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July 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Okay, so some campaign news before we get back to the um the audio soundbites on Fox News Sunday, I finally have them here, and you be the judge.
It's uncanny, the way back in April, Barack Obama's language about Hillary Clinton and her email problems.
It's almost identical to what James Comey said yesterday exonerating her.
Well, I keep saying that he didn't exonerate her.
In fact, he did the exact opposite.
He did everything but indict her.
And as Andy McCarthy pointed out, that doesn't usually happen normally, these decisions to prosecute or not.
We never hear about it.
We just learn that something's gonna happen or something isn't, but we never get what we got yesterday.
So more on that in a moment.
Look, this is important.
Hillary went to Atlantic City today, and she's out there attacking Trump and his business practices, particularly the days which he owned casinos there.
And she's using the word rigged to describe the way Trump set up his businesses.
And she's she's claiming that he rigged things so that no matter what happened, he got paid.
If the thing went belly up, there was bankruptcy, no matter what it was, Trump rigged it so that he got paid.
And you know, Hillary is desperate to change the subject.
She is desperate to get everybody off of this email story.
You know, even the AP.
I mean, to show you how bad this is.
The AP did a fact check.
And the AP concluded that what Comey said is devastating.
The AP concluded it, Comey illustrated how much and how deeply she lied about things.
And the AP, they still, even in their fact check, they attack Trump.
They end up doing that, trying to mitigate the damage.
But you can't hide this.
I mean, you can't, you you you can do your best to ignore it, but if you're gonna tackle it, if you're a fact checker, if you have uh any desire not to be a laughing stock, you've got to address this for what it is.
And she is fully exposed and she knows it, so she's out there.
You know, she and Obama went to North Carolina, she didn't talk about this at all yesterday.
Obama didn't talk about this at all yesterday.
Obama started talking about Trump and started stuttering like crazy again.
She he was going off on Trump.
I'm guaranteeing you Trump is living rent-free in Obama's sizable head.
Because he became a stuttering mess.
But the point is they didn't mention this.
They're all on Trump.
They know that the uh the word on Trump is that he's got a thin skin.
And the the opposition research on Trump is that his thin skin means that if you attack him, he is guaranteed to attack you back no matter what else is going on.
So what that means is that Hillary and her camp feel confident they can take Trump off message any time they want simply by leveling some charge, whether it's based in fact or not.
Now I I saw I was watching Fox during the uh top of the hour break, and they're promoting a Trump appearance tonight.
And the banner headline says Trump to respond to Hillary attacks on business practices tonight on the Fox News channel.
Mr. Trump, if you do it, fly to Benghazi to do it, or fly to Arkansas at Whitewater.
I mean, you d don't change the subject on this.
Her lack of qualification.
She's trying to say, Mr. Trump, she's trying to say that you're temperamentally unsuit unsuitable.
You're temperamentally unfit, you're not qualified.
You're your uh no business being president running for president.
She's the one who is unfit.
She's the one who can't pass an incredi uh a credibility test or a a uh uh integrity test.
She is the one who is the standout liar.
She is the one who exposes the nation to great danger.
Don't get off that message.
Your voters don't care about your business practices in the casino.
That's not why you have your legion of supporters.
I know he's gonna defend himself.
That's just his nature.
But for crying, don't make it the focal point of what you're doing here.
Don't let her take you off message so easily.
This is my fervent wish.
This is the only way I know how to do it.
And if you're gonna do it, if you're gonna go to Benghazi, fly you got a plane, fly to Benghazi and do the report when you talk about Hillary Clinton.
She's attacking you on you don't know how to run a business.
She didn't know how to run a State Department.
Go to Benghazi.
Go to Whitewater in Arkansas.
Point that Boeing 757 of yours someplace where she's been and screwed it up and do your answer from there.
I know he's in Ohio today.
He's got uh uh in fact, one of the things supposedly happening today is that Newt is gonna be auditioning for the VP slot today by virtue of how he does speaking on behalf of Trump at the where is it I know it's in Ohio, I forget exactly where.
Okay, the fix.
Is this whole thing with Hillary and the emails and the FBI and the DOJ was a fix in.
Um can't blame people for going there and asking that because what happened here is in utter conflict with common sense.
What happened yesterday makes no common sense.
Not if the rule of law matters.
Now it does make common sense if you can come up with some other theory, and they're all over the place.
I mean, you got people thinking Comey is brilliant, that he's Machiavellian brilliant.
That he knew the worst thing that could happen would be to have her indicted, because that would only circle the wagons of support around her, or it might dislodge her, and then we'd get Biden.
And for some reason, some people think Biden would be unbeatable, whereas she is beatable.
