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<\/p>\nRUSH: I\u2019m gonna take a stab at explaining what happened at the summit with Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. Greetings. ‘Cause, folks, frankly, I\u2019m fed up. I don\u2019t care what CNN thinks about the Cohen hearings and I don\u2019t care what the AP is writing about it. It\u2019s predictably negative, it\u2019s predictably chock-full of BS, and I\u2019m just in one of these moods today where I don\u2019t feel like documenting, as we do every day, the media bias and malpractice that we know Trump is up against and that all of us are up against.<\/p>\n
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This was a shock today. This was a surprise today when Trump backed away from the deal because you remember, you remember, I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. A few days ago we were told, a Princeton history professor and a whole bunch of other people that the Drive-Bys found, told us that this was a bad thing for Trump to be doing while these Cohen hearings are going on because what could happen is that Trump could sign a bad agreement with North Korea just to distract everybody from Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n
You know, like Obama did, by giving them nuclear weapons and $150 billion of cash on a pallet, on the tarmac at Tehran International. Of course, they never portray what Obama did with Iran as an absolute disaster. They consider it brilliance. So they were expecting that Trump would have to sign anything in order to claim that he got a deal with the Norks and that that would be the only way that Trump could do damage control against all of the things that Cohen said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Well, as is the usual case, the exact opposite happened. Trump did not sign a deal. He walked away from one. And now the Drive-By Media — so predictable — they\u2019ve been telling us for the last week, because of all of Trump\u2019s troubles at home and Cohen, that Trump would be eager for a win and would give away the United States at that summit, literally give away the store. And now that Trump has walked away from the deal, the same Drive-By Media is telling us he did that because of the Cohen hearings. Do I have this right?<\/p>\n
See, this is the way they set this up. It is impossible in the way they establish narratives for them to ever be wrong. The original prediction, “Trump\u2019s gonna be so shaken by what Cohen says, he\u2019s gonna make any kind of a deal he can that will sell the U.S. down the river.\u201d Then Trump walks away. \u201cYeah. Because Trump was so blown away by what Cohen said, he had to get out of there. He had to come home. He had to deal with it because of all the damage that Cohen is inflicting.”<\/p>\n
Cohen is not inflicting any real damage in any meaningful way. In fact, Cohen ended up blowing up for once and all the Russian collusion narrative! We\u2019ll get into that again and review it, and I will explain my reasoning, because I think that is obvious what happened.<\/p>\n
Now, something else that\u2019s frustrating. You and I know that there hasn\u2019t been anything to this Russian collusion from the get-go. And we have known the Steele dossier is fake and filled with lies. Remember when BuzzFeed had a story in January when Cohen was instructed by Trump to lie to Congress? That was so bad, remember, Mueller even come out and said that wasn\u2019t true. And the Drive-Bys still didn\u2019t change the reporting.<\/p>\n
The Drive-Bys still continue to report what BuzzFeed said and ignored Mueller denying it. And they concocted all kinds of reasons. \u201cWell, Mueller doesn\u2019t want the truth out there right now, but the fact we know Trump tells people to lie because Trump lies.\u201d So it came up again yesterday and Cohen admitted under exhaustive questioning that Trump never told him to lie to Congress. And then he had a caveat, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work that way. He doesn\u2019t directly tell anybody to lie.\u201d Blown to smithereens. And the Drive-Bys finally had to begrudgingly admit, “Well, maybe that didn\u2019t happen.”<\/p>\n
Anyway, none of this has happened, but they\u2019re holding on to it and they won\u2019t let go of it. And no matter what the Mueller report says, they\u2019re not gonna let go of it. They\u2019re just gonna start looking for it in other places. It\u2019s too grand a narrative, too great a narrative. And on that score there is a Never Trumper columnist for the Wall Street Journal, a guy named Holman Jenkins, who has a piece today, the headline is: \u201cThe Media Will Re-Elect Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t like Trump. He hates Trump. He\u2019s a Never Trumper. \u201cThe Media Will Re-Elect Trump.\u201d I swear I read this twice, and I can\u2019t find anywhere in the story where whoever wrote the headline found that in that. The headline is not — this is one of these days where everybody talking to me and everything I read doesn\u2019t make sense. Have you ever had those days? And I\u2019m blaming it, of course, on the journalists for being lousy with what they did. But in the Holman Jenkins story there\u2019s a wild claim in it that at some point in the next year and a half the Drive-By Media is going to have to report on the illegal activities of the FBI and the DOJ in constructing this false collusion narrative.<\/p>\n
