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<\/p>\nHANNITY: We are in the studios of Rush Limbaugh. First, I want to congratulate you: 30 years talk radio, the king of talk radio and going stronger than ever.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s amazing. It really is. You know, I\u2019m enjoying it as much as I ever have, if not more so. I get more thrills from it, I get more satisfaction from it than I\u2019ve ever had. If you would have told me 30 years ago or even 40 when I was dreaming about this, that by the time I reached 65 that it would be more competitive than ever, that I would be more involved than ever. I thought, “Sixty-five? What\u2019ve you got left to prove? You phone it in.<\/p>\n
“You take it easy. You go to the beach. Do a couple hours a week and that\u2019s it, a Johnny Carson job.” I can\u2019t imagine not doing this, and I think largely because as you just laid out, we are seriously at a tipping point. I don\u2019t know… I worry. I don\u2019t know how many people actually are aware of how close we are to losing our country as founded. There\u2019s always going to be an America, but what is going to be? And it really is at stake. And I\u2019ve been trying in I don\u2019t know how many ways to explain to my audience why it\u2019s different now than it was 15 years ago or 20, and I do it by trying to analyze who the left is, what they have become. I\u2019m naive in many ways, and I —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I might take a little objection to Rush being naive.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You tell me if this is naive.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I look at what happened during the Kavanaugh hearings.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: All right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You just described ricin and stuff to Susan Collins. We looked at the literal mob behavior that was inspired — bought and paid for — by the Democrat Party. The media encourages it. In my naive world, that behavior would secure the biggest landslide defeat a political party has ever had. In a same world where decent people are the majority, that would be rejected out of hand.<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t even be considered relevant and the people of this country would want to get rid of that as quickly as they could. But yet, it may be close to 50% of the country. I don\u2019t think it is and I hope not but the fact that it continues to survive, I\u2019ve evolved a bunch of theories to explain it and I really think… By the way, interrupt any time with a question. (laughing)<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing) You\u2019re doing great, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I really think that all of this, or the vast majority of it still, Sean, revolves around one of the age-old arguments that left versus right has had and that is role of government in our lives. Now the people on the left, I read something by Jim Geraghty at National Review about a month ago now, and it just struck me because I think it\u2019s dead on. I\u2019m going to paraphrase what he said. He said what has happened in his view — and I endorse this I think even more than he does.<\/p>\n
I think it\u2019s a bigger point than he made it. These people on the left that you\u2019ve described, the mob behavior, is really a series of psychological disorders that have taken over politics. We have politicized psychological disorders to the point now that they have become the objective of the Democrat Party. Solving all of these disparate, separate psychological disorders — having the government do it — basically determine outcomes and get even with the pressers, the founding majority of the country.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with, and, if we don\u2019t define this properly, we\u2019re never going to be able to oppose it. If we consider this stuff legit — which it isn\u2019t! That kind of behavior is not legitimate. We don\u2019t want a country based on that kind of behavior. We don\u2019t want people winning elections based on mobs and violence. We don\u2019t want that. Think if that happens, if they win the election based on this kind of behavior.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You\u2019ll get more of it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right. But here\u2019s the thing: What do decent people do? What do…? Decent people do not spend all day trying to figure out how to battle this. Decent people are living their lives. We\u2019ve got perversion, indecency, corruption up against what used to be called normalcy.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You\u2019ve got Hillary Clinton: (paraphrased quotes) “We can\u2019t be civil unless you give us power back.” Eric Holder: “Well, they go low; we kick them.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Maxine Waters: “If you see them, create a crowd. You know, tell… Go tell them, follow them into department stores and grocery stores and gas stations. You\u2019re not wanted anywhere, anymore.” And we saw Pam Bondi and Secretary Nielsen — and we saw Sarah Sanders, Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi, Mitch McConnell. I think Rand is right. Somebody\u2019s going to get hurt here in the end, because we… Look, I blame the people for their actions, but there\u2019s certainly marching orders here: Confront, attack, get in their faces. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n
RUSH: All of it… All of it is marching orders.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All of it is bought and paid for. Look at this caravan, supposed… Where is it, Honduras? Guatemala? Wherever it\u2019s coming, doesn\u2019t matter where it\u2019s coming. Somebody\u2019s paying for this. Where are these people going to the bathroom? Who\u2019s feeding them? I mean look at 2,000 to 4,000 people, kids and that\u2019s the magic. They put “the children” in there. (impression) “We must accept, we can\u2019t turn them away, we\u2019re so horrible. Trump is separating…”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all designed and it\u2019s all designed to flood the zone during the election. We\u2019ve got this. We\u2019ve got… We\u2019re worried about the Fed raising interest rates to try to jam down the economy and way over there, guess what just happened? Robert Mueller is letting it be known that he\u2019s about ready to submit his report. Well, Justice Department rules and guidelines say that they should not do anything to impact the results of an election.<\/p>\n
