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Feb. 9, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2017, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, you're getting tired of winning yet.
Getting tired of winning.
So does the rain dance.
All for naught.
Jeff Sessions was sworn in as the attorney general today.
And Chuck Hugh Schumer is now demanding that the Trump nominee for Department of Labor, a man by the name of Andrew Puzzler, resign.
That he just recused himself that he gets because he's so anti-labor, so anti-working man, so anti, that he just ought to quit.
He ought to just remove himself from the uh from the process.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
The fastest week in media already Thursday.
Rush Limbaugh, 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.us.
Here is Sessions being sworn.
Well, this is afterwards, after he has taken the oath.
It is an honor beyond words to serve under you and your leadership.
Are you putting together a great cabinet, which is just a thrill for me to have the opportunity to join?
And I look forward to making sure that every ounce of strength I have and that the people of the Department of Justice have is going to be focused on preserving and protecting the Constitution and the safety of this country.
We will defend the laws of this country as passed by Congress.
We'll defend the lawful orders of the President of the United States with vigor and determination.
And he went on to say that he thinks the president's executive order that's currently bottled up at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is perfectly fine.
By the way, speaking of that, speaking of Ninth Circus, before we get to Judge Gorsuch and what's going on with uh with that whole circumstance.
Oh, did you hear Kellyanne Conway was on Fox today, urge people to go out and buy Ivanka Trump stuff?
Did you hear that?
You know, I I've had Rush, people sending me email.
Are you not concerned by any of this?
I mean, some of this rush, I mean, if it were a Democrat president doing some of this, you'd be up in arms.
Maybe so, folks.
I have to I look, it could well be, and maybe we'll go down the list of some of these things.
But let me tell you what I'm delighting in.
I'm delighting in the left being upside down, inside out, 180 degrees out of phase.
This is what I have dreamed of the entire time I've been doing this program.
I have wanted it this I wanted the left to have it stuck to them every day, multiple times a day.
I want everything they do to backfire on him.
I want them to look silly, I want them to look like the people they really are, and all of that is happening.
And I love the people in the media just go, but he's sh he's having Codwick go out and tell people to buy stone's products at ethics.
It's an ethics violation, it's a conf.
I just love it.
I love them going baddie.
Because I am not as a citizen or a human being personally threatened or bothered, nor do I think the country hangs in the balance because of any of the things that Trump is doing.
I'm just enjoying the left acting like a bunch of stuck pigs, and the fact is they keep losing and they're going to keep losing.
Time magazine has Chuck Schumer on the cover in the headline, do the Democrats Matter anymore.
There's a piece of Slate.com or Salon, I forget which, talking about, well, you know, you can say what you want about Elizabeth Warren and all that, but McConnell got everything he wanted.
Sessions has been confirmed and is taken to the office.
It's dawning on them that they can protest all day.
They can burn up buildings all day, they can throw bombs, they can stop people from speaking, but they have no power.
They have no power in the citadels of power in the White House in the House in the Senate, they have no power.
They have the judiciary, they've got the unelected bureaucracy, obviously.
But whatever Trump wants to do, they can't stop him unless they can get it to court.
Which I think you should expect the president to be sued 15 times a day.
That's what they're going to finally figure out is their best way to oppose him.
Uh so on on balance, I'm loving this.
I the the slow dawning on these people.
Meanwhile, over on the right, they're wringing hands over whether this is uh conservatism or nationalism or populism, and is it good or bad or what have it?
I think all that stuff's gonna it it'll shake itself out.
I I I don't see so many people are in a in a near panic mode, and uh, and and I'm not.
And it just because of the circumstances I find the left in.
Now, I know some of you say, but Rush, don't you realize that there's more going on here than is the left losing.
I mean, in the process of the left losing, there might be some things going on that might not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When those things happen, I'll I'll tell you when I feel that way, folks.
Well, when I when I think something's going on, it's really difficult.
But I don't think Trump trashing Nordstrom is a problem, and I don't think Kellyanne Conway advocating that the press go out and buy Evanka products is a problem.
I just love it, to be honest with you.
I just do.
But you have to understand, too.
This what the president's doing with Nordstrom look, folks, we're getting close to my backyard on some of this stuff.
I don't want to go too much in the weeds on it, but believe me, it is welcomed in more sectors of our economy than you would know.
Now, um to the Ninth Circus.