He says there\u2019s no choice. They\u2019re gonna have to report this at some point. Based on what? He doesn\u2019t say why. And then he has a caveat (paraphrasing), “And even if they don\u2019t, the alternative media, which nobody respects much, will continue to report it anyway.” Really, I don\u2019t understand the purpose of the piece, other than the guy is afraid the media alone is gonna reelect Trump because of their irresponsibility and their focus here on things that have been demonstrably proven to be untrue and didn\u2019t even happen.<\/p>\n
So we were told — this Princeton professor, by the way, Trump would sign a bad deal with North Korea just to distract from the Cohen circus. And now that Trump has walked away from a bad deal, Trump is blasted for even making the effort. Now, Trump is a lousy negotiator. Now Kim Jong-un ran circles around Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
And this is because the Drive-By Media is a bunch of manure. You can\u2019t trust a single thing they report when it comes to Donald Trump. And they haven\u2019t the slightest idea what was going on in Hanoi. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what this was about. They don\u2019t have a clue because they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n
The only thing they care about is driving Donald Trump from office because they think he doesn\u2019t belong in their company and that his election was a gigantic accident that needs to be fixed. So they haven\u2019t slightest idea. They get it in their heads that Trump is a boob and an idiot and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. Everybody\u2019s always smarter, everybody\u2019s always craftier, everybody always has a greater strategy.<\/p>\n
And they come up with these really simpleton news stories. And then they all follow suit. It doesn\u2019t matter what network you read or watch, it\u2019s all the same take. “Trump is gonna give away the United States because of the Cohen hearings.” Then Trump backs away, doesn\u2019t sign a deal, comes home, cancels the lunch, signing ceremony. “Trump came back because he\u2019s so rattled over the Cohen hearings.” Let me try to explain to you what I think happened. It\u2019s not that hard to find out some really relevant things about this.<\/p>\n
Now, to start with, whenever we engage in any kind of negotiations with North Korea, there\u2019s always a third hand at the table. It\u2019s always invisible. And that\u2019s the ChiComs. In this case, Xi Jinping, the head honcho, the president for life in China is always the invisible hand. And North Korea doesn\u2019t exist and doesn\u2019t stay in existence without the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
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Some setup for you. China is North Korea\u2019s largest provider of food, fuel, and industrial machinery. Not us. China support for the Norks goes back to the Korean War. That\u2019s back before many of you were even thoughts in your mother\u2019s and father\u2019s dreams. North Korea\u2019s largest trading partner is the ChiComs. Roughly 90% of North Korean trade is done with the ChiComs. Kim Jong-un has visited the ChiComs four times, most recently in January. And when Kim Jong-un visits the ChiComs, it\u2019s because he has been summoned. It is not because he needs to restock Johnnie Walker Blue, although he may do that.<\/p>\n
Kim Jong-un drives a $1.6 million Maybach Mercedes. That\u2019s his official limo. His people are eating roof tiles and other scraps from the ground. So there\u2019s also another key element to this. We\u2019re in the midst of trade negotiations with who? The ChiComs. And the United States, Donald Trump is trying to drastically alter the trade arrangements, the trade relationship, the deals that we have with China on the basis that we\u2019re getting screwed, on the basis that previous American leaders have made bad deals for the United States because it\u2019s just easier and there\u2019s more political upside to come way and say you got a deal. “I just negotiated a successful trade deal with China.” Everybody says, “Way to go!\u201d But Trump maintains they\u2019re horrible, and we\u2019re in the process of reversing these deals.<\/p>\n
Then you throw into this mix sanctions. We have sanctions on the Norks. It was one of the reasons why the Chinese are the only people that they really can trade with is because there are sanctions on North Korea. You know, Iran sends \u2019em some stuff and some other enemies of the U.S., but it\u2019s really, really been cut back. China is, as I say, 90%. And Kim Jong-un has got nothing if the ChiComs are not there. So that is where he\u2019s gonna be loyal.<\/p>\n