But that didn\u2019t happen. Comey did, didn\u2019t he? He was doing everything he could to help Hillary. People don\u2019t understand this, but that\u2019s what he was doing. They had to have… (unintelligible). So these things are all planned and they\u2019re all getting focused leading up to the election. People ask, “Rush, what can I do? I want to do more than vote.” Right now, that is the answer, folks. I mean, people… I know people think their vote is not enough, but it is.<\/p>\n
Turn out. Turn out is everything. And on the left, this is almost an identical scenario to 2016. They think, Sean, they really do — and some of this is hope, but they think — a lot of Americans that voted for Trump regret it. A lot of people can\u2019t wait to get out there and show and apologize for their mistake of voting for Trump. They can\u2019t wait to go out there and apologize to the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
The fact of the matter is, since Barack Obama, the Democrat Party has been losing elections. Starting in 2010, midterms, Tea Party, all the way up to 2016, the Democrat Party has lost 1,200 seats — national, state, local, if you count all the way down to dog catcher. They\u2019ve lost. They\u2019ve had the… They had the least amount of electoral political power in Washington since the \u201920s. Where is this blue wave? Where\u2019s the evidence that people can\u2019t wait to vote Democrat? The evidence is that they\u2019re doing the exact opposite!<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Trump is out there continuing to do the things he did that won him the election in 2016, all of these rallies, and they have been unable to get rid of him. They\u2019ve thrown everything at Trump that usually gets rid of Republican opponents, and nothing has worked. And they\u2019re just frustrated as they can be, and I think they\u2019re so overplaying this and they\u2019re going way beyond the bounds of anywhere near propriety. But they think most Americans want to be encouraged to do mob-like behavior, get in people\u2019s faces. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve lost the country to the extent that that wins elections.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: How big an impact Kavanaugh? We\u2019re talking… Kavanaugh, to me, was a tipping point, because they were exposed. It didn\u2019t… Look, I think most people fundamentally believe in the rule of law, the Constitution, due process, presumption of innocence. There was none of that. It was: “Accusation? I believe it.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Now, let me tell you how close they were to getting away with it, though.<\/p>\n
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HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I mean, you and I watched this from a different perspective than, I think, a lot of people. Sadly, there\u2019s still a lot of people that only get their news in what we call the mainstream media. If Donald Trump… If President Trump had not, at that rally, exposed Christine —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: No corroboration.<\/p>\n
RUSH: None! The four people she says where there say, “No, we weren\u2019t.” She didn\u2019t know what, where, when, why. So Trump tells people this and they get mad at Trump for mocking her. Trump didn\u2019t mock her. To mock her, you\u2019d have to impersonate her, which I can do but I will not here and —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (chuckling) You\u2019re showing great restraint.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Great restraint. But he didn\u2019t mock her; he exposed her to a bunch of Americans who didn\u2019t know because the mainstream media had not reported all of the holes in her story. So Trump does, and then in “getting” Trump, they end up reporting what Trump said. That was the tipping point, plus what Kavanaugh did to save himself. But you\u2019re right. Presumption of innocence? Gone. They were close to killing that by intimidating Republicans on that committee. But it didn\u2019t work. Again, because I believe the president came in and saved the day.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Let\u2019s… Look, I don\u2019t have a crystal ball. I always thought and believed in my heart the media\u2019s wrong; Trump could win. You could see it; you could feel it. I don\u2019t know who was going to run against Obama in \u201908. You saw the crowds. You saw the enthusiasm. In that case, I think it was a lot of hype and no change. Typical, left-wing policies. You predicted to me it would fail and it did fail.<\/p>\n
But something is different. President Trump… You could see a building momentum and now we\u2019ve got these midterms. I\u2019m looking at… Let\u2019s… Florida, they could pick up the Senate seat. I think you could pick one up in Missouri. I think you\u2019ll hold Nevada. I think you\u2019ll win in Arizona. North Dakota. Indiana. All potential pickups. Where I would worry about more is the House. I don\u2019t have a feel with it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n
HANNITY: What…? How\u2019s that going to end?<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s hard. There\u2019s so many seats there and there\u2019s so many variables and vagaries.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: When you get at it… But let\u2019s look at this in the macro way. Let\u2019s compare this. You want to go back to 2008. Let\u2019s go back to 2016. I think… I know you were, early on, very confident Trump was going to win. I thought… My staff here will tell you that two days… When I first saw the first polling after Trump and Melania went down the escalator, I said, “He\u2019s the nominee. It\u2019s going to happen.”<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I felt it. You know why, Sean? Because I know the bond. I saw those rallies. I saw the bond that Trump had with his voters. The media didn\u2019t create that; he did. Now, I did versions of that when my show started traveling around 48 weekends a year for the first two years trying to get my radio show established, and I saw a similar success track. And nobody can blow up that bond that Trump voters have.<\/p>\n
