Posted on 05/09/2017 3:32:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared on Tuesday’s The View, where she was pummelled with partisan questions aimed to bait her into admitting that Hillary Clinton should’ve won the 2016 election and attack Donald Trump. Rice didn’t fall for any of the liberal hosts’ traps though and held her own, even earning the panel’s listening ear, something most Republicans don’t get when guests on The View.
Host Joy Behar began by trying to get Rice to comment on current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s attachments to Russia. Rice explained that as former CEO of Exxon, of course he would have a business relationship with a country that is rich in oil.
She went on to bring up what Behar was really driving at, the media-driven meme that Russians “hacked the election,” before Behar could even get to asking it.
So, don't let him get the satisfaction of thinking that we don't believe our own elections to be legitimate.
Host Sara Haines followed up by asking if Rice really felt that Putin went after Clinton as a sort of revenge:
HAINES: So do you think that was a personal eye for an eye against Hillary Clinton?
RICE: I think it was personal. He likes to intimidate. Now, I can tell you that I was with him on many occasions and one particular occasion we went into a room to discuss and his people are sitting on one sofa. He and his foreign minister. And I'm sitting on the other. And I'm delivering a message about U.S./Russian relations and they were messing around in Georgia at the time and I said, you know, Mr. President, if you do anything in Georgia, President Bush wants you to know that that would greatly affect our relationship. And he stood up and now he's peering over me. And so just on instinct, I stood up too. Now, I'm five foot --
WHOOPI: He didn't realize who he was peering over.
RICE: I'm 5'10" in heels. He's not. So you can't be intimidated by Putin or let him play these psychological games.
Host Sunny Hostin tried to get back to the Russian hacking question again, asking bluntly:
HOSTIN: But Madam Secretary, if he indeed did engage in these types of tactics in our election, then the very legitimacy of our election is at issue, isn't it?
Condoleezza Rice Smacks Down the View for Suggesting Hacking De-Legitimized Election
Rice immediately shot that narrative down, as grasping at straws and showing a mistrust in the American people’s intelligence.
RICE: No, no. That's where I -- first of all, I don't want to question his motives beyond he's an eye for an eye kind of person. Secondly, I trust the people who voted in Wisconsin and Texas and Alabama and California to have voted on the basis of who they thought was best going to represent their interests. And so I'm not going to question the legitimacy of their vote because Vladimir Putin tried to interfere in the elections. That's just a step that I don’t think we should take. Let’s trust our fellow citizens to have been smart enough to have voted for the people they thought they ought to be voting for.
The View in particular has been pushing the delegitimized election narrative hard since Trump won. In December, the hosts even tried to get Trump out of office, excitedly sharing their theory before his inauguration, using this as their primary reason for his ineligibility.
Her IQ is probably higher than the total of the panelists combined.
I wonder what those morons felt like while trying to converse with someone so smart with their liberal dipsh*t bubble banter.
In another thread a lot of FReepers referred to her as an idiot LOL
Yeah, and Einstein was a dullard.
My major complaint with her and her boss George W. Bush, was that both of them and Colin Powell too would always urge Israel to show restraint after 20 of it’s citizens had been blown to smithereens.
Screw that noise. It used to make me furious with them.
As for her on this show and defending good values, I’m all for it.
The beauty of it is that they can’t attack a Black Woman.
She’s one of the very few people who could tell it like it is and the women would sit there and shut the hell up.
I respect the fact that she did it.
I want a repub to ask one one these libs exactly what did the Russian do to swing the election. Hack the electronic voting machines? Stuff the ballot boxes? Slather The Trump campaign with money?
If they hacked the voting machines it’s funny they did it in States Hillary either didn’t campaign in or spend minimum time in. Why not more States?
I would have for sure hacked Ohio, the bellwether State.
It seems to me the Russians would have been better off with Hillary as pres. They had already had good results snookering her when she was SoS.
Unfair fight!!! Condoleeza against just THREE libtards.
That’s classified as a puppy whipping.
No doubt they're all idiots compared to her... Oh wait, they're all total idiots compared to mostly anyone.
Maybe so, but she’s our idiot. :-)
Common practice on FR. She is a very bright, accomplished woman.
Condi is a very bright .... GLOBALIST.
It is clear that the elites have determined that no Republican president will win election again in the United States, and to accomplish this by modifying the demographic makeup of our country.
In the recent election, they were unable to make good on this strategy, so they have fallen back on a backup plan, which is to de-legitimize the winner of the election, thereby attenuating his ability to function as chief executive.
Their goal is to thwart him in every way possible, most particularly in his ability to appoint judges to the federal courts.
I think they have miscalculated. I think DJT has many, many ways of combating this. The most obvious ways are these two: (1) foreign policy in the violent and chaotic world Obama left in his wake, and (2) by continually working to delegitimize and undermine the MSM, in every way possible.
We simply cannot have another squishy republicant in the Whitehouse again ever. The democrats are fighting with live ammo. We need to stop shooting blanks.
What is Condoleeza Rice angling for or who is she angling for?
It’s nice to have her on our side, at least temporarily.
She’s always been on our side.
Not necessarily. She was very happy to see a socialist Muslim win an election. I don’t know if this link will work or not but if not do a search for Condaleeza Rice giddy over Obama election.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOWnmL-Rbs
I am acquainted with someone who played a key role in her education. She is undeniably brilliant.
She is also undeniably globalist, by her own recent admission. I consider her and her former boss traitors.
Gee, the Russians have worked with Democrats for decades to influence elections. They infiltrated universities and Hollywood to indoctrinate kids with communist propaganda. For them to suddenly turn around and work against a person whom they already knew from experience they could buy is so unlikely that it boggles the mind that anyone could actually believe it.
Higher by a factor of five.
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