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December 5, 2016, Monday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hi, folks.
	How are you?
	Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh.
	Hope you had a great weekend.
	And we're off and running yet another week of broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	A thrill and a delight to have you with us.
	The telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
	Before we get going on the recount, I just want to update you on the recount what's happening with the recount.
	It's not going to amount to anything, but I just want to keep you posted on it.
	Also, the protest at the North Dakota pipeline is fascinating.
	Obama, after hearing that Trump supported it, decided to try to shut it down.
	It's an act of peak.
	It's an act of pettiness.
	It's an act of small-time childishness.
	I will fill you in on the details.
	Also, the drive-bys last week, over the weekend, actually, were just agog.
	I mean, they needed the vapors.
	They couldn't believe that Trump was so stupid that he didn't know that you don't talk to the leader in Taiwan.
	He couldn't be that dumb.
	My gosh, it's worse than we thought, they thought.
	And then they figured out that Trump did it on purpose.
	And now they're doubly ticked off.
	Now they're thinking that Trump actually has a plan.
	Now they're thinking that Trump actually has a strategy here.
	And they're thinking, oh, my gosh, this is so off the charts, we don't know what to make of this.
	It's been in front of their eyes.
	It's been in front of their face since the campaign began.
	Any of you in this audience, would you be surprised if I were to tell you that Donald Trump doesn't like the ChiComs?
	Has he not made it clear for a year and a half that he doesn't like the ChiComs, manipulating their currency, stealing jobs, doing a number of other things.
	Is it a surprise that Donald Trump would take action?
	That is not the kind of action we've seen for 40 years, not the kind of bowing down and afraid to tick him off action.
	Is it a surprise that Donald Trump would follow through on what he said and indicated he was going to do by taking on the ChiComs in his campaign?
	You know, it's amazing that people in the media, and I guess not just the media, but the entire Washington establishment, apparently that game is totally diplomatic.
	You never say what you mean.
	You speak in code so that only your fellow insiders know what you're talking about.
	But you never tell anybody the truth.
	Well, it's not that you don't tell them.
	You never telegraph what you're going to do.
	You just don't do that.
	And Trump does.
	It's been right in front of their faces for a year and a half.
	And now here's a guy actually doing what he said he was going to do, and they don't know how to process it.
	So we have that coming up.
	But ladies and gentlemen, on WBZ-TV Boston, this program, you and me have been defamed.
	This program was portrayed on WBZ-TV Boston as fake news.
	Well, that may not be the quite accurate way to say it.
	The Boston CBS affiliate did a report claiming that I am getting angry calls, so many angry calls from you about Trump backtracking on promises that I felt compelled to push back.
	This is fake news from the blue states.
	I ask snerdly because my memory is we haven't had any ticked off callers here.
	We haven't had any Trumpists call here, upset what Trump's doing.
	We haven't had a single call.
	I think we had a woman last week upset that Trump was talking to Romney.
	But other than that, I haven't had any calls.
	We haven't had any calls from people who think that Trump is a double-crossed them.
	Where does this stuff come from?
	Let us listen to the actual audio soundbite.
	It was Friday on WBZ Eyeball TV News, co-anchor Paula Ebben speaking with the political analyst John Keller on the Trump transition.
	And Paula Eben, the co-info babe, said, we have seen Donald Trump make a lot of promises and then back off a few of them to some extent since he won.
	This is the day after the carrier jobs were saved.
	This is the day after Trump's big thank you rally in Cincinnati where nobody was mad.
	This is the next day.
	And she says, we've seen Donald Trump make a lot of promises and then back off a few of them to some extent since he won the election.
	Some in the Trump camp claim his supporters never really took those promises literally.
	It's the president-elect himself who's been raising eyebrows by amending or outright discarding key pledges.
	Not everyone thinks that his voters are going to be okay with this.
	Some of them certainly are not okay with it, Paul.
	Rush Limbaugh has been getting so many angry calls on his radio talk show about this, he felt compelled to push back.
