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June 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush twenty four seven podcast.
You know why Rush isn't here today because somebody important died.
I'm telling you, I've been I don't know how long I've been filling in for Rush, but it's got to be pushing nearly two decades.
It's uncanny.
The number of times I do the show and somebody really famous dies before the next edition of the Rush program.
Half the time I spend here I come on talking about people who just died.
And Mohammed Ali, of course, over the weekend did die.
So Rush didn't want to have to talk about that, so I'm in here now to be the grim recruit reaper and talk about Mohammed Ali.
No, that's not true.
Rush is off today, and I'm going to talk about Mohammed Ali in a moment.
But I was thinking about this, you know, when Ali the announcement came Saturday, Friday night, I think it was, knowing I was going to be doing the program Monday, okay, you've got to go on Rush's program and you've got to say something about Ali, you have to talk about this remarkable figure, this supposedly polarizing figure, you've got to put him in context.
The audience is going to expect some comments and Ali's a hard person to summarize in fifteen or thirty seconds or even sixty seconds.
The reason the papers are filled with page after page after page after page is there's so much there, not all good, not all bad, but almost all interesting.
And in thinking this through, in making some notes of myself and thinking about my own opinions of Ali and my own remembrances of Ali, it occurred to me that I've been doing this just recently and not about Mohammed Ali.
Who does he remind you of?
Does Ali remind you of anybody else that's out there right now on the American scene?
Somebody who's extremely boastful, somebody who's extremely polarizing, somebody who's extremely charismatic.
Ali's like he's he's Trump.
They're almost the same guy.
I understand the political views might be different, but the similarities between Mohammed Ali and Donald Trump are rather extraordinary.
When Ali emerged on the scene, he was one of the first contemporary American, never mind sports figures, figures of any kind, who shot his mouth off a lot and said all sorts of things that nobody else was saying.
Well, Trump.
Ali was completely taken with himself.
I am the greatest.
Since Mohammed Ali, who has used the word great more than Donald Trump?
And my own attitudes here.
For those of you who haven't been familiar with me or my show or the occasional times, I fill in for Rush.
I am not a Donald Trump cheerleader.
Back on my own program in Milwaukee, I have been extremely critical of Trump.
I backed Ted Cruz in our Wisconsin primary.
I've made some very critical comments about Trump.
The last time I did the program here a few weeks ago, I commented on how I'm working through my own process on this and making a decision as to what I'm going to do with regard to not only my own comments but whom I'm going to vote for in November.
And I have never described myself as a never Trumper.
I'm not one of them because I don't want to be really a never anything.
You never really know what choices you're going to face in life, and if my choice is between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I'm probably going to have to end up with Trump, but I'm not sure I can get myself there.
So having said that, it's very hard for me to deny that Donald Trump has had a significant positive effect on America.
Everybody under the sun has analyzed why Trump won the nomination and what the Trump phenomenon indicates.
Everybody's got their own take, everybody's got their own spiel, and I don't pretend to be so arrogant as to be the one guy who understands it, but I do know what a major portion of it is.
Donald Trump is unabashedly undeniably American and proud of it.
Whether you talk about his foreign policy, which he describes as America first, or his border policy or almost anything else trade, he talks about America, America, America, America, America.
This is resonating with a lot of people.
Well you think about Ali.
He certainly was somebody who wasn't all that supportive of our government, and he had a lot of critical things to say.
But can you think of anybody truly more American than Ali?
He never could have been from anywhere else.
If he was from anywhere else, they would not have tolerated what it was that he did.
They're both completely American figures.
So anyway, here's my plan for the program today.
First of all, my plan is to get through it and survive and not foul it up for Rush.
After that, everything else is secondary.
That's always the number one priority for any guest host.
Don't ruin the whole thing for the main guy who's gone.
So that's priority number one.
