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<\/p>\nRUSH: President Trump is amidst a tremendous amount of support and adulation and adoration at the NRA convention in Indianapolis. They love him there. I want you to stop and think about something. Think about the — what would it be? — gumption that it takes for a politician to go to the NRA convention these days and talk \u2019em up and to support them and to give \u2019em a bunch of rah-rahs and to stand up for what they believe. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of politicians who have the guts to do this today.<\/p>\n
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Now, Trump is a class by himself in terms of fearlessness. He would go anyway. But, I mean, just to illustrate that point. You know, the Drive-By Media, the left wing of the Democrat Party — the whole of the Democrat Party — there is this never-ending assault on the concept of gun ownership. There\u2019s a never-ending assault on the sanctity of Second Amendment, and there are constant pressure points. I mean, the media and the Democrats are constantly berating people over guns, over support for the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s almost getting to the point where somebody says, “We gotta pull down a statue of Kate Smith because she sang a song back in the thirties,” and nobody\u2019s got the guts to stand up to it. We don\u2019t even have anybody on TV that\u2019s unequivocal about things. Everybody that goes on TV and says, “Well, I can see that point of view but, on the other hand, you must consider the other side.” This is what\u2019s considered intellectual these days, is not having an opinion on something, being an equivocator, equivocating. “What do you think about the Mueller report?”<\/p>\n
“Well, on the one hand, I can see the importance. Yes, we needed to get to the bottom of the Russians colluding in our elections. On the other hand, I — I — I can see that people might think there was a little overkill.” That is what passes for intellectualism. That\u2019s what passes for having an open mind. “What do you think about guns?” “Well, I understand the need. People want to go hunting.” Wait a minute. The Second Amendment doesn\u2019t give anybody the right to go hunting. Find the word “hunting” in the Constitution. It\u2019s not in there.<\/p>\n
When did the Second Amendment start getting attached to hunting? Well, we all know the answer to that. “Well, I can see the importance of maintaining the right to bear arms to go hunting. We all have to eat. We have to have sports. But I don\u2019t really think we could suggest here that having the right to bear arms really means that anybody who wants a gun can have a gun.” So this equivocation… This is what people get on TV all the time, this is what people get from politicians all the time: Equivocation.<\/p>\n
Trump does not equivocate! He loves the Second Amendment. He supports the Second Amendment. He\u2019s telling the NRA that nobody is gonna get rid of the Second Amendment as long as he is around. He doesn\u2019t equivocate. Most people wouldn\u2019t have… Most politicians wouldn\u2019t have the gumption to go speak to the NRA — and positively. They couldn\u2019t take the media fallout, the media criticism in any way. But to actually go to Indianapolis, to stand up for one of the fundamental inalienable rights — the one right, in fact, that specifically states “shall not be infringed.”<\/p>\n
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(stammering) “Well, you know, I — I understand the founders, and, uh, things were different then. Um, uhhh, muskets, uh, had to reload after every shot. Uh, but the founders certainly didn\u2019t intend, uh, for people to have AK-47 and to be going out, uh, and — and — and — and shooting deer and hunting.” So this equivocation\u2019s what people get on TV. This is considered expert analysis and commentary, and Donald Trump doesn\u2019t equivocate — and this is another reason they hate him. This is why they think (impression), “He\u2019s bull in a china shop, \u2019cause he\u2019s not urbane, and he\u2019s not sensitive, and he doesn\u2019t consider both sides of the issue. He just plows straight ahead.”<\/p>\n
This is the way normal people used to be.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Donald Trump on a roll at the NRA convention. As I say, we\u2019re rolling on it, and we\u2019ll have audio sound bites in due course. He just went on a great riff about how the socialists and the far-left Democrats want to destroy everything we\u2019ve done after running through a sizable list of economic and political achievements that have taken place in just the first two-years.<\/p>\n
You know, he did something else. These are the little things that he does that nobody in the media even hears. They don\u2019t even notice. And neither do Democrats or Republicans, for that matter, particularly from the political consultancy class. Just like during the campaign at all the Trump rallies they never, ever saw those moments of Trump humility. They don\u2019t even think that Trump knows how to be humble. So they never see it, they miss it when it happens.<\/p>\n
But he just, in a passing reference to the 2016 campaign and his first night in the White House and Melania\u2019s birthday today and the upcoming 2020 campaign, he described his first night in the White House and how in awe he was walking through it where so many great people have lived and worked, so many great things have been accomplished.<\/p>\n