RUSH: I told you it was gonna be this way, and now we’ve got the evidence. I told you. People came in here today, “Man, wasn’t Trump great? Wasn’t Trump great last night? Did you see that crowd in West Virginia?” I said, “Yeah.” “You don’t think that’s gonna make the people in D.C. stop and take notice?” I said, “Are you kidding me? That’s gonna make them hate him even more.” And I have the evidence to back that up.
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RUSH: Open Line Friday. Getaway day here on the EIB Network. That’s because I about screwed up. I almost told people where I’m going. I’m too famous. I can’t do that. Oh, man, how fortunate am I to have caught that. Anyway, it’s Open Line Friday, and the telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.
It was the chef. The chef came in this morning about 10:15, and the chef is a huge Trumpist. The chef just loves Trump, and the chef is, “Did you see that rally last night? Did you see that speech? Did you see those people?”
I said, “Yeah.”
“I mean, do you know those people in Washington, when they watch that, they’re just gonna have to come around. They’re gonna have to know that people love him.”
“Ah, ah, ah, no. No. That, unfortunately, is not what will happen.” What happened already is the people in Washington who saw that rally in West Virginia last night hate Trump even more and are even more committed to getting rid of him, if that’s possible. This is standard operating procedure. This is human nature. And here’s why, folks.
By the way, Snerdley, your formatting today is excellent. It’s just perfect. How much extra time did it take you? But, see, once you get the templates down, you just gotta plug stuff in. That’s the beauty of it. You don’t need to do it each and every document.
Anyway, so Buford T. Justice changes parties. Why would he do it? Look at the outcome here, is Joe Manchin far behind? Trump won West Virginia by 40 points, but the truth is, inside the Beltway, they know there’s not a single Democrat, not even Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and her IT guy could draw a crowd like that. (interruption) It’s not going to do anything to Senator Capito. Is not gonna change her mind on anything. She has declared she is in and of the establishment. It’s not gonna change her mind on anything.
Folks, Trump had a great line. We’re gonna get into the sound bites. Trump had a great line. This is a great theme they’re picking up on. Not only is the D.C. swamp attempting to run a coup on President Trump to get him out of there, what they’re really trying to do is deny your choice of president. This is a genuine constitutional threat because what official Washington is really trying to do is ultimately claim it doesn’t matter who you vote for. If they don’t like it, they’re gonna do everything they can to nullify it or cancel it. The Constitution doesn’t matter.
That’s what this all means, and that’s what the Trump administration message is. Trump got it out there. Jared Kushner actually started it about a week ago. Trump amplified it last night, and then Kellyanne Conway today on TV picked up with it and ran it even more. It’s exactly right. The people of this country voted for Donald Trump. The official Washington swamp is trying to get rid of Donald Trump. And what it actually means is that they are trying to deny the outcome of the election on a totally fake and false premise, this Russian collusion business.
And now Mueller has this grand jury impaneled, which, you know, I’m reading all these guys, “It’s not that big a deal, Rush. Grand juries happen all the time in these –” No, they don’t. There aren’t grand juries in counterintelligence investigations, and that means this has become a criminal investigation. And we now know that Mueller has hired yet another Hillary donor, another Hillary judge, another Hillary fundraiser from a white-shoe New York law firm who left the law firm. That means this guy expects to be earning money on Mueller’s team for years.
I’ve heard people say, “Rush, you can’t have obstruction of justice without a crime.” Yes, you can. You know, I’ve made the point that Mueller should not even exist because the special counsel regulations in the DOJ require a crime to have been committed. You cannot appoint a special counsel and an investigator without an underlying crime. Well, there isn’t one. They’re looking for a crime. That’s exactly what’s going on. These people are shopping for a crime, and they’re even going back eight, 10 years to Trump’s businesses and whoever it is that might have purchased or leased apartments in Trump Tower, for example.
They cannot write legislation that alters the Constitution. They cannot amend the Constitution with statutory legislation. That requires the methods prescribed in the Constitution for amending it, and they just can’t sit there and write legislation saying Trump can’t fire a special counsel. They could do it. They can pass it. Trump will veto it. They can’t override it, it’s not constitutional.
