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RUSH: “In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising the Minimum Wage.”<\/a> And you have people go, “See? See? I told you. I told you he was lying to you. I told you he\u2019s a lib. I told you he\u2019s a Democrat. And this is just the beginning. You wait and see what else he changes his mind on.” The Hill: “In a reversal, Donald Trump expressed openness to raising the federal minimum wage during an interview” yesterday. “‘I\u2019m looking at that[.] I\u2019m very different from most Republicans,\u2019 [Trump] told CNN… I\u2019m very different from most Republicans. … You have to have something you can live on,” (impression) and you can\u2019t live on $15 an hour. You can\u2019t live on $12 an hour.<\/p>\n

“‘You have to have something you can live on. But what I ‘m really looking to do is get people great jobs so they make much more money than that,” meaning the minimum, “much more money than the $15.\u2019 The federal minimum wage is $7.25, but labor groups have been pushing for it to be raised to $15. During a November [primary] debate, Trump voiced opposition to raising the minimum wage. ‘I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is,\u2019 he said…” Why would he “hate to say it”? Well, \u2019cause he\u2019s in a Republican debate. He knows what he\u2019d better say as a Republican.<\/p>\n

But now? But then on the other hand is this. On the other side, there\u2019s a story in the New York Times today — which kind of surprising in itself — of what Trump\u2019s plans are for his first day, second day, first hundred days. And, as you go through it, I think there\u2019s a lot in it people are gonna like, if they believe it. It\u2019s always gonna come down to that. But you getting any second thoughts here, Mr. Snerdley, on this minimum wage being raised as? (interruption) You shook your head. (interruption) You shook your… (interruption) And let me guess why. (interruption)<\/p>\n

You shook your head, meaning, “Why would he say it? He\u2019s gonna raise…? Why would he come out and say it? Just shut up.” He\u2019s… Trump does not shut up. You better get used to it. He doesn\u2019t. If he changes his mind publicly, he\u2019s gonna change his mind publicly. You know what I ran across? I ran across a Donald Trump Playboy interview from 1990<\/a>. Because, you know, I have I have digital copies of the Playboy interviews for the articles. Anyway, it\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n

If you read this Playboy interview from 1990 that Trump did, it\u2019s really consistent with what he says today about issues. It\u2019s really, really consistent. The things he talked about then — trade deals, Japan and China kicking our butts, “We can\u2019t go on this way — there\u2019s nothing in that Playboy interview changed. I mean, everything that he\u2019s talked about is in there. The only thing they ask him is, “You sound like you\u2019re a guy who may be running for president.” He says, “No, no. I would never run for president. But if I did, I\u2019d run as a Democrat. I\u2019d probably have to run as a Democrat if I run for president.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he said to Playboy in 1990.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Trump, “in a reversal,” has expressed his openness to raising the minimum wage. Now, I checked the email during the break, and some people say, “I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re not mad at that! I can\u2019t believe,” two, three emails, “you just seem so cavalier about it.” Folks, let me tell you: The best way for me to describe for you my mindset here, is we\u2019re in uncharted territory. I don\u2019t have any expectations. The one thing I\u2019m not gonna do is start attaching what I think are demands, expectations… Well, I\u2019m gonna have expectations, but demands? I mean, I just… I am not under any illusion here that Trump is something that I don\u2019t think he is.<\/p>\n


\nI\u2019m holding out the possibility that he\u2019s gonna be more so than a lot of people think. But I don\u2019t know, folks. This is what I mean when I say, “I\u2019m the mayor of Realville,” and my favorite phrase is a cliche: “It is what it is.” And my objective is to make the most out of everything. I try, whatever\u2019s going on, to be optimistic about it. And people say, “Well, how can you stay so optimistic?” You know, people ask me that. We\u2019re in the midst of Obama doing what he\u2019s doing and then the possibility of Hillary nailing the final nails into the coffin.<\/p>\n