Priority number two, we're going to talk about Mohammed Ali on the show, and we're going to take calls from the Rush audience and just get your thoughts on really any aspect of his life or his impact, positive and negative, his larger than life status as an American, and really the weird last 20 years of his life where he was rendered almost silent.
Just odd seeing Mohammed Ali really ever since the Atlanta Olympics, wondering what's really in there.
What does he think?
The guy who could never be shut up is now silenced.
So we're going to talk about him a little bit later on in the program.
Right now I want to deal with, as my first topic, and I guess that means that none of what I just said was a topic yet.
I want to talk about this back and forth that's going on with Trump and his comments about the judge, the Mexican American judge, who's hearing the Trump University case.
Because you now have the Republicans who have been backing Trump, saying that this is too far and Trump should not have said it.
This is a terrible thing.
Newt Gingrich is probably the closest thing that Donald Trump has had over the last few months to a supporter among mainstream Republicanism.
Former Speaker of the House, outspoken himself.
Gingrich has had Trump's back from the beginning.
He was one of the first of the mainstream Republicans, probably isn't the right term, but probably one of the first of the well known Republicans to back him.
He's criticized Republican establishment leaders who were looking for ways to try to deny the nomination to Trump.
It was Gingrich who said, you got to get over it.
He's the nominee.
Gingrich has been very, very supportive of Donald Trump, but over the weekend he came out, and he was very critical of the comments that Trump made about the judge overseeing the Trump University case, in which Trump is suggesting that the ethnicity of the judge may make it hard for the judge to give Trump a fair shake.
So you now have almost every major Republican, including those who have come around and endorsed Trump, saying they're bothered by this.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.
And the statement can't be defended.
I don't know why he would make a comment like that.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, only a couple of days after he came around and endorsed Trump, said he doesn't agree with the statement, doesn't believe that it's acceptable.
And then even now, Gingrich.
Gingrich with his comments saying that he doesn't know why Trump would make a statement like this, he says it's the worst thing that Trump has said.
Trump isn't being silenced by this.
He's essentially telling Newt Gingrich to shut up.
He thinks it's inappropriate that Newt Gingrich criticized him for this.
What do I think about this?
What I think is that this is just mind blowing.
Who's saying what about this whole Donald Trump comment on the judge?
Trump is apparently way out of line, we're told, for daring to suggest that he's not going to get a fair shake in front of this judge because of this judge's ethnicity.
Why you can't say that?
You shouldn't be judging a federal judge on the basis of his skin color or his ethnicity or anything else that comes.
You're suggesting that a federal judge would have a bias.
Well, who has opened that door?
For how long have we been told that black Americans can't get a fair shake in the white judicial system?
The United States Supreme Court, only a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court, the eight-member Court voted seven one to overturn the death sentence of a black man in Georgia because the jury in the case was all white.
Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter.
Even the other conservatives joined the majority.
They concluded that the African American in Georgia could not get a fair shake when his case was heard by a jury that was all white.
The Rodney King case that they moved up to Simi Valley, the virtually all white suburban area of Los Angeles.
The cops were let off.
We were told that was because there was a race-based jury that wasn't going to convict a bunch of white cops.
So we've been lectured by the left and by critics of the criminal justice system.
The people of color can't get a fair shake from white judges and white juries.
All Trump's doing here is the same thing only in reverse.
So are we now saying that Trump can't suggest that there might be a bias against him?
Are we saying that Trump can't suggest that the ethnicity of the judge might not have an impact on him?
No one's been bothered at all when the whiteness of a judge or the whiteness of a jury has been criticized by someone of color.
I'm not saying Trump's right.
What I'm saying is that there's a lot of hypocrisy here in the criticism.
Of all the things that Trump has said, really since July of last year when he emerged on the scene.
The comments about Mexicans, the comments about the border, the comments about temporarily banning Muslims from coming into the United States, go the comments about Meghan Kelly, go through the entire list.
I hardly find that this is the most outrageous thing that Donald Trump has said.
And I know because I've criticized a lot of them.