Uh everybody was expecting that the circus would rule yesterday, and then they stated just before the program ended, right before the program ended yesterday, they would not have a decision yesterday.
So now everybody is breathlessly waiting today.
At this moment, the media is breathlessly waiting for the decision because they are convinced that the Ninth Circus is going to find for Judge Robart and continue to silence and shut down Trump's uh executive order and his policy of vetting refugees, extremists, terrorists, and others who wish to do harm to the United States.
The Democrats and the media want those people, I guess, to be able to get into the country.
But as um as my good amigo Andrew McCarthy wrote today, there's another thing that the another direction that the Ninth Circuit could go.
And they could send it back to Robart.
And the thinking on this is that Robart didn't rule on the law.
Robart's TRO, temporary restraining order, is really personal policy preferences.
I mean, Robart's arguments are all about the moral aspects of what Trump is doing and the statistics about how many people from these seven countries have committed terrorist acts.
So what's the point of it?
But he didn't rule on the law.
And the point is that an appellate court has to have a judicial ruling on which to rule.
They have to they have to have a ruling from a judge from a court to review.
And they don't have that from Robart.
All they've got is uh, as I say, personal policy preferences expressed as questions.
So they could throw it back, and in fact, Robart is even preparing for that to happen.
Robart is soliciting actual arguments and position papers from the litigants in this case.
He is not sitting idle.
He is acting as though this case is going to go forward in his court.
Not that he would know what the Ninth Circuit is doing, but the fact that he would know he hasn't yet had a legal ruling.
His temporary restraining order was based not on the law, but on somebody asked him to stop it, and he said, okay, fine, I think Trump would lose anyway, and for these reasons.
Now, on the court itself in the Ninth Circus, it has been discovered, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there's a there's uh one woman and two men on the three judge panel out there.
The woman is Judge Michelle Friedland.
And she won the ACLU of Southern California's LGBT award in 2009, according to Senator Pat Leakey Leahy of uh Vermont.
He said she received the president's pro bono service award in 2013 for the State Bar of California and the LGBT award from the ACLU of Southern California in 2009.
This statement was made by Wahey back on um April of 2014 in the Senate, stating his approval of her confirmation to the Ninth Circuit.
He was citing these aspects of her as qualifications for her to be confirmed as an appellate judge in the Ninth Circuit, that she had been given an LGBT award, ACLU, and that she got the President's Pro Bono Service Award and so forth.
So the message is we've got an activist judge here.
We have a clearly an activist judge in Friedland and probably another one.
And the thinking is that, I mean, this is the law on this makes ruling here a slam dunk.
If all you're looking at is the law, Judge Robart should be overturned.
The TRO should be lifted.
If you're just looking at the law, if you are just looking at the statute, but of course we're not.
And if it again, within the vein of sticking with the law, the Ninth Circuit should send it back to Judge Robart and say, okay, Judge, be a judge on it instead of left-wing hack and actually make a judicial ruling.
We're sending it back to your court for final disposition.
The fact that they haven't done that tells eager court watchers that the Ninth Circus is actually looking to rule on this, and that means they will probably rule against Trump and in favor of Judge Robart, which then triggers the whole thing going to the Supreme Court if it is desired.
And then we start talking about what is an expedited schedule at the Supreme Court.
Expedited for FedEx is one or two days, and then UPS expedited for the Supreme Court could be a couple three months.
I fully expect that at some point this thing's going to get torn up and they're going to rewrite it.
They're going to do a new executive order or a series of them.
Because I don't think Trump is tired of winning.
I think he's just going to keep flooding the zone on this kind of stuff to ultimately get what he uh what he wants.
But anyway, we're keeping a sharp eye on whatever comes out of the Ninth Circuit.
The most surprising thing they could do would be to overturn Robart and say that his ruling really doesn't have any legal oomph to it and reinstate Trump's executive order.
That just does not seem possible given the three judges in this panel.
But stranger things have happened.
So again, the options.
That, or they rule in favor of Robart and uh the TRO remains, and then they have to go to Supreme Court, or the third option, they send it back to Judge Robart and say, make a judicial ruling on this, bud, and then we'll take it from there.
Which Robart, as I say, is already scheduling the arguments in the hearings and the time on his calendar for that to happen.
Now, moving on to Judge Gorsuch, I have a question for you people, because I know that many of you are paying attention to the media out there.