I remain optimistic that what we\u2019re doing down the road is finally going to arrest and stop all this. I\u2019m not… Because I don\u2019t blow up here and get mad does not mean that I am tolerating it, accepting it, or acquiescing to it. And I should also tell you, I\u2019m not surprised that Trump would say that. Look, let\u2019s remember some things that we\u2019ve already heard from Trump during the campaign. We heard him praise Planned Parenthood. We heard him rip George W. Bush on the war with Iraq. I mean, it\u2019s not hard to figure out where Trump falls on a lot of these things.<\/p>\n

And Ted Cruz said it. When Ted Cruz said “New York values,” this is what he was talking about. He was not talking… He was talking about liberalism and views that are consistent with the Democrat Party. But at the same time, I know that Trump is aware, too. He had the presence of mind in the debate last November. He said, “I wish I didn\u2019t have to say it, but, yeah. It\u2019s gotta stay where it is.” And it was a tantamount admission: “Hey, I\u2019m trying to win this as a Republican, and I know what I better not say at this point.” Now, I think one thing to always keep in mind…<\/p>\n

This is not a cop-out, although many of you aren\u2019t gonna believe that. But I think — I really do believe — that Trump\u2019s a New Yorker. He\u2019s grown up a New Yorker. That means something. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of people like you and me in New York. They\u2019re there, some, but a vast majority of people are not conservative, and certainly not conservative ideologues. At the same time, I do know that Trump… One thing I do know is that Trump wants a lot of votes beyond Republican votes. Put yourself in Trump\u2019s shoes for a minute here. He just won the Republican primary, and he did not have to act as though he was a big-time right-winger in order to do it.<\/p>\n

He won the Republican primary going away by saying things like he supports Planned Parenthood. It did not bother his supporters. I had some people call here yesterday that said, “You know, if he really wants to win, he\u2019s gonna have to have conservative people around him. He\u2019s gonna have to get some people.” I agree that he\u2019s gonna have to go through the process of doing that, but he\u2019s going to, I think, reach out. Just like his strategy was to win every state in the primary, it\u2019s gonna be the same thing with the presidential campaign. He\u2019s gonna try to get as many votes as he can.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t… This is not pandering. I mean, “In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising the Minimum Wage.” He said, “I\u2019m looking at that. I\u2019m very different from most Republicans.” That happens to be true, and that shouldn\u2019t be news to anybody. It\u2019s why so many Republicans are upset and angry and piqued. But I tell you, folks: He\u2019s another thing to help you understand. I don\u2019t want anybody thinking that I\u2019m ambivalent about any of this. I just don\u2019t see the value in blowing my stack here every day about this stuff. It isn\u2019t gonna change anything.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, my livelihood doesn\u2019t depend the Republican Party. I have always said from day one of this program: My Success is Not Determined by Who Wins Elections. I have steadfastly made sure that that was the case. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t do endorsements in primaries. It\u2019s why I don\u2019t tie myself to people that I don\u2019t know, who could change on a dime and leave me to explain to angry people who believed me when I endorse somebody and then they go do a 180 on something. I don\u2019t want to be in that position. I have always said I\u2019m gonna be here as long as I want to be.<\/p>\n


\nI don\u2019t want my fate tied to that of a political party. So I don\u2019t look at this stuff personally. When Trump comes out and changes his mind on the minimum wage, I\u2019m not somebody that\u2019s aggrieved and ticked off about it because it might harm me professionally. Whereas a lot of Republican establishment types, that\u2019s the only way they look at any of this, from the self-preservation standpoint. And with Trump, again, you never know in this case. Is he simply reaching out to Democrats already? He did that during the primaries. We know he wants Democrat votes. We know he wants independents votes.<\/p>\n

By the way, here\u2019s an unrelated thought, and something just made me remember it. Exit polls in Indiana. Did you see the number of independents Trump got? The vast majority. You might be saying, “Well, so what, Rush? So what? So what?” I\u2019m not praising Trump. Back off. A simple observation. What have we always been told about independents? (interruption) Not only that. Yeah, you have to get the independents. What else have we been told? We\u2019ve been told that you don\u2019t dare criticize, you don\u2019t raise your voice, you don\u2019t say mean things about people, you don\u2019t say mean things about Obama.<\/p>\n

