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Feb. 15, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2017, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, thanks and welcome back.
A little message for those of you that are on hold.
I know it works out this way.
More often than not, there are just a lot of stuff to get here today, get to today.
Once I get started on it, I've I feel compelled to finish it.
And start when you finish.
I'm one of those kind of guys.
And it's detailed and it's frequent.
And there are updates, all these different news stories.
I mean, it's it's a breakneck pace out there.
And I have this compulsion to keep you up to speed with the latest that I know.
So those of you on hold, if just hang on, I appreciate it.
We'll get to you usual time.
I mean, it's going to be in this hour, this half hour probably.
I just wanted to acknowledge, I know you're there.
I want to now delve back into the specifics of what is going on in the deep state, the embedded bureaucracy where the Obama shadow government is doing everything it can to overthrow the Trump presidency.
And make no mistake that is what's happening.
And make no mistake that the media has thrown in with it.
The media is now doing the bidding of the Obama shadow government, the remaining Obama administration members, all of the intelligence agencies at the Defense Department, at the State Department, all these people leaking, made up things, non-factual things that allow the media to continue to run stories that are nothing but speculation, that fall under the rubric of the seriousness of the charge.
And it really, whatever Flynn did, whatever Flynn is alleged to have done pales in comparison in to what's happening to our country by the Obama shadow government.
And I choose to word it that way because that's what it is.
It's a bunch of former Obama bureaucrats that he put in the various agencies that didn't leave when he did.
Clinton has some people that are still there, and this is how the left operates.
Because folks, the Democrat Party has ceased to function as ace.
The Democrat Party really, without the assistance of the media, can't stop anything.
They don't have the numbers.
They have lost over a thousand seats.
know the drill.
The Obama shadow government, the deep state, and all of the leftist judges throughout our judiciary make up now the official opposition to the portion of our country that believes that America is founded.
And look at what's happened here in just the span of one week.
If I may put this all in perspective for you, in the span of one week, we have seen left-wing tyrannical courts seize control of immigration.
In the span of one week, we have seen left-wing tyrannical bureaucrats attempt to seize control over national security.
Articles one and two of the Constitution.
In this same week, we have rogue leftists and Obama administration leftovers in the intelligence community, violating civil rights and exposing intelligence gathering methods, and leaking all kinds of national security secrets.
In criminal acts, this indeed is action in violation of federal statute.
We have read that there are indications of the undermining of the Trump presidency by Barack Obama and his shadow government and by his network of 250 community organizing chapters.
Now, this sabotage, and make no mistake, it's what it is.
The sabotage of the Trump administration began well before Mike Flynn's resignation.
It began well before Donald Trump was inaugurated.
The attempt to sabotage the Trump administration can be traced back to even prior to the election.
But you can certainly trace it back to after the election, when the New York Times first ran its story that elements of the Trump campaign were in contact with officials in Russia during the presidential campaign.
That's the only story.
There is no evidence.
There is just an allegation that Trump campaign officials, and who they mean by this is Paul Manafort.
Now, Paul Manafort, former campaign manager, he was the first one.
Paul Manafort has been doing business in Russia long before he ever started working for Trump.
So you take a little irrelevant indiscriminate fact over here, and then you take the Trump campaign there, and you put the two together where they don't fit, and you've got a news story.
And you've got Trump officials talking to Russian officials during the campaign, which the media insists the Russians hacked.
And there's no evidence for that.
There's never been.
It's cut and dry.
There's never, ever been any evidence that the Russians had anything to do with the outcome of the election.
There's no evidence.
And if you look very closely, you don't find that specific allegation, because the people who are making the allegation know full well it didn't happen.
The Russians had nothing to do with who won the presidency.
It had nothing to do whatsoever with it.
There isn't any evidence to suggest it.
Not in terms of the vote.
Not in terms of casting ballots.
Not in terms of counting ballots.
The Russians had nothing to do with it.
Now, the Russians did try to hack both parties'political career networks, their computer networks.
They apparently failed at hacking the Republican network, but they succeeded hacking the DNC and the email account of John Podesta.
They succeeded.
And those things were put on WikiLeaks, and it was said the Russians did it.
The Russians did the hack, and the Russians gave the data to WikiLeaks, who then ran it.
The guy at WikiLeaks says, no, we didn't get it from the Russians.
He said if he said it once, he said it 20 times.
The point is there's a bogus allegation that is fueling all of this.
The Flynn resignation, the Flynn controversy, the everything about this that you've seen in the last however long you've been watching, two days, three days, two weeks, three weeks.
