Transcript - Interview: Rush Limbaugh Interviews Donald Trump on The Rush Limbaugh Show - October 9, 2020 | Factba.se

Rush Limbaugh

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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers and conversationalists all across the fruited plain. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Mr. President, it is a distinct honor and privilege to have you with us. And I want you to do something for me, sir.

Donald Trump

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Rush Limbaugh

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I want you to imagine you have just landed in a gleaming majestic Air Force One to the largest radio rally in history. Instead of thousands cheering as you walk up to the stage, there are millions and millions of Patriots out there right now, anxiously awaiting to hear from you. No doubt, they're waving Trump flags, wearing their bright red MAGA hats proudly.

Rush Limbaugh

00:00:39 - 00:00:48 (9 sec)

This, sir, is a mega MAGA rally, and we are all thrilled to be with you today. We are so glad you're doing better and welcome to the EIB network.

Donald Trump

00:00:48 - 00:01:11 (23 sec)

Well, I want to thank you, Rush. You're a fantastic man, a friend of mine. But before I really even knew you as a friend, you were a supporter. And I said, "I know that guy, he's got a big audience," but I never even knew the importance of what you do and what you say, and now I do very well. And it keeps us all in the game and we just got great polls out of ... you probably heard, out of Arizona.

Donald Trump

00:01:11 - 00:01:29 (18 sec)

We're getting them out of Nevada. The real polls, not the fake polls. So we're getting them out of North Carolina, looking really good. I think Pennsylvania is looking good. Florida is looking great. It's all a big phony deal they have going, Rush, and we're going to win this. I think it's going to be a bigger win than we had four years ago.

Rush Limbaugh

00:01:29 - 00:01:33 (4 sec)

Oh, that would be great. Mr. President, I have to tell you ...

Donald Trump

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And [Crosstalk] great polls.

Rush Limbaugh

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From the moment that your appearance was announced, we've received ... we've never had a response like this, sir. And I'm in my 32nd year. We have never had a response like ... we've had thousands and thousands of questions and comments for you. You are ... I hope you know how deeply loved you are by so many Americans who have invested their hopes and prayers for this country in you.

Rush Limbaugh

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They want to see you in the White House for four more years. And I'll tell you what I want. I want them to get to know you as I do. I want them to know the Donald Trump that I know. You are one of the strongest, the most unwavering, the most determined, loyal people I've ever met, but you care deeply about the country.

Rush Limbaugh

00:02:23 - 00:02:40 (17 sec)

You care about everybody. And it's just a breathtaking thing. The difference in you as portrayed in the media and who you really are is breathtaking. And today, I want people to get to know the Donald Trump that I know.

Donald Trump

00:02:40 - 00:03:04 (23 sec)

Well, I appreciate it. And when you suggested this, I immediately jumped on it because your audience is the biggest. I mean, it's just incredible. And we have some great friends in Sean Hannity and so many others and Mark and so many people are so great to us. But we have so many people that are so untruthful and the biggest thing and the one thing I haven't figured out is why.

Donald Trump

00:03:04 - 00:03:22 (18 sec)

If we say we're going to create a strong military and protect, we're going to create a strong economy like we've never had an economy prior to the plague, and now we're building it up again stronger than before. Watch, it's going to be stronger than before. We're almost at record stock market. Nobody can believe that, and we're rounding the turn on the pandemic.

Donald Trump

00:03:22 - 00:03:47 (25 sec)

And I'll have something to say about that because I'm telling you, we have a cure. More than just a therapeutic, we have a cure. But so many things that we've done. And no matter what you do, they try and find fault. And not only fault, they're vicious people. And you say, why wouldn't they want to have good education, a good military, a strong economy, safety, security?

Donald Trump

00:03:47 - 00:04:06 (18 sec)

Why would they want to live like they live in Portland where they just allow these agitators and anarchists to run the streets? Why would they want that? That's the only thing I haven't figured out. Why would they? And why would these big companies like Concast. I call it Concast. It's Comcast, but I call it Concast because it's a con job.

Donald Trump

00:04:06 - 00:04:28 (23 sec)

That's NBC mostly. But if you look at that or CNN, which is so pathetic, why would they do that? Why would they want to have a country that's in turmoil? Because they created ... the fake news is the worst thing we have going. The lame stream ... I call it the lame stream media, but you'd think that they'd want to see great education, great country, great security, strong military.

Rush Limbaugh

00:04:28 - 00:04:32 (3 sec)

They don't want to see you responsible for it. They don't.

Donald Trump

00:04:32 - 00:04:47 (16 sec)

It's a crazy thing, Rush. It's the one thing I've never quite figured it out. And they become less wealthy. To a large extent, they become less wealthy, and they're willing to give up their wealth in order to see the country go to hell. I don't ... someday when you figure that out, you're going to let me know, okay?

Donald Trump

00:04:47 - 00:04:50 (3 sec)

That's the only thing I can't figure out. Go ahead.

Rush Limbaugh

00:04:50 - 00:05:08 (18 sec)

I'll tell you today. I know exactly what this is. But before ... we've got a lot of questions for you from members of the audience. Before we dive into those, I need to ask you something that I've not really had a chance to ask you prior. Before you did this, before 2015 when you came down the escalator and announced your candidacy, you had a storybook life.

Rush Limbaugh

00:05:08 - 00:05:27 (20 sec)

You had an absolutely fabulous life. You had a life that anybody would aspire to. You were very successful. You were happy. You were an immediate darling. They loved you back then. Why did you decide to run for president and put up with the day in and day out maligning that you get? Because you did not have to do this.

Donald Trump

00:05:27 - 00:05:47 (20 sec)

I'll tell you. It's such a great question. And I'd do it again, even though it's far worse. I never thought I'd be involved with a Russia hoax or a Ukraine hoax or be impeached because I made a phone call congratulating somebody that I never met to or spoke to on becoming the president of Ukraine, and all of a sudden you get impeached.

Donald Trump

00:05:47 - 00:06:03 (16 sec)

And it was a perfect phone call. A letter that we actually ... fortunately, we had it transcribed because they made up the phone call. They said it was totally different. If we didn't, they would've ... you know what Schiff said, he said it before Congress, he repeated my call. It had no bearing on what I said.

Donald Trump

00:06:03 - 00:06:26 (23 sec)

It was a perfect phone call and I got impeached over it. I never knew it would be so unpleasant, but nobody's done more in the last three and a half years as president, in the first three and a half years, than I have nobody. I mean, if you look at rebuilding the military and the economy and the best employment numbers we've ever had, and we've cut regulations to a point that's so incredible nobody's ever seen.

Donald Trump

00:06:26 - 00:06:45 (19 sec)

If you look at the veteran's choice in the VA, accountability ... I mean, we had people in the VA that would beat up our veterans and beat them up badly. They're infirmed, they're not well, they're not feeling well, and then you had these animals in there that would beat them up. We couldn't do anything about them.

Donald Trump

00:06:45 - 00:07:02 (17 sec)

Now with accountability, you have to account, and we fire them and worse, we get rid of them. And our vets are at a 91% approval rating, the highest we've ever had in the VA. You don't hear those bad stories about the VA anymore like you used to. And now they get immediate doctor attention if they have to wait online.

Donald Trump

00:07:02 - 00:07:25 (23 sec)

But that's so many different things. Right to try, where they can try medicines. And I mean, I can sort of give you an example of that with the COVID because I was in not great shape, and we have a medicine that healed me, that fixed me. It's a great medicine. And had I not gotten it, Rush, it would have been in line for another year probably before they brought it out.

Donald Trump

00:07:25 - 00:07:42 (17 sec)

Great company ... two great companies actually make it, make very similar things, but they both work equally well. And we're going to send it ... we're already sending it, starting the processes. Hundreds of thousands of vials of being sent to the hospitals all over the country. People are going to get immediately better like I did.

Donald Trump

00:07:42 - 00:08:09 (27 sec)

I mean, I feel better now than I did two weeks ago. It's crazy. And I recovered immediately, almost immediately. I might not have recovered at all from COVID. So to me, it's the biggest story, but the press doesn't even want to report that. They talk about the vaccines and the vaccines are very important, Rush, but this is more important because we can go into hospitals and clean out the hospitals, literal ... This is more important because we can go into hospitals and clean out the hospitals literally with people that ... The vaccines are very important.

Donald Trump

00:08:09 - 00:08:10 (2 sec)

It's just a different stage.

Rush Limbaugh

00:08:10 - 00:08:13 (3 sec)

Well, yeah, this is the antibodies that you've been speeding up.

Donald Trump

00:08:13 - 00:08:33 (19 sec)

This is the antibody. This is the antibody and Regeneron. It's the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. I had a meeting with doctors today. The good thing about when you're president, 11 doctors show up, and they're all the head of Johns Hopkins and this and that. They're great people. But Walter Reed is an incredible place.

Donald Trump

00:08:33 - 00:09:06 (33 sec)

These 11 guys came in today. They showed me stats. It's amazing. I was not in the greatest of shape. A day later, I was fine. Maybe perfect, but I was fine. But a couple of days later, now I'm free. I feel perfect. I'm not taking anything. I'm off any regimen that they gave me. But it was primarily this one drug, and we're sending that and the Eli Lilly version of it, which is very similar, we're sending that to all of our hospitals.

Donald Trump

00:09:06 - 00:09:24 (18 sec)

We're going to get people better. We got to get it there fast. That's why I'm doing an emergency use authorization. I got to get them to approve it really fast. But I gave them my numbers to put in with the other numbers that they already have, which are very good, excellent. It's the most amazing thing.

Donald Trump

00:09:24 - 00:09:35 (11 sec)

It's not Remdesivir. Maybe that helps a little bit, but Remdesivir is not the same thing. This is stuff that is so good. It just wiped out the virus. It wiped it out.

Rush Limbaugh

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Well, I'll tell you, --

Donald Trump

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It's the most unbelievable thing.

Rush Limbaugh

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... we're so happy that you're --

Donald Trump

00:09:40 - 00:09:42 (2 sec)

Such a big story to me.

Rush Limbaugh

00:09:42 - 00:09:52 (11 sec)

It was scary when we heard that you had tested positive, given your demographics. You were right there in the number one target area for people that have trouble with this. You sound great.

Donald Trump

00:09:52 - 00:09:53 (1 sec)

I feel [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

00:09:53 - 00:09:56 (3 sec)

I've been reading that you've got a hacking cough and that your voice is hoarse, --

Donald Trump

00:09:56 - 00:09:58 (2 sec)

No, nothing like that.

Rush Limbaugh

00:09:58 - 00:10:00 (3 sec)

... and you ... You sound perfectly normal to me.

Donald Trump

00:10:00 - 00:10:25 (25 sec)

Well, there's always that little lingering thing for a couple of days. My voice is now perfect. I mean, for a couple of days, it's called the lingering thing. If you have hay fever, if you have something, you have that too a little bit. But no, this is the most amazing thing that's happened. I was asking the doctors today, 11 guys, great people, the heads of the biggest hospitals.

Donald Trump

00:10:25 - 00:10:48 (23 sec)

It's amazing. I guess the president has a lot of power, but everybody shows up. "What do you do?" "I'm the head of Johns Hopkins," or "I'm the head of stuff." But they're very brilliant people. I said, "How bad was I?" They said, "You could have been very bad. You were going into a very bad phase." So it wasn't like it was just going to like with the kids where they get it and they get sniffles and they're better two days later, right?

Donald Trump

00:10:48 - 00:11:08 (20 sec)

This looks like it was going to be a big deal. You know what that means, right? That means bad because I've lost five people, at least five people that were friends of mine. One in particular, an incredible guy who went into the hospital. He was dead within three days. I'm just saying that we have something that will cure this now and a cure.

Donald Trump

00:11:08 - 00:11:27 (19 sec)

Without us, without Trump administration, this would never have happened. We poured money into these cures, and we poured money into the vaccines, and the vaccines are coming along great, Rush. I mean, the vaccines, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer, they're all coming along great. A little bit political.

Donald Trump

00:11:27 - 00:11:31 (4 sec)

They're afraid it's going to go too fast, and I'll get credit for it before the election.

Rush Limbaugh

00:11:31 - 00:12:01 (30 sec)

Mr. President, you have been forced because of media coverage to tout your own successes. You have been forced to, like you just did in the past five minutes here. It rubs some people the wrong way. They think you're bragging. They think that you're insecure, that you need to constantly ... Would you explain to people why you find it necessary to tout your successes, rather than let somebody in the White House or a PR-type operation do it for you?

Rush Limbaugh

00:12:01 - 00:12:03 (2 sec)

Why do you find it necessary to do it yourself?

Donald Trump

00:12:03 - 00:12:11 (8 sec)

Well, first of all, it's such a great question. Most people can't understand it. As an example, I was nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes. One for --

Rush Limbaugh

00:12:11 - 00:12:15 (4 sec)

Three! Three now, three now. Some guy from Italy has nominated you.

Donald Trump

00:12:15 - 00:12:24 (9 sec)

Oh, that's good. Well, it won't be written about. When Obama got it, it was the biggest story. I remember very well. He didn't even know why he got it. He got it almost --

Rush Limbaugh

00:12:24 - 00:12:25 (1 sec)

He got his on the come.

Donald Trump

00:12:25 - 00:12:27 (2 sec)

-- immediately after he got in office.

Rush Limbaugh

00:12:27 - 00:12:27 (1 sec)

He got his on the come.

Donald Trump

00:12:27 - 00:12:28 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

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He hadn't even done anything yet.

Donald Trump

00:12:28 - 00:12:45 (17 sec)

That's right. He didn't know. He couldn't explain why he got it, but I can. One is Middle East peace without any blood. By the way, countries are lining up. The other is, if you look at Kosovo and Serbia, they've been killing each other forever, and I got them to be peace and good stuff. Then I just heard about the third.

Donald Trump

00:12:45 - 00:13:09 (24 sec)

That wasn't even on the news. I joke about it in speeches sometimes. I'll joke about it. I tell my wife, "Let's watch tonight. It'll be a wonderful night." They don't even cover it. They don't cover any good stuff with me. Anything that's good, they don't cover. Anything that's okay or bad ... I mean, bad, they make it sound like let's do the electric chair thing.

