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Aug. 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, so Hillary Clinton is on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, and he's asking her about these new emails, 15,000 emails.
And she says, oh, you have already released 30,000 or so.
What's a few more?
Can you imagine if Richard Nixon had said, what are you talking about?
I've already released thousands of hours of audio tapes.
What do you need 18 more minutes for?
Can you imagine the Rosemary Woods missing 18 minutes?
If Nixon is, come on, you've got how many hours of stuff?
What do you mean, 18 more minutes?
What do you need that for?
These are just differing times.
Obviously, Nixon hated Republican.
Hillary an idolized leftist.
Great to be back with you.
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So Trump decided to weigh in on this.
This is not getting anywhere near the coverage in the media that you would think it would get.
But nevertheless, Trump was in Akron, Ohio last night talking about all of this State Department pay-for-play, which has been revealed in these emails.
I mean, it's been revealed here that the way you get to Hillary Clinton was to call the foundation and ask for Cheryl Mills.
And depending on the amount of money you wanted to donate, Mills would call over Huma Abaddon.
And Huma Abidden would take these people to Hillary, and Hillary would determine who she's going to speak to based on how much money they were offering to donate in large part.
That's what pay-for-play is.
You pay, and Hillary will do something you want done.
That's why, you know, the grand potentate of Bahrain, $32 million to the Clinton Foundation.
And that's obviously investing for future consideration.
Here's Trump.
Pay the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money and throw in some big speaking fees for Bill Clinton.
And you got to play.
You got to do what you wanted to do.
The amounts involved, the favors done, and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately.
After the FBI or Department of Justice whitewashed Hillary Clinton's email crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton's new crimes, which happen all the time.
Folks, this really is serious stuff.
I think with the Clintons and with big government in general, I think people have become numb.
I mean, you hear about this.
Let's take pay-for-play.
I mean, really, what is it?
What it is, is what people think happens in Washington every day.
This pay-for-play is what lobbying is.
People think that it's already happening.
You know, you represent some entity.
You represent a company.
You represent an individual.
So you get hold of an influential member of a congressional committee and you offer them something.
You offer them a future job.
Whatever it is.
But that's how you get things done.
An average citizen that does not have access to this kind of money does not have access to these kinds of influential people like the lobbyists.
They just have to sit out there and hope and pray that the elected official does what they said they were going to do when they were campaigning for office.
But in the meantime, world leaders, foreign companies, foreign governments are calling the Clintons and asking how they can get consideration.
And the answer is send money to our foundation.
And as an added benefit, if you'll hire Bill Clinton at 300 grand to do a speech, we will really give you consideration.
This is really what is happening.
And it is hitting democracy in the heart.
It's making American policy subject to payment.
And Hillary Clinton has been accepting all of this money.
Bill Clinton accepting all of this money from influential people.
And as I keep, and by the way, I'm now starting to hear this said by other people.
They're not sending $30 million here, $15 million there.
They're not sending them this money because they like them.
It's not because the Clintons are special people and they really want to hang around them.
They're sending them this money because the Clintons have let it be known that this money will be taken into account when it's time for Hillary Clinton, either as Secretary of State or President, to be making American policy.
But I think people have become so numb to this because they think it happens all the time.
This is what government has become.
This is what the ruling class is.
And a special prosecutor is still going to be from the ruling class.
I think if you're really serious about this, impeach her.
If this really is criminal activity or borders on it, impeach her.
I mean, I don't mind a call for a special prosecutor, so forth, but what we're really relying on here is voters to understand how serious this is and have people currently inclined to vote for Hillary to get so mad, so righteously indignant over what she's done that they abandoned her.
And that isn't going to happen without the media just investigating her upside down and inside out.
And they're not going to do that.
And she knows it, and Bill Clinton knows it.
And so, and a lot of other people know it.
So they just chalk it up to, well, this is what has become of our government.
This is what has become.
