Posted on 01/04/2018 11:32:49 AM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Hiya, folks. It is great to be back and I know that you think its great that Im back, and so its all great. And, here we are, were back, even if it is for just a couple of days. I intended to be off today and tomorrow, but the staff begged me to come back. Broadcast partners begged me to come back. Who else, taking a much-needed, two-week break, would be begged to come back when not much is going on? Me.
And so here I am after having been harassed and begged to come back (interruption) Well, I mean the traditional Christmas break, not a whole lot going on out there, and normally this would be a time where everybody would say, Go enjoy the full two weeks. But I was begged. I was pressured. It started on Tuesday night. You know, I left here and I said, Get guest hosts for both weeks. And on Tuesday night I get an email, Youre gonna be back tomorrow, right?
No, who told you Im coming back tomorrow?
Well, its right here on the schedule.
You got guest hosts for those three
Well, yeah.
Well, then?
And so Wednesday, Okay, youre gonna be back Thursday, right? I mean, you
Well, no. I planned to stay off the whole week.
But you have guest hosts?
Yeah.
Okay, then. The original plan holds. And so the harassment continued and finally here I am. And its great to be here.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
Ill tell you what I thought about doing, and I mentioned this to Mr. Snerdley. Of course, Im joking about not much going on. The sad thing about all this is its not really sad. Its that so much of this stuff thats being reported I know otherwise, or I have heard enough to believe otherwise. Its a bit of a challenge cause I dont really know some of the players involved here very well.
For example, Steve Bannon. Ive mentioned this a couple times. I never heard of Steve Bannon. Folks, Im not part of the political world. Im really not. I know people dont believe this, but I dont traffic in it. You know, I dont talk to people in politics except when they want to be interviewed here or in my newsletter. Thats the only time I talk to them. Im a nonentity in the fundraising world. And believe me, the fundraising world is politics. And I dont like it.
I dont like being asked for money and I could never be a fundraiser, I could never call friends and people, Do you want to donate to whatever cause, cause you always have to pay it back and you always end up being obligated. But theres something about asking people for money, Im just Im constitutionally incapable of it anyway. I dont care what the purpose is, what the cause is, I cant do it. Im so old school I have to earn it.
So as such I never knew Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon is where he is because somebody gave him the money to run Breitbart, the Mercer family, and I never heard of them. I never heard of any of these people until after the Trump campaign began. Now, some would say, Youre a fool to admit this because your audience thinks youre wired. Your audience thinks youre in.
No, Im wired with you people. I am wired with what this country is, has been, and should be. But Im purposely not connected to any of. The first time I met Steve Bannon was with Trump, and it was at Mar-a-Lago back in Feb, almost a year ago now. And he didnt say two words. It was Trump and Reince Priebus and me walking around Mar-a-Lago talking about things. It was about a month I told you about this a month after Trump had been inaugurated.
I asked him, Whats the biggest surprise?
He said,, That theres still so much hatred.
And I said, What do you mean?
I thought after it died down, I thought once I was inaugurated and people came to grips with the fact that Im actually here that thered be some unity. And I looked at him, I was stunned, I said, Thats never gonna happen. I mean, these people are never, ever gonna like you.
And then Bannon piped up, Good. You hear that. You hear that. Hear that? And that was it. And then I saw Bannon again in March when we were invited to the White House for dinner. It was a Thursday night, it was March 23rd. And that date, I remember it because well, who doesnt remember when they go to the White House, but it was also the date that the final push for repealing Obamacare didnt work.
And during that dinner Bannon and Priebus are walking in reporting various stages of whats going on on the Hill. Were having dinner, its Vice President Pence and his wife Karen, Kathryn and me and President Trump. And during dinner theyre walking in and explaining updates with the liaison up on Capitol Hill. Thats it. Thats the extent of my knowledge of any of these people. Ive not met the Mercers. All these people are in the news.
Now, Ive had people tell me about them. Ive had people who do know them talk to me about them. But then if I repeat that, thats gossip, you know, which I dont get into. I know Michael Wolff. I saw Michael Wolff, the author of this book, at the Ailes memorial. Toward the end of his life Roger had really come to like Michael Wolff and trust him and was talking to him religiously. Yes, its true. And Michael Wolff at the time was working with Ailes on what was to be a forthcoming book. My memorys somewhat sketchy, I dont know if its a biography or mini-biography or what have you, but Wolff was there.