But the point is everything these people are doing is pushing this country closer and closer to a constitutional crisis, rooted in the very obvious effort they have undertaken to both get rid of Trump and to essentially deny the outcome of the elections. I should say the election. They are trying to deny the outcome under a fake and phony and so far no-evidence-to-support-it premise, that Trump’s election is illegal or unjust or illegitimate because of collusion with Russia.
Now, remember that Trump dossier. We have learned that the Fusion GPS outfit, which is tied to the Democrat Party, wrote the Trump dossier that Comey and John Brennan relied on as the basis for their investigation. Get this. This is what I read last night. And I didn’t get an attribution to this. I looked and I couldn’t find it. So I’m just gonna have to put it out there with the caveat that I can’t source it for you, but it was stated that the Donald Trump Jr. meeting with the honey pot forms the new basis of the collusion investigation.
If that’s true, it means that nothing they supposedly uncovered the last seven months panned out. If that is it? So these people are searching for a crime. And with unlimited time and money, they can find one. In fact, they can create one. They can trick people into committing a crime, a process crime, trick them to lying. But you can clearly have obstruction of justice without there being a crime, people try to impede the investigation even though there’s no underlying crime. So that’s the direction I think that they’re gonna go.
They tell themselves they’re getting closer every day to getting rid of Trump. They’re getting closer and closer. They just made mincemeat of him. This Jim Acosta guy is out there saying he made mincemeat of Stephen Miller. He took it to Miller and everybody knows that Miller was made to look like a fool! It’s unreal how detached these people are who now want to attach a, what, 135-year-old poem to immigration policy? Anyway, what happened here is these people in the swamp are watching this, and they just get angry, ’cause they think every day they’re getting closer.
They’re getting closer to getting rid of Trump, and the news is reporting how close they’re getting. The news in the Drive-Bys every day! They’re dropping the hammer on Trump every day, and then West Virginia happens, and the crowd obviously is not even paying attention to what’s going on in D.C. The crowd was raucous, the crowd was excited, the crowd was supportive, and the swamp people watching this say, “How can this be? That crowd’s supposed to not even show up now. They’re supposed to hate Trump!”
But rather than that crowd inspiring the swamp to think, “You know what? We may be on the wrong side of this,” it just steels their resolve to want to get rid of Trump even more — and it steels the swamp’s resolve to want to take away the election results from you even more. How much of you know the name Stu Rothenberg? (interruption) I know you know the name, Snerdley. Tell me off the top of your head who he is, Mr. Snerdley. (interruption) “Pollster, political consultant, activist, appears on TV now and then as a commentator.” He hangs out with think tank people.
“Rothenberg, a plugged-in and longstanding member of the [Washington] elite, started with this smear about the people of West Virginia…” Here’s what he tweeted. ‘Lots of people in West Virginia can’t support themselves or speak English.'” This is one of the most highly reputed and respected members of the Washington elite, Stu Rothenberg. He is 70 years old — and he’s white, by the way — and yet he has survived. White and 70 years old — an old white Democrat whose hatreds and bigotry have just been compounding.
They have been seething in rage ever since Trump won the election, and he’s watching… What did I tell you I told the chef? I told the chef this morning, “The people in the swamp are gonna be angry and livid. They’re gonna be ticked off at Trump and they’re gonna be really mad at the people of West Virginia. They’re not gonna see that they gotta change their ways.” Stuart Rothenberg at 7:49 p.m. last night tweeted, quote, “Lots of people in West Virginia can’t support themselves or speak English.” That sounds like the Democrat Party constituency, to me!
What’s he doing putting it down?
That’s exactly the kind of people the Democrat Party’s been cultivating: People who can’t speak English and can’t support themselves! Illegal immigration? Standard, ordinary Democrat voters? That is exactly… Pardon me if I get mad here, but I’m mad. This is an insult. This is exactly who these people are — and, furthermore, that’s exactly the kind of people the Democrat Party has been cultivating. These are the kind of people the Democrat Party wants to build their power base on. People that can’t support themselves or speak English?