Donald Trump

00:13:09 - 00:13:32 (23 sec)

The media are the most dishonest people I've ever met. That's why I go back to the original. I just don't know why. I mean, they can't hate somebody so much, but I guess they do. But they do it with Republican conservatives. I mean, you've had it before I came along. I don't think never to this extent. They said that the one that got worse than me was Abraham Lincoln.

Donald Trump

00:13:32 - 00:13:56 (24 sec)

I said, "I disagree." They say Abraham Lincoln was just decimated by the press. I said, "Maybe he was, but it couldn't be worse." If I do something good, they make it look bad. If I do something okay, they make it look horrible, horrible. I say it, you might as well talk about it yourself because nobody else will.

Donald Trump

00:13:56 - 00:14:17 (21 sec)

If I give it to our very good people, Kayleigh and ... We have a lot of good people at the White House. If I give it to them to go out, they won't report it. Did you ever see the way the press, the hostility of the press, the way they scream at these very nice people? They'll make just an ordinary statement, and they'll start screaming like a bunch of maniacs, the media.

Rush Limbaugh

00:14:17 - 00:14:19 (2 sec)

Well, there are reasons for it.

Donald Trump

00:14:19 - 00:14:21 (2 sec)

[Crosstalk] White House. It's just incredible. [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

00:14:21 - 00:14:24 (3 sec)

Let me tell you one of the reasons, and it's --

Donald Trump

00:14:24 - 00:14:26 (2 sec)

They are sick. It's crazy. Go ahead.

Rush Limbaugh

00:14:26 - 00:14:49 (22 sec)

In a way, they are. I think they have been poisoned to an extent. I mean this, folks. Poisoned by their own hatred. This is not the original reason, but we're into four years now that they have tried everything they know to get rid of you, and not a single thing, not a single weapon has worked. These people if they want to, Mr.

Rush Limbaugh

00:14:49 - 00:15:11 (22 sec)

President ... And Newt's an example. Sarah Palin's another. They're able to take out and destroy any Republican they choose. It took them seven years to finally ruin George W. Bush and his reputation, the war in Iraq. But they did it. They got his approval numbers down to the 30s. You in Zogby today are still at 51. They haven't landed a dent, sir.

Rush Limbaugh

00:15:11 - 00:15:30 (19 sec)

They have not taken you off of your agenda. They've maybe distracted you for now and then, but they haven't stopped it. They can't believe it. They're throwing everything ... So they are doubling down on doing whatever they can to try to get rid of you just to prove that they can. It's frustrating as heck that they haven't been able to.

Rush Limbaugh

00:15:30 - 00:15:55 (25 sec)

It's an amazing thing. I'm like you. I watch this coverage and I ask how many of the American people realize without being told how basically dishonest and unfair this all is? You hope that a majority of Americans see it for what it is and react accordingly. But I tell you, it's that and the fact that you're an outsider.

Rush Limbaugh

00:15:55 - 00:16:00 (5 sec)

They never thought you were going to win. They didn't even think you wanted to win. They thought you were engaged in a PR stunt in the first place.

Donald Trump

00:16:00 - 00:16:02 (2 sec)

Yeah, yeah, which is false.

Rush Limbaugh

00:16:02 - 00:16:05 (3 sec)

Then you're also implementing- ... in the first place.

Donald Trump

00:16:05 - 00:16:06 (1 sec)

Which is false.

Rush Limbaugh

00:16:06 - 00:16:26 (20 sec)

Then you're also implementing policies, Sir, that they detest. Your agenda is a small government. Well it was before the pandemic hit. Your agenda is basically pro-freedom pro-liberty pro the American citizen first. Can you believe Make America Great Again is controversial? Who in the world can find a problem with that?

Rush Limbaugh

00:16:26 - 00:16:33 (8 sec)

These sick people have found a way... Make America Great Again, is reason to destroy you. It doesn't make any sense.

Donald Trump

00:16:33 - 00:16:48 (15 sec)

Well Rush, remember how big the wall was? Everything was the wall, the wall, the wall. And it got bigger and bigger because they figured it was no way to get it financed because it's a massive... It's thousands of... The whole thing is a massive project. It's actually one of the biggest government projects ever.

Donald Trump

00:16:48 - 00:17:05 (17 sec)

Anyway, so we're building the wall. We're up to 380 miles of wall. Had a huge impact. Nobody gets through this wall. This wall is everything that Border Patrol wanted. I built it exactly... I didn't even agree with them on certain parts of it, but I think they were right. They had to have see-through. They had to have this.

Donald Trump

00:17:05 - 00:17:23 (17 sec)

They had to have that. It's lined up with all sorts of wires and everything you can imagine. It is the best, okay. It's the best. And it's had an impact that you wouldn't believe. And nobody thought I was going to get it done. Now it's almost completed. It'll be completed toward the end of the year, very soon.

Donald Trump

00:17:23 - 00:17:41 (18 sec)

And it'll be about 535 miles. We may even extend it beyond that. But you have a lot of natural barriers, rivers and mountains and other things that really do a pretty good job. But we're going to have it finished very soon. You don't even hear about it anymore. And you don't hear about how great the border numbers are.

Donald Trump

00:17:41 - 00:17:59 (19 sec)

People today... I ended catch and release, which was not easy because I had to go through the Democrats, but I ended... You used to catch somebody, they'd release them into our country. And they'd come back four years later, but nobody would ever come back for a court case. It was the craziest thing. You'd catch somebody, even a murderer, and then you'd release them into our country.

Donald Trump

00:17:59 - 00:18:19 (19 sec)

And then you say, "You have to be back here in two and a half years to go to trial." And nobody would come back. Only the very dumbest would come back. Okay. And that was about 1%. And it was crazy, catch and release. There were many programs like that. We got rid of most of them. And it's not easy to get rid of them.

Donald Trump

00:18:19 - 00:18:31 (12 sec)

You had to go through all sorts of hoops, but I got rid of catch and release. We have a very good border now. Now only people that come in legally are coming in. Well, the wall made a tremendous difference. But you never hear about the wall anymore. They never talk about it.

Rush Limbaugh

00:18:31 - 00:18:47 (16 sec)

Well, not only that. Now there have been two debates, Sir. And in both of those debates, your first and the vice presidential debate, there've been two areas that have never been explored. Not one question asked about, one is gun control, the Second Amendment. The other is immigration.

Donald Trump

00:18:47 - 00:18:49 (2 sec)

Right. That's true.

Rush Limbaugh

00:18:49 - 00:18:56 (7 sec)

And those are two strong areas of yours where the American people are with you by a massive majority support number.

Donald Trump

00:18:56 - 00:18:56 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:18:56 - 00:18:58 (2 sec)

So they're not even being brought up.

Donald Trump

00:18:58 - 00:19:24 (26 sec)

They don't talk about immigration. And we have immigration down really good. In fact, I was going to do an immigration bill. I have it all done. And then my guy said, "Why bring it up, Sir? You have the same policies that you're already implementing. Why should you go through the controversy of it?" We have a great... The people that wanted the wall generally love what I've done, what we've done in immigration, generally.

Donald Trump

00:19:24 - 00:19:41 (17 sec)

We've got a couple hard liners out there, friends of yours. But the people that wanted the wall, I've done far more than I thought. Our immigration now... Because it wasn't just there was a wall, but we had to cut a lot of these crazy things that... You have chain migration where somebody comes in illegally.

Donald Trump

00:19:41 - 00:20:05 (24 sec)

And we have a killer who killed eight people on the West Side Highway, ran over eight people. A terrorist, jihadist came in through the southern border. And through chain migration, he brings in his mother, his father, his grandmother, his aunts, his brothers, his uncles. He brings in all these people. And I say, wait a minute.

Donald Trump

00:20:05 - 00:20:13 (8 sec)

And what we've done is incredible on immigration. Think of it. You have killers that come in and because of chain migration, they're allowed to bring other people into the country.

Rush Limbaugh

00:20:13 - 00:20:15 (2 sec)

Right. That's why they're not asking you about this.

Donald Trump

00:20:15 - 00:20:35 (19 sec)

And they don't want to talk to me about it. So many things like sanctuary cities. The people in California hate sanctuary cities. I don't know where it gets this political stamina because the people in California, they see me all the time. I think we'll do well in California. In theory, you don't win California because everybody likes to vote three times.

Donald Trump

00:20:35 - 00:20:38 (3 sec)

Okay, if you want to know the truth. I don't know if you ever saw the list of people [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

00:20:38 - 00:20:40 (2 sec)

We're going to go into that later in the program.

Donald Trump

00:20:40 - 00:21:05 (26 sec)

The whole thing is crazy, but the people, they vote numerous times, numerous times and it's disgraceful. But the people in California, they don't like sanctuary cities. What are you doing with sanctuaries? You're protecting criminals. Who wants that? And I've had so many people, liberal friends of mine from California. "We'd love to get rid of sanctuary cities." That thug from Kate's Law... Remember Kate's Law, which should have been --

Rush Limbaugh

00:21:05 - 00:21:05 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:21:05 - 00:21:25 (20 sec)

We tried like hell to get it passed but we had the... We left the filibuster, okay. We should've gotten rid of the filibuster, only because... I said, "Schumer's going to do it." I told Mitch. I said, "Mitch... " I get along great with Mitch. We had the greatest success in history on judges. We'll be up to 300 judges and two Supreme Court judges.

Donald Trump

00:21:25 - 00:21:42 (17 sec)

And now three. Hopefully that'll go quickly. I think she's going to go very quickly. So I have three Supreme Court justice in the first term. That's never happened before. But I said, "The problem is, Mitch, as soon as the Democrats do get... " And you know, at some point I guess they get in, they will blow up the filibuster.

Donald Trump

00:21:42 - 00:22:03 (21 sec)

They'll go nuclear, as you know. And that'll be the end of the filibuster. And they'll approve stuff left and right. 50%, they'll go left and right. And that's the problem I had with it. It's not that they're not right. They did it the right way. Harry Reid... We got lucky because Harry Reid thought that Hillary was going to win and he knocked out the filibuster for the judges.

Donald Trump

00:22:03 - 00:22:06 (3 sec)

Otherwise, I wouldn't have 300 judges, I'd have two judges.

Rush Limbaugh

00:22:06 - 00:22:34 (28 sec)

They all thought Hillary was going to win. And that's another reason why you remain so despised and hated. It's not you per se. Some of it is. It's just the fact that you came along and totally upended their grand plans for globalism, changing the way our nation's affairs are run and organized. You really just upset the applecart in ways they never dreamed possible.

Rush Limbaugh

00:22:34 - 00:22:47 (13 sec)

They thought the Hillary administration was going to be Obama's third term and you've just totally thrown them upside down. Now this leads me to another thing. I go back and I compare the 2016 campaign. And at that --

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Donald Trump

00:24:16 - 00:24:35 (19 sec)

Space Force... You know how big a deal that is? You don't hear about any of this stuff. They don't want to talk about it. But I'll tell you the amazing thing, the one thing I really have learned. The people of our country are smarter than the people that cover them, because they get it. How can I be in a position where I'm leading in a lot of states?

Donald Trump

00:24:35 - 00:24:50 (15 sec)

Don't believe these fake polls. These fake polls... I don't know if you ever look at them. I don't even know why they have to put it down. I think there's a legal reason. But they put down where they interviewed 18% more Democrats than Republicans. Trump is losing by five. Do you understand what I mean?

Rush Limbaugh

00:24:50 - 00:24:52 (2 sec)

Absolutely. I see this all the time.

Donald Trump

00:24:52 - 00:25:12 (21 sec)

I still don't know why. I think there's a legal reason because they always say who they interviewed. But when you look down at what they call the tabs, one of them said, "18% more Democrats." Another one said, "14%." Well let's assume the Democrats are going to vote for sleepy Joe, which is ridiculous because Joe shouldn't be a candidate.

Donald Trump

00:25:12 - 00:25:15 (3 sec)

Joe's in no condition to be a candidate.

Rush Limbaugh

00:25:15 - 00:25:15 (1 sec)

Well, you know --

Donald Trump

00:25:15 - 00:25:29 (14 sec)

And we can say it nicely, or we can say it badly. The 25th Amendment that crazy Nancy's playing around with. She's gone crazy. She's a nut job. But this 25th Amendment... I think they put it in so they can get Kamala in replacing Joe --

Rush Limbaugh

00:25:29 - 00:25:37 (8 sec)

Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It's a trial run to see if they can kick Biden out. That's exactly right, sir. That's exactly... [Crosstalk] It's not aimed at you.

Donald Trump

00:25:37 - 00:25:53 (16 sec)

That was the first thing I thought of. And by the way, the Republicans have been really very good to me. One thing the Republicans have to do though, they have to get tougher. We have some great ones. You know that. Jim Jordan and Meadows has been great. A lot of them have been great, but the Republicans have to get tougher.

Donald Trump

00:25:53 - 00:26:12 (18 sec)

The Democrats play a much dirtier game, like impeaching on a phone call. I'll never forget, "Sir, did you call the president of Ukraine?" "Yeah, I did." "Why?" "Just to congratulate... " I had five guys begging me to call him to congratulate... I'd never met him before. What do I care?

Rush Limbaugh

00:26:12 - 00:26:12 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:12 - 00:26:30 (18 sec)

So they said, "Did you call the president?" "Yes." "Well, what did you say?" I said, "I don't know. A couple of months ago, I called him to congratulate him, because he became president of... " Why? What's the word? "Sir, they want to impeach you for that call." I said, "Impeach me for the call. Impeach me for something, but you can't impeach me.

Donald Trump

00:26:30 - 00:26:42 (11 sec)

What did I do? I said, 'Congratulations.'" It's unbelievable. By the way, when they found out, they believed the Schiff version of the call, which he made up standing in front of Congress.

Rush Limbaugh

00:26:42 - 00:26:42 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:26:42 - 00:27:00 (18 sec)

Schiff is a real crook. He made it up. He said eight times, "Quid pro quo." Think of what eight times is. That would mean eight times you've asked for something illegal on a call. Right? Think of what that means. To the person on the other side of the call... If you did it once, maybe, twice, maybe... If you did it eight times, they think you're certifiably insane.

