{"id":274334,"date":"2018-05-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=274334"},"modified":"2018-05-19T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T05:21:18","slug":"clapper-spy-in-trump-campaign-was-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/18\/clapper-spy-in-trump-campaign-was-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapper: Spy in Trump Campaign Was a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We have the audio of you James Clapper. I wanted you to actually hear this. I mentioned it to you, but here\u2019s James Clapper last night on CNN with Don Lemon<\/a>. Clapper is the former Director of National Intelligence for Obama, and they\u2019re talking about the story we began on this program on Monday that the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign or an informant. Again, I know who it is, but I\u2019m not gonna mention the name until it\u2019s officially mentioned or released — and it doesn\u2019t matter who.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s important is the FBI, the DOJ, the anti-Trump people had a spy in the Trump campaign, an informant. And here is James Clapper being asked about it and basically saying, “Yeah. It\u2019s a good thing.” The question is from Lemon. Here\u2019s what the president tweeted: “Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There\u2019s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.\u2019 If so, this is bigger than Watergate!” Don Lemon — who\u2019s clueless, like Fredo Cuomo is clueless. You\u2019ll hear an example of Fredo in clueless action in moments.<\/a> Don Lemon said, “That\u2019s an extraordinary claim. Based on your experience, Mr. Clapper, what\u2019s the likelihood that it\u2019s true?”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CLAPPER: This is hyperbole. They may have had someone who was talking to them in the campaign, but, y\u2019know, the focus here, and as it was with the intelligence community, is not on the campaign per se, but what the Russians were doing to try to substantiate themselves in the campaign or influence or leverage it. So if there was someone that was observing that sort of thing, well, that\u2019s a good thing! Uh, because the Russians pose a threat to the very basis of our political system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on.<\/p>\n

CLAPPER: And I think it\u2019s hugely danger if someone like that is exposed because, uh, the danger to that person, not to mention the reluctance of others to be informants for the FBI. And the FBI gains a lot of valuable information from informants. So — so — so to me, this is incredible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s perfect… Okay. I tell you what. I\u2019ll tell you what then, Clapper. Whoever you people run in 2020, we\u2019re gonna put a spy on! It\u2019s gonna be a valuable thing. We\u2019re gonna find out who it is that might be trying to rig the election for you. If the Russians tampering with campaigns is the big deal… You heard Clapper say, “It\u2019s not Trump. No, no. This is hyperbole! We were trying to find out what the Russians were doing because the Russians were tampering.”<\/p>\n

You people have done more to damage the integrity of the American electoral process than Vladimir Putin could in his dreams! And I\u2019m not joking. With what these people have done for the last year and a half — basically get people thinking the election was stolen, that it was illegitimate, that the Russians didn\u2019t want Hillary and wanted Trump and made it happen — look at what they have done to the image, the reputation of the American electoral system and process.<\/p>\n

These people are doing the damage to it, and they continue to do it, because they can\u2019t show any evidence whatsoever the Russians succeeded in determining the outcome of a presidential race. And we\u2019ve got multiple sound bites from Obama himself admitting that it would be impossible to do. Our election, presidential election system is way too complex. You couldn\u2019t know enough in advance of where you would have to start playing games to pull anything off because the Electoral College, precincts, voter turnout. You just… It couldn\u2019t be done. If it could, the Democrats would never lose.<\/p>\n

If they had found a way, if they had found a way to tamper with presidential elections, do you think they would ever lose one? No. But they do. They haven\u2019t found any evidence that the Russians succeeded, and yet they continue to talk about it and validate the idea that spies are worthwhile. These people need to be held accountable for this.<\/p>\n

\"\"They are doing this on purpose. They are attempting to impugn and cloud the very integrity of the electoral system as a means of explaining every election they lose in the future. They are doing this so that they\u2019ll be able to rant and rave that they were never rejected by voters, that voters didn\u2019t choose to vote against them because of their policies. The Russians must have done it. The Russians or other foreign entities must have been conspiring against these precious Democrat candidates.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s gotten to the point now that this is so prevalent that you cannot watch prime time television without — the entire series of Homeland this year, the entire season was devoted to this fake premise that the Russians were easily able to infiltrate anything they wanted. The Russians were able to get rid of a duly elected president. The Russians were able to determine the outcome of an election.<\/p>\n

The Russians cannot hold a candle to the American Democrat Party. The Russians can\u2019t hold a candle to the ChiComs in terms of worldwide power and the ability to project it. You talk about a straw man, a straw dog. And not a shred of evidence. And now here\u2019s Clapper. And there\u2019s one more thing he said here that I want to double back to. “This is hyperbole,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They may have had somebody who was talking to them in the campaign. But, you know, the focus here, as it was with the intelligence community, is not on the campaign per se, but what the Russians were going to try.” That is, pardon me, BS, Mr. Clapper. Your focus was Trump. It was Trump you were spying on. You weren\u2019t spying on the Russians. If you were trying to find Russian influence in the campaign, you\u2019d have been looking in Russia, you\u2019d been looking in Putin, you\u2019d be spying on people that would have done it.<\/p>\n

No, you were spying on Trump. You were trying to find evidence that Trump was conspiring with the Russians, not that Russia was conspiring with Trump. That\u2019s what you wanted to prove. And if you could, if you could have gotten close to it, I know these people would have said so. This is total obfuscation. “No, we weren\u2019t looking at the campaign. No, no, no. We were looking at the Russians because, of course, the Russians were going to try to instantiate themselves in the campaign or influence their leverage,” blah, blah, blah, blah. These guys are trying to double back and cover their tracks, lying through their wooden teeth about what they were doing.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ll just say that the next time there\u2019s a presidential race, we\u2019re gonna vouch for a spy being in the Democrat campaign. It\u2019s a valuable thing. We need to have informants in there, Mr. Clapper, to see to it that foreign actors don\u2019t instantiate themselves, as you say, into the campaign and tamper with our precious electoral process. People are starting to tick me off, and you\u2019ve probably been there longer than I have.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, here\u2019s another thought. And this is how I know that the snake Clapper is lying. Clapper tells CNN (imitating Clapper), “Oh, no, no, no, we weren\u2019t interested in the Trump campaign, our spy. We think it was a good thing the FBI had a spy to look for pernicious activity from the Russians, the Russians tampering with our electoral process. It was a good thing they had a spy in that campaign, not to look at the Trump campaign, but to look at the Russians.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Clapper, then why didn\u2019t you put a spy in the Hillary campaign? She was interacting with the Russians. She was rigging the DNC primary. She did hire a guy to write a phony opposition research with Russian agents on Trump. The Hillary campaign was intertwined with the Russians for months. Why didn\u2019t you have a spy in her campaign, if it was the Russians you were really interested in? Why not look at how Hillary was working with them?<\/p>\n

But of course they weren\u2019t looking for the Russians, because I think they\u2019ve known from the get-go the Russians didn\u2019t affect the outcome of this election. Remember, if Hillary had won, you\u2019d a never heard about the Russians, other than whatever steps they took to destroy Trump, which I think they would have done. Even if Trump had lost, I think they would have made moves to further destroy this guy, to send the message to any other outsiders, “Don\u2019t even think about trying this. Look what we\u2019ll do to you.”<\/p>\n

And if I\u2019m right, they\u2019re gonna continue their destruction plan of Trump after he leaves the White House, whenever that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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