Biden's never won diddly squat.
Biden's never gotten out of the first round of primaries whenever he's entered.
But for some reason, a lot of people on our side think that Biden would be formidable, and therefore it'd be much more preferable to keep Hillary as the candidate.
Other people are saying, hey, you know what?
He's not recommending an indictment, but he did everything but he spelled out her dishonesty.
He laid it out for anybody and everybody.
He he gave the roadmap for the Trump campaign to I've even heard it said.
Get this theory.
Tell me if you've heard this.
That Comey did what he did to spare the country of a Bernie Sanders Donald Trump campaign.
Oh, you haven't heard that one?
That's the lady.
That Comey is such a man of integrity that he has such a high regard for America that he simply could not allow a campaign of Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump, because somebody in that scenario is gonna win, and it's going to be an embarrassment.
Now that theory requires you to believe that Hillary Clinton winning the presidency is the best thing that can happen of all the possibilities out there, and that Comey would have to ascribe to that theory.
I don't know Comey, so I don't know.
The only thing I know about Comey is what I've been told, and I've I've witnessed a little bit, you know, he was John Ashcroft's aide back when uh when Bush, George W. Bush first term, Ashcroft was his uh attorney general.
Then there's this little bit from um uh the Gallup poll, a shocking finding, recent Gallup survey.
75% of Americans say that corruption is widespread throughout the government.
The numbers saying the government is corrupt is up dramatically, almost up 10 points since Obama assumed control of the regime.
And it isn't just the cynicism of technophile citizens in the developed world.
The number of Americans who view the government as corrupt is almost twice the number of Germans who believe their government is dirty.
Residents of most developed European countries, in fact, have much more favorable views about corruption in their own governments.
I guess socialistic corruption is more acceptable in Europe.
Anyway, so there was a CNN poll uh recently that found uh Breitbart News had this that a strong majority of Americans are dissatisfied and angry with the way the country is being governed.
That doesn't show up in the polling data.
You would have to if 75% of the American people in the U.S. government's corrupt, how in the world is Hillary Clinton lead by five or six points?
I mean, that would be my question.
Now, I know that if you go to the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, and this is important too.
In that poll, Hillary is up whatever it is, six points, but in every question in the internal of that poll, she just getting creamed.
Honest and trustworthy, Trump just creams her.
Best to deal with the economy, best to deal with terrorism.
Trump is creaming her, wiping the floor with her.
If 75% of the American people, the U.S. government's corrupt, who's running the government right now?
Thank you.
Yeah, Democrats, but in most people's minds, they'd probably say the establishment.
And a lot of people think the establishment is both parties.
And some would be correct about that.
97% of the Gallup survey, 97% of Trump supporters said they were dissatisfied with government in America.
91% reported they are angry about it.
Um this is a big number.
75% of Americans think the U.S. government is corrupt.
Be honest.
Do you get that sense when you travel around?
No, no, I'm I'm serious.
I don't.
Isn't one of our great fears that the younger generations don't care?
Or they are so in love with government that whatever it does is okay and that it needs to be doing more.
Isn't one of the great fears that uh younger people and a lot of Democrats don't find anything wrong?
Isn't that why we think we're losing the country?
So then you come along and you find the Gallup survey, 75% of Americans think the government's corrupt.
I don't see that reflected anywhere.
I know drive-by's would not reflect it, because it would redownly to Obama and Hillary.
But you know, you would see some signs.
Just look, you you can see signs of a roaring economy.
You can see, you can sense economic growth.
You you know it's happening.
You're part of it.
It is affecting you.
75% of Americans think the government is corrupt.
If that's the case, why do so many people love it?
Why do so many people want more of it?
Why so many people constantly turn to it?
Would be my preguntas.
No, no.
I would like for it to be true.
But I it's a poll, you know, and and it's obviously seductive.
Okay, we're gonna go back.
Three audio sound bites here before the break, and we'll get to your phone calls after that.
This is Fox News Sunday, April 10th this year.
Barack Hussein O with a rare appearance on Fox.
This is with Chris Wallace.
And I want you to listen to these bites.
Simply to listen to the language Obama uses and how similar it sounds in his assessment of Hillary and her actions with her emails.
How almost exactly it sounds like that which James Comey uttered yesterday in his press conference.
So the first question from Chris Wallace.
Last October, Mr. President, you said Hillary Clinton's private email server did not jeopardize national secrets.
Since then, we've learned that over 2,000 of her emails contained classified material, 22 of them had top secret information.
Can you still say flatly that she did not jeopardize America's secrets?
