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But first, we\u2019re living in really, really, really dangerous times, and I made this point<\/a> back last November. People were getting worried that Trump seemed to be very close to Obama, seemed to be very accommodating of Obama, seemed to be very complimentary of Obama. Now we\u2019ve got the WikiLeaks dump here on the CIA, Vault 7.<\/p>\nFolks, we are in the midst of dangerous times like you cannot believe, and Donald J. Trump is the target. Now, I had something I wanted to point out yesterday, and I didn\u2019t. I was so absorbed yesterday in the minutia of detail that a couple things I refrained from saying — didn\u2019t refrain; just didn\u2019t get to them — were hard, fast opinions about what Trump was really trying to do with this allegation that Obama had wiretapped him, \u2019cause the way this is playing out is beautiful.<\/p>\n
This is absolutely beautiful the way this is playing out. It\u2019s a brilliant maneuver on Trump\u2019s part, whether he intended it to be or not. Now, Mr. Snerdley came in here before the program, about an hour before the program yesterday, asked me what I make of all this, and that\u2019s when I first ran by him the question of is it reasonable or unreasonable to think that this could happen. But then what did I tell you? What did I say to you?<\/p>\n
SNERDLEY: You said that you believe that Donald Trump was fed up with the lies coming at him from the Obama people, this was a shot right back at Obama. You want to dish this stuff over here, take this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s exactly right. And I wanted Mr. Snerdley to tell you so that you don\u2019t think I\u2019m making up something I said yesterday for post-facto brilliance. I want you to know that the brilliance was here yesterday; I just didn\u2019t say it. And the theory that I articulated to Mr. Snerdley was, when everybody was saying, “What the hell is Trump doing? Oh, my God, Obama tapped?” I said, “Look, what I think Trump\u2019s actually doing is saying, ‘You guys want to lie about me in your Russia stuff, here\u2019s a taste of your own medicine. I\u2019m just gonna fire something right back at you.'” So he fires back that Obama is bugging him, that Obama bugged Trump Tower, and look what that has wrought. It\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n
Greetings, my friends. Welcome. Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
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So I think now that so many things have unfolded here, and I am gonna try to unpack this in some chronological, sensible manner today. You know, this foundation for this narrative that the election was stolen, that the election was hacked, that the Russians worked with Trump to affect the outcome of the election. Isn\u2019t it fascinating now that after Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him, that now all these people are saying, “Well, well, well, what do you mean? There\u2019s no evidence of that! You can\u2019t say that. Where are you getting that? There isn\u2019t any investigation like that.”<\/p>\n
So what Trump has forced these people to do is essentially withdraw their narrative. They\u2019re out there now claiming that Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, that there isn\u2019t any kind of investigation like this, essentially. Not using those exact words. In order to defend Obama, they\u2019re saying Trump\u2019s crazy. “What investigation are you talking about? There was no wiretapping of Trump.” Oh, there wasn\u2019t? There wasn\u2019t any wiretap? Well, then how do we know what Trump said on the phone calls he made to these presidents? How do we know all this stuff the media has treated us to about collusion?<\/p>\n
What about all these leaks from the deep state that contain detail, everything you want to know except the source identity? If there\u2019s no investigation, if there wasn\u2019t any way Obama could have tapped Trump Tower because no such thing was going on, then how does any of this other stuff happen? It\u2019s entirely possible and I must confess that I have thought this.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t articulated this, either, because I didn\u2019t have anything to back it up other than my own thinking. But it is entirely possible that the Democrats made up this entire thing about the Russians and Trump working together to affect the outcome of the election in order to create the investigation that they are now denying is happening.<\/p>\n
