Posted on 01/04/2018 1:13:02 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Im being asked to explain something I said in the first half hour. Lets take the Wolff book for example. Heres the dilemma Im in, folks. I dont like gossiping and I dont like saying, Well, I was told, and, Somebody told me, and, Somebody said that You know, I trust the people that Im quoting here, but I dont really know if its true. I can just tell you that some of the things that I have read, the excerpts in that chapter in the Michael Wolff book that was excerpted Some of its at The Guardian. I forget where the
The Hollywood Reporter was last night. Some of it is in direct contravention to what people quoted in that book said to me about things. Now, I know its unfair to tell you this. What are you talking about? Well, if I repeat it here, Im spreading gossip. This is a dilemma that I having. And Im also sitting here, you know, trying to determine was what I was originally told the case or the truth. Therefore, not having personal knowledge of many of these people, its hard to weigh in here factually. But I guess I could go this way.
In this excerpt, Roger Ailes and Steve Bannon are portrayed as allies who are attempting to move forward an objective and so forth, and theyre friends and so forth. That was news to me, is all Ill say. That whole conversation that took place at dinner thats excerpted in the book, I was reading that and I said, This doesnt jibe with what people that are quoted here have told me. So Im in a situation personally where Im not knowing which is which now.
So then I have to ask myself, Well, would one of the people involved in this have told me the truth about it? Because everybody exaggerates, and everybody wants to make themselves seem important and relevant and close to the seat of power. So you have to have a filter for some of this stuff and thats why I read these excerpts and I read these reports, and I know some of the people involved well, and Ive met others, but dont know them well. And a lot of it just doesnt make sense with things that Ive heard previously.
So maybe as more of this unfolds and more excerpts The book is eventually gonna get published, especially now with the cease-and-desist order from the presidents lawyer. Thats gonna guarantee the thing gets published. Its going to guarantee that the thing is widely read. Here is the president last night, and this is a straight-up comparison. Bannons been all over the place. I mean, Bannon has been thought of as Trumps right-hand man on policy, agenda, populism, advancing the Trump agenda and all this.
And, at other occasions, Bannon has appeared to be at great conflict with Trump, thinking that Trump doesnt know what hes doing, that Bannon is the reason anything happened. Hes giving interviews to reporters and conveying that point of view. He goes on 60 Minutes and then contradicts that. Hes back to saying the Russian collusion story is a nothing burger. Nothing to it. Trump is great. Its all over the ballpark. You cant keep track of it. And then I start asking, Why is everybody so fascinated and interested in this?
Its because Bannon was close to the seat of power.
So, the book comes out, the excerpt comes out yesterday, and it just excoriates. This book just destroys the Trump White House. It destroys Trump, it destroys Melania, it destroys Trumps family, it destroys Ivanka, it destroys Jared Kushner, it destroys everybody. It makes it look like Trump didnt want to win, had no idea how to win, was devastated when he did win, that his wife was crying when they won, that he didnt want to be inaugurated and then he did. After a while, Trump did a giant 180 and really was excited about winning and couldnt wait to be sworn in, couldnt wait to start doing his agenda.
Okay, so heres a guy who didnt want to win. Thats what this excerpt in this book claims. He didnt want to win. His wife was promised! Trump promised Melania they wouldnt win. And you go and you look at how hard Trump was campaigning and you look at all the rallies and you look at how he was on message at every rally, sometimes five a day. And every one of those rallies was overflowing, and every one of those rallies had the same energy. And there was no doubt that there was something happening in this campaign.
And it did not look like a campaign of a bunch of people who wanted to lose. Now, I could understand if a lot of them thought they had no prayer of winning. I mean, everybody thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide. Everybody thought that. All the smart people, all of the media, all of the Washington establishment everybody thought that Hillary was gonna win. This book purports to say that Trump thought the same thing, that hes doing this to become the most famous guy in the world.
That hes doing this to set up more and more business opportunities after the campaign is over. Or that hes doing this to start his own news network with Roger Ailes (that was a crock), or that hes doing this to do whatever. I mean, there were any number of reasons why he was doing this, but not one of them was to win. And then you measure that against Trumps messages during the rallies and during the campaign; it doesnt look like a guy that didnt want to win.
Now, if you talk about didnt expect to win, thats another thing. That requires getting in somebodys head or having very close relationship with em where they open up and tell you the truth. But there was none of that leaked during the campaign that Trump didnt expect to win, that Trump didnt want to win. This is one of these things that happens after the fact. Everybodys denying it.
Melanias denying it. Trump is denying it. Now theyre sending out the cease-and-desist order, and Trump had a reaction. This was this morning at the White House. There was a meeting with Republican senators. After that, they had their little gaggle with the media Q&A. A reporter said, Did Steve Bannon betray you, Mr. President?
