think theyve got. In two years, theyre making things up. Theyre leaking lies. Journalism has been reduced to something they never thought it could become. Its become a joke.
Its become the most untrustworthy of all institutions in politics and that is saying something. Journalism is now not even journalism; its just part of the partisan agenda in Washington, D.C., that chooses sides. They are uniform in the side they choose. As such, journalisms destroying itself. Im of the belief that in the real world, the enemies of Donald Trump are destroying themselves. They are being eaten alive with their own rage and hatred.
Its not pretty; it cannot be sustained. Theres nothing rewarding, uplifting, or encouraging about it; theres no good that can come from it. I dont know if youve ever known anybody who is rabidly consumed with hate and never allows it to abate. Im sure youve seen people that are obsessed and cant let something go. Your first instinct is that its not good for them. It isnt healthy. Theres something wrong with them. These people are consumed and obsessed.
Theyre swallowing their own bile every day. Because as the day ends, as each day ends, they awaken the next morning to find Donald Trump right where they hate hum being. They find Donald Trump right where they have tried to kick him out. They find Donald Trump where they are most fearful. They find him right there in the Oval Office or on Air Force One or whatever hes doing as president. Every day the forces of hate and obsession have to deal privately, publicly with the evidence of their own ongoing failure.
Ever since they succeeded in taking out Richard Nixon they have been longing for this day. That was the ultimate thrill. That was the ultimate affirmation of their purpose: Taking out Richard Nixon, forcing him to resign, getting rid of a Republican president they hated. They have sought to do the same thing with ever Republican since with varying degrees of intensity. They didnt work very hard in getting rid of George H. W. Bush because, in the end, they didnt have to. George W. Bush? Ronald Reagan? They tried.
Iran-Contra, second term, much what were feeling and dealing with here in the same seemingly endless, ongoing investigation of nothing, purely manufactured and made up by the opposition to Reagan. Its the same thing happening here. They wanted to get rid of Reagan; they failed. When Reagan died and had his funeral and this nation joined together? You know the fake unity theyre saying happened in baseball game last night? That wasnt unity last night. That was phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock n roll photo-op.
That was not unity. (interruption) You think it was unity last night? It wasnt unity. The medias all over it talking about it being unity; it wasnt unity. The Democrats were booing Republicans last night before the night ended. There was no unity last night. That was simply plastic banana, good-time, phony photo-op. Real unity is when this nation lined the streets of the Reagan motorcade at his funeral and the leftists and the media and the Democrats were beside themselves. They thought they had destroyed Reagans reputation.
They thought they had destroyed Reagans image, and they were gobsmacked. George W. Bush, the Iraq war. They did everything they could to destroy his presidency, and here they are doing it again and each day they awaken with the reality that they are failing. Now, I realize some people dont see it that way. You wake up, Ah, my God, Rush. Theyre not going away! Theyre keeping it up. Theyre intensifying it. Theyre making more stuff up. My God, I dont know how Trump can hold on.
Trumps holding on. Trumps thriving. Trumps the biggest star in the world. Thats what Trump wants, among many other things, and hes achieved it. Every day the people who are trying to take him out are the ones have to face the reality they havent done it yet. And they dont have any evidence of any of the things they have alleged or alluded, and they know that too. So what theyre doing is what they always do in the Drive-By Media: try to create false and phony narratives that convince a majority of the American people.
Theyre failing at that. They do not have their monopoly anymore. Theyre unable to get away with it. Ill give you an example. Chris Cillizza, our old buddy. He used to be at the Washington Post, but he went to CNN for the big bucks and the face time. So he goes over there, and he sends out a tweet the other day. You people that claim fake news? Theres no fake news. You cant just say theres fake news with no examples! Well, there were immediately 2400 tweets in response with endless examples of fake news.
Now, either Cillizza didnt know and, folks, do not discount that. These are the most insulated, insular people in the Washington press corps, the entire Washington political class. They dont know what you in Iowa or Georgia or anybody else thinks. They dont know what you think or what youre doing. They dont care. They dont read anything but themselves. I mean, how many stories on fake news has CNN done? The only fake news stories they do on what a joke Trump is for accusing them of it, but they dont ever report any while they engage in it.
So its logical to assume Cillizza may not even know that theres fake news out there, even his own, and he had to be shocked. In the old days, before there was this alternative media, they would get away with these things. They dont get away with it. It looks like they get away with it, but theyre not getting away with it. Trumps approval rating at Rasmussen is at 50%. That is gonna irritate them. The Republicans Lets look at them. The Republicans cannot get Trump to stop tweeting. They are petrified over what he tweets.
Members of his own party wish he would shut up, members of his own party wish he would stop tweeting, members of his own party (and everybody) else wish he would start acting more presidential. But Donald Trumps 140-character proclamations change the world every day. Donald Trumps tweets thwart and obstruct the unified effort of his enemies to destroy him. Donald Trumps tweets keep his supporters supporting him. Donald Trumps tweets are one of the best weapons he has against this all-out assault arrayed against him.
The Saudis! The Saudis treated Donald Trump like a conquering emperor. That wasnt supposed to happen for anybody but Obama! Thats another thing: Trumps attacking the Obama legacy and is trying to unravel it, thread by thread. They hate him for that. Hes going to continue. NATO. The leaders of Europe are scared to death to be in the same room with Trump. Theyre scared not because hes insane, but because he means what he says. You remember the joint press conference with the president of Romania, where Trump first answered questions about either firing Comey or whatever the latest controversy of the day was?
