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Feb. 20, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 20, 2017, Monday, Hour #2
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No, no, no, look, folks, calm down.
It was yesterday.
It might have been set.
Then it had to be.
No, it had to be yes.
It was after Trump's rally on Saturday.
And I, you know, I ran a joke by people.
I said, you watch somewhere in the media, somebody's going to accuse Melania Trump of plagiarizing the Bible because she recited a Lord's Prayer.
And I had, well, that's all good and well, but the Lord's Prayer, I don't think it's in the Bible.
And I said, yes, no, no, it's not.
So we dropped it and went on.
And I'm I mistakenly represented what this was all.
The Lord's Prayer.
Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13.
Anyway, but it clouds the whole point.
Here we are, I'm not trying to explain a joke.
When you have to explain a joke, it never works.
It was a great freaking line, and it's being destroyed here by this silly.
Once and for all, for the record, I fully the Lord's Prayer is in the Bible.
I can't help it if somebody try to tell me it's not.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you.
Ill Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, uh Ill Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I really hope, you know, we're we're looking at uh potential candidates here for national security uh advisor.
I really hope it's Bolton.
I think John Bolton, a lot of people have criticisms of Bolton because he's he's um what would you be the best way to characterize the criticisms?
A, they say he's an interventionist, that if there's any trouble in the world that we should make a beeline and go there, and that he believes in nation building, i.e.
turning Iraq into an American-like democracy.
And he believes all this stuff, and I think he's moderated some of that based on, he used to believe those things.
I don't doubt that, don't challenge that.
But the Iraq experience and a number of other things, I think uh are things that I'm just guessing based on on things I've heard Bolton say since then.
He's on TV a lot.
The thing I like about Bolton is he is a known nonsense, doesn't put up, he's he doesn't suffer fools.
He is he's a patriot, he loves America, he knows who our enemies are.
He's got no problem identifying Islamic militant Islamic terrorism as an enemy.
Do you realize that is not a universally held belief, and it's not just among Democrats.
There are people throughout the Washington establishment who do not want that to be in any way true.
It upsets their worldview.
Folks, as far as the elites are concerned, the world is fine.
The only problem in the world is Donald Trump.
As far as the elites are concerned, the people at the IMF, the people at the World Bank, the people of the United Nations, the people at the European Union, the people that made all these people, they're fine, they're humpy-dory, everything with Obama in there and bureaucracies growing and globalism on the march and the shrinking and uh transformation of the United States of America.
They were happy and fine.
They're rich, they're wealthy beyond your imagination, they have positions of power and esteem throughout the world in this elite uh uh establishment culture.
And Trump coming along representing the common man.
I mean, Trump's election is all about the people I describe as the people who make America work.
They're characterized sometimes as the white working class, other times as blue-collar uh middle class, lower middle class.
These are the people whose lives have not been getting better in the last 15 or 20 years, while all of the elites have.
And the elites desperately want to hold on to all that.
And uh calling Islam uh militant Islamic terrorism.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We don't need that.
That's just upsetting things.
Everything's fine and dandy.
We don't need provoked these things and that.
They look at all of the migration that is not a problem.
Let Europe take them, let these Western Germans because these people that I'm talking about are never gonna be impacted by any of these policies.
They're never affected by illegal immigration.
They're not affected by, they don't live where refugees in the sort are located.
And then they get away with being perceived as uh compassionate and open-minded and tolerant and so forth.
And they they have presided over the stagnation of the middle class.
Now, in the United States, the upward mobility of the middle class has been one of the things that set us apart from anywhere in the world, and it's one of the reasons why so many people in the world want to come to America is the upward mobility of the middle class, the ability to improve, to acquire a crew wealth to do better for your kids than you were able to do for yourself and this kind of thing.
And that has been stagnating.
There aren't increasing wages.
There aren't increasing standard of living in the last 15.
That's why Trump was elected.
That's why Trump represents a problem to all these people.
And the media considers themselves part of that august group.
And Trump's just upsetting everything.
You know, Trump's coming, he's upsetting all of the systems in place.
He's upsetting all the strategies that have been implemented.
He's upsetting what these people think is world peace.
The Israeli Palestinian conflict is not supposed to be solved.
The Israeli-Palestinian contact uh conflict is what allows foreign policy and Middle Eastern bureaucrats to continue to be Middle Eastern bureaucrats.
