Posted on 10/26/2015 3:16:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay, coming up next, the Donald Trump sound bites as we provide a contrast between Mitt Romney and the Republican establishment and the way they're going about things versus Trump. Trump did essentially a town hall in New Hampshire today on the Today Show with Matt Lauer interrupting with questions. It was clear that Matt Lauer is part of the establishment crowd that does not get the nature of the crisis that most Americans sense in the country. And why would he? Matt Lauer has a couple houses, a horse farm, $15 million a year and what have you. Matt Lauer needs a visa to get to Iowa so all of this is very strange to him. He's one of these people that can't believe Trump's still in the campaign, much less leading it. He should have been gone long ago.
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RUSH: Now, we go to the audio sound bites just to provide contrast here with, you know, Mitt Romney lamenting the old days, longing for the days of the legacy media, the three networks and the two newspapers and everybody getting the same facts, and, gee, it was so much easier then. Compromise and collaboration and working with the other side was so much easier. The contrast of that in the Republican primaries is three people: Trump, Carson, and Cruz. And maybe Rubio, throw Rubio in there. But Christie and some of these others, it's clear that the guiding principle for them is to win the nomination by showing they can compromise with the Democrats and work with the left.
Now, the Today show today televised a Trump town hall in New Hampshire. Matt Lauer was permitted to intrude on this town hall by interviewing Trump and asking Trump some questions. So Matt Lauer, in our first sound bite, said to Trump, "Did you see 60 Minutes over the weekend? Joe Biden was on. He said this about you. He said he's disappointed in you. He said --" You know what else he said, by the way? Folks, you know what else Biden said? Keep an eye on Biden. Joe Biden said that that story that Maureen wrote about that Beau Biden on his deathbed begged his dad to run for president. Biden said he never said that, that's not true, he didn't tell Maureen Dowd that, that that whole story of the deathbed plea, "Dad, you gotta do it, you gotta run," never happened.
Folks, about Biden, let me tell you, that speech that he gave in the Rose Garden last week when he announced he wasn't gonna run, that was a speech you give when you are running. And I'm just telling you that I don't think Biden's out of this. I still think that there are all kinds of things in files somewhere about Hillary and about Obama, and it wouldn't take much to leak 'em. Let me just put it this way. As the fall turns to winter, I would not be among those surprised if Joe Biden reverses field. He's got that speech he can hearken back to. It laid out his agenda. It laid out what he would do and what his campaign would be if he did run. It didn't jibe with somebody announcing he wasn't gonna run, was gonna get out of what he wasn't into in the first place. It sounded exactly like somebody who is running. So we'll see.
But, anyway, back to this sound bite. Matt Lauer asked Trump, "You see 60 Minutes over the weekend? Joe Biden was on. He said he's disappointed in you. He said your attacks on immigrants are unhealthy and beneath this country. And he says that he hopes you don't believe your own words. How would you respond to that?"
TRUMP: When it comes to illegal immigration, we have to stop it. Our country, people are pouring across our borders, and if you don't have borders, you don't have a country. We have to stop illegal immigration. In addition to bringing drugs and bringing lots of problems, tremendous amounts of crime, whether it's Kate in San Francisco or Jamiel in Los Angeles, or the woman the other day that just got raped by an illegal immigrant, a 66-year-old veteran raped, sodomized, and killed.
LAUER: But I just --
TRUMP: Matt, we have to stop illegal immigration.
RUSH: By the way, also in my Stack today, you would not believe the stories out of Europe and the refugee migrants there. Europe is being conquered. Europe is being overrun right now and very few in governing positions in Europe are doing anything to stop it. And some are now beginning to get panicked over what they now see happening. You've got able-bodied men from desert climates standing in line freezing to death in rain, wind, and snow to get into these countries. In one little hamlet in Germany of 60 people, 1,500 migrants are going to be housed in some no-longer-used building.
So right there that town has been already overtaken. That town, whatever it is, in Germany's been conquered. Sixty people live there; 1,500 migrants are being housed in one building there, soon to be taking it over. And that story is repeating itself over and over again, country after country in Europe. So Trump's right about this. Next, Matt Lauer said, "Well, I went back and I read from your famous book, The Art of the Deal, you wrote this: 'I play to people's fantasies. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration, a very effective form of promotion.' Would it be fair to say that that describes your campaign so far, Trump?"
TRUMP: Look, I'm just telling the facts. The facts are we have a country that's going bad. We have a hundred million people that are in a workforce that can't work. Our real unemployment number is probably 22 to 30%. We have nothing but problems. We make incompetent deals with Iran. That deal is the most incompetent deal I've ever seen. I'm not just talking about between countries. I've never seen a dumber contract in my life. Obamacare is a disaster. People's premiums are going up 55%. Their deductibles are so high that nobody's ever gonna get to use it. We have a country that is in serious trouble, and I think that's why I'm leading in every poll, because I will solve the problem.
RUSH: Right. There's maturation here occurring with Trump. In the past, months ago with these two questions he would have insulted Matt Lauer and, you know, told him to get on a train on Mexico or something and to stop wasting his time with silly questions and you can't even read a book, what do you mean telling me that my campaign's what I said? Can't you read? Can't you watch what I'm doing? But instead he restrains himself and just continues to say and articulate his message regardless of the inane question that he got.
We watched a segment of that Townhall and Rush is right. Trump has really stepped it up. He now sounds Presidential and he has a lot more detail in his arguments.
I just pray that Trump doesn’t have a “gotcha” moment when he makes a left turn on immigration or any of the other issues.
Nobody else running gives a rip about America but him.
I think that Carson and Cruz give a rip but they are beholden too much to their own ethnicities.
Trump did not answer the question about HOW he would deport the illegals other than mention Ike’s trains. The Donald needs to bone up on E-Verify and the elimination of all benefits and thus the resultant self-deportation of illegal aliens. BTW, I’m a Trump/Cruz fan..
Personally I believe Trump plans to do all of the above. Just announcing you are going to start rounding people up and deporting them will kick off a massive self deportation wave. That’s why IMO Trump says he does not want to build the wall for the 18-24 month’s he thinks it will take to get most of the illegals out. I’m sure he wants an open door going back to Mehico.
Here’s the thing. Would you rather get scooped up at work or on the street and thrown on a bus back to the motherland or pack up all your stuff and drive your truck back?
I also think Trump is going to use E-Verify and try to cut the welfare off and whatever other magnets so they don’t want to come here so badly.
That self-deportation strategy seems to be very workable — provided that it is allowed to work. What do you think the Courts would do about it? Would, say, the SCOTUS require the government to continue to pay benefits?
Nice plan and synopsis. Thanks, and I pray you’re right.
Agreed!
to bone up on E-Verify
I’m curious what E-verify would do to all those
democrats who have illegals working for their campaigns?
Donald Trump Speech - [non-]Crazy moments 2015 (Funny)
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