But why is this suddenly the most incredibly terrible thing that he's ever said?
Because it isn't.
Even if you disagree with it, it seems to be a less extreme statement than some of the other comments he's made on other issues.
So I just for a second want to analyze what's happening here.
I think some of this outrage at Trump is fake.
I think it's feigned.
I think that you have a lot of Republicans who have now come around and made, if not peace with Trump.
They've decided to back him.
They decided that the best thing for the party is to get behind his candidacy, but they want him to listen.
Newt Gingrich himself said, if Donald doesn't start listening to his allies, he isn't going to have any.
I think this smackdown now of Trump by a lot of Republicans is their attempt to get Trump to start listening to them.
And from the perspective of Trump, he's got to be looking at his luck.
I won the whole thing.
I beat 16 other candidates by not listening to these people.
I surged in the polls.
I'm leading Hillary in some of them, close in others, by not listening to these people.
Why should I start listening to them now?
So I see where Trump is coming from.
And I understand why he may want to ignore Newt Gingrich and everybody else.
But he does make things very difficult for Republicans who think that these comments of Trump are unacceptable.
My response to them would be to simply say, look, there's going to be a million things Donald Trump says between now and November that you're not going to like.
You're not going to make Donald Trump politically correct.
It's impossible.
He's 70 years old.
You're not going to change him.
As for the comments themselves, as for the comments themselves, they may be wrong.
I just think it's remarkable, though, that after decades in which we have been told that the criminal justice system is inherently biased and skin color must be taken to consideration.
African American defendants have a right to have an African African American representation on juries, that the judicial system itself needed more women, needs more Latinos, needs more needs more blacks.
Suddenly Donald Trump isn't allowed to comment at all on the ethnicity of anyone in the judicial system.
That's just bogus.
And I'm not defending his comments.
I suspect all that's going on here is Trump wants to win this lawsuit about Trump University and he's trying to bully the judge the way he tries to bully almost everyone else.
But this argument here that he's crossed some sort of line is silly because this line's been crossed by liberals for decades.
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Uh I am Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
The phone number is 1-800-282882.
Only once in all of my guest hosting did I ever read the Milwaukee phone number.
I did do that once, and I once introduced a caller by saying that they were on the Milwaukee Station.
Those are the only two times I've fouled that up.
All right, let's go to the calls.
Let's talk about the uh Trump comments on the judge, the criticism of it, the criticism he's getting from a lot of Republicans, and the question is to whether or not Trump even wants to win, and is this a winning strategy?
He takes on a lot of stuff.
Lynchburg, Virginia, and I think it's Nathan.
Nathan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey, Mark.
I hey, I just wanted to I I heard what you said, and I I I couldn't agree with you more.
I mean, you everybody knows how Trump is, first of all.
Um we as a nation are a melting pot.
We've been called a melting pot.
I learned that in history class when I since I was little enough.
We all have biases, we all have uh racial issues, we all that's the point of this great American experiment is that we can take everything from the world and we can put it all together and call ourselves Americans and we can all just live as we're all human beings, we all bleed red.
But at the end of the day, with his notoriety and his his uh stature and everything that Trump is, he's right.
He's absolutely right.
He this we don't know who's who this judge is that's gonna be seeing this case.
He could be throwing the book at him just because he's getting paid off by liberals or by whatever.
Either way, I don't think he's gonna get a fair trial.
Um, yeah, except Trump's concern is is that the judge's ethnicity is Mexican American.
He didn't say that the judge has a long history of being opposed to things that I've done or criticize my policies or some of the statements that I've made.
He says that he's not getting a fair shake so far in the rulings in this Trump University case, and it's because of who the judge is, and he doubled down on it yesterday by suggesting he'd have a problem if there was a Muslim judge as well.
I think it's hard to defend the statement because Donald Trump seems to therefore be saying the only judge that could ever hear a case involving him, Donald Trump, would be a white guy.