The Washington establishment to this day does not understand Donald Trump. They don\u2019t understand his voters and they\u2019re not curious to find out why. They just resent it, and they are still operating under the same rules they operated under in 2016. The parallels are identical here. They think in 2016, “Hillary\u2019s going to win a massive landslide!” They\u2019re measuring the curtains. Hillary\u2019s measuring all these things.<\/p>\n
The deep state guys back then are confident nobody\u2019s going to ever know what they did. Their jobs and their careers are going to be safe. Strzok Smirk and all these clowns? McCabe? Safe. Then Trump comes along and wins. They\u2019re shocked, they\u2019re stunned, they couldn\u2019t believe it. Same thing now, they think they\u2019ve won the House a month ago. It\u2019s in the can; they\u2019re just waiting for the calendar and the days to go by when all of their own polling data shows this so-called generic valid blue wave shrinking and shrinking.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Dramatically.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now you find less confidence in all of the reporting about the blue wave. Now we\u2019ve got the caravan. They tried Kavanaugh. Look at all of these October surprises. Feinstein tried one. Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren. How about this, folks?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: We used to be judged by the content of our character, now it\u2019s the content of our DNA. Is that what the Democrat Party…?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing)<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Talk about bastardizing Martin Luther King. She bombs out. Feinstein bombs out. And so all these all four were attempted, were purposed to blow Trump up — and he just keeps beating them back and they don\u2019t know how to deal with it. They get more and more frustrated, more and more angry, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Some nights at the end of the show, we\u2019ll take a clip from your Dittocam and run it kind of the kicker to the show. People love… My audience loves to see you, and that\u2019s for doing the show. They love having you, as do I. What if they win? What if the Democrats win?<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s the most —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You love that question.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, the problem here is I\u2019m on television and I\u2019m really trying to be persuasive. I don\u2019t want to dramatize it, and I don\u2019t want to lie to people, and I don\u2019t want to fill people with (sigh) phony, manipulative, emotional things. But it might serve to answer that question to go back and ask, “What if Hillary had won in 2016?” Stop and think of that. There wouldn\u2019t be a roaring economy. There wouldn\u2019t have been any tax cuts.<\/p>\n
There wouldn\u2019t have been rollback of regulations. There wouldn\u2019t have been any squaring of the deal with NATO. There wouldn\u2019t have been any redone trade deals. The Obama administration told the American people (summarized), “Get used to it! There\u2019s a new American economy and its flatline or in decline. America\u2019s past? We didn\u2019t really deserve that. America was founded by a white patriarchy, set itself up for itself.<\/p>\n
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“People were discriminated against it! But those days are over. So now the days are behind us. We didn\u2019t deserve those anyway. We don\u2019t deserve to be a superpower, so we have a flatline economy.” We were told… Obama is out there in Indiana telling these people their jobs are never coming back. And somebody in the audience, “Mr. Trump says he can bring it back.” And Obama says (impression), “What\u2019s he going to do, wave a magic wand? Huh huh.” Look what happened. We got the jobs back. It can be done. They don\u2019t even want to make America great, they resent the whole idea of America becoming great! They resent the idea of America, as a superpower, running the world for good. We\u2019re the good guys!<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Let me ask you a question. The investigation —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll get there. If he hadn\u2019t won? (sigh) Sean, I shudder to think, with Hillary Clinton in the White House and all of her cronies and all the cabinet positions and the validation of all of these oddball, weird, perverted left-winged behaviors becoming more and more normalized, and politics and governments are all being to address their grievance. Have we become a country of nothing but a bunch of victims, constantly angry, demanding that somebody do something about it, instead of all us — as we used to do — using self-reliance and our old initiative and our guts in handling life ourselves?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Stay there. We\u2019ll take a break. We\u2019re just getting things started.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Not moving.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing) We\u2019ll continue. More with Rush Limbaugh, with us for a full hour. We\u2019re at his Southern Command headquarters, EIB Network. Please stay with us.<\/p>\n
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HANNITY: All right, as we continue, Southern Command, Rush Limbaugh, EIB Headquarters. This is it. This is it. This where you do your show.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is. It really is.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Every day.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s an ordinance down here in Palm Beach. You cannot work from your home, which is fine. I need to get… You know, but it is the case. So we built this and it\u2019s like a living room, home, office, all… Oh, by the way, can I do one thing personal?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Go ahead.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Every time I\u2019m on your show —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yeah?<\/p>\n
