Hilarious Washington Post Story Documents Barack Obama’s Brave Struggle to Deal with Russian Hacking

RUSH: It’s 36 pages. It prints out, on my printer (12-point font) to 36 pages. In a newspaper, 36 pages, and there’s nothing new in it! It’s incredible! It used to take me 25 minutes to mark this up. I finally, for the first time, used side by side on my laptop to do the markup instead of copy and paste. Well, I copied and pasted it but was side by side looking at… (interruption) No, the Washington Post has this incredible story: Obama’s Brave Struggle to Stop Russia from Tampering with Our Election. Not a thing new in it!

It’s just written to make it look like it’s new. And, I’ll tell you what: Obama people are leaking all over the media in order for this story to be written. Oh, by the way, everybody who saw pictures of Comey going into the New York Times building yesterday? People are panicking at that, and I said, “Why? The New York Times is spearheading the investigation. Why wouldn’t he go in there and testify? Isn’t that where under-oath testimony is taking place? Isn’t that where leakers and stuff go? What was so strange about Comey going to the New York Times yesterday?”

It turns out that he wasn’t going to the New York Times. Apparently there’s a law firm that is headquartered in the Times building, and there was some charity event going on in there, and Comey showed up to that. I’m gonna get to this Washington Post story because the Drive-Bys… It’s almost been pornography to watch them deal with this today. They think they are dealing with something brand-new. They are praising the reporting at the Washington Post as some of the most phenomenal work that has been done ever to try to get to the bottom of the Russians helping Trump and sabotage the Democrats.

But it’s really about Obama’s brave struggle to stop the Russians from doing it, because Obama and Brennan and Clapper and Rice all knew it was happening. By the way, this is a central point. Any of this Russian hacking, whatever you want to believe about it, had to be happening during the Obama administration. Trump was just a candidate. So all of this… I mean, if the Russians succeeded — and I’m not conceding that they did; I’m just saying as a talking point here.

If the Russians succeeded (sigh) in getting into our electoral system and hacking things and this, it must have happened under the Obama administration. This Washington Post story is all about the brave struggle and the decisions the Obama people had to make. Do they go public with it? Do they cloud the minds of the American people? Do they frighten the American people by telling them what they know, or do they just issue threatening warnings to Putin and then roll the dice? It’s a brave struggle Obama undertook here to save the American electoral process.

But this story is like every other story on this. Page 25. May I read it to you? Thirty-six pages it prints out. Page 25: “Despite the dire warnings, there were no meltdowns in the United States’ voting infrastructure on Nov. 8, no evidence of hacking-related fraud, crashing of electronic ballots or manipulation of vote counts.” It’s 36 pages about how the Russians stole election, cheated, were doing all these things that Obama bravely trying to stop them.

Page 25: “Despite the dire warnings,” despite the meetings, despite the memos, despite the fears, “there were no meltdowns in the U.S. voting infrastructure. No evidence of hacking related fraud, crashing of electronic ballots or manipulation of vote counts.” So you ask: Then why did you people write the story? Of course, we know the answer to this. This is all about the keys to the kingdom. An outsider has found his way inside! You know, Trump’s the kind of guy, even on his best day they would not extend membership to him.

Trump would never be permitted to be a member of the establishment. It would never happen. Yet he stormed the gates, he’s come in, and he has basically turned them upside down. And I’m telling you, folks, they feel that the keys to kingdom are theirs. They are entitled, and nothing is more important than getting them back — including the country. They will do whatever needs to be done in the short term to get the keys to the kingdom. And at the same time, they’re sending a message to any other would-be Trumps:

They’re not gonna stop until they’ve extended every effort to destroy Donald Trump, to ruin Donald Trump. They’re not going to stop. There is a silent coup going on. Even David Stockman today in his libertarian rant… David Stockman’s turning into quite the conspiracy theorist, by the way. Did you know that? (interruption) Yeah, he’s a libertarian. You can’t call him a conservative. David Stockman’s piece… I saw it when I was tooling around there at Zero Hedge. That’s a noted conspiracy site, in some people’s opinion. I read Stockman’s piece and pshew! (laughing)

It’s all about the coup and it’s all about Mueller being the ringleader of the deep state, that it was Mueller who was there when this massive Homeland Security intelligence apparatus was established after 9/11. Mueller is the big enchilada of the deep state, and with him in charge of this and all of these Obama and Hillary donors, it’s just a matter of time before they successfully execute their coup. I didn’t print the Stockman thing out, but I did get some excerpts. So if I feel like going back to it, I will.

