{"id":329995,"date":"2019-12-02T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=329995"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:38:06","slug":"leftists-cling-to-russia-meddling-ignore-ukraine-efforts-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/02\/leftists-cling-to-russia-meddling-ignore-ukraine-efforts-for-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Cling to Russia Meddling, Ignore Ukraine Efforts for Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s a little bit of an example of this. John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, was on Meet the Depressed Sunday with the host, F. Chuck Todd. And Chuck Todd said, &#8220;Simply uttering this conflation on Ukraine and Russia, the inference is that you\u2019re doing the president\u2019s dirty work here.&#8221; Now, Kennedy is out saying, by the way, what the Politico and two other Drive-By publications reported in January 2017. They reported that Ukraine was in panic mode because Trump won the election, that they were working on behalf of Hillary in the 2016 campaign. This is the president of Ukraine prior to the current one, Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And they were caught. They were trying to undermine Trump. They were all-in with Hillary. Remember that the Clintons were just an extension of Obama and it was to be the status quo just continuing. The current president would stay president and the hunky-dory relationship would remain. And they worked to undermine the Trump campaign. It\u2019s not us saying so, it\u2019s Politico and two other Drive-By Media organizations.<\/p>\n<p>And the story in January, even before Trump was inaugurated was that Ukraine was now panicked and Trump was elected and Trump knew what they had done. So now they were faced with having to do a 180 to try to get on Trump\u2019s good side. That\u2019s specifically what The Politico story was about. John Kennedy simply cites that. John Kennedy says, &#8220;Look, I\u2019m using your sources that Ukraine was trying to undermine Trump in 2016.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys are committed to Russia and only Russia doing that and Trump working with it. In fact, Schiff has given the members of his committee 24 hours to review the record and vote. And Schiff\u2019s articles of impeachment may even include Trump-Russia collusion, even though it\u2019s been dispelled and blown to smithereens, it may even include that. Because they\u2019re not working on truth whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the Mueller report came out, they are sticking with the idea that Trump colluded with Russia, and they\u2019re relying on the fact that there are enough ignoramuses in the American public who will buy it and still think that it happened despite the fact that it didn\u2019t. They\u2019re gonna implode due to the weight of their own immorality at some point. They\u2019re going to implode because there\u2019s no foundation of truth or even reality that\u2019s propping them up. It is gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to be humiliatingly embarrassed at some point in this. I don\u2019t know when, and I don\u2019t know what the event or series of events that will bring that reality about are. But I know basic things about laws, and you can only propel propaganda for so long if there are adequate counters to it. And we have a massive alternative media providing counter operations to what these people are attempting to do.<\/p>\n<p>They have nothing real that\u2019s propping them up. They\u2019ve got no real evidence. They never have had. Their allegations are lies and made up. And it\u2019s all gonna come crumbling down on them at some point. That\u2019s why they\u2019re trying to hurry this as quickly as they can.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, Kennedy is on Meet the Press, and he continues to cite Ukraine\u2019s role along with Russia\u2019s in the effort to undermine Trump. And this is what Chuck Todd can\u2019t believe. He says, &#8220;You simply utter this conflation on Ukraine and Russia, the inference is you\u2019re doing the president\u2019s dirty work here. Do you accept that criticism?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KENNEDY: I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. I think it\u2019s been well documented in the Financial Times, in Politico, in The Economist, in the Washington Examiner, even on CBS. Russia was very aggressive, and they\u2019re much more sophisticated. But the fact that Russia was so aggressive does not exclude the fact that President Poroshenko actively worked for Secretary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2VO9GAnWOk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Now, that\u2019s factual, it\u2019s been reported in the Drive-Bys. Not to their advantage, by the way. And remember when this was reported in January of 2017, people at Politico and the New York Times were feeling their oats. They were confident that it was only a matter of time before they got rid of Trump, because they were part of the Trump-Russia collusion affair. They were knowingly &#8211; in some cases unknowingly &#8212; spreading a pack of lies. Some in the Drive-Bys believed it because they\u2019re idiots and gullible, and others knew what a scam it was and were participating in it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The entire news media decided to get rid of all credibility and integrity in this effort to get rid of Donald Trump. At this point they\u2019re feeling pretty good. Trump\u2019s gonna be inaugurated, but they think they\u2019ve got him. It\u2019s just a matter of time, just a matter of time. The plans are already in the works for Comey to go to the White House. In fact, that remains a crucial story here for one thing that I want to go back to on Wednesday and button up here in just a minute.