{"id":275663,"date":"2018-06-05T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=275663"},"modified":"2018-06-06T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:08:13","slug":"sicko-david-frum-fantasizes-about-trump-hitting-melania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/05\/sicko-david-frum-fantasizes-about-trump-hitting-melania\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicko David Frum Fantasizes About Trump Hitting Melania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: David Frum. Anybody remember the name David Frum? David Frum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Melania Trump has had the Drive-By Media occupied here, in an unhealthy way. David Frum &#8212; who used to be a ranking member of the conservative faux intelligentsia &#8212; has actually speculated that one of the reasons she hasn\u2019t been seen is that Trump must have hit her! Trump must have punched her, and it\u2019s taken this long to recover. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/06\/04\/david-frum-melania-trump\/\">From The Daily Caller<\/a>: &#8220;Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum openly theorized last weekend about President Trump punching his wife and covering it up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-060518-Frum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-060518-Frum.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-060518-Frum-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frum sent a tweet, wondering the legal ramifications of President Trump hypothetically hitting his wife. Frum said, &#8216;Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret Service. Is that obstruction? Under Sekulow\/Dowd, apparently NO.'&#8221; So they\u2019re coming up with all of these outrageous hypotheticals that &#8212; don\u2019t doubt me &#8212; they would love for to be true.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, of all the things that you could conjure to explain why nobody\u2019s seen Melania Trump &#8212; after kidney surgery &#8212; it\u2019s that Trump beat her up and has the authority to order the Secret Service not to tell anybody about it? That\u2019s just like Stephanopoulos\u2019 question to Rudy on Sunday. &#8220;Can the president pardon himself?&#8221; That\u2019s not the question. The question is intended to cause people hearing it to think that Trump must have done something that\u2019s really bad, \u2019cause he\u2019s thinking about pardoning himself.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same thing here. &#8220;Wow. Never thought of that! Yeah, that could explain it. Trump beat Melania up, got mad at her one night.&#8221; This stuff is so beyond the pale &#8212; and these are the people telling us that what\u2019s wrong with Trump is bad manners. These are the people telling us what\u2019s wrong with Trump is just uncivil discourse. &#8220;He\u2019s just embarrassing everybody.&#8221; And yet look at what they come up with, promulgate, and put out in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, speculating on the health of Melania Trump, CNN is doing this and a lot of the Drive-Bys are. You know what\u2019s amazing about it\/ They\u2019ve announced that she had kidney surgery, a benign mass was removed, and they\u2019ve said all is well. Melania Trump was spotted in the White House yesterday at a Gold Star families event, and she looked perfectly fine walking in, looked perfectly normal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251339 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101917-Trump-Melania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101917-Trump-Melania.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-101917-Trump-Melania-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys are running around speculating, David Frum hypothetically theorizing, &#8220;Wait a minute, guys. What if Trump beat her up? That\u2019s on federal property! Does he have the right? Can he get away with beating up his own wife simply \u2019cause he runs the executive branch?&#8221; These guys are trying to have this intellectual argument over whether Trump can be subpoenaed, whether he can be pardoned, pardon himself or what have you.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, look at somebody who is really sick and has been really sick for a long time and may be &#8212; I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt &#8212; so sick she had no business being president of the United States. The woman who couldn\u2019t even stand up going down steps, the woman who was collapsing at random moments with no notice &#8212; a woman who could not get herself into one of those high-top vans without three people behind her pushing on her rear end to get her up there &#8212; and not one, not one serious story on the health of Hillary Clinton when it was plain as day to anybody that whatever she has going on&#8230; And there are all kinds of, you know, discussions about her love of adult beverage. Not one discussion whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about getting to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: These are the people telling us that what&#039;s wrong with Trump is bad manners. 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