“The
President Comes Out Swinging for Donald Jr. and American Values in France”
Jul 13, 2017 from the Rush
Limbaugh website, the transcript of Rush’s comments.
RUSH: President Trump in France today accepted the
invitation from the new French president, Macaroni.
Why do I — it’s Macron. I think macaroni when I see the word, and I know it’s not
macaroni. Why did I say that? I
wasn’t trying to be — anyway, we knew it was gonna happen.
He got a question from the Drive-Bys
about Donald Jr. and the honey pot. It was from Cecilia Vega of ABC, who said, “Mr. President,
your FBI nominee said that if someone in the campaign got an eMail about Russia
like the one your son received that they should alert the FBI rather than
accept the meeting. Is he wrong? And also, were you misled by your team in not
knowing about this meeting?” [ED: For the first few sentences, President Trump
praises his choice to head the FBI, Christopher Wray.]
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Nothing happened from the meeting. Zero
happened from the meeting, and honestly, I think the press made a very big deal
over something that really a lot of people would do. Now, the lawyer that went
to the meeting, I see that she was in the halls of Congress also. Somebody said
that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by Attorney
General Lynch.
Now, maybe that’s wrong; I just heard that a while ago, but
no surprise here, she was here because of Lynch. So, again, I have a son who’s
a great young man, he’s a fine person. He took a meeting with a lawyer from Russia,
it lasted for a very short period, and nothing came of the meeting. And I think
it’s a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken.
[ED: Further,
President Trump said of the other two in the short meeting, Jared Kushner left
after a brief moment when the deception was noticed; and the other, Manafort,
was texting and not paying much attention.]
RUSH: And have taken. And once again
I’m forced to mention this, the dossier that formed the basis of the FBI
investigation into Trump, this totally fake document was written by the
Russians. It was written by the KGB and handed over. Actually what happened
was, members of the KGB, now called the FSB — it
doesn’t matter; once you’re in the KGB, you’re always in the KGB and the KGB
never dies.
Agents in the KGB literally told Christopher Steele at MI6,
Fusion GPS, how to write it, what to say. Analysis of it by an expert on
Sovietology and Russianism at the Hoover Institution, the campus of Stanford,
has concluded way back in January, it’s a KGB document. Anyway, so it starts in
Russia and it ends up at the FBI.
Now, isn’t
that a crime? What is the FBI doing accepting a document that’s fake and phony
from the KGB with a pass-through, MI6, Christopher Steele, and using it to form
the basis of an investigation into a Republican presidential candidate? Compare that to Donald Trump Jr. taking a meeting with a
honey pot lawyer from the Kremlin on the basis that she wanted to talk about
dirt from the Kremlin on Hillary, but she didn’t have any of that, she wanted
to talk about adoption.
There isn’t any crime here. In fact,
I’m gonna tell you, based on the feedback I’m getting, most Trump supporters
are appreciative of the fact that Donald Jr. was trying to get dirt on Hillary.
A lot of people think there’s all kinds of dirt on the Clintons to be had and
that it should be used! You know, this investigation stuff is a one-way street!
They don’t have a single thing on Donald Trump and collusion. And they don’t
have a single thing yet on Donald Trump obstruction.
And yet with Hillary, all of those
things are likely, with her foundation, with her email server, trafficking in
classified data. And she was investigated and exonerated because they couldn’t
find any intent. And now we find out the honey pot was allowed to come into the
country and overstay her visa by six months. I’m just telling you, the way this
is shaping up for a lot of people is they think Donald Trump Jr. is right on
the money to accept dirt on Hillary.
What are political campaigns about?
And there is no statutory crime. There’s no way Donald Trump’s gonna be
impeached over this.
RUSH: I’m just telling you that
there are a lot of people that don’t think Donald Trump Jr. did anything but
they would have done. “You got dirt on Hillary? Give it to me.” I’m just
telling you, Trump is not going to be impeached over this. He can’t be. What
everybody wants to happen is Trump to be paralyzed by this. I mean, I know Brad Sherman [D-CA] introduced
articles of impeachment, but it doesn’t have a prayer. Impeachment, by
the way, is not a criminal thing. Trump is not guilty of violating any
statutes. I’m not saying that’s not impeachable, but that’s such a long shot.
Standard, ordinary, everyday impeachment is a political act. That’s why high
crimes and misdemeanors are stated and not straight felonies, statutory crimes
and felonies, ’cause they’re two different things. We’re talking about statutory felony,
criminal law, and political. And impeachment’s
always an act of politics. And if the public will is not there for
it, it’s not gonna go anywhere no matter what the president’s guilty of, look
at Bill Clinton, just never gonna happen. And Trump is not gonna be impeached
over this. They’re gonna try to paralyze him. They’re gonna try to stop him
dead in his tracks from getting anything done. And they’re failing at even
that.
Let’s see. Here’s the next Trump
bite. The next question was from a French reporter. “Mr. President, you
mentioned a friend, Jim, who told you that Paris is no longer Paris. You were
implying at the time that Paris was not safe. You also said that France and
Germany were infected by terrorism and it’s their fault because they let people
enter the territory. Those are very strong words, Mr. President. Would you
repeat them today? And do you still believe that France is not able to fight
terrorism on its own territory?”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You better let me answer that one first.
That’s a beauty. He’s the one that asked the question. That he wasn’t even one
of my picks. You know what? It’s going to be just fine because you have a great
president. You have somebody that’s going to run this country right, and I
would be willing to bet, because I think this is one of the great cities, one
of the most beautiful cities in the world. And you have a great leader now, you
have a great president, you have a tough president. He’s not going to be easy
on people that are breaking the laws and people that show this tremendous
violence. So I really have a feeling that you’re going to have a very, very
peaceful and beautiful Paris. And I’m coming back. You better do a good job,
please, otherwise you’re going to make me look very bad.