The press says, “You don\u2019t criticize him, because the independents, they don\u2019t like that, and they\u2019ll go running right back to the Democrat Party if you do that.” Really? That hasn\u2019t been proving out here. Romney won a majority independents, and here\u2019s Trump cleaning up with independents, at least, within the Republican primary universe. I mean, there are a lot of tricks that the media and the Democrats have had to get Republicans to shut up, and they\u2019ve worked! They have worked on mainstream Republicans.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re literally in fear of being critical of any Democrat, or Obama with the racial component, afraid the media\u2019s gonna come down on \u2019em and so forth. So they don\u2019t criticize Obama, and then the fear that doing so is the independents will leave. “We\u2019re on the verge of winning them, Rush! We\u2019re on the verge of winning independents; then somebody comes along and starts saying mean things and just gonna drive \u2019em right back.” I\u2019ve never understood that, because the Democrats are the meanest, most extremist bunch of cold-hearted SOBs I\u2019ve ever worked with — with acknowledgments there to John Boehner.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never seen it actually be the case, because if independents “don\u2019t like all the fighting and they don\u2019t like the confrontation and don\u2019t like the (unintelligible),” then why the hell do they run to the Democrats for refuge? So that\u2019s why I\u2019m not gonna sit here and get exercised over each and every one of these things. Because they haven\u2019t happened yet, number one. It\u2019s just not time yet — and there are things out there to counter that, too, counterbalance it. I\u2019ve got two things here. The first is from Reuters.<\/p>\n

“Trump Wants to Help US Businesses by Lifting a Slew of Regulations.”<\/a> Reuters. You know why this story is interesting to me? I was reading… I can\u2019t remember all the things that I read. But it was either last night or the night before I was reading who knows what website or publication or blog. But it was somebody (don\u2019t remember who, either) saying (summarized), “Trump is so ignorant of the Constitution. He doesn\u2019t care about the Constitution, and Trump, he doesn\u2019t even know about it. He can\u2019t tell you Article I, Article II, Bill of Rights. He doesn\u2019t know what they are!<\/p>\n


\n“He doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s not sophisticated. He\u2019s not educated. Trump doesn\u2019t he doesn\u2019t care about traditional economic theories. He\u2019d never heard of Friedrich Hayek! He doesn\u2019t know about Milton Friedman or any of this stuff. He was just a bull in the china shop kind of guy, potential dictator.” I\u2019m listening to all these criticisms of Trump that make him out to be totally, not stupid, just not interested in what everybody in politics is interested in, like political theory, economic theory.<\/p>\n

And whoever I was reading is going on and on about what a neophyte Trump is in this area, and you don\u2019t have any expectations because Trump… In fact, it was specifically stated that Donald Trump, when looking… I wish I could find it. I would love to be able to quote it now, because it almost verbatim, almost specifically said, “When Donald Trump looks at businesses and sees ways to fix them, he does not even think about reducing the size of government.” That\u2019s what it was. It was somebody railing on Trump \u2019cause the size of government, limited government, he\u2019s never heard of it.<\/p>\n

“He doesn\u2019t care about it. It doesn\u2019t mean anything to him. What government is to Trump is an instrument to be used to bully,” and what this guy was saying, whoever it was. “He doesn\u2019t know that making government smaller is the way you help business. He doesn\u2019t… He doesn\u2019t look at things that way.” Right here is a Reuters story: “Trump Wants to Help US Businesses by Lifting a Slew of Regulations.” Donald Trump said “that if elected he would scrap a slew of federal regulations that he said are even more of a burden on American business owners than high taxes, and would try to refinance longer-term US debt.”<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve always… When I read this thing last night or the night before (I forget which), I was puzzled. How does whoever it was say that Trump has no interest in reducing intrusive government? Trump doesn\u2019t care? All he wants to do is use government as an instrument. This is a guy that\u2019s had to go up against government with every building he ever built, and if there\u2019s anybody who understands burdensome regulations — what they add to the cost of things — it would be Trump. Why do people assume the guy is a neophyte and doesn\u2019t know anything about \u2019em?<\/p>\n