	Check this out.
	They want you thinking Trump's abandoning you, and they want you thinking Trump's no different than any other person that's ever been elected.
	They want you to think you've just fallen for the biggest trick in the history of tricks.
	They want you thinking that Trump's no different.
	You average, ordinary politician that you hate.
	And I'm telling you, do not believe them.
	Not quite sure who they is.
	I think maybe it's us in the media.
	Yeah, right.
	That comment of mine is so taken out of context, it doesn't have nothing to do with people calling here.
	It had to do with the news.
	It had to do with news stories, people in the drive-bys trying to convince Trump voters that he is double-crossing them.
	And I was warning them against it.
	As you well know, my friends, as regular listeners of the program, I have recently cautioned, not cautioned, I've recently suggested that when it comes to news about Trump, your first instinctive reaction is not to believe it.
	Just don't believe it.
	Particularly if it's from the New York Times.
	Do not believe it.
	And then check it.
	Do not.
	It's tough to do.
	It's tough to immediately.
	Everybody wants to believe what they read, no matter where it's published.
	Everybody, that's the human nature tendency.
	But that had nothing to do with angry callers.
	That comment was about news stories that I had seen trying to distant, trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters by claiming he was breaking promises and claiming that he was backtracking.
	And I have made it clear to people that it's not time to have that kind of reaction at all.
	Let's go to the next soundbite.
	This was last Wednesday, where I told you that the establishment thinks Trump is clueless.
	Axis, hold off on this because this actually goes with the Taiwan story, which I'll get into here in due course.
	But you wonder what somebody at WBZ-TV had to give them this idea, had to hear that excerpt of me, not knowing that I was talking about the news media.
	I wasn't pushing back on Trump and Trump supporters.
	I don't even know.
	Snerdley, check my memory here.
	You screened the calls.
	Have we had any calls from angry Trumpists feeling like they're being double-crossed out there?
	All right.
	I didn't think so either.
	Okay, we'll get to all these things I just mentioned, but there's some other really good stuff out there, too, like Fidel Castro's.
	Man, hell didn't even want the guy.
	His funeral procession Jeep broke down on the way to the burial.
	Did you hear about this?
	You didn't hear about this?
	The vehicle, it was an army jeep.
	It was a Jeep that's got this flatbed.
	Look at a cheap 1950s military truck that the Viet Con would have discarded.
	It's probably what it was.
	And they've got Castro's ashes in there, his remains, and it was a funeral procession.
	I think I didn't, this is from prior reporting.
	I think he was going to be buried, or at least the funeral in Santiago de Cuba, which is way, way down near Guantanamo.
	It's about as far from Havana as you can get.
	I don't know if that's where this happened, but the thing broke down, and soldiers had to push it.
	Literally push it through the streets.
	What in the world, folks, could be more symbolic of Fidel Castro and the revolution than the funeral procession breaking down.
	There was a bunch of funny tweets.
	One of them, who says the embargo didn't work?
	Couldn't even find a hearse to get Castro's remains to the official communist burying grounds.
	He was cremated, by the way.
	But I still think they had a procession, funeral, and so forth.
	You couldn't get anything more, I think, just juicily, delectably symbolic than that.
	Breitbart had the story that's a Russian-made Jeep carrying the ashes of Fidel Castro broke down the middle of his funeral procession on Saturday, forcing soldiers to push the vehicle until it could be repaired.
	Nearly every major news website buried the news.
	That's why you didn't hear about it, Snerdley.
	Buried the news out there.
	Fox News reported a breakdown of the Jeep in the midst of adoring crowds chanting long live Fidel was symbolic of the dual nature of Castro's Cuba, while his legacy inspires fierce adulation by many of the nation's citizens.
	What a crock.
	Others continue to grumble about Cuba's autocratic government, inefficient bureaucracy, and stagnant economy.
	The Wall Street Journal had more details on the breakdown.
