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Don’t Let Them Succeed in Their Pursuit to Destroy Donald Trump
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 12, 2018 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/12/2018 4:49:20 PM PST by Kaslin

RUSH: So, if you are just tuning in, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, fixer, whatever, has just been sentenced to three years in jail, 36 months in prison, federal prison. Primarily because he worked for Donald Trump.

Actually, his crimes that he’s being sent to prison for, the really bad ones have nothing to do with Trump. He engaged in massive $1.4 million tax fraud, has to make restitution of that. There’s a $500,000 reimbursement he’s gotta make to somebody and a $50,000 fine. So he’s gonna be sentenced in about three months. What’s he gonna be doing in the next three months? (interruption) Well, no. He’s not gonna be doing interviews yet.

By the way, I need to correct something. I said that now that he’s been sentenced and he’s testified that his use to the media has ended and expired. I need to amend that. That’s not true. This guy’s gonna have 60 Minutes profiles while he’s in prison. “What have you learned? Would you have accepted job offers from Donald Trump knowing what you know now? What is your opinion of Donald Trump as president? What did you think of Donald Trump’s buildings? Did you ever know of him taking shortcuts that risked the sanctity of his structures?”

It’s never gonna end in that regard until they get rid of Trump, and, even if they’re able to do that, they’re not gonna stop trying to destroy Trump. More of that in just a second here. No, the next three months he’s not gonna be doing any media because he’s going to be exclusively chatting with Robert Mueller. And I know this because of Lanny Davis’s statement. Lanny Davis is a lawyer, and Lanny Davis issued pretty much a statement that you can read between the lines and the stitches on a fastball, both of which I am proficient at doing, it’s very clear that Cohen is going to spend whatever time Mueller wants in the next three months, if Mueller wants sleepovers with Cohen, that’s what Cohen’s gonna do.

Whatever Cohen can say to Mueller about Trump to get that sentence reduced is what these next three months are gonna be. He’s going to try to satisfy Mueller. Now, we all know what that’ll mean. So that Mueller will think that his contributions have been significant and may in fact warrant a reduced jail sentence in which Mueller could file a petition, brief of the court informing the judge that Mueller has been even more cooperative than anybody ever imagined and, as such, Judge, we recommend taking a couple weeks off the sentence or whatever they’re gonna do.

I still think that what Cohen has done here is really attempt to ingratiate himself with the media. This is really what he wants. He want to be a media darling, a media hero. He wants to be treated with adulation and respect for the rest of his life in the Drive-By Media. And he’s taken the big first step in so doing by appearing to help in the effort to get rid of Donald Trump.

Now, we also learned just before the previous hour ended that the prosecutors at the SDNY, the U.S. attorney’s office Southern District of Manhattan, New York and Manhattan, have made a deal with the clown that runs the National Enquirer, Pecker, is that his name, David Pecker?

See, Pecker was given immunity along with Cohen because Pecker was involved with one of these women. He paid, the National Enquirer paid I think it was Karen McDougal, that’s her name, $150,000 for her story, meaning her story with and about Trump and then promptly buried the story, did not run the story.

And people are saying that’s another illegal campaign contribution. This guy at the Enquirer, he was reimbursed 150 grand for paying that babe and then he sat on her story and that would have been harmful to Trump, therefore it’s an illegal campaign donation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It isn’t either. None of these two payments, neither of them constitute impeachable offenses, and neither of them constitute campaign contribution violations. They just don’t. And again, if they do, there are 268 members of Congress who are just as guilty and of course they’re not and they will never be prosecuted. But granting immunity — and there’s been a further deal made with the Enquirer guy. And I’ll tell you where that’s going.

It is, and I may be saying something to you that’s been obvious forever, as it has been to me. But, my friends, I can’t impress upon you any more than I already have this effort to get rid of Donald Trump is as focused and as intense and as purposeful and as energized as it has ever been. There is and has to be a literal hatred for the man, all based on one thing: that he ran for and won the presidency.

Donald Trump would not be facing any of this so-called legal jeopardy that he’s facing today had he never run for the presidency. And if he had lost, he wouldn’t be facing any of this. But this encompasses the Department of Justice. That’s the SDNY. U.S. attorney, Southern District New York, that’s the Department of Justice. Robert Mueller, special counsel, Department of Justice, the FBI, intelligence community, they are still unified, and they are working hand in hand to destroy Donald Trump. They will not stop.