And what allows them to continue to work in the so-called peace process.
The last thing they want is peace.
That'd be the end of the peace process.
If peace triumphed, what would there be for them to do?
This is a this is slightly uh generic explanation of all of this.
But anyway, I think Bolton is not that.
Now, I think Bolton is probably more interventionist than Trump.
I mean, Trump has made a big deal in the campaign about how we don't need to be going everywhere in the world.
We don't need to be wasting our money.
And to the extent that we do, the people we're trying to help need to pay their fair share.
We don't need to be going broke investing in all these different far corners of the world when there's no American benefit to it, is what Trump has said.
People have applauded it, thought it was great.
But to the establishment elites, this this is a call to arms.
This is a direct attack on them personally and professionally, their stewardship of the world, and they're not just going to sit idly by and let it happen.
So that's the in a nutshell, the world in which we find ourselves.
Now, so you you we need national security advisors and a national security council.
We need somebody that's pro-American that is gonna support Donald Trump that has basically a similar world view.
Uh and I I think uh, as I say, Bolton's probably more interventionist than Trump.
But I everything changes.
Trump during the campaign says one thing about intervening, but it's president, different realities hit you.
It'd probably be a little bit more interventionist than he thought.
Bolton's probably a little bit less than he used to be.
It could be a uh a happy marriage.
And Bolton was a Reagan-esque figure uh time in terms of believing in peace through strength, which which Trump also professes, uh how much he's thought it through, but in terms of a philosophy, Bolton is full-fledged behind peace.
In other words, build up the military in the hopes you don't have to use it, but if you do, kick ass.
If you have to use it, it better be the military that can beat anything that comes at us.
But you hope you never have to.
He's not somebody who wants to be permanently in conflict with people, but if it happens, he's willing to openly, honestly admit who it is, why they're doing it, and what needs to happen to shut them down for America to win.
So I'm just, I just throw my name in the list here as as supporting Bolton for the gig.
And that's not a slight on any of the others whose hats are uh are also in consideration.
Names are also in consideration.
Look at this.
Hill.com, Americans brimming with optimism on the economy.
I saw the headline, I must tell you, even I, L. Rushbo, just to show you how hard this is.
Even I was surprised.
Because look, we can't escape the past month of media coverage.
And one of the efforts the media's been engaging in is trying to present a picture of Americans unhappy they elected Trump, unhappy they voted for Trump, now pulling their hair out.
Oh no, what do we do now?
And that's not an accurate picture of America.
It's a picture of the protests that we've been shown.
It's not a picture of America.
America's actually pretty optimistic.
Trump supporters are as avidly for him as they have always been.
And this story is actually a poll from Harvard.
Yeah, the Harvard Harris poll.
Strong majority of Americans say the U.S. economy is running strong.
Most believe the upward trend will continue under Trump, according to a Harvard Harris poll provided exclusively to the Hill.
Survey found 61% view the economy is strong.
39% say it's weak.
A plurality, 42% said they believe the economy is in the right track.
39% say it's on the wrong track.
That is such a stark contrast.
Even back in October, November, when it was 70% thought we're on the wrong track.
67, 73% thought we're on the wrong track with Obama.
Major, major reversal here.
Mark Penn, who's a co-director of the Harvard Harris poll, and he's a Democrat pollster, by the way.
He's polled for the Clintons, hasn't he?
Don't don't don't frown at me.
Like, don't tell me this guy's a Republican.
Next you're going to tell me the large pair is not in the Bible, right?
Am I wrong about Mark Penn?
Mark, I think Mark Clinton, I think he's worked with the Clintons.
Anyway, he did the poll.
Uh he said it's really surprising turnaround, given how negative voters have been about the economy since 2009.
But jobs remain the number one issue, and a lot of the change in sentiment anticipates tax cuts and infrastructure programs.
That means a lot of this optimism anticipates the Trump agenda.
And again, it is why I continue to urge the Trump administration to get going on it.
I mean, look, it's all fine and dandy to stop the TPPP.
It's all fine and dandy to say you're going to continue to do what you need to do.
And it's all fine and dandy, keep talking about the wall.
That's crucial.
Immigration is but man repealing Obama.
And look at the differing new.
There's a story.
It ran yesterday.
It's on Drudge.
Let me find it.
We'll get it exactly.
Prospects of quick Obamacare repeal sinking fast.
