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February 21, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #3

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	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Now I mentioned at the top of the program that we have uh uh two pieces today, one by Victor Davis Hansen, the other by Michael Walsh, which confirm both of which and agree with uh my contention that there is a shadow government made up of many different types of people in different places in the government that are actually trying to sabotage the Trump presidency and get rid of him.
	Now both these guys document this.
	Victor Davis Hansen goes further and explains why he thinks it's happening.
	And it's it's it's interesting to me because I have said something similar.
	Now don't misunderstand, not bragging.
	I just I I love finding out that things that I think are shared or uh being thought of in the same way by other people I have profound respect for.
	And Victor is uh certainly one of those, as is Walsh.
	Let's do Walsh's piece first.
	Walsh is writing in uh PJ Media.
	I'm just gonna give you excerpts of these pieces.
	Victor's piece is long.
	I mean, Victor's piece, without the editing that I did, uh would print out to like eight pages, so I can't obviously share all of it with you.
	Hey, folks, hang on here just a second.
	And a turn on the cough switch there.
	Um the title of Michael Walsh's piece at PJ Media, and his stuff has appeared in the at National Review, it's appeared at the at the New York Post, any number of places.
	Enough with this spy game.
	And his thrust here is on the Intel community.
	And who, what, where, why, regarding Trump.
	With the resignation of Mike Flynn in the face of a howling media mob, the knives are now out, not only for other administration officials, but for Trump himself.
	Make no mistake about what is happening here.
	His piece is headlined, uh, by the way, the Empire Strikes Back.
	That's the actual title of his piece.
	Make no mistake about what's happening here.
	This is a rolling coup attempt.
	Organized by elements of the intelligence community, particularly the CIA and the NSA, abetted by Obama-era holdovers in the understaffed Justice Department, as in Sally Yates, and the lick spittles of the leftist media, all of whom have signed on with the resistance in order to overturn the results of the November election.
	Walsh, I think is a spook, former spook.
	In addition to everything else he is.
	So he right up front, he's admitting that this is a rolling coup made up of various players here in order to overturn the results of the November election.
	He goes on to talk about Mike Flynn, a good man and saw the enemy clearly, had the courage to name it, saw Russia not as an enemy but a geopolitical adversary with whom we could make common cause against Islam.
	That upsets the AppleCarts and the intelligence community who want Russia designated as an enemy with whom we can do nothing in common.
	As for the media, having previously failed to take down Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, Flynn was the next best thing.
	Their joy is unbounded at getting his scalp.
	Is this what you thought you voted for in November?
	Is this how you thought American democracy worked?
	Is this the country you want to live in?
	Welcome to the deep state.
	The democracy sapping embeds at the heart of our democracy who have not taken the expulsion of the permanent bipartisan fusion party lightly.
	That is a key point.
	His asserting here that what really exists in Washington is an establishment made up of people who say they're Republicans and say they're Democrats, but they're actually one party, a fusion of all the other political parties, both parties and stragglers, who have a singular purpose, which is self-preservation and the growth of the establishment.
	They realize that the Trump administration poses a mortal threat.
	And so they have enlisted an army of Democrats and some Republicans.
	The never Trump conservative diehards, leftist thugs, black lives matter, anybody else they can blackmail, browbeat or enlist.
	They mean business.
	Welcome to the point where we've come to a pretty pass when WikiLeaks now makes more sense than the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other Democrat mouthpieces and House organs, or when Julian Assange, holed up in London, appears to have more insight, integrity, and curiosity than the entire Beltway media.
	We are in the midst, writes Michael Walsh, of a rapidly moving spy game here, adrift in the famous wilderness of mirrors, and with the major players switching sides in a flash.
	Now get this next line.
	Look at me here.
	The CIA has never forgiven Ronald Reagan for taking down the Soviets and spoiling its extremely cozy relationship with the KGB.
	Now, before you Huffin' Puff and say, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that all?
	What was that?
	Remember that it wasn't just CIA, forgive me, Ray.
	Remember when was the first time you learned that the State Department was not the patriotic bunch of people you thought?
	When I I can tell you where I was when I figured it out.
	That the State Department really, in terms of solving problems of the world, no, we'd rather have the problem so we have a reason to exist.