And you can't miss this.
There are an increasing number of Democrats and liberals and leftists outside the Senate who are singing Judge Gorsuch's praises.
The most recent is a woman from Harvard.
She was in the Obama Department of Justice.
She looks like Marie Harf with Auburn hair.
Just I I like people having a picture, a mental picture that people are talking about.
She's now a law professor at Harvard, and she has been today singing the praises.
She cut a 30-second video, in fact, and she was singing the praises of Gorsuch.
Cannot do any better.
He's fair-minded.
He's a man who will follow the law.
And there is a growing sediment out there for Judge Gorsuch.
And it is, I think, being helped by the fact that Senator Blumenthal exaggerated a bit what Gorsuch reportedly said about Trump's attack Of Judge Robart.
Judge Robart was referred to as that so-called judge by President Trump.
Richard Blumenthal, who lied about having served with honor and valor in Vietnam, claims that when he was talking to Gorsuch, that Gorsuch said that it was abhorrent what Trump said, and that and he was very troubled by it.
And it's it's evolved now that that's not that's not what Gorsuch said.
Gorsuch did not say that he found what Trump said abhorrent.
What happened is is that Blumenthal characterized what he thought Trump's statement about Judge Robart was, and that Gorsuch pretty much agreed with it, and others, Ben Sass, Nebraska, have come out and said, yes, Gorsuch is of the frame of mind that he was troubled and alarmed by President Trump's attack on the judge, Judge Robart.
And this is causing even more Democrats to warm up to the guy, because all they can see is criticizing Trump.
So if he does that, or is perceived to be doing that, then they're warming up to him even more.
The bottom line is that Judge Gorsuch is going to be confirmed because he doesn't change the balance of the court.
And as we stated yesterday, Mitch McConnell is trying to get this done without having to invoke the nuclear option, meaning eliminate the requirement for 60 votes.
But I'm going to tell you, folks, this is not the fight that everybody thought it was going to be.
next one will be.
The odds are that the next opening on the Supreme Court will happen when one of the four liberal judges just can't go on for whatever reason.
When one of those four slots opens up, and if Trump nominates anybody even close to Gorsuch, then you're going to see nuclear war.
You're going to see essentially the way it was with Clarence Thomas.
That was, you know, Bork preceded Thomas.
Clarence Thomas was the last real history...
I mean, it was bad for Alito.
But the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings was all out judicial nuclear war.
And that was because he was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall, Black Justice, uh tried and true, leftist liberal Democrat.
The Democrats thought that seat was theirs forever.
And George H.W. Bush puts Clarence Thomas in there.
You all remember what happened, the Anita Hill allegations of sexual harassment, pubic hairs on coke cans and all this.
And Judge Thomas referred to it as a high-tech lynching because he was a conservative African American who did not follow the prescriptions of affirmative action and the demands of the left.
And so he was they tried to kill it.
Tried to kill his career.
They tried to kill his reputation.
They literally tried to destroy Clarence Thomas.
They brought out everything they've got, and that's what's coming.
And so the um, you know, uh go back and forth on this whole nuclear option, because they're going to need the nuclear option.
McConnell's going to need it for the next judge.
I go, I and he may as well trigger it now and establish the precedent because if he doesn't do it for Gorsuch, it's going to be harder.
No, not in real life harder, but it's going to be harder with the media pressure.
You didn't do it for Gorsuch, well, you can't just selectively decide when you're going to do it, and then put all kinds of pressure on him.
I just think if they think they're going to need to nuke the nuclear option to get future Trump nominees confirmed, just go ahead and do it for this and be done with it.
But that's just me.
Let's take a brief time out.
We have audio sound bites and all this.
And uh didn't get to the business yesterday of these Republican elderly statesmen in favor of a carbon tax.
Want to get into that.
Uh the president has responded to critics asking, where are your tax cuts?
He said they're coming in three weeks.
Be patient.
Coming up.
Don't go away.
By the way, Senator Sessions was confirmed in a bipartisan vote.
You won't hear that in the drive-by's.
But he was Joe Manchin, Democrat in West Virginia, voted for Session, so there was a Democrat vote.
It makes it bipartisan.
Also, the Daily Caller has a story that the Trump administration is practically mailing Anthony Kennedy letters asking him to resign.
Not doing that, but the the supposedly the Trump administration is trying to suggest this to Justice Kennedy that it might be time to go.
