RUSH: Back to the phones we go to Cedar Rapids, and this is Matt. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. My question is, is it possible that people are
pushing and egging President Trump to strike Iran not so much because
they’re anti-Iran but because they’re anti-Trumpers or they’re Never
Trumpers and they know that if they kill scores of people in return for
the downing of an unmanned UAV, that that will negatively impact his
reelection bid?
RUSH: Well, in the first six months to a year, I would have said no
question that there are possibly saboteurs up close and personal in the
Trump administration. I guess it’s still possible that people like that
are there. Whether they’re in the very close orbit now? (sigh) I would
think that they’ve been weeded out by now. Now, don’t misunderstand.
There are people around Trump who want to hit Iran because they
personally want to hit Iran, because they personally think Iran deserves
to be hit and wiped out.
And whether it hurts or helps Trump, that’s of secondary importance to them.
I’m not making this up. I’m not gonna name any names, but there are
people who believe they’re citizens of the world and that Iran is a
troublemaker and it’s gotta go. No matter what, no matter who the
president is, they would be advising this. Your question: “Are there
saboteurs there who want Trump to do this precisely because it would
hurt him?” I can’t flat-out say “no” to that ’cause I know that in the
first year of the administration, there were saboteurs there. They were
all over the place. There are all kinds of Obama holdovers still there,
like Sally Yates. There was a ton of ’em in there. But I would think
most of those have been weeded out by now.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I think by this time Trump has the lay of the land. I think
Trump knows who’s who. Even if they are there, and even if they were
advising Trump to do this — because they wanted Trump to do something
that would inflict great harm on his presidency — he didn’t do it. So if
they were advocating it, they bombed out. Now, Trump is gonna appear on
Meet the Depressed on Sunday with F. Chuck Todd. The interview’s
already been taped. NBC released an excerpt of the interview as a
promotional technique, and we have the sound bite. It’s about 42
seconds, and it’s Trump explaining why he pulled back at the last minute
in deciding not to hit Iran.
