Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cleverly used a press conference Wednesday that has sparked a firestorm to rob Democrats of their time in the limelight as they nominate Hillary Clinton to oppose him, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said.
"He was clever, he was informed, and he was not stumped on a single question," Limbaugh said of Trump moments after the press conference ended. "And he knew how to push their buttons. He was measured. He was funny."
Limbaugh said the media was "beside itself" after Trump asked the Russian government to turn over 30,000 missing emails from Clinton's private server.
"The thing about it is Trump is putting 'em all on," Limbaugh said. "He's laughing silently with all of this stuff, and they're buying it!"
Trump is mocking the press, he said, because it's the media and the FBI that don't care about Clinton's emails.
"And Trump knows that everybody knows that," Limbaugh said. "Trump knows that everybody thinks that Hillary's getting away with committing a crime that nobody else could get away with. So Trump is saying, 'Russia, I hope you can find these missing emails.'"