We have tariffs that have been implemented on the ChiComs. And this is to change the balance of trade. Right now the ChiComs do not import very much U.S. product. This is under review and is being changed. The president is placing tariffs on the import of Chinese products, certain Chinese manufactured goods, until they agree to import more American manufactured goods, as well as agriculture. And in fact last week a side deal, a new side deal for the benefit of American farmers was reached on soybeans where the ChiComs agreed to purchase an unprecedented quantity of soybeans unlike they had ever purchased before. It was a show of good faith.<\/p>\n
Now, in the midst of all of this, you got Trump in Hanoi meeting with the little pot belly dictator arriving in his Maybach Mercedes who is totally, totally in the tank for Xi Jinping and the ChiComs. There was scheduled to be a tariff increase tomorrow, March 1st, on the ChiComs as part of the ongoing negotiations and the placement of tariffs tomorrow there was supposed to be the implementation of new tariffs, higher tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the United States.<\/p>\n
Prior to leaving for Hanoi, the Trump administration suspended the implementation of the tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect tomorrow. This was, I\u2019m certain, a show of good faith and a recognition that the deal that was underway here was important and to show that we\u2019re gonna suspend, not remove, but we\u2019re gonna suspend the implementation of new tariffs on the ChiComs as a show of good faith in the negotiations with Kim Jong-un and the Norks.<\/p>\n
This I think is where the problem lies. I think Xi Jinping saw this. Trump\u2019s suspending tariffs? There\u2019s no reason to talk. It was a show of good faith that backfired. I\u2019m guessing. I\u2019m looking at all this and I\u2019m trying to figure out what happened. And so Trump cannot leave Hanoi and get back to Washington and say, “Okay. You know what? I\u2019m gonna reimplement those March 1 tariffs.” I don\u2019t think that\u2019s how you deal with this. Let some time pass and you deal with it in other ways. It would just be too obvious that this kind of thing is \u2013 it just wouldn\u2019t be good.<\/p>\n
I think down the road you\u2019re gonna see the United States get tougher with the Norks. We\u2019re gonna continue on the trade talks with the ChiComs and maintain our status, and we are gonna eventually reinstitute the tariff increase. We\u2019re also gonna get tougher on the Norks. I really think that suspending the tariff — it\u2019s not the whole reason, but the way these guys look, “Oh, Trump making concession before he even arrives. We win. We win.” Before even getting an agreement out of Kim Jong-un. So a show of good faith, just like there\u2019s no such thing as a show of good faith with the Democrats or with the American left.<\/p>\n
Look. I\u2019m just piecing things together here based on whatever I\u2019ve been able to find. This could be all wet. But it\u2019s far more fascinating to me than what the AP or CNN thinks of Michael Cohen, that circus yesterday.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So the bottom line is that Donald Trump was not going to alter our trade status and negotiation position with the ChiComs just to get a deal with the Norks, because Trump knows the Norks serve at the pleasure of the ChiComs. You know, the ChiComs are just incredibly wealthy. The Norks are barely, barely surviving. The Norks cannot survive on their own, and I think this was an attempt, again, to say, “As a show of good faith. We\u2019ll suspend the implementation of the new round of tariffs tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
And Xi Jinping says, “Okay. Fine. Well, if you\u2019ll willing to go that far, then we\u2019re also demanding X, Y, and Z.” And Trump\u2019s saying, “No way.” And I guarantee you that these talks that broke down were not about denuclearization of North Korea. I mean, they might have talked about it, but what was actually happening on the table was that Trump was being faced with demands to end all of this talk about tariffs and revised trade deals with the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
I think that is what I think Trump walked away from.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think Trump is gonna alter his position with the ChiComs no matter what the North Koreans might offer and do, and I think that\u2019s why this thing ended and blew up.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, let\u2019s throw one other thing in this mix to try and understand what\u2019s going on. I know that the objective that the president has is to get the North Koreans to denuclearize and to promise to do so. But I think there\u2019s something else that is an objective. Let\u2019s go through these stats here again. China is North Korea\u2019s largest provider of food, fuel, industrial machinery. China\u2019s support for North Korea dates back to the Korean War.<\/p>\n
