September 6th, 2022

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the debate over wanting Donald Trump’s virtue over his vices is flawed logic and it doesn’t get very far. Trump was born for this struggle against the woke communists says Clairmont institute Chairman Tom Klingenstein. Adding that we are in the midst of a cold civil war, Trump highlighted the existing divide and the left’s desire to end America as we know it. It’s precisely Trump’s unorthodox virtue and bravado that makes him tick and succeed. The bottom line is that we must not back down or compromise our values, we must stand proudly for what we support and believe. Then, this upcoming election is about those that love the country, its principles and history, and those that hate the country. There are Americans that hate faith, the nuclear family, our national sovereignty, and our military. It’s between those that love America and those that hate America, that’s it. That is the choice. Later, David Limbaugh joins the show to discuss his new book, “The Resurrected Jesus: The Church in the New Testament.” David dedicated this new book, co-authored with his daughter Christen Limbaugh Bloom, to his brother Rush’s fans. Every sentence in the book focuses on the mind, body, and soul.

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Rough transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

I hope you had a great weekend. Man, a lot of stuff took place, didn’t it, but I’ve made an executive decision here right before the show I’ve been mulling over. One of two issues to start with, and I’ve decided on an issue that’s. A big issue, really, it’s not a hot button issue. And I decided on this because I thought back a couple of days ago when I played this. For a group, family and friends, and they were spellbound, spellbound literally for 17 minutes. Listening to what was being said. Thomas Klingenstein is the chairman of the Claremont Institute, I don’t believe I’ve ever met and perhaps I did many decades ago. But he gave a short address, it was short address in July. That was sent to me by a friend and it caught my attention. I don’t always listen to these, but I listen to this. And I think it’s going to be a wonderful treat for you. So we’re going to start the program with this. We’ll have to take a break, then we’ll complete it. And I want to jump in with both feet, but I think this is a very, very important, very important statement. So call the family around if he can train your cars or in your truck, just put the volume up. Here we go, cut twenty eight, so many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for president in two thousand and twenty four. They say we need someone with Trump’s virtue, but without his to burn up with. This formulation does not get us very far unless we have a proper accounting of his work. Other Republicans say some version of I like Trump’s policies, but I don’t like the rest of him. Discredited, almost backward. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the rest of him that contains the virtue that inspired the movement. Trump was born for the current crisis, the life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call WOAK Communism, the welcome clinch the Democratic Party by the scruff of its neck. They tell a lie and they silence those who challenge the lies. Like most totalitarian regimes, they have a scapegoat white male. They have a narrative. America is systemically racist and they have a utopian vision of a society where all identity groups are equal in all areas of American life. The world can’t control all the cultural and economic powers in America from where they ruthlessly push their agenda. That agenda rests on the conviction that America is bad. As Trump once said, their goal is not to make America better. Their goal is to end America. Make no mistake, we are in the midst of a cold civil war. Trump awakened the public to this fact. You cannot win a war unless you know you were in one. Trump’s critics say he caused or exacerbated the divide in this country. No, he didn’t reveal not cause an existing divide in war. Make a stand for that. We need strong men. Weak men do anything to avoid admitting the hardest truth because they lack the resolve to do what truth demands of them. Trump is a manly man in present time when manhood is being stripped of its masculinity, traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential. Trump ripped apart people he thought were weak. Sometimes he went overboard, but his supporters used. His excessive strength is in short supply. Trump plays to win. When you’re in the right, you have a moral duty not just to fight, but to win. And sometimes that means doing distasteful things. There are no clean hands in a fist fight. If there is one thing people know about Donald Trump is that he that he, unlike the world, loves America and wants to preserve the American way of life, Trump is unreservedly, unquestionably pro America. He makes no apologies for America’s past. Trump is a refreshing break from the guilt and self-loathing that marks our age. The America Trump wants to recover is the America of his youth, not out of nostalgia, but because this was an America guided by relentless optimism and supported by grit and determination, an America that had done great things in the past and was eager to do more and America that would properly consider. Trump is still confident in America in this time of national doubt. This, too, is just what the doctor ordered. Trump thinks we can vanquish all comers if we just put our mind to it. And he’s right. Trump has the courage to defend his own people. A large and impressive political fact and courage never demands perfection. Trump stood up for America every time he violated the strictures of political correctness. He said over and over exactly what political correctness prohibits one from saying, we have a culture, it’s exceptional, and that’s the way we want to keep it. Trump has made it clear that we have no duty to allow anyone to come into this country and no one has a right to come here. This is our country. And when we do allow foreigners the privilege to come here, they must, Trump once said, support our values and love our people. Trump said Haiti is it and that Representative Maxine Waters has a low IQ. These were not racist lies. These were uncool, politically incorrect observation that most of us would agree with, but would not dare say conservatives, no less than liberals are reluctant to criticize black Americans for fear of being called a racist. Trump, on the other hand, is an equal opportunity criticizer. We used to call that colorblindness from morning to night and we were told that Trump is a racist. But endless repetition does not make it true. It isn’t. Trump’s contempt for political correctness showed patriotic American that it’s ever tightening. Grip could be loose. As Trump and his supporters know, political correctness cripples our ability to think clearly and act decisively. It is difficult to overestimate the significance of Trump’s fight against political correctness, a fight which most Republicans are reluctant to engage. Only if Americans and their leaders stand up to political correctness and show it the contempt it deserves. Is there any chance of preserving the American way of life? Trump treated the local media with the same contempt, the treated political correctness, provoking their outrage and revealing their utter corruption. It seemed only Trump understand that the media can neither be negotiated with nor reform. It must be defeated. Unlike most politicians, when Trump sees a problem, he goes out and fixes it. He fixed our porous borders. He moved our Israeli embassy to Jerusalem after a decade of inaction, eliminated Hate America critical race theory in his administrative agency to develop a vaccine in record time, achieve energy independence and much, much more. Trump is guided by facts and common sense. He had no use for theory because we know that slavish devotion to theories leads to nonsense. For instance, that children should be able to change their sex, that it is wise to defund the police, that biological boys should be able to compete with girls in athletics. I am sure that the Trump finds it impossible to believe that a woman can be achieved. I told you this would be very, very compelling. It’s not like it’s something new, but it’s the way it’s been pulled together and explained, how many times have we heard? You know, I love Trump’s policies, but. What the gentleman is saying, no, it’s the butt. That makes it all possible. It’s but. That’s so important when we come back, a few minutes left, have your memory remind you where we just left off. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