Those are objectives for the Democrat Party! But here’s the elite — and I didn’t find out about this until moments before the program began. I didn’t see this last night. I just now saw it. That’s why I’m so livid. I haven’t had time to get over this, and it dovetails exactly with what I told the chef and what I told you. They are filled with rage over these rallies last night where Trump is loved, adored, supported, applauded. They don’t have any compunction about taking your election away from you. None whatsoever.
But this by Rothenberg. He is regularly trotted out as a nonpartisan analyst, a learned dean of the Washington establishment. Here’s another tweet from Rothenberg: “West Virginia ranks 42nd in percentage of high school graduates.” Another one: “Of course they’re hardworking. They mean well. They’re just closed-minded, provincial, angry, and easily misled. My wife’s dad was a coal miner in Pennsylvania.” I’m telling you: These are the people who are filled with hatred. The Democrat Party and its associates have become the biggest hate group. It’s all because they lost an election they thought they had in the bag, and now they’re trying to take it away from the people who made it possible and deny the victor his presidency. It’s clear and simple.
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There was a time not long ago when Stu Rothenberg literally loved West Virginia. You know when that was? When it was represented by a former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. When Senator Robert Byrd was a senator from West Virginia, I will guarantee you that Stu Rothenberg thought West Virginia was crucial, important, and even a bellwether in presidential elections. I’ll bet Stuart Rothenberg didn’t say one thing about the intelligence (or lack of) or the education (or lack of) the people in West Virginia who were sending a former Klansman as their representative to the United States Senate.
Don’t forget that “Sheets” Byrd (our popular nickname for him here) filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. But of course Stu Rothenberg, elitist extraordinaire, found nothing wrong with that. He was a Democrat that Hillary and Bill Clinton considered to be their mentor, along with J. William Fulbright. But Trump gets a hero’s welcome and it makes ’em so upset they have to go to Twitter to trash the entire state of West Virginia. That’s who they are, folks.
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RUSH: We have somebody from Parkersburg, West Virginia. Snerdley has checked; he does speak English. So we will be able to understand him. His name is Jim. Jim, we’re glad you called. Welcome to Open Line Friday.
CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Maha Rushie. How you doing?
CALLER: Hey, longtime listener. Hey, my wife and I were driving back from the store this morning, and we heard those comments that infuriated you regarding what that guy said about the people in West Virginia.
RUSH: That would be Stuart Rothenberg of Stuart Rothenberg Reports. He’s a political pollster, consultant, analyst, adviser, usually consulted by Democrats. They seek his assistance. Stuart Rothenberg. Since you’re in West Virginia, you can spell. It’s R-O-T-H-E-N-B… I think it’s B-E-R-G. (interruption) Right.
CALLER: Hmm. Not sure I got all that. But I think we can spell in West Virginia, and I can tell you that people that were there at the rally last night, I thought we’d provide a real world perspective versus what someone might be able to look into a crystal ball and not know what they’re talking about.
RUSH: Well, describe the atmosphere for us.
CALLER: Sure. Hey, the atmosphere like a party. It was a very energetic atmosphere. People were having a great time. Everybody was cordial. People were friendly to each other. We were excited to see Rush… I mean, Rush, we were excited to see the president.
RUSH: Six of one, half dozen of the other. Same difference.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: (chuckling)
CALLER: I mean, people really looked forward to it — and I can tell you, you know, once the rally started, it was a good time had by all.
RUSH: You know what struck me? You know what struck me, Jim? Here you have… What was the capacity last night, 9,000? I know on the outside, they couldn’t get in. It was overflowing. What’s the capacity inside that hall, 9,000?
CALLER: You know, I’m not sure, Rush. That’s what we heard — the same number on 9,000 — on the news this morning. But I can tell you, the lines outside were wrapped around the building.