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s Chuck Todd\u2019s reaction to Kennedy, saying, &#8220;I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled, and we know that Ukraine wanted Hillary to win,&#8221; and he cites the sources: Politico, The Economist, Washington Examiner, even CBS. Here\u2019s Chuck Todd\u2019s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: My goodness. Wait a minute. Senator Kennedy, you now have the president of Ukraine saying he actively worked for the Democratic nominee for president. I mean, now, come on. I gotta put up &#8212; you realize the only other person selling this argument outside the United States is this man, Vladimir Putin. This is what he said on November 20th. &#8220;Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in U.S. elections. Now they\u2019re accusing Ukraine. Well, let them sort this out among themselves.&#8221; You just accused a former president of Ukraine. You\u2019ve done exactly what the Russian operation is trying to get American politicians to do. Are you at all concerned that you\u2019ve been duped?<\/p>\n<p>KENNEDY: No. Because just read the articles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120219-Meet-The-pRESS-Kennedy-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: No. I haven\u2019t been duped. The person that\u2019s been duped here is Chuck Todd. Now, I say duped. I\u2019m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt that Chuck ignorantly believes what he just said here. I don\u2019t know anymore with some of these people, I don\u2019t know how ignorant they are or how wily and in on all this they are. It\u2019s a roll of the dice. But they are so ingrained that only Russia did it that is inconceivable &#8212; now, these are journalists who should be curious and open to anybody meddling in the U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>Three Drive-By news organizations reported it. They don\u2019t even want to consider it because it doesn\u2019t fit the Trump-Russia collusion mode. So here they\u2019re trying to make John Kennedy out to be some sort of idiot, some sort of useful idiot for Trump, when the useful idiots are the people in the media. There is no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, and there\u2019s no evidence that whatever Russia did had any impact on the outcome of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>And that remains the bottom line. And even in Mueller\u2019s indictments it was made clear, nothing in these indictments suggests one vote was changed or the outcome of any election was affected. So, okay. The Russians meddled. And I\u2019ll tell you what. I\u2019m not even all-in on that, other than the Russians meddle constantly. The Russians undermine and attempt &#8212; the Soviets were attempting to infiltrate constantly for longer than you and I have been alive.<\/p>\n<p>So the idea that Russia all of a sudden did something unusual, meddling in the election &#8212; now, that\u2019s a premise that I myself do not automatically accept. You have to to be accepted in polite society, but none of it makes full-fledged sense to me. So now John Kennedy is an idiot, he\u2019s an absolute idiot simply because he\u2019s open to a possibility that the Drive-Bys have foreclosed.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So I just checked the email during the break. &#8220;Rush, you always say that you\u2019re not all-in on this Russia meddling thing. Why?&#8221; Folks, I don\u2019t know. One of the main reasons why is because the Drive-Bys believe it 150%, and I do not trust them. But I also use intelligence guided by common sense. Okay, what do we have? Why do we have &#8220;the Russians meddled&#8221;? Because the Democrats lost an election. Do you realize there was none of this before the election?<\/p>\n<p>Now, this may be old news and old history, but you gotta remember people are listening to this program for the first time every day. So I beg your indulgence. If you go back to before the 2016 election, Barack Obama &#8212; on two separate occasions &#8212; made fun of the idea that a U.S. presidential election could be rigged, could be tampered with, could be hacked. &#8220;It\u2019s not possible,&#8221; he said. Voting machines are not connected to the internet, number one.