The problem that I have with so many people on the left criticizing his statement for daring to introduce race and ethnicity is we have been told for decades that race and ethnicity is pervasive in the judicial system and has created bias.
As for the political impact of this, the Republicans freaking out over Trump saying this, I just wonder why they're freaking out over this as opposed to so many other statements that Trump has made that would strike me if at any if anything more outrageous than this one.
Republicans are the Republicans are cowards.
That's why.
Well, well, how do you say that about Gingrich though?
Gingrich has been carrying water for Donald Trump for the last few weeks, and all of a sudden Newt is mortified.
Well, why are you mortified now?
Newt is opposed to prior to any of the other things that Donald Trump said, and then they're suggesting that Trump back down.
Trump doesn't back down.
If he backs down, it'll be in a few months as he sort of backed away from the ban on Muslims coming into the United States and said that, well, you know, this is a position they were taking, maybe we have to be flexible about it and so on.
But Trump wasn't going to back down.
He comes on, I think he was on Face the Nation yesterday.
John Dickerson's asking him about the comments.
They throw out, you know, would you be comfortable with a Muslim judge?
Said, no, I don't think I would be either.
Are people really surprised?
And are the Republicans who've come around to endorse Trump surprised that Trump is still saying things that are outside the mainstream and that he doesn't back down when they say it.
I'm not defending the comment.
What I'm saying is I just think some of the outrage here is fake.
I'm also saying that Trump is merely playing the same card That has been played by minority group members for some time in suggesting that they have a right to essentially pick their juries and pick their judges because of the issue of bias.
Trump Trump is not a racist.
He's not a racist at all, first of all.
And I'm getting tired of the people playing the race card with him.
Just because he wants to protect our borders and keep our enemies out.
It just so happens that right now in American history, we have an enemy who just happens to be Muslim from the faith of Islam, where they're they're committing global jihad all around the world.
I can understand why he would be able to do that.
I grant I grant that, Nathan, although you also have to acknowledge that in this case, it was Trump that in that introduced the issue of race himself.
Now I have no idea whether or not Trump University was a lousy operation or not.
Some people are alleging that.
He doesn't like the way the lawsuit is going, so he takes the shot at the judge.
It's kind of what Trump does, and anybody who's suddenly shocked that Trump would dare to do that hasn't been paying attention to Donald Trump.
I want to spend some time in a few moments talking about the core of the Trump appeal because it's not something that's happening merely in the United States.
It's happening across Europe as well.
He's tapped into something that resonates with a lot of people.
By the same token, what he's tapping into is resented by many others.
The latest Trump, Brujaha, is over his comments critical of the judge that's hearing the case of these lawsuits brought by students who were unhappy with what happened when they attended Trump University.
Trump went out and criticized the judge, who apparently is of Mexican American ethnicity, suggesting that maybe that's why the judge is issuing rulings against him.
Just about everybody, including the Republicans who have supported Trump, have criticized him for these comments.
Trump isn't backing down.
Back to the phones, Corpus Christi and Eddie.
Eddie are on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, good morning.
I'm a five-year listener, first time caller.
Um I I am a Mexican American, and you know, we're in our culture, we're always stressing education and as a way to get ahead in life.
And here we have a man who is a federal judge.
Obviously, he did everything he's supposed to do.
He's on the top of his game.
And Trump just calls him a Mexican.
And makes me wonder, you know, what do you think about the rest of us?
You know, are we worse than that?
I mean, are we wet packs or Mexican or what are we?
You know?
I was a Trump supporter up until this time.
And even though people are always snickering behind me when I say I'm a Trump supporter, I liked him because of his populist message.
I liked him because he is anti-illegal, which, you know, I'm I'm I'm for border enforcement.
Um, you know, I'm for his economic message, I'm for his trade agreement message.
But now I find myself, you know, shell-shocked, I don't know what to think of this guy anymore.
So I want to summarize what you've told me because I listened closely.
