Rush Limbaugh took the airwaves to praise Donald Trump, which wouldn’t be unusual except for WHY he was praising Trump. As documented by Media Matters:
But the thing here is when you get to Trump and his conspiracy theories, he does it in a really clever way. And this is where people don’t get the subtlety of Trump because they don’t think he has the ability to be subtle. Trump never says that he believes these conspiracy theories that he touts. He’s simply passing them on.
Like during the campaign of 2016, I -- folks, I ran the gamut of emotions on this. When Trump said that he had seen a picture of Ted Cruz’s dad standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald, I said, “What the hell is this?” And I thought he's going to have to walk this back. Ted Cruz’s dad had something to do with the assassination of JFK? He never walked it back. But more importantly, he never asserted it himself.
Limbaugh praises Trump on his ability to obfuscate and change the facts to just, you know, insinuate things — and that isn't at all the same as a direct accusation.
Rush Limbaugh floated his own conspiracy theories in February when he took to the airwaves declaring COVID-19 to be a plot against Donald Trump, comparing it to the common cold.
“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump,” Limbaugh said on his radio program. “Now, I have to tell you the truth about coronavirus. ... Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”
Limbaugh’s latest support of Trump, however, justifies Trump’s lies and accusations, because, well, it’s fun it seems.