{"id":272647,"date":"2018-05-01T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=272647"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:20:56","slug":"flashback-obama-told-us-russians-couldnt-rig-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/01\/flashback-obama-told-us-russians-couldnt-rig-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Obama Told Us the Russians Couldn\u2019t Rig an Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Okay. We have a couple of Obamas here. The first one gets close to what I remember him saying. It\u2019s close enough, but it\u2019s not exactly what I remember him saying. He has described how it would be impossible for any outsider to literally steal or determine the outcome of a federal election. This bite that we have goes back to October 18th, 2016. And here Obama is chiding Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-Obama-CSPAN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-Obama-CSPAN.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-Obama-CSPAN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump at the time is talking about the potential for voter fraud amongst illegals. He\u2019s out there saying that millions of illegals are gonna vote, and he\u2019s also alluding to &#8212; the talk of Russia tampering, it was out there, but it had not reached the crescendo that it was to become because at this point in time, keep in mind when you listen to this, everybody thought Hillary was gonna win. They were convinced that they had fixed the election for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>They were convinced Trump did not have a prayer, Hillary was gonna win one of the biggest landslides ever, when Obama makes these comments. And it\u2019s like two or three weeks before the election. It was in the Rose Garden, joint press conference, Obama and the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi.<\/p>\n<p>And the question came from a Reuters correspondent. &#8220;Donald Trump is telling his supporters the election\u2019s rigged. He\u2019s asking to monitor certain areas on Election Day. How concerned are you about the potential for violence? And what about after Election Day? Are you worried the results of the election may be distrusted?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place. It\u2019s unprecedented. It happens to be based on no facts. Every expert, regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal who has ever examined these issues in a serious way will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found. It doesn\u2019t really show the kind of leadership and toughness that you\u2019d want out of a president if you start whining before the game\u2019s even over? So I\u2019d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7F7eRM1oiU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Now, that comes close. Here Obama\u2019s talking about voter fraud, and people have looked into it, and there\u2019s never been any evidence of it. He gets real close here. And, you know, when Obama does these things he always constructs these straw men, such as, &#8220;Every expert, Republican and Democrat alike.&#8221; That\u2019s how Obama always tried to establish credibility with whatever point he was making. &#8220;Well, Republicans and Democrats alike agree, both conservative and liberal economists all agree, conservative and liberal climatologists all say.&#8221; That\u2019s one of his techniques.<\/p>\n<p>He says they\u2019ve examined the issues in a serious way and will tell you instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found. You could easily suggest he was including Russian voter fraud. It just has never been found. But there\u2019s another instance. I don\u2019t remember when it happened. It might have been in the spring of 2006. Obama talked about this a lot and he actually got close it detailing why it would be impossible for a foreign actor to steal or even determine the outcome of federal election based on things I\u2019ve said. Too many precincts, too complex.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s Obama December 16th, 2016, at a press conference. They were talking about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. And this is what Obama said about it.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: The Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC. In early September when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn\u2019t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out, there were gonna be serious consequences if he didn\u2019t. And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. That one gets close too. This is after the election. This is December 16th, so we\u2019re basically five weeks after the election. The Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC. We don\u2019t know this, because the DNC never turned over their server to the FBI to be forensically examined. We don\u2019t know the Russians hacked the DNC.<\/p>\n<p>There are still people who think that it was an inside job, folks! And for a simple reason. There is a log of the transfer of data from the DNC network servers to places off site. And the speed, the transfer speed of the data is far faster than anything you could get online. The transfer speeds are faster than even, you know, a T3 line, a gigabit Wi-Fi. The speeds or the speeds you would get if you plug a thumb drive into the USB port and transfer that way. And that\u2019s why people think it was an inside job. Whatever was on the DNC server and wherever it ended up, WikiLeaks or wherever, because those data speeds could not have been achieved over the internet. And that is absolutely true.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnY4HyofnoU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then Obama says I talked to Putin, I\u2019m gonna tell him to cut it out. What a tough guy. I\u2019m gonna tell Putin to cut it out. And then December 16th, 2016, Obama says, &#8220;In fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process.&#8221; Can you imagine these deep state guys and Steele and Comey and these clowns at the FBI trying to work up this theory that Trump colluded with Russia and here\u2019s Obama saying, &#8220;In fact, we didn\u2019t see further tampering of the election process after the DNC hack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t see further tampering of the election process after, in Obama\u2019s words, the Russians hacked the DNC server. I mean, he cut the stage out from underneath the deep state and their efforts to prove that Trump was behind colluding with the Russians here. So, of course, nobody did anything with this sound bite except us and focusing on the tough guy Obama telling Putin to cut it out.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Okay, we found it.&nbsp; Cookie has found the Obama sound bite wherein he says there is no serious person out there who would suggest you could even rig America\u2019s elections in part because they\u2019re so decentralized. There\u2019s no evidence that that has happened in the past orthat there are instances that could happen this time. And we are preparing it for broadcast even as we speak.&nbsp; I knew I\u2019ve heard this!&nbsp; I think we have even played the sound bite on the program, and I\u2019m not sure of the timing, but I think it was in the spring.&nbsp; My memory is it was in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>But whenever it is, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>He said it, and it was before the 2016 election &#8212; and my memory is it was well before.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Obama. And what\u2019s the date? It\u2019s October 18th, 2016. And it\u2019s from the same press conference with the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi. So this is essentially three weeks before the election, October 2016, and Obama gets a question. &#8220;Donald Trump is telling his supporters the election is rigged. He\u2019s asking them to monitor certain areas on Election Day. How concerned are you about the potential for violence, and what about after Election Day? Are you worried the results of the election may be distrusted?&#8221; Now, listen to this answer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269106 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032818-Truth-RUSH-Dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032818-Truth-RUSH-Dark.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032818-Truth-RUSH-Dark-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even &#8212; you could even rig America\u2019s elections, in part because they\u2019re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There\u2019s no evidence that has has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I have to acknowledge, remember at this time everybody thinks Hillary is gonna win. And so the reason Russian tampering was restricted to the DNC server during the preelection harangue about this, they didn\u2019t want to taint Hillary\u2019s ultimate election, which they knew was gonna happen. It\u2019s a crucial element here. Everybody, including Obama, thought she was gonna win in the biggest landslide in history, got a rival landslide that Johnson had over Goldwater in \u201964. And so they weren\u2019t gonna do anything that would taint her election.<\/p>\n<p>But in this instance Obama\u2019s telling the truth. There\u2019s no serious person out there who would suggest that you could rig America\u2019s elections in part because they\u2019re so decentralized, the number of votes involved, there\u2019s no evidence it\u2019s ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>And now look where we are. Now we have totally disrupted the normal ebb and flow of this country for over a year-and-a-half now on an impossible premise and for which we know a bogus document was written and publicized and then mistakenly or erroneously, purposely miscast as legitimate intelligence when it\u2019s nothing but political opposition research. Obama: Not possible. And it isn\u2019t! It would not be. And yet look at what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In this instance Obama&#039;s telling the truth. 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