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I think that they expected to win. They thought that Hillary was gonna win this in a landslide. And when Hillary lost, I think they had a Plan B but nobody really took it seriously because Plan B was predicated on Trump winning, so didn\u2019t give it a lot of credence. But the moment, the moment the election was over, this meme that Trump had been working with the Russians had been filtering throughout the campaign, there had been allegations here, allegations there because of the WikiLeaks dump of the Podesta emails, and they were trying to tie Trump to that. But when Trump won the election here came the full-fledged narrative that Trump\u2019s election was fraudulent and unjust because he\u2019d worked with the Russians to hack the election.<\/p>\n
By the way, in the WikiLeaks dump today of thousands and thousands of documents from the CIA, do you know what is included? A little program called UMBRAGE. What this program is, apparently the CIA has the ability to mimic Russian hackers. In other words, the CIA has the ability to hack anybody they want and make it look like the Russians are doing it or make it look like the ChiComs are doing it or make it look like the Israelis are doing it.<\/p>\n
They have the ability to do this. They have the ability to mask and mock various other state actors and make it look like — so I think because of everything that we\u2019re learning here, the danger that Donald Trump has faced ever since he won the election is greater than we\u2019ve ever known. And it is obvious to me that this whole business — well, I say obvious, I\u2019m leaning toward being near certain that this entire pretext of Trump working with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election, folks, it is so ridiculous.<\/p>\n
The Democrats have to know and they have to have known all along it didn\u2019t really happen. There isn\u2019t any evidence for it, and nobody has come forth in all these media reports, they\u2019ve found not a single source that can confirm this, because it didn\u2019t happen. But that\u2019s only the pretext. The allegation is what permitted this ongoing investigation of Trump and, say, of Michael Flynn and whatever else was going on.<\/p>\n
But once you establish in the minds of the media and in the minds of some in the public that the election was fraudulent, that somebody tampered with our sacred electoral process and that it might have been Donald Trump himself working with the Russians, why, then the door\u2019s open wide and everybody wants you to get to the bottom of it. Which is exactly what the media and the Democrats, the American left, the establishment, exactly what they wanted, a pretext to have a never-ending investigation of Trump.<\/p>\n
All the while, I think they probably knew there was nothing to the actual substance of the allegation. And in fact, the longer it went with no proof, the better, as evidenced by people like Thomas Friedman. (paraphrased) “Yep, there\u2019s no evidence; that\u2019s why we must investigate. It\u2019s a serious charge! If it really happened, we\u2019ve gotta find out. We\u2019ve gotta get to the bottom of it.” And that opened the floodgates. That opened the doors of possibility for the establishment, the CIA, the deep state, the Democrats, the media to have never-ending investigations.<\/p>\n
For the FBI to have a never-ending investigation of Trump and of his campaign and of his presidency, of his administration, of the people in it, and it\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re watching now: A never-ending investigation of every Trump appointee or nominee, an attempt to stop as many Trump executive orders as possible. Now, it\u2019s gonna take weeks or longer to understand all the implications of the data in the WikiLeaks CIA dump. But one matter is abundantly clear to me. Someone who really supports Trump is trying to counter what\u2019s happening to him.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a whistleblower somewhere. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s another Edward Snowden, but somebody in there has leaked these documents to WikiLeaks. Folks, 8,000. It\u2019s called Vault 7, and it\u2019s gonna take a long time to go through all of these. But it looks to me like somebody who supports Trump somewhere in the deep state is trying to impede and impugn the integrity of all of these investigations. And at the same time I think whoever did this, if it\u2019s one person or many — whoever he, she, or they are — there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that the Obama administration\u2019s reputation is also under attack here.<\/p>\n