	The CIA, the KGB had long since worked out a modus vivende under which rules they both did their best to keep the Berlin Wall standing, Eastern Europe locked away, and the post-war status quo in operation.
	It was only when one side or the other broke protocol that civilians ever heard of a problem.
	Well, let's cut to the main narrative.
	As retailed by the mainstream media with timely encouragement from the CIA and Democrat operatives masquerading as journalists.
	Trump is unfit to be president, plus Hillary's unbeatable, so give up already.
	This is the timeline.
	This isn't the mindset.
	This is what was planned.
	Trump is unfit to be president.
	Hillary's unbeatable, so give up already.
	Oops, Trump wins.
	So next the Russians stole the election.
	Next Trump is too cozy with the Russians.
	Trump's people are too cozy with the Russians.
	No wonder the Russians stole the election for Trump.
	Flynn called a Russian ambassador and lied about it.
	The cover-up is always worse than the crime.
	Flynn's got to go.
	Flynn's gone, but here comes the ghost of Howard Baker.
	When did the president know and what did he know Trump is doomed?
	That's the thinking in the deep state.
	That's how they're looking at all this.
	And all of this is upsetting their apple cart.
	Enter now the usual sycophants.
	Men such as John McCain, lovely sidekick Lindsey Graham and various other useful idiots adding their voices to the leftist choir.
	So what must Trump do now in the face of this rolling coup?
	First, complete his cabinet.
	Second, fire every fireable federal employee in the leak prone agencies, including the CIA.
	Third, start taking operational security seriously.
	Fourth, assume everything you say will leak to the media and be spun as malevolently as possible, and fifth, trust nobody.
	Finally, fight back with all the powers of the presidency and take every friend you can get.
	Because if you don't, you're gonna get a lot more of this.
	And there's a picture of rioters and protests and so forth.
	Now that's that's just an edited version, but the point of his piece is that there is an absolute provable rolling coup made up of spooks, intel people, Republicans and Democrats, inside this one organism called the establishment, fusion party, if you will, and their entire world has been turned upside down by Trump winning.
	And they're not comfortable with it, they don't want to get behind it, they stand too much to lose because Trump said what he was going to do, and it's nothing they want done, and so they're taking it upon themselves to sabotage him and undermine him.
	Now to Victor Davis Hanson.
	And I'm picking this up at the conclusion where he details current circumstances and the reasons why all this is happening.
	Under the subhead, what has the often boisterous Trump done in his first month to earn calls for his death, forced removal or resignation?
	And by the way, on the reference here to his death, Mr. Hansen cites the three or four published articles on how to assassinate Trump, the beauty of assassinating Trump, the necessity to assassinate Trump, and the morality of doing it.
	Documents that quotes the people saying so.
	Quotes others with their own ideas for forced removal or making Trump resign.
	So after documenting all of what Walsh has just pointed out here, what's Trump done to earn all this?
	Well, first let's look at current circumstances.
	Stock market reaching all-time highs.
	Polls show business optimism is rising.
	The Rasmussen poll puts Trump approval rating at 55%.
	Compared with Obama in 2009, at the same point in his administration, Trump has issued about the same number of executive orders.
	For all of his wars on the press, Trump has so far not ordered wiretaps on any reporter on the grounds that he is a criminal co-conspirator, as he did James Rosen at Fox News.
	Nor has Trump gone after the phone records of the AP, as Obama's Justice Department did.
	To little notice, people in the media.
	They didn't care that James Rosen was wiretapped.
	He's at Fox.
	And gone after the phone records of the AP, the AP silly must need him.
	He's Obama.
	Trump's edicts are mostly common sense and they're non-controversial, green lighting Keystone and Dakota pipelines, freezing federal hiring, resuming work on previously approved wall along the Mexican border, prohibiting retiring federal officials from lobbying actively for five years, pruning away regulations, all these things he said he was going to do.
	He promises to deport illegal aliens with past records of criminal activities or gang affiliation.
	Those promises by design have sidestepped the so-called dreamers and the illegal aliens currently working without criminal backgrounds.
	He's not deporting everybody, and this is the point.
	In his executive order to temporarily suspend immigration from seven Middle Eastern states.
	Trump channeled Obama's prior targeting of immigration trouble spots.
	Same state, same countries that Obama targeted.
