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<\/p>\nRUSH: A new book has been leaked, book coming later this month by a guy named Tim Alberta, who I guess he\u2019s a Politico writer. And it\u2019s a book about the campaign of 2016, one of the excerpted chapters is how Trump survived the Access Hollywood video.<\/p>\n
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A lot of people talked to Tim Alberta, and one of them was Paul Ryan, and Paul Ryan is admitting — correct me if I\u2019m wrong, Mr. Snerdley — Ryan is admitting he resigned from Congress \u2019cause he couldn\u2019t work with Trump anymore. That\u2019s what it sounds like to me.<\/p>\n
He couldn\u2019t put up with Trump anymore, couldn\u2019t stomach it. He tried to teach Trump how government works, but Trump wouldn\u2019t listen, Trump didn\u2019t know jack, Trump wasn\u2019t able to do anything. Ryan just couldn\u2019t put up with it anymore.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I referenced this earlier. There is a book coming out in the middle of the month, it may be soon, by Tim Alberta of Politico. And it\u2019s a book about the 2016 Trump campaign. And one of the stories is an excerpt chapter of the day the NBC Access Hollywood video was released. And it is a good read.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s true — and I think a lot of it probably is \u2013 it\u2019s a minute-by-minute recitation of what happened in the Trump campaign at 4 p.m. It was two days before the last debate between Trump and Hillary. The Washington Post, 4 o\u2019clock on their website, published the Access Hollywood video. And there was a gigantic meeting of the Trump campaign committee at Trump Tower when this thing was released.<\/p>\n
And the chapter in the book details exactly what happened when everybody became aware. The book says that not a single person in the Trump campaign thought he could survive it. Reince Priebus thought, That\u2019s it. This is over. There\u2019s no coming back from this. That seemed to be a universal opinion.<\/p>\n
Trump was saying, “I don\u2019t remember saying this.” Then the video came, “Yeah, that\u2019s me, I have to admit, I don\u2019t know.” The only person who thought, according to this book, that it wasn\u2019t that bad and could be survivable was Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n
Now, I remember — this is not in the book — but I remember when this happened I was infuriated. It was the October Surprise of all October Surprises. And I was just mad as I could be, not at Trump. I was mad that this stuff works.<\/p>\n
And I was hoping that we had maybe gotten to a point where the sophistication of the American voter was such that they would know that this was nothing more than a gigantic attempt to manipulate them into not voting the way they wanted to vote, to manipulate Trump voters into not voting for Trump. It\u2019s exactly what this was.<\/p>\n
So for the first time in the campaign, I fired off an email, and I sent it to Hope Hicks. And she was in this meeting. And in the email I basically said to her what I just said to you. I said, “Whatever you do, don\u2019t cave to this. People are fed up with it. This kind of stuff is not gonna work. It\u2019s not gonna work against Trump. Please don\u2019t cave to it.”<\/p>\n
And then I got a “thank you” response from Kellyanne Conway. And what happened was Trump, according to the book, told everybody that it\u2019s full speed ahead, business as usual. \u201cI\u2019m not reacting to this. I\u2019m not getting out of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the calls were all — if you remember, Republicans that hated Trump, who had gotten on board by that time, he was the nominee, they had no choice, but they hated him, and they were all over TV gleefully saying, “It\u2019s time to stand aside. It\u2019s time to let somebody run and lose.”<\/p>\n
Nobody at the time thought Trump was gonna win anyway, and when the Access Hollywood video came, they thought it was the nail in the coffin, and so they wanted Trump to get out of there and they could put somebody up that might have a chance of winning but if somebody lost it could be explainable and it wouldn\u2019t ruin that person\u2019s career \u2018cause it would be a no-win situation.<\/p>\n
And they were thinking about maybe putting Pence in there since, you know, we\u2019re not gonna win anyway. Let\u2019s have somebody who losing doesn\u2019t hurt us. And Trump refused to play along with any of it. And, if you remember that debate, Trump came out firing both barrels at Hillary on all the illegal stuff she had done, and it was at that debate where Trump told her — she made some snarky comment about how when she\u2019s president, she couldn\u2019t wait to be in charge of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
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His response was, I can\u2019t, either, \u2019cause the first thing I\u2019m gonna do is put you in jail. Do you remember that? Trump thinks that debate is where he won the presidency and overcame this Access Hollywood thing. And that incident I guarantee you will be in political science textbooks from now \u2019til the end of time. Because that was the October Surprise of all October Surprises. They laid in wait for it. It was meant to take Trump out.<\/p>\n
They waited until it would destroy the whole party, not just Trump. They waited until he was the nominee, they waited \u2019til it was three weeks before the election. And I remember how livid I was at this whole scam. And I had people saying to me at the time, \u201cWere you not upset about what Trump had said?\u201d It was Donald Trump years ago bragging to Billy Bush on an Access Hollywood videotape. This is the exact kind of thing they use to deny us, and I\u2019m tired of them trying to manipulate our voters. That was my whole point.<\/p>\n
Well, there\u2019s another aspect in this book I want to share with you, another chapter in this book about Paul Ryan. Let me give you the name of the book here. I didn\u2019t mention that. Oh, I don\u2019t have the name of the book in front of me. Unless it\u2019s in this story. But I\u2019ll get it for you. Tim Alberta is the author.<\/p>\n