Donald Trump

00:27:00 - 00:27:23 (23 sec)

Right? So Schiff made up the call, and I said, "Well, there's nothing wrong with the call." We actually took the call because we had the transcript, fortunately. If we didn't have a transcript, I don't know. It would have been my word against a lot of these crooked people. I actually sent it to the Department of Justice to some division, and they called up.

Donald Trump

00:27:23 - 00:27:45 (23 sec)

They said to my people, "Okay, so what are we looking for here?" In other words, these are guys that look at drug deals and murders. And they're going, "Okay, explain to us, what are we supposed to... " In other words, after having read the call, they're saying, "What the hell is wrong with this thing?" Right?

Donald Trump

00:27:45 - 00:27:54 (9 sec)

They impeached me. They are meaner, and they are... But they're bad policy: open borders, sanctuary cities, high taxes.

Rush Limbaugh

00:27:54 - 00:28:14 (20 sec)

Let me try to simplify this. One of the things I've tried to learn to do over the course of the years is to make the complex understandable. I think this election, sir, is really simple to explain to, particularly, people who are undecided. And I don't know how many of those there are. I frankly don't know how you can't be decided by now.

Rush Limbaugh

00:28:14 - 00:28:29 (15 sec)

But this election is really... It boils down to two propositions. One is it's between a man, you, who believes America is good and decent and great --

Donald Trump

00:28:29 - 00:28:31 (2 sec)

Right. And has great potential --

Rush Limbaugh

00:28:31 - 00:28:53 (22 sec)

... against people who are behind Joe Biden who think America isn't good. They think America is unjust and immoral from the days of our founding. And they are trying to undermine and transform this country as founded. And that's why you are undermined. And that's why your successes are hidden. That's why your successes are distorted and lied about.

Rush Limbaugh

00:28:53 - 00:29:14 (20 sec)

It's no more complicated than that. Folks, if you love this country, if you love America, the America you think exists, you don't have a choice in this election. Your only choice is President Trump. If you don't support President Trump here, you are going to end up facilitating the transformation of America into a country it was never intended to be.

Rush Limbaugh

00:29:14 - 00:29:31 (17 sec)

You're going to have $13 a gallon gasoline with the Green New Deal. You're going to have so much disruption in your life that you can't possibly imagine. And don't doubt me. They're not going to be honest with you about this, but that's really what this is about. You are good. You believe America is good.

Rush Limbaugh

00:29:31 - 00:29:41 (10 sec)

You believe America is great. You want to keep it that way, and you want to solidify it. And you want America's greatness to be enshrined and empowered for decades beyond you.

Donald Trump

00:29:41 - 00:30:00 (19 sec)

America has great potential too, because any shortcomings we can solve the shortcomings, but they're going to make them much shorter. I mean, America has tremendous potential. When you look at what we've done with energy, and they want to take that advantage away and give it to these other countries that are going to always have energy.

Donald Trump

00:30:00 - 00:30:07 (7 sec)

When you look at the environment, I'm very important. I love the environment, the environment, I want clean air. I want clean water. I want, and by the way --

Rush Limbaugh

00:30:07 - 00:30:14 (6 sec)

You shouldn't even have to say that. You shouldn't have to say. Everybody wants clean water. The fact that they're out there claiming you want dirty water.

Donald Trump

00:30:14 - 00:30:14 (0 sec)

Oh, it's unbelievable.

Rush Limbaugh

00:30:14 - 00:30:16 (2 sec)

You shouldn't even have to say you like clean water.

Donald Trump

00:30:16 - 00:30:18 (1 sec)

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Rush Limbaugh

00:30:18 - 00:30:18 (1 sec)

That's outrageous.

Donald Trump

00:30:18 - 00:30:36 (18 sec)

Like the forest fires in California. If we had forest management, you wouldn't have any forest fires. In Europe, you go there, they live, they have forest nations. They call them Austria, different places. They don't have the woods burning down, and heir trees are more explosive than ours. Meaning explosive from potential fire.

Donald Trump

00:30:36 - 00:31:00 (24 sec)

They have trees and they have, they maintain their forest, and they put cuts in between so if they have a fire it doesn't burn down a half a million acres. They do it properly. Our people don't do that. And then we talk about they want our air clean, but they don't talk about China, Russia, India, these other countries where the pollution is massive going up.

Donald Trump

00:31:00 - 00:31:19 (18 sec)

So we have a clean spot on a massive planet. We have a clean spot, which is a small percentage of the planet, a very small percentage of the planet. And then China is spewing crap and Russia and all of these other, India. And did you ever see what they dump into the ocean that floats into California?

Rush Limbaugh

00:31:19 - 00:31:19 (1 sec)

Yeah, that's exactly --

Donald Trump

00:31:19 - 00:31:20 (1 sec)

It's unbelievable.

Rush Limbaugh

00:31:20 - 00:31:21 (1 sec)

Exactly right, folks.

Donald Trump

00:31:21 - 00:31:36 (16 sec)

And we end up cleaning it up and then they say, "Well, the environment, the environment." I could tell you, I could tell you hundreds of stories. You know, a lot of what you and I talk about is really based on common sense. People say, "Are you a conservative?" I say, "No, I'm common sense."

Rush Limbaugh

00:31:36 - 00:31:41 (5 sec)

It's based on common sense and love. Love of, and for, country and people.

Donald Trump

00:31:41 - 00:31:43 (2 sec)

Yeah, that's true. That's very true.

Rush Limbaugh

00:31:43 - 00:31:52 (9 sec)

Now I got to get to some questions. Tell you something, sir, when we went through the questions, and literally, I'm telling you, I've never had a response like you generated.

Donald Trump

00:31:52 - 00:31:53 (1 sec)

Great. That's great.

Rush Limbaugh

00:31:53 - 00:31:57 (5 sec)

When your appearance was announced. It's the most amazing thing, sir.

Donald Trump

00:31:57 - 00:32:10 (13 sec)

Well, I think you're going to see that come November 3rd, and a little bit before that, because our people don't want to send in these fake ballots that are being fraudulent, fraudulently made all over the place.

Rush Limbaugh

00:32:10 - 00:32:12 (2 sec)

We're going to get into that. But you know what?

Donald Trump

00:32:12 - 00:32:14 (2 sec)

Yeah, I think you're going to see it.

Rush Limbaugh

00:32:14 - 00:32:19 (5 sec)

Probably one of the most mentioned topics in the questions was healthcare. People are scared.

Donald Trump

00:32:19 - 00:32:19 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:32:19 - 00:32:40 (21 sec)

Let me give you a sample question. "Dear President Trump." This is a woman in Massachusetts named Kathy. "I'm glad that you and the First Lady are recovering from COVID. So happy you are our president. Thank you for all you do to defend us. Questions about healthcare and pre-existing conditions are very important to me and a lot of Americans.

Rush Limbaugh

00:32:40 - 00:32:47 (7 sec)

I believe you said pre-existing conditions will be covered in your health care plan, but please, could you explain this a little more?"

Donald Trump

00:32:47 - 00:32:47 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:32:47 - 00:33:02 (15 sec)

Because there are a lot of people saying that you're not going to cover pre-existing conditions and you need to get your message out since the Democrats are trying to malign you on this and we need to know. Pre-existing conditions are a big deal. Does your plan cover them?

Donald Trump

00:33:02 - 00:33:25 (23 sec)

So the Democrats are vicious, and they lie. And what they do is as an example, healthcare and other things, they have me standing at a grave of a beautiful soldier in an old cemetery, magnificent cemetery. And nobody respects soldiers more than I do, especially whether you're talking about live soldiers or soldiers that gave their lives.

Donald Trump

00:33:25 - 00:33:48 (23 sec)

And they have a source say, "These are suckers and losers." This was for a magazine that's third rate, super liberal, Obama magazine. And it's a quote. They took that quote from one source. I have 25 people that verbally, on the record, said, "That was never said." Who would ever say that? Only an animal would say that.

Donald Trump

00:33:48 - 00:34:06 (18 sec)

I know some very bad people. Nobody do I know that would say a thing like that. They put it in ads. They make it like I said it. I never said, just the opposite. I've taken care of the military better than anybody. They do the same thing with healthcare. They will make up a statement that's so bad. Now pre-existing conditions, I'm totally for it.

Donald Trump

00:34:06 - 00:34:20 (14 sec)

But I'm against Obamacare because Obamacare is too expensive. I already got rid of the individual mandate, which was the worst part of Obamacare. That's where you had to pay a fortune for the privilege of not paying for bad health insurance. You understand that, right?

Rush Limbaugh

00:34:20 - 00:34:20 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:34:20 - 00:34:36 (15 sec)

So I got rid of it. And I got rid of it through the law. I got rid of it on our tax decrease. The biggest tax increase decrease in the history of our country. We would have never been able to build up the economy if we didn't get that. But one of the things I got in there, I got rid of the individual mandate.

Donald Trump

00:34:36 - 00:34:56 (20 sec)

And what I want to do is, and we're fighting to terminate, sort of I have terminated Obamacare, because once you get rid of the individual mandate it's no longer Obamacare, but I had a choice to make, Rush. It was a big choice. Do I maintain the remnants of Obamacare after the mandate? Do I maintain it well?

Donald Trump

00:34:56 - 00:35:13 (17 sec)

Or do I run it badly? I could have done it either way. I have very good people over there. Alex Azar and Seema, the whole group. I said, "You know what? We got to run it as well as it can be run. I have no choice." I could have run it really badly and made everybody angry, but I didn't do that. I ran it really well.

Donald Trump

00:35:13 - 00:35:26 (13 sec)

Knowing that it's run really well, it's still no good. It's still not good. It's much better than when they ran it. They couldn't even do, remember they spent $50 million, $5 billion on the server, if you remember. They couldn't get the server right.

Rush Limbaugh

00:35:26 - 00:35:32 (6 sec)

Oh, I do remember. I do remember, but there still is this confusion about pre-existing conditions out there.

Donald Trump

00:35:32 - 00:35:33 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:35:33 - 00:35:40 (8 sec)

And it's a frustrating thing because it's not even the correct title for what the plan does, but that's what people think.

Donald Trump

00:35:40 - 00:35:41 (1 sec)

It's correct. It's correct.

Rush Limbaugh

00:35:41 - 00:35:42 (1 sec)

And so that's how you have to deal with it.

Donald Trump

00:35:42 - 00:35:59 (16 sec)

It's correct. But what they do is they love to say that I'm going to get rid of pre-existing conditions. No. I want to terminate Obamacare. and then come up with a great, and we have it, come up with a great healthcare plan that's much less expensive and does include people with pre-existing conditions.

Donald Trump

00:35:59 - 00:36:03 (4 sec)

That's what I want to do. Now, they'll also say about Social Security.

Rush Limbaugh

00:36:03 - 00:36:06 (3 sec)

But you need a Republican Senate for that and you need a Republican House for that.

Donald Trump

00:36:06 - 00:36:24 (18 sec)

That's right. In order to do that, well, what will happen is if we win, the Democrats will do something to help get healthcare. They're going to come along because they have no choice. They're going to come along. They have no choice. I will say one thing we talk about unity because I'd like to see the country come together.

Donald Trump

00:36:24 - 00:36:40 (16 sec)

It's not as easy as people think. But just prior to the plague coming in from China, when the plague came in from China, people were calling... We had the lowest unemployment we've ever had. We had the best employment, and we were up to 160 million people employed. We never were even close. Everybody had a job.

Rush Limbaugh

00:36:40 - 00:36:47 (8 sec)

You had the lowest African-American unemployment in history, since records have been kept.

Donald Trump

00:36:47 - 00:37:07 (20 sec)

That's right, Rush. So we had the best numbers ever. We had the highest stock market, although I tell you, we're inches away right now, for people's 401Ks, if they held onto their stocks, they're very wealthy right now. And our economy is doing really amazing. I mean considering that we're in this pandemic thing sent to us by China.

Donald Trump

00:37:07 - 00:37:27 (19 sec)

But if you look at what we've done and people were calling me, Rush, in terms of bringing our country together, that I really had never heard from before. In other words, they were not interested. And they were saying like, "Let's start getting together." It was coming together. Success was bringing our country together.

Donald Trump

00:37:27 - 00:37:44 (18 sec)

And then we got hit by the China plague. But success, Rush. Even you might be surprised to hear that. People that you would've said, "No way." were calling, and saying, "Can we get together?" And it was coming together because success, and I've always said, success will bring us together. Our military is strong.

Donald Trump

00:37:44 - 00:37:59 (15 sec)

When I took over- Bring us together. Our military is strong. When I took over, we had no ammunition. We had a case where a general, a certain general, highly overrated general, told me we have no ammunition. And I said, "What are you talking about?" I say no president should ever be told that again. Now, we have so much.

Rush Limbaugh

00:37:59 - 00:38:04 (5 sec)

I heard you say that. I was frankly surprised that we were low on ammo. I mean, I don't think I've ever heard that before.

Donald Trump

00:38:04 - 00:38:24 (19 sec)

We had, he said, "Sir, we have no ammunition." Okay. And I said, "Keep that very quiet." And then we started building up and now we have new rockets, new missiles. We have stuff the likes of which nobody, Russia dreams of the stuff that we have, China dreams of the stuff that we have, Rush. And we can't talk about it and we shouldn't talk about it.

Donald Trump

00:38:24 - 00:38:46 (23 sec)

We have things that, and hope to God we never have to use it. Our nuclear is all tippy top now. You don't want to even say it. We have no choice, but to say it. We were so far behind they, Oh Biden, if you look, I call them Oh Biden. Obama and Biden, what they did to our military was, it just was horrible.

Rush Limbaugh

00:38:46 - 00:38:52 (6 sec)

And economy. I mean, they were telling everybody that we needed to adapt our expectations to a new era of decline.

Donald Trump

00:38:52 - 00:38:54 (2 sec)

That's right. No manufacturing.

Rush Limbaugh

00:38:54 - 00:39:00 (5 sec)

America's best days are behind us. I mean, it was outrageous. GDP, 1.5% max every year.

Donald Trump

00:39:00 - 00:39:09 (9 sec)

Right, right. No, we were, but it was coming together, Rush. And I'm telling you and you would be a skeptic, maybe almost more than anybody.