	After a final farewell, early in the week at the Revolutionary Square in Havana, the former president's remains, placed in a small glass-encased casket, began moving east in a cross-country cortege through towns, cities, and listless countryside.
	The state called it the Caravan of Liberty.
	I wonder if they had free health care signs on the side of the hearth.
	The world comes here for free health care.
	Maybe pictures of Sean Penn and Beyoncé in tears.
	The state called it the Caravan of Liberty, the same name the guerrillas called the journey that they made from Santiago de Cuba to Havana.
	It's a top of the Batista regime.
	I knew it was Santiago de Cuba.
	It didn't all go well, despite the state's attention to details.
	Soldiers were forced to push the Jeep, towing the remains when it broke down, fitting for a country where vehicles creak along.
	It's that time of year.
	By the way, folks, Time magazine, person of the year.
	Who do you think is in the running?
	Oh, it has to be Trump.
	It just has to be Trump.
	You don't hear the list of potential.
	Well, here we go.
	Donald Trump.
	This is from the UK Daily Mail.
	Donald Trump faces off against Hillary Clinton, Beyoncé, Vladimir Putin, and Simone Biles for Time Person of the Year.
	Simone Biles.
	Donald Trump is a finalist for the Time Person of the Year, second straight year, up against Beyoncé Hillary Putin, Simone Byce, and Mark Zuckerberg.
	Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who's also a finalist, was the winner of the online reader's poll for person of the year.
	There is nobody, there is not a single person who has had more effect on the world than Donald Trump.
	There shouldn't even be anybody else being considered.
	Look at these elections around the world.
	Trump is a new leader.
	Gone is the prime minister of Italy.
	Gone is the guy that was running the UK.
	The European Union is crumbling.
	In France, they're going to elect a right-wing government.
	The Australians are the only holdouts here.
	But the world scene consists of dramatically new direction and new leaders and so forth.
	And it's all Trump.
	Oh, oh, folks, I meant to mention this even before Castro's Jeep breaking down.
	Guess who was spotted going in the Trump Tower today?
	Al Gore.
	Al Gore, climate change Al Gore.
	And you know why?
	He was there according to the news.
	This is what I'm not going to believe this until I actually find out for myself.
	But the news is that Al Gore went in there to meet Ivanka Trump to discuss climate change policy.
	Now, you go back to Trump's meeting at the New York Times, you know, where he was going back and forth in a quasi-argument with that little pinch, Arthur Schulzberger, Schulzberger believing that massive new storms are the result of man-made climate change.
	And Trump said, there's always been storms, Arthur.
	There's always been storms.
	And that little pinch said, not like this, not like this.
	And that's where the transcript ended.
	The global warming hoax is being further established as just that, the man-made aspect of it.
	But Al Gore is apparently at Trump Tower right now in a confab with Ivanka.
	CNN's reporting it.
	Well, still no reason to believe it.
	It's probably true, though.
	We'll take a timeout.
	Be back after this.
	Don't go away.
	And for those of you new to the program, once again, the latest official ratings, we're not supposed to get into specific.
	Well, that's actually kind of the old school.
	You can mention it now because it's such a different method rating to take it.
	Latest report, we have, we have, it's incredible.
	The audience growth here.
	It goes to means it rivals the early days of the program in terms of the rapidity with which new people are joining the program.
	Therefore, those of you knew, every Christmas season, Mannheim Steamroller featured in our bumper rotation some of the finest instrumental Christmas music.
	I happen to love the Christmas season.
	It's dates back to the romanticized aspects of my childhood with it.
	Our family was big into Christmas, both religiously and just culturally.
	And I just have some of my fondest memories of that time of year.
	And Mannheim Steamroller music has a specific attachment to me related to the death of my father.
	I won't bore you with the details of that.
	But Chip Davis and the guys I've been with him on tour now and then and even gave me a jacket in Chicago, one of their performances.
	Just fabulous.
	If you ever have a chance to catch them in person in concert, Mannheim Steamroller, well worth it.
