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RUSH: Wait a minute! Hang on! Ah, ah, ah, ah. If you\u2019re gonna say, “Happy Mother\u2019s Day,” to your mom, you gotta tell us her first name or how\u2019s she gonna know?<\/p>\nRUSH: Green Bay. Here is Brian. Welcome to the program. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s so great to talk to you. This is a thrill.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I gotta say, “Happy Mother\u2019s Day,” to my wife and my mom, and I\u2019ll get right to the point here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute! Hang on! Ah, ah, ah, ah. If you\u2019re gonna say, “Happy Mother\u2019s Day,” to your mom, you gotta tell us her first name or how\u2019s she gonna know?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh! Well, my wife\u2019s name is Jody, and my mom\u2019s name is Pat.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Pat. So Jody and Pat. Okay, cool.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: This is gonna be awesome. Ha! They\u2019ll be talking about this for years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, congratulations to both of them. You sound like you\u2019re a great guy to have in their lives.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I like to think so. But my comment was on the thing I\u2019ve been listening to the last few days with the firing of Comey and the “poor timing” and all this stuff. Uh, the whole idea behind this thing, the story… I don\u2019t think anyone thought the story was gonna last as long as it was. It was a crazy story. No one… No one thought it was gonna last as long as it did.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mean the —<\/p>\n
CALLER: There\u2019s no evidence to it. When Trump brought it up during the elections, he was laughed at. Even we, as Trump supporters, thought, “Oh, jeez, you know, he really stepped into it this time. But, you know, let\u2019s just hope it kind of goes away a little bit.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me step in here because I\u2019m glad you called and said this, because I\u2019ll bet you a whole lot of people in the Trump campaign and administration thought the same thing, that this Russia thing, there\u2019s nothing there; this has gotta die out. Had I been there, had they asked, I would have told them, “It isn\u2019t gonna tie out, and you had better understand why it\u2019s happening, and you\u2019d better come up with some way to get rid of it, because it\u2019s gonna hang around as long as they can make it effective.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not based in truth. It\u2019s not based in anything! The whole purpose of this is to cast a current, present, never-ending cloud over the legitimacy of Trump\u2019s presidency.” You\u2019re right about Trump making the joke, but nobody outside the Trump group of people laughed at it. If you go back to that moment… And this was about Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails. She had 60,000 emails on that illegal server, and she had only turned over 30,000 after she had gone through all of them and she had determined the ones that were relevant for the Department of State to see.<\/p>\n
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And she had gotten rid of the other 30,000. They were just about yoga lessons and Chelsea\u2019s wedding and who the hell knows what else. She told us there\u2019s nothing worth seeing here. And we then later learned that they had been deleted but a lot of computer experts said, “There\u2019s no such thing as literally deleting unless you format that drive.” So those emails are somewhere. That begot a discussion of where could they be? And there were fake efforts to find them.<\/p>\n
The Obama DOJ was not interested in it. The Obama State Department didn\u2019t care a rat\u2019s rear end about finding \u2019em. So Trump, one day, was asked about it. He grew a little frustrated, and he said, “If anybody in Russia is listening, maybe you can find these 30,000,” and the moment that happened, the media — with total irrationality and hysteria — began the narrative that Trump was in league with the Russians and was guiding them and helping them to produce Hillary\u2019s emails. That\u2019s one thing that happened.<\/p>\n
Then the election, the campaign goes on. All during the campaign… This is fundamentally important. All during the campaign, everybody on the Democrat side — which includes media, pollsters, Democrats — all thought Hillary was going to win and win in a landslide. It was such a foregone conclusion; Hillary did a half-ass campaign. She went dormant for three, four days a week. She didn\u2019t go to any blue states in the upper Midwest because she thought they were a lock. Trump was in them constantly with 20,000-person rallies.<\/p>\n
Election night comes, and even up to nine o\u2019clock on election night — you can watch the election returns — everybody thought Hillary was gonna win this in a going-away landslide. And in the 45 days prior to the election, there wasn\u2019t a word said about the Russians, because the Clintons thought they were gonna win. They didn\u2019t want anybody thinking the election was tainted. What was going on is at the third debate, Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the election results on election night.<\/p>\n
They were trying to paint Trump as unstable, as a radical raconteur, as an upsetter, as somebody who was gonna come in and turn everything upside down. And Trump said, “No, I will not tell you right now tonight that I will accept the results. I\u2019m not gonna tell you I accept them until everything happens and I see what happens.” That begot a full month of Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign and the media leading the allegation that Donald Trump was unfit for office, because Donald Trump was threatening our very democracy, because Donald Trump was signaling that he would not accept a legitimate election result.<\/p>\n
And they were explaining what a threat to our very way of life this attitude was. And that was for a full month. There was not a syllable spoken of any concern for the Russians tampering with the election. The talk of the Russians had to do with the tampering of the Democrat National Committee\u2019s computer network and the John Podesta emails, but not with the election. The Clintons thought they were gonna win. There was no talk that her win would in any way be illegitimate! Trump is who was going to be illegitimate.<\/p>\n
They were not worried about the election being hacked by the Russians, they weren\u2019t worried about anything, because they didn\u2019t want to taint their upcoming victory. Well, we all know what happened. Trump wins. He wins in an Electoral College landslide. This sent the Clinton campaign into a tailspin the likes of which we still really don\u2019t know. But I\u2019m telling you, they were driven out of their minds. And when that happened, the first thing that occurred to all of them was to come up with a scenario in which they were not to blame for it.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>They would not allow ongoing stories of the incompetence, say, of Robby Mook (campaign manager) or any of the pollsters or any of the consultants or Hillary herself. The reason for this shocking, nobody-saw-it-coming upset was blamed on the Russians. It\u2019s in the book that has been written about the Clinton campaign<\/a>, and they hatched this idea that the Russians tampered with the election and helped Trump, 24 hours after she lost — and it is in the book. I have it here. I printed it. Just let me find it real quickly.<\/p>\n