TRUMP: I dont know. He called me a great man last night. So, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick.
REPORTERS: (shouting questions)
THE PRESIDENT: All right. Thank you all very much. Thank you.
REPORTERS: (shouting questions)
THE PRESIDENT: I dont talk to him. I dont talk I dont talk to him.
REPORTERS: (questions)
THE PRESIDENT: Thats just a misnomer. Thank you.
RUSH: They issued a 36-paragraph statement or Trump issued a statement last night essentially saying, Bannons nobody. He had nothing to do with my campaign, had nothing to do with my winning. Im my own strategist. Well, then why was he there? And he was there. He was a CEO of the campaign; then became the White House chief strategist. Now, whatever they want to say, he was there; Trump did hire him and he put him at the chief executive position the campaign.
So Bannon is running around alternately saying that hes the guy that got Trump elected, that hes the guy that gave Trump the agenda items, that hes the guy that kept Trump going day after day, that Trump this or that. He goes out and he does newspaper stories and interviews TIME magazine covers claiming to be the energy behind the Trump presidency, the reason Trump won.
That infuriates Trump, but Trump doesnt fire him then. Then we get stories that the way to get to Trump is ego. Flatter Trump. If you go out there and claim that youre the brains behind the operation, youre finished. Youre through. But Bannon survived all that. The straw that broke the camels back was when it was conclusively proven that Bannon was the big leaker. I think they knew it all along.
They just they waited for an example of it that was unforgivable, and it happened, and so hes gone. So Bannons out, depending on the day, supporting Trump and saying, Im all in with Trumps agenda. Ill never gonna do anything other than help Trump. The next day, he says the exact opposite, setting himself up maybe to run for president 2020. Hes the guy running the real populist revolution in America, not Trump and so forth. Im watching all this thinking, This is delusions of grandeur.
So the book comes out. The book is being excerpted and Bannons excoriating Trump and calling the Russia collusion treason and he knew it from the get-go and anybody could have seen it. Its only a matter of time and Robert Mueller is gonna crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV. Its over. Everybody can see it like the hair on a face. And then Trumps lawyer sends the cease and desist letter out, and last night Breitbart News Tonight, heres Bannon talking about Trump
BANNON: The president United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out, whether going through the country giving the Trump Miracle speech or on the show or on the website. So I dont think you have to worry about that.
RUSH: Okay. So, folks, you can do with this whatever you want. Somethings going on. Theres either some grand strategy being played out here. This is a coordinated effort with some objective that we cant see, dont know, or everybody involved heres got a screw loose and is just totally into whatever they can get for themselves on a day-to-day basis, and that probably is more likely.
I will say that Drudges photo of Mr. Wolff person made my gaydar needle slam to 11
Michael Wolff writing, quoted in the Guardian. If that’s not credible...what is?/s
Wolffe has a pregnant girlfriend that’s almost 30 yrs younger!
Interesting that THIS came out same time it’s about to blow sky high over the fake dossier.......
He sure looks like a weirdo there.
He sure looks like a weirdo there.
Democrats never do this to each other. The egos in our Party are so freaking ginormous.
Just view this tabloid trash as a piece of fiction and ignore it going forward. That’s my plan anyway.
No way to tell what is truth or smear. Heck; it could be turned into a game show “Truth or Smear”.
Trump wanting to lose? Not a chance. Completely out of character for him. Completely.
Thats all I have to hear to dismiss Wolffs book as pure noise from someone who wants to be a big shot.
He did not want to win? What do they mean? That Hillary was more desperate for winning because as a criminal and parasite she needed more badly than independent Trump?
Basically liberals are spinning the Hillary and Ghetto Obama despair to win ar all cost and engaging foreign terrorist aid to win as Trump not wanting to win... But they cannot have it both WAyS! Was Trump not willing to win and yet had attack sharks enlisting the Russians and Area 51 aliens for his win!?!?
Give me a break, this book is total bull sht of typical feminine liberal
contradiction and listing of all ills whether they make any sense or not. It is a false illogical diagnosis.
If Trump did not want to win, then why would he enlist Russians?
Isn’t it weird Harry Reid who wants treasonously and allegorically enlist aliens of Area 51?
Democrats in big cities always have gone to see mafias and deug dealers to get funding because they are not independently wealthy like Trump... so I suppose it makes them more ruthless to win, even to the point of
suicide
Grand illusion. Trump and Bannon are drawing fire while something else is being done under the table. They play the media like fiddles.
Trump did open up All of the coastlines for drilling today which now will be buried in the news. Maybe part of the strategy.
Losing is just not in President Trumps nature.
He would have been forever branded as The Loser. He would never have signed up for that. The Presidents entire life has been about winning, and winning big.
If an author insists on making things up about famous people, he should have at least the most rudimentary understanding of human nature.
Let me guess: Bannon has a book coming out, too.
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