RUSH: Oh, I know. That’s common when I show… Sorry. When Trump shows up, there’s always people lined up outside trying to get in who can’t. What I was gonna say to you is: These people are avid Trump supporters. You would expect that there would be some anger, not at him, but anger at the way he’s being treated, anger at the way their votes are trying to be discounted. But I didn’t see any anger at all, like you describe. I looked and it felt like people were in a great mood almost like they were at a party — and they really, really looked like they were having a great time and loved being there.
RUSH: And the coal industry.
CALLER: Yeah. We’re seeing returns of those businesses and all the families that those businesses support and all the companies that support those businesses and service personnel and union guys and nonunion people and engineers and professionals and neighborhoods and schools. It’s a revival. It’s a renewal, Rush. You can feel it. It’s real.
RUSH: It is. You hear that, folks?
CALLER: I’m telling you, you called it last night.
RUSH: There you have it. It’s real on the ground. It feels real. You can always feel economic activity. I’ve always maintained: People know it because they live it, because they see it — and it’s happening. Unemployment rate in West Virginia is down on 4.2%. The nationwide low is 4.3%. It was a state that went profoundly for Trump for president last November. Jim, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. And all of this, like he said: This is real.
That was real, and it’s the greatest disconnect we’ve ever seen from what’s real outside Washington to the people in the establishment inside it, and they just resent it. They resented it even more last night. They got angrier, bitter, deeper and deeper resentment. Let’s go to the audio sound bites. We’ll start Trump, in fact, talking about job growth in West Virginia in this first bite.
THE PRESIDENT: Economic growth has surged to 2.6% nationwide. You have to understand what that means. Nobody thought that number was going to happen. And at 3% growth in West Virginia. I wonder how that happened?
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: Three percent growth.
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: West Virginia, you’re leading the average! When was the last time you heard that, West Virginia?
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: You’re leading the country’s average! Remember I told you, “Don’t sell your homes”? Don’t sell your homes. You’re doing great. I’m so proud of you. You know, we won this state by 42 points. Can you believe that? Forty-two points.
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: Since our election — not mine, since our election — we’ve added more than one million new jobs.
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: And the good news keeps pouring in.
RUSH: It’s 2.6% economic the growth. Obama never had more than 1.5%. Even more importantly than that, when Trump’s budget was revealed — his budget blueprint — in February, Trump had gross domestic product economic growth targeted at 3.5%. Do you remember what the reaction to that was, folks? Do you remember how all the learned experts inside-the-Beltway began to just rip that to shreds as lies and unrealistic expectations? “It’s absurd! It’s irresponsible,” they said of Trump, “to project growth at 3%!”
“Those days in America are over,” they said. These are not the people we want running the show here, people with low expectations, people who are offended if the country reaches 2.5% or 3% growth. Obama every year projected five to 6% growth. He never got anywhere close to it, but he projected it, and they never ripped that. They never called Obama phony, and they never blamed Obama for raising false economic expectations, and they never reported on Obama’s failure to get anywhere close to it.
They just can’t stand it!
They can’t stand it that somebody (from the outside) can come in and run rings around them in the establishment. Now, folks, there’s one thing here that I need to point out. There hasn’t been any major legislation that you would think would have any impact on the economy. And yet, there are several aspects of the economy which are growing left and right, and Trump went through some of the reasons last night. He didn’t sign on to Trans-Pacific Partnership. He did okay the Keystone pipeline and the other pipeline. There have been all kinds of new jobs.
We got more jobs coming downtown pike with Foxconn building the factories they’re gonna build in southeastern Wisconsin. Today two automobile manufacturers from Japan announced they are going to open new plants in the United States. Trump taking us out of the Paris climate accords. There have been a number of steps regarding regulation and other things that the president has been able to do by way of executive action and executive order, which have resulted in already measurable economic growth.
And it is happening. And as you heard Jim, our first caller, say, “You can feel it. You can sense it.” You always can. When there is real economic growth, you can sense it and feel it. In the meantime, have you heard what they’ve done in California? “California Has Ordered ICE Agents Out of Their Offices.” The State of California has told agents from immigration control to get the hell out of their offices in the State Department capitol of Sacramento and elsewhere. They haven’t kicked them out of the state.