North Korea\u2019s largest trading partner is the ChiComs. Ninety percent of the Norks\u2019 trade is done with China, and China is who is in the greatest violation of sanctions on the Norks right now. The sanctions that we have placed on the North Koreans until they denuke are huge; China is violating them. That\u2019s why the Norks are still eating. Kim Jong-un\u2019s been to China four times, most recently in January 2019. Now, granted I think Trump wants to get them to denuke, but how?<\/p>\n
I mean, you\u2019re not gonna walk over there ever… You\u2019re not gonna be able to use morality, and you\u2019re not gonna be able to use fear. “Hey, Kim Jong-un, you having North Korea nuclear weapons a bad idea. You need to get rid of \u2019em.” “Yeah, why?” “Because you need to get rid of them!” That isn\u2019t gonna work. How do you do it? What did Trump do in that first summit? Does anybody remember? He prepared a video of what an economically developed North Korea could look like. Hotels and casinos — basically a coastline of Trump real estate development.<\/p>\n
Beaches, modern hotels, condominiums and so forth. He showed Kim Jong-un what\u2019s possible in capitalism and free markets and said, “This can be yours if you become our number one trading partner.” I actually think that Trump\u2019s primary objective is to bust up the relationship between the Norks and the ChiComs. Now, that would be a major deal to pull off. (chuckles) But I think that\u2019s one of the things that Trump has as an objective. Why show these guys…? The ChiComs are never gonna let the Norks do things like that.<\/p>\n
The ChiComs… It may be unrealistic to think that the Norks could ever be separated from the ChiComs as well, but I think this is the pitch, because everybody knows that Kim Jong-un basically likes to live like a Las Vegas mogul. And if his country could provide that for him where he doesn\u2019t have to run around the world and buy it, steal it, or what have you… I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this is one of the pitches. Now, the ChiComs are not just gonna sit idly by and let this happen.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re not gonna sit idly by and let Trump drive a wedge between the North Koreans and the Chinese. So Trump cancels the implementation of the next round of tariffs scheduled to hit tomorrow, and this causes, I think, Xi Jinping to tell Kim Jong-un, “Okay. You\u2019re not making any deals. I don\u2019t care what\u2019s on the table. We\u2019ve got your back in this,” because I think Xi Jinping knows exactly what Trump\u2019s objectives here are, and they\u2019re not just denuking North Korea.<\/p>\n
Now, some of our allies in the region like Japan and South Korea might look at this and say, “Wait a minute! That\u2019s never gonna happen. What are you…? You\u2019re never gonna pry North Korea away from the Chinese.” Well, probably not, but what do you get along the way? Remember, in any negotiation you start out with things you never expect to get and you include a bunch of throwaways so that you can appear to be giving things up and compromising and so forth, and I don\u2019t think anybody — Trump, anybody.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think anybody thought this session was gonna result in anything substantive. Whatever was signed, it wasn\u2019t going to be the end. So it\u2019s just the next phase, and this is why Trump came home, because it had been shut down, and there\u2019s no way of signing anything that\u2019s fatuous and irrelevant. That\u2019s not gonna move things forward. So just come home and let them stew over what might have been.<\/p>\n
And then later on, a month or two now, you start tightening the screws on the sanctions with North Korea even more in your trade negotiations with the ChiComs. So we\u2019ll see. But this was never gonna happen overnight, never gonna happen in two summits. It was never gonna happen this week, whether there were Cohen hearings or not. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Here is the president very early this morning in Hanoi, a press conference explaining what happened, a little bit of what he said here…<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: He\u2019s quite a guy and quite a character, and I think our relationship is very strong. But at this time… We had some options, and at this time we decided not to do any of the options. And we\u2019ll see where that goes. But it was… It was a very interesting two days, and I think, actually, it was a very productive two days. But sometimes you have to walk. And this was just one of those times.