RUSH: — people ask me what this is. I get emails: What is this?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Right. Your cochlear implant.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a direct line to the West Wing.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: No these are cochlear implants. I\u2019m deaf. I\u2019m 100% deaf, and I can only hear bionically with these. Very quickly, the human ear has 35,000 hair cells each. They determine the frequency and the sensitivity of the human ear. I don\u2019t have any. Mine are dead. They laid down and died.<\/p>\n
Auto-immune. So I have eight man-made biological electrodes, bionic electrodes — that try to do what 35,000 hair cells do, and it\u2019s a miraculous thing. If this had happened — if I\u2019d lost my hearing 15 years before I did — it\u2019d have been the end of my career, because the tech hadn\u2019t been invented. So it\u2019s really fortunate, and I look at it as something to be extremely grateful for.<\/p>\n
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HANNITY: I remember in that interim time… Not to get too distracted. We\u2019ve got a lot to talk about. I do radio as you do. I do not know how it\u2019s possible. Because like those people in radio, DJs, talk shows. I\u2019m cranking that thing up.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You know, and dramatic hearing loss, you know, after 30 years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I did three months totally deaf.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I couldn\u2019t get the surgery done because I had an infection. So three months. So you\u2019re relying on how your voice feels.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And you have to consciously tell yourself, “Don\u2019t…” When you can\u2019t hear, you speak up.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So you have to tell yourself not to. I asked them — I asked the doctors, “If I don\u2019t do this, can I speak normally for the rest of my life?” They said, “No. If you can\u2019t hear yourself speak, you\u2019ll end up sounding like somebody who\u2019s never heard before.”<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “So I mean, you\u2019ve got to do the implant.” But that\u2019s what they are. And they\u2019re… They really were a career saver.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Thank… Well, thank God. You are still here, going strong, 30th anniversary, which was a big deal for those of us that followed behind you, it\u2019s a big deal. Because you did forge a path for all of us, and we all owe you a debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: That\u2019s why really I wanted to be here. Explain the Trump phenomenon. Maybe we have a more unique perspective because we both knew him way before he ever thought about running.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Well, the… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hard to understand the Trump phenomenon at all if you are not poisoned — and I use the word, like, kind of an exaggeration. If you\u2019re not affected by inside the beltway, or Washington establishment thinking, understanding Trump\u2019s easy. It\u2019s elite versus real people. It\u2019s somebody that is fearless and willing to fight against the things that no Republican has been willing to fight against or defend. He\u2019s got an engaging personality. He doesn\u2019t offend people. The left thinks he does because they act offended. But Trump just makes people laugh.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They can\u2019t get over the fact that he\u2019s likable because they hate him. They despise him. I saw something the other day that I\u2019ve never… Are we allowed to mention competing cable networks on here? Because they dominate everything. They\u2019re just a bunch of —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You say anything you want.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Little Brian Stelter over on CNN —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Humpty Dumpty.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is that what you call him?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: That\u2019s what I call him. Humpty Dumpty.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Actually, he\u2019s actually been somewhat nice to me. There are exceptions to it. But complaining that the president\u2019s talking too much? The president is in the media too much. I said, “Jeez, these guys demand and pray for access.” And you know why? “Because he\u2019s polluting the air. He\u2019s lying; he\u2019s distorting and he\u2019s not giving us enough time to catch up with him and to correct it.” Just keep going, President Trump. He\u2019s dominating these people. He\u2019s frustrating them. They\u2019ve lost their monopoly. The Elizabeth Warren thing, the Pocahontas proves they can\u2019t shape public opinion anymore via narrative. And they are frustrated as they can be about that.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: He doesn\u2019t need them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. Part of what\u2019s going on here, I believe, in all of this… I do call it abnormality. We\u2019re up against psychological disorder abnormality that is disguised as political issues.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And we talk about the media. It\u2019s never been this abusively biased.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not even biased. We\u2019re so far beyond biased. These people are part of the agenda. I think they… I think they run it. I think they are the people that orchestrate it, run it; in fact, even give some marching orders to each other. The point is, Trump has just got them bamboozled and I think part-and-parcel of what they\u2019re doing is trying to demonstrate to themselves they still have the power to shape public opinion via narrative.