\nAnd that\u2019s what… I mean, they plug him in to a standard, political profile that he doesn\u2019t fit — square peg, round hole — and then they immediately conclude they\u2019re dealing with an idiot. And then this CNBC story comes along. Trump says he will get rid of a tremendous amount of regulations. You know, the first thing he said he\u2019s gonna start with is repealing Obamacare. He said, “We\u2019re lowering taxes very substantially and we\u2019re going to be getting rid of a tremendous amount of regulations.” He\u2019s gonna close the border, he says. He says he\u2019s gonna appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court, gonna repeal Obamacare.<\/p>\n

He understands lifting regulations, getting them out of people\u2019s way. And then the New York Times. Now, would you think that the New York Times wants Trump to look good or look bad? You would think that they want him to look terrible. If there\u2019s anybody that is unalterably in the tank for Mrs. Clinton, it would be the New York Times. Well, right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a New York Times story: “‘President Trump?\u2019 Here\u2019s How He Says It Would Look<\/a> — Donald J. Trump is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but he is also keenly aware that many in his own party — and many Americans, frankly — are scared and anxious about the idea of him in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

“Even he is not sure how a deeply divided nation would adjust to the first 100 days of a Trump presidency. What he does know, however, is what he wants to do in those early months. In a series of recent interviews…” By the way, this this doesn\u2019t jibe at all with what we\u2019ve been told was the Trump editorial board interview that hasn\u2019t been released. Trump supposedly told the editors at the New York Times, “Nah, I\u2019m not gonna build a wall. Nah, I\u2019m not gonna be deporting anybody! I\u2019m just telling \u2019em that.” That\u2019s what reporters there tried… Well, they leaked. They didn\u2019t try to leak. But nobody\u2019s ever heard the tapes because nobody authorized their release.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t sound like anything we\u2019ve been told that that editorial interview sounded like. “In a series of recent interviews, he sketched out plans that include showdowns with business leaders over jobs and key roles for military generals, executives and possibly even family members in advising him about running the country. Shortly after the Nov. 8 election, President-elect Trump and his vice president — most likely a governor or member of Congress — would begin interviewing candidates for the open Supreme Court seat and quickly settle on a nominee in the mold of Justice Antonin Scalia. …<\/p>\n


\n“On Inauguration Day, he would go to a ‘beautiful\u2019 gala ball or two, but focus mostly on rescinding Obama executive orders on immigration and calling up corporate executives to threaten punitive measures if they shift jobs out of the United States. And by the end of his first 100 days … the wall with Mexico would be designed, the immigration ban on Muslims would be in place, the audit of the Federal Reserve would be underway and plans to repeal [Obamacare] would be in motion. ‘I know people aren\u2019t sure right now what a President Trump will be like,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

“‘But things will be fine. I\u2019m not running for president to make things unstable for the country.'” Think of that what you will, but that\u2019s how… (interruption) You think so? (interruption) You think so? (interruption) You think if that was his agenda the first hundred days and he actually began to try to implement that, that he would lock up his reelection the first 100 days? Well, now, you know damn well to pick all this stuff the 100 days… You\u2019re gonna have the entire Democrat caucus in the House and the Senate — and a lot of Republicans — who are gonna be saying, “Oh, yeah, Mr. Trump? Oh, yeah, President Trump? Screw that! Screw that! Screw that! We\u2019re not giving you any of that.”<\/p>\n