Rush Limbaugh

00:39:09 - 00:39:12 (4 sec)

No. I know it was coming together. I am a skeptic.

Donald Trump

00:39:12 - 00:39:15 (3 sec)

People were coming together for the first time. For the first time [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

00:39:15 - 00:39:18 (3 sec)

I am a skeptic on this. Believe me, more than you know.

Donald Trump

00:39:18 - 00:39:18 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:39:18 - 00:39:43 (25 sec)

I got another question for you. Mr. President, this is Marianne, Missouri. This is our second most mentioned topic that people want to hear you address. Mr. President, drives me crazy that the Democrats can call all of us out here racist and sexist just because we don't agree with them. It's the easiest thing in the world to call somebody racist, because nobody wants to be racist or anti anything and we aren't racist.

Rush Limbaugh

00:39:43 - 00:40:05 (22 sec)

Why did Democrats get away with it, sir? And how do Republicans say enough is enough? We are tired of being called evil racists when all we want is for all Americans to be free, to have the blessed opportunity this constitution and country offers everybody. We want a healthy and safe future and we love everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

00:40:05 - 00:40:10 (4 sec)

How do we deal with this, sir? How do we finally shut this down? What would you tell her?

Donald Trump

00:40:10 - 00:40:36 (26 sec)

So I've watched this for a long time. I've had it. I probably been a victim of it. You and I, and a couple of others, more than anybody. And we're just the opposite. When they give up, when we're beating them, they have nothing else to fall back on, but the word racist. And that's always, that means that when you're winning and you're just knocking the hell out of them, they have nothing else to say, they call you a racist and this has been going on for decades.

Donald Trump

00:40:36 - 00:40:55 (20 sec)

I don't know that you're going to stop it, but people are wise to it and people are rolling their eyes now. They're rolling their eyes. It is just an incredible thing. The way they use the race word, the racist word, is just actually disgusting. I was asked by Chris Wallace, who's third rate. I was asked by him.

Donald Trump

00:40:55 - 00:41:04 (8 sec)

He was protecting Biden the other night. It was pathetic. I couldn't even ask him, "Why did you get $3.5 million dollars from the mayor's wife of Moscow?"

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:04 - 00:41:04 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

00:41:04 - 00:41:18 (14 sec)

Why did you say a billion dollars unless you get rid of the prosecutor, and then you give him the billion dollars. And Chris Wallace was, and he was choking like a dog. He wasn't able to answer. And Chris Wallace would go in and save him every time. That whole thing was disgraceful. But whenever he ...

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:18 - 00:41:20 (3 sec)

Well, you know what we're going to do today? We're going to do ...

Donald Trump

00:41:20 - 00:41:21 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:21 - 00:41:45 (25 sec)

We're going to give you a chance to actually respond to Joe Biden because you're right. The moderators of these debates are never asking Biden to explain himself. What did you mean by that, sir? They're not asking you to explain Biden. They're asking you to explain you. So I have some Joe Biden soundbites here, anywhere from 13 to 17 seconds, that no moderator will ever ask you to respond to.

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:45 - 00:41:49 (4 sec)

And as such, the American people don't know that he has said these things.

Donald Trump

00:41:49 - 00:41:51 (2 sec)

Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:51 - 00:41:51 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:41:51 - 00:41:52 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:41:52 - 00:42:03 (11 sec)

This is from December 30th, 2019. And he is in Derry, New Hampshire telling coal miners to forget coal mining and learn how to code.

Joe Biden

00:42:03 - 00:42:16 (13 sec)

[Begin Audio Clip] Anybody who could go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn how to program as well. Give me a break. Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God sake. [End Audio Clip]

Rush Limbaugh

00:42:16 - 00:42:22 (6 sec)

They're already putting down on coal miners. You never get asked about it. You never hear these sound bites anywhere in the media. What do you think of that?

Donald Trump

00:42:22 - 00:42:39 (18 sec)

Well, I think it's terrible and you could look at so many other things. Look at fracking. He went for a whole year saying, "No way there'll be fracking. Mark my words, there will not be fracking." And so did Kamala. Kamala, she's another great one. And they talk about fracking.

Rush Limbaugh

00:42:39 - 00:42:44 (4 sec)

She should have listened to Willie Brown. Willie Brown told her not to accept this job and she did it anyway.

Donald Trump

00:42:44 - 00:43:00 (17 sec)

I thought she was so, Mike beat her so badly the other night, but she's just not good at what she did. Hey, don't forget. She started off, she went, she only went down in the polls. That's usually not the person you want to pick to run for vice president. Anyway, but to both of them, they talk about fracking like it was the greatest sin on earth.

Donald Trump

00:43:00 - 00:43:23 (22 sec)

Then they get the nomination and now they're talking about they want to do fracking. But you know, I find in politics, always follow their first words because that's where they're going. They have no choice. They agreed with Bernie Sanders and all the people on the manifesto. And if you read that manifesto, that manifesto is further left than Bernie Sanders, much further left than Bernie Sanders.

Donald Trump

00:43:23 - 00:43:41 (19 sec)

You know, usually, you'd think they'd take them right. Bernie took them left. He took them left of where he was. But if you look at the fracking, the coal, you could say the coal. Remember Hillary, three weeks before she went to West Virginia, she was knocking the hell out of coal, and then she forgot she had to go to West Virginia.

Donald Trump

00:43:41 - 00:43:47 (6 sec)

So she goes to West Virginia and she sat at the table with the miners and it was just the end of her, when she knocked the coal.

Rush Limbaugh

00:43:47 - 00:43:49 (2 sec)

Well, you know what? I think it would be ...

Donald Trump

00:43:49 - 00:44:08 (19 sec)

And what they do with coal now, with clean coal, is amazing. We have more than anybody. What would they do with clean coal is amazing. We have more energy than anybody and these other countries want to take it away with the Paris Accord and all of this. They want to take away our wealth. They want to take away our jobs, our companies.

Donald Trump

00:44:08 - 00:44:09 (1 sec)

It is disgraceful.

Rush Limbaugh

00:44:09 - 00:44:25 (15 sec)

Explain fracking to people, sir, because it's a term that's thrown out there and I know what it is. I can explain it. A lot of people can. But a lot of people don't know what it is and why it's so outrageous that they will not commit and they will not get their story straight on whether or not they're going to ban it.

Rush Limbaugh

00:44:25 - 00:44:25 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

00:44:25 - 00:44:43 (18 sec)

Well, basically, it's getting energy out of the ground really efficiently and getting every drop of it. And it's created wealth for our country like you wouldn't believe and it's really been over the last small number of years that that's really become, you know, you used to see these massive oil wells and, you know.

Rush Limbaugh

00:44:43 - 00:44:47 (3 sec)

You can basically go in and drill sideways in the shale.

Donald Trump

00:44:47 - 00:45:08 (21 sec)

They can drill sideways. They can drill up and down and around. It's unbelievable. If you ever watch this process and they just suck the stuff out of the ground. That is, it's just incredible, the technology. And for whatever reason, for our country, we've become the biggest oil producer in the world right now by far.

Donald Trump

00:45:08 - 00:45:25 (17 sec)

Not even a contest. We're bigger than Russia, bigger than Saudi Arabia and to a level that nobody can believe. And I saved the industry six, seven months ago. When our oil dropped because of the pandemic, I got Russia and Saudi Arabia together. You know, it's good to get along with countries. Not necessarily a bad thing, Rush.

Donald Trump

00:45:25 - 00:45:42 (17 sec)

You understand that. And they cut 10 million barrels a day. It's actually more than that, but they cut and we saved the oil. We saved 10 million jobs in this country, and yet everybody has cheap gasoline. Look at the gasoline at $2 a gallon. Nobody thought that would be possible. That's better than a tax cut.

Donald Trump

00:45:42 - 00:45:58 (16 sec)

So, if you want to know the truth, when gas used to go up to $5, $6 ... So, if you want to know the truth, when gas used to go up to five, six dollars and people would say, "Oh, our country," and people, they couldn't buy cars, they couldn't do anything. We have very inexpensive gasoline and yet it's high enough that we have our energy jobs.

Donald Trump

00:45:58 - 00:46:09 (11 sec)

We have millions and millions of energy jobs in Texas and North Dakota and Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. So, Biden goes in. Do you notice they never talk about fracking? So, he said, "No fracking," and he's in Pennsylvania.

Rush Limbaugh

00:46:09 - 00:46:10 (1 sec)

They're going to ban it!

Donald Trump

00:46:10 - 00:46:11 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:46:11 - 00:46:21 (10 sec)

Just like they're going to stack the court. They will not confirm. You know what you want to tell Amy Coney Barrett? That she's not going to answer any questions about how she'll rule until after she's confirmed.

Donald Trump

00:46:21 - 00:46:34 (13 sec)

No. I know. It's incredible what he said yesterday. I couldn't believe it and that's such a big thing, but think of it. He's in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's a big fracking thing. It's a million jobs. It's tremendous energy. They have low energy costs --

Rush Limbaugh

00:46:34 - 00:46:37 (3 sec)

And they won't admit what they're going to do and they want --

Donald Trump

00:46:37 - 00:47:03 (27 sec)

He said just the opposite. He said, "There'll be no fracking," and then once he gets to Pennsylvania, he said, "No, there'll be fracking." I couldn't get away with that. Nobody could get away with that, but they let him. They don't even ask him a question about fracking. I mean, they don't say to him, "Well, wait a minute, you said you won't frack and now you're saying you're going to frack," because if Pennsylvania believed that, they couldn't vote for him because he'd put Pennsylvania out of business along with Ohio and other places.

Rush Limbaugh

00:47:03 - 00:47:18 (15 sec)

Exactly. Let's go to another Biden soundbite. This is for May of this year. He was on a radio program called The Breakfast Club with my old buddy Charlemagne tha God and he said to Biden, "You got to come back and see us. It's a long way until November. We got more questions for you."

Joe Biden

00:47:18 - 00:47:24 (6 sec)

[Begin Audio Clip] You got more questions, right? Tell me, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. [End Audio Clip]

Rush Limbaugh

00:47:24 - 00:47:37 (13 sec)

Man. There you go. If you got a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, you ain't... Just insulted free minded, open-minded African-Americans and never gets called off. You try that.

Donald Trump

00:47:37 - 00:47:57 (21 sec)

No. He doesn't get called. I will say this though, the black community gets it. They don't dig him. They don't like him and I'm getting numbers. We're at 20%, 22%, which not that I'm proud of that because it should be 100%, but if you look at what I've done for criminal justice reform, Obama couldn't get criminal justice reform done.

Donald Trump

00:47:57 - 00:48:27 (30 sec)

I did prison reform. The small colleges and universities, historically black, what I've done, I got them funded. They were coming back every year, hat in hand, every year begging for money and I got them taken care of for a 10 year period, all funded, fully funded. What I've done and then with Tim Scott, we did the opportunity zones, which is the greatest, I mean the most incredible thing for the black community, the African-American community with jobs and everything else.

Donald Trump

00:48:27 - 00:48:48 (21 sec)

So, I've done more and I say it and at first people said, "Oh, it's too much to say." I said, "I've done more for the black community than anybody since Abraham Lincoln," and it's true. Nobody's done what I've done, but they don't like Biden. They don't like Biden. He did the super predator stuff. He was the super predator king.

Rush Limbaugh

00:48:48 - 00:49:01 (13 sec)

Here, listen to this one. This is August 14th, 2012, it's eight years ago. He's Vice President. It's a campaign event. He's talking about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan here.

Joe Biden

00:49:01 - 00:49:10 (9 sec)

[Begin Audio Clip] He's going to let the big banks, once again, write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street! They're going to put you all back in chains. [End Audio Clip]

Rush Limbaugh

00:49:10 - 00:49:20 (10 sec)

They're going to put you all back. He's got a black audience. We're going to put you all back in chains. Eight years ago. I don't understand why it's even a contest. These kinds of things ought to be automatic disqualifiers.

Donald Trump

00:49:20 - 00:49:31 (11 sec)

But he's a different guy there. You can hear by the way he talks. He's out of it. Look, he's out of it. Now we can't have a president that's out of it because I meet with Xi and I meet with Putin, I meet with all of them.

Rush Limbaugh

00:49:31 - 00:49:34 (3 sec)

He wasn't out of it there. He knew exactly what he was saying there.

Donald Trump

00:49:34 - 00:49:35 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

00:49:35 - 00:49:35 (1 sec)

That's your point.

Donald Trump

00:49:35 - 00:49:56 (21 sec)

That's right. He's a different guy. He's out of it. He's in a daze. I look at the things he says, I look at what he says, I look at the way he says it. He's in a daze and it's not because he's 78 or whatever he is because I know guys that are 92, Bernie Marcus from Home Depot, he's 100% sharp, but Joe, there's something wrong.

Donald Trump

00:49:56 - 00:49:57 (1 sec)

We can't have that --

Rush Limbaugh

00:49:57 - 00:50:09 (13 sec)

Well, but he made it through the debate. He made it through 90 minutes of that debate without betraying any of the metal limitations, shall we say.

Donald Trump

00:50:09 - 00:50:17 (8 sec)

I agree, but he was not able to answer the Russia thing and he was choking and he was not able to answer the billion dollar prosecutor thing --

Rush Limbaugh

00:50:17 - 00:50:37 (20 sec)

You did bail him out, by the way, when he started to fade and you kept talking to him. I think he was... Now Mr. President, something you tweeted about. This, when I saw this, this blew my mind. It literally blew my mind. This is a Gallup Poll found that 56% of the American people say they are better.

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00:50:59 - 00:51:18 (19 sec)

C-SPAN just confirming the allegation that Scully's account was hacked. At this point, that second debate doesn't seem likely after the president rejected the debate commission's decision to make it a virtual event over COVID concerns. Both he and Joe Biden now have other events scheduled for that night and President Trump is hoping to resume holding rallies this weekend.

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00:51:18 - 00:51:39 (20 sec)

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Rush Limbaugh

00:52:39 - 00:53:04 (25 sec)

... as innovators and entrepreneurs. He confronted the Chicoms trade abuses and negotiated fair trade deals with Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Japan. He eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate, which equals freedom in healthcare. He rebuilt the military through investments in our defense capabilities as well as secured the largest military pay raise in a decade.