<\/p>\n<p>Number 2, you wouldn\u2019t know where to start. There are too many precincts. The Electoral College. The popular vote doesn\u2019t count in the end. There\u2019s no way it could happen. He said this two or three times, and the reason is, they &#8220;all knew Hillary was gonna win,&#8221; quote-unquote. They didn\u2019t want any asterisks or dark clouds around her victory at all. They were pooh-poohing the idea that Russia could &#8212; or anybody could &#8212; meddle in an election, and they\u2019re right. It simply isn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And I don\u2019t care about Facebook ads. I don\u2019t care about Cambridge Analytica. I don\u2019t care Google this, Google that. Google was all-in on Hillary winning, and she didn\u2019t. Facebook was all-in on Hillary winning, and she didn\u2019t. Donald Trump had all of these agencies arrayed against him, and he won anyway, and it was only after that that this Russia stuff began. And I\u2019m immediately suspicious of it when I find out that Hillary Clinton was working with Russia throughout the campaign on the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n<p>But because the media pushes this, supposedly you can\u2019t possibly disagree with it and have any sense at all. &#8220;Russia meddled in the election.&#8221; What does that mean? The way they use it, it means the election is illegitimate. The Russians meddled. Trump didn\u2019t win it fairly. That\u2019s what the impression is &#8212; and I\u2019m sorry, folks, I\u2019m not buying it. It was a fair election. It was a legal election. It was just, and Donald Trump won, and they lost. Now they can\u2019t let go of it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sick and tired of these people portraying this country as a weak sister that can\u2019t defend itself, that is helpless against the efforts of a Third World country with a First World military, Russia. And then the ChiComs and then the North Koreans, whoever it is. I\u2019m tired of the left portraying this country as ineffective, unjust, immoral, vulnerable and all that. We are the strongest, most powerful people and nation on earth. When we decide to project power to our capability, there\u2019s nobody that can keep up with us.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nobody that can match us, which is why nobody ever attacks us. They wouldn\u2019t survive. And yet you listen to the media &#8212; and I\u2019m fed up with it! I\u2019m fed up with all this talk about Russia did this and Russia did that because all it is is cover for the fact that theire incompetent, inept, corrupt candidate couldn\u2019t even draw flies to a freaking rally. Russia meddled in the election? Maybe they did, but what made them invincible?<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats had their server hacked. What does that say about the Democrats? The Russians supposedly tried to hack the Republican server and couldn\u2019t get in. I\u2019m just&#8230; There\u2019s so much media BS, I just have gotten to the point where I instinctively reject it all &#8212; including Schiff, Pelosi, and everything these people are trying. The Russians meddling in the election to me is a nonevent because of the way it\u2019s being portrayed: &#8220;The Russians aided Trump\u2019s victories!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry. It didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If there was any meddling in the election, it was Hillary Clinton with Russia and with the American and foreign intelligence communities trying to undermine Donald Trump, and they want us to believe it was Russia trying to undermine Hillary. It\u2019s a crock.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I went back, and I have here the stories that appeared in the Drive-By Media all documenting that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/21\/media-acknowledged-ukrainian-election-meddling-until-it-hurt-their-impeachment-efforts\/\">The Federalist put together the list<\/a>. Now, the media today, as you heard Chuck Todd yesterday on Meet the Depressed, they\u2019re now claiming this idea that Ukraine meddled is insane, it\u2019s stupid. It\u2019s a conspiracy theory. It\u2019s fictitious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/21\/media-acknowledged-ukrainian-election-meddling-until-it-hurt-their-impeachment-efforts\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-FEDERALIST-TEARAWAY-120219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-FEDERALIST-TEARAWAY-120219.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-FEDERALIST-TEARAWAY-120219-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Well, we\u2019ve got The Politico article. January 11th, 2017. That was not the only time the media reported on Ukraine\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election. There were articles in the New York Times. There were articles in the Financial Times. There were other Politico articles instead of this big one on January 11th. But the media, which means the Democrats, they now want us to forget that any of that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Financial Times reported back in December 2016 that CrowdStrike claimed the Russians used Ukrainian technology to hack the DNC server. Now, stop and think of this for a second. This is the Financial Times reporting in December 2016, this is the month after the election &#8212; that CrowdStrike &#8212; CrowdStrike is the word that sets the Democrats off. If you use CrowdStrike in relation to Ukraine, then they really jump on you as an idiot, as a lamebrain, as a conspiracy kook theorist.