Drudge links to a story like that at least once a day.
Different story.
Prospects of Obamacare withering away.
Prospects for Obamacare repeal are replaced, dwindling rapidly.
Every day you get one of those.
And then Paul Ryan calls a congressional press conference, goes out there and says, no, no, no, no, no.
We're on the case here.
This is going to happen in March.
We're going to roll it out in March.
Trump echoes it.
Rand Paul comes in.
Damn right, we're going to get rid of this as quick as we can.
So what's the truth?
Well, where are these stories coming from that the prospects for repealing Obamacare just dwindling away rapidly?
Let me just, I haven't done this yet, but let me click on the link here.
And see just exactly where this takes us.
It's a Washington Post.
Who in the world would have ever thought that?
Yeah, Mark Penn ran Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in 2008.
He was also her pollster, and guess what?
She still owes him money.
Hillary Clinton still owes Mark Penn money all the way back 2008 chief strategist for her in her 2008 presidential campaign.
I don't know that he worked on this last campaign because she still hasn't paid him from uh 2008 when she lost, of course, to Barack Hussein.
Oh.
Here's another story, ladies and gentlemen.
I told you there's a little tiny stack that's starting to develop that's showing cracks in the so-called resistance to El Trumpo.
And it's again from the Hill.com.
It's a poll, uh, and it's it's from the same poll, the Harvard Harris poll that shows optimism on the economy.
Get this.
Americans want Democrats to work with Trump.
A strong majority of Americans say that Democrats should look to cooperate with Trump to strike deals, according to the inaugural Harvard Harris poll provided exclusively by the Hill.
Same poll it found all of this uh optimism on the economy.
73% of voters want to see Democrats work with the president.
Only 27% who said that Democrats should resist Trump's every move.
Again, this is Mark Penn, a Hillary Clant campaign pollster and operative that she hasn't paid.
Now that's 73% number is the almost exact number of people who thought the country was headed in the wrong direction in the last months of the Barack Hussein O regime.
Now, this is striking.
Now, once again, by the way, the streets of American cities just magically happen to have a bunch of Trump protesters out there today.
Just magically.
I mean, they're just out there.
And and the pictures are from helicopters, and it's made to look like tens of thousands of Americans are out protesting Donald Trump over the supposed latest Trump outrage, whatever it might be.
And again, vast majority of this stuff is bought and paid for by it's not a cliche to say it.
It sounds it it's George Soros, and I'm sure Obama and his organizing for action, which is an uptake on organizing for Obama has a community organizing group, 250 offices that are organizing all this.
There is an attempt at sabotage and a shadow government made up of Obama embeds and Clinton embeds in the bureaucracy, and he's organizing for action offices that are organizing all these protests with mass-produced protest signs with fill-in-the-blank issues.
And these people are paid.
And we know this because it's been admitted to by the people that run these operations.
Here is Shana in Springfield, Oregon.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I was calling just to say I am so very thankful to you for your rush revere book.
Um, at the beginning of the school year, our son was hit by a drunk driver.
He suffered a really serious skull fracture, and he's had a really long road to recovery.
And your books have been such a blessing to our family.
He has enjoyed them.
He has had to sit still, which he hates to do, but we have helped pass many hours by listening to the books and re-listening to them, and he's gone to sleep listening to them when he's had trouble sleeping.
And I just wanted to say how thankful that we were to you for writing them and for inspiring our children to remember America and to love America.
I just am blown away that you would take the time to call and tell me this.
I I I don't know.
This is really uh sobering things to hear, and I I can't thank you enough.
Well, it gets even better because he is just an amazing kid.
One of the things that has happened as a result of this accident is he's lost a hearing in one of his ears.
And we've been hoping and praying as he heals that it would come back.
And we found out this week that he's not ever gonna hear again in that year, and he was so sad, and he had a few days of just feeling like there was more than he could handle, and there were gonna be just too many obstacles in a life as an adult and as a man, and of course we kept encouraging him and trying to focus our thoughts on the blessings that we have of still having him with us.
And we had the most beautiful white bulb moment.
I just had to call the chair with you.
We were talking through these things and there were tears inside and all of a sudden he said, Hey mom, Walsh has a hearing loss too.
And I said, That's right, but he does.
And he said, Nothing stops him from being successful with a hearing loss, so I can be successful too.
