Limbaugh suspects N.Y. Times made up Trump editorial

The editorial in the New York Times condemning president President Trump, by "anonymous," who claims to be inside the administration.

The Bob Woodward book quoting lots of people who are not identified saying there are all sorts of dysfunctions inside the Trump administration.

And more.

Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh believes it means the media and the Washington establishment left is giving up on special counsel Robert Mueller coming up with anything "to get rid of Trump."

"I don't think there's anything arguable about this," he said Monday.

"So why couldn't it be logical to assume they made this up? And then, like it probably hit most people, it hit me. They're admitting it. Whoever did this, whoever's responsible for — you know what? I even, for a brief moment, considered that it was somebody in the Trump immediate circle who did it on purpose, claimed to be a ranking official, said this thing to the New York Times knowing that there's no way they wouldn't write it, publish it, run it, when in fact because what it does is proves that there is a silent coup going on. It proves that there is a deep state. It proves that there is a Washington establishment trying to destroy Donald Trump," he said.

He continued: "Oh, do you remember Chuck Todd? By the way, this is another thing. Chuck Todd, the Friday of the last week I was here — I forget how many days ago. Chuck Todd promised that Mueller was gonna have this gigantic bombshell on Friday. F. Chuck was advising everybody to go to work on Friday. This is of the Labor Day Weekend. 'Don't take the day off. Mueller is gonna have a bombshell!' There was nothing. So I think they're resorting here to panic that what they’ve all believed and relied on, there’s no 'there' there.

"But I tell you, one of the primary things motivating the New York Times, Bob Woodward, all these people in the media, is their almost incalculable frustration over being unable to alter public opinion on Donald Trump. Do not doubt me on this. It’s something that everybody in the Drive-By Media individually is frustrated by and collectively," he said.

Limbaugh said he wondered when he first saw it.

"Okay. Suppose this is made up, not true. This person that wrote this doesn't actually exist, it's actually written and composed by somebody at the New York Times, and they're claiming that it's somebody in the Trump administration, but we will never know because it isn't somebody in the Trump administration."

He said: "And I thought how many people in the Trump administration don't even know the guy but lie about their rank and their level of importance and all this. But when I saw, folks, when I knew the whole thing was rotten to the core is when I saw toward the end of this anonymous piece the veneration for John McCain.

"When I saw that whoever wrote this, 'Why couldn't we have somebody more like John McCain?' And then I thought, this person has to be a Millennial, it has to be a young person, because this person writes as though this is the greatest challenge to the modern American presidency ever. And it isn't. It's nothing of the sort. Trump is not. I mean, these people may be, but Trump isn't.

"And then I just openly went back and considered, you know, I wouldn't put it past the New York Times to have made this whole damn thing up and to have somebody on their editorial board write this thing. How many anonymous sources have we had from intelligence people for the past two years claiming to have evidence that Trump colluded with Russia?"