	Now, for those of you on the edge of your seat, keeping track of the recounts, in Wisconsin, as of Saturday night, Trump has gained three votes.
	Now, the way that happened, technically speaking, Hillary gained 89 votes, but lost 86 for a net gain of three.
	Trump gained 98 votes but lost 92 for a net gain of six.
	And so the difference is Trump plus three at this stage of the recount in Wisconsin.
	Do you know that recounts have like a 99.98% accuracy?
	Recounts, I mean, the number of times a recount results in an overturn, you can't find them.
	The examples of it are so few and far between.
	Now, some odd reason, they're not even reporting how many votes Jill Stein has gained or lost, and she's the one doing the recount.
	She's the Green Party babe, ostensibly doing the recount, but obviously not for herself.
	She's doing it for electoral integrity, election integrity.
	And we know that she's not recounting for her.
	She's an agent for Hillary Clinton, bought and paid for, most likely, by George Soros.
	As for the other state recounts, the Stein-Hillary team decided they would not be able.
	Now, this is interesting.
	They figured out they would not be able to convince a Pennsylvania state court that they had enough evidence, any evidence of fraud, which means they couldn't authorize a recount.
	Without any evidence of fraud, there's no authorization forthcoming.
	So the Stein-Hillary team say that Pennsylvania thus isn't capable enough to handle the issue, and they are seeking a federal judge.
	And they found a federal judge appointed by Obama in 2010, a guy named Goldsmith.
	And they've appealed to this guy to have a federally mandated recount in Pennsylvania because they didn't want to wait for the state to turn him down because that's what would have most likely happened.
	There's no evidence of any fraud or of any glitches or anything of the sort in Pennsylvania.
	And the way this is going to work out, even if, folks, just in the wildest scenario you can imagine, even if, and it isn't going to happen, but even if it did, if the recount gave Hillary the win in Wisconsin, and if a recount gave Hillary the win in Michigan, Trump would still end up at 280.
	They need Pennsylvania.
	And I don't think anything's going to come of this.
	I think this is pure fundraising scammery going on, along with servicing a bent out of shape bunch of leftists who still can't come to grips with what happened.
	And maybe at the outside, a wild dream that they could actually overturn this, harass enough electors and get it to Hillary.
	But that's, I don't think, what their objective is any longer.
	Well, one of the things is I could not sleep on Christmas Eve.
	No matter what I did, I couldn't sleep.
	I was so excited I could not sleep.
	And so I actually wrote down, I put together an itinerary, you know, what to do at 1 a.m., what to do at 1:30, what to do at 1.45.
	Started plotting how early I could go downstairs if I could get away with sneaking down at 4 a.m. just to get a quick sneak peek.
	My father figured that out, was sitting, sleeping in an easy chair, so I couldn't, I got foiled with that.
	I mean, this is a multi-year plan that I had.
	There was no radio stations playing regular music on Christmas Eve.
	Went live from the Vatican or taped Christmas music or what have you, which back then I was not all that into.
	I was just hoping that one of my top 40 stations would be playing top 40 all night so I could pretend to play DJ.
	Oh, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, all the way.
	Whatever.
	But I could not sleep.
	I was so excited.
	I mean, when December first hit, I couldn't sleep.
	I started getting so excited.
	And you people wonder why I like Apple so much.
	When Steve Jobs died, one of the things I mentioned is that Apple stuff, I love it.
	Honest, the best way to express this is that when there's new Apple stuff out and you can't find it when it comes out, they make sure that you can't find it.
	Their supply and demand is altered in such a way to create more demand by limiting supply.
	So the search for new Apple stuff is kind of like Christmas morning when you finally get it.
	And it's the same feeling.
	When I get my new Apple stuff, when I'm 65 years old, I feel like I did when I was 10.
	And that's, I mean, anything in anybody that can help a 65-year-old feel like a 10-year-old again, that's worth something.