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact it was the Financial Times that reported back in December 2016 that CrowdStrike said after they forensically examined the Democrat National Committee server, CrowdStrike claimed that the Russians used Ukrainian technology to hack the server and that the technology was operated in Eastern Ukraine, which is one of the things the Drive-Bys are now calling a right-wing conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, remember Trump\u2019s phone call to Zelensky where he supposedly demanded that Zelensky investigate Biden or else? That didn\u2019t happen. There still hasn\u2019t been a Ukrainian investigation of Biden. But do you remember what else? Trump asked Zelensky to look into the CrowdStrike aspect of things. There are some people who think that the Democrat server &#8212; not the actual servers of the data &#8212; is being held in Ukraine. A server is a computer tower. It\u2019s just a series of hard discs is all it is and can be as big or little as &#8212; you can use a Mac Mini as a server. You can use a tower desktop computer as a server. You can use any computer that has a hard drive as a server. Server is software.<\/p>\n<p>So a server does not have to be a massive supercomputer like a Cray. A server could be as tiny as a Mac Mini or think of an Apple TV device. A server is what it does, not what it is. It\u2019s just a hard drive that multiple people can access that has sync capability and it holds data off-site if desired.<\/p>\n<p>So when people claim that the server, the DNC server is in Ukraine, they don\u2019t mean that the actual hardware that was in DNC headquarters has been spirited out of there and is now under lock and key in Ukraine, although it could be. But what is meant, the data, the data was off-loaded and sent somewhere to keep it away from prying eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the Democrats did not want the FBI to examine that server. The only evidence we have that the Democrat server was hacked is the Democrats saying so with CrowdStrike, the private sector firm they hired to investigate the server, not the FBI, confirming it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/09\/26\/trumps-crowdstrike-reference-panicked-democrats\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Crowdstrike-Logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Crowdstrike-Logo-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Crowdstrike-Logo-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Now, CrowdStrike was founded by a Ukrainian who hates Putin. The idea that CrowdStrike, now cited in a Financial Times story, December 2016, claiming that the Russians used Ukrainian technology to hack the DNC server, it would make perfect sense that CrowdStrike would indict the Russians \u2019cause the CrowdStrike founder hates them, literally hates Putin. CrowdStrike said the Russians used Ukrainian technology to hack the DNC server and that the technology was operated in Eastern Ukraine, meaning the hack happened in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump\u2019s asking Zelensky to look into this. The idea that the Democrat National Committee server was hacked is one of the necessary building blocks to this hocus-pocus that the Russians meddled in the election. The Russians meddled in the election by hacking the DNC server, and that\u2019s how Podesta\u2019s emails ended up all over WikiLeaks, and it\u2019s so unfair. And none of that is right.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even know for sure the DNC server was hacked. They\u2019ve not let anybody but CrowdStrike see it. They refused to let the FBI examine it. So Trump asking about CrowdStrike literally panicked the left. And that\u2019s when we heard from Lieutenant Colonel Vindman &#8212; O say can you see &#8212; and all these other people paranoid, oh, my God. Trump\u2019s getting too close.<\/p>\n<p>CrowdStrike, the way they\u2019re reacting to that, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/09\/26\/trumps-crowdstrike-reference-panicked-democrats\/\">CrowdStrike could be at the center of the universe along with Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS<\/a>, which Fiona Hill tried to make look like she\u2019d never heard of them. (imitating Hill) &#8220;Yes, I\u2019d heard of GPS Fusion.&#8221; Give me a break. It\u2019s not GPS Fusion. It\u2019s Fusion GPS. You know exactly who they are. You know exactly who it is.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line, this myth that the Russians were the sole people that meddled in the election, and that they succeeded, that\u2019s the whole basis under which the past four years have happened. They\u2019ve done more to inflict damage on the honor and integrity of U.S. elections than Vladimir Putin could have ever hoped to in his wildest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>So we have these stories. We have the big Politico story. We have the Financial Times, August 2016, reported Ukraine attempted to intervene in the U.S. election. Here\u2019s a pull quote. &#8220;The prospect of Mr. Trump, who has praised Ukraine\u2019s arch-enemy Vladimir Putin, becoming leader of the country\u2019s biggest ally has spurred not just Mr. Leshchenko but Kiev\u2019s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a US election.