Some people are enraged by it, and they're out there supporting Trump.
Some people are enraged by it.
But the Never Trumpers, they balance this against Trump and they say, you know, give me the pay or play.
I'd rather have Hillary Clinton or pay for play in office than Donald Trump.
And that just puzzles people even more.
Back to Trump in Akron, Ohio.
Here he is.
These next three bites are Trump once again delving into the problems of the inner city.
Poor Hispanic and African American citizens are the first to lose a job or to see a pay cut when we don't control our borders.
Hillary Clinton's plan amounts to total and absolute total open borders.
Open borders.
What's next?
This is crucial.
This is important.
Okay, why is all of this happening?
Why are borders open?
Why are poor Hispanic and African Americans the first to lose a job?
Democrats have failed completely in the inner cities.
Poverty, rejection, horrible education, no housing, no homes, no ownership, crime at levels that nobody's seen.
You can go to war zones in countries that we're fighting, and it's safer than living in some of our inner cities.
You would think that they'd be all over that.
You think the media would be all over that?
And some of our conservative buddies, that's just, that's just not right.
That's just irresponsible.
This is not the way to reach out to African Americans.
But the next bite that here we have here, this is the part of the speech that the drive-bys are focusing on.
It is a disaster the way African Americans are living in many cases.
I'll bring jobs back.
We'll bring spirit back.
We'll get rid of the crime.
You'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot.
Right now, you walk down the street, you get shot.
So drive-bys are all over that, of course.
Pretty much describes inner city Chicago.
But the drive-bys are all over it.
It kind of like what I was discussing about yesterday when Trump was making his appeal to African Americans.
And I thought it made sense.
And I find out many of my conservative buddies think it was over-the-top insensitive and counterproductive.
And I thought, wow, either I'm losing touch and I'm way out of touch or they are.
And Trump's doubling down on it today.
See, I am of the impression that if this kind of stuff kept up, that would be effective.
And again, look, folks, the only not the only one of the primary reasons that Trump says this and thinks this is he hears it said by people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Take your poison.
I don't care what African American leader, civil rights leader you hear talk, they always portray life in America for African Americans as what?
Well, we're not in candyland, I'll tell you.
It's not dreamland.
I mean, the cops are trying to shoot them.
Cops are trying to put him in jail.
You name it.
Now, even if that's true, which to many extents it's not, but even if it's true, why doesn't it matter who's been running the show?
Who's been promising them to fix all of this?
Who's been promising them home ownership?
Who has been promising them to end the discrimination?
Who's been promising them to end the racism?
I mean, what was the election of Obama really all about?
If not ending all of that and turning it around and making it all better, and it isn't all better, and people are angrier now than they've been in eight years.
And in my mind, you can lay that at the feet of the Democrat Party.
They're the ones making the promises to fix all this stuff.
Well, the Republicans do, too, but they're impugned.
When the Republicans talk about improving life for people, they're laughed at, mocked, criticized, called names, and so forth.
Democrats, they get away with making the promises, but they never have to deliver.
The Democrats never, ever have to deliver.
In fact, they don't deliver.
So we're not supposed to examine that.
We're not supposed to examine the failure.
We're not supposed to examine the results of their efforts.
No, no, no, no.
We are only to look at their big hearts.
We are only to be impressed by their great intentions.
And that's what makes them good people.
At least they care, we're told.
At least they are trying.
Now, the drive-bys, one more bite before the break, they are all in a faux outrage over the contents of Trump's remarks that you just heard.
They are spitting angry.
Most African Americans walking down the street in their neighborhoods are not worrying about getting shot.
Made it sound like no street in America was safe for an African American or a Latino or Hispanic person.
Facing fire of his own now for some comments on African American voters.
Pitches candidacy to African Americans using some pretty rough language.
He's still clearly doubling down.
Raising eyebrows with his tone yet again.
I actually feel as if Donald Trump is trying to not speak to African Americans or Hispanics, but he's trying to convince white college-educated voters that he's not intolerant.
