{"id":214615,"date":"2016-10-10T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/10\/the_purpose_of_the_debate_was_to_get_rid_of_trump_forever_and_it_failed\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:37:52","slug":"the_purpose_of_the_debate_was_to_get_rid_of_trump_forever_and_it_failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/10\/the_purpose_of_the_debate_was_to_get_rid_of_trump_forever_and_it_failed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the Debate Was to Get Rid of Trump Forever — and It Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I actually think… I\u2019ve been going through some of the emails, Hillary Clinton emails that WikiLeaks has done. You know there are some blockbusters in there?  There are some literal bombshells about Hillary Clinton that if her supporters learn of them and believe them, she\u2019s going to have problems, particularly if they are some Bernie Sanders supporters that have signed on with her.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna like what has been released in emails to John Podesta and so forth.  I also have — and I want to get to these today, too. It may take a while. I just want to tell you up front because each of these pieces are quite long.  There are three brilliant pieces on all of this by women.  Denise McAllister at PJ Media:  “America, You Have No Right to Judge Donald Trump.”<\/a>  Rebecca Teti at American Greatness:  “On the Lewdness of Donald Trump.”<\/a> It is again oriented toward how much hypocrisy there is.<\/p>\n

People acting righteously offended and indignant in the midst of our current culture is hypocritical to no end, particularly on the Democrat Party side.  Trump made a great illustration of this last night, and for the first time the Clintons were put on the defensive about it, and that is Bill Clinton.  All this time whenever Bill Clinton\u2019s escapades, his real behavior was illustrated, we were told to forget it. “Ignore it! It\u2019s business. It\u2019s private. It has nothing to do with the way he led the country, nothing to do with the way he did his job.<\/line><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s nobody\u2019s business! It\u2019s his sex life. We\u2019ve all got problems. Leave it alone.” Finally it was brought up. I tell you, I watched this debate and I had no idea what to expect last night.  I had no idea what to expect. I was very nervous when this thing started (I don\u2019t know about you), \u2019cause I didn\u2019t know how Trump was gonna deal with it.  I knew it was gonna be everybody in the room against Trump.  I knew that the purpose of last night was to destroy Trump forever, and not just in this campaign. <\/p>\n

The purpose of last night — and it\u2019s a failure today — was to take Trump out forever, not just his political campaign.  Donald Trump the human being was to be humiliated and destroyed and rendered so humiliated and embarrassed he would never be seen in public again, and that\u2019s the lesson any further, additional, future challenger to the establishment was to take from last night.  The message is, “Don\u2019t mess with us.  Do not come after us.  We\u2019ll take you out, and you\u2019ll lose not just an election.  You\u2019ll lose everything important to you.  We will destroy you!”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what was on the agenda last night, and Trump triumphed unbelievably over this effort last night to the point that Hillary Clinton was on the defensive for clearly over half of that debate last night.  Now, stop and think of how this began; stop and think what everybody knew the elephant in the room was, and the elephant last night was gonna speak.  The elephant in the room was not gonna go unnoticed and unsaid.  It was going to have a voice — and it did.  And Trump beat it back. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know if he beat it back to the point his campaign survives.  We won\u2019t know this probably until Election Day.  We\u2019re not gonna have any idea.  But we know that Trump and his campaign survive and have new energy and are continuing to roll today.  In that context, this was a huge win.  And Hillary… Stop and think.  You know what the Hillary strategy was last night? Same strategy as debate one:  Shut up and let Trump go ahead and talk himself into defeat, led off with that rehash of the open-mic tape Access Hollywood back in 2005.<\/p>\n