It is all fueled by the New York Times leading the pack for the Democrat Party to assert that the election was hacked by the Russians.
The Russians worked together with Donald Trump to screw Hillary Clinton out of the presidency.
It is a lie that they have told themselves so much, I actually now think they believe it.
I think they actually believe they cannot accept the fact that they were rejected.
They can't accept the fact that their boy wonder Barack Obama was rejected.
They just can't, that doesn't, that that can't, that doesn't compute.
So they're unable to accept the hard cold reality of what happened all during the campaign and the election.
And so they've constructed this alternative reality with alternate facts.
And this whole Flynn story is predicated on that assumption.
The Russians hacked, Trump helped them, and Hillary lost.
And even in the news stories reporting this, you will find the phrase, investigators have found no evidence to conclude or to prove.
So all there are conclusions.
Conclusions by analysts who've looked at the evidence and who are concluding.
But conclusions are just somebody's Random thoughts.
They are not evidence in any way, shape, manner, or form.
New York Times today.
No evidence the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in hacking the Democrat National Committee and the election.
It's right there in their story.
It's buried.
It's way at the end of this.
You'll not see it unless it's pointed out to you, but it's right there.
No evidence the Trump campaign colluded with no evidence yet.
Yes, we must continue to investigate.
We must continue to look.
We must continue to listen to our people in the deep state.
The embedded bureaucrats at the intelligence agencies, departments of state and defense, who are continuing to look deep to see if they can find the link between the Trump campaign and the Russians in the hacking.
As of now, no evidence.
New York Times has run this story twice.
They ran the story last fall.
They ran it again yesterday and the day before.
Last night the New York Times put out a breaking news alert.
I happen to receive it.
Intercepted calls show members of the Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence before the election.
This breaking news went out last night around 9.15.
I was minding my own business, bothering nobody.
And I get this alert.
And I looked and I knew immediately that it was a crock.
I knew immediately that this is bogus because intercepted calls, this is the intercepted call.
One of these intercepted calls is the call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, for which they will not release the full transcript.
So we have to trust those who have heard the transcript of the call.
And why was there a transcript of the call, you might ask?
Very simple.
The National Security Agency has been bugging the Russian ambassador.
We've been fought with what we do.
They're an enemy.
The Russians are an enemy, the Iranians are an enemy, we keep track of them.
And so Flynn called the Russian ambassador, so they heard the call.
And I'm here to tell you, if they had heard if they heard Flynn openly say anything about sanctions being removed, if they had heard Flynn, they would have touted this when it happened.
This is all speculation.
Intercepted calls show members of the Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence before the election officials said.
it is unadulterated McCarthyism McCarthyism They're going to take Trump out from the get-go.
They are making no bones about it.
But if you read further, what you find is there isn't actually any evidence.
This is a fake breaking news alert.
It's designed to pollute the minds of people who read it, who will never read the full story, and who will never read.
Endless have yet to find any evidence linking the two.
All we have are...
Officials suggesting that intercepted calls show repeated contact.
Well, there's nothing unusual about repeated contact.
If you know anything about this.
This hit piece that ran yesterday in the New York Times was titled Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence.
And they cite more leaked intelligence information targeting Trump.
That shows repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.
The implied allegations obvious.
Trump colluded with the Russians to take down Clinton and thus steal the presidency.
There's just one problem here folks.
It's a 1300 word article in the third paragraph.
The New York Times admits that its sources quote said that so far they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.
Well then why run the freaking alert last night.
When in the third paragraph of the story following the alert.
You will find so far they had seen no evidence of cooperation.
Oh close.
So last night we got a breaking news alert that experts monitoring intercepts have found contact between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials.
Sound the alarm bells.
And then if you read the actual story the next day, which happens to be, yesterday you find out that in the third paragraph, the New York Times admits that its sources, these officials, who had seen the intercepts, said that so far they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.
That's a bogus story, then.
There's nothing to follow.
There's no reason to print, no reason to go with it, no reason to run it, no reason to believe it.
If there is no evidence of any collusion between Trump and his team and the Russians, then what the hell was the purpose of the breaking news alert last night, which reads, intercepted calls show members of the Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence before the election.
Third paragraph.
So far, they have seen no evidence of such cooperation.
They had to put it in the story.
If they didn't put it in the story, they could be brought up.
It is.
But the damage is done because the breaking news alert last night filled CNN and their morning news show today, filled Fox and Friends.
It was all over the MSNBC.
The New York Times says that there was collusion.