RUSH: Trump had turned to the kid
running France and said: “You better do
a good job now after I praise you to hilt, otherwise you gonna make me look
very bad.” Now, the media will think
that Trump had just threatened the president of France because they can’t
sense humor in anything. “Did you see Trump? He threatened the little
president! He told him better do a good job or Trump’s gonna look bad!” Trump
was just using standard, ordinary, everyday guy humor. That escapes people on
the left.
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RUSH: Here’s Larry in San Antonio.
I’m glad you waited, sir. Great to have you.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. (chuckles)
Great show.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I just wanted to tell you
how fantastic, in my opinion, your discourse on the
left and Western civilization was from last week. It was the best
summation of our culture and our history, and the pernicious growth of Marxism,
socialism, misinformation from its advent up to where you share with us daily
that I’ve ever heard. So thank you.
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. I
mean, really, more than you know. I really do.
CALLER: Well, you’re truly one of
God’s gifts to 75% of the country.
RUSH: Well, as I say, “talent on
loan from God.”
CALLER: Oh, yes. You are.
RUSH: That’s why I say that.
CALLER: It’s definitely on loan.
(chuckles)
RUSH: Well, you know, I actually…
It’s like I said last week, this was all bouncing off of Trump’s speech in
Poland about Western civilization, Western culture. Folks, in my mind there is
nothing superior. That’s the whole point! There’s never been a greater place
for human beings to be on earth than the United States of America, in the
history of the planet. Never, ever. That’s why everybody has always wanted to
come here since our country was founded. I don’t think it’s arguable, and that
sets up the exact challenge that we face.
We have more and more Americans
after decades of education who believe the United States is the worst place on
the planet; that it is the focus of evil, that it’s the home of racism and
bigotry and homophobia and anti-LGBT[Q] and all this. And it’s despicable! And
this stuff is being promulgated by people who for some perverted reason fear
the greatness of this country and fear what created it: Liberty and freedom and the acknowledgment
that we’re all created equal by God, and that one of our purposes as human
beings is the pursuit of life and happiness.
The idea that this is somehow
“controversial” has always offended me. I understand that not everybody’s gonna
be uniform on everything. But it’s just offended my sensibilities that there
are people born and raised in this country who somehow are able to intellectually
believe a bunch of invective against this country, that somehow it’s a
hellhole, that it’s a prison, that it’s — as I say — the focus of evil in the
world. Trump was talking about in a very triumphant way about the beauties of
Western civilization, and I thought it was a great speech.
And it was not long after that that
another hit piece on Trump came down the pike. I’ve found that every time Trump
has a good moment — be it advancing his agenda or a great speech — it isn’t
long before in the media something pops up that is of a controversial nature
that is designed to cover and overwhelm the good story that is, in this case,
the Trump speech on Western civilization. And it’s under assault constantly,
and I really think the culture… You know, we all have these things that are our
pet peeves. We have politics. We have like sports. It’s like any number of
other things.
I think the bedrock culture — not just political, but the overall
bedrock culture, the collective mentality on morality, decency, manners, right
and wrong — that’s what’s been under assault.
And I believe like so many others who have written that it is actually an
assault by people who don’t consider themselves “normal” against what is
considered normal because they feel discriminated against by it. And it’s been an
ongoing effort to redefine normalcy to include all kinds of things that for
the longest time were considered bad, ill-mannered, immoral, what have you.
It’s a quest to water down and essentially erase some of the
fundamental foundations of those values that created the greatest country and
the greatest place for human beings to live ever in the history of Planet Earth. And it just offends me. And I’ve long believed that the
cultural… You call it multiculturalism. You can call it where it happens in
school where the multiculturalists attempt to inculcate young minds with the
evils of America. But I don’t think it’s just simple enough to say that
“politics” is our problem. I think the corruption of the pop culture…
I understand younger generations are
always gonna be outside the bounds and exploring things, doing things. I’m not
talking about that. I’m not talking about The Beatles with their long hair and
those kinds of cultural changes. I’m talking about assaults on common
definitions… Like, I think the
redefinition of “marriage” is an absolute assault on the culture. It’s not a
gay right, and there’s nothing discriminatory in marriage. Marriage has a
specific definition. Marriage is the result of thousands of years of human
beings living and discovering the best ways to accomplish things. Such as
raising children, such as perpetuating a society, such as maintaining the
primacy of a country and a society.
And it’s those things that are under
assault. To say that marriage… To come along and say marriage is an ultimate
act of discrimination is absurd! It was never intended as an act of discrimination.
Nobody is required to get married! But once socialism came along and
there became benefits attached to it? Well, then we have some people
discriminated against! If you can only get certain financial benefits or other
things like hospital visitation rights if you’re family — and if certain people
cannot be qualified family ’cause they can’t get married — then they start
screaming discrimination.
So the mixture of socialism, socialism-communist values into
a society is gonna ultimately rip it to shreds and tear it apart. Saying that marriage is a discriminatory act or way of
life? Come on. That’s just absurd, and it ultimately leads to the attempt to
persuade people that Christianity itself is discriminatory. The Catholic Church
is discriminatory. And it creates victim after victim after victim. Once
there are victims, their grievances have to be addressed because they just do.
It’s not fair. It’s not right. And the assault continues. And it’s just
always offended my sensibilities. Any
time somebody stands up for Western civilization, I’m gonna remark on it and
champion it.
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