If they have to destroy his business, they will. If they have to destroy his family, they will. They want to. They are pursuing Donald Trump with more fervor and energy than I have seen them pursue terrorists. I have seen Department of Justice terrorists argue for leniency for terrorists and take terrorists’ side against waterboarding or so-called torture.

I have seen people in the DOJ and the Obama DOJ have more solicitousness and more tolerance and more understanding for people who participated in 9/11 than they have for Donald Trump. It is flat-out amazing. And then you add to that group of people the entirety of the mainstream media, and I’ve never seen anything like this.

I was alive during the pursuit of Richard Nixon, and I’m telling you officially now that the pursuit of Richard Nixon pales in comparison to what is going on here. It’s personal and professional, like it was with Nixon. They despise Donald Trump personally. And it’s over the most childish things. They don’t like that he tweets. They don’t like what he says when he tweets. They don’t like that they think he’s stupid! They don’t like that they think he’s unsophisticated.

What they really don’t like is that he doesn’t know his place. And his place is Queens. He’s not even qualified to be in Manhattan society. He’s an interloper in Manhattan. His family’s from Queens. He’s not even in the upper strata of New York society. And he doesn’t deserve to be, and he’s pretending top, and he did everything he could to succeed and become a force in Manhattan, and they resent the hell out of it.

The fact that he then took that success and entered the political sphere, that’s theirs. They own it. They determine who succeeds and who doesn’t. They determine who profits and who doesn’t, and they haven’t been able to lay a glove on him so far, and they can’t believe it, and they are frustrated to no end. They have thrown everything they have, from fake news to phony allegations from anonymous sources from the intelligence community for a year and a half and every major newspaper and cable network in this country. They have lied, they have blasphemed, they have impugned, they have done everything they can to cast Donald Trump in as inhuman a light as they know how to do.

He has survived it. They think the Democrats winning the House is step one in getting rid of him. But they’re not gonna leave it to elections. They’re mad at you for electing him in the first place. They have as much resentment for those of you who voted for him as they have of him. It has gone beyond a simple political objective to get rid of somebody they think is a political opponent. It is now deeply personal with every one of these people involved.

They are pursuing people on the basis of criminality that they ignore, behavior they ignore in 99% of the population. They are calling acts that Donald Trump has engaged in that people all over this country engage in multiple times a day, they’re calling it criminal, and in some cases, the worst crime in American history. The crime is that Trump won. The crime is that he outsmarted them. The crime is that he has not sought to include them in his administration.

He has not sought their counsel. He’s not sought their advice. He has not asked them to become part of what he’s doing. He continues to criticize them open and in some cases by name. And this is simply not permitted in this club. Donald Trump apparently represents an even greater threat to the elites of Washington and New York than we even knew. And it obviously goes beyond whatever policies Trump believes in. It goes beyond immigration issues and the wall and travel bans and this.

When they start criticizing Trump because of his hair and the way he speaks and he’s not sophisticated, it is the essence of irrational personal, irrationality personal. It’s difficult to describe. They are attempting to scare and frighten anybody who might agree to join his administration. They are trying to make Donald Trump a poisonous pariah who will result in anybody working for him being destroyed.

The message is, “You see what we’re doing to Trump? If you join him, you become his chief of staff, you become this or that, we’re gunning for you too. Don’t care how much we’ve love you had in the past, don’t care how much we’ve respected you. If you join this guy we’re gonna destroy you right along with our efforts to destroy him.” They want to isolate Donald Trump so that the only thing he has is his voters. Because in the big scheme of things, the voters don’t really matter to these people. Otherwise they wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing.

They’re attempting, right in front of our eyes, to overturn the result of the 2016 election. There is no sanctity of the vote. There is no acquiescence to the will of the people. There is resentment for it. There’s contempt for it and for you who voted for him. And I think they’ve now concluded that separating you from him is the last thing, and it’s probably gonna be the hardest to do. They’re still gonna try to drive his approval numbers. The easiest way to get rid of him would be to succeed in driving his approval numbers down to 30. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if in opinion polls — not now, but starting in 2019. These people can poll whatever they want and they can report whatever they want. They can ask any question they want designed to get any answer they want.

