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April 27, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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A slight change.
We're going to get to the Trump soundbites, but I'm going to start out with three Ted Cruz bites today in this hour.
13 specific instances.
Cruz says that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are identical policy-wise.
And we've spent a lot of time talking today about Trump coming off this amazing every county.
Trump won every county in five states.
Now, you know why?
No rush, but what do you expect?
In Northeastern bunch of liberal Republicans.
Yeah, but nobody ever forecasted winning with 60% of the vote.
Remember, at this point, with all these other people out of the race other than Kasich, it was supposed to be Trump and his 35% of the vote and all the other Republican vote was going to coalesce behind Cruz.
Now, that might not manifest itself in these northeastern states, but nobody, nobody predicted these kind of margins.
In fact, the conventional wisdom was yesterday exactly what I told you, that it was pretty much expected what was going to happen.
It wasn't going to change things because it's already known.
Trump's going to win these five states.
The delegates that he's going to get are already factored into the count.
So there's nothing new really that's going to come out of this.
And in fact, that was turned upside down.
All kinds of new was learned.
Five states, every county, margins of victory, huge turnout.
And there isn't any evidence here in these five states.
And granted, they're northeastern liberal states where you wouldn't expect Cruz to do well.
But isn't that in itself a factor?
Point is that with all the other candidates out of the race, the Cruz theory was that during all these primaries, Trump was getting 30, 35% of the vote, which meant 60 to 65% of the Republican primary vote was for somebody other than Trump.
So if those guys would all get out and leave it just Cruz versus Trump, then Cruz would start sailing.
Well, Kasich kind of got in the way by not getting out, but it hasn't happened.
And Indiana is where everybody's looking for maybe it to happen.
Indiana is supposedly an ideal state for Cruz.
So we'll see.
But we've spent a lot of time talking about Trump because of that.
And there are some things about Cruz that we want to spread it around a little bit here.
And Cruz is, as part of his message, trying to alert people, hey, Trump is not really one of us.
He's not really even a Republican.
You know, he's fooling everybody.
He and Hillary, they practically agree on everything.
And here's three soundbites, the first of three.
Last night in Indiana at the Hoosier Gym, it was a campaign event.
Here's Cruz specifying the first of 13 instances where Trump and Hillary agree on things.
I'm going to walk you through 13 policy issues where Donald and Hillary have the very same views.
Donald and Hillary both agree that our taxes should be increased.
Donald and Hillary both support the Obamacare individual mandate.
Donald and Hillary believe that illegal immigrants who are here should be able to become U.S. citizens.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both support taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both supported Bill Clinton's national ban on many of the most important firearms in America.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both believe we should negotiate with Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats on Supreme Court nominations.
And of course, people in the crowd, woo, boo, boo.
Now, just as an aside, Mr. Snerdley, are there other ways of saying what Cruz said here that in your mind might have been more effective?
Or does this stuff not matter?
Some of it does matter, but some of it doesn't.
Well, let's go through this.
He says, Donald and Hillary both agree that our taxes should be increased.
Okay.
Hillary definitely does.
And Trump has said that he thinks that the rich aren't paying enough, that he's going to raise taxes on the rich.
The hedge fund guys.
Yeah, he's talking about carried interest, which if people had that explained to them, they'd be fit to be tied up.
They'd be demanding that be fixed.
Why should the hedge fund guys be paying 15% for crying out loud?
Donald and Hillary both support the Obamacare individual mandate.
Does that matter?
But it's not going to talk you out of Trump's support.
None of this stuff is going to.
That's, I guess, my question.
Some of this stuff make people supporting Trump question it.
How much of this did Cruz is saying that these some Trump supporters not know?
Donald and Hillary believe that illegal immigrants who are here should be able to become U.S. citizens.
Oh, that's Ted's not telling the truth about that.
What do you mean, lion Ted?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Trump does say that he's going to deport them and they're going to come back legally.
They're going to come back legally.
Okay, so you're not buying it.
So you think Cruz is wrong in saying that.
Okay.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both support taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
100% true.
But Trump draws the line at abortion.
He does think that they provide valuable services for women.
He's dead wrong about that, by the way.
I have to tell you, Trumpists, Trump is dead wrong about this Planned Parenthood thing.
And his attitude on Planned Parenthood, I guarantee you, is the result of geography and conditioning.
In the Northeast, in New York City, Planned Parenthood may as well be the Catholic Church.
And it's just the way they look.
But it's an abortion factory.
It's all it is.
That's where they get 99% of their money.
Okay?
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both supported Clinton's national ban on many of the most important firearms in America.
So Trump is for gun control.
That's what he's saying here.
Trump is in favor of gun control.
Donald Trump and Hillary both believe we should negotiate with Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats on Supreme Court nominations.
