![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Newt-Trump-Tower.jpg\"\/)
RUSH: So Newt is gonna stop talking about draining the swamp because he\u2019s heard that Trump is telling people he wants to disclaim it, he wants to stop using it. I haven\u2019t heard that. Not that I would. We will see. You know, Trump is gonna continue doing rallies, I think wisely, and I\u2019m just curious to see if he actually will cease using the phrase. I\u2019m also — you know when I hear something like this — and, look, don\u2019t anybody call Newt and tell him I\u2019m accusing him of anything here. <\/p>\n
But every prominent person has people surrounding him, and many of the people surrounding the prominent person think they\u2019re smarter than the prominent person. Many of them are protective. Many of them are very loyal. But some of them are deathly afraid that the prominent person\u2019s gonna say something that constitutes stepping in it. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had this happen to me, which is why, ladies and gentlemen, I offer the possibility that maybe Trump isn\u2019t saying this at all. That there might be people in Trump\u2019s circle who wish he would stop saying it, who then go out and will tell Newt or any or number of people, “Yeah, yeah, Trump says he\u2019s not gonna use it anymore. He doesn\u2019t like the phrase.” <\/p>\n
Because, you know, in every prominent person\u2019s circle there are people — and people are people — and some of them don\u2019t like having to defend what the prominent person does or says, and some of them get nervous that they might be seen as defending something they wouldn\u2019t ordinarily defend. And there might be somebody in Trump\u2019s close circle that really doesn\u2019t like this “drain the swamp” talk. It might be somebody that has ties to the establishment, i.e., the swamp. <\/p>\n
But look, prominent people, I don\u2019t care how prominent, I don\u2019t care how famous, I don\u2019t care how achieved, there are still people that are constantly trying to manipulate \u2019em. In fact, maybe even more so, there are people trying to manipulate them, trying to use them, telling other people how close they are when they really aren\u2019t. I mean, people like Trump who are riding the crest of a wave where all kinds of light and attention are being shined, there\u2019s a lot of people that want to be in that light.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of people who want to be thought to be in the inner circle so that some of that attention might cast itself on them. Any number of things could explain it. And it could also be that Trump has disclaimed it, too. I\u2019m just sharing with you the way I react to things like that. It\u2019s why I don\u2019t want anybody calling Newt and telling Newt that I am not believing what he said. That\u2019s not my point here. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Newt Gingrich. Audio sound bite number five. Newt was on NPR today, Morning Edition. By the way, I want to apologize to the staff. This is like the third day in a row that we\u2019ve had a sound bite from NPR, and that means somebody is — you turn on NPR and it\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/545159102_large.jpg\"\/)