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RUSH: Trump did his appearance in West Palm Beach yesterday, which we played part of live as it was going on, and he went to Cincinnati. Did you see this rally in Cincinnati Trump had last night?  There were 20,000 people in the arena.<\/p>\n

There were 7,000 people that wanted to get in that couldn\u2019t, that were standing outside.  It was streamed. Facebook had… Yeah, 240,000 people were watching it online various ways, and whatever implications are on that.  I mean, it was huge last night, and Trump was on message 100%, and I had somebody send me a note that was watching it last night who said, “If the Drive-By Media would cover this, Trump would win by 10 points.  If this speech Trump\u2019s giving…” This rally that Trump had in Cincinnati last night.” If these were being seen by the people in this country, he\u2019d win by 10 points.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how excited people were about this, who were watching it. He was really on message, and now the Trump people and Pence are saying that evidence will soon be forthcoming to refute all of the allegations here that these various women are making.  One of the ways to put this in perspective… Folks, I just want to remind you again. I saw Power Line picked this up, and I\u2019m glad they did.  John Hinderaker made a point of echoing something<\/a> I\u2019ve been saying here for a while.  All of you people demanding, “This shows we shouldn\u2019t have nominated Trump!<\/line><\/p>\n

“Trump was a sitting duck for this kind of stuff.”  You\u2019ve got to remember, you\u2019ve got to understand that they do this to every Republican nominee.  They did it to John McCain.  The New York Times ran a story about how he had an affair with somebody way back. I don\u2019t even remember the details.  They did it to Newt Gingrich in the 2012 primaries.  They went out and claimed that Newt\u2019s ex-wife claimed that he did this to his third ex-wife and the second ex-wife was mad, and the first ex-wife wanted to get…<\/p>\n

It was so bad that Newt, if you remember in the South Carolina primary, John King of CNN opened the debate asking Newt to explain all this philandering and stuff, and his ex-wifes.  And Newt just destroyed the guy on the basis that how dare you denigrate what we are doing here by bringing it up anonymously like this.  Newt got three standing ovations in three-minute answer.  And then John King tried to say, “Hey, the story is out there. They reported over there.”<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t do that, John.  You chose to open this debate with this filth.  You chose to do it.  Don\u2019t try to blame this on other people.”  My point is, they did it to Mitt Romney, and I\u2019m gonna keep saying this until some of you lug heads get the picture. Mitt Romney? You will not find a finer human being no matter how you define “fine human being” — morality, virtue, manners, nice guy, harmless — than Mitt Romney.  And look what they did to him!<\/p>\n

They had people believing that he was cruel to animals. They had people believing that Mitt Romney didn\u2019t care when the wives of people who worked for him got cancer, that he didn\u2019t run in to help. He didn\u2019t increase their health benefits. He had no compassion for the families of people that worked for him whatsoever.  Then they ran a story how he bullied some kid and pulled his hair or whatever in prep school, for crying out loud, if you remember that. <\/line><\/p>\n

They are going to do what they\u2019re doing to Trump to every Republican nominee, particularly now, when they have nothing to promote Hillary Clinton on.  They can\u2019t promote her on the basis that people love her, that people love her ideas and her policies.  This is a campaign that the media has to make Trump more disliked than Hillary is.  That\u2019s why this looks like a race to the bottom, and that\u2019s because the media, the best way that they know to get Hillary elected is to make Trump a bigger negative that she than she is because there aren\u2019t any positives. <\/p>\n

I watched Obama this morning before the program. He\u2019s out there in Cleveland, and he\u2019s doing a rally trying to get everybody all focused on Hillary. But instead of doing that, he\u2019s running down Trump.  He\u2019s denigrating Trump.  Trump doesn\u2019t know anything, this nationalism!”  He said, “Trump would put the brakes on all the progress that I\u2019m making,” and I\u2019m looking. I said, “What progress?”  Have you seen the latest with Obamacare?  The smartest thing I ever did was not buy it.  The smartest thing I ever did is pay the fine. <\/p>\n