We don't need a Donald Trump to come save us.
We don't need a great white hope.
See, I'm sorry, but why does Trump think that?
He's hearing African American leaders complain about it.
Well, by the way, all you have to do is consult the news in Chicago every day, and it is happening.
But lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, February 11th, 2007.
This would be, what, a little over nine years ago, 60 Minutes, Steve Croft interviewing Michelle, my bell, Obama.
Croft says, Michelle's a tough question to ask.
But a number of years ago, Colin Powell was thinking of running for president.
His wife, Alma, really didn't want him to run.
She was worried about some crazy with a gun assassinating him.
Is that something you, Michelle, my bell, Obama, think about, too?
I don't lose sleep over it, because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.
Well, I mean, and that's just one example of what we constantly hear, and all Trump did was reflect it, get shot going to the gas station, get shot in the neighborhood.
I don't know.
You name it, we hear about it.
Well, yes, I know.
She can say it.
Trump can't.
Bottom line, right?
She can say that stuff.
Trump can't.
Even if he's trying to get to people who think it, to fix it, he can't address it.
Yes, I know.
Jesse Jackson has also admitted how scared he is walking down the street.
If there's a lone black guy across the street, he will cross the street.
Yeah, Jesse Jackson said so, too.
He can say it.
You can't.
Back up.
You know, so the drive-bys are out there.
They're livid.
They're livid that Trump says that African-Americans will walk down the street and get shot.
They're livid.
But isn't that exactly what African Americans tell us the cops are doing?
Isn't that hands up, don't shoot?
Isn't that lie based on the fact that the cop shot a black kid in the street for no reason who was trying to surrender what he wasn't?
And he had his hands up.
The drive-bys have been telling us for years African Americans are afraid to walk down the streets because a cop might shoot them.
That has come to define the black experience in America since Ferguson, Missouri.
Black Lives Matter.
The whole reason for existence is that premise that blacks are being shot and murdered by racist whites, cops or otherwise.
So Trump comes along and says it doesn't have to be this way.
And the next thing we hear is, it isn't that bad to go running around talking about that's irresponsible.
Say that you get shot down, walk in your own neighborhood by the very people in the media who have been promoting the premise.
It's exactly what they've been saying.
They've been echoing Black Lives Matter.
They've been echoing Occupy Wall Street.
Congressional Black Caucasian.
You picked the group.
For the last two years, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon, since Trayvon Martin, that's what we have been told life in America is for African Americans.
You walk down the street, you're going to get shot.
So here comes Trump saying you don't have to do that.
You don't have to live that way anymore.
It doesn't have to be that way.
And the very people telling us that that's what life is all about for African Americans.
And this is the second day in a row for this, by the way, are now castigating Trump for making things up and lying and saying this is not the way to reach out to African Americans.
This is to say that they just walk down the street and get shot.
Why, I don't know blacks living that way.
You don't?
You don't, Mr. African-American leader, Mr. African-American senator, Mr. African-American news commentator.
You don't, because every other day, that's what you're telling us life is for African Americans in the United States of America.
This is, I don't know, folks, this is just another glaring, glittering example of this ridiculous double standard and another glittering example of how there isn't journalism anymore.
Be right back.
Don't go anywhere.
Okay, check the email during the break, and I got tons of them, and this does not surprise me.
They all pretty much are asking this question.
Rush, I'm seeing where so many people are advisors, informal, formal advisors of Trump.
Are you?
No, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not an informal or formal advisor to anybody other than me.
I am not a formal or informal advisor to Trump or to any candidate, and I never have been.
Now, occasionally, my phone will ring, and somebody on the other end will be either an author or a candidate, either asking to come on the program or asking what I think about something.
In such rare, well, the book requests are common, but in the candidate area, I will answer the question sometimes, but I am not officially attached.
I never have been, and I never have wanted to be.
