Trump returns to Fox News and commemorates Rush Limbaugh in first interview since leaving office
"I didn't know Rush at all, I had barely met him," he added, recalling the day he came down
the Trump Tower escalator to launch his campaign. "Without ever having met him or talked to him or had lunch with him, he was right with me from the beginning."
Trump called Limbaugh "something special," and credited the disc jockey for some of his success in emerging from a crowded GOP primary.
"Rush felt very early that we were going to win, before the escalator ride, if you wanna know the truth," Trump said.
The former president also used the opportunity to reiterate his false claims about voter fraud and the 2020 election being stolen from him, saying Limbaugh agreed with him, and that the host understood the "anger" in the country around the legitimacy of the election.
"People were furious, you don't know how angry the country was," Trump said.
At another point, Trump said he did not expect to be fond of Limbaugh, but that his fandom eased things over. "I like some people that people don't think I would like ... I always seem to like people who like me, it's much easier," he said.
Trump described Limbaugh as "something special" and said that people "respected him even if they didn't like him."
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