I think Tom Klingenstein, the chairman of Claremont Institute, is could hear in that about 10 minutes of comments, frames things in a way that’s very important. Now, we only have a couple of minutes in this segment. So as it turns out, I can’t finish his comments till after the bottom of the hour. But it’s very important. You know, the lesson here, the lesson I would take from this is and it’s a lesson I live by, quite frankly. Don’t back down, don’t make apologies for your principles, for your values, for your beliefs. Stand firm, you live one life. Don’t compromise your soul and your conscious. Don’t do it. So if you support somebody, you tell people proudly, I support them. If you believe something’s right, stand proudly and stand on the right. If you believe somebody is a bully or is abusive, stand up to them. What’s the worst that can happen? And in this case. In this case, ladies and gentlemen, we are literally looking at the end of America. As we know it and we love it. That’s what we’re looking at. They are killing America. And so it’s very, very important. That we had people are going to fight for this country. Why do you think they want to take Trump out? Why do you think they want to take the Santos? So they look at Trump and they say, oh, look at the way he tax the press, the press deserves to be attacked. Look at the way he doesn’t buckled to these charges of racism because he’s not a racist. Why can’t he control himself, why can’t he speak differently because he speaks like a lot of people do at the dinner table. So the fault is that he’s not a polished politician. That The New York Times would treat him better if he were. That’s nonsense. So you can see his strength by his enemies, you can see his strength by his disgruntled former employees, Bill is everywhere. He’s on MSNBC, he’s on Fox saying stupid things about the Department of Justice, and he’s not alone. Former federal prosecutors, I’ll get all them later. He makes enemies because he stands up for your principles, your values, your beliefs, and these other people talk a good game, but he stands firm.