You're Mexican American, you've been pro-Trump.
You have not been bothered by some of the earlier comments you made.
You actually support his comments on illegal immigration and a border and the border, but you don't like what he said here, and it bothers you.
What was it about this statement in particular, as opposed to say the comments that he made about illegal immigrants months ago and so on?
I want I want you to be specific in what you tell us what it is about these comments now that are bothering you that's bothering you so much.
I've been here, I mean, my people have been there five generations here in Texas.
Um I used to live in the hellhole of Southern California, so I think I know what illegal immigration is about.
I know, but about these comments that Trump made here, you say that you're now considering no longer supporting him.
What is it specifically about this comment that that offended you?
Well, because this man is an American of Mexican descent.
He is not somebody from another country, he is an American.
That's my reason.
Do you not as an accomplice Mexican American, you know, everything that we are taught to be in this country to get ahead and you know, even this guy can't escape being called a Mexican, like he's from another country.
Yeah, the comment that I have From Trump is he's a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine, but I say he's got bias.
I want to build a wall.
I'm going to build a wall.
I'm doing very well with the Latinos and the Hispanics with the Mexicans.
I'm doing very well with them in my opinion.
So he said he's very strongly pro-Mexican and therefore he might have a problem with the comments that Trump has made.
In fairness to Trump, something that I'm often not accused of doing, in fairness to Trump, he has been harshly criticized by many Mexican-American leaders.
The rally in San Jose, it seemed like a significant number of the people who are violently setting upon Trump supporters were either Mexican or Mexican-American.
Can you not see why Trump might think it's possible that a Mexican-American judge might have it in for him?
No, because I think that this judge is a professional.
And I think that a judge in his position will be able to rule impartially.
Nobody questions, like I said.
I don't know this judge, but I don't agree with that.
I don't I think seventy-five percent of the federal judges in the United States have biases and agendas.
Do you think for a moment that a liberal is going to have a fair shake?
Do you think a conservative is going to have a fair shake in a feder in front of a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama?
Look at the problems that we've had with the United States Supreme Court just ignoring the Constitution because of their biases.
The problem that we have with that I have with what Trump said, and I think it's your problem as well, is that he's basing basing it solely on ethnicity, religion.
Right now, the most staunch conservative on the Supreme Court is an African-American, Clarence Thomas.
Trump seems to be making an automatic assumption because this judge is Mexican-American or has pro-Mexican views, as he's stating, that that means that he can't get a fair shake.
I'm not denying that biases exist, though, in the federal judiciary.
I think most judges are guilty of them.
Thank you for the call, Eddie.
Let's go to Atlanta and Kathy.
Kathy, you're on the Rush program with Mark Belling.
Good morning.
How are you doing?
I'm great.
Thanks.
Great.
I wanted to mention the fact that I am an American, first of all.
I'm an American, and I happen to be black.
I believe that there may be some basis for Trump to be concerned.
I mean, he has been very adamant about the fact that he does want to build a wall that has alienated a lot of people in the Hispanic community.
And people are, like you said, judges are people, too.
So they're going to have opinions.
And if he sees that there's a trend already in the way the judge is ruling in early depositions and, you know, different hearings and things that have come up already, then it may be because of the staunch stand that Trump has taken against certain things.
And, you know, some of his views, including the fact that he wants to deport a lot of millions of Mexicans and millions of Hispanics.
And so that is going to weigh very heavily on almost any audience.
Yeah, and whether it is on this judge or not, we don't know.
The problem I have with Trump's comment is he assumes that the ethnicity of the judge would lead the judge to be against him.
But that would be as wrong as someone assuming that because you're African-American, that you would be not supporting the Republican candidate.
He's making that assumption, and he didn't offer us anything to back it up.
And I think that that's where some people have a problem with it.
Well, and I think that, with all due respect, it may not be necessarily just because he's Mexican.
He may have just come out and said that.
But it may be based on some background screens or something he's done to dig into the history of this judge or the history of his ruling.