Now, what does he mean?
He's talking about this current nominee, Garland.
Of course, you should negotiate with him.
But what Cruz actually means here is that this guy ought to get a vote.
Trump thinks this guy ought to get a vote.
We ought to talk to him.
The president nominated him.
And the Republican vision is hell with that.
This guy's dead.
He dies in the water.
The nomination goes nowhere.
And it's the Biden rule.
A presidential election year.
Outgoing presidents don't get to name somebody to the court, especially like this.
Cruz says that Trump thinks that we should talk to the guy.
Okay, so you've only pointed out one instance of Lion Ted here.
All right.
Here's the next set.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both agree that grown men should be allowed to use the little girls' restroom.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both believe the U.S. government should be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both said they would keep this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal in place.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both believe that Hillary Clinton was one of the greatest secretaries of state of all time.
Okay, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both agree grown men should be allowed to use little girls' restroom.
Trump walked that back, didn't he?
Trump, he sort of walked it back, said, well, let the states decide.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both believe U.S. government should be neutral.
Well, yeah, Trump has said that, but we'll hear what he says latest in his speech that we have soundbites coming up on.
You can decide then.
Trump and the Hillary both have said they would keep the Iranian nuclear deal in place.
Trump Trump, yeah, Trump calls it the worst deal ever made, and he was saying he would not.
I don't know where I have to look into that.
And Donald and Hillary both believe that Hillary is one of the greatest secretaries of state of all time.
Lion Ted?
I've not heard Trump say that, but here's the last one.
We've got to take a break.
We'll come back with Trump's soundbites from his foreign policy speech today.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's campaigns are both run by Washington lobbyists.
Washington lobbyists run their entire campaigns for both of them.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both supported Obama's failed stimulus plan.
And Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both supported Obama's tarp bailout of Wall Street.
Okay, Ted Lyon about any of that.
I don't think so.
Manafort is a lobbyist.
Trump's guy, Manafort.
Now, Manafort has been pulled back.
Manafort, you know, Trump, this is another thing.
Another subject for a different, maybe tomorrow.
There are going to be efforts, despite this great memo that we shared excerpts with you from, there are going to be efforts within the Trump campaign to change him.
These consultants and advisors cannot help themselves.
It's the natural inclination to not let the candidate be who he is.
It's just written in politics.
Trump is going to have to fight that.
And he's so far winning it.
Manafort was trying to turn the campaign into Manafort's campaign.
And Trump pulled him back and put Lewandowski back in there.
Okay, we've got to take a brief pause.
We'll do that.
We'll come back and return with the beginning of Trump soundbites from his foreign policy speech today.
Don't go away.
Trump spoke at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington today at the Center for the National Interest.
We're just going to start with the soundbites here.
They are, for the most part, in order.
It was a teleprompter speech, unlike Trump's normal appearances, and it was designed to get him on record in substantive, weighty ways on American foreign policy and his ideas.
I'd like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace.
It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.
My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else.
Has to be first.
Has to be.
That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make.
America.
America first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.
Okay, so how do you hear that?
I mean, that's clearly a serious, modulated, different kind of presentation.
He's reading it from the prompter.
Do you think he's reading it well?
Some people don't do well on the prompter.
Oh, no, no, no, that's not good.
That's not good.
You say it sounds like Washington blah, blah?
So you don't think this sounded like real Trump, huh?
Oh, but what about the substance of it?
All right.
Okay.
Here's the next bite.
This one is on how he's going to fix our decimated military.
We're rebuilding other countries while weakening our own.
Ending the theft of American jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military, which has to happen, and regain our financial independence and strength.
Our allies are not paying their fair share.
And I've been talking about this recently a lot.
Our allies must contribute toward their financial, political, and human costs.
Okay, let's go back to the beginning here.
We're rebuilding other countries while weakening our own.
Ending the theft of American jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military, which has to happen.
Just asking, how many of you in following Mr. Trump have heard him say, ending the, in these words, ending the theft of American jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military?
I haven't heard the line.
Now, you've heard him say, you've heard him utter the principle.
See what's going on here.
This is a specific audience.
Foreign policy, I mean, it is its own establishment, if you will, folks.
And they think very highly of themselves.
They are very, very, very impressed with themselves.
And people involved in Trump's campaign know full well that he's going to have to go up and speak to them in ways that mollify them, satisfy them, or what have.
And that's what this is.
Here's the next bite.
This is actually kind of let Hillary have it on her foreign policy.
Let's hear how that actually sounded in the teleprompter version.
The legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion, and disarray, a mess.
We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before.
We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.
We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing.
And we should always be ashamed for that, for that lack of action.
Our actions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria have helped unleash ISIS.
All right.