There was collusion.
And the New York Times alert said that, but the story didn't.
And this is the second time they've done this.
This same exact story.
I compared the two occurred last fall.
Almost the identical story.
And in both stories, there have yet developed any evidence of collusion.
So in four months they have not been able to unearth, even with the help of the Obama shadow government, they have been unable to unearth any hard evidence of collusion.
It doesn't matter.
They are reporting that there was contact between Trump officials and Russian officials, because what's driving this is the Russians hacked the election working with Trump to steal it from the legitimate should have been winner Hillary Clinton.
Another headline, FBI probing Russian intel contacts with several Trump campaign officials.
And here it is again.
The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that so far they had seen no evidence of such collusion.
You want to hear what comes before this?
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of the Trump presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians.
or just contacting them.
The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that so far they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.
The probes started with the FBI concern over Russian hacking of the DNC and John Podesta as an attempt to sway the election.
So far so, though, the investigation can't even determine if the contacts were about the election at all.
They can't even tell us that the Trump people talking to the Russians was even about the election.
And yet look at the news stories and look at the cable news networks bouncing off of this.
And look at what you now probably think because of it.
You are being lied to on purpose and with full-fledged knowledge of the people lying to you.
And they're doing this under the guise of presenting to you news.
Back in just a second.
Now I mentioned to you that this is the second New York Times story I want to read to you from the same story that they ran back in October.
Are you ready?
For much of the summer, the FBI pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential camp.
This before the election, folks, is last October.
Agents scrutinized advisors close to Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of the Democrats, and they even chased a lead, which they ultimately came to doubt about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump organization to a Russian bank.
Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigation so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.
And even the hacking into Democrat emails.
FBI and Intel officials now believe was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.
That's from last October.
They just redid the story.
This week, adding Flynn to it and continuing the flying premise.
Great to have you back here, folks.
We're gonna get to the phones here, but I'm not through with the New York Times.
I'm not near through with the New York Times.
There's even more in this New York Times story about all of this that demonstrates how the so-called deep state, which I'm now calling the Obama's uh shadow government is attempting to sabotage Trump and his administration.
But I gotta get to the phones first, and we're gonna start in right here, West Palm Beach.
Gina, great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Nice talking to you.
I've been living here for a long time.
First time I've ever got in.
Well, I'm glad you did.
So I want to make a point that all throughout the campaign in the election, uh nobody ever brought up Podesto's ties with the Russian government, the fact that he is involved in consulting deals uh on wind, etc., making forty thirty to forty million dollars a year.
Nobody ever once brought up Clinton's ties to the Russian government and her uranium deals.
That never got brought up.
Yet any little thing that Trump's campaign or even talked, it gets blown out of proportion.
I'm sick to my stomach over what's happening to this country.
The media is roadblocking Trump and his administration in every which way possible.
And not that anything is illegal or uh uh illegitimate.
It's just they're digging and digging and it roadblocks.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute.
Gina, just a second here.
There is a whole lot of illegality going.
All of this leaking is illegal.
Every damn bit of it's illegal.
The procuring of the information that is being leaked is illegal.
There are a lot of people engaging in criminal behavior in order to bring these leaks to the drive-by media.
Now you're not on the Trump administration side.
I mean, we're digging up a two hundred-year-old law that has never once been enforced.
And you're trying they're trying to wiggle and weave and take a fine line and try to.
What are you talking about?
The Logan Act?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
No, nobody's ever been prosecuted under it.
And they're now they're hanging their hats on it or trying to.
They're trying to, but I'm sure you know what was actually said and what wasn't.
You know, like you said, we're getting excerpts.
And what does this do to Trump?
It takes up time.
He hasn't been able to issue another executive order on the ill the the immigrant ban.
He can't do tax reform.
He can't do again, we can't take for economics.
Let me ask you a question.
Are are you getting close to getting frustrated and abandoning Trump?
Absolutely not.
All right.
I knew that.
I just wanted to make sure.
I am absolutely beginning to abandon all government almost.
I mean, we have got McCain, we've got Lindsey Graham, we have all these people working against these American people.
See, this is my point.
Gina, thank you so much for calling because you've helped me to come up with another point.
I started the program here by pointing out to you, and I did this for a reason, folks.
I wasn't just, you know, being sentimental.
The way I do this job, I come here every day.
I have I've earned this microphone.
He gave this to me.
I've earned this microphone.
I I use it each day To enter the arena of ideas, and that is to do whatever I can to persuade you to agree with me.