Because most of what the WikiLeaks CIA release contains is what the CIA has been doing during the Obama years, specifically 2013 to 2016. And you throw Trump\u2019s weekend tweet into this that Obama was hacking him. I want to go back to something I said yesterday about the FISA court and these warrants. When it comes to national security warrants, it\u2019s entirely possible that Trump has seen them. His attorney general, Jeff Sessions, could go get the applications. It is entirely… Now, no FISA warrant to my knowledge has ever been made public, since the FISA court was first begun in the Carter years in 1978.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t think any of these requests, these warrants, applications for warrants have ever been released. But somebody in any administration can go look at them. They\u2019re precisely in the executive branch, and the president and his attorney general would have unquestionable, unquestioned access to them. I find it fascinating that Trump\u2019s allegation is timed in such a way that maybe somebody\u2019s actually seen evidence that such a request was made to wiretap Trump Tower or Trump personally.<\/p>\n
But you look at Trump\u2019s weekend tweets, this CIA leak to WikiLeaks or the dump to WikiLeaks about the CIA is even more and more curious. The timing is exquisite. Now, given the pace of technology, pretty much 100% of the tools — i.e., hacking efforts, hacking programs — that are in this document dump have been developed and deployed during the Obama administration. That\u2019s what\u2019s fascinating about this leak. Now, not all of them, but the focus is 2013 to 2016. That\u2019s the Obama years.<\/p>\n
These are tools created by the United States government to surveil your iPhone. One of the programs turns on the microphone of your Samsung smart TV and turns it into a bugging device. You never know. You turn your TV off, but the microphone stays on. Not that you\u2019re being bugged, don\u2019t misunderstand, but the program makes your TV a bug. Same thing with your iPhone. The CIA, according to this dump, has developed a little hacker program that turns on your microphone and keeps it on when you think the phone\u2019s asleep.<\/p>\n
Same thing with Android phones. Same thing with Windows Microsoft products. These are extensive tools to spy on people, and they were created and perfected during the Obama years. Some of them were started prior to that as well. But the point is none of this was shut down during the Obama years. It was all expanded. It was all improved. The infrastructure must have had approval from somewhere high up the executive branch chain.<\/p>\n
Now, the CIA is also extremely independent, and they\u2019ve got people in there that could be doing this with knowledge only of the director or the deputy director. These are things that we don\u2019t know. But common sense — intelligence guided by experience — can point us in some really intriguing directions. And the section on UMBRAGE, as I say, at first glance… I haven\u2019t had a chance to pore through nearly even 5% of this. But this UMBRAGE section of the leak defines a method for the CIA to make attacks look like they originated from the Russians.<\/p>\n
They have found a way to essentially emulate Russian hacks either from the KGB, the RBG, the Russian government, various other Russian hackers. It\u2019s a wide variety of people. The CIA has found a way to make it look like it\u2019s the Russians doing the hacking. Isn\u2019t that interesting, given everything we\u2019ve been told about the election? “The Russians hacked the election, that the Russians did this, the Russians did that.” So far we don\u2019t have any evidence the Russians did anything! But we have all kinds of supposition that the American deep state is deeply involved in whatever sabotage is being conducted on the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
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The evidence the Russians were involved? Nobody\u2019s got it. Everybody runs around and talks about it as though it\u2019s a fait accompli, but there isn\u2019t any evidence. If there were, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, you name it, would you have published it all. But there isn\u2019t any. In fact, the stories they run make it clear there still isn\u2019t any evidence. But that just means we need to keep investigating. The implications of the CIA being able to make their hacks look like the Russians? (chuckling) You throw that in the mix at everything else that\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re living in very interesting times, very dangerous times, folks. The establishment of this country — whatever you want to call it, the ruling class — is desperate. We\u2019re living in times they never thought possible or didn\u2019t consider likely, and that is somebody from outside their group being president, being vice president, being secretary of state, being secretary of commerce, being attorney general. This kind of thing, this is such an assault, and it\u2019s got them in a state of panic.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, no, folks. What I\u2019m saying is this: For the last how many months we\u2019ve been reading and hearing about “the investigation.” You know it as well as I do. The investigation into what? Into Trump and the Russians colluding to hack the election to screw the highly deserving Hillary Clinton. Then Obama is the recipient of a Trump bomb. Trump lobs in an allegation that Obama bugged him, hacked him, wiretapped Trump Tower.<\/p>\n