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s causing all these people on the left to get even more and more and more extreme and I\u2019m just relying on the fact that average, ordinary Americans like you and I are as repulsed as you and I are by this behavior that they\u2019re engaging in, the demands they are making on decent God-fearing, America-loving people. We are not the problem, and yet we are portrayed as the problem. We\u2019re the enemy to these people.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s really scary. What happens if we lose? Go back and look. If we lose in 2016, if they get the House… Folks, I\u2019m just going to tell you: Whatever Trump wants to do is going to stop; it\u2019s going to be paralyzed. It\u2019s going to be nothing but — in every House committee that\u2019s relevant — inspections, investigations, subpoenas. They\u2019re going to go back and try to get Kavanaugh thrown out.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s going to be nothing but two years of get even with Trump for having the audacity to win, and the business of the nation\u2019s going to be brought to a screeching halt. In the meantime, they\u2019re going to try to get rid of the tax cuts. They\u2019re not going to succeed in any of this because the Senate is still going to be in the hands of Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Republicans.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I affectionately call him the Turtle because he moves so slow. But he\u2019s speeding up now. He\u2019s really getting good.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And he had a good run — (unintelligible)<\/p>\n
HANNITY: — Judicial. On Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, he was great.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But I still think Trump… That\u2019s in whom I have — in terms of the politics of this, I still have — implicit trust. I think Trump knows what he\u2019s doing —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Here\u2019s my question. We\u2019ve had all this success in two years. Obama economically, first president never met 3% GDP growth in history.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Didn\u2019t want to! This is the case. Didn\u2019t want… America doesn\u2019t deserve that.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: America\u2019s so oppressive, so mean to minorities. America doesn\u2019t deserve superpower status. This is why I wanted Obama to fail. In his view and the Alinsky view, in the American left view, America is flawed; America\u2019s the problem in the world. America doesn\u2019t deserve —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: But, economically, 13 million more Americans on food stamps; 8 million more in poverty.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s good! That\u2019s meaning more people voting Democrat, more people depending on government. They want that, Sean.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: We have 14 states record low unemployment. We have the lowest unemployment since \u201969 —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: — a million more jobs than people on unemployment.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Look at who is benefiting. African-American unemployment: Lowest ever. Hispanic unemployment, Asian unemployment, women in the workplace unemployment. All of this success you\u2019re saying stops if they get the House.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Absolutely. Let me ask you a simple question, why? You just… You heard him just go through these statistics, the facts of the economic advancement. We\u2019ve gotten more jobs than there are job openings.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: A million.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019ve got a million more jobs and there are openings. That hasn\u2019t happened since 2017. Who was president then? Uh, it wasn\u2019t Obama! The things you just heard Sean go through. The Democrats are angry at all of it. Why aren\u2019t they happy? Folks, we are in a roaring economy. More people than ever can get the job they want. They\u2019re getting raises. They\u2019re being bonused. We have people free to start their own businesses.<\/p>\n
The economy and every other aspect of life in America is on the upswing, and the political party and its voters are mad about it? Why? Why couldn\u2019t you be happy? The answer is very simple: If it happens as a result of individual aptitude and application instead of government making it happen, they\u2019re going to oppose it. This is the greatest threat. Economic activity, economic growth, self sufficiency, self-reliance — people learning that the old rules of working hard and applying yourself pay off — is the biggest threat to the American left and the Democrat Party that there could be.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Let me ask you this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why aren\u2019t they happy about this? Everybody ought to be.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Because they lose their power.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Of course.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It answers itself.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You have been a leader in the conservative movement in America.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: No. 1, audience sustained and bigger.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The conservative movement is led by Never Trumpers.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: OK, in their minds, if they had their way where would we be?<\/p>\n
RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Not here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hillary. Hillary would be president if they had their way.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: So here\u2019s my question. You knew William F. Buckley because if you believe Goldwater was a wave. If you believe Reagan was a wave meaning the advancement of conservatism. If you believe Newt and the Contract was a wave.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Where is Donald Trump? I look at his policies. I\u2019ve always been a conservative; never changed my views. I say it differently, new circumstances.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: But my fundamental core beliefs have never changed, nor have yours. All of these people have said he\u2019s not a conservative. Where? It\u2019s beside the trade — and I don\u2019t even think trade. He never planned a trade war.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He is implementing. I know these people. I got to know them 30 years ago when this all started.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: William F. Buckley loved you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Buckley, well I\u2019ll tell you a story about him and where he would be. I thought you were going to ask me where he would be on Trump. But the answer to that I think is pretty simple. But they don\u2019t like Trump because of his manners? Trump is implementing issues that these people have devoted their lives to see pass and they oppose it? They\u2019re running away from it? It must have never been about the issues. It must be about the proper appointment, and the proper manners and making sure we don\u2019t offend our liberal friends in Washington and so forth. Trump does all of that. “Oh, I can\u2019t abide this. Oh, this is so offensive to me. I can\u2019t — ooh yuck.” But meanwhile.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (chuckling) You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Everything that\u2019s happening is making America great exactly as conservatives said it would and they don\u2019t want to be on the bus?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: He is, as I say — and I say this to people and I say that. He governs as strong a conservative as we\u2019ve seen in our lifetime.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But I don\u2019t think the divide in America is left and right, so much. It\u2019s still there…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Conservative principles.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Conservative principle. It just… Judge, tax cuts, regulations, border security, peace through strength.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s what kind of a country that the traditions and the founding, are we going to Marxist leftist? I mean, that\u2019s what this is about. We don\u2019t have anything in common with them, Sean. I hear all these people still say, “We need to cross the aisle, show we can cooperate, show them…” What do we have in common?<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: What? Name something we have in common with any of the people acting to destroy Kavanaugh. Where is the middle ground to compromise with them on Kavanaugh? They didn\u2019t even want to allow him due process.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Zero. And no corroboration.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They wanted to destroy his life and his family, his career, his past, his future. And they tell us they are the party of compassion and tolerance.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: We\u2019ve seen this before. We\u2019ve seen it, Bork, Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We see it every day.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And every election year.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We see it every day.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And now every day.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I want to ask you about that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve taken your hits — you\u2019ve taken your hit…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anybody that they determine is an effective messenger of anything they disagree, they\u2019re going to target…<\/p>\n
HANNITY: We can do 10 hours, except you have to start getting paid. Rush is going to hate a question I\u2019m going to ask him in a few minutes. He\u2019s going to hate me and never let me back in the studios. But we\u2019ll get to that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ooo-hoo-hoo!<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Much more with Rush right after this.<\/p>\n
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HANNITY: Hi, welcome back to Hannity, we are coming to you live from EIB Southern Command, that means Rush Limbaugh is our guest for the full hour. I never thought in my lifetime… My mother was a prison guard. My dad was a family court probation officer. Irish family, Rush, we had a lot of NYPD cops, two guys were deity: FBI and my family.<\/p>\n
I never thought FBI, top officials, the people we give the powerful tools of intelligence to would turn not only on the American people, lies would be told, visa court frauds would be taken, and exonerate somebody that we know was guilty. But then use those tools — and her bought-and-paid for Russian information — to destroy the president that should have lost — according to Peter Strzok, 100 million to zero.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Did you ever think you\u2019d see that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, honestly, no. I have the same attitude about law enforcement in general. And I\u2019ve gotten to know some top-tier FBI people over the course of my life who themselves are now appalled by this. The scope of this… You described this perfectly, the scope of this… When you stop and think of what happens here, that the top tier of the Obama Department of Justice — do not leave him out of this — and everybody there, all these people Strzok and Lisa Page and McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Comey.<\/p>\n
This was a concerted effort to deny Donald Trump a presidency. They had to get Hillary exonerated first, that\u2019s why they looked the other way on the email scandal and the — and the server. They had to get her elected, that would save their jobs, save their careers, and we wouldn\u2019t know any of this that we know had she been elected. They got scared when they saw that Trump was not going to be defeated in a landslide.<\/p>\n
