And they\u2019re not trying to do it by breaking the bond between Trump and his supporters.\u00a0 They\u2019re going at it in a different way.\u00a0 That would be what would happen if they succeeded, but that\u2019s not the target.\u00a0 But they are miscalculating wildly.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at this release of the Trump dossier.\u00a0 This was supposed to bring Trump to his knees.\u00a0 This was supposed to maybe disqualify Trump.\u00a0 The purpose of this — and we now know that it was made up, totally made up and paid for originally by a Republican who didn\u2019t like Trump who paid for it.<\/p>\n
This Republican eventually tired of the project when it didn\u2019t take.\u00a0 This dossier\u2019s been out there for months.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t go anywhere.\u00a0 The Republican gave up on it, said he wanted no more part of it.\u00a0 The Democrats picked it up and gave it legs and continued working it in their media cycles and sources, and they started building the case for its eventual release.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t ever verify anything in it or they would have released it before the election. They would have released it right after the election.\u00a0 They could not find any verification for anything in it, so they were trying other ways.<\/p>\n
And the one thing that they are not going to give up on is the Russians “hacked the election,” and that\u2019s why Trump won. I want to be very clear about this: There is no evidence, and there is not a single official assertion from anyone anywhere that Russian hacking had anything to do with the election outcome in terms of counting the votes.\u00a0 The Democrat Party and the media, the way they refer to this instance and the way they word it, “Russians hacked the election,” they are trying to convince as many Americans as possible that what the Russians actually did was tamper with the vote.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what they want people to conclude. They\u2019ll not say that, but the phraseology and the word choices they make are designed to create that impression.\u00a0 And they have not let go, and they won\u2019t let go.\u00a0 They are continuing to focus on it and to harp on it.\u00a0 They will never, ever, it appears, admit they lost the election.\u00a0 In their minds, they didn\u2019t lose it. It was taken from them. It was stolen by the Russians working with and for Trump.\u00a0 And that is the rubric under which every news story about Trump is occurring.<\/p>\n
That is the foundation for every assertion that Trump is illegitimate, his election is not legitimate. The effort to delegitimize Trump is rooted in the lie that the Russians hacked the election.\u00a0 There are even some Republicans who are helping. Some conservative bloggers, some Republican elected officials in the Republican establishment are helping to move that narrative, because there\u2019s so much hate, there\u2019s so much anger, there\u2019s so much disgust for Donald Trump for having done what he did, for beating them at their own game, for winning as an outsider, and for winning the way he did it.<\/p>\n
So Trump in his press conference yesterday happened to acknowledge that the Russians had indeed been behind the hacking of the DNC.\u00a0 And the media is having an orgasm, and some conservative bloggers are having an orgasm.\u00a0 Some of the Never Trumpers on the right are having an orgasm because Trump thought finally admitted it! “Trump admitted that the Russians hacked the election!” No.\u00a0 Trump is saying he\u2019s acknowledging and agreeing what others have said, and that is Russian hackery succeeded in penetrating the computers at the Democrat National Committee which revealed the John Podesta emails.<\/p>\n Not a single bit of information revealed in the John Podesta emails has been challenged as untrue.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s all true.\u00a0 Now, to the point of what impact did that have on voters, nobody can ever know.\u00a0 We can never know.\u00a0 Polling data, there\u2019s no way of knowing. Even if you polled it, there\u2019s no way you could definitively know whether or not the publication of emails from the John Podesta account… Remember, Hillary Clinton\u2019s name — well, Hillary wasn\u2019t her… None of her emails appeared from this hack.<\/p>\n It was all Podesta\u2019s, and so it\u2019d be impossible to say that that hack, the successful intrusion in the Democrat National Committee computers by the Russians is the reason Trump won.\u00a0 Nobody could ever make the case.\u00a0 But the media is not saying that. The Democrats are not saying that.\u00a0 Democrats are saying Russians “hacked the election.”\u00a0 They\u2019re lying through their teeth, and they know it.\u00a0 It would have been impossible for Russians to hack the election.\u00a0 Most voting machines are not even connected to the internet, number one.\u00a0 Number two, it would simply be too massive a project if you want to hack the election result.<\/p>\n Votes consist of two things, folks, as I have said previous occasions.\u00a0 You cast ballots and you count them.\u00a0 The media and the Democrats are trying to convince any number of you that the Russians somehow got involved in the casting and counting of votes and ended up with Trump winning.\u00a0 You realize the Russians wouldn\u2019t know where to go? If anybody wanted to hack… The voting machines are not connected, number one.\u00a0 How do you know which precincts?\u00a0 How do you know which districts?<\/p>\n How do you know which states for sure?\u00a0 In fact, folks, you want to know the truth of the matter?\u00a0 The truth of the matter is that if the Russians were attempting to do anything, it was probably secure the election for Hillary. If they have any desire, that was probably it.\u00a0 But no way you\u2019re gonna hear that from the Drive-Bys. \u00a0Now, you may say, “Come on, Rush! We know all this.”\u00a0 I know you may, but I want to emphasize that this is gonna be a four-year story, folks.\u00a0 They are not going to let this go.