	I mean, how many of you at age 60 or 65 are able to recapture whatever feelings of magic and euphoria and happiness you had when you were a kid?
	There's not much.
	You become too experienced, too cynical.
	I mean, you become too knowledgeable to things that you were all excited about.
	You now have a little bit more knowledge than you did.
	So to be able to recapture those kinds of childhood feelings, which are just dreamlike and innocent as they can be, I think it's just fabulous.
	So that's part of my attachment to it.
	There, of course, the religious reasons as well.
	No, I'm sitting here debating which let me do this first.
	I've got so many things here that could justify for being in the top five of the stack of stuff today.
	Try this.
	Have you seen, have any of you seen news stories, just standalone news stories that don't say anything other than how great the economy is right now?
	Or maybe a news story talking about Trump inherits growing fast-paced economy from Obama.
	Have you seen those stories yet?
	If you haven't, you will, because this is one of the many strategeries that the drive-bys in the Democrat Party and the entire Obama crowd are ginning up.
	They are pretending that Trump is inheriting a strong economy.
	The effort is underway to deny any relationship to Trump's election and this fast-growing economy.
	They are trying to say it's all Obama.
	Now, they're admitted in these stories that it took Obama a little bit longer than we expected.
	But that's because Bush didn't tell Obama the truth back in 2009 about how bad the economy was.
	Bush lied about how deep the recession was.
	So when Obama got there, it was much, much worse than anybody had told the poor guy.
	And so the policies that Obama implemented to reignite the U.S. economy, it took a while.
	In fact, just last month, the unemployment number got down to where it was with Bush.
	And then we got the first quarter of economic growth reported at 3%.
	And the effort is, it isn't going to work.
	In fact, it's laughably transparent and comical.
	But the drive-bys, they're just flailing.
	Folks, the media is just flailing away.
	They are impotent.
	They are irrelevant.
	And they're becoming aware of it.
	And they're bugged greatly by it.
	So this meme or this narrative is that Trump is inheriting a strong Obama economy is going to continue.
	It's going to continue to grow out there as the drive-bys try to convince as many people as possible that all of this is the result of Obama.
	And by the way, the extension of that is not just Obama, although the effort is to attach into it personally because they want to save his legacy, save his reputation.
	They also want to try to credit liberalism or Democrat Party policies for this and to say that Trump just accidentally swerving into a gigantically robust economy because of the brilliance of Obama.
	So if you haven't seen those stories yet, keep a sharp eye because you will.
	And we do not, folks, accept this on any level.
	We do not.
	There is no argument.
	The Democrats, Obama cannot make an argument that they are responsible for economic growth.
	They cannot make the argument that they are responsible for the newfound energy and optimism in the U.S. and the economy.
	They are not responsible for any of it.
	The Obama policies have depressed and retarded and stagnated the U.S. economy, which is why the Democrat Party has been shellacked in three straight elections.
	They have been, Obama's policies, the Democrat Party's policies have been just repudiated in almost a humiliating way.
	We still have 95 million Americans not in the workforce.
	The labor force participation rate is still at a near all-time high.
	95 million Americans not working.
	And they tell us there's an unemployment rate now, 4.6% or 4.8, whatever, which is what it was when Bush left office.
	And they're trying to say that Obama has caused this great recovery.
	95 million Americans not working.
	And they cannot make the claim.
	Their policies have not led to growth in anything other than government.
	Government has grown big by stealing things from the private sector or by usurping them, such as the entire healthcare industry.
	So just keep a sharp eye.
	The media is also writing of their outrage over the frequency with which Donald Trump tweets.
	Leftists, Democrats, communists alike are all saying that what Trump is doing on Twitter is an outrage.
	It's not presidential.
	It's beneath the dignity of the office.
	It's embarrassing.
	It's humiliating.
	We are becoming a laughingstock.
	A president who gets up at five in the morning and starts tweeting.
	You know what Trump says about it?
	Trump sent a tweet out just a little while ago this morning.
