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RUSH:  This is Barry in Columbia, South Carolina.  I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and I appreciate your patience.  Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Thank you, Rush.  It\u2019s an honor.  Rush, I called to ask about — or if you had any thoughts on why the National Enquirer hasn\u2019t come out with some of the answers on this controversy swirling around Hillary Clinton.  You know, they were able to come up with the goods on Ted Cruz\u2019s father and his meetings with Lee Harvey Oswald and other stories. You know, that woman gives birth to a two-headed goat and different things like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Now, let me ask you a question here.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yes, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Are you asking this question from a position of not being a Trump supporter or are you a Trump supporter?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, I am a Trump supporter now, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  All right. Okay.  Okay, so I\u2019m hearing a tone in your question. You think that maybe Trump was eager to destroy Republicans using his buddies at the National Enquirer but he doesn\u2019t want to use The Enquirer to destroy Hillary, which might mean that Trump really doesn\u2019t dislike the Clintons as much as he might want you to think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. That\u2019s quite a possibility.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yes.  That\u2019s what I thought. I thought I detected that.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I\u2019m about your age and have been exposed to the Enquirer all my life, and like I said, you know, the stories that usually come out in the Enquirer were stories about oddities and things like that and, you know, I was just kind of wondering about their silence. You know, it\u2019s kind of deafening, all this… You know, they were able to expose John Edwards and the price of his haircuts and his girlfriends.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah, it was a little more than the price of his haircuts.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  They took Edwards out.  For people that don\u2019t understand… What we have is a fine guy here, don\u2019t misunderstand.  But our caller is not all that convinced that a political enemy of Hillary Clinton… He thinks that Trump is maybe a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing and really is there to damage the Republicans, and he\u2019s got his buddies at the Enquirer taking out Cruz. “Where is all this? There\u2019s gotta be stuff on Hillary. Where is it?”  It\u2019s an open-ended question.  I understand where it\u2019s coming from.  We\u2019re out of time in this segment, but I\u2019m not gonna dodge this.  I\u2019m gonna answer this question when we get back.  I have an answer for you.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The National Enquirer is owned by and operated by people who are said to be very close to the Trumpster.  And Trump has hailed the National Enquirer throughout the primary season as a trusted source, as a credible source — to the chagrin of many.<\/line><\/p>\n

He provoked anger in many people, particularly the Ted Cruz episode where supposedly Ted Cruz\u2019s dad was seen in a photo with Lee Harvey Oswald weeks, days before JFK was shot.  And so people think that there\u2019s a connection, that Trump can get the Enquirer to run some very damaging stories on Trump opponents, and they think there\u2019s evidence for that having happened during the primaries. So our caller said, “Where is that stuff on Hillary?”<\/p>\n

The caller obviously doesn\u2019t believe that any is gonna forthcoming.  The caller is of the opinion that Trump is actually not in this to beat Democrats but to do damage to Republicans.  I would just say this.  I have… By the way, I don\u2019t know.  I didn\u2019t know that Trump was close to the Enquirer guy \u2019til the allegation was made during the campaign, during the primaries.  All of that was news to me.  However, I think if there\u2019s anything to it, Trump\u2019s not gonna…<\/p>\n

Well, if… Let me put it this way: If the Enquirer has anything, they\u2019re not gonna run it now, in August.  They\u2019re gonna wait \u2019til after Labor Day.  They\u2019re gonna wait enough time so that people don\u2019t have enough time to forget it, or for something else to come along and erase it from everybody\u2019s memory.  The old October Surprise thing.  But I do know a lot of Trump supporters have been very excited to see what the Enquirer might bring forth on Hillary or Bill or what have you.  So we\u2019ll have to see.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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