&#8221; There it is in the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/21\/media-acknowledged-ukrainian-election-meddling-until-it-hurt-their-impeachment-efforts\/\">Politico, January 11th, 2017<\/a>: &#8220;Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton\u2019s allies research damaging information on Trump, and his advisers.&#8221; The dossier, the Ukrainians helped Steele with the dossier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/21\/media-acknowledged-ukrainian-election-meddling-until-it-hurt-their-impeachment-efforts\/\">Financial Times, December 22nd, 2016<\/a> reported: &#8220;Russia used Ukrainian technology to hack the DNC server in the 2016 election. Based on the reporting, it appears the technology used to hack the election was operated in Eastern Ukraine.&#8221; I\u2019m reading from the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/21\/media-acknowledged-ukrainian-election-meddling-until-it-hurt-their-impeachment-efforts\/\">Politico February 23rd, 2017<\/a>, one month after Trump\u2019s inaugurated. Politico reported &#8220;a Ukrainian parliamentarian attempted to contact Manafort claiming to have politically damaging information about Manafort, as well as Trump.&#8221; And the New York Times December 12th, 2018, &#8220;Ukrainian courts ruled that releasing information to Manafort about the 2016 U.S. election was illegal interference.&#8221; The idea that Ukraine interfered has been documented one, two, three, four &#8212; six different Drive-By Media outlets. And here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd trying to tell John Kennedy, senator from Louisiana, that he\u2019s a cult idiot for believing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102119-Obama-Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102119-Obama-Hillary.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102119-Obama-Hillary-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, there\u2019s one more thing here. I just wanted to document this for you, folks, because CrowdStrike is at the center of this universe. Trump mentioning that word is what really lit the fire. It might have been Trump\u2019s request to investigate the Bidens, but I will guarantee you that in the deep, dark corridors of the Democrat leadership, it is Trump trying to get to the bottom of CrowdStrike with the help of Ukraine that has these people scurrying like rats off the sinking ship. Do not doubt me on this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Tuesday or Wednesday of last week, remember the story &#8212; the Drive-By Media put it out &#8211; it was supposed to be a killer story for Trump, supposed to just crush Trump, supposed to just be devastating for Trump. The story was that in the traditional meeting after the election of the new president with the current president &#8212; so it will be Trump with Obama &#8212; that after Trump left the meeting, that Obama told people Trump knows nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys gleefully reported this as Obama passing judgment on Trump\u2019s political acumen, on Trump\u2019s political intelligence, on Trump\u2019s policy understanding. They wanted you to believe that Obama was saying this guy is the biggest blithering idiot. He doesn\u2019t know anything about this job. He doesn\u2019t know anything about how this works. That is not what Obama was saying.<\/p>\n<p>What Obama was saying, Trump knows nothing, dot, dot, dot, about our operation to sabotage his campaign. Obama was assuring &#8212; \u2019cause it was well in place by then. The Obama intelligence community, the Obama DOJ, the Obama FBI and FBI Director Comey, these people had been at it trying to undermine Trump since before the summer of 2016. They had to be wondering if Trump had found out about any of this.<\/p>\n<p>My God, if I were running that operation, I\u2019d really want to know if it had been kept clandestine, if it had been kept under wraps, if I hadn\u2019t had any leaks about it. So here comes the guy who was the target of the operation to sabotage his campaign for a meeting with Obama, and Obama says, after it\u2019s over, &#8220;Trump knows nothing.&#8221; Is that how you would describe a political novice?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say somebody is applying for a job here. And they come in and they talk to me. I am the Mister Big. I am the grand pooh-bah. They gotta pass muster with me. So this guy comes in, we interview him, and he doesn\u2019t know a thing about radio, he doesn\u2019t know a thing about politics. Am I gonna call Mr. Snerdley and say, &#8220;Such and such knows nothing.&#8221; That\u2019s not how I would characterize it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy doesn\u2019t have the slightest idea what we do here. This guy doesn\u2019t know a thing about radio. This guy doesn\u2019t know a thing about politics.&#8221; That\u2019s how I would characterize it. But to say that such-and-such applicant knows nothing?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Chris somewhere in Virginia. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. Been a listener since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re a lifer. And I really appreciate your patience hanging on here too.