And, first of all, I'm not African-American.
I've never been to Africa, even though my ancestors have.
So I don't even use that term.
My mother and I support Trump.
It's very, very hard to figure out what term we're supposed to use for anyone anymore, unfortunately.
How do you like to be referred to as a black American?
I don't even recognize that term.
So that's a whole show unto itself.
Right.
But the black American is just.
You are black, however.
Right.
Makes me pro-Trump.
Because some of the comments that you said earlier about him just wanting to make America great again.
We are substandard now, whereas we could be above standard, which is where we've always been.
Yeah.
And I suspect a lot of the people who support Trump are going to defend the comments that he's made here.
In my own stance, you know, I've got a lot of people in my audience back in Milwaukee who are telling me not to back.
Trump, that you've been critical of Trump, that you'd be selling out if you do so, and I've got a lot of others who are saying it's time to get on board.
I don't know what's going to happen.
What I do know is that I have to have an open mind about this.
My advice, though, thank you for the call.
I appreciate it, Kathy.
Interesting.
Uh, black American, she doesn't like the term African American.
It is very hard for all of us to decide which terms are supposed to apply to anyone anymore for precisely the reason that Trump is referring to.
We have become race and ethnicity obsessed, but it isn't any Republican that ever started that.
We aren't the ones that have demanded that everybody be represented and counted by what group they are in, or presuming that because you are of a certain skin color or a certain ethnicity or a certain sexual preference that you're gonna have political viewpoints that are going to go along those lines.
It wasn't us that started that.
The point that I was about to make though, for people that are struggling with Trump, they're conservatives, they're Republicans, or they've come out and supported Trump.
You don't have to defend every single thing that Donald Trump says and still support him for president.
Newt Gingrich, I guess, has a hang up over these comments.
So does Paul Ryan, so does Mitch Mitch McConnell.
That's fine.
I've got to hang up over a million things that Donald Trump has said.
You've got to think a little bit here like a Democrat.
Do you really think that all of them are okay with every single thing that Bill and Hillary Clinton have done?
Okay, you don't like these comments.
But put them in the context and figure out why it is that he did it to suddenly suggest that this is disqualifying.
This indicates that he's not fit to be president of the United States.
Come on.
He's gone farther than this several other times.
What I think Donald Trump was doing here is the same thing that you see the NBA coaches do during a basketball game.
I think he's working the ref.
I think he got in the face of the judge and said, The only reason that he's ruling against him is because he's Mexican, he's got it in got it in for me.
He's trying to pressure the judge to not show any bias, and maybe the next decision the judge makes in this case might be pro-Trump so that the judge tries to prove that he doesn't have a bias.
I think that's all that's going on here.
Do I think he should have done it?
Probably not.
But I think that's what his tactic is in the same way that he called out members of the news media last week and got some fairly pro-Trump coverage after those riots, attacks in San Jose.
I think that there's something to be said for Donald Trump, probably trying to work and game the judge here.
I don't think you have to defend everything that he says, though, if you're a supporter of him.
So Newt Gingrich is bothered that Trump said this.
He's gonna do about thirty-five other things between now and November that you don't like.
There is still a question as to who you're gonna support him or Hillary Clinton, which might be a more relevant question to ask rather than expecting Donald Trump to all of a sudden become politically correct because he's not going to.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
He's just like Ali.
If you want to say that he's this incredibly eloquent spokesman for his generation and a guy who wasn't going to take anything from the man, you've also got to accept that he was a racist, and he was a draft dodger.
The same thing with Trump.
You're not going to turn Donald Trump into someone other than Donald Trump.
Donald Trump feels as though he's getting a getting reamed by this judge in the case.
Trump's going to rip him and he's going to rip him for with anything that he might have at his disposal.
In fairness to Trump, the judge is a member of a group called La Raza Lawyers of San Diego.
It appears to be affiliated with La Raza, which is a very left of center Latino rights organization.
