http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/26/the_drive_bys_learned_something_about_trump_from_my_interview_with_himThe Drive-Bys Learned Something About Trump from My Interview with Him
October 26, 2016
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RUSH: So yesterday on the program here we had Donald Trump. Donald Trump called. He was the first segment in the last hour of the program yesterday, and this is fascinating. Until the Megan-Newt thing blew up, Trump's interview with me captivated cable news, right up until whenever Newt appeared with Megyn.
And here's why. You have these media people who followed Trump around for the whole year, and there are still things about him they don't know. As you know, I have spent considerable time here on this program attempting to explain to anybody who wants to know why Trump's supporters support him, who they are, what they are angry about, what their grievances are, why they will not abandon Trump no matter what people say about him, why who Trump is outside the political arena doesn't really matter to them, how the movement is actually bigger than Trump; Trump is the vessel for these people.
I've gone to great lengths to explain it, and yet there are people who have followed Trump around who claim that they learned something yesterday in this interview that I did that they didn't know about Trump. They convened roundtable discussions on the cable news networks last night to discuss it. I also didn't know this. While I was sitting at home minding my own business focusing on other matters, I get a note from Cookie saying, "My gosh, you won't believe this. You're the talk at cable news again."
So she told me what it was about and I said, "Okay, fine. I'll check the sound bite roster in the morning," which I did and I have here. So the first example is Sara Murray covering Trump every day for over a year from or for CNN. This is last night on The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer's show, but here is the bite...
MURRAY: He did an interview with Rush Limbaugh that sort of gets at the push and pull behind Donald Trump, the fight between what his advisers want him to say and his instinct to fight back. Take a listen.
TRUMP: I would rather, Rush, fight it, even though most people say you shouldn't do that. But if you fight it at least you're telling the truth. At least the word is out that, you know, you're innocent of these charges or stating you're innocence. But other people say, "Stay on jobs, stay on Obamacare and repealing and replacing it, et cetera." So I guess there's two theories. I would rather fight it, but everyone says you shouldn't do that; just go along.
MURRAY: Now, this gives you an idea of why Donald Trump has repeatedly hit back.
RUSH: So it was news to them. They had no idea, because they thought that Trump was fighting back 'cause he's a narcissist, that Trump's an egomaniac, that Trump can't stand to be criticized, and that Trump is incautious and he will throw common sense and campaign smarts out the window in order to defend himself against these charges. "It's very undisciplined," they said. "It's very uncharacteristic of a seasoned politician. It's very destructive. He's not helping himself doing this." They have all these explanations for this.
And again, looking at it through the prism of standard, ordinary, everyday politics they know it. Now, after the interview, I made a point -- and this is really why they understand this. They didn't pick it up themselves watching the interview. They picked it up from me, 'cause I made this very point when the interview was over. I pointed out to everybody: "Did you notice what he said here? Every one of you who has emailed me or called me has told me that you want me to tell Trump to stick to the issues, to not get sidetracked by all these attacks and the need to defense himself, that he's falling prey to all this stuff, that he just stay focused."
I reminded people what they heard Trump say, that his advisers are telling him just that, and he's ignoring them! He admitted that his advisers are telling him not to do what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. And then the news was that he's doing it to protect his family. He's doing it to protect his reputation and to get the truth out. He doesn't want these charges to settle in for any time at all. He wants to refute them immediately as they happen.
Because, in his opinion, they're all lies, and he doesn't want lies about him to settle in and become the historical record, and that's why he does it. And that's what they claim they learned yesterday, all these people in the media. They thought he was going off message 'cause he doesn't know what he's doing, they thought he was going off message 'cause he's undisciplined, and it wasn't that at all. That's why they think they were really educated.
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