The president of Romania said (paraphrased), We are going to increase our spending in NATO because of President Trump. The president of Romania credited President Trump for beefing up NATO and making everybody in it face their responsibilities. The Drive-Bys faces fell. Its not supposed to happen! The president of Romania is supposed to be on their side dumping on Trump. Hes supposed to be telling everybody what an idiot Trump is. Hes supposed to be telling everybody how embarrassing it is that Trump is the president and hes destroying NATO.
Thats not what happened. It was the exact opposite.
The North Koreans that little potbellied dictator Kim Jong-un was so afraid of him they released a hostage. They werent afraid of Obama. They would not have been afraid of Hillary. They are afraid of Donald Trump. We want them to be afraid. Dennis Rodman Dennis Rodman is over in North Korea or was. (chuckling) This is a picture. Dennis Rodman is presenting a gift to one of Kim Jong-uns aides. You know what the gift was?
Trumps book, The Art of the Deal. Dennis Rodman gives the pot-bellied dictators aide its a book intended for the pot-bellied dictator Trumps book, The Art of the Deal. The North Korean aide is smiling, Dennis Rodman is smiling, theyre both holding the book up as the North Korean executive looks happy to receive it. Not Obamas book or books, and none of Hillarys phony baloney books, and not Bill Clintons book (impression) My Lie. (sic) Donald Trumps book, The Art of the Deal.
When that picture spreads, theyre gonna hate even more. Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen, is so powerful he even got Vladimir Putin and the Russians to run his presidential campaign for him. Do you think ? Do you think that anybody could have done that? Could Bill Clinton have done that? Could Obama have done that? No way! Hillary couldnt have done it. John Kerry couldnt have done it. Donald Trump is so powerful, he got Putin to run his campaign and run interference for him and take out the Democrats. Name anybody else who could have done that!
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RUSH: They say in politics that perception is reality. Well, if so, if perception is reality, then the Drive-By Media with their two-year campaign designed to diminish and destroy Donald Trump may be doing just the opposite. Hes still there. Just now he lands in Miami, and hes gonna reverse Obamas decisions on Cuba. And Fox News has got a panel discussion going. Oh, no! Oh, no! Is this further evidence that Trump is unraveling the Obama legacy? Yes, it is. And they hate that.
Obama was God. Obama was untouchable. You could not criticize Obama. Obama was perfect. In their worldview, he was perfection, the only perfect human on earth. Donald Trump, of course, pales. Yet here comes this reprobate pig, and hes unraveling the Obama agenda and legacy step by step by step. The hatred, the raw, sewage-like hatred from these people is so real you can smell it. These people are turning Donald Trump into one of the most powerful American presidents in modern times. They had better think seriously about their tactics and about their purpose here, because I dont think they are actually accomplishing what they think they are having great success with.
I just watched Rubio’s, Pence’s and Trump’s speeches from Miami. Incredible remarks. We are a very blessed nation, indeed!
Fire Mueller.Trump has the authority
This is a coup against Trump.
Mueller is a democrat hack.
There is no evidence but Mueller will manufacture evidence.
This is sedition and treason by Mueller and comey and the media .
The penalty for treason is death by hanging
Rush dead on. Too funny.
In the celebrity culture, DT dominates.
We need to support Trump
We also need to stop reacting to the lies told by the mama. You know those laden with unnamed sources from unknown places
This is Rush at his best.
This is a classic.
Man are we ever. He’s a fighter and loves it I think.
That’s where the media is wrong. He’s not a typical politician. Trump is a tough Queens businessman who loves the fight and challenge. He lives for it.
They’re used to people folding on our side and being mealy mouthed.
However, I think it would be a good idea to stay away from this kind of silliness:
There is no evidence but Mueller will manufacture evidence.
Making a decision about firing someone -- especially in such a sensitive legal/political climate -- on the basis of what you think he will do is about the most idiotic thing you can ever do in any situation.
“Two pimps are better than one.”
Thank the Dear Lord for blessing us with such a magnificent leader for these perilous times in President Donald Trump!!!
I particularly like the way he pitched it to get under the MSM-Democrat's skin, which he really knows how to do.
bs. This is a coup. Mueller hired mostly Clinton lawyers.
go back to DU
I agree! They in the media don’t know what to do with themselves. Doesn’t Trump know the rules? Doesn’t he know that he is supposed to roll over and play dead like W did for eight years? Like Romney did? Like McCain did and still does?
Trump runs circles around them while they THINK they are making his life miserable, lol. Idiots.
2. But that couldn't have happened because Donald Trump didn't win the electoral vote in the first place. The election results were overturned when Jill Stein ordered recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania ... and those states changed from Trump to Clinton in late November. I know this is true because I heard about it right here on Free Republic while it was happening.
3. But that couldn't have happened, either ... because Trump never won those states in the first place. The Clinton/Democrat machine engaged in massive voter fraud and won a huge landslide in the 2016 election. This must be true because I also heard about it right here on Free Republic.
4. But now I'm just being silly ... because we all know that there was no presidential election in 2016. Barack Obama imposed martial law in the United States, canceled the election, and made himself dictator for life. This just HAS to be true because I read all about it right here on FreeRepublic.
I'll go back to DU ... but only after you climb back into your straitjacket and get back in that rubber room.
Mueller is hiring an army of democrat lawyers, donors to democrats and Clinton lawyers to get Trump.
You remember democrats put 2 innocent men in prison Scooter Libby and Tom Delay with this kind of Witch hunt.
Trump has to fire Mueller now before they can manufacture fake evidence against him.
Fire Mueller.Trump has the authority
This is a coup against Trump.
Mueller is a democrat hack.
There is no evidence but Mueller will manufacture evidence.
This is sedition and treason by Mueller and comey and the media .
The penalty for treason is death by hanging
Go back to DU
LOL.
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