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<\/p>\nRUSH: I don\u2019t know. I guess it was about 8 o\u2019clock, 8:30, I forget. My email started blowing up. I said, “Oh, no. What now?” My messages app, that started blowing up, everybody said, “What\u2019s Trump doing this for?” I said, “What\u2019s Trump doing, period? What am I missing here?”<\/p>\n
It turned out Trump had an appearance at a town hall with George Stephanopoulos, which means Trump had an appearance with the Clinton war room. That\u2019s what Hillary Clinton\u2019s operation is and Stephanopoulos is still a Clintonista before he is an ABC quasi-journalist.<\/p>\n
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So, Trump is doing this town hall on ABC News. And everybody is livid because the setup for the thing was that Trump was going to get questioned by undecided voters. And, apparently, they weren\u2019t undecided voters. Apparently, these are voters that all despised Trump. So, I thought about it. And I didn\u2019t even remember it. I knew it was on and it slipped my mind and I didn\u2019t watch it so I had to catch up on some of it this morning.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ll tell you what I think is going on. I think it\u2019s very simple. I think it was rehearsal for the debate, folks. And don\u2019t forget: Donald Trump thinks he can charm anybody. He loves talking to people that don\u2019t like him. He loves talking to people that disagree with him. Maybe that\u2019s the best way to say it. It\u2019s not so much he loves talking to people that don\u2019t like him, but people that disagree, he thinks he can change their mind.<\/p>\n
I gotta tell you something. As unfair as it was and as big a setup as it was — and Trump knew it was gonna be a setup last night. And I probably wouldn\u2019t have advised him to do it. But the parts of it I watched today just to catch up on it, they were not that bad. I thought he was actually good. He came across very presidential. The Drive-Bys, particularly CNN today, are just lying through their teeth about how Trump did last night. ABC\u2019s analysis of their own town hall had this headline: “How Trump failed to connect with voters at ABC News town hall.”<\/p>\n
Well, that was gonna be the headline no matter what happened because the town hall, the excerpts of it today that I watched, I thought Trump connected very well. I mean, the questions were all loaded. They were hostile, and Trump knew this going in. And I, of course, knew what it was gonna be going in. And Trump dealt with it really well.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not a coward. He\u2019s not afraid of these circumstances. No matter what else you might say about Trump, nobody can call him a coward or accuse him of backing down from anything. I think he\u2019s fearless. I think he\u2019s got no problem going right into the lion\u2019s den even on live TV. And I think, based on a story I have coming up later in the program, I think the fact that Trump is a man — Donald Trump is a man\u2019s man. Donald Trump is not a coward. He\u2019s not afraid of going into hostile environments. In fact, he actually relishes it, looks forward to it.<\/p>\n
I think that there are a lot of people in this country who are fed up with the attacks on masculinity that have been taking place for a lot of years, predominantly on college campi, but throughout our society. Our society has been chickified. Our culture has been chickified. And masculinity is now called toxic. Men being men, being naturally who they are is called barbaric, toxic, or what have you.<\/p>\n
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I think there is a secret and rather large group of people who admire masculinity, and I think it\u2019s one of the character traits Donald Trump exudes. You never hear people talking about it. “Why do you like Trump?” Well, the guy is a man. You know, I like the guy. He\u2019s masculine. You don\u2019t hear that, but I guarantee you there are a lot of people for whom that is the exact reason they support the guy.<\/p>\n
And last night, folks, it was harmless. Trump knew it was gonna be a setup. You might say it is a waste of time. Why did he do it? From his standpoint it was not a waste of time. He didn\u2019t let any of them get to him. He did not act or act out in ways that were harmful to him. He came across really engaged. I thought he came across as empathetic. I think there were a couple of examples. We\u2019ll have this in audio sound bites as we get into the roster today.<\/p>\n
But I think he was far more empathetic in that setting than, say, Obama was in a similar setting. If you go back to 2009, ABC did a town hall with Obama to help him promote Obamacare. And you know the story. There was a woman in the audience, it was in the White House, and a woman stood up and asked the president of the United States if he would permit her mother, who\u2019s gonna be a hundred and-some-odd years old, to get treated for an illness based on her will to live, that she wanted to live, she wasn\u2019t ready to die, wasn\u2019t ready to go toast.<\/p>\n
And the president — I was taken aback anyway that an American citizen has to go to the White House to ask the president if he is gonna let another citizen live. And you know what Obama said? Obama said (paraphrasing), “Well, no. Will to live, we can\u2019t start factoring that kind of thing into it. No. I think what we do, just give had her a pill and let her enjoy the remaining moments.”<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no empathy there. Trump had some examples of this last night. But I think if you just look at it as rehearsal for the upcoming debates, which, speaking of which, I still remain really dubious. I\u2019m really, really doubtful that these things are going to happen. Everybody tells me, “But, Rush, they have to. I mean, Biden\u2019s committed to it. The presidential debates are as part of the campaign as running ads. You gotta do it.” Folks, I don\u2019t remain convinced that he\u2019s gotta do it. I still think that they are looking at ways to renege on it. And we\u2019ll see. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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