The immediate reaction from James Comey and every, “Wuh wuh wuh wuh what do you mean? That\u2019s silly. There\u2019s no investigation. What did Trump say? Obama wouldn\u2019t be…” What do you mean, “There\u2019s no investigation”? There\u2019s no investigation? None of this has been going on? There\u2019s no substance to it, and that\u2019s why Trump\u2019s tweet is wrong, because there\u2019s no investigation? They\u2019re backtracking; they may not even know it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Hi. Welcome back. It\u2019s great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is doubling down, as he always does, on the allegation that Obama wiretapped him. He\u2019s doubling down on it, and these are… Here\u2019s the thing about Trump. Whether it\u2019s what he says about things going on in Sweden, after time passes, it always turns out that Trump is on to something. With something he says, alleges, accuses, reports, it always ends up that he\u2019s far more right than he\u2019s wrong. So he\u2019s doubling down on this now as he always does.<\/p>\n
So is it more reasonable or unreasonable to believe that Trump would be a subject of this, especially given all the reporting since election about the, quote\/unquote, “investigation into Trump”? If there\u2019s an investigation into Trump, wouldn\u2019t you think that an investigation into Trump might consist of some surveillance? Is it reasonable or unreasonable to think that that would be part of it? This is where I think these people have taken it too far and it\u2019s now about to boomerang on them.<\/p>\n I mean, I\u2019m talking about the intelligence\/deep state sources of the media, the media itself. And it\u2019s actually — if you separate all this from the genuine danger that this portends — fascinating to watch. And because now the… I\u2019ll give you an example. The media and the rest of the Democrat Party can\u2019t handle Trump\u2019s allegation that Obama tapped his phones. Now, this is the same media and the same Democrats who\u2019ve been saying for months that the Trump campaign was being investigated. Proudly saying it, happily reporting it, sharing with us statements by unnamed sources, “American intelligence sources,” “American intelligence operatives.”<\/p>\n They have been saying for months that the Trump campaign was being investigated by the FBI for ties to Russia-based on intercepts. The New York Times, as we pointed out yesterday, on January 20th actually referred to “wiretaps” in their headline of the story that day documenting the latest intercepts. And in that story, they had to include, as they do in every one… It was a paragraph way down deep in the story, but the paragraph said there\u2019s no evidence that Trump\u2019s done anything or that anybody\u2019s been investigating Trump. There\u2019s no evidence for anything because all of this has been manufactured.<\/p>\n All of this is a stratagem, folks, \u2019cause when you get down to it (and I firmly believe this) every Democrat — Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, you name it — have known from the get-go that the Russians didn\u2019t hack the election outcome. They know they lost the election. Now, some of your militant base — the average, ordinary, American lunatics that vote for \u2019em — I\u2019m sure they believe it, but the people spreading this know full well it didn\u2019t happen, that it\u2019s a distraction, that it\u2019s a diversion. It\u2019s a technique to continue this investigation.<\/p>\n What investigation? Comey has now came out and said there wasn\u2019t an investigation. Once Trump lobs his allegation that Obama was wiretapping him, Comey — who testified before Congress he would never make public the facts of any FBI investigation, including what they were doing with Hillary or the Clinton Foundation. All of a sudden Comey, who says, “Never, ever would I ever go public with the details of anything we\u2019re investigating,” comes forward and asks the DOJ to tamp down what Trump is alleging \u2019cause it didn\u2019t happen!<\/p>\n Wait a minute. If it didn\u2019t happen, how do you know? Could somebody produce the FISA warrants? Could somebody produce the evidence? Could somebody in any of this produce a scintilla of evidence to back up everything or anything they\u2019re saying? Nobody does that. It\u2019s one of the most amazing periods of time we\u2019ve been through. There isn\u2019t a scintilla of evidence to back up anything that\u2019s been reported, and yet Trump all of a sudden decides to get in on the game, and so he lobs his own allegation and throws it right back in Obama\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n The media and the Democrats are outraged. “How dare he? This is the president of the United States,” and Comey comes up, “There isn\u2019t any investigation.” Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There isn\u2019t an investigation? “Yeah! There\u2019s no reason for Obama to be wiretapping anybody. There\u2019s no investigation.” Oh, really? Where was this bit of news back in November? Where was this bit of news last week? Where was this bit of news on Inauguration Day? It\u2019s just delicious. (sigh) You remember last month\u2019s Michael Flynn scandal?<\/p>\n My good buddy, old pal Andy McCarthy at National Review come up with the simplest way to get to the bottom of whether Flynn… In that wiretapped phone call with that fat Russian ambassador, the NSA was wiretapping the fat Russian ambassador, and so Flynn\u2019s on the phone with the guy. So Flynn\u2019s overheard in the supposed wiretap of the Russian, and McCarthy says, “Look, release the transcript of the call. Don\u2019t cherry-pick it. Release the transcript. Let us hear if Flynn actually promised to lift sanctions.”<\/p>\n Well, they haven\u2019t done that. Flynn\u2019s denied they even talked about lifting the sanctions. The Russian guy might have brought it up. Flynn didn\u2019t say one way or another. Flynn should not have been forced out of there. He was because he didn\u2019t tell the truth to Pence, but he didn\u2019t do anything structurally wrong, just like Sessions has no business recusing himself from anything. McCarthy said, “Publish the transcript,” but nobody wants to. Nobody wants to reveal it. If they\u2019ve got slam-dunk evidence, why don\u2019t they show it?<\/p>\n James Comey wants the DOJ to come out there and say that there\u2019s no investigation; there\u2019s no wiretap of Trump. Well, let\u2019s see the FBI\u2019s two requests for FISA warrants. Let\u2019s see why the first one was turned down. That\u2019s the reporting. All of this that we know has been reported in the Drive-By Media. Nobody\u2019s making this stuff up. Every bit of what we know has appeared in the New York Times or on CNN or in the Washington Post. All that\u2019s been missing is any evidence. So let\u2019s see these FISA warrants.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see the first one in June that was rejected because supposedly it involves Trump and there wasn\u2019t any evidence to back it up so the judge denied it, and let\u2019s see the one that was granted in October. I know FISA stuff is classified, never been released before. What harm can it do here? Remember, Jeff Sessions and Obama can see it. They can go get. If Trump is doubling down on this, you have to wonder if they know based on the FISA warrants that were requested during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n Now, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit — he\u2019s also a law professor at the University of Tennessee — has a hypothesis. It is this. “The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump\/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.” They created the Trump-Russia collusion as a distraction to get everybody — this is his theory — looking at that so that they wouldn\u2019t find out what they\u2019ve actually been doing is investigating Trump!<\/p>\n Mr. Reynolds says, “Now it\u2019s being rowed back, because the talk of ‘transcripts\u2019 supports the spying-on-Trump storyline.” Transcripts of phone calls, transcripts of X, transcripts of Y. The media\u2019s reporting on transcripts. What transcripts if there\u2019s no investigation? What transcripts if there\u2019s no wiretaps? What transcripts if there are no email bugs out there? And he points out that “the rumors being floated about Trump are being retracted, and once everyone from Comey to Clapper has denied that he was ever under investigation, future ‘leaks\u2019 will come pre-discredited.”<\/p>\n That\u2019s another thing. Clapper. He\u2019s on Meet the Press on Sunday. “I can deny that!” He was asked by F. Chuck Todd, “Did Obama get a wiretap for Trump?” “I can deny that!” Comey: “That isn\u2019t true. DOJ, you go out there and tamp it down. That isn\u2019t true.” Why? “Well, because Trump was never under investigation.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. If Trump was never under investigation, what the hell have the past five months been about? And it\u2019s in this little mixture today that we receive the news of somebody leaking a bunch of CIA data to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n Dangerous times in the United States of America.