Brinkley: Trump Will Run Shadow Government with Rush Limbaugh

RUSH: Douglas Brinkley is a Frank Luntz kind of guy. He’s a pollster, he’s a presidential historian, he’s at Rice University, and he was on CNN Saturday as the Drive-By Media continues to discuss what Trump is going to do when he leaves the White House.

For example, here’s a Politico headline: “Trump Threatens to Wreak Havoc on GOP From Beyond the White House — His attacks on Republican governors since his loss offer a sample of what’s in store. President Donald Trump has spent the three weeks since he lost the election…” This is Politico, not me. Hang on.

“…since he [allegedly] lost the election savaging a pair of GOP governors for not backing his claims he was robbed. Republicans are worried it’s just the start of what’s in store from the soon-to-be-former president,” that he’s gonna throw Republicans under the bus. Look, I do not want to be misunderstood here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Douglas Brinkley is a Frank Lance kind of Guy's a polster.
He's a presidential historian's at Rice University, and he was
on CNN Saturday. As the drive by media continues to
discuss what Trump is going to do when he leaves
the White House. For example, here's a here's a political headline.

(00:21):
Trump threatens to wreak havoc on GOP from beyond the
White House. His attacks on Republican governors since his loss
offer a sample of what's in store. President Donald Trump
has spent three weeks since he lost the election. This
is politico, not me. Hang on note, Since he allegedly

(00:42):
lost the election, savaging a pair of Republican governors for
not backing his claims that he was robbed, Republicans are worried.
It's just the start of what's in store from the
soon to be former president, and he's gonna throw Republicans
under the bus um. Look, I do not want to

(01:05):
be misunderstood here. I'm not advocating Trump do anything, but
I'm gonna tell you something. He's not exactly been given
the proper amount of support from these Republicans that I
think he's deserved. The governors maybe a little different, but
some of the House Republicans and some of the Senate
Republicans all kinds of never trumpers in both in both

(01:28):
houses of Congress, the House and the Senate. And I
will never forget the first six months of Trump's first
year two thousand and seventeen, where there was no help
whatsoever on replacing and reforming Obamacare because they thought the
Russian stuff was true, and they thought Trump was going
to be thrown out of White House and put in jail.

(01:49):
It was outrageous. And then after six months or so
went by, they finally figured out that it was bogus,
but they believed it because they believed the drive by media.
Trump has not exactly been given support from the Republican Party.
They've tried to undermine him. And I don't just mean
the never trumpers. There's a lot of establishment Republicans that

(02:11):
didn't want Trump to succeed at all. This is another
reason why people are calling here in tears and in frustration.
We finally got a Republican leader willing to push back,
fight back, stand up for America, and his own party
can't even get behind him in mass So it's understandable
anyway back, Doug Brinkley is on CNN. Okay, what's Trump

(02:32):
going to do when he leaves the light. He's going
to create a kind of second shadow government out of
mar Lago. He practically lives next door to Rush Limbaugh.
They'll create a kind of a media empire, a voice
out there that simply refuses to accept anything that Joe
Biden does and go on the attack. Uh so, Trump

(02:58):
and I are going to create some kind of shadow
second government. Who actually did this, that's right, Barack Obama.
We have now learned that Barack Obama ran every operation
in the four years of Trump's first term. He ran
the Russian hoax, he ran the Russian coup, he ran

(03:21):
the impeachment operation, he ran Stormy Daniels. He was behind
all of it. Obama and Biden were behind all of it.
He created a shadow government. I predicted it. The only
thing I was wrong about was I thought he would
do it publicly. I thought he'd go on TV and
start ripping into Trump every time Trump tried to unravel
it Obama policy. That's where I was read dead wrong.

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He did it silently, quietly, invisibly, but he was doing it.
Fact second kind of shadow Government's a great way to
describe what Obama was doing. He literally was under mining
a duly elected president. He was doing everything he could
to overturn the election results in two thousand sixteen. It

(04:07):
was it was near criminal what was done, you know?
And I remember all those four years were digging deep
and we're looking at it or the FBI here in
Muller over there, m I five, all these European connections.
We knew that Obama had had a very important White

(04:27):
House Oval Office meeting on January seventeen where he dispatched
Come and Clapper to go to the Trump Tower have
a meeting with Trump to tell him about the Golden
Shower story and the Steel dossier. But not enough of
us put together that Obama was the actual ring leader
until later, but he was. He was the actual ring leader.

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He was the guy making sure that Trump was not
going to succeed at unraveling the Obama first two terms.
He failed at that by he failed massively, but that
was his objective. Victor Davis Hanson Sunday night on Talk
Life Liberty in Leven with Mark Leman on the Fox

(05:11):
News Channel, question from Levine the Democrat Party seems to
stand opposite of so many things that we stand for,
our principles and traditions. You go one issue after another.
How did they get here and where do they want
to take us? Mr Hanson, think about it. They have
social media, entertainment, Hollywood, professional sports, the media, academia K

(05:36):
through twelve, the bureaucracy, the administrative state, and so all
we have is talk radio and the people and a
few other avenues on the Internet. So it's an asymmetrical challenge.
All we have is talk radio. And why do we
still have talk radio because talk radio adheres. We in
talk radio adhere to our principles. Most of us do. Uh,

(06:01):
look that that's that's nothing new. It's just a stark
reminder of how out of balance things actually are.