I've got to be careful because as you know, there have been investigations, there are Hearings, Congress is looking at this, and I haven't been sorting through each and every aspect of this.
Here's what I know.
Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State.
She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
And what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information, uh, is that there's classified and then there's classified.
There's stuff that is really top secret, top secret, and there's stuff that is being presented to the president or the Secretary of State that you might not want on the transom uh or you know going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.
Interesting.
So she wouldn't intentionally put the nation at risk.
She wouldn't intentionally traffic.
In top secret sub and besides, not all this stuff we deal with is that classified anyway.
So here's the president, very powerful, intimidating guy.
Comey works for him.
The president's been out there saying he didn't think Hillary did anything wrong, and Lynch meets with Bill Clinton, and uh I mean the message was sent to Comey in every possible way.
Make no mistake that that's what this is all about.
Make no mistake Clinton getting on the plane with Loretta Lynch.
All that's meant to send a signal to Comey.
So Chris Wallace then said, Well, last October, Mr. President, you were prepared to say she hasn't jeopardized in the question.
Can you still say that?
I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security.
Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes.
But I but I also think it is important to keep this in perspective.
Uh this is somebody who has served her country for four years as Secretary of State and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she's handled emails, uh, that that detracted from her excellent uh ability to carry out her duties.
Okay, so in this bite, the key word is hey, and she's even acknowledged there was a carelessness.
So in the first soundbite, what we heard was uh that that uh there was never any intent, she didn't intend to put America in any kind of jeopardy.
She's uh she's acknowledged there was a carelessness.
And now the third bite question, Mr. President.
Some people I think are worried.
Uh the decision how to handle a case will be made on political grounds, not legal grounds.
Can you guarantee that the American people can you direct the Justice Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes?
She will not be in any way protected.
I can guarantee that.
And and I can guarantee that not because I give uh Attorney General Lynch a directive.
That is institutionally how we have always operated.
I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations.
I just want to FBI directors about pending investigations.
Doesn't have to.
We have a strict line uh and always have maintained it, previous presidents.
Just to button this up.
I guarantee it.
You I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case full stop, period.
And she will be treated no differently guaranteed full stop.
Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.
Okay, that's it.
She did.
She was treated differently.
She was treated differently on the basis of they changed the statute, didn't apply the one that required intent, or they did, and they ignored the one on gross network.
She did get special.
That's the whole rub of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, how many times do you remember me predicting to you that uh the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, somebody as part of the presidential campaign, would come along and suggest forgiving student loans.
You recall me saying this, correct Amente?
Well, guess what?
Mrs. Clinton, in a recent campaign appearance referenced the possibility of a three-month moratorium on student loans.
Three-month hiatus for repayment of student loans.
So this is the start of it.
It's in the Washington Post.
Hillary Clinton plans to promise a three-month moratorium on repayment of federal student loans to allow time to refinance or restructure high interest debt, part of a larger package of education-related proposals intended to appeal to young voters.
And an accompanying story from the Hill.com, the Obama administration moving ahead with a new regulation that could make it easier for students to seek forgiveness of their federal student loans.
It's going to be part of this campaign.
They think the millennials might be slittering away.
You watch.
Talent.
So much talent.
On loan from God.
Meaning someday it's gonna go back.
And we start on the phones in Atlanta.
Todd, you're up first.
Really glad you waited, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Uh yes, sir.
I was wondering if you could explain something to me.
Um, how do you unintentionally delete 30,000 emails that are pertinent to an FBI investigation?
Yeah, I uh I I don't know how you arrive at the unintentionality uh of any of this.
I mean, she intended to hide by setting up the private server.
There's your intent right there to hide things from public view, which is why she did it.
She thinks that she's above the law.
This is what bothers me.
Todd, she thinks that she's above the law.
She thinks that she is a special human being, better than everybody else, and not accountable because she's a better person, and she's just been given that stamp of approval.
She set up that private server for the express purpose of being able to do things that nobody would be able to learn about.
And that's why when you find out how they've used that foundation to raise money from all these foreign governments and foreign entities, who the hell knows what was in these 30,000 emails that she supposedly threw away because they were nothing to do with anything but a wedding or yoga lessons or what have you.
It's it's you're exactly right.
Everything about this was intentional.
Yes, sir.
And and what about the security clearance for Sid Blumenthal, her daughter, Uma, uh Cheryl Mills.
I mean, you know, they were handling these uh documents.
They're removing the classification from them in order to send them out.
I mean, you know, where's where is somebody gonna be held accountable for that?
She's not being held accountable for any of it.
She is she's getting away with in the legal system.
She's getting away with everything.
She always has.
She has gotten away with everything.
Her husband almost.
