"Trump’s supporters are gonna say, ‘Finally, we got a Bill Clinton-like dog in our party. Right on, dude!’ They’re gonna celebrate," Limbaugh said, going on to say that "the vast majority of that story is a bunch of lies."

| AP Photo Limbaugh: Trump supporters will 'brag' about NYT women story

The recent New York Times story documenting the various ways in which Donald Trump has interacted professionally and personally with women over the course of the past several decades will do nothing to damage the presumptive Republican nominee's standing among his supporters, Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday.

Instead, Trump's supporters "are going to brag about that story," the radio host predicted, while catching up following a two-day vacation.


The article drew widespread blowback from Trump and those in his circle, along with sharp criticism from Rowanne Brewer Lane, the woman who suggested in subsequent media appearances that the anecdote about meeting Trump and then being asked to try on a swimsuit was unfairly distorted. Carrie Prejean Boller, who was the runner-up in the 2009 Miss USA pageant mostly owned by Trump, appeared on Fox News on Tuesday night to dispute the Times' framing of a passage in her memoir recounting how Trump asked a contestant to judge who is the most beautiful and "hot" contestant.

"Trump’s supporters are gonna say, ‘Finally, we got a Bill Clinton-like dog in our party. Right on, dude!’ They’re gonna celebrate," Limbaugh said, going on to say that "the vast majority of that story is a bunch of lies."

The Times and the reporters who wrote the story, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, have defended their work since its publication. Trump has since called on Barbaro to resign from the paper, after a series of his tweets written up by Mediaite questioned the journalist's objectivity.

"Everybody’s still trying to attack Trump the way you would attack any Republican or any politician you want to decimate, but he’s not that," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh continued, noting that while he has a generally mixed opinion of social media, it "has made it more and more difficult for traditional media to run hit pieces like this and get away with it, because so many people can glom on to this, find the errors, find the mistakes, find the bias, find the outright lies and combat it instantly and put these two reporters now on the defensive."

"And Trump played a role in that. Trump has put these two reporters on the defensive," Limbaugh said. "Another Republican candidate probably wouldn’t have done this—‘I’ll take care of it, Donald’—and nothing would have happened because you can’t fight the New York Times, the best you can do is let the cycle pass, let it go … And that’s not the way this crowd plays it."