Rush Limbaugh

00:53:04 - 00:53:29 (25 sec)

He nominated and confirmed more solid conservative circuit court judges than any other first-term administration, nominating and fighting for the confirmation of two originalists, Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme court then nominating Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and finally moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Rush Limbaugh

00:53:29 - 00:53:50 (21 sec)

Your first term record is truly outstanding and it's still being made. Your record is still being written. You are still president. You are still implementing your agenda despite this opposition and I wanted to share this with you because this guy- ... despite this opposition. And I wanted to share this with you, because this guy did not vote for you four years ago, and now he can't wait to.

Donald Trump

00:53:50 - 00:54:08 (18 sec)

Well, I'm going to get that one. I'm going to have to put that one up pretty soon, but look, I'm honored by it. And with time, more and more people see the things we've done. I put out lists and they're pages and pages long. We've done a job, and I'm very honored by it and I'm very proud of it. We've helped a lot of people.

Donald Trump

00:54:08 - 00:54:28 (20 sec)

We've helped a lot of people. On the pandemic, I was telling you about this medicine. I'm so proud of it. People don't want to write about it, but that's okay, but this is better than the vaccine. And it's going out, literally, as we speak. The US military logistics, they're bringing it out. This is such a big thing.

Donald Trump

00:54:28 - 00:54:56 (27 sec)

But we have done such a good job on the pandemic. We get zero credit. We've fed these governors whose shelves were empty and our shelves were empty too. I say our cupboard was bare and we filled it up with all sorts of stuff and we send it all over the United States. In New York, we built him convention centers that they should have used, we sent ships that they should have used instead of putting old people with other people that were sick and a lot of problems were caused as you know.

Donald Trump

00:54:56 - 00:55:22 (27 sec)

But we did such a job. We did such a great job and made some governors look great. And by the way, they all... well, we have our phone calls. We have 50 governors. They're all saying, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." Rarely, do we have anybody speak up, and when they do, we take care of them. And then they'll go and they'll speak to the press, and they'll say, "Well, the president was okay." What we've done for them, with the ventilators... the ventilators were an impossible situation.

Donald Trump

00:55:22 - 00:55:33 (10 sec)

We now build more ventilators by five times than anybody else, and we're supplying them to the world. And they're very complicated, expensive, et cetera, et cetera. But we've done a great job. [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

00:55:33 - 00:55:38 (5 sec)

Well, that's another thing, this massive remobilization of American industry. Yeah.

Donald Trump

00:55:38 - 00:56:01 (23 sec)

One of the biggest, I guess, the biggest they say since the Second World War. But you know what? This is the biggest of all. If the Regeneron and the Lilly comparable drug turns out, this is a cure, this is a therapeutic goal, what you want. I can tell you, it's a cure. And I'm talking to you today because of it.

Donald Trump

00:56:01 - 00:56:25 (24 sec)

And because I think I could've been a bad victim. I fit certain categories that aren't so great, okay. And you better be careful too, okay. I'm telling you, this is a total game changer. It's so good. And nobody else would have had it. FDA is approving things in one week. It used to take three years, and that's only because I'm bugging them like crazy.

Donald Trump

00:56:25 - 00:56:43 (18 sec)

I drive them crazy I guess, but that's okay. But FDA, Food and Drug Administration, is approving things that, Rush, would've taken years and I'm getting them in a matter of weeks and months. And they're great things, but this is the greatest of them all if this works and I'm very sure it's going to.

Rush Limbaugh

00:56:43 - 00:57:08 (26 sec)

Well, I hope it does. Again, you're writing history with this. Let me venture into another area. It was announced by the attorney general that his investigator, the attorney looking into the coup run against you will not have any announcements, any results, any... before the election. This is disappointing.

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:08 - 00:57:10 (1 sec)

I cannot tell you.

Donald Trump

00:57:10 - 00:57:11 (2 sec)

When was this announced, Rush?

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:11 - 00:57:13 (2 sec)

I think I've got the story here in the stack. I thought it was --

Donald Trump

00:57:13 - 00:57:15 (2 sec)

I think it's terrible. I think so.

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:15 - 00:57:16 (1 sec)

... fairly recently.

Donald Trump

00:57:16 - 00:57:18 (2 sec)

I think it's terrible. We have --

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:18 - 00:57:24 (5 sec)

Well, it is, because these are people... this is the biggest political scandal in the history of this country, certainly, our lifetimes.

Donald Trump

00:57:24 - 00:57:29 (5 sec)

If that's the case, I'm very disappointed. I think it's a terrible thing. And I'll say it to his face.

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:29 - 00:57:36 (7 sec)

Here it is. Barr tells Republicans Durham report will not be ready by election. It came out today.

Donald Trump

00:57:36 - 00:57:40 (4 sec)

That's a disgrace. I think it's a disgrace. It's an embarrassment.

Rush Limbaugh

00:57:40 - 00:57:45 (5 sec)

Well, I don't have the words to express my anger. I mean, I'm not saying I'm surprised. I'm angry. They --

Donald Trump

00:57:45 - 00:58:02 (16 sec)

I've had to go through it twice now with elections. And yet they have... see, this is what I mean with the Republicans. They don't play the tough game. They don't play the tough game. If this were the other side, you would've had 25 people in jail for the rest of their lives with what we found. That's [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

00:58:02 - 00:58:05 (3 sec)

If you'd tried something like this against any of them, heck yes.

Donald Trump

00:58:05 - 00:58:24 (19 sec)

Oh, are you kidding me? You would have been 20. Look at me. I had to beat off the phony Mueller report. I had to beat off all this stuff. I had to beat off impeachment. I had to beat off Congress, everything else. They then send it to New York, which is all political. They sent it into New... the same stuff into New York, have to beat that off.

Donald Trump

00:58:24 - 00:58:36 (12 sec)

They got New York all over. They don't stop. This is a disgrace. If that just came out. And I purposely tried to stay away from it, because they all say it would be better if I'm not involved. But, I just want to --

Rush Limbaugh

00:58:36 - 00:58:39 (3 sec)

Well, have you declassified everything about this yet?

Donald Trump

00:58:39 - 00:59:04 (26 sec)

I fully declassified everything. Everything's been declassified. They have so much information. They didn't need any more than... frankly, Mr. Horowitz, who was an Obama appointment, he wrote a report on Comey that was so bad. It was so bad. I've never seen anything like it. And they should have gone after him just on that and McCabe too, who took $700,000 from Hillary Clinton that they're investigating.

Rush Limbaugh

00:59:04 - 00:59:12 (7 sec)

I don't know how these people are still on cable TV, lying through their teeth about all of this, still getting paid to carry forth the lie.

Donald Trump

00:59:12 - 00:59:25 (13 sec)

If that's the case... and you have to understand, I'm hearing this for the first time. And I said, "It's impossible." It's okay for me to have to go through investigations during an election. But for them, we don't want to upset the apple cart. The Republicans --

Rush Limbaugh

00:59:25 - 00:59:28 (2 sec)

Yeah. It wasn't an investigation. It was a hunt. You --

Donald Trump

00:59:28 - 00:59:29 (2 sec)

... the Republicans don't play the same game.

Rush Limbaugh

00:59:29 - 00:59:40 (11 sec)

You didn't do anything. There was never any evidence. This was not an investigation. It was a hunt. You were being hunted. They were trying to plant and create evidence that would be believed. And they failed.

Donald Trump

00:59:40 - 01:00:03 (23 sec)

We caught them. We caught them cold and we have people that don't know how to do anything about it. It's horrible. If that's the case, I have to check that. I find it hard to believe, because you know what? I went through two elections. You don't think that affected 18? And I wasn't running in 18, but the whole Russia witch hunt affected the 18 outcome of the election.

Donald Trump

01:00:03 - 01:00:25 (22 sec)

We lost some congressional seats. People don't say we picked up to two Senate seats, but we lost something in 18. We lost something. We lost some seats that we probably could have held on to. We went through the same thing and it was all phony stuff. Nobody said, "Let's hold it back until after the election." But the Republicans don't play the same game.

Donald Trump

01:00:25 - 01:00:34 (10 sec)

They don't play the same game. I'd be surprised and I'd be very disappointed... I'll probably be disappointed, because this stuff should have come out a year ago anyway. They had --

Rush Limbaugh

01:00:34 - 01:00:35 (1 sec)

Did you expect it to?

Donald Trump

01:00:35 - 01:00:37 (2 sec)

... they had everything they needed a year ago.

Rush Limbaugh

01:00:37 - 01:00:39 (2 sec)

Did you expect that to come out by now?

Donald Trump

01:00:39 - 01:00:53 (13 sec)

I thought it should have come out two years ago. I mean, frankly, as far as I was concerned. Look, if they hold it because of the election, I've gone through two elections now.

Rush Limbaugh

01:00:53 - 01:00:54 (1 sec)

Well, that's what he says. They're holding it --

Donald Trump

01:00:54 - 01:00:58 (4 sec)

They started investigating me before I even won the election --

Rush Limbaugh

01:00:58 - 01:00:59 (2 sec)

It says here --

Donald Trump

01:00:59 - 01:01:23 (24 sec)

They started investigating me when I was coming down the escalator, the beautiful golden escalator as it's called, with the first lady. I was under investigation illegally by these thieves and Comey and crooks. We caught them in the act. There was spying in my campaign. And then they went for a coup. Nobody said, "Well, gee, you know, let's hold off the investigation." But with them, they do.

Donald Trump

01:01:23 - 01:01:27 (4 sec)

The Republicans don't play it the same way. It's very disappointing.

Rush Limbaugh

01:01:27 - 01:01:53 (26 sec)

It was frustrating for the first six months of your first term, half the Republicans in the House thought it was true, and that's why they didn't help to move your agenda. But it says right here, this is Axios, by the way, is the news source. And they say that Barr is communicating that his investigator, Durham, is taking this investigation very seriously and is focused on winning prosecutions, which I guess we're to expect not scoring points in the media.

Donald Trump

01:01:53 - 01:02:02 (9 sec)

Right. Let's let everybody get elected to office, and then let's worry about it. First of all, if we don't win this election, that whole thing is going to end. Okay. And you just remember that.

Rush Limbaugh

01:02:02 - 01:02:02 (0 sec)

Donald Trump

01:02:02 - 01:02:15 (13 sec)

If we don't win this election. That's another thing I'm fighting for because these people have to be brought to justice, but they should have been brought to justice before the election. But if we don't win this election, if we don't win, that whole thing is going to be dismissed.

Rush Limbaugh

01:02:15 - 01:02:36 (21 sec)

That's another thing. People want to know what they can do, sir. You would not believe the numbers of people who are asking, what can they do besides vote? And voting is big. I tell people that ask me this, "That's the first thing. Just make sure you vote. Show up and vote on election day, but vote." It's not insignificant.

Rush Limbaugh

01:02:36 - 01:02:40 (5 sec)

What else can people do? Because they want to help you. They want to know what they can do.

Donald Trump

01:02:40 - 01:03:01 (21 sec)

Just keep up the anger, keep up the genius because they're genius. They get it better than these guys that are looking at stuff. I'm telling you, they get it better. The American public gets this better than the so-called people that are looking. When I looked at the Times and I look at the Washington Post, fake papers, both of them, and they get Pulitzer prizes for the Russia investigation, but they were all wrong.

Donald Trump

01:03:01 - 01:03:04 (3 sec)

There was no collusion. So they get Pulitzer prizes.

Rush Limbaugh

01:03:04 - 01:03:07 (3 sec)

There wasn't a true word in any of those stories.

Donald Trump

01:03:07 - 01:03:27 (20 sec)

No, none of it. And the guys that did get it right. They don't get Pulitzer prizes. You and I can name 10 of them. Okay. You're one of them, but you don't care about Pulitzer prizes. But the ones that got it, they don't get anything, but just, Rush, take a look at how wrong these people were. And they pretend they know me.

Donald Trump

01:03:27 - 01:03:42 (14 sec)

You know, Maggie Haberman, all of these people. They... I have nothing against them, but they don't know me. They don't know me. I haven't seen her, I haven't spoken to her in a year and a half. You take one picture with somebody, it ends up being like they're the best friends for the rest of your life.

Donald Trump

01:03:42 - 01:04:04 (23 sec)

Take a picture at the oval office with a photographer, with a reporter. And then they write as though they're like you can't live without them. I don't even speak to these people. But look at the bad reporting that they've done. Look how wrong they were about everything. They got Pulitzer prizes for... The Pulitzer organization, frankly, is a disgrace.

Donald Trump

01:04:04 - 01:04:08 (3 sec)

They gave Pulitzer prizes to everybody that shouldn't have gotten them.

Rush Limbaugh

01:04:08 - 01:04:09 (2 sec)

Donald Trump

01:04:09 - 01:04:15 (5 sec)

They were all wrong. People that should get the Pulitzer prizes, didn't get them.

Rush Limbaugh

01:04:15 - 01:04:36 (22 sec)

I want to back of the president up on this folks. In this story that we're talking about here, the Russian collusion meddling story, do not doubt me, there wasn't a word of truth in any of the stories that were published, oftentimes four times a day for the first year. There was no truth. When Robert Mueller was handled the file on the day he became the special counsel.

Rush Limbaugh

01:04:36 - 01:05:01 (25 sec)

It was empty. There was never any evidence. This was not an investigation. There was nothing to investigate. It was a hunt. It was an outrage. And to be awarded a Pulitzer prize for printing not a single thing that is true is genuinely discrediting the Pulitzer. And you would think these people would care about that, but they don't. All that matters is getting rid of you.

Rush Limbaugh

01:05:01 - 01:05:02 (1 sec)

That's all that matters.

Donald Trump

01:05:02 - 01:05:16 (14 sec)

You would think they'd want to take back the prizes on the basis that they made a mistake. I mean, you would think the committee would meet and say, "I'm sorry, but you got it wrong. We're going to have to remand, we're going to have to take back the prizes." But, Rush, think of it. They was totally wrong.

Donald Trump

01:05:16 - 01:05:30 (14 sec)

And they all got Pulitzer prizes and then they go into another story. It's the same stuff. It's so disgraceful when you look at what's gone on. It's so dishonest and they knew it. And Mueller was a fraud. The whole thing was a fraud.