	He said, if the press would cover me accurately and honorably, I would have far less reason to tweet.
	Sadly, I don't know if that'll ever happen.
	He's exactly right about that.
	If the press would cover him accurately and honorably, he wouldn't have to tweet.
	He's tweeting to correct the lies and the dishonesty in the drive-by media about him.
	We talked to him on this program about three weeks before the election.
	And at that time, he was tweeting a lot and reacting to every bit of criticism, no matter where it came from.
	And people on his side, his supporters, and supposedly even some in his inner circle, were saying publicly that they were trying to get him to stop doing this, that you can't respond to every bit of criticism.
	Just don't do it.
	All you're doing is elevating it.
	All you're doing is amplifying it.
	Not everybody hears every instance of criticism, Mr. Trump, they were saying.
	Just ignore it.
	Move on.
	So I asked him about it.
	He said, yeah, you're right.
	My advisors are telling me exactly that, Rush.
	They're telling me to ignore it.
	But I can't.
	I'm not going to sit here and let my family be dishonored.
	I'm not going to let myself, my family be lied about, and I'm not going to let those lies take root and become established as truth.
	I don't care.
	I don't care what they say is the right way to do this.
	I'm not going to let it happen.
	When people lie about me, when people wound me, when people attack me, I'm going to fire right back at them.
	I don't care.
	And my advisors are trying to get me to stop, and I just can't.
	And that's why he continues to tweet.
	And his tweets are effectively going around a dishonest media to inform and connect with everyday Americans.
	He's also conducting negotiations with his tweets by informing people what he's doing.
	And by doing this, by tweeting this unpresidential way, we've not seen anything like this.
	It's just not how it's done.
	Trump is also capturing the whole idea of unpredictable, unpredictability, which makes Trump a never-ending top-line news story and has his adversaries always on defense.
	I think this is one of the reasons why Trump's supporters love him so much.
	And it's one of the characteristics that not a lot of people comment on.
	But people on our side, and by our side, I mean conservatives, some Republicans, admit it, folks, we've grown tired and weary of being on defense all the time.
	We're tired of getting up every morning and looking at either a person or an idea, something that we hold dear, under assault, like marriage or who can use whatever bathrooms.
	We're tired of being on defense.
	Tired having to defend things that shouldn't need to be defended.
	But they, because they're under assault.
	Well, Trump is not on defense, folks.
	We are on offense with Donald Trump.
	And that's one of the reasons, one of the big invisible, unspoken reasons why he has such loyalty is because people who support him are just like a lot of you in this audience fed up with being on defense and being on a team that never fought back, much less went on offense.
	But these tweets and this erratic or unpredictable behavior keeps Trump's opponents on defense.
	And believe me, it is a delight to see it.
	Another thing that Trump is doing with these tweets, he's leading.
	And because he's leading, he's holding everybody's attention.
	What will Trump do next?
	What will Trump do?
	Nobody's asking what's Pelosi going to do next?
	What's Harry?
	You know, we're not stealing ourselves for what assault is coming at us next.
	We're all looking on eagerly.
	What's Trump going to do next?
	How's he going to bamboozle him next?
	How's Trump going to end run him next?
	That's what everybody's excited about here.
	And it's great to see people like Christiana Monpoor or Andrea Mitchell, NBC in Washington, or any of these other drive-bys look like old men shouting, get off my lawn to Donald Trump.
	Back after this, folks.
	Don't go.
	Not only Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore to discuss climate issues.
	Al Gore spotted heading into Trump Tower.
	Sarah Palin has already also opined on the carrier deal.
	Did you hear what she said?
	Crony capitalist, she doesn't like it.
	She doesn't like this kind of arrangement, and she's sending up red flags about it.
	So we'll talk about that as the program unfolds.
	I want to get started on the phones in Flushing, Michigan.
	Susan, great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you today?
	Just dandy.
	Thank you.
	Well, good.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	The reason I'm calling is I was thinking about the three states that got picked for the recount, and I've been wondering, like, why would they pick these three states?