Now, he says that stuff out of the trend, and you don't hear a lot of other people saying those kinds of things to official foreign policy steps.
The official foreign policy status, they're kind of perfect guys like Fareeds that carry a GPS.
That's one of their heavyweights.
This is the kind of guys Trump here is trying to connect with.
We have time to squeeze one more in.
This is how he claims, says that he's going to beat Islamic terrorism.
And, well, he mentions what he's going to do with Muslim immigration here.
The struggle against radical Islam also takes place in our homeland.
We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies.
We have no idea where these people are coming from.
There's no documentation.
There's no paperwork.
There's nothing.
We have to be smart.
We have to be vigilant.
A pause for reassessment will help us to prevent the next San Bernardino.
Or, frankly, much worse, all you have to do is look at the World Trade Center and September 11th.
Okay, so certainly, what kind of marks you give here for presentation?
Sounds like typical Washington blah, blah, to you, right?
You're not dead.
Well, I'm going to tell you something here.
To actually say this, this is to the foreign policy establishment, whoever shows up to here, to say and to back up his pause on Muslim immigration into the country.
He didn't modify that.
He didn't change it.
He said it, and that's probably surprised a lot of people.
We have to take a break.
There's much more when we get back.
Where do we leave off here?
We left off at number 27.
That's right.
So we love how many more of these we have because there are three more to go.
And this is Trump's prescription in his foreign policy speech today for destroying ISIS.
Then there's ISIS.
I have a simple message for them.
Their days are numbered.
I won't tell them where and I won't tell them how.
We must, as a nation, be more unpredictable.
We are totally predictable.
We tell everything.
We're sending troops, we tell them.
We're sending something else, we have a news conference.
We have to be unpredictable.
And we have to be unpredictable starting now.
But they're going to be gone.
ISIS will be gone if I'm elected president.
And they'll be gone quickly.
I can imagine these foreign policy guys sitting there.
They'll be gone.
How is that going to happen?
How are they going to be gone?
What does it mean that they're going to be gone?
When they're gone, what happens to their institutions?
Are they gone too?
This is how they react to this kind of stuff.
It's going to be, I'm going to make a prediction.
You're going to have predictions, reactions to this from across the spectrum.
By the way, you Trumpists, I want you to be on the lookout.
There are going to be people are going to call this incoherent.
They're going to call it simplistic.
They're going to call it unstructured.
I mean, people, this is campaign season, and people are going to unload on this who oppose Trump and the campaign.
Just be prepared.
Here he begins now the summation of everything.
I will view as president the world through the clear lens of American interests.
I will be America's greatest defender and most loyal champion.
We will not apologize for becoming successful again, but will instead embrace the unique heritage that makes us who we are.
The world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest.
America will continue and continue forever to play the role of peacemaker.
We will always help save lives and indeed humanity itself.
But to play that role, we must make America strong again.
And here's the final bit.
There's one more thing, though, I want to.
We must make America respected again.
We must make America truly wealthy again.
And we must, we have to, and we will make America great again.
And if we do that, perhaps this century can be the most peaceful and prosperous the world has ever, ever known.
The buzz and the applause.
And then they're off to port and cigars to discuss the whole thing.
Now, one point that he made that we didn't get to on the soundbites, and don't, cookie, don't run around trying to get it.
I can explain it.
He pretty much announced the equivalent of my foreign policy excrement list.
For the longest time, I've had a very simple foreign policy, foreign aid, foreign aid basically.
You say great things about us.
We'll help you out.
You genuinely support us.
You openly promote us.
You openly respect us.
You openly thank us.
You openly work in mutual self-interest, and we will be your best friend.
But if you do anything other than that, if you sabotage us, if you criticize us perfectly, you get on the excrement list, and you could be on that list for years.
It could take years and years and years of good behavior for you to get off that list if I was in charge of it.
And he didn't put it in those words, of course, but he pretty much said that that's how he's going to look at some of this foreign aid, allied status, and so forth.
So you'll have your reactions to this, of course, yourself, and it'll be filled and discussed ad nauseum on cable TV the rest of the day and tonight.
Get back to the phones with you now.
People have been holding patiently.
Newark, Delaware.
Stevie, thank you for waiting.
Yeah, hi.
Hi, first time caller.
I just want to say thank you for everything you do.
It's fantastic to have somebody actually stand up for us.
But earlier when you were playing the Cruz soundbites, there was a part where he talked about the Iran deal, Iran deal with Trump and how Trump said he was going to get rid of it and it was a terrible deal.
I recall in one of the debates, not sure which one, but one of the debates, Cruz actually confronted him on this, and Trump's answer was that he was going to change the deal, not get rid of it, but that it was a terrible deal and he needed to change it.