	Nobody had a cow over it.
	it.
	On more substantive reforms, repealing Obamacare, the tax code, rebuilding infrastructure, Trump awaits proposed legislation from the Republican congressional majority.
	By all accounts, Trump's initial meetings or phone calls with British, Israeli, Japanese, and Russian heads of states had gone well.
	But many of those phone calls have been illegally leaked and lied about.
	Every phone call, the Japanese phone call, the Australian phone call.
	Every one of these phone calls, the people in the deep State reported that people hung up on Trump, that Trump was this or that.
	None of it was true.
	And the media didn't even care.
	The media didn't check whether it was, they just eagerly reported these things.
	Trump has had fewer cabinet appointees now.
	Or bow out than Obama did.
	Most believe the vast majority of his selections are inspired.
	Conservatives will be honest with you or tell you that they can't believe how good Trump's nominees are.
	Clearly, in empirical terms, nothing that Trump in his first month in office has done seems to have justified calls for violence against him or his removal from office.
	So what accounts for this venom, this unprecedented venom?
	And Victor Davis Hansen identifies four things.
	And I will get to them after a brief obscene profit break.
	Don't go away.
	Let me squeeze in a call quickly here from Spokehand.
	Bob, great to have you on the EIB network.
	How are you doing today?
	Doing well, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Fine and dandy, thank you.
	Good.
	It's great to talk with you again.
	Hey.
	This press that, you know, puts themselves out as the defender of democracy and checks and balances and all this other stuff.
	When did they become immune from a check and balance?
	You know, it's you've been doing a wonderful job of pulling the curtain back and showing what's going on, you and others.
	And now we have a president who's pulling the curtain back, and their only response is, how dare you question the great and powerful Oz.
	You know, you would think that if they're so worried about checks and balances that they would welcome this for people to scrutinize.
	Oh, no, no.
	Oh, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Let me tell you something.
	I myself ask the same question you're asking.
	I don't have time to say the whole story, but a a journalist was preparing a smear hit piece on me back when I was doing a TV show.
	And it was going to lump me in with people that I had nothing in common with.
	It was it was it was a debit hit piece.
	So uh we said, you know what?
	We're gonna do a we're gonna do a profile of you.
	We're gonna go out and ask everybody you went to school with who you are, how many DUIs you've had, and we're gonna clear, you know, you do you have any similarities to Larry Flint?
	We might expose how you're just like Larry Flint.
	And the guy blew up.
	You can't do that.
	You can't be a journalist.
	I did this is not about me.
	You can't do that.
	So why can you do it to me?
	I'm just a guy on TV.
	I can't raise your taxes.
	I can't do a damn thing to you.
	Why are you doing it?
	I'm just a guy on TV.
	Why are you treating me this way?
	Well, I'm a journalist.
	For the longest time, Bob, I asked why they have this attitude, and it was only last week that I finally got the answer.
	It started with this uh with this uh guy at uh CNN asking Trump, don't you think by criticizing the media that you are undermining the First Amendment?
	I said, What?
	Undermining the first amendment.
	Then F. Chuck Todd came along with a tweet.
	And paraphrasing the tweet, Chuck Todd at NBC News said that this is un-American.
	You just you can't undermine the media like this.
	The media has constitutional designation.
	And I said, there it is.
	And so, Bob, the answer, the honest, serious answer, which you aren't going to really believe anybody could think, but they do.
	They really, I think they're taught this.
	You know, everybody's a product of of everybody's a young skull full of mush at some point.
	And then there's people that fill that skull full of mush up with gibberish or brilliance.
	And these people have gone to journalism school, they've been indoctrinated with liberalism all their lives.
	They really believe that if you criticize journalists, you're undermining the Constitution because they have constitutional immunity.
	Since the press is mentioned, the freedom of the press is mentioned, you attack them, and you're attacking the Constitution.
	You're attacking America.
	Well, then if that's the case, why can anybody in government be attacked?
	But that's what they think.
	It's that simple.
	That's right, the saga rolls on, folks, a man, a legend, a way of Life.
	Now I mentioned that Victor Davis Hansen has four reasons to explain this unhinged effort to take down Trump.
	And folks, you know, we're having a mixed program today, some of it jocular and lighthearted, but I opened with a serious assertion there is a serious effort to get Donald Trump out of office, as Michael Walsh calls it a rolling coup.