Hour 1 Segment 3

All right. We continue with the final part of Tom Klingon, Stein’s statement on Donald Trump. And explaining to people you’re complaining about what makes him what he is. And why he’s needed for a nation that is dying. Cut twenty nine, go with Trump, what you see is what you get, authenticity, it’s something you have or you don’t, but it takes courage and independence to live authentically in politics. Most find it almost impossible not to be phony, not Trump. Trump taught a crucial thing, for starters, that China is a mortal enemy. Before Trump, the public did not realize that. Now the public does likewise. Free trade, accepted as a dogma by Republicans and Democrats, is now highly contested. These changes in public sentiment are big accomplishment made possible by qualities other than policy. Trump smoked ran out of hiding place because of Trump. We know our intelligence agencies are corrupt. We know also that the mainstream media is not just by it, but it is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. A large part of Trump’s appeal was that he was a bona fide outsider be distrusted. The experts who believe they know better than the average American how to run the country. This graph was appealing to Trump’s base, who believe and with good reason that it is the experts who have created the despotic mess in which we find ourselves. Although his own administration sometimes made it difficult for him to get done everything he promised it, supporters knew he was on their side and was trying his damnedest not to let them down. Against the advice of most in his party, Trump had not let go of the claim that the twenty twenty election was stolen from him, his base faction and well, they should. They know that Republicans will lose all future elections until they get to the bottom of the last one. Trump connected to an audience, as Reagan did, because he spoke to fellow citizens without a trace of condescension. It wasn’t an act and Americans knew it. Trump may not have worked on a construction site, but he knew his way around one. One can imagine him trading body joke with this construction worker. Other presidents have represented the middle class, but none with Trump’s common touch. Trump understands the outsourced American worker that a cheap smartphone is no replacement for a job and a life that didn’t support Trump. Also understand that what Americans of all races and creeds desire are stable communities and the opportunity to raise their families in a culture that values hard work, self-reliance, patriotism and freedom. Some will say Trump is a bad man and that disqualifies him. I do not think Trump is a bad man, but for those who do, I remind them that a bad man in some circumstances can be a good president. If you are dying of thirst and there is only one person offering you water, you accept the water gratefully without much concern for the character of your rescuer. This enumeration of Trump’s virtues does not fully capture its uncommon courage and firmness of purpose. Trump is the most towering political figure in living memory. He had, like it or not, defined the politics of our age in 2016 and 2020. He was the political leader most fit to lead in our warlike circumstanced. Trump inspired a movement, if properly deployed, this movement might challenge the world and, God willing, save the country. Republicans, however, should not forget that it is his support and the spirit they embrace that have become the life force of the Republican Party. Among the talked about alternatives to Trump, I have not yet seen anyone who position or even fully understands Trump virtue, nor have I seen anyone with his backbone and fortitude. One does not appreciate the strength of relentless gale force winds until one is in the eye of the storm. I am not suggesting that it is time for everyone to make way for Trump, rather that it is much too early to throw them overboard if Republicans do choose another leader to lead the Trump movement. They must do so in full confidence that he will embody Trump’s virtue, if not Trump himself. His virtue must be the standard by which we judge other candidates. There it is, Tom. Klingenstein, chairman, Claremont Institute, I hope. You felt, as I did, that that was quite an inspiring statement by the gentleman, he’s a scholar, intellectual. And quite good, but you have not heard that put together in that way. Instead, you go to places where you think there are smart people like The Wall Street Journal editorial page, not particularly smart National Review, not particularly smart, certainly not anymore in some of these other places. And this is what you get. It’s much like the legal analysis we see that comes to us through the television. And through print some people. Feel they need to be the very first. To demonstrate how smart they are as professors or former federal prosecutors or former attorneys general. And if they’re not found to be correct, they either pretend they never said it. Where they attack those who have. We have a judge in the southern district of Florida. She has outstanding credentials. She was one of the last district court judges confirmed. Before President Trump left office and after the election. But before he left. And she got all Republican votes and half the Democrat vote. But today, she’s not that bright, we’re told. You know, their credentials are stellar, even better than some of the people who attack. Just so you understand, former federal prosecutors. Exist by the thousands. There are thousands of former federal prosecutor. Some are brilliant, some are not. Summer wise. Some are not. It’s just the way it is, like judges and anybody else. So here we have bulbar. Who doesn’t understand what the special but the judge did with the special master? She just didn’t understand and she didn’t explain. And she was a little early on the issue of executive privilege. So apparently she was a. To write a 150 page Supreme Court opinion. Addressing whether or not a special masters should be appointed. To oversee what the Department