And he even came to me and said, I guess I owe you a bit of an apology.
I said, Why? Well, apparently he had reported some things about me in the past that turned out not to be true. I said, Get in line. Thats what journalists do is get it wrong where Im concerned. It was a pleasant conversation and so forth. So I know all these people, but on the fringe, you know, on the periphery. And I see all this stuff happen and Im trying to put it all together like you are.
On the Wolff book, now the presidents lawyer has sent a cease-and-desist letter. Thats the best promotion a book could get! You have your lawyers send the publisher a threatening letter, You better no publish that! All that does is make everybody, Whoa, what is in this sucker? They want to go out and read it before its published and get copies of it however they can. So thats the best promotion the book can have. Theres also a cease-and-desist notice to Bannon from President Trump, his lawyer, violating a nondisclosure.
Bannon is all over the place. You go back to his 60 Minutes interview where he was praising Trump to the hilt and he was saying that the Russian investigation was bogus and there was nothing to it. And now in this book hes quoted as saying that Trump and Trump Jr. were committing treason by dealing with the Russians. I never understood half of the presidents staffing. I never understood how he knew these people and ended up choosing them.
And of course the answer is the fund-raising. The Mercers gave Trump $5 million. The Mercers wanted Bannon inside Trump. Trump said, okay, fine, make him strategist. I dont know if Trump ever even met Bannon before this campaign began. Maybe. I dont know.
The stuff that Trump has done in office that hes put his fingerprints on, thats bang-up, thats great guns, more of that, keep it coming. But some of this other stuff and Ive just chalked it up to the fact, okay, Im not in the loop on this side of things. Purposely I have not put myself there. Its not that Im being excluded. Its that Im excluding myself. I do not want to be in the fundraiser world. By accident, I dont want to end up there. And sadly thats all politics is. Fundraising, bundling, donating, and this kind of thing. Thats why I have to laugh when Im called the titular head of the Republican Party. Ive never raised a dime for anybody, other than I mean not in a direct sense.
So, anyway, I was just telling Snerdley, you know, what do you want me to talk about, what do you want to hear my opinion on today? I was gonna ask you people to call, what do you want to hear my opinion on because theres so much stuff out there. That tweet and the nuclear button on the desk, can you have a better illustration of how people still dont get Donald Trump? And its from the entire inside-the-Beltway establishment.
This thing with Trump, Ive put some things together during the break. Im constantly working on this, you know, trying to explain the establishment, the elites and their opposition to Trump. And what really caused my latest foray into trying to understand this is that Trump is doing pretty much everything these people say they believe in, and yet they still hate his guts. I said, so what explains that?
This guys done more for conservatism in terms of policy implementation and action than any of them ever dreamed possible. To most of these intellectual eggheads, conservatism, sadly, has become an academic exercise. They sit around and talk about it all the time. They sit around and theorize about it all the time, while asking their donors to give them more money so they can keep writing and thinking or publishing their magazines that couldnt make it in the free market.
So they go out and they sit around and they do all that. Everything they claimed to do over the years or want is happening, pretty much. And theyre abandoning their own policy beliefs that they have been wedded to for years simply because Trump adopts them? What explains this? Class. And by that I mean social class, not behavior, but behaviors a part of it. Taste.
These are the people growing up whove always told us that we must be properly behaved and mannered and all this, and yet theyre the first to want to show up on Bill Mahers show. The first to want to show up on every liberal talk show where nothing but drudge and garbage, dredge, whatever, shlock is discussed, while telling us we must have the proper temperament and the proper decorum and so forth.
And so thats what outrages them about Trump. He just has such poor taste. Look at the way he speaks, look at the way he looks, McDonalds in bed at the White House. Ooh, ooh. Its just silly, inconsequential things. But it all adds up to the fact they think they are superior human beings and they simply cannot bring themselves to lower themselves to the barbaric behavioral level of Donald Trump. Even though everything they have claimed or much of everything theyve claimed to be devoted to policy-wise is being implemented or is closer to being implemented than they ever dreamed would be possible.
So the tweet (laughing) this little pot-bellied dictator bragging that hes got a nuke button on his desk while half of his country is starving to death. Well, Trump says, You know what, I got a bigger button than you. I got a button and its bigger than yours and it works. And they act like the greatest insult to human dignity and the presidential regime that has ever happened.