I think that's what Cruz was implying to when he said he's not going to get rid of the Iran deal.
Okay, that's a good point.
And there's one other thing that Cruz said that he got wrong, I think, about Trump.
That may have been it.
I can't think of it.
I was thinking about it a half hour ago before the recent soundbites started.
When I was going through those soundbites with the 13 things that Cruz says Trump and Hillary are identical on, there's one more that's that I can't think of it.
I'll try to come up with it during the break, which I have to take now, and we'll be back.
Okay, the thing that I couldn't remember that I think Cruz got wrong is Trump.
This is from theHill.com back on March the 16th.
Obama plans to announce his Supreme Court nominee on Wednesday.
Trump thinks the Senate should not give the pick a hearing.
Cruz said that Trump thinks that he agrees with Harry Reid and Schumer that Garland should be given a hearing.
We should have negotiations with him.
But the Hill.com back on March said that Trump steadfastly opposed that.
And on this Iran deal, I think what happened in this Iran deal, there was an embargoed version of the Trump speech, the text of the speech that was sent out yesterday.
And in that version of the speech, which I, of course, folks, I'm a powerful, influential member of the media.
I had that version.
But we were all embargoed now.
We couldn't use it.
And in that version, Trump was going to say that He was going to hold Iran strictly to the letter of the deal, the deal that has been agreed to.
But he didn't do that.
He varied from what was embargoed.
The speech, as delivered earlier today, Trump basically said again and again that Iran would never get a nuclear weapon if he is president.
He didn't get into how he's going to stop it.
He didn't get into what he's going to do vis-a-vis the deal.
But his, and that's why I think the confusion, because Cruz would have had access to the embargoed version of Trump's speech yesterday in order to make the comparisons that he was making to Hillary.
So those are just two little minor, conflicting things.
During the break, I was watching on CNN.
They have three women there discussing how offended they are that Trump said that Hillary always plays the women card.
Can you, Mr. Sterby?
Can you see three men on TV discussing how offended they are that some female candidate had said something about men or this?
It just, it just doesn't happen.
Here we have three women up there going on and on and on about how offended they were that Trump accused Hillary of playing the woman, which she does.
She plays the woman.
She plays whatever card she's got.
She'd play victim card, you name it.
Anyway, Evansville, Indiana, this is Kelly.
I'm glad you called your next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
I am so excited to talk to you.
Thank you.
I am an Indiana voter, and I have three new teenagers that are going to be voting this year.
I'm letting my twins take the day off from school tomorrow to go to a Trump rally.
And I know I rely on you for my sanity.
I listen to you every day so I can understand what's going on out there.
I listen to you for your leadership, your guidance.
But, Rush, I'm really worried.
And I think, I know we will never be able to talk you into running for president, but there's one thing that you can do.
I think it's time we need you to stand up and lead us and tell us.
I know you don't want to, but we need you to tell us who to vote for, Cruz or Trump.
Well, that would require me seriously to violate a policy that I've had since the beginning days of this program.
And it's rooted in so many things.
And one of those things is I have utter, utmost respect for you, being able to decide on your own based on what's important to you.
The other thing is, I don't like to tie myself to candidates.
I don't like endorsing getting because I don't control what they say from day to day.
I don't control what they believe.
I don't control what they do.
And I just, I don't want to assume responsibility.
I mean, I don't want to tell you that somebody is the cat's meow and then later find out that they're not.
It's tough enough for me to stay on a straight and arrow.
I'm having to worry about somebody else doing it.
But it raises another point.
Do you know this actually kind of does surprise me a little bit?
There are any number of places you can read on the internet, blogs and websites, who actually think that the reason Ted Cruz is not winning everything is because conservative media hasn't aligned behind him.
As though it's my fault and other people's fault.
And we're not running.
That boggles my mind.
Folks, I'm not trying to be in any way falsely humble here.
It just I'm not running.
I'm not in charge of Cruz's campaign.
I haven't one thing to say about his strategy, the way he has gone about this, the idea that he would be doing better if I had been in the stable from the get-go.
I don't know.
I guess it's what some people think, but it honestly does.
And Kelly, I'm not evading you.
I mean, I'm not, I'm not, this is not a new position for me.
I could tell you to follow the Buckley rule, and that is vote for the most conservative candidate who can win in the general election.
That's the Buckley rule.
That's the point.
I'm not hiding behind anything.
You vote for the most conservative candidate who can win in the general.
That's what you do.
When you don't have somebody that you're already wedded to, that's how you decide.
Man, folks, that's it.
We're just out of time for today.
It zipped by, but there's always tomorrow.
Seriously, thank you so much for being with us each and every day.
I appreciate that more than you will ever, ever know.
And I look forward to it more than you'll ever, ever know.
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