So don’t be surprised if you see Trump approval numbers start to show at 43, 42, then 40, and there’s gonna be that magical day when the Trump approval number is 39. And when that happens, you’re gonna think that it’s Christmas Day to these people as you watch them report it. But that’s the objective because they know they don’t have impeachable offenses, and they know that the likelihood of getting 67 senators to vote to impeach, if Trump’s approval numbers are in the forties, mid-forties or higher, is probably not going to happen.

The Republicans run the Senate, even though there’s probably a lot of them there that despise Trump, they’re not gonna slit their own throats unless Trump’s numbers are down to the thirties, preferably the low thirties. Then there’s nothing to lose by joining the chorus of demands that he leave.

I’ve been aware of the seriousness of this and of the intensity of this from the get-go. But just watching cable news today in the Cohen plea, the aftermath of the Cohen sentencing and then the announcement, the glee with which the deal that’s just been made with the National Enquirer people and realizing that this is coming from the Southern District of New York. This isn’t even coming from Mueller, although they are working hand in hand, don’t misunderstand. But these are not Mueller pronouncements, Mueller deals. They’re not part of the collusion with Russia business.

This is totally ancillary stuff. That the only reason any of this stuff is even usable is because regulations were violated and a crime was not specified when Mueller was named. So Mueller has basically been able to go out and find or invent or create any crime he wants. And remember with these people they don’t have find a crime. They just have to say they did. They don’t have to find an impeachable offense. They just have to say they have. All they gotta do is get those words in the media: impeachable offense, high crimes and misdemeanors, Donald Trump campaign violations, Donald Trump paying off porn stars.

The never-ending assault. And it’s simply because they can’t stand to have this guy in their midst. They cannot stand to have this guy in the White House. And I dare say that in many cases, in the case of many people, the things Donald Trump is accomplishing, the agenda and issue items that Donald Trump is succeeding with are things that many of these people have devoted their lives to and they still hate the guy and they still want him gone and they still can’t stand it. It’s a class thing. And by class, I mean, high class, low class, upper class, elites, ruling class versus the hoi polloi.

But it’s despicable, what is happening here. And very eye opening for a lot of people who didn’t think things like this could ever happen in the United States. This is the kind of stuff that happens in totalitarian regimes, but not here, but yet here it is happening day to day right in front of our eyes.

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RUSH: Folks, now, look. I didn’t tell you all this stuff to be fatalistic about it. I’m trying to keep you engaged and supportive and involved in this. Don’t misunderstand the last opening monologue of the hour. That’s not “woe is us and it’s over.” It’s designed to keep you ticked off and loyal and not just to Trump, but loyal to what Trump represents.

Remember, the issues that we all care about existed before Trump. Trump is the guy who came along and finally gave voice to them in a way that people believed he meant it. This is not meant to disparage Trump. But this movement and these issues and these desires are gonna remain even after Trump serves his two terms, if he does. Trump has capitalized. Trump has the benefited. Trump has more than benefited. He has taken a movement here and personalized it and made it his own.

But it’s not that if Trump goes, the movement goes. It’s not gonna go. And so the point here is to remain engaged and do not let them succeed in driving his approval numbers down to the thirties, even though they may issue polling data that is made up to try to do that. It’s gonna be risky because if it’s not true, somebody can go out and prove that in a legitimate poll.

So please do not misunderstand what I just did here as an honest characterization of the status quo. I meant that as a means of firing people up, not depressing you. You gotta know what we’re up against. And, I mean, if some of you been asking, “Can’t Trump do something to make these people –” No! He can’t do anything to make them like him. There’s no a matter of behaving presidentially that’s gonna change this. These people have to be stopped and defeated.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cohen; rush
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1 posted on 12/12/2018 4:49:20 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin; Howie66; ZULU; bitt; hoosiermama; unkus; SkyPilot; rodguy911

This is what the Democrats want to keep a secret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qAjCkfbeY


2 posted on 12/12/2018 4:55:52 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Kaslin

As far as I can tell, he did very little lawyering.


3 posted on 12/12/2018 4:59:42 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Destroying Donald Trump means destroying you and me


4 posted on 12/12/2018 5:00:21 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Kaslin

They already have el gordo de oxycontino.