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, the Drive-Bys are out saying that Kim Jong-un ate Trump\u2019s lunch. Trust me, this did not happen. Kim Jong-un did not get a single thing he wanted here. What Kim Jong-un wants is the lifting of sanctions. He wants to be able to get stuff from places other than China. I mean, they may be close allies, but I guarantee you, Kim Jong-un doesn\u2019t like having to depend on \u2019em. He doesn\u2019t like to take orders from the president for life in China, Xi Jinping. So he didn\u2019t get anything he wanted here because he wanted the sanctions lifted. Major Garrett said, “Has this process been more difficult than you thought, and was the North Korean demand for lifting some of the sanctions the real sticking point here, in that you didn\u2019t want to do that and they did?”<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn\u2019t do that. They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn\u2019t give up all of the sanctions for that. So we continue to work, and we\u2019ll see. But we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. We had to walk away from that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So Kim Jong-un didn\u2019t get what he wanted. Donald Trump doesn\u2019t leave there, the United States doesn\u2019t leave there a failure. We\u2019ve never been down the road this far with these people. But I\u2019m telling you, you cannot… Even though he wasn\u2019t there and even though he wasn\u2019t even talked about, you cannot discount the presence and the desire of the ChiCom leader and the fact that we are currently involved in trade renegotiations. Trump was on with Hannity last night, and this is what Trump said then about why he walked away from the summit with the little pot-bellied dictator who likes Johnnie Walker Blue…<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: We\u2019re working towards something, but we didn\u2019t sign anything today. It didn\u2019t quite work out. I would say that I wasn\u2019t satisfied and perhaps he wasn\u2019t satisfied. Good relationship, but I decided that this wasn\u2019t the right time to sign something. So we\u2019ll see what happens over a period of time. And the sanctions are there, and I didn\u2019t want to give up the sanctions unless we had a real program. And they\u2019re not ready for that, and I understand that fully. I really do. I mean, they spent a lot of time building it. That doesn\u2019t mean the world has to be happy. But I wanted them to denuke.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right. So now, I\u2019m telling you, the way to figure out where this is going next is to keep an eye on our relationship with the ChiComs. Let\u2019s just monitor the ongoing trade talks. Let\u2019s see if perhaps we implement some new sanctions on the ChiComs and the Norks. Let\u2019s say we implement a revised set of sanctions on the Norks that affect what the ChiComs are providing and see what happens there. If we get these people in violation, of course, it strengthens your position. Kim Jong-un did something he\u2019s never done before. He answered questions in an open forum from a media other than the North Korean state media. We only have a little five-second blip of this.<\/p>\n
A reporter said, “Chairman Kim! Chairman Kim! Are you ready to denuclearize?”<\/p>\n
KIM: (via translator): If I\u2019m not willing to do that, I won\u2019t be here right now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “If I\u2019m not willing to do that, I won\u2019t be here right now.” That was the translation. “If I\u2019m not willing to do that, I won\u2019t be here right now.” One more before we go to break — and this is classic. This is how the Drive-Bys haven\u2019t the slightest idea. There\u2019s nobody in the Drive-Bys who took even 30 minutes to look into this like I did, and I know that based on this question. Gayle King, CBS This Morning, was talking to General Vincent Brooks (Army retired), former commander, U.S. Forces Korea, about Trump\u2019s summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n
KING: Was it a diplomatic failure, and who was a winner and a loser here?<\/p>\n
BROOKS: Well, I actually wouldn\u2019t call it a diplomatic failure. It\u2019s another step in diplomacy. The United States did not get the disclosure it wanted. I still don\u2019t call that a failure, though. I think this is a clear indication of where we are and how many more steps there have to be. Remember, this is a country that doesn\u2019t know anything about trust.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. This is exactly right. This is just the next stage, the next step in this ongoing effort. Gayle King said, “Hey…” A light must have gone on in her head, because she said, “Is it a big setback for Kim Jong-un, though?”<\/p>\n
KING: Is it a big setback for Kim, though?<\/p>\n