And I just wanted to thank you for being a public figure that can inspire children.
I'm very grateful.
Well, um, well, you have uh you've really reached me here.
This is this is uh incredible.
Look, I've I've got just a few seconds.
Can you hang on through the break?
Because I w I want to talk to you about your son's hearing challenges.
Just some things that I have learned since I lost mine that'll be hopeful.
Don't don't hang up.
Yeah, we are back with Shayna in Springfield, Oregon.
Shana pardon me?
Pardon me, what did you just say?
Shana, are you there?
I'm here, sorry.
Yes, I okay, good.
I just gonna say you've got us crying our eyes out here with this uh the story of what's happened to your son.
Uh and uh I I I I just I wanted to talk to you about your son's uh hearing loss.
How old is he?
He's just turned thirteen.
And you've been told by doctors that he definitely has lost hearing in one ear.
Correct.
And it's it's not retrievable.
Nerve damage.
Permanent nerve damage.
And so he has no residual hearing whatsoever.
No, he can hear some sounds, like screechy kind of sounds, and he can hear some sounds that are if they're super magnified, he can hear them, but not in any kind of a normal range.
So does he know when somebody's talking to him in that ear?
No.
Uh can he hear shower water, like uh water running in the shower, any sounds like that.
He the only sounds he says he hears are like screeching sounds and ringing sounds in that ear.
Okay, so that may be tinnitus or tinnitus, depending on how some people pronounce.
Look, I lost my hearing in uh in both ears in in 2000, and mine was an autoimmune attack.
Um and I use cochlear implants.
Uh, but things have advanced so much.
I I I was zero too.
I mean, literally nothing.
I didn't even hear screeching or any of that.
I mean, a nuclear bomb can go off and I wouldn't hear it if I if I weren't wearing my uh cochlear implants.
Uh but they have gotten so much better.
You know, I only had one ear done uh initially and I had the second ear done uh two or three years ago, and it's just made a huge world of difference.
Your your son will be able to regain hearing in his ear.
It'll be bionic or electronic of some kind.
I don't I don't want to supersede what doctors have told you, but there is there are all kinds of possibilities.
Um I think he's gonna have to get a hearing aid.
That's kind of what we have come to understand.
Well, there's nothing to fear about whether it's a cochlear implant.
You can you can tell him that that people think I am a spy and a secret agent because they think the implants I'm wearing on my hair are secret communication devices to powerful people in the CIA or something.
Uh that's what he said.
Do I have to get the kind like the CIA mom?
And I said, I don't think so, buddy, but that would be cool.
Well, you know, it I uh uh I the something I never had a problem with, and it's it differs in per I never had a problem with the way they make me look.
I mean for for me being able to hear was is it I ha I if I couldn't, I couldn't continue to work.
So I didn't care what it took.
I I don't have I don't have vanity in that regard.
Um but it it doesn't change your appearance anyway, except from the side, and it's it's uh to me it's it's not a factor.
Other people, you know, have uh different different concerns.
But the thing that you you c I think be very confident of, and I'm looking, I'm not trying to serpese doctors, I don't know the nature of of your son's medical condition in his ear, but even for people that have lost it all like I did, my my audio nerve was still functioning enough to be able to carry information.
It is minds get generated by uh uh bionic electrodes that are implanted in my brain rather than by the hair cells that everybody else hears with.
They're microscopic, and there's like there's hundreds of thousands of them in uh in the year.
And mine, those hundreds of thousands have been replaced by essentially eight electrodes.
So you he he'll be able to uh to function and and get by.
It's not just tell him it's not something to fear.
Right.
I just I was just so blessed that he was inspired by you, and then he had that moment of himself of being like, hey, wait a minute.
Instead of me looking at this as something that is gonna stop me from doing what I want to do, look at Rush.
Nothing stops him.
He's so successful.
Mom gonna be okay.
That let me let me tell you something.
Honestly, he's I don't that's just incredible.
I am so happy that that that he was informed enough to uh draw that conclusion and and and and some inspiration from it because I never hear that.
I never hear that at all.
And I think it's it's political in nature.
But it's that's dramatic, that is profound, and I I can't tell you that's I mean at all that almost makes losing my hearing worth it.
If it if it's providing inspiration to your son to um withstand what happened to him.