<\/p>\n All of this, every bit of news that they report about the Trump presidency and the campaign, the election, is rooted in the narrative that Trump\u2019s election was stolen by the Russians and it\u2019s not legitimate, the vote was flawed, the vote was hacked. It\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to make people believe.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna be successful or not.\u00a0 I think to date it hasn\u2019t been.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there is any great sympathy for the case they\u2019re trying to make on the part of the American people.\u00a0 But they\u2019re not gonna let go of it.<\/p>\n Now, that just blew everything to smithereens. Actually, it was blown to smithereens yesterday when NBC reported — folks, this is fundamentally important and key.\u00a0 NBC News reported during the program yesterday that this 35-page dossier was not something Trump was briefed on. It was not something Obama was briefed on.\u00a0 One of the reasons the media said they ran with it is when they learned that the intelligence agencies gave Trump and Obama a briefing on the dossier.<\/p>\n It turns out, folks, it\u2019s even better than you dreamed.\u00a0 What really happened was the CIA and the intelligence agencies were using the dossier as an example to Trump of the kind of stuff that can enter the domain.\u00a0 They practically admitted that a manufactured, fake document was prepared for the purposes of showing Trump the kind of stuff that\u2019s out there.\u00a0 And this was rooted in the fact that Trump was publicly saying he didn\u2019t need an intel briefing every day.\u00a0 So they were trying to make the case to him, “Yes, you do need an intel briefing every day.”\u00a0 And that 35-page dossier was to be an example of the kind of BS that\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n It was never real.\u00a0 This blows whatever arguments BuzzFeed presented for doing this and whatever justification CNN offered, it blows it sky-high and distorts it, blows it away because it was not real, and the intel community admitted it, and Clapper called Trump today to say this didn\u2019t come from us.\u00a0 And the media told us it did.\u00a0 All day yesterday, what everybody was up to speed about was that what was different about this was this was the intel community, and the question was, “Was the intel community fighting back at Trump?\u00a0 Has Trump made an enemy of the intel community?”<\/p>\n So Clapper today, from Obama\u2019s security briefing agency, calls Trump, “It wasn\u2019t from us.”\u00a0 Well, that leaves one suspect:\u00a0 the media, which is the Democrat Party.\u00a0 And now we know that the author was somebody hired by the same PR firm used by Planned Parenthood.\u00a0 This was nothing but a dirty trick, a political attack from the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n So now what CNN\u2019s doing, they\u2019ve got an eight-person panel right now discussing the proposition “Trump nominees contradict campaign rhetoric.”\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to say that Trump\u2019s cabinet nominees are saying things entirely different from what Trump said.\u00a0 And what they\u2019re trying to do is thereby cast doubt on Trump\u2019s honesty.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s out there campaigning on this, that, or whatever, but his cabinet appointees, why, they\u2019re presenting contradictory information, they\u2019re telling an entirely different story.\u00a0 I can explain this so that first graders would understand it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 No, no, no, no, I didn\u2019t lose my place, I never lose my place.\u00a0 The point I was making about Democrats losing their mojo, there are two things that have happened here that have been totally obscured by the Democrats\u2019 mistake in trying to make this dossier stick.\u00a0 The two things that were supposed to be dominating the news right now, number one — actually, three things.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s farewell address was supposed to get the lion\u2019s share of coverage Tuesday night and all day Wednesday, and it was supposed to be a love fest. It was supposed to be, “Oh, my God, look what we\u2019re gonna miss, oh, my God, look what we\u2019re going to lose, oh, this is terrible, this wonderful man is going away, oh, my God,” gonna spend all day doing that.\u00a0 But nobody heard a word about it because they miscalculated with the release of the dossier.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hackersRussian-Hackers-Election-iPhone-Reuters.jpg\")
<\/a>It\u2019s not supposed to be possible.\u00a0 They, in their world, are supposed to be able to stop anybody that they don\u2019t want getting anywhere in terms of political power.\u00a0 They\u2019re able to stop whatever Republican they want; they\u2019re able to stop any outsider. Their association with the media and themselves and moneyed interests are designed to stop any upstart.\u00a0 And Trump beat them, and they can\u2019t accept it.\u00a0 And so the meme, the narrative is out there that the Russians hacked the election.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TrumpRushConf-650-011117.jpg\")
<\/a>For example, CNN.\u00a0 Hardest hit by yesterday\u2019s press conference, totally dissed.<\/a>\u00a0 CNN cast as fake news.\u00a0 CNN\u2019s already been backtracking and, “Hey, we didn\u2019t do anything wrong,” and they\u2019ve been trying distance themselves from BuzzFeed, and they\u2019re making all these excuses.\u00a0 And then it got worse for \u2019em when they found out that Clapper, the intelligence chief for Obama, actually called Trump to tell him, “Hey, that stuff didn\u2019t come from us in the intel community.”<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The next thing that was to happen at the confirmation hearings, Cory Booker made history by being the first sitting president to take the witness chair to speak against the nominee, Jeff Sessions, for attorney general.\u00a0 Cory Booker was supposed to be auditioning as the next Obama.\u00a0 Cory Booker was supposed to be the focus of news during that portion of the Sessions confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n