And they make the point they're not being subtle about it.
They've named a couple people who would be his potential replacements who clerked for him, which I guess is supposed to comfort Justice Kennedy that if he decides to retire, that uh somebody that he likes and respects is in line to replace him.
Um that might be snurly asks you what I think of this.
This could be, you know, Kennedy goes either way.
You supposedly you watch the Washington Post style section to figure out which way.
Um but if Kennedy's slot comes up first before one of the libs, that confirmation battle might be not quite as heated as it would be for one who lives.
Let me expand on this.
Okay, here's the headline in the daily caller Trump White House sends smoke signals, urging Justice Kennedy to resign.
I wonder any hidden messages there to Elizabeth Warren, Folkahontas, since they're smoke signals, and she is part Indian.
I guess we'll never know.
The Trump administration has quietly encouraged Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire in recent weeks, sending signals meant to coax him into leaving the bench.
The signals have been delivered with the subtlety of a hand grenade.
The most clear indication came late Monday.
New York Times Adam LipTak, citing administration sources, reports the White House has identified Judge Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Court of Appeals DC Circuit, Judge Raymond Kethledge, sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as the front runners for the next Supreme Court opening.
Both of them clerked for Kennedy earlier in their careers and are widely respected as serious and sober jurists.
Well, I'm glad they're sober.
I'm real I'm really glad they're sober.
At least they have that going for them.
What the heck does that leave sober?
Does it mean they're just boring and dull and they sit around and they're constantly dead serious about virtually everything that happens, even when they're watching MTV.
Well, what by the way, where did it get started?
I'm serious here, folks.
Where did it start that people cannot comment?
Cannot render opinion on judges.
You know, Trump has weighed in on Judge Robart as a so-called judge, and they're having cows out there.
They're going bonkers.
Meanwhile, there was Obama in a State of the Union address bashing the Supreme Court seated right in front of him for their ruling on Citizens United.
And remember, Justice Alito was sitting there shaking his head as Obama totally mischaracterized the ruling.
And the left applauded that as is understandable.
Obama was going after the court that had gone after him, and they just loved it and so forth.
Nobody talked about the lack of decorum, and nobody talked about the breakdown of civility.
But let Trump refer to Robart to so-called judge, and you would have you believe that the glue holding our society together has come apart.
The thing is, judges can be corrupt.
The thing is, judges do make incorrect decisions.
They're not above criticism.
I understand the idea of an independent judiciary, but folks, let's be honest about something.
The judiciary has become politicized extensively, and it has been the case for years.
And this is, I think, another one of the tricks of the left.
Um you are not supposed to criticize the judiciary.
You just can't.
It's unseemly, it's uh violation of the independence of the judiciary.
It's seen as a very, very mean-spirited way of trying to bully or influence or whatever.
Where did this come from?
It's designed to get people to shut up.
It's a leftist Mechanism designed to get people to shut up and stop criticizing these leftist judges when they act like hacks instead of judges.
It's like I tell you what, I'll give you another way the Democrats play this game.
Go get a celebrity who has a very visible disability, and they'll have this celebrity do a political commercial endorsing a candidate or an idea, a ballot initiative, and you don't dare.
You don't dare criticize the celebrity because he's disabled.
And if you do that, you are just a heathen.
You are reprobate.
And they do this on purpose.
They put people in the political arena that they think are immune and hands-off.
You can't comment on what they say or what they do.
And I throw that out.
I don't if they're going to enter the political arena, then they're fair game.
But Republicans generally in the past have uh cowered away from this, and this is the way it is for judges.
I I look, I understand tradition and all that where the judiciary is concerned and the independence of the judiciary, but uh they are a co-equal branch of government, and there are apparently some rules that apply to them that the other two branches don't get,
such as people aren't allowed to express opinions about them, even though they make mistakes, even though they make bad moves, even though they are corrupt in many cases, even though they are political operatives first and judges second.
I mean, they already have the protection of illusion.
You have a political hack who's named as a judge, and he gets to rule as a judge when he's acting as a hack.
He already gets that cover, and then to further, and you can't comment on it, and you can't criticize it.
But let George H.W. Bush nominate a sitting appeals court justice, or judge like Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, and all bets are off.
You can destroy him.
You can go out and rip him new one.
You can do everything you can to stop him in his tracks.
But nobody's supposed to be talking about Judge Robart here.