I just thought it was amazing that you've done something so great with Rush Revere and uh impact it in such a way that you're also your own personal struggles became an inspiration to him, which was wonderful to me.
Well, I tell you what I want you to do.
I want you when we hang up here, I want you to stay on the line, and we want to send uh what what is your son's first name?
His name is Noah.
His name Noah, Noah.
Okay, we want to send him some uh little goodies from the from the Rush Revere time travel adventures world.
You'll love that.
And and uh and a couple of other things.
So really appreciate this.
And I I you know, you um you're inspiring in your own way, because this all happened because of a drunk driver.
And I'm sure you you you questioned you had all kinds why us, why this?
You I went you went through stages of anger, and then you finally had to deal with it.
Doesn't sound at all like you have any bitterness about this at this stage, and that's that's a true testament to you.
Well, it's something that I definitely wrestle with, but it isn't something that I want to define my son's life.
So we have to learn how to move past it.
Well, that's great.
That is you that that is you can't believe how mature that is.
Wouldn't you say you not something you want to be defined?
You're refusing to be a victim, and I can't tell you how wonderful that is.
I cannot tell, just for you and for Noah, to not look at this as making you both victims.
That's just that that's gonna mean so much as you go forward.
I can't tell you how much, but that's fabulous.
Well, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your books and just tell you what a special place to have in our hearts for us.
Well, you have a place in ours as well, and we want to, in a small little token type of way, show you that.
So hang on so we get your address and uh you're welcome.
You're welcome, Shana.
I'm I'm really grateful that you were able to uh get through today, all the thousands of people trying to call here.
You made it through, so I appreciate that too.
Thank you so much.
Have a great day.
You do the same.
That's well, I have to go to commercial break here, folks.
I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
We come back, I'm gonna do what I uh promoted at the top of that.
We're gonna start the audio sound bites of me on Fox News Sunday yesterday, and I'm gonna analyze me uh and comment on what I said, maybe criticize some of it, doubt that'll happen, and maybe add to it.
One little news blurb before we go to the break.
Ready for this?
Headline says it all.
It's NBC News.
Ready?
President Trump officially won't be the shortest serving U.S. president.
What does that tell you was on NBC's mind?
That maybe they were gonna be able to get rid of him.
And let me be generous.
That maybe Trump was going to destroy his own presidency in record time.
But right here it is.
The pres this president's day, as thousands prepare to swarm the streets for not my president's day rallies.
By the way, who started those?
Where did these not my president's day rallies get started?
Hello, Mr. Soros.
Hello, Mr. Obama.
Hello, Mrs. Clinton.
As thousands swarm the streets for not my president's day, the president will celebrate a milestone.
He's reached his 32nd day in office.
That small victory means that despite the demands of his detractors, President Trump will not have the shortest term in the Oval Office.
So they've been counting.
They're a little bit frustrated here, I'm sure you could probably throw a damn it at the end of the headline.
The honor of president serving the shortest term is William Henry Harrison, the ninth president, died from pneumonia just 32 days into his presidency on April 4th, 1841.
He's also the first president to die.
Wait a minute now.
First president to die in office, not only taking a break.
We will be back right after this.
Hey, Shana, one one more, I don't know, call a piece of advice or just a thought that I meant to share with you that slipped my mind because I was so moved by what you had said.
What I have found is that hearing loss, hearing challenge, deafness, whatever, is the only disability where the person suffering from it is blamed.
And by this I mean if you see somebody who cannot walk in a wheelchair, you never say, I know you can walk.
Get up.
Don't make us push you around all day.
If you run across somebody who's blind, you don't say, just try harder.
I know you can see, you're just faking everybody out.
But with people who have hearing loss, it's amazing people, because nobody, I mean, you can imagine not being blind, you can close your eyes, you can, and and you can you can you can imagine uh not being able to walk and not but hearing loss you can't imagine you cannot create deafness.
You can cover your ears, you get plugs, you can get whatever, but you can hear something.
You cannot imagine total deafness.
And people who can hear cannot relate to people who can't.
I mean, I myself am guilty of this.
My father late in his life was losing his hearing, and we just got sick and tired of saying, what?
Of him saying, what?
What?
And we just, he's not even trying to hear us.
He's not even trying to listen.
And I have since learned that it actually is the case.
People think that if you just try harder, if you pay more attention to them, if you weren't looking around elsewhere while they're speaking, or if you were whatever, that you could hear what they're saying.