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to grab a quick phone call here. This Steve in Tallahassee, Florida. Great to have you on the program, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n CALLER: Great Rush. A real honor.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, I saw is that. Let me answer this. It\u2019s a great question. That\u2019s why I took your call first. Brilliant question, opportunity to make the host look good, and you did a great job and I really appreciate it, Steve in Tallahassee. Can I ask you a question before I answer this? Why does it matter what Putin wants? Why in the hell should we be tailoring the outcome of our elections on the basis of what Vladimir Putin wants? What, we want Hillary to win because Putin doesn\u2019t like her? We want Trump to win because Putin — what does it matter what Putin wants?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s find out who Castro wants to win and try to engineer that. That\u2019s another one of these crazy narratives that the media and the whole Democrat-media complex has come up with here that has as its purpose impugning Trump. Now, the Democrat Party has loved the Russians all my life. The Democrat Party has envied the Soviets. The Democrat Party backed \u2019em up, protected \u2019em, defended \u2019em. Ted Kennedy worked with the Russians back in \u201984 to help defeat Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n Now all of a sudden we\u2019re to believe the Democrats don\u2019t like the Russians. It\u2019s absurd. Obama loved Putin. Obama was de-arming our nuclear arsenal, was reducing it, for Putin. But yet a narrative was birthed, and that narrative is that Trump is such an idiot, that Trump is such a bumbling fool, that Vladimir Putin can\u2019t wait to have him in the Oval Office because that will make Putin the effective president of this country.<\/p>\n Why? Well, because we know that Trump has done business with the Russians, and that\u2019s why he won\u2019t release his tax returns. That\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to hide. And so what it means is that if Trump\u2019s elected, it means Putin is running the country. That\u2019s been the Democrat fearmongering line, one of many, during the campaign.<\/p>\n But let\u2019s unpack this. When you get right down to brass tacks, the Russians and our old buddy shirtless Vladimir had every reason to want Hillary to win, because Hillary Clinton would continue Obama\u2019s feckless, damaging, dangerous policies which have benefited the Russians hugely, like the Iran deal.<\/p>\n Do you know how beneficiary the Iran deal was for the Russians just in terms of economics and commerce alone? Trump is not going to let the Iran deal stand, and he said he wasn\u2019t going to. But the CIA, now, that\u2019s a different story. Some in the CIA might think Hillary Clinton would cut them along with the military. Some in the CIA might really be ticked off at Hillary Clinton over Benghazi. You ever stop and think of that?<\/p>\n Some CIA people were killed in Benghazi, and then Hillary and Obama were running around lying about it. There are people in the CIA that cut both ways here. We\u2019re being told the CIA is unified in its hatred and opposition to Trump. Don\u2019t believe it. There are many great people at CIA, FBI, who think of Hillary the same way you and I do, and they just might not want her having anything to do with the Oval Office. But we know that she let CIA officers die in Benghazi and then blamed some video that had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n You know, one of the hackers used the name of the KGB\u2019s most famous hacker spy and they typed stuff in Cyrillic. They left fingerprints in the hack of the DNC and Podesta\u2019s emails. They left fingerprints that said, “Hey, we are the Russkies, and we were here.” Exactly. The Russians are gonna leave evidence they were there? No professional would do that.<\/p>\n So the idea that Putin wanted Trump doesn\u2019t pass the common-sense test. He would much prefer somebody that is gonna continue the policies of Obama, which did nothing but strengthen Iran and strengthen Russia and weaken the United States. Why would he want somebody that\u2019s gonna bring all that to a screeching halt, who would be Trump.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to also go back to November 14th.\u00a0 Grab sound bite number one.\u00a0 I recognized back then — and we\u2019ve got the WikiLeaks dump today with thousands and thousands of CIA documents — if you haven\u2019t heard about this yesterday, folks, this is big, and it\u2019s gonna take a long time for people to go through this and make sense of it, but one thing that has stood out to those of us who have done a cursory examination of the data, there\u2019s a CIA — well, it\u2019s under the UMBRAGE headline.