Rush Limbaugh

01:05:30 - 01:05:31 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

01:05:31 - 01:05:48 (17 sec)

And they were just thugs. And I'll tell you something, a friend of mine said, "You must be... " Friend of mine, who's a very smart, very successful guy, lawyer, said, "You must be the most honest guy in the world. You've gone through three and a half years of investigations. They found nothing." And they've gone through my taxes.

Donald Trump

01:05:48 - 01:06:07 (20 sec)

They've gone through everything. Hey, they spend $48 million, I think, the last number I heard was. 48 million investigating me. They've gone through my taxes. They've gone through everything you can imagine at a level that nobody can even believe. Nobody's ever had to put up... And no other president should have to put up with this.

Donald Trump

01:06:07 - 01:06:23 (16 sec)

But then I hear that they're not going to do the thing before the election. Why? Because they're afraid they're going to influence the election. Because that's the way the Republicans are. They play so nice all the time. It's very disappointing. If Bill Barr actually made that statement, I would be very disappointed in him.

Donald Trump

01:06:23 - 01:06:26 (3 sec)

I don't know that he made that statement, but if he did do that --

Rush Limbaugh

01:06:26 - 01:06:36 (9 sec)

That's a good point. I mean, it is the drive by media, it's Axios. And the story is that Barr is telling leading Republicans. It's not that he's made it public. It's that he's --

Donald Trump

01:06:36 - 01:06:57 (21 sec)

Well, they've had plenty of time to do it. They've been looking at it for two years. The facts are on the table. All you have to do is take a look at the Horowitz report on Mueller. Even the New York Times on Mueller and on, especially what they wrote about what they read about this idiot Comey, the world's worst FBI director, but not only that, he's a very dishonest guy. [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:06:57 - 01:07:02 (5 sec)

Do you think the American people are not aware of this? Do you think they don't know the --

Donald Trump

01:07:02 - 01:07:18 (17 sec)

They're totally aware. No. They're totally aware. Even the other side's aware of it. The other side laughs about it. They can't believe they got away with it, you want to know the truth. They're not stupid. They're very smart. The other side laughs about it. It's not like they believe the Russia thing. They don't know about it.

Rush Limbaugh

01:07:18 - 01:07:19 (1 sec)

No. I know but if they --

Donald Trump

01:07:19 - 01:07:20 (1 sec)

They laugh about it.

Rush Limbaugh

01:07:20 - 01:07:37 (17 sec)

If they think they got away with it then... Well, I'm leading up to the American people should be, if they know what happened, so outraged, no way they would vote Democrat. This is outrageous. This is antithetical to everything this country stands for, what happened to you in this.

Donald Trump

01:07:37 - 01:07:58 (20 sec)

They tried to do a take down of a very legitimately, in fact beyond, because I was fighting, little did I know because I didn't know when they started this investigation, which was long before the presidential, before the race. After I won, they tried to take me out. Before I won, they tried to... You know, it was a fraud.

Donald Trump

01:07:58 - 01:07:59 (2 sec)

It was the Russian witchhunt.

Rush Limbaugh

01:07:59 - 01:08:02 (3 sec)

Well, they were trying to corrupt the transition.

Donald Trump

01:08:02 - 01:08:27 (24 sec)

You know this better than anybody. And Putin, I guarantee you says this to everybody. Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have. I got NATO to pay $410 billion more to protect against Russia. I was the one that exposed Nord Stream, the pipeline going into Germany. I said, "Wait a minute, you're paying Russia billions of dollars, and we're supposed to protect you from Russia.

Donald Trump

01:08:27 - 01:08:47 (21 sec)

What kind of a deal is this?" I was the one that gave tank busters to Ukraine and Obama gave them pillows. Remember the pillows, probably from the pillow man on Fox, but Obama gave them pillows and sheets. And I gave them tank busters. I gave them money. Obama did... Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have.

Donald Trump

01:08:47 - 01:08:48 (0 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

01:08:48 - 01:09:11 (23 sec)

Well, you know, Mr. President, I think something the American people need to know is that the Democrats and the media, which is again, one and the same, have done more with four years of lies and misrepresenting, to utter outright lies about you supposedly stealing the election from Hillary with the Russians.

Rush Limbaugh

01:09:11 - 01:09:29 (18 sec)

They have done more, sir. This is important. They have done more to corrupt the integrity and the honor of the presidential election system than Vladimir Putin could have ever hoped to. They have made people doubt. And they're now talking about how this upcoming election, the Russians are in the process of stealing it too.

Rush Limbaugh

01:09:29 - 01:09:57 (28 sec)

These people are so dishonorable and disreputable and they need to be held accountable for what they have done to the perception of honesty and integrity in our elections, to the very serious effort they are making to transform this country into something it was never founded to be. But this business of trying to say that you stole the election, that you meddled with the Russians, they did.

Rush Limbaugh

01:09:57 - 01:10:15 (18 sec)

Hillary did. Hillary came up with this whole scheme in order to protect her from her email scandal. This is something they did. And now they're running around and they're doing more damage to the integrity, the perceived honesty of our electoral system, than anything Vladimir Putin could ever hope for.

Donald Trump

01:10:15 - 01:10:37 (22 sec)

She deleted 33,000 emails. She should be in jail for that. I don't even care if they're very highly confidential emails, I don't care what. She deleted. She got a question. She got a statement from Congress, a subpoena from Congress. Everybody, we want your emails, all of Hillary Clinton's emails, 33,000 of them.

Donald Trump

01:10:37 - 01:10:56 (19 sec)

She deleted them. She acid washed them and she broke her telephones with a hammer. Okay. Broke them with a hammer. And by the way, speaking of that and speaking to Bill Barr, 31 people deleted their telephone messages from the Mueller report. And they said they all made a mistake. Well, they made the same mistake.

Donald Trump

01:10:56 - 01:11:23 (27 sec)

The chances are a billion to one that they would have made the same mistake. 31 phones were wiped clean on the Mueller report. I want to see those phones. And how do you allow 31 phones? I think it was 19 people, 31 phones. You read about it, just recently. They want the phones because they want the information on the phones because we caught them cheating and they were all wiped clean or most of them were wiped clean.

Donald Trump

01:11:23 - 01:11:42 (19 sec)

We have a couple, believe it or not. But they were wiped clean. They were deleted. Everything was deleted and cleansed. And you're not allowed to do that. They broke the law. Nothing happens to these people, but they go after General Flynn, they go after Papadopoulos, they go after all these people. It is a disgrace.

Donald Trump

01:11:42 - 01:11:58 (16 sec)

And one of the reasons I want to win so badly is we got to finish this thing off and I will be very disappointed if that Axios piece that you read to me is true. I'll be very disappointed because they've had plenty of time to get this done, plenty of time.

Rush Limbaugh

01:11:58 - 01:12:18 (20 sec)

Absolutely. Sir, why do you think Vice-President Biden agreed to go on with a town hall debate, number two? If you can prove your virus free on October 15th and then he retracted the demand, now agrees with the commission to Zoom the debate, wants a virtual debate. And if he doesn't show up, are you going to show up anyway?

Rush Limbaugh

01:12:18 - 01:12:20 (1 sec)

What are they trying to pull off here?

Donald Trump

01:12:20 - 01:12:34 (15 sec)

I don't think the debates mean that much because, and I'll tell you why. I've done well with debates. I have won... I guess I had 15, I think I won every single poll. I won the poll on this one with him, but I had to be rude because he was lying. He'd get up and he'd just say a series of things. They were all lies.

Donald Trump

01:12:34 - 01:12:56 (22 sec)

So I'd say false. And they'd say I interrupted him. But if you look at the polls, most polls say I won it with him. But it was a very interesting thing. I'd rather let him speak because he's gone, he's mentally gone. And eventually he goes off track and he'll start talking about the birds and the bees. But I couldn't do that because he was saying so many false things.

Donald Trump

01:12:56 - 01:13:14 (18 sec)

He'd say about the soldiers, he'd say about social security, which I'll protect and he won't protect by the way, he's not going to protect. He doesn't even know what it is. He'll say about social security, he'll say... And if I didn't say wrong, et cetera, et cetera. But the one who protected him was Chris Wallace.

Donald Trump

01:13:14 - 01:13:32 (18 sec)

And by the way, Fox is a whole different ball game. Fox is a much different thing than it was four years ago. Somebody said, "What's the biggest difference?" I said, "The biggest difference is Fox." You take a look at Fox. We have our great ones, Sean, and a number of them, but you watch this Fox is a whole different ball game.

Donald Trump

01:13:32 - 01:13:47 (15 sec)

And you know, Paul Ryan is on the board of Fox. So I'm sure that has something to do with it. But Fox is a whole different ball game. Somebody said to me, "What's the biggest difference?" I said, "The biggest difference is Fox is no longer the same." It's a big difference.

Rush Limbaugh

01:13:47 - 01:14:09 (22 sec)

The obstacles that keep being placed in front of you are no doubt there. And I've never seen, I've told you this before, I talk about it on this program, I've never seen anything like this before. The things that you have to overcome and surmount each and every day would drive most people out of the business and drive most of --

Donald Trump

01:14:09 - 01:14:11 (1 sec)

[Crosstalk] I can talk to you --

Rush Limbaugh

01:14:11 - 01:14:15 (5 sec)

And I don't know, I'm asking you, you didn't need any of this, sir. [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

01:14:15 - 01:14:31 (16 sec)

But why I can talk to you, Rush, the great Rush, and you are the great one, and I'm honored to know you, but I can talk to you and I can spell out all of the dishonesty and everything else, and the millions of people are listening right now. I hope you're all time biggest audience.

Rush Limbaugh

01:14:31 - 01:14:34 (3 sec)

Millions and millions and millions. You would not believe how many millions.

Donald Trump

01:14:34 - 01:14:52 (19 sec)

No. But I can talk to you. Now, let's say, I say, "No, I don't want to do it." Or I want to be shy. I don't want to talk, too many people, let's not talk. No. You have such an incredible audience. So I can tell them about Fox being a big obstacle. It's a problem. Fox is a problem. When Roger Ailes ran Fox.

Donald Trump

01:14:52 - 01:15:18 (26 sec)

Roger had a very strong point of view. That's totally gone. And I think it's influenced by Paul Ryan. He's on the board. I can't believe it. Here's a guy who failed as speaker. Do you know that Nancy Pelosi issues a subpoena like it's cookies. Everything you do, "Did you make a phone call 12 years ago? Oh, issue a subpoena." You couldn't get a subpoena our of Paul.

Donald Trump

01:15:18 - 01:15:23 (5 sec)

When we had that guys. We have Jim Jordan and these guys. They're so fantastic.

Rush Limbaugh

01:15:23 - 01:15:33 (11 sec)

They're doing great job. But how do you... You have no choice. You have to deal with it. So Fox is different than they were four ago, but you still have to deal with it.

Donald Trump

01:15:33 - 01:15:46 (12 sec)

I deal with them. But they've gone a very different path. It's a much different group. They have guys on there that are so bad. They have people, I call them the twins. There's Chris Hahn and- [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

01:15:46 - 01:15:49 (3 sec)

They just hired a bunch of Democrats.

Donald Trump

01:15:49 - 01:15:57 (8 sec)

He works for Schumer. They're Schumer people. How about when they hired Donna Brazil, who gave Hillary the questions to the debate?

Rush Limbaugh

01:15:57 - 01:15:58 (2 sec)

Yeah. I hear you.

Donald Trump

01:15:58 - 01:16:09 (11 sec)

Who got fired... By the way, Donna Brazil got fired from CNN and then Fox hires her. Got no credibility. It's not like she's great entertainment. It's not even good entertainment.

Rush Limbaugh

01:16:09 - 01:16:16 (7 sec)

I know. This unfairness never ends. It never ends. It's our way of life. It's something we have to deal and it's maddening

Donald Trump

01:16:16 - 01:16:23 (7 sec)

When they do that, when they put somebody like a Donna Brazil, not that she's effective, she's not effective. [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:16:23 - 01:16:36 (13 sec)

I know, but you are. See you are. That's the difference. That's the difference. You are. You think they're driving you crazy. You have no idea what you're doing to them. You're driving them insane, sir. They can't touch you.

Donald Trump

01:16:36 - 01:16:41 (5 sec)

Fox should grab it. And they should say, "Hey, we got the president and we're going to defend --

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Donald Trump

01:18:12 - 01:18:38 (27 sec)

He's been wearing a very tight blue t-shirt and he's not meant for it, nor am I, nor are you. It's just one of those things. At a certain age, you put on a tie, right? But what happens is he brought it up again. I thought, I said to him, "I thought I taught you a lesson two years ago about standing for the flag." Their ratings went down the tubes and now you look at everybody with their hands in the air and they're kneeling.

Donald Trump

01:18:38 - 01:18:46 (8 sec)

I just don't have the same interest and neither do a lot of other people. The NBA has become so political that nobody cares about it anymore. [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

01:18:46 - 01:18:48 (2 sec)

That's not why people watch it.

Donald Trump

01:18:48 - 01:19:10 (23 sec)

I don't know of anybody that's... I don't even know who's playing in the finals. I don't know anybody that's watching the NBA. LeBron has been a spokesman. I don't know him. I never met him. All I know is when he endorsed Hillary, I said, "That's the greatest endorsement I've ever seen." Because when he endorsed Hillary four years ago, she came up to his knee.

Donald Trump

01:19:10 - 01:19:14 (4 sec)

I said, "That is not the best looking president [Crosstalk].

Rush Limbaugh

01:19:14 - 01:19:15 (1 sec)

Came up to his knee.

Donald Trump

01:19:15 - 01:19:18 (3 sec)

I thought that was the greatest. It was standing.

Rush Limbaugh

01:19:18 - 01:19:19 (1 sec)

You mean, standing, she came up to his knee.

Donald Trump

01:19:19 - 01:19:33 (14 sec)

They were standing. No, she was up to about his knee. I mean, literally I've never seen anything. And I said, "That's not good." But LeBron is a spokesman for the Democratic party. And a very nasty spokesman because again --

Rush Limbaugh

01:19:33 - 01:19:35 (1 sec)

Yeah. They are angry.

