{"id":213819,"date":"2016-06-22T16:13:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/22\/finally_a_republican_other_than_me_tells_the_truth_about_hillary_clinton\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:13:36","slug":"finally_a_republican_other_than_me_tells_the_truth_about_hillary_clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/22\/finally_a_republican_other_than_me_tells_the_truth_about_hillary_clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally a Republican (Other Than Me) Tells the Truth About Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  Well, I have to tell you, my email is overflowing with people calling Trump\u2019s speech a home run.  People are saying, “Finally! It\u2019s about time somebody started telling the truth about Hillary Clinton, and it\u2019s not you.  Finally somebody that\u2019s an official Republican starts telling us what we already know!” People are jazzed by this, according to my email and other feedback that I\u2019m getting. We\u2019ve got all the audio sound bites coming. Of course, I, as a powerful, influential member of the media, had a transcript of the speech before it was given.<\/p>\n

It happens it was a speech given on the prompter today down at SoHo, one of Trump\u2019s hotels that he owns.  So Trump basically said things about Hillary Clinton that you just don\u2019t hear Republicans saying.  You\u2019ve heard them before.  You\u2019ve heard them on this program, of course.  You\u2019ve probably heard similar things that Trump said in other areas.  But you just do not hear Mitt Romney say this, for example.  You wouldn\u2019t hear the Bush family talk this way about Hillary.  You wouldn\u2019t. You just wouldn\u2019t hear it. <\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t hear fellow establishment types talk about this, \u2019cause it\u2019s too close to home for all of them.  But Trump can say this stuff as an outsider. He can say this stuff as a nonmember of the elite or the establishment, and it\u2019s gonna be interesting to see, because while everything Trump said about Hillary has been said before by people — and, of course, we have the Peter Schweizer book, Clinton Cash<\/a>, which Trump quoted from extensively.  You don\u2019t see things like that happen, either. <\/p>\n

<\/a>It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the Clinton camp and the Democrats and the media react to this, because these are the kinds of things the Democrats have grown accustomed to not having to deal with, within campaigns.  They know this kind of stuff\u2019s gonna be said about Mrs. Clinton, and it\u2019s gonna be said by surrogates. It\u2019s gonna be said by opposition media such as this program.  But they think they\u2019ve successfully marginalized all the critics, and the evidence is that they\u2019re still in power, and when they run for office, they win elections.<\/p>\n

So they don\u2019t really worry about this kind of criticism no matter how correct it is and no matter how specific it is, because they think that they have created and deployed systems to overcome all of this, all of these details about their operations being made public.  But Trump came out and literally fired both barrels.  And, I tell you, folks, I think — and he was not yelling and screaming. It was a prompter speech, so it was quote\/unquote “presidential.”  And I\u2019ll also be interested to see if that aspect of this..<\/p>\n

Because compared to a normal Trump speech at a Trump rally it was low-key.  Some will say, “No, no, no, Rush. It was studious. It was serious. It was contemplative. It was thought out, and it was delivered carefully.”  Trump veered away from the prompter a couple times, and there were a couple times… Folks, this is interesting now, and it matters.  There were a couple times he misread the prompter, and I watched and said, “Okay, how\u2019s he gonna recover here?  He misread the prompter,” and he recovered just fine. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think… You wouldn\u2019t have known he misread the prompter if you didn\u2019t have the transcript in front of you.  He\u2019d leave out a preposition or he\u2019d leave out an adjective in the sentence that would change the entire meaning of the sentence.  He caught it. He didn\u2019t panic. He didn\u2019t turn away from the prompter.  Most people that do not have prompter experience, whenever they either screw up themselves or the prompter has something wrong with, they freeze.  They become to dependent on it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Even first-time prompter users — people that are accustomed to going out, not needing a single note like Trump.  I do not need a single note. He goes out and says whatever he wants to say for an hour and a half. But you put a prompter in there and it\u2019s gonna be naturally constricting to people who don\u2019t use it.  And the reason why is they all say, “We\u2019re writing this. You\u2019ve gotta do this! You\u2019ve gotta do the specifics. Don\u2019t go off on too many tangents with it.  You try to stay glued to this.”<\/p>\n

And some people, they will go off on a tangent and maybe the prompter operator will not know to pause it there and wait for the guy to get back to that point.  Maybe they\u2019ll just keep rolling the prompter, and by the time the guy looks at it, it\u2019s total discombobulated.  That didn\u2019t happen.  The teleprompter… You know, using a prompter and making it look like you\u2019re not using one is a skill.  It\u2019s a talent that has to be developed, and I thought Trump did okay with it.  Like I say, he goofed a couple of times just reading what was on the prompter. <\/p>\n

The prompter was correct, I think, but it turned out not to be a factor.<\/p>\n

But he just came out… You\u2019ll hear it coming up in a second.  He came out and he said of Hillary Clinton, “She is the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.” The most corrupt person to ever seek the presidency.  He said things like, “For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.”  He made it clear to anybody watching that Mrs. Clinton\u2019s policies, which are an echo of Barack Obama\u2019s policies, are gonna continue to wreak havoc and damage on America\u2019s minorities. <\/p>\n

These things are just not said.  You gotta… I mean, you and I say them, everybody else says them, but in official campaigns where the Clintons are involved, nobody goes this far with them.  And you know it as well as I do.  We\u2019ve always wondered why for 27 years. “What are people afraid of?  Why do they always pull back?” Well, Trump didn\u2019t pull back much today.  He pointed out all of the money that she gets from these Islamic states that execute gays and LGBT people.<\/p>\n