Maybe you should’ve sounded the alarm during the O’muslim usurpation instead of hitting with the flat of the sword.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 5:00:26 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Kaslin

I just contacted the Whitehouse to remind them PDJT hasn’t tweeted his real approval numbers in a while.


6 posted on 12/12/2018 5:07:21 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (PDJT, please re-teach the nation that crony capitalism is not capitalism!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

They already have el gordo de oxycontino.

Maybe you should’ve sounded the alarm during the O’muslim usurpation instead of hitting with the flat of the sword.
...
Dude, tear off the rear view mirror and forgive already...fight with whom and what you have, not whine about what you didn’t have.


7 posted on 12/12/2018 5:09:55 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (PDJT, please re-teach the nation that crony capitalism is not capitalism!)
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To: Maskot

Amen! That is what they want to do. President Trump stands in their way. He protects us and we should protect him. They also want to destroy our Constitutional form of Government along with our Constitution. And put in its place a segment of the One World Government.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 5:12:12 PM PST by sport
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To: Kaslin

Unless some democrats go to jail this is never going to end.


9 posted on 12/12/2018 5:13:07 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: sport
Bingo! I have never had an issue with someone who differs politically from me in the past. Today, not so much. I want zero to do with any leftist whatsoever. I even dumped by bff of 35 years cuz she became batshit lefty insane crazy starting in 2015. I don’t miss her 😊
10 posted on 12/12/2018 5:17:09 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Kaslin

so far...not a single thing any of these two-bit actors has done, or even allegedly done, proves that PDJT did anything bad at all

nothing nada nil zilch

(but all these headlines and charges prove beyond question that the Muller witch hunt is both desperate and desperately in deed of SHUTTING DOWN!)


11 posted on 12/12/2018 5:22:04 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE) Is)
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To: Mr. K
"Unless some democrats go to jail this is never going to end."

Indeed, President Trump has never had control of the DOJ nor the FBI and it is still full of Democrat operatives. Unless he gains real, aggressive pro Trump management at all levels of these two agencies, the slow bleeding and attacks will continue.

12 posted on 12/12/2018 6:10:37 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Jeff Sessions has done so much damage to this nation.


13 posted on 12/12/2018 6:38:12 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred
Jeff Sessions has done so much damage to this nation.

Completely agree with you there. Every day it infuriates me more and more how his recusal created the still evolving disaster with Mueller, now made worse by the loss of the House. No one can blame the President for being furious with Sessions. On top of that is the wasting of two precious years we can't get back chasing after potheads. Silent assassin indeed, but against us not our enemies.

14 posted on 12/13/2018 12:28:15 AM PST by Dahoser
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To: sport
Your post is beautifully put...especially this..."He protects us and we should protect him. They also want to destroy our Constitutional form of Government along with our Constitution."

"They" being the radical left, a dangerous mixture of Marxism/communism.

15 posted on 12/13/2018 10:59:29 AM PST by yoe (Are the eliets playing hard ball with our freedoms and our Constitution?)
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To: yoe

Thank you for the kind words.


16 posted on 12/13/2018 11:15:28 AM PST by sport
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To: Kaslin

Brilliant.


17 posted on 12/14/2018 6:37:21 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Kaslin

Rush says “It’s never gonna end in that regard UNTIL THEY GET RID OF TRUMP.” Sloppy sentence structure or Rush’s way of once again ramping up our angst and fears? Revealing his own nervous Nellie-ness? Or that he’s in constant conversation with other nervous Nellies?

This isn’t the first time Limbaugh has signaled to us that Trump is doomed. Trump was supposed to be the victim of a soft coup and gone by this time, according to Rush’s projections in 2017.

“I didn’t tell you all this stuff to be fatalistic about it. I’m trying to keep you engaged and supportive and involved in this.” Like we need you to stay engaged? BS. That’s code for “keep on listening to me and hanging on my every word about what’s coming next.” He is pointlessly injecting fear into the hearts of his listeners. How ridiculous. He stupidly identifies with Trump’s outsider status which Trump has always easily brushed off throughout his entire career. Rush, not so much. A midget identifying with a giant.


18 posted on 12/14/2018 12:05:42 PM PST by GoKnow
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