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Trump Starts Twitter Morning Off By (Mis)Quoting Rush Limbaugh on 'Russians Infiltrating a Campaign'
by Caleb Howe | 7:37 am, May 31st, 2018
President Donald Trump started Thursday morning by quoting Rush Limbaugh on the FBI’s investigation:
Link to tweet
The Limbaugh quotes were played in a clip on Hannity on Wednesday night. Maybe Fox & Friends wasn’t cutting it for the president Thursday morning?
It’s not exactly a direct quote. Trump made it his own, inserting “(hoax)”, and shortened it for Twitter.
Limbaugh’s exact words:
“If the FBI was so concerned and if they weren’t targeting Trump they should have told trump. if they’re really concerned about the russians infiltrating a campaign then why not try to stop it? Why not try to tell trump? Well the answer is perfectly clear to me. They were running this whole story. They were pushing this scam.”
Hoax, scam… the point of the tweet, and the Hannity clip, is that this was a deliberate attempt to hoodwink everyone and sabotage Trump.
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https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-starts-twitter-morning-off-by-misquoting-rush-limbaugh-on-russians-infiltrating-a-campaign/
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