Press Poll report: POTUS calls into Limbaugh
President Trump called into Rush Limbaugh’s radio show this afternoon for about 20 minutes. The president addressed developments in Iran, railed against Democrats and impeachment and said he had dinner recently with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Your pooler missed the very beginning of the president’s comments, but here are some highlights:
On Soleimani:
The president was asked about the recent developments in Iran, and he defended the decision to target Gen. Soleimani. He said Soleimani should have been taken out years ago.
On Democrats:
He accused Democrats of being "anti-Israel" and of supporting "open borders" and sanctuary cities. "They don't want a strong military," he said.
"I think they've lost their minds, you want to know the truth," Trump said. "You look at the impeachment hoax, and they have nothing. They have nothing."
On Pelosi holding onto articles of impeachment:
"I think what they’re trying to do is affect the election illegally," Trump said. "They are a joke. They are not crimes. There is nothing there. They found nothing. We went through two years of a Mueller report…"
“I think I’m more frustrated by it than you are," Limbaugh interjected.
“It’s so sad for our country. I mean think of it," Trump said. “Our country is doing so good. But I have to spend, and my team has to spend time on this stuff. They found nothing.”
"[Pelosi] doesn’t want to get a vote because how could anybody possibly—it’s totally fraudulent. This is not what they had in mind,” he said, referring to the founders.
On GOP unity:
Trump complimented House Republicans on their unanimous vote opposing both articles of impeachment.
"I think the Senate will be the same way, because the senate knows it’s a hoax," Trump said.
"I just think it’s a party of common sense. I’m conservative, but I think it’s common sense," he said. "It was like what we did two days ago with this horrible terrorist. He was a terrorist… Now the Democrats are trying to make him sound like he’s this wonderful human being."
On the media:
"You look at what they write, it’s so fake. It’s so phony, and now they’re trying to build [Soleimani], just like they did al-Baghdadi."
"That story disappeared very quickly, as you know. But they tried to build him up into a relatively wonderful man. He was a total bad guy."
The president credited Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin for getting the word out to his supporters.
On social media:
"Without Twitter I think we’d be lost. We wouldn't be able to get the truth out.”
"I wish I didn’t have to do it. I wish we had legitimate newspapers and legitimate media. We don’t. I call it corrupt. It’s the corrupt media.
"I don’t mind a bad story if it’s right, but I know. A person reading the story doesn't know if it’s false. So I’m able to tell them through social media. I don’t even call it Twitter, I call it social media."
Trump noted he’s up to nearly 70 million followers on Twitter.
The president said he had dinner "the other day" with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, though he did not specify the exact timing. He said Zuckerberg congratulated him for being "No. 1 on Facebook."
The president was interrupted at one point by a commercial break, which included Rush Limbaugh reading an advertisement for CBD products.
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