You will not believe what the cost increases are.  There are families who run farms whose premiums upcoming for next year premiums are gonna be $40,000, and their deductible is $13,000.  This isn\u2019t health insurance; this is a scam: $40,000 premium cost! But they\u2019re never gonna get their insurance covered because the deductible is 13 grand.  So they have to pay the first $13,000 if any health treatment that they get.  They can\u2019t afford it.  Nobody can afford it.  There\u2019s nothing affordable in the Affordable Care Act. <\/p>\n

Now, this is all by design.  This is what people don\u2019t understand.  It\u2019s designed to fail.  It\u2019s designed to implode so that people will demand that the government fix it and “fixing” it will just be putting everybody on Medicare or single-payer. But there\u2019s Obama saying, “And Trump will bring end to all the progress, all the progress!”  What progress?  We don\u2019t have any progress!  That\u2019s the problem!  We\u2019re not making any progress in this country. <\/p>\n

The only people making progress are the leftists in their attempt to transform and cut this country down to size or two.  There\u2019s no progress for anybody that is occurring.  We have a guy, Donald Trump: A-list celebrity, rich and famous, who\u2019s been surrounded by beautiful women all over the world for 30 years.  Women surrounded this guy, some throwing themselves at him for 30 years.  Not once, folks — and all you progressives and leftists know. Not once in 30 years has any of these women claimed he assaulted \u2019em.  Yeah, that only happened three weeks before a presidential election in which he is running.  Same thing with Trump and racism. For 30 years in public life, nobody\u2019s ever called him a racist until he ran for president.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH:  Okay.  So Donald Trump, 30 years an A-list celebrity, 30-years, wildly rich, wildly famous, he\u2019s owned the Miss Universe pageant, he\u2019s been surrounded by beautiful women all over the world, 30 years.  And not once in those 30 years has any of them ever claimed that he octopused \u2019em and he assaulted \u2019em, not once.  Nope, not until three weeks ago before the presidential election. <\/p>\n

For 30 years Donald Trump\u2019s been all over the world, all over the country, he\u2019s hosted TV shows.  Not once did anybody say he was a racist pig, until he began to run for president on the Republican ticket and then here came the catcalls.  You know what some conservative media are now saying?  Conservative media, folks. This is why we can\u2019t win.  Our own side doesn\u2019t even realize what they\u2019re doing.  So we have some conservative media out there who hate Trump.  You know who they are; I know who they are. <\/line><\/p>\n

So here come these allegations by these women on Trump, and these certain areas of conservative media don\u2019t even question it, they accept it. And now you know what the narrative from conservative media is?  Damn that Trump, damn it, now he\u2019s just revived this whole idea that conservatives conduct a War on Women. <\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s wrong with that thinking?  That thinking is exactly the way the left thinks.  So here we have elements of conservative media — this is very problematic — thinking the same way liberals think, looking to make the same points liberals make. <\/p>\n

There is no War on Women and Donald Trump is not an officer, commanding general, or grunt private in said nonexistent war.  But here comes conservative media reviving this whole narrative, thinking the way the left does and advancing the premise.  Sometimes I think conservative media\u2019s a circular firing squad.  I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it. <\/p>\n

I mentioned Newt Gingrich.  I want to go back just to try to illustrate this point.  This was January 19th, 2012, in Charleston, South Carolina.  It was a Republican primary debate.  John King the moderator for CNN.<\/p>\n

KING:  Mr. Speaker, I want to start with that this evening.  As you know your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News and another interview at the Washington Post and this story has now gone viral on the internet.  In it she says that you came to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair.  She says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage.  Would you like to take some time to respond to that?<\/p>\n

GINGRICH:  No, but I will.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers)<\/p>\n

GINGRICH:  I think — I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers)<\/p>\n