I want to read you some excerpts of the Washington Post piece because it’s fun and because, folks, it’s almost beyond my ability to describe this. Thirty-six pages! It is written like a novel, like a mystery novel with Obama being delivered a super-secret envelope for his and three other people’s sets of eyes only. Only! And it’s all about the intel! The Russians are plotting great deceit to steal the election for Trump.

From that moment on, the story is about the intricate secrecy and the meetings Obama had with the best and brightest of his administration to figure out what to do. Knowing all along, all last year — this story says that Obama knew what was going on. (laughing) Wait ’til you hear all about brave Obama trying to save American election, wait ’til you hear what Obama did, what this story says Obama did. Well, why should I wait? What did Obama do?

“A month later, Obama confronted Putin directly during a meeting of world leaders in Hangzhou, China. Accompanied only by interpreters, Obama told Putin that ‘we knew what he was doing and (he) better stop or else.'” (laughing) Gee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Well, it… This is the second attempt. The first time is when Obama told him, “Cut it out!” This time in China (laughing), Obama said — by the way, “accompanied only by interpreters.” You know, the importance of that is there was nobody else there that could leak this. I mean, this comes directly from Obama.

“Accompanied only by interpreters, Obama told Putin that ‘we knew what [you’re] doing and [you] better stop or else,’ according to a senior aide who subsequently spoke with Obama. Putin responded by demanding proof and accusing the United States of interfering in Russia’s internal affairs.” That’s it! That’s Obama’s brave struggle to get the Russians to stop what we know you’re doing. The next paragraph reads like… (laughing) “Obama’s approach…” Let me read this like an NPR narrator. (impression) “Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse.

“As brazen as the Russian attacks on the election seemed, Obama and his top advisers feared that things could get far worse. They were concerned that any pre-election response could provoke an escalation from Putin. Moscow’s meddling to that point was seen as deeply concerning but unlikely to materially affect the outcome of the election. Far more worrisome to the Obama team was the prospect of a cyber-assault on voting systems before and on Election Day. They also worried that any action they took would be perceived as political interference in an already volatile campaign.

“By August, Trump was predicting that the election would be rigged. Obama officials feared providing fuel to such claims, playing into Russia’s efforts to discredit the outcome and potentially contaminating the expected Clinton triumph.” Folks, the buildup to this was that it was the worst thing that ever happened in American espionage. This was the crime of the century what the Russians were doing. Obama knew all about it brave struggle to stop it and decided not to do anything other than to tell Putin to “cut it out” because he was afraid that going public with this before the election would somehow be said to be interfering.

They didn’t go public with it because they thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide and they didn’t want to taint that. Thirty-six pages.

RUSH: You know, Fox News, by the way, has come back and just beaten PMSNBC (this is prime time) for the first time in a while. Now, let me tell you what I think that means. What’s the fundamental difference? I mean PMSNBC is still 100% devoted to the Russians-hacked-the-election narrative, which has as its ultimate objective impeaching or getting rid of Trump, and Fox is not wedded to that. Fox is doing who knows what, but they’re not singularly devoted to that. I think that MSNBC now beginning to leak ratings is an indication that people are getting tired of this, and I think this fatigue on this story has been building.

But it’s all they’ve got. The Washington Post and New York Times I think probably realize that if the Russian collusion story collapses, the obstruction story doesn’t make any sense. If there was never any collusion, if all it is is a pipe dream — and there wasn’t. It’s all a pipe dream. After all this time, they’re recirculating the same claims they’ve made. There’s nothing new here. The only thing new is the presentation.

The presentation is made to look like brand-new sources are coming forward with information nobody’s had. But that’s not the case, particularly when you get to the substance. But if there is no collusion, then why would there have been any obstruction? What would the need be to obstruct an investigation in there was no collusion? That’s why they’re so desperately holding onto this. Now, this Washington Post story — and I’m gonna spend just a few more minutes on this, ’cause it’s huge.

Although, you know, when I got in to work today, it’s all CNN could talk about. I mean, they were wall to wall; they were wedded to it. And now it’s kind of fading. I’m not sure why. I don’t think there’s anything bigger. There’s nothing bigger news-wise that has popped up since. But I still want to spend a few more minutes on it because the presentation is just choice, the way the Washington Post… Thirty-six pages! Nobody’s gonna read this whole thing, other than the, you know, Upper West Siders in Manhattan. But this story tries to paint Barack Obama as one of the bravest and most courageous and at-risk presidents ever.