You know, that\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n

For those of you worried about him becoming a dictator.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I went back, I looked at this story on CNN about Trump and the minimum wage, and I think it\u2019s being misreported. I\u2019m not so sure that that Trump came out in support of raising the minimum age. I don\u2019t think that was his point. I think we have an example here of CNN trying to make it look like Trump flip-flopped, but he may not have. I will share with you what I think I might have picked up when we resume. And, no, I\u2019m not being a Trump apologist. You know, I just want to get things right here, which has always been the objective and always will be.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019ll tell you what happened. Somebody sent me a note that said, “You\u2019d better look at that because that\u2019s not what happened,” this businesses about Trump reversing himself on the minimum wage. I\u2019ve got the headline here. The headline\u2019s at TheHill.com. It\u2019s off of a CNN interview, and the headline is: “In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising Minimum Wage.” Now, the reason I bought it is it wouldn\u2019t surprise me — number one — and it doesn\u2019t bother me, number two. It\u2019s not worth being bothered about right now. It would bother me when he did it, if he did it. But we were trying not to let it get to that point, folks.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s the mainstream media way of doing things. “In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising Minimum Wage.”<\/a> Here\u2019s what the story actually says: “In a reversal, Donald Trump expressed openness to raising the federal minimum wage during an interview on Wednesday. ‘I\u2019m looking at that, I\u2019m very different from most Republicans,\u2019 the presumptive GOP presidential nominee told CNN Wednesday about the prospect of [raising the minimum wage]. ‘You have to have something you can live on. But what I\u2019m really looking to do is get people great jobs so they make much more money than that, much more money than the $15.\u2019 …<\/p>\n


\n“During a November debate, Trump voiced opposition to raising the minimum wage. ‘I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is,\u2019 he said…” So, you know, I\u2019ve told people forever how easy it is to get suckered in by Drive-By headlines. Even the most vigilant — and I am among them. Even the most attuned and highly aware of how they do things can get caught, and I think I might have been caught on this one. Because the question\u2019s one thing, but what Trump actually said is, “I\u2019m looking at that. I\u2019m very different from most Republicans,” and then CNN interpreted that as, “A-ha! A-ha! We got Trump to admit that he wants to raise the minimum wage!”<\/p>\n

Because, of course, it\u2019s a litmus test for them. Raising the minimum wage is a litmus test. And if you get somebody out there in favor of it, then they\u2019ve got to be a Democrat. They\u2019ve got to be a left-winger. And the media — some of them — are gonna be hell-bent on proving that. But he said, “You can\u2019t live on it,” but that\u2019s not even the point. The point is, “I\u2019m looking at that. I\u2019m very different from most Republicans.” That\u2019s all CNN needed to go hear or TheHill.com needed to hear. But if you know how to translate Trump — and I, of course, do.<\/p>\n

As somebody who wants to take the time to actually study the way people talk — and I do that — it\u2019s fundamental to understanding what people mean. Trump says a lot of things like that. He\u2019ll say, “Yeah, I\u2019m gonna look at something. I\u2019m just look at that. I\u2019m gonna look at it or I\u2019m gonna do something on it. Yeah, yeah, we\u2019re gonna be the greatest! We\u2019re gonna make America great. Damn right I\u2019m gonna look at that! Damn right we\u2019re gonna help those people. Exactly right!” But if you look at what he goes on to really say here, what is the meat of this?<\/p>\n

“What I\u2019m really looking to do is to get people great jobs so they make much more money than that.” My interpretation — and that\u2019s all it is, and you can do with it what you want — is that in Trump\u2019s world, a minimum wage would be irrelevant \u2019cause nobody would make it. A minimum wage may be entry-level, but minimum wage to Trump is not anything that\u2019s a way to measure anybody\u2019s standard of living and say, “We gotta come up with a number that we can all agree on will support a family.” I don\u2019t think he looks at it that way. I think his objective is to “make America great again,” and I do believe he means that. I\u2019ll tell you something else about Trump that I know.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that he\u2019s very proud of the image or reputation as being a winner. He doesn\u2019t like losing or being called a loser, and he doesn\u2019t want to. You can disagree with him on ideas, and you can tell him he\u2019s all wet. The way to get under his skin, if any of you want to (I\u2019ll give a little insight) is just call him a loser. Just say that Trump\u2019s lost everything. “He\u2019s not that big a winner as he says!” Do that and you\u2019ll get his attention, I guarantee you. But you\u2019re not gonna get his attention by saying, “You know, I disagree with you. You\u2019re full of it! You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019d be glad to engage you left and right. That\u2019s just his personality. But I think largely he was saying here that the minimum wage, if he succeeds, nobody\u2019s gonna care what it is because most everybody is gonna be making way beyond that. Well, it\u2019ll be great if that happens. I, frankly, fully agree with that sentiment. It\u2019s something about conservatism I\u2019ve always tried to tell people, \u2019cause one of the things that really rubs me wrong about it is the way it\u2019s been characterized as caring only about the rich and not caring about the poor and the disadvantaged. The truth is that conservatism, by its very existence and definition, is compassion.<\/p>\n

