Posted on 12/21/2016 6:56:42 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Newt Gingrich. Audio sound bite number five. Newt was on NPR today, Morning Edition. By the way, I want to apologize to the staff. This is like the third day in a row that we've had a sound bite from NPR, and that means somebody is -- you turn on NPR and it's the hardest thing in the world not to fall asleep. And my staff even during the holidays performing yeoman duty. I mean, they watch CNN. They do screen MSNBC in case something that might survive the ban here, but now NPR. Newt was there today. Rachel Martin, cohost, Morning Edition, said, "What about Trump's often-stated promise to drain the swamp in Washington, Newt? What does that mean? What's he gonna do?"
GINGRICH: I'm told he now disclaims that. I've noticed on a couple of fronts, like people chanting "lock her up," that he's in a different role now, and maybe he feels that as president, you know, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators and swamps. I personally have, as a sense of humor, like the alligator-in-the-swamp language, and I think it vividly illustrates the problem because all the people in this city who are the alligators are gonna hate the swamp being drained and there's gonna be constant fighting over it. But, you know, he is my leader, and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.
RUSH: So Newt is gonna stop talking about draining the swamp because he's heard that Trump is telling people he wants to disclaim it, he wants to stop using it. I haven't heard that. Not that I would. We will see. You know, Trump is gonna continue doing rallies, I think wisely, and I'm just curious to see if he actually will cease using the phrase. I'm also -- you know when I hear something like this -- and, look, don't anybody call Newt and tell him I'm accusing him of anything here.
But every prominent person has people surrounding him, and many of the people surrounding the prominent person think they're smarter than the prominent person. Many of them are protective. Many of them are very loyal. But some of them are deathly afraid that the prominent person's gonna say something that constitutes stepping in it.
I've had this happen to me, which is why, ladies and gentlemen, I offer the possibility that maybe Trump isn't saying this at all. That there might be people in Trump's circle who wish he would stop saying it, who then go out and will tell Newt or any or number of people, "Yeah, yeah, Trump says he's not gonna use it anymore. He doesn't like the phrase."
Because, you know, in every prominent person's circle there are people -- and people are people -- and some of them don't like having to defend what the prominent person does or says, and some of them get nervous that they might be seen as defending something they wouldn't ordinarily defend. And there might be somebody in Trump's close circle that really doesn't like this "drain the swamp" talk. It might be somebody that has ties to the establishment, i.e., the swamp.
But look, prominent people, I don't care how prominent, I don't care how famous, I don't care how achieved, there are still people that are constantly trying to manipulate 'em. In fact, maybe even more so, there are people trying to manipulate them, trying to use them, telling other people how close they are when they really aren't. I mean, people like Trump who are riding the crest of a wave where all kinds of light and attention are being shined, there's a lot of people that want to be in that light.
There's a lot of people who want to be thought to be in the inner circle so that some of that attention might cast itself on them. Any number of things could explain it. And it could also be that Trump has disclaimed it, too. I'm just sharing with you the way I react to things like that. It's why I don't want anybody calling Newt and telling Newt that I am not believing what he said. That's not my point here.
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To really drain the swamp means firing 100,000 enemies of America entrenched in the bureaucracy (probably a low estimate). That's going to mean some large battles, and Trump does not release his battle plans.
Maybe he’s the guy that will come out and say things like this just so the ‘fake news’ will have something to write about...lol...
Provide at least some evidence of such a spectacular claim. Other than that you believe it.
Read your bible...
If Trump was told something like that in private, he’d step out the door and say, “Hey, everybody, this guy right here just threatened my life.” He certainly wouldn’t bow and scrape before some political thug hack.
Not even a specific verse?
I like your term better.
Trump and his team will take Washington like Alexander and his Macedonians roared into Persia - the entrenched, much larger enemy army will face the lighting, asymmetrical warfare that it has never seen.
I believe Trump will outflank, out-PR, and outdo the sclerotic bureaucrats. It will be like the 16 dwarves + Hillary in the recent campaign - they won’t know what hit them.
Remember Scott Adams’ opinion of Trump’s Persuasion Skills?
He said in July 2015 (referring to the upcoming campaign):
“Trump is bringing a flamethrower to a stick fight.”
His persuasion is just getting started. Watch him unexpectedly turn some opponents, and use his connection with the voters to turn the heat up on obstructionists.
Get the popcorn, folks. Its going to happen.
Before you all get bent out of shape, if you look at the links at the bottom of Rush’s site where the transcript of the segment of the show is you will notice that it comes from the Washington Compost. So for all we know it could very well be Fake News by the Washington Compost, or the author who wrote it for the Washington Compost
Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend, who heard it from another you’d been messing around....
Since when does Newt speak for Donald Trump? There’s a reason he wasn’t offered a job in the new administration. He is a loquacious over the hill narcissist.
In all of his rallies, once “Drain the Swamp” took hold, Trump would say he didn’t like the expression, thought it was hokey. Doesn’t mean he’s not going to see to it that the swamp is, in fact, drained by whatever term he finds more appealing. It has to be done. Start at DOJ, State... and move on from there.
“If, by chance, this is true ...”
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My guess would be that it’s tactical. It’s not exactly wise to constantly force your enemy to keep his guard up by shouting your intentions into his face.
Fake news? After everything that’s been said and done I find this a little hard to believe. Still we need term limits and there are many that need to step down because they have become too entrenched into the system to work for the people instead of themselves.
Exactly.
***** As long as he drains the swamp I do not care what the terminology is. *****
I don’t take anything at face value from the media. They are no longer trustworthy. That is why I qualified my statement. I expect Trump to do what he said - that is his reputation. I also believe Sessions is going to be a whole different animal than what we have become accustomed to at DOJ. He is a buttkicker and I pray he kicks a lot of butt.
Amen to that. The crybaby #nevertrumpers are more entertaining to me than the typical liberal these days.
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