I mean, he did lose his law license.
He was impeached, although he wasn't a convicted, but he was found guilty of perjury.
Uh but even then, I mean, the Democrat Party circled the wagons around them, made them bigger stars than they ever were, and will out of their way to protect them against any and all attempts to make them accountable.
But that's what rips me on this.
You know, I the rule of law.
I remember, I don't mean to be name-dropping here, folks.
And by the way, Todd, thanks for the call.
I I really don't mean to be.
But one of the um one of the fortunate things that's happened to me as a result of my success here is the people that I have met that I otherwise wouldn't have.
And I have I've never taken any of it for granted.
I remain in awe of the things that my success has has permitted me to do, the doors that it's opened.
And one of the people that I met and became actually fairly close to was Lady Margaret Thatcher through mutual friends here in uh in Palm Beach.
I mean, I drove Margaret Thatcher around a golf course one day out in Colorado, golf course called Eagle Springs.
We nicknamed it Ego Springs because the membership is largely Wall Street billionaires who helicoptered in.
But anyway, we were out in Vail uh for a celebratory social weekend.
And she decides she wanted to see the golf course.
But she doesn't play golf.
So it was suggested to me that the next day I just take her and drive her around on a cart.
Would you do that, Rush?
Yes, I'll do that.
So she shows up.
Well, she didn't show up, we're staying in the same place.
She left dressed to the nines, typical Margaret Thatcher in a dress.
And she sits on the passenger side of the golf cart, and we go tooling around the cart path, and people are out playing golf.
And as we would approach tea boxes or players about to hit shots, we would stop so as not to be a distraction using proper golf course etiquette.
And she was wearing an Easter type bonnet hat.
It was windy, but that didn't stop people from noticing her.
And you should have seen the double takes and the open mouthed stares, because there's Margaret Thatcher, being driven around a golf course, just seeing it.
She wants to see the beauty, the vistas, and so forth.
And there were several dinners that took place, and I remember at each dinner, she held court.
Whatever she introduced as subject matter was what we all discussed.
And at one dinner, at a different, this is different occasion than the uh get together out in veil, one occasion she started talking about the rule of law, and she did a 30-minute discourse on it about how crucial it was to civilized society and how it was the glue that held everything together,
and that without it there would be no way to have anything like a republic.
By the way, she loved the United States.
She thought the founders were among the most brilliant human beings who had ever lived.
And of course she would.
They were Brits.
They were defectors.
They were essentially British guys who came to the U.S., of course, like everybody back then was and founded this country.
She loved them all, and she was intimately familiar with them and could quote them.
But she got off on rule of law one night, became the subject matter for a two and a half hour dinner, and she was, of course, right on the money.
And what we're witnessing is what happens when the rule of law evaporates.
The rule of law, the simplest way to explain it, it may sound self-explanatory, but what is the law?
It's just a bunch of words on paper.
Or a bunch of words on a computer display.
What is it that forces people, inspires people to obey those words?
Just because words are written down on a piece of paper saying this is not permissible, you can't do that.
Here's the crime, here's the penalty for the crime, blah, blah, blah.
The rule of law is the acceptance and understanding of its primacy and respect for it.
Now, obviously, criminal types have no respect for it by definition.
But we're not talking about criminals.
We're talking about people in public life.
We're talking about elected officials who campaign and seek our votes for all kinds of reasons.
And one of the things that is paramount in every election is the attempt to elect people who are of impeccable character, who are honest, who have integrity, who will thus respect the rule Of law.
They run for president.
They run for vice president, senate, house, mayor, whatever.
There is a United States Constitution.
There are state constitutions.
There is the oath of office.
It all matters.
We assume that the people who seek votes, who want to hold these high offices, we have always been able to assume they were people we might disagree with politically or ideologically, but they had a common acceptance and reverence and respect for the governing documents that held the country together and defined it.
That's what we're losing here.
You can see it in the fight over the second amendment.
You can you can see it in any number of ways that the Democrats feel like they're hamstrung by it.
To them, the Constitution is unfair, it's too limiting, it's antiquated, it's outdated, and it's so insignificant.
Now you don't even have to go through the legal process of amending it.
You can just ignore it because these are modern times.
And it was written so long ago, and the founders couldn't possibly have anticipated what life would be like today.
Therefore, what they wrote should not be automatically applicable to life today.
That is the absence of respect for the rule of law.
And it's exactly what's happening.
And that's liberalism scares me, folks.
I come across here as adamantly opposed to it, but I do so because it scares me.
Liberalism, socialism, communism, they scare me.