And he used one of my favorite talking points about all the money she made in two years delivering speeches to the banks. I think that\u2019s powerful, because I think so many Democrat voters think that the banks and Wall Street and CEOs are wedded to the GOP. “The GOP is the party of the rich! Bankers are obviously rich. Wall Streeters are obviously rich,” and Trump made it clear as a bell today that it\u2019s the Democrat Party in bed with the banks.  So you wonder if time low-information people see this.<\/line><\/p>\n

By the time Millennials — who are thinking they\u2019re gonna vote for Hillary just \u2019cause it\u2019s a cool thing to do. By the time they see this, is it gonna open anybody\u2019s eyes?  We don\u2019t know.  Time will tell.  Trump made it clear throughout this speech that he\u2019s with the American people.  Everything he does… In fact, that was a very strong beginning to his speech, why he even wants to be president. He said, “People have asked me why I\u2019m running.  Well, I\u2019ve built an amazing business I love.  I get to work side by side with my children every day. <\/p>\n

“We come to work together, we turn visions into reality, we think big, we make it happen. I love what I do. I\u2019m grateful beyond words to the nation that\u2019s allowed me to do it.  So when people ask me why I\u2019m running, I answer, ‘I\u2019m running to give back to this country which has been so good to me.'”  You know, some of you may be saying, “Oh, no!  Don\u2019t!” Folks, that\u2019s not bad.  This is how the people Trump needs to reach talk.  It is how they think.  You and I all know the only people who need to be “giving back” are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs. <\/p>\n

The successful don\u2019t need to be giving anything.  But to the people Trump needs to reach, that\u2019s a big deal. Giving something back is a huge deal.  You\u2019ll notice every successful athlete uses that at some point in his career during an interview.  “I\u2019m gonna give something back. Gotta give something back to the community.”  “Yaaaay! Right on!” People just fall for it.  It\u2019s a necessary inclusion.  Trump put it in there.  By the way, this comes one day after a Hillary Clinton speech where she created the biggest illusion in the world, and that is that we have a roaring economy out there.<\/p>\n

That everything is phenomenal, but it could be better, and she\u2019s gonna do it.  And Trump came out and blew that sky-high. (summarized) “When I see crumbling roads and bridges or the dilapidated airports or the factories moving overseas to Mexico or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton. Only by me.” And he made it clear countless times throughout the speech that his desire is to be with you.  His desire is to be with the American people, not “with her.” <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not with the Democrat Party.  He\u2019s not with the insiders. He\u2019s not with the elites. He\u2019s winning.  He went back to that, zeroed back to that or circled back to it countless times.  He spoke positive… You know, this is another thing.  I made the point yesterday that I\u2019ve never seen pessimism so successfully sold<\/a> as the Democrats and the progressives and the left of today are doing it.  Barack Obama and the Democrat Party convince people that America\u2019s best days are over.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve convinced people that America\u2019s best days are in the past and we\u2019re a nation in decline, that we deserve to be in decline in some ways, and it\u2019s up to the right people now to manage that decline.  And so we have a president and a Democrat Party which seems obsessed with telling people that it\u2019s as good as it\u2019s gonna get. “And in order protect yours from ‘as good as it\u2019s gonna get,\u2019 you need to vote for us. You need to let us run your affairs, and you need to let us handle the tough things in life while you go out and cruise and do whatever you do.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Hillary\u2019s message. “Yes, she tried to make it better. Only government can.  You can\u2019t.  You\u2019re not capable.  This country\u2019s greatness does not rest on your shoulders.  This country\u2019s greatness relies on government programs administered by experts in Washington, DC.”  Trump said the exact opposite today.  “Everywhere I look,” he said, “I see the possibilities of what our country could be, but we can\u2019t solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.  We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.” <\/p>\n

And then he got into a little Angelo Codevilla!<\/a> “The insiders who wrote the rules of the game to keep themselves in power and the money.  That\u2019s who\u2019s rigged the system is and that\u2019s why they continue to rig it.”  He made a pitch for Bernie Sanders voters.  And did you see polling data over here?  This is a Bloomberg Politics pol<\/a>l.  Nearly half of Bernie Sanders supporters will not support Hillary no matter what.  Nearly half of Bernie\u2019s voters… Now, that\u2019s today.  This could all change, you know, when we get to November, and it\u2019s crunch time.<\/line><\/p>\n

But as they\u2019re stating their opinions today, 40%, even more, of Bernie Sanders supporters would not support Clinton.  It means they\u2019re gettable.  Trump made a pitch for them today.  He described how everything is rigged, “Rigged by big donors who want to keep wages down, rigged by Big Business who want to leave the country and manufacture their products overseas and sell them back to the US with no consequences for them.  It\u2019s rigged by bureaucrats trapping kids in failing schools.  It\u2019s rigged against you, the American people. <\/p>\n

“Hillary Clinton — who, as most people know, is a world class liar.  Just look at her pathetic email and server statements or her phony landing in Bosnia?” When\u2019s the last time anybody brings that up?  But he brought it out! This is the old sniper fire thing.  She said they corkscrew landed in Bosnia. She got out and had to dodge sniper fire. It\u2019s a totally made-up thing.  Totally manufactured.  Trump calls her out on it, and it\u2019s a pretty powerful close.  Look, we\u2019ll have audio sound bites of this coming up. <\/p>\n