Chris Wallace Calls Out Rush Limbaugh for Hypocrisy on Executive Actions

Limbaugh: ‘[Obama] was taking action that I deemed to be harmful to the country’

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WALLACE: "All right. You and I have disagreements, but I can interrupt you so I can keep things moving because as Donald Trump has said, you can go for three hours. But I want to ask about this, the game you say we play in Washington, because the fact is that when President Obama took executive actions, you were outraged and as you would expect, I got a couple examples of Rush Limbaugh over the years. Let’s put them on the screen. In June of 2012, when President Obama deferred action against the DREAMers you said this. '40 years ago Richard Nixon was hounded out of office supposedly for his illegal actions. And I’m telling you that whatever Nixon did pales in comparison to just this move by Obama today.' In November of 2014, on reports that Mr. Obama was going to protect millions of parents of DREAMers you said this: 'We can’t just stand idly by and try to find some political opportunity while the president basically shreds the Constitution and flushes it down the toilet.' So here’s my question, Rush. I understand that you like what President Trump is doing and you didn’t like what President Obama was doing, but that’s the concern here, is that to to the degree that you give the President more and more powers, yes, you’re going to get some things, executive powers from one president you like, but you’re going to get things, executive powers from another president that you don’t like."
LIMBAUGH: "You may look at it that way, I don’t. I look at it right and wrong. What Obama was doing was furthering this existing problem, politicizing this using whatever executive powers he wanted to use. Yes, I objected to that, but primarily because of what he was doing with these executive powers. He was taking action that I deemed to be harmful to the country. I look at what Trump is doing as something he has to do because he’s not getting any cooperation — both parties, let’s be honest here, both parties have people that are still trying to get rid of Donald Trump. I read this bill, this spending bill. This bill is outrageous, the things, welcoming centers for newly arriving illegal aliens and all kinds of medical care for them. The purpose of this bill I think was to eventually be used by the Democrats and some Republicans to tell the American people, 'See, electing Trump was pointless, worthless, he can’t protect you, he can’t stop us, he can’t do what he said he was going to do because we hate him so much we're not going to allow him to do it.' That’s what this bill is. So to me, all of this boils down to where the heck are we going as a country and what kind of country are we going to have. And if anybody is willing to go to the limit to make this country remain as founded, they will have my support."

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