Quoting from the Daily Caller, the National Council of La Raza is the largest Hispanic advocacy group in the nation, and it's taken a strong stance against Trump.
They previously called Saturday Night Live a platform for hate for inviting on Trump when he guest hosted the program.
La Raza translates to the race in English.
Now this specific group, La Raza Lawyers of San Diego, says that it hasn't been involved in any political activism against Trump.
The comment here from Trump.
The judge was appointed by the judge was appointed by Barack Obama, federal judge.
Frankly, he should recruit recuse himself because he's given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative.
What happens is the judge who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that's fine.
So it's a muddled statement from Trump, but there is at least some indication that the judge is left of center.
He's an Obama appointee.
He was a member of La Raza.
We all know what Trump's views are on the border, and we know that a lot of Mexican Americans don't like Donald Trump.
I don't think he's put this very eloquently.
And I also think that he makes a mistake in assuming that because a judge happens to be Mexican American, that he can't give him a fair shake.
On the other hand, left of center judges have a history of bringing their politics and their agenda to the bench.
They've done it for decades.
The reason we have had so many court rulings that have imposed legislation on this nation from the court and not from the Congress or the President is because liberal judges have used their power to put their ideology in place.
And if this particular judge is out there laying for Donald Trump, he wouldn't be the first one.
I would advise those supporters of Trump who have been walking on eggshells because they want to win in November and they want to keep the Senate and they want to keep the House, and they don't want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States,
that if you're going to get the he be jeebs every time Donald Trump says something that may be hard to defend, you're never going to make it to November.
With Trump, you're going to get the good with the bad.
A big part of the reason why he's won the nomination is that he is willing to say things that no one else is willing to say.
A lot of those things that he said, I don't particularly agree with.
But a lot of things also needed to be said.
He did win.
Thank you.
And he won for a reason.
The larger concern I have is the reason he's made these comments about the judge because he's worried about losing the Trump University lawsuit.
Donald Trump did get the Republican nomination, and he has an obligation to Republicans and his supporters to win the election now.
He can't be saying things that are going to harm his chances of winning the election.
Just to advance his case in the Trump University lawsuit.
I don't know what Trump's true agenda is.
But he needs to make his number one priority to be winning.
If he figured, okay, fine, this might harm me politically, but I'm going to put this judge on notice because I'm concerned about the Trump you lawsuit, then he's got his priorities in the wrong place.
You have millions of Americans who are showing up at these rallies supporting him, praying for him, hoping he wins.
You've got a lot of other Americans who are now willing to come over and support him because they believe in the conservative cause and they believe in Republicanism.
We do have a right to expect that Donald Trump, not do things politically that are stupid or hard to defend.
But you're going to get some of those things, and we're just going to have to accept it.
I am going to put it in a context, however, and say that he's not the first person to suggest that ethnicity or race is the reason why the court system is going against one.
The left's been doing it forever.
My name is Mark Belling and I'm in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I've, because it's linked in my own mind, linked Donald Trump and Muhammad Ali in And a little bit later on we'll be talking about your thoughts, your reminiscences, your position and how Mohammed Ali should be judged historically.
We're going to do that a little bit later on.
I can't get past the fact that I just find so many similarities between him and Donald Trump.
I don't have a black and white position on Muhammad Ali.
I have a lot of thoughts on Muhammad Ali, but I think that the man was a remarkable figure who had a lot of warts.
I see the same thing with regard to Donald Trump.
I don't think if you're a conservative or a Trump supporter, you have to be okay with everything that he says.
I've not been okay with a lot of the things that he said so far, and I'm working myself through this.
What I will tell you though is that the people on the left who keep criticizing him are shoving me into Trump's camp.
And now even some of the comments from Republicans, well, Trump can't say this thing, can't say this, he can't say that, he can't say the other thing.
Those standards haven't been applied to Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or anyone else.
We're going to continue this discussion as we move forward.
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