And then there are times where you can hear them and people think you can't.
See, I know you can hear, I know you can hear.
You're just faking it, you're just using it, did not have to talk to us.
And again, there is a a place, one of the one of the golf clubs that I go to, giant uh restaurant.
And that room can be empty with just us at a table for four, and that room sound like a thousand people are in it to me.
And I've I for the longest time it was frustrating because I literally couldn't talk to people at my table, and we were the only ones in there.
And I looked around, and it was the noise being made by the bartender just putting ice in glasses and clinking silverware around and moving bottles and stuff, the acoustics of that bar were were Making that room to me sound like a thousand people were in it.
And I had, if I took out my implant on my right side, it went away.
And I was able to converse with people at the table.
But they couldn't relate to it.
I mean, it's what do you mean you can't hear us?
We're the only ones in here.
They didn't hear the noise at the bar the way I did, the way my implants were making it sound to me.
But it it is it is the case.
It's the only disability where, and it's not people trying to do it, it's just they can hear and can't relate to not being able to.
And so that's something to warn your son of, Shane.
Be patient with people, because they can't relate to it.
And he hit he can hear in one ear anyway.
That's that's uh that's half the battle.
Steve in uh yeah, you know what?
We're gonna take the call.
We'll move back the analysis of my Fox News soundbice to the top of the next hour.
Here's here's Steve in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, hi, Rush Brush.
How are you doing?
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, that last call, I had a lump in my throat.
God bless that woman.
Isn't it amazing?
Thank you.
You're you're quite a role model for their to help our hell out like that.
My question to you, Rush, was basically going back to the Russians hacking the election.
And I can I get confused on this.
If the Russians wanted to hack the election, why did Hillary win the popular vote?
I just don't understand that.
They're gonna hack something, they're gonna hack it all the way and completely wipe the slate clean and just take the whole win.
Well, why would they let you know?
In fact, I made that very point in a slightly different way.
I made it yesterday on TV, and I've made it here too.
I've pointed out that if the Russians wanted Trump to win, and the Russians were hacking the election, then why did Hillary win the popular vote?
If the Russians hacked the election and Hillary got more votes than Trump, why don't everybody run around claiming that the Russian hack succeeded?
Because when you come when it comes to the electoral college, there's no way to hack that.
The electoral college and knowing what states are going to be needed and and what candidates going to need which states, and to go out and it it's that's why I say this whole thing and what your question is illustrating.
It's impossible.
It would be impossible to you couldn't even hack the machines.
The machines are not connected to the internet.
But even if you did that, there is no way that anybody could hack is the word here, but but but sabotage.
The outcome of casting and counting ballots in all of these different states that are relevant.
The idea, that's why I say it's preposterous.
It is it's beyond preposterous.
It is insane to believe that a foreign government could actually, by virtue of techno espionage, tamper with the casting and counting of ballots.
And that's why nobody is alleging that that's what's happened.
That's why they're they're using a linguistic ruse.
They're saying Russians hacked the election, Russians tampered with the election.
They want you to fill in the blank.
They want you to think that means the Russians didn't want Hillary to win.
They want you to believe that Trump's election is fraudulent and illegitimate, and that again is the foundation for every other attack that comes after that.
Every assault on Trump's agenda is justified by the fact the Russians tampered with the election.
Russian tampered with the election is translated into Trump should not have won.
That's the conclusion they want you to draw.
If the Russians tampered with the election and everybody's unhappy with the outcome, it must mean everybody wanted Hillary to win, and everybody expected Hillary to win.
And the polls said that Hillary was going to win.
And then all of a sudden Trump wins and sizably.
So here comes the story.
Russians tampered.
We got two New York Times stories quoting unnamed sources, confirming that the Russians tampered with the election.
But they never say the Russians had anything to do with votes.
Casting them or counting them.
They want you to fill in that blank.
And if they can sell that, then they can sell as justified and worthwhile every other assault on what Trump wants to do because he shouldn't be the one doing it.
Therefore, it's unjustified.
Illegal, even, maybe, and unwarranted.
Back in a second.
I did not say it's not possible to steal elections.
I said that you couldn't do it by hacking.
You can't hack the counting process.
You can't hack with computers the voting process.
You can certainly steal elections.
Talk to Al Franken about it.
Find votes in the trunk of a car.
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