	They didn't pick any of the other states where, like, Hillary may be only one by 3,000.
	They picked the three states that were supposed to be gimme states for Hillary.
	And I know Jill Stein's doing the recall and everything, or the recount and everything, but I feel like Hillary's behind all this and they're paying her.
	And I just feel like they know that there's not going to be any kind of a change in the election because of this.
	But they're going to continue to do it because it's this, I feel it's a big screw you to the taxpayers of these three states because we are going to have to pay in Michigan, the taxpayers are going to have to pay over $5 million towards this recount.
	And I think that it's, if the Democrats are behind this, and I feel they are, that this is their way of getting back at us the police.
	You know, you could continue with.
	You could be right.
	They are that petty.
	It could well be.
	The liberals are this way.
	When they lose elections, they don't look inward and ask what they did wrong.
	They look at you and ask, why are you so stupid?
	How in the world could you have not voted for us?
	How in the world could you have not voted for Hillary?
	And so do a recount that's going to cost you money.
	They take that.
	That's one element.
	I think there's a lot of things wrapped up into this, Susan.
	The first and foremost is a fundraising effort.
	That's primarily what Jill Stein is doing.
	And for whom, ultimately, we'll have to wait and see.
	There's also an effort to delegitimize the election in terms of public opinion.
	I don't think they really think they're going to overturn this.
	They dream maybe that in a long shot it could happen.
	And this is, I think, why the attack on the electors.
	I think what they're really trying to do is delegitimize the election and then delegitimize the Trump administration.
	I think they would love to say, look at this guy as president.
	He lost the popular vote.
	He did almost barely squeak by on the electoral vote.
	This guy does.
	He didn't win anything.
	He doesn't have a plurality majority.
	We still are.
	And they're trying to do everything.
	And that's to stoke the media to carry the story.
	And it's Hillary keeping her options open for 2020.
	And Hillary continuing to keep the money channels open for the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
	By talking about setting herself up or making plans to run again in 2020, that allows donations to continue to come in.
	And more importantly, it stops what might be requests for refunds.
	From donors to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
	Mostly, it's the left flailing away as a bunch of spoiled brats, unable to accept rejection.
	And as the recounts are showing, there isn't any fraud.
	There hasn't been any of this that they've claimed.
	They desperately hope to find.
	So there's a bunch of things.
	Look, time is dwindling here.
	Susan, I need to ask you, because I'm asking everybody here, would you like a new iPhone or iPhone 7?
	You don't have to take it.
	Don't be obligated.
	If you'd like to.
	Oh, my gosh, I would love that, Raj.
	All right.
	I would absolutely love that.
	Okay, so who's your car?
	Well, first off, what size?
	The 7 or the plus?
	The 7 is fine.
	And who's your carrier?
	Verizon.
	Verizon.
	And do you have a color preference?
	Well, what are my choices?
	Well, you've got rose gold, gold, silver, matte black, and jet black.
	I think I'll just go with the matte black.
	Matte black.
	Okay.
	If I don't have one of those, I'll substitute a different black or something close to it.
	But I think I've got a couple of each color back there.
	Okay, that's perfect.
	The phone is unlocked.
	There's no SIM card in it.
	So depending on what kind of phone now, you could just swap your SIM card and be off and running.
	But whatever.
	Take it to the Verizon store if you're going to do that in the box.
	Tell them it's a gift and it's unlocked.
	Hang on so we get your address to send it out to you, and we will be right back, folks.
	Don't go away.
	Okay, Susan in Michigan, we had a matte black iPhone 7 unlocked.
	It's on its way to you.
	And speaking of Michigan, the GOP in Michigan is saying the recount there could cost as much as $12 million.
	That's how much it could cost to taxpayers.
	Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, those three states were chosen because Trump's margin was small enough there, it was felt, that they might have some success on the recounts.
	Anyway, more on this and lots of other stuff after this brief timeout.

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