I mean, that's what I'm doing here.
I passionately care about things.
I mean, there are many things going on here.
I'm trying to attract crowd hold the crowd and all that.
But when it comes to this kind of stuff, I'm I'm trying to persuade people.
I make no bones about it.
But that's all I can do.
You still are free to vote however you will.
There's no amount of power over you I have.
I don't even contemplate having power.
And that used to be what the media did, too.
The media used to work in the arena of ideas.
The media used to present the news and you would read the news and you would learn what you learned from it.
But that hadn't been the case for the longest time.
The media is no longer about well, they're trying to persuade, but now the media has even abandoned the arena of ideas and they've joined with a political party.
And the media is not about the arena of ideas.
The media is not about persuading.
The media is about overcoming the will of the people.
The media has joined forces with the Democrat Party, members of the Democrat Party, and the extreme radical left in the United States to advance the extreme radical leftist agenda.
I don't have that kind of power.
I don't seek to use this microphone of this program to unseat elected officials, other than at elections.
But the media has joined forces with unelected bureaucrats who are actively engaged in attempting to unseat members of the Trump administration and Trump in an effort to undermine a free and fair election in the United States last November.
That is big, if you ask me.
And it's an area in which I am not competing.
I wouldn't know the first thing about it.
I wouldn't, it wouldn't even cross my mind, but that's who the media is now.
They're not about news.
They're not about persuading people and then letting an election decide what happened— We're representative republic.
The media has joined forces with people who hold in contempt the expressed opinion of the people of the United States and do their best to thwart it and object to it, roll it back, undermine it, however you want to describe it.
Well, in the midst of all this, we have these Trump supporters.
And one thing holds true.
The media hasn't learned it, and I doubt that they ever will, because of their own arrogance and hubris.
You just heard Gina.
She knows what's going on.
She's followed every bit of this, just as you have.
She knows everything they're saying about Mike Flynn.
She knows everything they're saying about Trump.
She knows everything they're saying about Trump colluding with the Russians.
She knows every lie they're telling.
And guess what?
It hasn't moved her an inch.
She is just as glued and wedded to Donald Trump as she was at any time during the campaign.
They have not succeeded in driving a wedge between Trump and his supporters and his voters no matter what, and they will continue to fail because they have nothing to do with Trump's success.
They have been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race.
And he has triumphed over them at every turn, and they can't stand that either.
And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump.
So now it's joined forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will.
And even that is not distancing Trump supporters from him.
They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.
Now there is some frustration.
You heard it.
That's why I said, I think the recipe for Trump or the solution here, double down on the domestic agenda.
There's nothing stopping him.
All this Flint stuff, they can't stop him from getting rolling up sleeves and moving faster on Obamacare and tax cuts.
Get it done.
Start on it.
Executive orders, legislation, whatever It takes.
And do it quick before the Republicans have a chance to join the deep state.
Because do not doubt me.
This isn't Republican versus Democrat.
This is not right versus left right now.
This is not conservative versus populist.
This is establishment globalist America is not first to those of us who believe America is first.
This is an establishment anti-establishment fight that's going on.
And the people in the establishment come from both parties.
They work in all of the bureaucracies.
They are elected and unelected, like one of the famous ones is this uh what was it, learner, lowest learner at the IRS, totally unelected, refusing to grant tax exempt status to Tea Party organizations for purposes of fundraising during a campaign.
That's the shadow government.
That's Obama sabotaging the will of the people.
That's the Democrat Party dealing with the fact that they can't win at the ballot box in national elections.
That's how the Democrat Party deals with the fact that they have continued to lose seats and elections since Obama became president.
So it's not right-left, conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican.
I mean, it is in certain things, but what we have here is the establishment, and this is all predicted, circling the wagons, doing everything they can, because Trump started out doing what he said he was going to do.
We got the executive order on immigration, we had this, we had that.
He came out of the gates like secretariat, and they said, whoa!
Whoa-ho-ho!
So they went and got a judge in Seattle said, You can't do that.
And they found the libs in the Ninth Circus to back up the judge.
You can't do that.
Besides, the case hadn't even been heard yet.
They just told the president he can't do it because they don't like him.
That's who they are.
That's not America.
Whatever you think Flynn did, the people trying to stop Flynn, the people trying to stop Trump, they pose a greater threat to what you think this country is than anything Donald Trump has in mind, or anything Mike Flynn has.
Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.
You might have some people disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.
They do.
Donald Trump has no design to transform America.
Donald Trump doesn't think America is second rate.