And the very process of using government — the intelligence agencies — this is nothing. For people to have seen this, how anybody can vote for Democrats after seeing what has happened here. The one person that really meddled with the Russians, the one person that really colluded, the one person that really rigged an election? None other than Madam Hillary.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: What an irony.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I mean it\u2019s stunning here and Trump hasn\u2019t done zilch — and Mueller has been looking. He got no limits on money or scope. He\u2019s been looking for two years. Zero.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Doesn\u2019t exist, but it did exist. Imagine this. She… First, there was no bigger obstruction case. If Rush Limbaugh had subpoenaed your computers and your emails and you deleted them — you acid wash your hard drive with BleachBit, you have somebody that works here for you busting up your devices with hammers — I promise you, you would have gone to jail.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, easily.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Easily.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Easily.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Slam-dunk case of obstruction. Exoneration written in May —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Could go to jail for far less than that, dealing with the FBI.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But they had to exonerate her, Sean. I mean, she was the Democrat nominee. She was the one guaranteeing their positions and their careers by virtue of her winning. They had to exonerate her. They could not… On July 5th with Comey or in late October, they could not convict her or even charge her with anything. They didn\u2019t want to affect the outcome of an election, don\u2019t you know? Well they\u2019re in the midst of literally doing that very thing.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s stunning, Hillary Clinton cheats, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie, Michael Steele, Christopher Steele, the whole thing is designed opposition research. They create these documents and it\u2019s turned over as legitimate intelligence to the FISA Court. They may have been on it too! I haven\u2019t seen a lot of anger coming out of them.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Crazy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And it\u2019s used to destroy Donald Trump and his campaign, then his transition, then his presidency, much like they tried to destroy Kavanaugh. And it\u2019s… It cannot — it cannot triumph. It simply cannot be allowed to triumph.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: If it\u2019s allowed, we have a dual justice system.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We already do. This is what —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: We already do?<\/p>\n
RUSH: We have a two-tier justice system.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Just like we have a one-tier tax system where, you know, the top 20% pretty much pay the whole bill. Let me ask you about this Khashoggi. You saw Tom Friedman today.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes. Well, he made a… Friedman made a good point about this .<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019ve got to acknowledge good points when they\u2019re made. I think this is a precarious time for the Trump administration because the left is trying to use this Khashoggi death — tie it to Trump. They\u2019re trying to give Trump the blame for everything.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: If he cured cancer, Rush, they would still be mad at him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: For destroying the livelihood of how many people in the medical field.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: They\u2019d find a reason.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The thing about Mohammed bin Salman, the thing that he was doing that had everybody really excited — the important thing he was doing — was supposedly reforming militant Islam. He was getting rid of the Wahhabi influence, which is where terrorist Islam comes from. The Saudi royal family is Islam; they\u2019re in charge of Mecca and Medina. They determine what Islam is going to be.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s going to be terrorist Islam, Wahhabi Islam, the royal family makes it happen. Well, bin Salman\u2019s tired of being dependent on petrodollars. He wants all this investment from Hollywood and tech. He wants to build a new city. And, in the process, he\u2019s got to reform, make it look like, let women drive. He\u2019s going to get rid of violent militant Islam. He de-emphasized Wahhabi — and that\u2019s all good. That\u2019s probably one of the most important things the Saudi royal family can do for the world is to de-emphasize the militant aspects of Islam. Then this Khashoggi thing comes along and it looks like there isn\u2019t any real reform. You criticize the state and they kill you, and so forth. I hope Trump and his team did the right thing on this because they\u2019re laying in wait. If he goes —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: It\u2019s a trap.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If he goes too far in what they think is exonerating Saudis for oil deals, or business deals or arms deals that are important to America —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Can I? I didn\u2019t the Clintons take $25 million from the Saudis for their foundation?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, absolutely. It\u2019s a dual… It\u2019s a two-way street.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Where was the Benghazi outrage?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Except for conservatives.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I asked that the other day.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Yes.