	You are familiar with how it's happening because you see the media reporting.
	It's all about Russia and how Russia hacked the election and Trump and his people were talking to the Russians during the campaign.
	And all of this is to undermine the legitimacy of Trump and at best get him out of office and at worst stymie install his agenda.
	Victor Davis Hansen documents all of these things and sources them, and then offers four reasons.
	Why?
	Reason number one, Trump's unconventional bluster is what fuels the animosity of elites who seek to delegitimize him and fear that their reputations and careers could be rendered irrelevant by Trump's success.
	He's also reminded the country that some of the mainstream media and Washington, New York elite are often mediocre and boring.
	Now, this business about them fearing their reputations and careers could be rendered irrelevant.
	I've made that point from the get-go, and a lot of people have poo-pooed it, and a lot of people have been offended by it.
	The way I've put it, these people derive a very good standard of living as members of good standing in the establishment.
	They have permanent employment.
	They make much, much more than most people.
	The kids go to great schools.
	They are close to power.
	The whole networking thing, it's a it's a it's a position for life.
	You're there because it really isn't determined by party.
	The hierarchy is, but membership isn't.
	The establishment, this group has Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of people in it.
	And their agenda is not what the agenda of the people in this country is.
	These people have gotten fat, dumb, and happy the last 15 years while most people's incomes have stagnated.
	While a lot of towns have been overrun with illegal immigrants, while the federal government's gotten bloated with more and more handouts to people who aren't working in hopes they'll become Democrat voters.
	We have situations where the health care system's an absolute mess, but none of that's true for any of these people.
	Their health care is provided for them.
	They don't live where illegal immigrants are running roughshod.
	They don't have any of the concerns, and therefore, as far as they're concerned, they're happy and everything's fine.
	And Trump with his nationalism and populism threatens.
	If he comes in and succeeds, guess what replaces the establishment Trump does?
	And they're out.
	And it really is no more complicated than that.
	It's certain it it look, it's this.
	It's not just this.
	Some of these people are very concerned about policy and ideology, but a lot of it is personal.
	A lot of it is just selfish, personal.
	They live off donors.
	They live off lobbying.
	They live off all of these things where the money is flowing and all you got to do is grab your share of it now and then.
	And if that money flow is cut off, if the ability to grab that money is prevented, well, it's panic time.
	And that is clearly a large part of the threat Trump poses.
	And I've always thought that.
	The second reason it's happening is because the Democrat Party has bombed out.
	The Democrat Party has been absorbed by its insane left wing and is beginning to resemble the impotent British Labour Party.
	It is no longer even a national party.
	Mostly, the Democrat Party is a local and municipal coastal force.
	And their purpose is to promote a race and gender agenda and oppose conservatism.
	But they have no vision.
	They have it's it's nothing that they can win elections on.
	The Establishment is really worried their primary vehicle for remaining in power, the Democrat Party is floundering.
	And the Democrat Party proved ineffective in stopping Trump.
	The Republican Party proved unable to stop Trump.
	And so the establishment has to get in gear now that Trump is won and try to get rid of him for the self-preservation of everybody else.
	And it's a key element here that they can't depend on the Democrats to win elections.
	Everybody can look out to 2018 and see that the Democrats are going to lose even more seats in the Senate, particularly if Trump gets a lot of his agenda moving and in action.
	They're going to be in heap big trouble, and there's panic over that.
	Reason number three, usually conservative pundits and journalists, would push back against these activities from the shadow government and the deep state to delegitimize a Republican president.
	Normally, conservative media would be up in arms over what's happening to Trump.
	But because of a year of never Trump politicking and opposition, and Trump's own in your face unorthodox style and grating temperament, hundreds of Republican intellectuals and journalists and former office holders and current politicians find themselves without influence in either the Trump White House or indeed in their own party, over 90% of which voted for Trump.
	In other words, the right ruling class is in a civil war of sorts.
	This is unmistakably true.
	This is from the beginning words of this paragraph.
	Normally conservative pundits and journalists would push back against whatever's happening to Trump because he's a Republican, but they're joining in it.
	Because those who oppose Trump are finding themselves without influence.
	They never thought Trump would win.
	They didn't want Trump to win, and now Trump won't hire them.