Conservatives love everybody, and they want the best for everybody. We believe that there are ways of making such things happen. We just believe that government\u2019s not part of the recipe. We think that success and individual happiness and self-esteem, all that stuff, is driven from within. Achievement, that kind of thing is driven… We believe in every human being reaching their potential. We want everybody to be the best they can be. We don\u2019t take great comfort in the fact there are haves and have-nots, and we certainly don\u2019t try to exploit the have-nots.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd there\u2019s not a conservative I know that wants more and more have-nots imported into the country so that we can exploit them for our own personal or political gain. That\u2019s the Democrats. That\u2019s leftists. But I believe Trump when he says he wants to make America great again, and I believe Trump when he says he wants as many people as possible to do well — “get rich,” as he says it. So I think we could safely say that that Trump was not actually… His focal point here was not saying, “Yeah, yeah. Now I can be honest. Yeah, I want to raise the minimum wage.” I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what he meant.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s what they want people to think that they got him to say.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think that that is what he means.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see, this is the Hillary Stack having . I\u2019ve mingled the two, doesn\u2019t matter because I\u2019ve got some sound bites I want to get into while you sort that out.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite 14. This is the actual Trump minimum wage bite from CNN. It\u2019s Wolf Blitzer. The actual question is, “Bernie Sanders says that he wants a $15-an-hour minimum wage. He has really gone after you lately saying that you\u2019re happy with $7.25, the current federal minimum wage. Mr. Trump, you can\u2019t live on $7.25 an hour.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP: No. And I\u2019m actually looking at that because I\u2019m very different from most Republicans. I mean, you have to have something that you can live on. But what I\u2019m really looking to do is get people great jobs so they make much more money than that.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: You\u2019re open to raising the minimum wage?<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I\u2019m open to doing something with it, because I don\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So his instinct… His first answer was (impression), “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I\u2019m looking at that. It\u2019s not enough. Of course it\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s not enough for anybody. But what I really, really want is I want to get people earning more money so $15 an hour doesn\u2019t even matter, Wolf. I don\u2019t want to talk about $15.” Wolf doubles back: “But — but — but — but — but you\u2019re open to raising the minimum wage?” “Yeah, I\u2019m open to doing something with it because I don\u2019t like it.” Trump raising the minimum wage is not the policy. It is not his recipe for improving people\u2019s lives economically.<\/p>\n


\nThat\u2019s the takeaway, and they want you to think that he is already betraying… (interruption) Yeah, ask the… (interruption) What\u2019s the question? (interruption) Well, that\u2019s what the caller. (interruption) Snerdley is asking me, the Official Program Observer, “Do you think you think Trump tells people what they want to hear?” Um, you might be able to put it that way. I mean, if you look at Wolf Blitzer here boring in as only Wolf Blitzer can, “You can\u2019t live on $7.25 an hour!” Well, who in the world thinks you can? But that\u2019s not the point. The minimum wage is not a livable wage; it was never supposed to be.<\/p>\n

The minimum wage is such a… It\u2019s always an entry-level wage. It\u2019s not for skilled labor. It\u2019s not designed to support families or anything the sort. It was never the intention. It was intended to be a political football from the first days it was proposed. Everybody thinks there\u2019s all kinds of compassion behind a minimum wage. There isn\u2019t. It was just an opportunity to make it look that way. But you may have a point. I mean, he may — just as a means of getting to where he wants to go on the question — say, “Yeah, yeah. I know what you mean, but…” Just tell \u2019em what they want to hear as a means of avoiding an argument to get to the real point that he wants to make.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any more than that.<\/p>\n

I think he said what he really intended to say it there.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think he was trying to buffalo Wolf Blitzer about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “In Reversal, Trump Expresses Openness to Raising the Minimum Wage.” And you have people go, “See? See? I told you. I told you he was lying to you. I told you he\u2019s a lib. I told you he\u2019s a Democrat. And this is just the beginning. 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