Donald Trump

01:19:35 - 01:19:53 (18 sec)

I've done so much for the black community and people don't want to see that. And he's a great basketball player, but people don't want to see a guy that's that way. They don't want to see that. We have enough difficulty during the week. You don't want to sit down and watch a basketball game and then watch somebody that hates your guts.

Donald Trump

01:19:53 - 01:20:15 (22 sec)

And he's a hater. So I look at it and I look at the NBA and I can't watch it. And nobody's watching it. And their ratings are down the tubes. And I'm telling you, I haven't watched a basketball game, like in a long time. And I have no interest in doing it. And you know what? That's a very sad commentary because I'd love to, but I just don't have any interest in it anymore.

Donald Trump

01:20:15 - 01:20:35 (20 sec)

And other things I do, I have great interests, but I don't have... They're hurting themselves very badly. And now I understand. Don't forget, black lives matter. What was black lives matter? Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. The first time I ever heard of black lives matter, I said, "That's such a terrible term." Because it's such a racist term.

Donald Trump

01:20:35 - 01:20:47 (11 sec)

It's a term that sows division between blacks and whites and everybody else. And it's a very bad term for blacks, but they were very angry. It's a Marxist organization.

Rush Limbaugh

01:20:47 - 01:20:48 (1 sec)

That's the key.

Donald Trump

01:20:48 - 01:21:02 (15 sec)

It's pigs in a blanket, pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon, who are they referring to? New York city policemen. And I said, "Wow." And if you were to tell me that was going to go mainstream, but it never did go mainstream.

Rush Limbaugh

01:21:02 - 01:21:27 (25 sec)

Well, I don't know. Mr. President, that's another thing. If you go back 9/11, just 19 years ago, not that long ago... This to me is a really sobering thing to realize. Not that long ago, the police, firemen, first responders were the heroes in our country. Go back after 9/11, you have the athletes carrying an American flag on the field of --

Donald Trump

01:21:27 - 01:21:28 (1 sec)

Absolute heroes.

Rush Limbaugh

01:21:28 - 01:21:49 (21 sec)

And now look what's happened in 15 to 19 years. Look what the left has done. Now we want to defund the police. Now the police are murdering pigs and so forth, in 15 years. It's a sign of how successful these people have been. They used to be heroes. Everybody wanted to be with the police. Everybody wanted to join them.

Rush Limbaugh

01:21:49 - 01:22:07 (19 sec)

Remember when George W. Bush threw out the first pitch in Yankee Stadium, Rudy was wearing the NYPD cap and the cops were the toasts of town. They went into the buildings trying to save people. To see what the Democratic party has done to the police and the reputation [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

01:22:07 - 01:22:27 (20 sec)

Yeah. Well, it's the liberal Democrats, radical liberal Democrats. Look, New York. Rudy was a great mayor. Rudy was our greatest mayor by far. He did things that were incredible and brought back New York. But it was easier in a way because the police had total respect. There was crime but the police were the police.

Donald Trump

01:22:27 - 01:22:47 (20 sec)

When they dumped water a year ago on the policeman's head and he didn't do anything about it, like turn around and slug the guy, when they did that, I don't know if you remember New York's finest. New York's finest, these are great police. You know, I got endorsed by New York's finest one month ago. And it's the first time in the history of New York City that they've endorsed a president [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:22:47 - 01:22:50 (3 sec)

A lot of police organizations have endorsed you now.

Donald Trump

01:22:50 - 01:22:50 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

01:22:50 - 01:22:51 (1 sec)

All over the country.

Donald Trump

01:22:51 - 01:23:04 (13 sec)

I don't think anybody, in fact, I asked Biden at the debate, and of course, Chris Wallace cut it off. Didn't think it was appropriate. I said, "Name one police organization that endorsed you, Joe." Then I said, "Say law and order Joe, just law and order." He wouldn't do it.

Rush Limbaugh

01:23:04 - 01:23:09 (5 sec)

Yeah. Why wouldn't he do that? What's so hard about law and order, law and order. How hard is that?

Donald Trump

01:23:09 - 01:23:25 (16 sec)

He wouldn't do it. Then I think he said, "Law and order and safety." I said, "No, no, just law and order." Law and order means safety. You don't have to add the word safety. That's a little net. Let me tell you, if he got in, this country is going to hell. This country is going to go to hell like you've never seen.

Donald Trump

01:23:25 - 01:23:29 (5 sec)

And you'll end up in a depression the likes of which you haven't seen since 1929.

Rush Limbaugh

01:23:29 - 01:23:40 (11 sec)

Okay. People are asking, when you say that, why would they want this? Why would the Democrats want to take this country into a recession and have it be so bad economically? Why would they want to do that?

Donald Trump

01:23:40 - 01:23:58 (18 sec)

Your taxes are going up, your regulations... You know, in the biggest tax cuts in history, bigger than Reagan's tax cuts, I did something that was more important. I cut regulations that you couldn't build a highway in less than 10 years. It would take you 10 years to get approvals. And some much longer than that.

Donald Trump

01:23:58 - 01:24:18 (20 sec)

One was 21 years and they ended up not getting it. You couldn't get anything done. I cut regulations to a level that now you can get things done or not done in one year. In other words, it may get disapproved because it's not safe or environmentally good, or a lot of good reasons. But I cut regulations from 19 years to one year.

Donald Trump

01:24:18 - 01:24:24 (6 sec)

You wouldn't even believe it. People had to go through the same agency 14 different times --

Rush Limbaugh

01:24:24 - 01:24:27 (3 sec)

Right and once again, you have to be the one to tell the story.

Donald Trump

01:24:27 - 01:24:31 (4 sec)

I have to be the one. Yeah. Nobody else seems to be able to tell it properly.

Rush Limbaugh

01:24:31 - 01:24:36 (5 sec)

By the way, what's the status of the stimulus package now, the COVID stimulus package?

Donald Trump

01:24:36 - 01:24:52 (16 sec)

So I'd like to see it happen because it wasn't... Look, a lot of people are being hurt because of China. It wasn't these people's fault. I would like to see a bigger stimulus package frankly than either the Democrats or the Republicans are offering. I'm going to the exact opposite now. I'm telling you this.

Donald Trump

01:24:52 - 01:25:19 (26 sec)

I'm telling you something I don't tell anybody else because maybe it helps or maybe it hurts negotiations. I would like to see a bigger package. I'd like to see money going to people. It was not their fault that China sent in the plague. It wasn't their fault. And China's going to pay a big price. China was going to catch us in 2019. If you look back 15, 20 years ago, everybody said, by 2019, China will beat us.

Donald Trump

01:25:19 - 01:25:37 (19 sec)

I was beating them so badly. We were doubling up, we were doing great until the plague came in and we're still beating them badly. We'll still be. If you have a smart guy at top, you'll always beat them. You know, they're paying us billions and billions of dollars in tariffs. People don't realize when I made the deal, they're paying billions of dollars I gave- [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:25:37 - 01:25:43 (6 sec)

No, they don't. And people don't know what that means. They don't know. How does that benefit them? That China's paying billions and billions --

Donald Trump

01:25:43 - 01:25:59 (16 sec)

Billions of dollars. Well, they devalue their currency and they make it impossible to compete because they devalue their currency. They're currency manipulators. And they devalue their currency. And therefore the dollar, they're using dollars of a different value. And it makes it very easy for them to compete.

Donald Trump

01:25:59 - 01:26:14 (15 sec)

Whereas, we don't do that. We don't play games like that. Some people say we should, I don't have a view point, but they devalue their currency and they do all sorts of things and what they do in the World Trade Organization... We just won a case seven and a half billion dollars. First time we've won a case in a long time.

Donald Trump

01:26:14 - 01:26:32 (18 sec)

I said, "Look, I'm going to get out of the World Trade Organization if I have to." Just like I got out of the World Health. So we were paying 500 million a year in World Health. China's paying 39 million a year in World Health. I say, "Why are they paying, they're a bigger country? Why are they paying so much less?" I asked these little stupid questions like that.

Donald Trump

01:26:32 - 01:26:48 (15 sec)

Nobody could give me an answer. And yet they dominate the World Health. They dominate World Health. And World Health, when they did this horrible thing to us, World Health did nothing whatsoever to help us. We're at 500 million a year. So I terminated the deal.

Rush Limbaugh

01:26:48 - 01:26:51 (3 sec)

Oh, they're in the tank. They're in the tank for the shutdown.

Donald Trump

01:26:51 - 01:26:52 (1 sec)

Totally in the tank.

Rush Limbaugh

01:26:52 - 01:26:53 (2 sec)

So I got to make an observation here, sir. [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

01:26:53 - 01:27:05 (11 sec)

... World Trade. By the way, same thing about World Trade. Do you know in World Trade, China is considered a developing nation. If you're a developing nation, you get tremendous advantages in the World Trade Organization.

Rush Limbaugh

01:27:05 - 01:27:09 (4 sec)

You get your hand in the back pocket of the United States Treasury is what you get.

Donald Trump

01:27:09 - 01:27:28 (20 sec)

A hundred percent. And I ended that. I said, "I'm not going to accept that they're a developing nation." I wouldn't say China's in love with me, by the way. China is dying. Here's what will happen, just a couple of predictions. If I win, we'll have a great deal with Iran within one month. They're dying to have me lose.

Donald Trump

01:27:28 - 01:27:29 (1 sec)

But if I win --

Rush Limbaugh

01:27:29 - 01:27:30 (1 sec)

A great deal on what?

Donald Trump

01:27:30 - 01:27:32 (2 sec)

No nuclear weapons. No [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:27:32 - 01:27:34 (2 sec)

No nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump

01:27:34 - 01:27:55 (21 sec)

Don't forget, look at what's happened to terrorism. Iran was a very wealthy nation given $150 billion plus 1.8 billion in cash by Obama. A very wealthy nation and now they're a very poor nation. And the terrorist organizations, I knock on wood as they say, because it's easy to start something. But they don't they're not fighting like they used to.

Donald Trump

01:27:55 - 01:28:14 (19 sec)

You know why they have no money? Because Iran is bust. Iran is bust because of me, because of sanctions and other things. And the whole picture of terror, you don't see the terror. Now, I hate to say it on an important show like this, but I'll say it. You don't see the terror the way you used to see the terror.

Donald Trump

01:28:14 - 01:28:38 (23 sec)

And they know if they do anything against us, they'll pay a thousand fold problem. They're going to have a thousand fold difference because they know we are going to do things to you that have never been done before. And they understand that. But here's the thing, they're no longer rich and they're not giving out hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas and all these other groups that caused all the problem.

Donald Trump

01:28:38 - 01:28:43 (5 sec)

Now, nobody brings that out. When was the last time you saw an attack --

Rush Limbaugh

01:28:43 - 01:29:08 (25 sec)

I hear the frustration... I need to make an observation here for the American people. We've now been chatting with the president for an hour and, excuse me, an hour and 42 minutes, ladies and gentlemen. We have not had a commercial break. I would thus have to say the president's status with COVID-19 is pretty solid.

Rush Limbaugh

01:29:08 - 01:29:34 (26 sec)

The second thing that I would say is that not once during the hour and 42 minutes, has the president been stumped, has he not known what he wanted to say. Sir, you give the media in this country more access than any president ever. That's not even a contest. I think you've done something brilliant too when you have your little press gaggles out on your way to a Marine One.

Rush Limbaugh

01:29:34 - 01:29:55 (21 sec)

The camera's on you not them. You look like you're actually conducting an orchestra as you point to various members of the media when it's their turn. You're conducting a symphony. And everybody hears them screaming their questions at you like a bunch of six year olds and you answer them. Every question you're asked, you answer.

Rush Limbaugh

01:29:55 - 01:30:21 (26 sec)

You don't take a pass on anything and you don't run away from anything. You don't hide from anything and you'll meet them wherever they happen to be. If you're able to, you will. And I think people need to keep this in mind in terms of a chief executive who is accessible to the American people and wants the American people to know what he's doing and what he's thinking.

Rush Limbaugh

01:30:21 - 01:30:40 (19 sec)

There's no deception here. You have somebody, I don't want to embarrass you here, but you have somebody who thinks this country is great. You have somebody that loves this country, perhaps in ways that many people in politics in the past don't because their view of what America is, is a nation among many in the world.

Rush Limbaugh

01:30:40 - 01:31:06 (26 sec)

President Trump believes in America first and for this he's hated. For this, he's criticized America first. There's nothing wrong with America first because America is the good guys. We're the good guys in the world. We are the solution to the world's problems. You have a man here who believes this, who believes your country holds the secret and holds the answer to life improving for citizens and human beings all over this planet.

Rush Limbaugh

01:31:06 - 01:31:32 (25 sec)

That's the objective that he has, including for people who live in this country. And can you imagine, folks, being hated and reviled for this? And yet he is. He's hated and reviled for loving America, for believing that America is good. His opponents think America's racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic. Hell, we may as well still be a slave state as far as they're concerned.

Rush Limbaugh

01:31:32 - 01:32:06 (35 sec)

It's outrageous how they've poisoned the minds of our young people and got our young people hating their own country. Donald Trump has been a... your arrival on the scene has been providential, I believe, sir. I think you are the one person who has the ability to delay, stave off, stop the left from this inexorable march of theirs into changing this country and into things the American people that aren't paying attention and have no idea what's in store for them if they win.

Donald Trump

01:32:06 - 01:32:11 (4 sec)

Well, Rush, I appreciate that very much. It's an honor.

Rush Limbaugh

01:32:11 - 01:32:12 (2 sec)

I mean it from the bottom of my heart, sir.

Donald Trump

01:32:12 - 01:32:37 (24 sec)

I know you do. And this is the most important election that we've ever had. And I used to say '16, I don't even get into that anymore. That's over. This is the most important election that this country has ever had on so many different fronts. There's never been anything like it. We will go the way of failed nations all over Latin America, South America.

Donald Trump

01:32:37 - 01:33:04 (28 sec)

We will go the way of failure like nobody's ever seen and in a scale like nobody's ever seen it. We've been taken advantage of by every nation in the world, including our friends. Our friends sometimes are worse than our enemies. What I've done with NATO, we were taking care of virtually 100% of the military needs of Europe, guarding them from Russia.