Here is this giant behemoth trying to interfere in the democracy. The leader of the democracy of the world, the United States, sees an outright threat to our great democracy. And Obama knows it, he knows it, and he’s got to be very careful about telling people, because he doesn’t want to appear to be tampering. The real reason is he didn’t want Hillary’s election to be tainted like they’re trying to taint Trump’s. Barack Obama did not stop Russia from hacking anything. Barack Obama didn’t stop the Chinese from hacking anything.

Don’t forget, the ChiComs hacked the Office of Personnel Management. Twenty-two million employees’ personal identification details were hacked by the ChiComs during the Obama administration. Obama did not… This story in the Washington Post says Obama never told the American people. Obama told the American people the exact opposite. He told ’em, “Ah, we told Putin to cut it out. It ain’t gonna happen! There’s nothing they can do. Our elections are tamper-proof. They can’t tamper with the votes.” Obama did everything to tamp this down.

Again, look, I don’t think the truth… I don’t think Obama and Brennan and these guys were worried at all about the Russians hacking the election! And the evidence for that is the way they were behaving during the campaign. They weren’t worried about it at all. All of this concern and fear has been drummed up since Trump won. But these guys know full well what the Russians can or can’t do, and they know full well what we can prevent if we know it’s being tried. And it wasn’t the first time the Russians did this.

All of this is just a gigantic, made-up 50% piece-of-fiction creation to try to keep people interested, but I think it’s starting to fade. Obama did not stop Russia. He did not tell anybody. He didn’t tell the American people what was going on because he had things to hide. Hillary had things to hide. Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz had things to hide about what she was doing at the Democratic National Committee.

If Mueller wants to do this country a favor, what he would do is investigate the Democrats on this. He would investigate whatever happened to their servers. He would investigate Obama. Of course, it’s not gonna happen. But that’s where we’d get to the bottom of what really happened here is if the Democrats came under the microscope, because this affected everything Obama did and he will never be honest about it because he can’t.

The NYT failed to ask the right questions (IF they asked any, at all).....questions taught in first year journalism class. The prostrate NYT merely regurgitated the BS Boobamba spit up.

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A HUGE RED FLAG: Presently, Obama is stubbornly refusing to turn over documents having to do w/ his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice's, unmasking candidate Trump's people. Taxpayers demand answers and they want answers NOW.

Questions for Rice:

1. As Obama's National Security Advisor, when did you request the unmasking, and from which govt agency?

2. Who in that govt agency actually did the unmasking? Please provide the written requests you submitted.

3. Once the names were unmasked, did you and Obama still believe there was a threat to US national security from the named US persons?

4. If so, with whom did you share this crucial information, and what actions were taken by you or Obama to protect America and American citizens?

5. If you or Obama failed to act, then you should not have shared the names with anyone else. So how did the names become known?

6. Was any of the info detailed here deliberately withheld on the FISA application? (it's a felony to willfully withhold information when applying for a FISA).

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(HAT TIP OMEGATOO)

<><> If the information found in the ‘incidental’ involvement of any US Person was threatening US Security, and America citizens' safety, why did US security agencies wait for Susan Rice’s request to unmask?

<><> Did Obama issue a secret stand-down order in the face of putative threats to Americans?

<><> Why did Susan Rice appearing on PBS-TV initially deny responsibility for the unmasking?

<><> Why was this threat not unveiled at the time, nor since? Why now?

<><> Alarmingly, the supposed ‘threat’ identified by Susan Rice was about to be inaugurated as President of the US. Shouldn’t Congress have been notified?

<><>Why did Susan Rice keep it a secret? Maybe she and Obama had "other plans?" W/ the Clintons?

The NSA didn’t unmask the information initially, plus later investigations found NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Seems to be proof-positive that whatever suspicions Obama/Rice/Brennan may have had to justify the unmasking were absolutely wrong, or more likely non-existent.

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That all of this did not make headlines earlier appears to enhance self-serving Obama's more recent narrative in the NYT......... to congratulate himself as the person solely responsible for "stopping"g a Russian coup.

Does Susan Rice mind Obama throwing her under the bus?