They’re just saying we don’t want you anywhere near us, get out of these offices. They are in open defiance of federal law when it comes to sanctuary cities and immigration, open defiance of federal regulation. Just like many inside the Beltway are in open defiance of the presidential election last November. But the economy is ticking up, and Trump is the reason why. There is economic growth. It’s outpacing anything Obama ever did.
The Drive-By Media has stories, “Ah, you can’t give Trump any credit. Why, this is six months in, you can’t credit him. If anybody, Obama should get the credit because it’s his policies that are still having sway over the economy.” It’s BS. Obama didn’t do one thing to open up the expansion of our economy. Obama opened up the expansion of our government, but not the expansion of the private sector economy.
The unemployment numbers today, U.S. hiring maintains strong pace, jobless rate ties 16-year low at 4.3%. The July unemployment rate matched May’s reading as the lowest since 2001. And the U.S. economy added 209,000 net jobs in July, beating expectations by more than 25,000 jobs. We’re still not where we should be on that. Job creation must accelerate if we are to gain the ground we lost during the so-called Great Recession of 2008 and the first four years of the Obama administration.
Now, we’ve got more sound coming up from Trump’s appearance last night. But what Trump demonstrated last night, much to the chagrin and hatred of the Washington establishment, is that he has a strong relationship with the American people. He has no relationship with anything or anyone in the Washington establishment. And this is unprecedented. We actually are in uncharted waters here.
If they’re able to pull this off, if they’re able to get rid of Trump with their silent coup, what it will ultimately mean is that they, in the establishment, will be able to nullify any presidential election they disapprove of. Uncharted, dangerous waters. The Constitution is in great peril here. And the great irony is that this is the case even though people who have, over the course of their lives, sworn to uphold it and protect it are the very ones launching this assault on it.
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RUSH: Here’s Trump addressing the Russia hoax in the West Virginia rally last night. This is good.
THE PRESIDENT: The Russia story is a total fabrication. It’s just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of American politics. That’s all it is. It just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about. What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.
RUSH: It’s your prosecutor! (Crowd chanting).
THE PRESIDENT: And they should be looking at the paid Russian speeches and the owned Russian companies. Or let them look at the uranium she sold that is now in the hands of very angry Russians.
RUSH: He’s got the power to make all of that happen. The prosecutors are his prosecutors. They’re over there at the Department of Justice, and they work for Jeff Sessions. He went on, we’ll have the sound bite coming up. “Have you seen any Russians here?” He’s asking the people of West Virginia. “Have you seen the Russians?”
The same kind of joke he told, “Hey, maybe you in the media, maybe the Russians can help us find Hillary’s emails. Hey, that’s right, if you Russians find the emails, 33,000, maybe you could give ’em to the media, ’cause they’re looking for ’em too.” And they thought that was an invitation to the Russians to hack Hillary’s server. No sense of humor, no common sense. But you heard that crowd’s reaction to all this, folks. You heard it. And the swamp watching that was not happy.
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RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites. This is Trump again. This is the next segment in his reference to the Russia situation. By the way, this audience last night ate this up. People have been craving Trump react to this and nuke it and blow it out of the water, and he did last night, and they loved it.
THE PRESIDENT: Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania?
CROWD: (laughing)
CROWD: (laughing)
THE PRESIDENT: They can’t beat us at the voting booths, so they’re trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want. They’re trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us — and, most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our Constitution.
RUSH: Play the next one right now. Back it up.
THE PRESIDENT: Democrat lawmakers will have to decide. They can continue their obsession with the Russian hoax or they can serve the interests of the American people.
CROWD: (cheers)
THE PRESIDENT: Try winning at the voter booth! Try winning at the voter booth. It’s not gonna be easy, but that’s the way you’re supposed to do it.