	And they're fit to be tied.
	And so now they're members of a party that won, but they have no place in it.
	Conservative journalists, conservative pundits, former Republican Party appointees, bureaucrats, and so forth.
	This is right on the money too.
	And it all, folks, it all goes back to power and money.
	The loss of power and the threat to the standard of living.
	And men, when you say that, some of them just go batty with anger, which must mean hit the nail on the head.
	And then Victor Davis Hansen writes this it is no accident that many of those calling for Trump's resignation or removal are frustrated that for the first time in 25 years, they will have no influence in a Republican administration or indeed among most Republicans.
	That's a pull quote.
	That's one one to highlight.
	For some of these wayward Republicans, the best pathway to redemption is apparently to criticize Trump to such an extent that their prior prophecies of his preordeined failure in the election will be partially redeemed by an imploding presidency.
	Meaning all of these never Trumpers who lost their minds during the campaign, who have had it jammed down their throats now, their redemption is to join this chorus of criticism of Trump so that their prediction that he would never be elected and never will actually come to pass in the form of him being ineffective.
	So these Republicans, Victor Davis Hans is talking about, in the interest of self-preservation, are oriented to joining the deep state and Trump critics, they've got no place in the Trump administration.
	The best thing they can do is to help get rid of him.
	So that they can then hearken back to their original prediction, say, see, we told you the guy was never going to amount to anything.
	You should have listened to us all along.
	In private, they accept that Trump's actual appointments, executive orders, and announced policies are mostly orthodox conservative.
	That was not supposed to happen.
	In fact, that was supposed to have been impossible.
	These never Trumpers were out there saying Trump is not a conservative.
	You people on the conservative side are falling for this Trump stuff.
	You're betraying conservatism.
	You're committing a great sin against what you've always believed in.
	And yet, you look at Trump's appointments, such as Judge Gorsuch and others, and they're as good, if not better than what any great Republican conservative would have or who would nominated.
	And these people are beside themselves.
	For now, ending Trump one way or another is apparently the tortured pathway his critics are taking to exit their self-created labyrinth of irrelevance.
	Sheik Trump hatred and sick talk of coups hinge on economic growth.
	If Trump's agenda hits 3% GDP growth or above by 2018, then his critics will either shift strategies or face prolonged irrelevance.
	And so they must do what they can to keep that from happening.
	This is straight up right on the money.
	Victor Davis Hansen at National Review.
	We will be back.com.
	A new poll.
	It's that Harvard Harris poll from Mark Penn.
	More results.
	Americans overwhelmingly oppose sanctuary cities.
	Donald Trump has broad public support in his effort to crack down on sanctuary cities.
	O voters say local authorities should have to comply with the law by reporting to federal agents the illegal immigrants they come into contact with.
	Eighty percent, Mr. Snerdley.
	You never see a poll with 80% of people agreeing on anything.
	Sanctuary cities.
	Reuben in Mac Allen, Texas.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	How are you doing?
	How are you doing, Rush?
	Listen, first of all, thank you so much for doing what you do for us, and God bless you, man.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	Listen, we live here in Deep South Texas, eight miles away from the border.
	We see everything that's going on here.
	You know, people can come across from from Mexico, go into the hospital, get everything free, and us working dogs have to work for everything.
	And you know, I don't know what these guys in Washington are seeing, but they're blind, man.
	I don't know where they're coming from.
	It's just frustrating.
	I know.
	And you're what you're you're either one of two things.
	You're either exaggerating it, or you're an extremist.
	Either way, it's not that bad, and you're supposed to put up with it.
	We're a compassionate country.
	And listen to you.
	That'd be their reaction to you.
	Because see, they don't live in Mac Allen.
	Ruben, they they don't live where all this stuff happens.
	It's just an academic exercise to them.
	It's just it's demographic figures, it's appropriation numbers, it's potential voters, which is the big deal.
	But uh we're with him.
	Everybody knows, and then Trump appears to be on the case with this.
	We'll have more info on the uh plans as we study it overnight and have it for you tomorrow.
	Well, another barn storming busy broadcast day.
	Come to a screeching temporary halt.
	We'll be back in 21 hours.
	It's always a thrill, folks.
	Deep honor to be with you, and I look forward to tomorrow.

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