{"id":226278,"date":"2017-03-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=226278"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:01:27","slug":"a-fascinating-call-from-a-trump-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/20\/a-fascinating-call-from-a-trump-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fascinating Call from a Trump Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jerry in Cape Coral, Florida. Great to have you on the program, sir. Thank you for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thanks, Rush. Mega dittos from a decades long listener and a recently retired fed employee. I\u2019ve got a different take on things. I know there\u2019s a lot of Trump supporters right now running around dismayed at Comey\u2019s announcement today. But I look at it like this. We get callers just like the one you had before from the loony left, and then these unhinged persons running around masquerading as mainstream media, and they\u2019ve been throwing out all these theories, unsubstantiated theories about some nefarious activities between Trump and the Russians during the campaign.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, had Comey not said anything about an investigation, these theories would have gone on for the remaining 1,400 days of Trump\u2019s first term. My thought here is sooner rather than later, because we know anybody who\u2019s researched this and looked at it without blinders on knows there is no evidence, not a zip, zilch showing any kind of collusion between Trump\u2019s campaign or Trump and the Russians.<\/p>\n

Now, sooner I think rather than later, Comey\u2019s gonna come out and he\u2019s going to say that the investigation\u2019s over and there is no evidence. What he did was throw a rope to these crazies out there, and they\u2019re desperately holding on to it. When he comes out and says that, it\u2019s gonna put an end to it. Had he not, like you said, they could have run with this forever. But I think that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna come out of this, \u2019cause look at it. Even today, Mitch McConnell sitting in on the Judge Gorsuch hearing<\/a>, sent out a tweet saying that in his meeting with Comey, at the end of it, Comey told him they are not looking at President Trump over this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, hold it, was that McConnell or was that Charles Grassley?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry. That was Grassley.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grassley.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw that earlier when I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Let\u2019s not zing past that pap Grassley tweeted between noon and 12:30 today Eastern time, after hearing Comey, he said, “I wish Comey would tell the committee what he told me about POTUS and the Russians,” meaning that Grassley said that Comey told him that Trump was not part of the investigation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s some inference here, because Grassley\u2019s tweet did not say that Comey had told him Trump was not being investigated. His tweet was simply “I wish Comey would tell the committee what he told me about POTUS and Russian investigation.” So we are free to infer there that Grassley was suggested Comey told him that Trump\u2019s not part of this and he wished Comey would have said that today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I think what\u2019s gonna happen is, at the end of this investigation, there is going to be information given out about how the information regarding Flynn and any other calls, how that came about and maybe even who leaked this information and for what purpose. So I think in the meantime, this is great, let the whacks out there run with this. But I think in the end, since up to this point there\u2019s been no evidence, none whatsoever, and I don\u2019t think anything is going to come up from now until —<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Okay, let me ask you a question, two questions. Do you think that Comey was being strategic today for the reasons you\u2019ve just outlined?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, he was hedging it a little bit there because he\u2019s gotta say that there is an investigation. He\u2019s giving them — they can take with that and infer from it what they will, and we all know what the left and the media will infer from that. But I think he\u2019s keeping it close because, again, they talked about the leaks, the leaks being an important thing and something he would like to see —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me be specific. Do you think Comey did what he did today to suck the Democrats into a trick? ‘Cause that\u2019s basically what you\u2019re suggesting is going on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know that he did it for that sole purpose, but if that\u2019s what happens on it, that falls on the Democrats for looking at it in that light.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, what you say sounds hopeful, sounds intriguing, sounds good. Here\u2019s my problem with it. I don\u2019t see an end to this. You seem convinced that Comey\u2019s gonna someday announce the investigation\u2019s and over and that when he does that, he\u2019s going to officially confirm no evidence, we haven\u2019t found anything, and that everybody\u2019s gonna have egg on their face.<\/p>\n

What if that doesn\u2019t happen for two years? What if we go into the 2018 midterms with this investigation open, and you add two years of innuendo to today that there was collusion and this investigation is so serious and it must be so massive, it\u2019s going on for two years, there must be so much to learn. I can write a bunch of narratives about a two-year investigation that nail Trump without any evidence. The longer this goes on, the worse it is, if you ask me. But you think it\u2019s got a positive end. But for whom?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re never gonna convince these left-wing, rabid lunatics, no matter what Comey says, no matter what — if Obama were to come out and say “Sorry, nothing there,” they\u2019re not gonna believe it, they\u2019re gonna think the game is rigged \u2019cause their expectations have been built up so high. They already think Trump\u2019s guilty and it\u2019s just a matter of time before he\u2019s impeached. So the people that are at stake here are Trump voters and people that voted for Trump that didn\u2019t particularly like him but really didn\u2019t like Hillary, the longer this goes the taint and the stain stays and maybe even grows. So how long do you think it\u2019s gonna be before Comey comes out and says, “End of the investigation, nothing here”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I would think that that\u2019s going to take place within the next few months. If this has been going on since July, I don\u2019t anticipate that it\u2019s… Because it\u2019s a finite set of time. Up until the election is what we\u2019re looking at. So there\u2019s only so much information in that time frame. So I think they\u2019re going to — if they haven\u2019t already — accumulate that information, and now they\u2019re sifting through it and verifying it. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s going to be anything new that will come out of it that they will find.<\/p>\n

But I think in the meantime, if Trump keeps moving forward with his agenda, let the rabid left continue to go on about this, as the economy continues to hum and improves. If we get health care squared away, the immigration situation squared away, some of our trade deals squared away, along with the tax reform coming up this spring, I think that is going to be a bigger point than people still holding onto this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I appreciate it. I would love to ask you more here on your thoughts. I gotta go. I\u2019m up against it here on time. But, Jerry, thanks for the call. About the Trump agenda and some of the other things you just mentioned, I do have some points to add but I gotta do it when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our last caller was a Trump optimist and I found it fascinating, and I wish I had time to comment on it. I\u2019m gonna save it for tomorrow.\u00a0 But I do want to point out, Trump… According to Gallup, Trump\u2019s approval rating is an all-time new low of 37% right now. Yet according to other polls and the stock market, the majority of Americans seem to be newly optimistic about the country and the economy and suddenly think we\u2019re on the right track.\u00a0 So Trump\u2019s approval seems to be the mirror opposite of what pertained under Obama.<\/p>\n

Obama had great, great approval ratings while the country was tanking.\u00a0 Now the country is reviving, storming ahead as evidenced by our optimistic Trump caller, and his approval\u2019s at 37.\u00a0 Something\u2019s wrong with these pictures.\u00a0 But that\u2019s as far as I\u2019ll go.\u00a0 But the Trump optimist\u2019s view of this I find fascinating and so much so that I\u2019m gonna make a note to myself.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019ll tell Siri — I can\u2019t say this too loud — to remind me, \u2019cause it\u2019s a fascinating take.\u00a0 This investigation, though, the idea that it\u2019s gonna end and the Democrats are gonna have egg on their faces and that Comey is going to be the instrument of that?<\/p>\n

Forgive me if I have my doubts.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to be surprised and be wrong, but… I mean, I\u2019d love it if this is a Democrat setup.\u00a0 That\u2019s not what the caller said, but it\u2019s where he was headed. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know whose side Comey\u2019s on. I don\u2019t know that… Comey ought not be on a “side.” I mean, if you look at his job purely in a vacuum, he shouldn\u2019t be on a side.\u00a0 But he certainly got into a lot of politics today.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never heard an FBI director outside of Hoover — and Hoover didn\u2019t do it officially — get into politics, political analysis the way Comey did today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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