Remember, I've had many mottos of this program, and one of them is my success is not determined by who wins elections.
And so, no, just to get that out of the way, because it's really a lot of people asking.
I'm a media guy.
I am a radio guy.
Pure and simple.
Here's Brad in San Diego.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it sure does seem like the individuals in the press are individually vying to become Candy Crowley of 2012.
No, it's gone so far beyond Candy Crowley.
Candy Crowley was an intern compared to what's happening now.
Yeah, this is, yeah, they're taking it to a new level.
Hey, what I wanted to ask you, and I know you're not an official advisor to Trump.
I'm sure they're listening, no.
And this goes back to something that you said.
You've said it over the years, I think.
And I wanted to tie that into how Trump should act toward different people.
And that is you've often said that when somebody first meets somebody and gains an impression, they don't remember what that person said to them.
They remember how that person made them feel.
Exactly.
That's the old actor's credo.
It is a guiding principle of people who act for a living.
So with that in mind, as a Trump supporter, when I listen to Trump, I want to hear him cream Hillary.
And I want to hear him yell at her and do all kinds of things in a debate.
But my question to you is, and maybe it's not a binary decision, but a lot of the more moderate people and wishy-washy Republicans and maybe even some of the people that you described who are going to be voting for the first time.
I'm not sure that they want to hear what I want to hear.
I think maybe they want to walk away saying, hey, that guy's not an ogre.
He's not a bragging boar.
He seems somewhat reasonable.
So how does Trump walk that?
How does he walk that line?
Well, in the first place, your question is very shrewd.
You are a very shrewd individual.
Because one thing that you have obviously recognized is the simple fact that while you and I and many millions of others have taken the time because of our habits and our desires to become educated, we know who Hillary Clinton is.
We know who Bill Clinton is.
But there's a whole mass of people who don't.
She's just the Democrat nominee running to be the first president.
Her husband's Bill Clinton.
He was a great president.
He was a good guy.
Yeah, had the problem of the affair, but what guy doesn't?
And they're not anywhere near the depth of understanding that you are on Hillary.
You want to hear what you know exposed.
But you're afraid that if somebody goes out and does that, people that don't know that about Hillary are going, oh, my God, that's not fair.
She's not that bad a person.
Don't talk about it that way because they don't look at politics the way you and I do.
And you're afraid that it might rub people the wrong way and create a bad impression of whoever launches into Hillary that way.
That pretty much summed up your fear about this.
That's right.
So the question, how does Trump satisfy you while at the same time make inroads with people that don't see Hillary that way?
I think this would be my wild guess.
Trump's going to have to take it for granted that you understand he can't do everything the way you want and that you're going to be there nevertheless.
If he makes a serious effort to beat her, you'll be satisfied.
Even if he doesn't go all the way in destroying her and informing as many people what you know, I think it's a much easier proposition for him to keep you in the fold by giving you 50% of what you want than it is to go out and satisfy you and maybe eliminate who knows how many people from joining him.
And I think this is the eternal question because you do have every candidate has different tiers, T-I-E-R-S, tiers of support.
Supporters make up very many different another way of expressing this would be conservatism.
A lot of us want candidates to go out there and make no bones excuses for it and just start teaching people about conservatism.
Just explain who the liberals are and don't hold back and properly identify them.
Explain what conservatism is.
And then when they don't do it, we start questioning whether or not they really are conservative, whether they actually understand it.
When in fact, what they may be doing is realizing that most people do not live their lives by defining who people are ideologically.
They have to be approached in any number of ways.
But see, my problem in that example, I've always believed that conservatism is the way most people live their lives anyway, whether they know it or not.
The principles of conservatism are generally what guide law-abiding people.
And then you're down to branding.
If conservatism has been portrayed as a collection of real, just stuff, shirt, geeks, and nerds who don't want anybody to have any fun, if that's how conservatism has been created as a brand to people that don't understand it, well, then a candidate's got to go easy on it.