You know another thing theyre mad about? Theyre mad that there hasnt been a similar eruption I mean, the left did, of course. But there hasnt been a nationwide negative reaction to Trumps tweet. Theyre frustrated at that, mad at that. Why arent people more outraged by this? This is unpresidential. This is unseemly. This is dangerous.
These people hang around on Twitter. They see what the sewer it is and what its become. And Trump and his little tweet is mild compared to the drivel that populates Twitter each and every day. What Trump said probably wouldnt cause a ripple in your average Twitter sewer. But, no, hes the president, he shouldnt speak this way. I explained this once before. I got the sound bite.
We went back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. Ive got it and I explained to people. Trumps brilliant. He knows who hes dealing with and how to reach them. And if youre dealing with lunatics and if youre dealing with the insane, throw it back at em. You know, throw a little unpredictability and lunaticism back at them. And it discombobulates em and in fact it is. Kim Jong-un is confused. Kim Jong-un doesnt know how to deal with Trump. Hes actually calling Washington liberals asking for help in translating, understanding Trump. Not recently, but he did.
Now I understand that theyve reopened a phone line connection, a hotline between North Korea and South Korea after Trumps tweet. The stock markets 25,000 plus. More and more companies are offering bonuses and hiring more and more people after the Trump tax bill was signed into law. The economy is set to boom in 2018 and what are the Democrats getting ready to do? Run on Trump hatred and impeachment the Mueller investigation, the dossier investigation is falling apart. The collusion It was all about Carter Page.
Everything about this was about Carter Page. Now thats fallen apart so they have to go get this drunken Papadopoulos guy with a comment made to some Australian and now that is the primary reason that they want to look into collusion with Russia? I mean, everything theyre doing is coming off the rails. Even though they do run the rails and they can write themselves new ones. Im talking about Mueller and his people. But I mean, its clear that the Steele dossier and everything about it has been phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock n roller from the beginning.
Its falling apart. The collusion is falling apart. The New York Times over the weekend had to reset it and now focus on this Papadopoulos guy. Meanwhile, a FISA warrant was probably obtained to spy on the Trump campaign on the basis of a phony opposition research document, the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for. Oh, and the Clinton Did you notice they didnt say Bill and Hillarys house, they said Hillarys house caught fire in Chappaqua? I didnt hear any more about it. Was there much damage? Do you know?
(interruption) Ohhhh, the guest room? (interruption) I wonder if Hillary had the (interruption) Whats her name? Whats the nickname? (interruption) The Energizer bunny may be tied to the bed in there. (interruption) The guest bedroom at Chappaqua is what burned? Oh ho-ho-ho. (interruption) Started by a short-circuit? Right. In Hillarys brain. Probably walked in, saw the Energizer bunny there in the guest bedroom and said, Whoa! Okay, so we are supposed to believe according to Michael Wolffs book that Donald Trump did not want to win, that Donald Trump did not expect to win, that Donald Trump thought he would lose and that was happiness.
He wanted to lose. He wanted to become the most famous guy in the world, but he didnt want to win. Melania didnt to want win. Melania was so upset when they won on election night, she was crying. Trump had promised his wife that he would not win. None of them thought they were gonna win. This was nothing more than a giant PR promotion. We learn that Trump suffers from dementia; that he ran a listless campaign. If anything, it wasnt listless.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So here we are, day 4, 2018. Orrin Hatch has announced hes not running again. Mitt Romney supposedly is. Steve Bannon is calling the presidents son treasonous. You know what? Im just
Ill tell you what Im gonna do. Im gonna tell you everything that I heard all about Bannons time in the White House. Im just gonna
Some of its real; some of it you might call gossip. The thing that I think everybody believes and that everybody knows is that most of the leaking that was coming out of the Trump White House was Steve Bannon. Over half of it. And thats what Don Jr. and Jared
Well, Don Jr.s comments primarily. Thats what theyre referring to, and I have that on almost unassailable authority.
Bannon was a saboteur trying to facilitate the supposed ouster of Trump and this wolf guy was supposed to write the documentary. Trump probably knew it all along. Still not sure why he would agree to let the guy in for a 5 mil donation!
It sure looks that way
Are you working for them?
Don’t you think a Lifelock commercial at the end of a Rush monologue makes it seem more realistic?
LOL!
In the old days it woulda been Snapple.
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