And I know it's a fraternity, judges and uh people in the judicial system and so forth, and I do know they have their their own uh decorum, sense of decorum and so forth, but the idea that they're immune to criticism and uh above it, uh I think if they want to make law, they should run for office.
But that's not how the left does it.
The left uses political hacks disguised as judges as insurance for when they lose elections.
It's actually in a political sense, it's very smart.
Anyway, on the Justice Kennedy business, it mentions here the Daily Caller story that even Judge Gorsuch clerked for Kennedy, and the whole story is that the Trump administration is trying to telegraph to Kennedy it's okay to leave.
Kennedy's 83.
It's okay to leave because we got you covered.
Whoever we're gonna put in there is a clone.
Somebody you know, somebody you like, somebody who worked for you, somebody you respect.
And I I don't know if there's any truth to this.
I mean, this is the day they call her interpreting this as the Trump administration trying to send a signal to Kennedy to resign or retire.
Now, if if Kennedy went first, does that change the confirmation strategy?
For example, if if one of the four libs, if if one of them happens to retire or something else happens, and their seat becomes open, and Trump nominates a Gorsuch-like person or a Brett Kavanaugh, it's gonna be, as I say, nuclear war.
But would it be if it were Kennedy?
Would it be as intense?
Because Kennedy's not thought of as a liberal seat, and the libs think they own those four seats.
They are their seats in perpetuity.
They are entitled to those four seats.
Kennedy's seat is known as one that goes with the flow.
He's not known to vote strictly with either side.
So there may be something to the strategy here that uh the actual way to get a conservative majority on the court would be to not wait for one of the libs to leave, but rather to replace Justice Kennedy here In the wake of replacing Justice Scalia.
So no inside knowledge on this, just sharing with you all that is floating out there.
They're mentioned a couple days ago and the day before that, and even yesterday that, and I asked some of you to call in and react to this that is there a growing impatience among Trump supporters for what appears to be no movement on repealing Obamacare and tax cuts.
And we took some calls on this, and it was not definitive in either way.
Most of the people that called support Trump and so far still do, 100%.
And most of them said, hey, it's only day 18, it's only day 19.
It's not time to get panicky here.
But some have become alarmed.
Matt Drudge sent out a couple of tweets, one of them saying the GOP should be sued for fraud because they promised quick repeal of Obamacare and quick action on tax cuts.
And what we've had is statements, well, we can't get to Obamacare till at least next year.
If then, and tax cuts, well, this is a it's a massive thing to unwind like Obamacare.
It's gonna be, we're not gonna be, and some people you're not doing this to us again.
There have some Republican voters, you're not doing this to us again.
You told us you needed all three.
You need a House, you need the Senate, you need the White House to repeal Obamacare.
Well, you've got it.
We gave it to you.
Action.
Let's see some.
Same thing on tax cuts.
So today, President Trump assured everybody that the big tax cut is coming and that he is on it.
And it's it is not something that has been put on the back burner.
It's every bit front and center, as it's always been.
Rest assured, and the result of this is from CNBC, stocks have shot through the roof.
The Dow Jones industrial average reached an all-time high after Trump promises a big league tax announcement.
U.S. equities traded higher on Thursday after President Trump said that he would give an announcement regarding taxes in the next few weeks.
Lowering the overall tax burden on American business is big league.
That's coming along very well.
We're way ahead of schedule, I believe, said the President.
And we're going to announce something I would say over the next two or three weeks that'll be phenomenal in terms of tax.
Trump said this in a meeting with airline executives, another meeting, by the way, that went exceptionally well.
The airline execs left the meeting thinking this was cool.
This was really cool.
This was great.
Everybody having met with Trump comes out of the meeting just singing his praises and thinking it went phenomenally well.
And it was in that meeting that Trump made his comments on taxes coming.
Uh tax cuts coming.
I don't know if his announcement means he's reached an agreement with McConnell and Ryan.
If it does, that's great.
If it's Trump applying pressure on them, that's also fine, too.
But folks, I can tell you the uh the House Ways and Means Committee is moving on tax cuts.
They've got a they've got a tax cut plan ready to go.
Kevin Brady is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and they're not sitting on their hands in there.
Top marginal rate be down to 33 percent.
It features some uh repatriation of foreign held assets.
Uh there's everything I've been able to detect, there is a clear desire backed by energy in the Republican caucus to move these tax cuts forward and to get it done.
