Lol, Rush is pretending again today that it's just a coincidence he got the instant message right after warning Trump on 12/20:
The President Tells Me It’s Money or Nothing
... If it’s that, then Trump had better not sign that. There has to be
some serious appropriation. So, I mean, it’s time for applause.
(clapping) Yes. This is a great, great first step. But it’s not a
full-fledged veto. Not that we want a veto; don’t misunderstand. This is
simply the president telling the Republicans, “I’m not signing this.
There’s no border security in it.” So now the Republicans are gonna go
back and put some border security in their version of the continuing
resolution. We’ll know what that is soon enough.
Then when they finish doing that and they vote on it — and it will
pass — they’ll send it over to The Turtle, Mitch McConnell in the
Senate, and then they will deal with it. The Senate was very happy to
have not a penny in this CR for border security. So it looks like the
onus now is… It looks like it’s on the House, but it’s actually gonna be
on the Senate, because we have to assume the House is gonna put
something in this. Meadows was dead serious about this. Ryan? I don’t
know. But it’s still his House. He’s still speaker for a while. So
that’s where we are. But it’s great news that the president refused to
sign this.
Now we have to keep our eyes on what they come up with as border security.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Okay, folks, this is good. This is interesting. I just got a
phone call. Well, I got an instant message. It’s the equivalent of you
getting a phone call. That’s how people communicate with me,
particularly during the program. It’s impossible to use the phone during
the program. Anyway, I just said less than 10 minutes ago in my
translation of what’s happened here, “The president told Republicans
he’s not going to sign this. It’s not a veto yet, but he’s not gonna
sign it until there’s border security in it.” ...
So I get this direct message: “You tell Rush that if there’s no money
in this, it’s getting vetoed. If there’s no money — if there’s no money
for a wall — I’m vetoing this, plain and simple.” This was the message
that I just got, and I trust it and I believe it to be the case. By the
way, it’s a legitimate question. I mean, the way the media reports this —
and it was not just the media. It was Paul Ryan saying, “The president
cares deeply about border security. So we’re gonna go back and we’re
gonna get some border security in this thing.
