{"id":225520,"date":"2017-03-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=225520"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:55:06","slug":"dont-assume-rachel-maddow-and-pmsnbc-knew-the-trump-tax-story-added-up-to-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/15\/dont-assume-rachel-maddow-and-pmsnbc-knew-the-trump-tax-story-added-up-to-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Assume Rachel Maddow and PMSNBC Knew the Trump Tax Story Added Up to Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Hi ya, folks. Okay, so I have a question, a very simple question. Everybody\u2019s asking why did Rachel Maddow and PMSNBC, why\u2019d they make such a big deal out of having Trump\u2019s tax returns when it added up to nothing? My question is, why do we assume that they knew it added up to nothing? Who are these people? These people, including Rachel Maddow, whose intelligence is vastly overrated and I think way too invested in by people on the left, but people on the left in general, folks, are teetering on the edge of sanity.<\/p>\n

They are so consumed with hate, they are consumed with hate personally for Trump, politically for Trump. They\u2019re consumed with hate for their political enemies, not just disagreement, not just civil disagreement. These people are on the borderline of being crazy. And this craziness has been compounding itself even before the election.<\/p>\n

I mean, they were convinced that Trump was an idiot and Trump was this, all these bad things, and that Hillary was gonna win in a landslide so it didn\u2019t matter, but Trump wins, and, folks, there are no boundaries left in these people\u2019s brains. You can see them in action on a college campus. You can see liberal Democrat legislators in action. You can watch liberal Democrat media people. There isn\u2019t much of a grounding here to reality.<\/p>\n

Now, when it comes to the Trump tax returns, these people are still looking for evidence that Trump\u2019s election was fraudulent. And they have been doing this ever since 9 p.m. on election night when it began to dawn on them that Hillary wasn\u2019t gonna win. You start from that point and we have an effervescence of insanity that was in the deep, dark crevices of the gray matter of these people, and it\u2019s been bubbling up and bubbling up, and I think it has overflowed two or three times.<\/p>\n

\"\"They are obsessed. The whole Russians-hacked-the-election thing, the Trump tax returns. You know what they thought they were gonna get in Trump\u2019s tax returns? They thought they were gonna get that he was working with the Russians. They have believed all of these fake dossiers out there manufactured by people that admitted the information in them, intel on Trump like the golden showers, the prostitutes being hired to urinate on Obama and Michelle\u2019s bed in the Russian hotel, they believe this stuff. They think there\u2019s something to it.<\/p>\n

But my point is that when you have this kind of hateful energy that is your guiding foundation, that it is the reason you get up each and every day, you don\u2019t have any touch with reality, or not much. You\u2019re not really well grounded and it just adds and adds and adds and every allegation they believe about Trump blows up in their faces.<\/p>\n

One by one, everything they have convinced themselves is true about Trump blows up. The Russian-hacked-the-election story has blown up. They just won\u2019t admit it, which is why they won\u2019t let go of it. And I think this kind of out-of-control runaway emotionalism that is masquerading as intelligence is literally eating these people away. And it\u2019s not just the rank-and-file lunatic Democrat voter base. It goes up the chain to Democrat media people.”<\/p>\n

But, folks, in addition to that, they\u2019re just not as smart as everybody thinks they are. These people live in cocoons and they have tunnel vision. You know as well as I do they don\u2019t let information in that conflicts with their safely constructed worldview. They\u2019re not curious about anything they don\u2019t already, quote, unquote, know.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019ve got it in their heads and they\u2019ve had it in their heads since dating back to the campaign that Trump is every kind of reprobate that you can imagine and then some. That Trump was cheating and working with the Russians to hack the election and release Podesta\u2019s emails and turn it all over to WikiLeaks. That Trump is a buddy of Vladimir Putin and they are working together to undermine whatever.<\/p>\n

They cannot be disabused of this. They cannot be convinced that any of it is untrue. They just keep believing it and adding things to this mix, other insanities, other crazy things. You get to the Trump tax returns and you have people who literally believe that since Trump won\u2019t release them, that they contain the smoking gun. And the smoking gun is going to prove that Trump is involved politically and financially with the Russians, and it\u2019s all gonna be there in those tax returns. And all we\u2019ve gotta do is get those tax returns and then we can have what we believe confirmed.<\/p>\n

So why would they hype it? “But, Rush, they had to look at it and know it didn\u2019t say that.” Didn\u2019t matter. Do not assume these people knew what they had. By the way, there\u2019s something else about this. Rachel Maddow is taking credit for something that really isn\u2019t hers. The Trump tax returns were not leaked to her, and she didn\u2019t find them. They were leaked to some lunatic named David Cay Johnston.<\/p>\n

David Cay Johnston works at The Daily Beast, which is that left-wing website started by Tina Brown. She may still be involved. I don\u2019t know who runs it or owns it now. But it\u2019s a bunch of wackos over there. This guy used to work at the New York Times. He has written The Making of Donald Trump in 2016. He\u2019s been stalking Trump since 1988. First met Trump in 1988, in which he says, “I almost immediately recognized Donald as the P. T. Barnum of our age.”<\/p>\n

And he said he promised in a New York Times interview, “I\u2019m gonna follow Trump for the rest of his life.” And this clown one a Pulitzer Prize for his tax reporting. David Cay Johnston worked as a tax reporter for the New York Times. In 2001 he got the Pulitzer for exposing loopholes in the U.S. tax code!<\/p>\n