\u00a0 That\u2019s a name of a program.<\/p>\n It turns out that the CIA has created computer hacking tools that enable the CIA to hack somebody and make those people think the Russians are doing the hacking.\u00a0 In other words, the CIA has created hacker programs that emulate and identify themselves as Russian or Chinese or Japanese.\u00a0 Now, you throw that into the mix that the Russians are collaborating with Trump to affect the outcome of the election, what if it was the CIA doing it?\u00a0 Of course, now everybody is saying, “No, there was there wasn\u2019t an investigation.\u00a0 What are you talking about?\u00a0 Trump wasn\u2019t being surveilled.\u00a0 What do you mean?”<\/p>\n There\u2019s no investigation?\u00a0 Trump wasn\u2019t being surveilled?\u00a0 You mean there\u2019s no investigation into whether Trump colluded with the Russians?\u00a0 “No, no, where are you coming up with this?”\u00a0 They\u2019re being forced to walk this back.\u00a0 This was a distraction they created.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what I said to people back on November 14th<\/a>.\u00a0 Trump had just won, of course, the week prior and he\u2019s saying great things about Obama and he\u2019s visiting the White House, talking about how nice Obama\u2019s been, how much help Obama has offered.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ObamaSpyPIX.jpg\")
<\/a>And the media is having kittens again. They just can\u2019t believe that a president would say things like this. And I go back to yesterday and ask the question: Is it reasonable to suspect that it could happen, given all of the wiretaps we know — we shared the data with you yesterday<\/a> — that the Obama administration has conducted? All of the surveillance on the AP, on James Rosen at Fox News, of Angela Merkel. The evidence is clear that the Obama administration was surveilling people in this country and all over the world.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trumpOvalOffice650-020217-Trump-Calls.jpg\")
We don\u2019t know who they were. They were never named. But they apparently were all over the place. And they were feeding the media transcripts of telephone calls that Donald Trump had made. How\u2019d they get \u2019em? Somebody had to find them. Somebody had to be surveilling those calls. Yeah, it could have been a Trump employee who\u2019s a rogue. I don\u2019t know. But it doesn\u2019t deny and it doesn\u2019t refute the allegation that somebody\u2019s spying on Trump. They\u2019ve been proudly bragging about their investigation!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/James-Comey.jpg\")
If they\u2019ve got slam-dunk evidence, why is that part of the New York Times story? If they\u2019ve got slam-dunk evidence of all these allegations…? Well, they don\u2019t. That\u2019s the whole point. They never have had any and there never gonna get any because there isn\u2019t any. This whole thing is a pretext to conduct an investigation that never ends to keep the Trump administration under the suspicion of a huge cloud with nothing as a foundation for it. Now we\u2019re in the same exact position. James Comey wants to prove the FBI is innocent.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Putin.jpg\")
CALLER: I\u2019ll get right to it. No one asked the question, why would Putin want or not want Trump as president versus want or not want Hillary? And I kind of know the answers, but I\u2019m thinking Putin was celebrating at nine o\u2019clock Eastern time thinking Hillary had one.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wikileaksSIGN.jpg\")
We also know that Julian Assange at WikiLeaks has said over and over again the Russians were not the source for all of the stuff he had of Podesta\u2019s emails. I don\u2019t know what you think of Assange or care, but he\u2019s not on record as being a proven liar. People may think he\u2019s a reprobate. They may not like him \u2019cause he sounds and looks of effeminate, that\u2019s somebody else\u2019s problem. The Russian evidence in all this is laughable.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: I think we are in a precarious situation.\u00a0 We have a very, very defeated and maybe wounded President Obama who nevertheless maintains control on all the levers of power until January 20th.\u00a0 We have a president who was on the cusp of an historical event never before conceived in this country, has just been snatched away.\u00a0 But he\u2019s still there, he controls the levers of power for another month and a half, two months.\u00a0 And, as such, we don\u2019t know what all is threatened.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ObamaLyingtoAMerica_Pix.jpg\")
RUSH: It\u2019s unprecedented. To share intelligence data with 16 other intel agencies like this?<\/p>\n