Posted on 02/19/2017 9:19:41 AM PST by markomalley
The media will fail to destroy President Trump because he is not a typical Republican, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Sunday.
"The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him," Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday."
Limbaugh claimed the media have a "blueprint for destroying" Republicans they disagree with, but they won't take Trump down.
"He doesn't fit that mold. They're trying to every day. It's kind of comical to watch," he said referring to the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS and NBC, among others.
In a tweet Friday, Trump referred to major news outlets as the "enemy of the American people."
Limbaugh said "there's something to" Trump's tweet.
"Trump has a connection with his voters that most politicians don't have ... and that connection that he has is not anything that anybody else can break. Only he can break it."
Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus warned in an interview that aired Sunday that the president's comments should be taken seriously.
Priebus slammed the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for publishing stories on the Trump campaign's contact with Russian officials during the election and on the intel community refusing to give the president a full intelligence briefing.
"Both stories are grossly inaccurate, overstated, overblown, and it's total garbage," he said. "And the American people suffer. So I do think it's a problem. And I think that the media needs to, in some cases, not every case, but in some cases really needs to get its act together."
Wallace comes across as being a nervous wreck. Rush knew how to handle the situation today.
Rove is one of the old hands who handled Bush. He tries to be smart even though sometimes he isn’t.
That's because part of the media's template for taking down Republicans takes into account the fact that Republican politicians tend to fold like a cheap suit when they are confronted by a hostile press. The Repub. wants to be liked, so they will be intimidated into going along with what the media wants, rather than stand up for what their constituents want. This is one of the main reasons some Republicans lost seats a few years ago, and some more conservatives were sent to Congress and State Houses.
President Trump is not beholden to any of these politicians, nor is he intimidated by any of the news readers in the lapdog media. As a result, he is not taking their crap lying down, and they absolutely cannot STAND it, because all their old tricks are not working.
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