Donald Trump doesn't think America's guilty.
Donald Trump doesn't think America owes people things.
Donald Trump doesn't think that the borders are to be wide open so that anybody who wants here can come here because we've screwed them sometime in the past.
Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.
They do.
That's what this fight is.
It just so happens that most of the Democrats happen to be aligned with the America is the problem in the world side.
And most of the pro-Trumpers happen to believe that America is the solution to the problems in the world.
The globalists, the establishment, they think America isn't particularly exceptional and should mean no different than any other state in the world, subject to whatever a global authority might say.
The United Nations, for example.
Donald Trump doesn't think that, nor do we.
This is a huge, huge fight.
This is the one chance.
This is in many of our lifetimes, this is it.
This is the only chance, the best chance we're going to have to roll this stuff back.
But at the same time, the people on the opposite side of this know full well that this is the last chance we might have, and they've got to destroy us.
They've got to keep this from happening.
They know full well that if they can beat this back, that they will succeed in transforming America, and that there will not be any serious threats down the road, even though they can't win elections.
Stop and think about that.
The people that can't win elections outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrats who cannot win Elections who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States, about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.
Back after this.
While the world is on fire all around us, we fight the flames without fear, ladies and gentlemen.
And now back to the uh back to the phones.
This is Larry in San Antonio.
Larry, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Mega diddles Russian.
Thanks a lot for having me.
I wanted to call you about the Russian spy ship that everybody's all all of a sudden breaking out in a sweat about.
I was in submarine service for 28 years, and every place we went, uh leaving port, there was usually a Russian spy ship that would follow us out until we don't.
This is nothing new.
Now the press is making it like it's all Donald Trump's fault that we have spies and everything else.
And I'm really sick and tired of it.
They're not reporting the news correctly.
It's he's exactly right.
I want to thank you on that Lair.
The uh the Russians have had a trawler.
The only difference, this is the farthest north it's been in a while.
But the Russians have had a trawler.
And do you people remember a movie the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming back in the 60s?
It was based on the fact that a Russian sub spying on us lost power.
Very it was a comedy, and they and they put ashore some some town in Maine, and the citizens of Maine ended up loving the Russians and so forth.
The Russians did they were they they had been lied to about what Americans were and they couldn't believe what they found when they actually came ashore in America.
It was a funny movie.
But Russian trawlers and spies have been off the East Coast for years, 30, 40, 50 years.
It is nothing new.
The drive-bys are counting on the fact that the low information voter doesn't know this.
And so they this is how it works.
There's a Russian trawler.
It's close to the East Coast of the United States.
What's it doing there?
Now what the media wants you to think is it's either friendly, it's there to protect Trump.
It's Putin looking out for Trump, or else it's Russia getting ready to launch an attack, collecting data on us because they really wanted Hillary, and they know that Trump stole the election, and Trump making it look like Russia helped him steal the election, and they don't like being accused of this.
And so the Russians are threatening America, and it wouldn't be happening if it weren't for Orange Head being in a White House.
That's what they want you to think.
Do you know the Russians ever since Obama, and I think this might have even happened with Bush, the Russian primary delivery system in the air for bombs is called the bear bomber.
And it is a huge four-engine gigantic albatross of an airplane, and they've been flying over the U.S. close to Alaska, close to the U.S. border.
They've been buzzing us.
Easily for ten years.
Loaded Russian bear bombers.
It is Putin trying to recapture the glory of the old Soviet Union, which imploded, of course, with the fall of the Berlin Wall many, many moons ago.
And so this is just Putin beating his chest.
But the the media, the media knows this, whether it's this ship or others, the Russians have been trawling the East Coast.
And by the way, so did the Germans during World War II.
Did you know that there were actually Russian soldiers caught in Kentucky in World War II?
Well, hell's Bills Russ, whoa, you you mean there were Nazi soldiers in that's right.
Well, how'd they get here?
I guess they snuck in.
The Russians have been trawling off the coast of the United States with ships like this for the longest.
And the New York Times that they're having kittens over the claim the Russians were doing cruise missile tests in violation of the latest arms street.
So are the so are the Iranians.
You know, there's the New York Times, any day of the week is scared to death of nuclear weapons, except when Iran's on the verge of getting one, and then they want to celebrate for some fool reason.
So, why did Trump either get rid of Flynn or let Flynn resign?
Because as Trump said earlier today, the media really mistreated Flynn.
He's a great guy.
Well, if then why get the broom and send a guy out?
There's got to be more to this.
And we will explore this when we get back, my friends.
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