It's a tightrope, I think, for all these people.
But I think the best bet is that he's got to have faith that the ardent supporters like you are going to hang in there while he goes out and does what he has to do to get others to join.
Well, like, I ask you point blank.
Here he is ripping into George W. Bush during the debates, ripping in the train, making these in open primaries, in open state primaries.
He's actually making an appeal for liberal Democrats to cross over and vote for him by sounding like Democrats when he started talking about George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.
And we all winked.
Yeah, we know what he's doing.
Yeah, yeah.
We looked the other way because he's out trying to expand his voter base.
So I think that's probably the position you find yourself in now.
Back with more in a minute.
The guy was asking you how Trump ought to behave during debates.
I didn't hear him say anything about debates.
I've gone back, I looked at the transcript of the call, I can't find it, which ticks me off about you people.
I thought I gave a great answer, and here you are telling me I missed the point because the guy was, look, as for how Trump ought to deal with her in debates, that's not going to happen till September 26th.
And I know exactly what Hillary is going to do in these debates.
She's going to try to outwonk Trump to show her qualifications, the intimate knowledge of how government works for people.
She's going to try to illustrate that Trump doesn't know what anything is.
The GI Bill, the Restoration Act of Turtle Lights Act of 1845.
She's going to know all that esoteric crap.
And she's going to start talking about it as though she's got intimate knowledge.
And Trump's going to be and there's a way to deal with this.
But I'm not a formal or informal advisor.
And I don't want to be.
Now, Mr. I will have proper thoughts on this as we get close to it.
These debates, in large part, are going to be reflecting the news at the time.
And that's not till September 26th.
Although there's going to be all kinds of setup questions for Trump.
Mr. Trump, do you still believe women are pigs?
Do you still think Rosie O'Donnell is a pig?
Well, you don't think that's going to happen?
You damn well know what's going to happen.
Mr. Trump, do you think Jeb Bush has more energy than Hillary Clinton?
They're going to try to take examples of what they think Trump has said that makes a fool of him and ask him to repeat it in trick ways.
While Hillary is going to be acting like this poor man, I don't even think I should be here.
He's just so unqualified.
He doesn't even know what we're talking about here, John.
She will say to the moderator, you know, I really, you know, I think I'll take a break.
I'll just let Mr. Trump have the floor for 10 minutes.
I got some things I can do backstage, and I'll be back.
So I wouldn't put anything past him as they try to prepare or portray Trump as just so far out of his league.
Unsuitable, not the right temperament, unequipped, ignorant about how government works.
Mr. Trump, you don't think all Mexicans are rapists?
And not just Rosie O'Donnell, but all Mexicans.
Do you think that they're rapists?
You know damn well that's how these questions are going to come out.
And the questions Hillary Clinton's going to get.
Mrs. Clinton, do you think you'll be effectively building the great success that President Obama's had in our economic recovery?
And how will you do it?
You, you, well, he's already said that he wants moderator approval.
Some of them are not going to be acceptable to him.
Yeah, I think if he candidates have, I don't know what all the rules are in terms of what they can demand, moderator-wise and so forth.
But look, this is all going to play out once we get closer to it.
And I'll be able to address it in a much more informed manner than that.
Right.
We're just speculating.
Educated speculation, nevertheless.
Pretty easy to figure what some of the things are going to happen are.
And we know, we know that whoever the moderators are from the drive-bys, they are going to try to end the Trump candidacy on September 26th.
They're going to try to end it that night.
And they have the first debate.
Little interesting tidbit here, folks.
Folks didn't have a chance to get into the details of this, but I'll save it for tomorrow.
But this is really all you need to know.
Republican voter registration in battleground states is happening much faster, greater numbers than the Democrats.
Republican voter registration in battleground states outpacing Democrat voter registration.
Battleground.
I think that's big.
These under-the-table little things doesn't get much notice.
Could be meaningful.
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