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Where\u2019s all the concern for four dead Americans in Benghazi? But I just want to tell you one thing here, folks. They\u2019re trying to tell you that there is recorded evidence of the murder, and the dismemberment and the dispatchment of the body because it was recorded on his Apple Watch, Khashoggi\u2019s Apple Watch. I\u2019m here to tell you that is not technologically possible. There are three ways a watch can transmit data, LTE — which is cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Apple has not activated LTE in Turkey. That\u2019s the longest range. The only way this guy had to transmit data from his watch to his phone would be Bluetooth. His car, his wife\u2019s out in it — the fiancee. Really, I don\u2019t think, is possible for there to be a recording of what happened.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: We\u2019ve got to take a break. The question you\u2019re going to hate, No. 1, and your —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve never hated a question. I\u2019ve resented some —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: All right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — because it was stupid. But I\u2019ve —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Great. He\u2019s already accused my question of being stupid.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) No, Drive-Bys have asked stupid questions.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: It might be.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Not informed, stupid.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: It might be, but I think an important one, and your prediction for 19 days.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, Okay.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: More with Rush Limbaugh as we continue. His Southern Command EIB headquarters, Rush for the full hour.<\/p>\n
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HANNITY: All right, as we continue with Rush Limbaugh. So the first question you\u2019re going to hate. I was here last time…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I try never to bug you, \u2019cause you don\u2019t like TV. You love this. It is a golden mic. We\u2019ll get a shot of it behind you. Your radio audience is bigger, more massive today than it\u2019s ever been because of all the options and ways people can look and–<\/p>\n
RUSH: It is amazing, and it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: It\u2019s crazy, right?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: So my question is… I said, “Rush, do an hour a month on TV. Just you in the studio. Do an hour every other week. Do one every quarter.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Laughing)<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I\u2019m a — I\u2019m a — you think I\u2019m a pain in the ass, you can say it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no, no. I\u2019m — I\u2019m flattered. I\u2019m — I\u2019m flattered. I just… (sigh) I\u2019ve been there, I\u2019ve done that.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: One hour a month.<\/p>\n
RUSH: One hour — but look at — there\u2019s already a controversy. Something I said earlier has already been wiped.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (laughing) Wiped clean.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You will never know, folks, because it\u2019s not deemed appropriate. It was not profanity, it was not offensive, but it has been wiped.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I\u2019ll never hear the end of this now, ever. (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, that\u2019s good. People will want to know.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: (inaudible) They\u2019re going to want to know.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Outtakes will show up somewhere.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: No they won\u2019t. No they won\u2019t. I — I can control…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Somebody is watching, Sean.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: I got it. It\u2019s happen… Here\u2019s my next thing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Look, I look at 19 days, I\u2019m thinking in my gut, heart, mind, soul, I want to win. I\u2019m not sick of winning. And I hope, I think we\u2019re going to pick up some big seats in the Senate, hoping on the House, two — four question, predictions, what do you say to people that so respect what you have to say about this election in 19 days?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I still say that I think there are things that have yet to happen that are going to determine outcomes in some races that we don\u2019t know. So it\u2019s still very hard to predict. Kavanaugh feedback, reaction, was 100% positive for Republicans. The Democrats really blew that. But there\u2019s still 435 of these things and I don\u2019t know. I just rely on hope — which is, again, naive. I don\u2019t have survey data; I don\u2019t trust it. It hasn\u2019t been right consistently enough for me. The people doing these surveys desperately want Trump gone. I don\u2019t know how they can take that out of their work. I don\u2019t believe in pure objectivity, so I distrust.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: If I put you on the spot, prediction?<\/p>\n
RUSH: We hold the House and we increase the Senate, because I think that\u2019s justice. I think that\u2019s just. I think the Democrat Party deserves to lose in the single biggest landslide defeat in my lifetime —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And you…?<\/p>\n
RUSH: — because of the actions they\u2019ve taken just in the last month.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: And you\u2019ll think about maybe in our corner?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve never stopped thinking about it. I\u2019ll think about it.<\/p>\n
HANNITY: You\u2019ll think about it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We could do it right here? We could do it —<\/p>\n
HANNITY: Right here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We can do it right here. All right.<\/p>\n
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