of Justice did. He was an attorney general. I was chief of staff to an attorney general, and he McCarthy was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District in New York. He never worked at Main Justice. But they’re all excited about the idea that the Department of Justice can do this on its own, and besides, the Trump people waited two weeks. Well, it’s my understanding the Trump people had difficulty getting lawyers. Because the lawyers are constantly under attack. The lawyers who worked for Trump. And so this is intentional in many respects. And then they don’t understand why the judge would intercede now, because the department is done, but that is disingenuous when the department heard the judge say. When the department heard the judge say. That she was inclined. To have a special counsel or special master, the department should have stopped. It’s like if you know a lawsuit’s coming, you can’t hurry up and start destroying all your records even if you haven’t yet received. Some kind of a protective request letter or even order from a judge. But you have to step back and ask yourselves, what the hell is this all about? Documents, they have him dead to rights. You know. He took documents that didn’t belong to him. Mar a Lago was like one of these away Whitehouse’s, Mar a Lago, and the property has a New Jersey. We don’t know what he took when. And so far, we haven’t read anything about that. What we do know is that the government in an overly broad. Search warrant approved not by a federal judge. Took attorney client privileged information. Now we learn that it’s hundreds of pages, they said just a little bit, I think they said 500 pages. That they took his some of his tax information, they took some of his medical records. Well, of course, it’s his home. And they grabbed everything they could. And then there is the issue of executive privilege, which hasn’t been resolved, but it’s too early to resolve that. So the judge is too late when it comes to a special master, but she’s too soon when it comes to a possible issue of executive privilege. This is the crap we’re getting. From bar and company who feed off each other, there’s a piece in National Review unpacking Judge Cannon’s order for a special master and Trump Search. The dripping arrogance of this piece cannot be missed. Separate civil action, of course, they can bring a separate civil action. Jurisdiction, there is no question about standing. We already know that all these documents do not belong to the government. And incidentally, how do we know that this is all the attorney client privilege information, because this group of attorneys or prosecutors, the Department of Justice, said so well, what if the wrong. Why you needed an independent adjudication. What if they’re wrong about certain pieces of information they grabbed and all the boxes they took out of the former president’s home? But she’s exercising her equitable jurisdiction, so what? Special masters are appointed all the time, local courts, state courts, even federal courts, but not in this situation. Mark, we’ve never had this situation, Mark, ever. And so perhaps what the judge was thinking, but decided not to articulate for many reasons. Is that the search was. Way too broad and that the search warrant was way too broad, but it hasn’t really been challenged, but still she has an obligation if she’s a professional, which she clearly is. To at least put a Band-Aid on it in one way, you can do that, at least put the Band-Aid on it, not salvage it completely, is to allow for a special master. The standing question was just too stupid to even, quote, unquote, unravel, as I said, whether you look at it as a documents issue, that is, of course, there’s a lot of. Irrelevant documentation under their control. We know this from the representations. Clothing and so forth, newspaper articles. So they didn’t unpack Judge Cannon’s order over there at National Review. Even though they think that they’re smarter than the judge, when we come back, I want you to hear what Bill Barr had to say, because he’s everywhere now. He is welcome on MSNBC. His smirk has gotten bigger and bigger, and I want to address this, we’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

Want to get to this stuff next hour, as well as others, people say this election, what is this election about? I’ll make it very, very simple. So they can even understand it, Mediaite, Media Matters, The Washington Post, The New York Times. The constipated news network mouthless the. And the other rat holes. This election is about those who love the country and those who hate the country. It’s that simple. This election. Is about those who love the country and those who hate the country, those who are trying to defend its principles, its history. It’s children. The people of faith, the economic system. And those who are destroying it. That’s the choice in this election. Let me repeat it. Between those who love the country and those who hate the country, the leadership of the Democrat Party hates America. They hate the Constitution, they hate the First Amendment, they hate the Second Amendment, they hate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, unless, of course, they can use them to their advantage. But when it applies to people across the board, they hate them. They hate true freedom of the press. True free speech. True freedom of association, the right to bear arms. They hate true due process. And so forth. They hate separation of powers, they hate the independence not just of the judiciary, but the independence of you, each citizen, individual liberty. They hate face. Although they may feign to practice it because it gets into the way of their indoctrination in their ideology, they hate the nuclear family. They hate American history. They hate the declaration. They hate the nation’s sovereignty, they hate law enforcement, they hate the United States military, they are the haters. This election is between those who love America and those who hate America there. It’s that simple. I’ll be right back.