\"\"How do you win a Pulitzer for reporting on what\u2019s in laws? But this guy did because liberals believe that loopholes are illegalities or loopholes are things rich people sneak in there for themselves and others rich people, so he did a massive expose on loopholes. There\u2019s no such things as tax loopholes. That\u2019s another way the language is bastardized.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is the guy who got the tax returns. Rachel Maddow did not. So this David Cay Johnston says that yesterday morning in his mailbox came the two pages from Trump\u2019s 1040 tax form from 2005. Well, what mailbox? Did somebody use the snail mail to send this to him or does he mean his email in box? Nobody calls the inbox on your computer, your iPhone, “mailbox.” A mailbox contains all the different inboxes and the inboxes are named, so I\u2019m confused just in the terminology.<\/p>\n

Then the guy gets it. Then somehow Maddow finds out about it \u2019cause these people are all linked together and she sends out a tweet: “We\u2019ve got Trump\u2019s tax returns,” and Twitter blows up because these people have been sitting out there going closer and closer to insanity waiting for these mythical beliefs to somehow be established and proven.<\/p>\n

So they got the tax returns. All reason vanishes, they got the tax returns. They\u2019ve been waiting for the tax returns. You would think, wouldn\u2019t you, if we\u2019re gonna assign intelligence to these people, they had these tax returns long before Rachel Maddow\u2019s television show aired last night. It\u2019s 9 p.m. Eastern time. You got two pages and it clearly states that Trump earned $150 million, and he paid $38 million in taxes, that he paid an effective tax rate of 25%.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s more than Warren Buffett\u2019s rate, that\u2019s higher than Warren Buffett\u2019s secretary\u2019s rate, which is the gold mine for tax rates, right? Warren Buffett out there saying, “It\u2019s unconscionable, you know, I make 30,000 million times what my secretary does because I\u2019m a cheapskate and don\u2019t pay \u2019em anything, and she has a higher tax rate than I do. That\u2019s just not fair.” And Obama is harping on this.<\/p>\n

Well, Trump\u2019s paying a higher tax rate than Buffett, than Gates, and even Buffett\u2019s secretary. He\u2019s paying a higher tax rate than Romney, and he paid a higher tax rate than the Obamas.<\/p>\n

Now, you would think these people looking at this would say, “We got a dud. We have got… We\u2019ve been schlonged here.” You would think that they would look at this and think, “Okay, this David Cay Johnston guy…” It shows up in his mailbox. Is there not the least bit…? It says “client copy” on the two pages he got — “client copy” — which means it probably comes from a tax preparer firm or law firm or it may come from Trump. Now they\u2019re saying that Trump schlonged these guys, that Trump set \u2019em up.<\/p>\n

That Maddow announces her tweet, “We\u2019ve got Trump\u2019s tax returns,” and then Trump released the tax returns himself to everybody else to preempt the Rachel Maddow Show, but this David Cay Johnston guy had \u2019em before all that. So now he\u2019s running around saying, “I think Trump… I think Trump leaked them to me! You know, it\u2019s illegal to leak these!” (laughing) I can\u2019t believe this! “It\u2019s illegal to leak these; I think Trump leaked them to me.” It doesn\u2019t mean you have to use \u2019em! If they got schlonged, they got schlonged.<\/p>\n

\"\"How do the smartest people in the world get schlonged like this? How do the smartest people in the world get tricked like this? How do the smartest people in the world get fooled like this? Well, maybe they didn\u2019t get tricked. Maybe it was their own irrationality. By the way, if you\u2019re Rachel Maddow, let\u2019s look at it from her perspective as a broadcaster. Okay, so she\u2019s tweeted. She\u2019s talked to David Cay Johnston; she\u2019s seen these things. He told her what\u2019s in there, and she sends out in tweet, and it literally melts the anti-Trump Twitterverse, literally melts it.<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow is gay and you\u2019ve got people tweeting her that they want to father her children. Men! I mean, that\u2019s how irrational these people are. “I want to produce your babies,” and she\u2019s gay. Which presumably they know. It\u2019s just over the top. She has to know after all of that that these people are not gonna be at all serviced, satisfied. So why run with it? Well, I\u2019m gonna throw out the distinct possibility that they didn\u2019t know what they had. They live in an alternate universe where reality does not intrude.<\/p>\n

They believe that Trump is not as rich as he\u2019s bragged. They have no evidence. They just believe it. Why? ‘Cause Trump is scum. They believe Trump worked with the Russians. Why? There\u2019s no evidence. Why? ‘Cause it\u2019s the only way Hillary could have lost. They believe that Trump actually doesn\u2019t have nearly as much money as he\u2019s bragged about, and the returns are gonna prove it. And, therefore, “Trump\u2019s a scumbag and he\u2019s lying and he\u2019s this, and we know,” they say to themselves. So they get this tax return, and it literally rocks them.<\/p>\n

They look at it, and it disproves… Remember, this is religion to these people. Liberalism is religion. It\u2019s rooted in faith. It\u2019s unassailable. It\u2019s inarguable. It\u2019s why they build these little safe cocoons to live in where they don\u2019t let outside beliefs in. They don\u2019t want the trouble of being challenged. They don\u2019t want the upset of being challenged. So they have — for months and months and months — convinced themselves. Their reality is, “Trump is scum! Trump worked with the Russians! The Russians worked with Trump to steal the election from Hillary,” and that Trump\u2019s not nearly as rich as he said he is.<\/p>\n

“He cheats on his taxes! He cheats on women!” They believe all of these things about Trump; they get the tax return, and it\u2019s the exact opposite of everything they believe. So psychologically, what do they do with it? Does she say (stammering), “Gosh, I — I — I\u2019ve hyped this so much! I can\u2019t — I can\u2019t — I can\u2019t — I can\u2019t just say it\u2019s nothing and not show people! So do I act this out as though what we\u2019ve got is huge, or do we act this out and take the hit? What do we do?” Well, what if they thought they had a silver bullet there?<\/p>\n