I can give you the skinny on Rush Limbaugh’s reporting of Trump during the primary, but frankly we need men like Rush. He does serve his audience’s needs, and I think his favoring of Cruz was due to patriotism.
Rush was never brazenly anti-Trump [frequenly defended him], but he did favor Cruz over Trump, and for the most part I respectly disagreed until Rush tried to portray a convention rebellion [by delegates] as ‘victory’. That was a mistake. He did not realize how that would be perceived. When he did, Rush tempered his remarks.
He tried to egg on callers to Trump bash a few times. He sometimes got tricked by a Cruz phone bank [that’s how it seemed to me anyway] but the phone bank tactic always led to a massive pro-Trump backlash.
But I repeat — Rush is a patriot IMHO. Cruz lite and ‘never Hillary’.