RUSH: Well, that’s what they can’t do, see? So the way they accommodate for that is they have all the judges. They have all the judges they can. They have all of the other systems that they can when they lose elections. But Trump is exactly right here, and people are craving this reaction, this push-back. Trump was known for it during the campaign, and he hasn’t done much push-back on this whole Russia hoax business, this collusion business since it began. But he did there and you see the reaction to it.
And people watching in the swamp are sitting there. Again, I just want to warn you: When they see all this unbridled support for Trump, it doesn’t tell them that maybe they’re doing something wrong. It steels their resolve to oppose Trump even more. They resent and despise your support for Trump. They hate it — and you will pay. You will pay. You don’t run anything. You voters? You klutzes? “You have no power. You don’t really control anything.” That’s what they’re demonstrating here.
They are trying to overturn a fairly constituted election, ’cause they don’t like the results. What they’re really saying is that your votes are irrelevant if you vote against the way they want things to go. In fact, grab sound bite number 10. This is Kellyanne Conway I’m looking for. Yeah, Kellyanne Conway. She was on Fox & Friends this morning. Steve Doocy said, “One of the things the president said last night that we hadn’t heard before is they’re trying to cheat you. What does he mean? What’s he talking about?”
RUSH: Right. So I think it’s abundantly clear. Trump is pointing this out. Jared Kushner got this whole theme going. Trump has picked it up. Now, Kellyanne Conway. It’s interesting. Grab sound bite number 16. Dr. Krauthammer last night on Tucker Carlson show (Chatsworth Osborne Jr. Tonight) said, “Nine months since he got elected from the very first day people were saying, ‘We’re gonna take him out.’ Now this investigation looks like it has the potential to take Trump out.” A grand jury was impaneled and all that. “If that were to happen — if these people were to take the president out — some of these voters might conclude that they’re really not allowed to pick their own president. Is that right, Charles?”
KRAUTHAMMER: We’re really headed into very choppy and dangerous constitutional waters. You’ve got a political establishment — mostly Democratic, but there are some Republicans — who would like to see him taken out of office.
RUSH: Absolutely.
KRAUTHAMMER: I think that would be a catastrophic mistake.
RUSH: Yep.
KRAUTHAMMER: It would cause a rupture in the country where people would say, “When we people, the ones who’ve been abandoned, elect somebody we like, our guy gets taken out, I thought we had a stable democracy.” Again, I think he’s unfit, but that’s not the grounds for removal.
RUSH: Dr. Krauthammer has to get both sides served there. I, of course, Dr. Krauthammer, thinks he’s unfit, but I don’t think that that’s grounds for taking him out. That doesn’t fall under high criminals and misdemeanors.
On the constitutional threat that’s represented or posed here, Dr. Krauthammer is exactly right. That’s how you all need to look at this. This is really an attempt at voter nullification. Same principle of jury nullification, which was a good example of what happened in the OJ trial.
The jury there simply said, “You know what? We probably think the guy did it, but we like him and we don’t care, and you have screwed us in this town for so many years that we’re gonna pay you back and let you see what it feels like.” And that’s what they did. You know, how many years of testimony did we get and the jury was out for three hours.
You know, half the lawyers were on their way up to lake Tahoe for the weekend and they had to be called back ’cause the jury was done three hours later, OJ’s acquitted. And when they did the jury interviews, they found that none of them paid any attention to Barry Scheck and the DNA testimony, none of it mattered. The only thing that mattered is the glove didn’t fit, you have to acquit. You know, Johnnie Coch. That was it. And the desire to show the LA city power structure what it feels like to have somebody you know is guilty get off. The African-Americans in LA said, “We’ve been putting up with this for years.”
It’s the same thing here. This is effectively voter nullification. The powers that be in Washington are simply saying, “You know what? We don’t like who you chose. Doesn’t matter to us who you chose, you don’t count, you’re irrelevant, screw the Constitution, we’re gonna get rid of this guy. And if we can’t get rid of him, we’re gonna paralyze him so that none of what wants to do, none of what you want him to do is gonna get done. (Raspberry) you.”
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