They frighten me because of what they portend life to become, should they become dominant governmental mandates, should it become the way our government is operating, because it it all equals the loss of liberty.
No matter how you slice it, the advent of liberalism, the spread of liberalism must.
In order to spread, in order to grow, people have to lose freedom, people have to lose liberty.
Because liberalism is the amassing of power at the government level, and as much as they can get, and in order for them to have it, they have to take it.
The Constitution is written to limit the power of that government, and the rule of law would be the respect for that Constitution and its intentions, because that Constitution is the defining mechanism for the United States of America as the kind of country it was founded to be and intended to be.
There are forces that never liked it, understand that.
Forces constantly want to undo it.
There's a process for it.
It's called elections, and it's called amending the Constitution, but the left doesn't go about amending it that way.
They just usurp power.
They just take people's liberty and freedom away under the guise of granting more security, more goodies, being Santa Claus or what have you.
When you get to the point now where just because you happen to hold elective office, or just because you happen to be a member of a particular party, that you are above the law, that you can not only escape the law, but you can expect that you're going to escape the law.
When you can behave with relative assurance that you're not going to be held accountable to it, then we're on the verge of losing it, and that's exactly what this is.
That's exactly what Hillary Clinton has been permitted to do.
She violated the law the moment she set up that server.
She violated the law again the moment she started using that server.
She violated the law again the moment she started throwing things away, deleting them from that server.
She has violated the law from step one.
There are people in prison for doing less in terms of revealing classified information or trafficking in classified top secret information.
There are people who have been charged and convicted and are serving jail time for doing 10% what Hillary Clinton has done.
I am also not comforted by the fact the theory.
Well, Russia, it is what it is, you know, and now, okay, maybe they didn't indict her, but they sure spelled out everything she did wrong.
And the American people now know it.
And Hillary Clinton cannot hide.
That's not how it works.
That is not how it works.
We don't live in a direct democracy.
We don't let people get away with the law and hold them accountable at election time.
They are held accountable within the United States justice system.
And if the justice system lets them skate, they get away with it.
What you're talking about is the only recourse left, and that is to hold her accountable by denying her the office she seeks based on acquiring the knowledge of how she skated the law, how she broke the law, but she still got away with it.
She wasn't officially exonerated, she wasn't officially cleared, but she wasn't charged either.
And if her name wasn't Hillary Clinton, and if she wasn't a Democrat and she wasn't served in the Obama administration, none of this would have happened.
They would have nailed her.
They would have gone after her like she was Martha Stewart.
They would have gone after her like she was Scooter Libby.
And that's what stinks about this.
And every time something like this happens, there's a little chink, a little chunk, a little portion of the armor protecting this country and the Constitution that's stripped away from it, exposing it to even more vulnerability in attack.
And it alarms me.
And I don't say any of this because I have political disagreements with Mrs. Clinton.
And I don't say this because I harbor Oh, yeah.
I have to take a break.
I'm sorry, way long.
Be back here in just a second.
Richard Nixon is rolling over in his grave.
Richard Nixon was forced to resign.
Pressure brought by representatives of both parties and the legal system.
And I'm telling you, whatever happened with Watergate and whatever Nixon's role in it, it doesn't hold a candle to Hillary Clinton.
Trafficking in national security documents openly and uh unsecured on a private email server that was not protected or backed up.
I mean, it's just it's it's it's incredible what she has gotten away with here and the mechanism used to not hold her accountable, the twists and the turns, the bastardization of the legal system, and that's what's that's what's truly damaging.
You and I would not ever, ever be permitted to benefit from such a twisted bastardization of the legal system in order for us to escape accountability.
You and I, it would never ever happen.
And that's the least that's wrong with it.
Mario in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you.
Hi.
I'm uh honored to speak with you.
Uh you know, when James Comey was explaining how some of those emails had fallen into the hands of adversarial countries.
Possibly.
The word ISIS popped into my mind, and then I was covered in sweat because that is how this country can be in so much trouble if God forbid those emails have fallen into the hand of ISIS in Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda.
And, you know, and them email who knows what she had on them.
She can have.
Hey, before you even get to ISIS in Al-Qaeda, you better be thinking of people like Vladimir Putin.
Not to exclude ISIS in Al-Qaeda as relevant, but they don't need Intel to do what they're doing.
But somebody like Putin, who runs a major state in direct competition with us.
I'd say this is so, so potentially damaging here.
I I look, Mario, it's a great point you've made.
I've got to take a break, however, because I went so long in the last segment.
Man, oh man, the fastest three hours in media.
We are just trucking right along.
So you hang in there and be tough because we got book much to go, such as the global warming crowd is now thinking they're gonna have to change to global cooling.
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