Same thing with Obamacare.
That's a little bit more dicey, but um we'll just wait and see.
But so far, all good.
Nineteen days, I think this is into the uh into the Trump administration.
I think a brief timeout.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Okay, let's go to the audio sound bites with Senator Richard Blumenthal from North, I'm sorry, he's from Connecticut.
And this was last night on Capitol Hill.
He held a press conference to talk about his meeting with the Supreme Court nominee judge Neil Gorsuch.
My strong hope is That he will be more vehement publicly.
He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump about the judiciary.
Well, here's the problem with that.
It was it was Blumenthal talking to Gorsuch, who referred to the president's comments as abhorrent.
That word was not used by Gorsuch.
And disheartening and all these are characterizations that others have made in Gorsuch's presence that he either signals his agreement by not opposing it or whatever, but he did.
Gorsuch is not running around the Senate ripping into Trump, is the point.
The media wants you to think that Gorsuch is what they you know what they really want you to believe?
They want you to think Gorsuch is close to pulling himself out of this because he's so disappointed in Trump.
That's what they want you to think.
They want you to think of Judge Gorsuch is so embarrassed, so embarrassed by this bumbling bull in a China shop that he doesn't even want to be associated with this president.
And he's on the verge of pulling his own nomination in the Supreme Court.
That's what they're trying to convince you.
And that's not by any stretch what's happening.
The next thing they want you to believe is that after Blumenthal and a couple of others mischaracterize the way Gorsuch is speaking, they want you to believe, I've even seen it speculated.
Will Trump pull the Gorsuch nomination himself?
Because Gorsuch is not being loyal.
Will Trump actually call Gorsuch and say, I'm gonna pull your nomination?
I don't want some reprobate like you on the court who can't be loyal to me.
They want people to believe it that might happen.
There's no way that's gonna happen, folks.
And all of this is a reaction to the Democrats and their continual losing.
They are unhinged and don't know what to do about it.
They live they have no power.
So they've got one or two things they can do.
They can lie and try to make it look like they have the power, or they can lie, miss state, mischaracterize, and make it appear that even people on Trump's team are embarrassed by him and don't really want to be part of anymore.
And that's what this is really all about, and none of it's true.
Gorsuch is not going to pull his own nomination.
Trump's not gonna pull it, and Gorsuch is not running around openly criticizing Trump in this way as they want you to believe.
And in the case of Blumenthal, this is a guy, he still got elected because this doing this kind of stuff's a resume enhancement.
He lied openly to the people of this country, North Carolina, about his valiant service in Vietnam.
He never served in Vietnam.
He lied about specifics and having courage and great valor and so forth.
Uh, March 2nd, 2008, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam.
And you exemplify whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it, Afghanistan or Iraq, we owe our military men and women unconditional support.
He did not serve in Vietnam, and it was it didn't take long for this to be exposed.
And he wasn't bothered by it.
The usual political apologies.
That's not who I am.
That guy that went out there and said it's not who I am.
And if anybody was offended by it, and if any members of the military were insulted, I humbly apologize.
Here's a brief montage of drive-by freak out about these non-comments from Gorsuch.
The president's own Supreme Court nominee takes a different view, calling his comments about the judiciary demoralizing and disheartening.
Judge Neil Gorsuch, who's calling the president's harsh words about the courts, quote, demoralizing and disheartening.
The president's comments were, quote, disheartening and demoralizing.
Judge Neil Gorsuch called the president's attack on the judiciary demoralizing and disheartening.
No, the president's comments about the judge, quote, demoralizing and disheartening.
Gorsuch described President Trump's recent criticism of judges As quote, demoralizing and disheartening.
Judge Neil Gorsuch using the words demoralizing and disheartening to characterize the president's recent attacks on the judiciary.
He did not use the words abhorrent comments.
He was speaking in generalities after such things were said by senators.
They're trying to make it look like Gorsuch is having second thoughts.
He's embarrassed to be any part of the Trump administration.
They're flailing, folks.
Be right back.
This Blumenthal guy from Connecticut, until he is a snake.
Gorsuch didn't say hardly anything.
Blumenthal wants you to think that he said, and the media then jumps on and says, they just continue to lose.
Trump now meeting with some Democrat senators on the Gorsuch nomination.
Wait till that picture gets out.
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