Donald Trump

01:33:04 - 01:33:30 (26 sec)

At the same time, they were taking advantage of us on trade and in many ways they were worse than China. Europe was worse to us on trade than China was. And I changed so many things. But then they say, oh, in Germany, they don't like Trump as much as they liked Obama. Well, of course they shouldn't like me because Germany was taking advantage of us like few countries took advantage --

Rush Limbaugh

01:33:30 - 01:33:35 (5 sec)

What was Angela Merkel doing making a deal with Russia on the natural gas pipeline? You made that point at NATO. She should have been buying it from us.

Donald Trump

01:33:35 - 01:33:46 (11 sec)

Nobody even knew about that pipeline until I brought it up. I said, "Why are you paying Russia billions of dollars and we're protecting you. Tell me, what kind of a deal is this? We're protecting you but you're giving Russia, every month, billions of dollars-"

Rush Limbaugh

01:33:46 - 01:33:47 (1 sec)

Well, what did she say?

Donald Trump

01:33:47 - 01:34:08 (20 sec)

She smiles because she's a very smart one. She knows it. There's no way she can answer the question. I say, "You don't have to answer the question Angela." I like on Angela. I get along with her, believe it or not, quite well. But she's a player. And I said, "Angela, don't answer the question because I don't want to embarrass you." There's no way she could answer the question because she gets away with it.

Donald Trump

01:34:08 - 01:34:33 (25 sec)

That's why. She's a very smart, cunning person. But I caught them. Hey Rush, I got them to pay $130 billion going to $410 billion more each year against Russia. Now, I get along with Putin. I like Putin. Putin probably, possibly likes me. But I guarantee you one thing, he would have much rather seen crooked Hillary and I guarantee he'd rather see Biden because Biden is slow.

Donald Trump

01:34:33 - 01:34:56 (23 sec)

Biden is not equipped to be president. He never was at his best day. But he is not equipped now. It's no longer prime time. And not because he's 78. Because frankly at 78, as we said before, I know the sharpest people. They're 85, they're 80. It's not an age... now, they're all saying, oh, it's 78. It's not because he's 78. There's something wrong with him.

Donald Trump

01:34:56 - 01:34:58 (2 sec)

And we can be nice about it, we --

Rush Limbaugh

01:34:58 - 01:35:02 (4 sec)

Well, they know that. That's why they're angling to get Kamala [Crosstalk]

Donald Trump

01:35:02 - 01:35:23 (21 sec)

Nobody wants to say it, but his thoughts are bad and... here's a guy. You talk about access to the press. I've never seen this before and I've watched a lot and I don't know how he gets away. You saw that NBC joke the other night where it's like a child, like you're asking a child questions. They don't talk to me that way.

Donald Trump

01:35:23 - 01:35:41 (18 sec)

When you look at the questions that he gets, and then he reads the answers off a computer. Now, that means that these supposedly legitimate, but they're not legitimate. You know that better than I do. These news organizations are giving him questions, they're putting them in a computer. He's reading the answers off a computer.

Donald Trump

01:35:41 - 01:35:58 (17 sec)

I never heard of that before. I haven't done that. Can you imagine? Give me the questions and I'm going to give you an answer off a computer. He's reading the answers off a computer a lot of times. And if he doesn't do that, he's all mixed up and befuddled. And Chris Wallace saved him three times the other night.

Donald Trump

01:35:58 - 01:36:16 (18 sec)

I mean, he was getting ready to crack and Chris Wallace, who was terrible by the way, who I think really embarrassed himself and Fox the other night. But Chris Wallace saved him. But can you imagine, you're getting the answers to questions and you're getting the questions themselves and you're reading the answers --

Rush Limbaugh

01:36:16 - 01:36:22 (6 sec)

They were doing that for Hillary too. And that's how they rig the game for the Democrats. And look, I got another Biden soundbite here for you.

Donald Trump

01:36:22 - 01:36:27 (5 sec)

One thing I would say, Hillary was much smarter. Hillary is a much smarter person. I mean, look, Hillary was smart.

Rush Limbaugh

01:36:27 - 01:36:30 (3 sec)

I don't agree with that. But I mean --

Donald Trump

01:36:30 - 01:36:49 (19 sec)

I understand. But Hillary didn't need to have answers read. She could answer a question. Joe can not answer a question. Joe, they ask him a question, a very simple question and he's reading it off a computer. He's saying, move the computer. Bring it closer, bring it... he couldn't see it. Bring it closer.

Donald Trump

01:36:49 - 01:37:06 (17 sec)

On a question that anybody could answer. I mean, it's a very simple question. We can't have this. We could be nice. And maybe I'll lose because they'll say I'm not a nice person. I think I am a nice person. I help people. I like to help people. But we can't have this as our president. We really can't Rush.

Rush Limbaugh

01:37:06 - 01:37:27 (21 sec)

Here's another Biden soundbite for you to react to. This is June 7th. Now, this is all the way back 2006. This is 14 years ago. Now, this tells you who the guy is. This is before any of whatever the aging problems that have befallen Vice President Biden. This is 2006. So 14 years ago. Manchester, New Hampshire.

Joe Biden

01:37:27 - 01:37:42 (14 sec)

[Begin Audio Clip] In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent and I'm not joking. [End Audio Clip]

Rush Limbaugh

01:37:42 - 01:37:49 (7 sec)

Now, you and I say that and we are roasted and excoriated. He says that, that's just old Joe.

Donald Trump

01:37:49 - 01:37:56 (7 sec)

You're right. We would be. But still, that's a much different man talking there that you see now. A much different man.

Rush Limbaugh

01:37:56 - 01:38:19 (23 sec)

That's exactly right. Ballots. We've got dwindling time here. Virginia Beach, Virginia police just confirmed that undelivered mail was found... this story is... it might be yesterday or the day before. Undelivered mail was found this afternoon in a construction dumpster in the Pungo section of Virginia Beach.

Rush Limbaugh

01:38:19 - 01:38:52 (33 sec)

The man who found it estimates 70 to 80 pounds of mail. USPS, the postal service is investigating. And then we have another companion story. Mail-in ballots in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania have been delayed. Voters are confused and frustrated. 58,000 mail-in ballots, one County, sir, in one state. Extrapolate that to the entire state. 58,000 mail in ballots or as the Democrats see it, the mail-in fraud.

Rush Limbaugh

01:38:52 - 01:38:56 (4 sec)

That's another thing that people wanted to... what can be done about this?

Donald Trump

01:38:56 - 01:39:05 (10 sec)

Well look, absentee ballots where you send in via ballot... I have an absentee ballot in Florida. You send in and you have to request it and they --

Rush Limbaugh

01:39:05 - 01:39:09 (3 sec)

You have to show ID to get one of those. You don't for a mail-in.

Donald Trump

01:39:09 - 01:39:27 (18 sec)

It's not easy, but it's okay. And some people just can't do it. But they send it, it's called absentee. I call it a solicited ballot. I like that term better. You solicit and they send it and you'd fix it and you'd send it back in. That's one thing. But they're sending out millions and millions of ballots.

Donald Trump

01:39:27 - 01:39:46 (19 sec)

Are they sending them to all Democrats? Who are they sending them to? Where are they going in? Et cetera, et cetera. This is going to be the second biggest political scandal in history. The first biggest is the Russian crap that we've been going through for three and a half years. That's the biggest. To me, that's the biggest political scandal in history --

Rush Limbaugh

01:39:46 - 01:39:46 (1 sec)

Donald Trump

01:39:46 - 01:39:51 (5 sec)

What we've been going through and now they delay it. You're telling me they delay it. That's going to be my first phone call by the way.

Rush Limbaugh

01:39:51 - 01:39:54 (2 sec)

Delay the announcement of whatever, yes.

Donald Trump

01:39:54 - 01:40:14 (21 sec)

I think it's just a disgrace if that's the case. It's a disgrace. And I'll say it to anybody who wants to say it. That's a disgrace. But the biggest scandal of all time is that this will be the second biggest scandal. Every day I'm seeing accounts of ballots that are thrown away. You saw the military ballots that were thrown away with my name on it, the other day.

Donald Trump

01:40:14 - 01:40:22 (8 sec)

Every day you see scandal about these millions of ballots that's being sent out. It's the single biggest risk in this election.

Rush Limbaugh

01:40:22 - 01:40:29 (6 sec)

If this kind of stuff were happening to me, if I were a candidate, I'd have my people on this so fast. What are you doing about it?

Donald Trump

01:40:29 - 01:40:46 (18 sec)

We have many lawyers. And we've actually been winning many cases. How about where they have the ballots counted and the ballots have to be in by November 3rd, election day, but they don't have to be counted for two weeks later. Well, that means you're never going to know who won the election. It's going to be two weeks later.

Donald Trump

01:40:46 - 01:41:02 (16 sec)

I want to see you on November 3rd who won the election. So do you. You want to turn on your television like we have for the last 50 years and find out who won the election, right? You don't want to say, oh gee, they have two weeks to count their ballots. And then what happens is all sorts of ballots start showing up miraculously.

Donald Trump

01:41:02 - 01:41:21 (19 sec)

We're watching it very closely and we're winning a lot of cases, Rush. You don't see it too much. We just won a big case in North Carolina. We just want a big case in Pennsylvania. I think we're going to win. We're winning a lot of cases. Rhode Island, won a big case where the ballots have to be done in a certain way.

Donald Trump

01:41:21 - 01:41:42 (21 sec)

But the best way is to get up... now, I tell you what, our people, your people, my people, Republican people, they get out... and they're all my people as far as... everyone's my people. But Republicans tend to get out and vote. And that's what they should do. Early voting, but at a machine. Early voting or voting on November 3rd.

Donald Trump

01:41:42 - 01:42:04 (22 sec)

And when do you see the kind of love that's going to be expressed the day those polls open. The day those machines open, wait until you see. But the Democrats are sending in 80% of theirs by ballot. Now, one thing we've noticed from what I hear and from what I'm reading is a lot of the ballots, all they're doing is taking from people that would have voted in the first place.

Donald Trump

01:42:04 - 01:42:24 (20 sec)

They're not a lot of new voters. We have many more registered voters than... we've picked up a lot of voters, the Republicans. I think you're going to see a very, very big explosion when those polls open up, Rush. But a large percentage, like 80%, of the Republicans want to vote. They want to actually go to a poll and vote.

Donald Trump

01:42:24 - 01:42:32 (8 sec)

Whereas it's almost the opposite, for whatever reason, with the Democrats. I think you're going to see a very big explosion of voting.

Rush Limbaugh

01:42:32 - 01:42:37 (5 sec)

The Democrats need a little yellow bus showing up, picking them up, taking them to the polls. Getting there on their own --

Donald Trump

01:42:37 - 01:43:00 (23 sec)

Right, right. And then they do the harvesting thing, which is terrible, which is illegal in many places, even with the laws that are being passed. Where they go around and they start picking up everybody's votes. We have a big enthusiasm gap. Our gap is so much more enthusiastic. Like 30, 35 points. There's never been a gap of enthusiasm between, let's say, me and him, that there is.

Donald Trump

01:43:00 - 01:43:04 (5 sec)

Look at the boat shows. I mean, thousands of boats in the ocean and in the lakes. And [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:43:04 - 01:43:27 (22 sec)

Oh, that's another thing. That Gallup Poll that shows 56% of the American people think they're better off now than they were four years ago even in the midst of pandemic. There's another part of that poll when they ask people, who do you think is going to win and how do you think... when they ask people, who do you think is actually going to be elected president?

Rush Limbaugh

01:43:27 - 01:43:29 (2 sec)

You. You are the --

Donald Trump

01:43:29 - 01:43:29 (1 sec)

Rush Limbaugh

01:43:29 - 01:43:36 (7 sec)

By a lot. By absolute lot. And that poll, that's never been wrong by the way, sir. That question has never been wrong.

Donald Trump

01:43:36 - 01:43:38 (2 sec)

They say, who is your neighbor going to vote for? [Crosstalk]

Rush Limbaugh

01:43:38 - 01:43:41 (2 sec)

Who do you think your neighbor... exactly right.

Donald Trump

01:43:41 - 01:44:01 (20 sec)

Their know their neighbors. No, because people don't want to get involved. I mean, even the signs. We have signs all over the place. We have signs in states, but they steal the signs. People steal the signs. And they're stealing. It's a well-known thing. They're stealing the signs. Our enthusiasm is far greater than it was four years ago, far greater.

Donald Trump

01:44:01 - 01:44:28 (27 sec)

Because they love the job we're doing. And they know this pandemic was a horrible thing that happened to us. It should have never been allowed to happen by China. China is going to pay a big price. And it's one of those things, but it happened. And we've done a great job. Why don't we got no credit? I'll tell you what, if this turns out to be right, that this medicine is going to make people better, that's a game changer like nobody's ever seen before and it's going to happen.

Donald Trump

01:44:28 - 01:44:29 (1 sec)

It's going to happen, Rush.

Rush Limbaugh

01:44:29 - 01:44:35 (6 sec)

Mr. President, thank you. You've two hours here. And I know you've got a jam packed day left on your schedule.

Donald Trump

01:44:35 - 01:44:42 (7 sec)

That's true. That's true but it's an honor. It's an honor. To be with you for two hours, you have no idea. It's a great honor.

Rush Limbaugh

01:44:42 - 01:45:06 (24 sec)

Well, it's great to have you here. And I know you got brother Levin tonight. You're doing his show tonight and that's going to be kick ass. So we appreciate it, sir. We love you. And I meant everything I said today. You are the person standing in the way. You are the one that true American patriots have invested their hope for their future and their kids' future in.

Rush Limbaugh

01:45:06 - 01:45:20 (14 sec)

You are the person they are depending on to stave off this attack on our country that is coming from inside. It's coming from inside our country as opposed to outside. Although that's happening too.

Donald Trump

01:45:20 - 01:45:29 (8 sec)

It is largely. And you know what I say oftentimes when people say that? I have no choice. I have to do it. I have no choice. And that's what I'm doing and --

Rush Limbaugh

01:45:29 - 01:45:32 (3 sec)

Best of luck to you, sir. Thank you so much.