BROOKS: It\u2019s a big setback for Kim on the international stage. He has lost face. Often, you\u2019re closer when you feel like you\u2019re further apart. It sounds illogical, but it\u2019s absolutely true. So Kim Jong-un now has a better understanding of what he didn\u2019t get and what he really wants, which is economic development. It\u2019s not that he wants his nuclear weapons. He wants economic development. And he now sees that he has to take a different way to get there. He gambled and missed.<\/p>\n
KING: (laughs) You\u2019re very optimistic on things.<\/p>\n
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BROOKS: Well, I am.<\/p>\n
KING: I like it!<\/p>\n
BROOKS: I can\u2019t be completely disappointed by this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I will guarantee you that video that Trump showed this little guy at the first summit had an impact. “This could be yours, Little Man. This could be your country.” There\u2019s no question he wants economic development, and I think there\u2019s no question that he doesn\u2019t like having to rely on the ChiComs for all of it. (interruption) “Well, then how was this a setback for Kim?”<\/p>\n
Because he didn\u2019t get anything!<\/p>\n
Unless he wants to say, “Well, you know what? The American media, they humiliated President Trump. That\u2019s a win for me.” That\u2019s typically the way the left looks at things. People they hate get a tax increase, and they (clapping) celebrate that, even though it doesn\u2019t change their lives at all. So if the media is really ragging on Trump for failing here, that\u2019s not gonna make Kim Jong-un happy. He doesn\u2019t live in that world. It\u2019s not gonna do a damn thing for him, the media hating on Trump. He didn\u2019t get anything he wanted. He didn\u2019t get a thing — and, in fact, his obstacle to getting what he wanted was not even Trump.<\/p>\n
It was the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Ileana in Wantagh, New York. It\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. I am calling to respectfully and with respect, so much respect, to disagree with you regarding your idea about the tariffs and how you think it kind of backfired on what transpired in Vietnam with the summit. I happen to think that President Trump will be able to meet, when he meets with President Xi in Mar-a-Lago, be able to use his act of good faith in not raising the tariffs March 1st. I think that he\u2019ll be able to use that act of good faith to put pressure on President Xi to go back and put pressure on Chairman Kim to make this thing happen. And it\u2019s not gonna happen overnight, obviously. But I think that President Trump will put pressure on President Xi and then back to Chairman Kim.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I need to — \u2019cause if I misspoke, I need to know. What do you think that I said that you are correcting here? Remember, I\u2019m ravaged with the common cold virus with some fever here today so you gotta cut me some slack. What did I say that I didn\u2019t get right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I believe that I heard you say something in regard to the fact that President Trump committing to not increasing the tariffs come March 1st was a way for President Xi to tell Chairman Kim, “Listen. Take it easy. Don\u2019t commit to anything.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think there\u2019s no question about that. But I didn\u2019t say — it\u2019s not the end of anything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But there\u2019s no question the ChiComs took advantage of that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. All right. That\u2019s interesting, your take it on it. I have a different take on it. But, okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think our takes are that much different. I\u2019m not saying this is fatal. I\u2019m just saying this is why this thing didn\u2019t finish yesterday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: All right. I\u2019m listening.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, that\u2019s it. We didn\u2019t get a deal yesterday because when Trump suspends the tariffs, temporary suspension that are supposed to happen tomorrow, the ChiComs decide to take advantage of that and try to portray it as a sign of weakness and tell Kim Jong-un not to sign anything, and so the whole reason for the summit bombs out. Trump was trying to show good faith. It doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t continue to use this. I didn\u2019t mean to say — if you interpreted that I said it\u2019s over forever and Trump blew it, in no way, shape, manner, or form did I say that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I do not think it was a fatal error. If I implied that or if you inferred that, then that\u2019s not my point. And, by the way, the North Koreans are doing something they very rarely do. They\u2019ve issued a statement claiming, hey, they offered all kinds of things that Trump turned down. They never do this. This is getting interesting to me now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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