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, no. You have every right, and you\u2019re absolutely right to be suspicious of &#8211; I guess you could say the attribution, as we say in the business, of hacks. There\u2019s a best practice that even an average hacker would use, and that is to set up the hack so that you look like you\u2019re from Russia, you look like you\u2019re from China, and there\u2019s a very good reason for that, because the FBI is the criminal investigation division. And as soon as they find out that the source server of the attack, say it was running in LA and a Russian owned or a Chinese owned data center, they\u2019ll hand it over to the NSA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091919-Russia-Hacking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091919-Russia-Hacking.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091919-Russia-Hacking-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Okay, wait, hold it just a minute. Nobody knows what you\u2019re talking about here except you and me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want you to hold on. Can you hold on for another couple of minutes during the break?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sure. Yeah, no problem.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And let me tell people what you\u2019re calling about. What Chris calling from somewhere in Virginia is telling me is that my intuition to doubt Russian meddling and hacking of the DNC server, and thus the election in 2016, is right on the money. And he\u2019s going to explain why my intuition, which is the first hour subject that I delved into, why that\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back now to Chris somewhere in Virginia. You are gonna explain why, and I assume you have some authority here. You sound like you\u2019re an authority on the subject. Why my suspicion here that this blanket belief we should have that Russia hacked and Russia meddled is not necessarily the case.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, I mean, as far as the credentials, I\u2019m a chief technology officer, been a chief information officer, you know, Fortune 1000 company, and I\u2019ve also played the role of chief information security officer over the 30 years of my career.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Gotcha. Okay. So you are versed, you are well versed in this, know what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m an expert.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m definitely an expert in the space.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I love people not afraid to say they\u2019re experts. Good.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Expertise is somewhat relative, there\u2019s no absolute, you know, but, yeah, there\u2019s people who know more, but I mean the big items are attribution, as I said earlier, of figuring out where something came from. It\u2019s very, very rare that you can know for sure. It\u2019s most likely that internal &#8212; 70% of the time or so, the threat or the hack has been an insider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-279567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071718-Hacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071718-Hacker.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-071718-Hacker-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>That\u2019s just general statistics, and it changes from year to year, but it\u2019s been about the same for 10, 15 years. But the best practice for all hackers that know what they\u2019re doing would be&#8230; In Los Angeles, there\u2019s a Chinese owned data center, does business in the United States. You can set up a server there for $110 a month.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You can download the (unintelligible) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, remember the CIA, the NSA got hacked and they lost a bunch of tools, and one of the tools, what you just mentioned, that you can plant &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; false evidence on a hack that makes it look like you\u2019re who you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Well, there\u2019s all sorts of software, I mean, you can be a 14-year-old that knows how to be a good video gamer and be a hacker is the truth. And so, yeah, I\u2019ve been through cases where&#8230; I was surprised last year. I went through&#8230; We were hacked, a few hundred thousand, you know, names or accounts, personal identifiable information went out. And it was originated out of this, you know, Chinese-owned data center, but of course anybody could set up a server there &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That was the Orchids of Asia Day Spa or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s so easy, it\u2019s so easy to do. And then the forensics were looked at, and I asked the forensic team if, you know, a bunch of experts, can you tell me definitively that this came from China? They said absolutely not. You can\u2019t know for sure. It\u2019s either somebody acting like they\u2019re from China or China. But what they don\u2019t know. And so, you know, the CIA&#8230; The big thing, though, that people need to understand is that there\u2019s an incentive to not (unintelligible) to pretend to be outside the United States as a hacker because the criminal investigation stops when it gets flipped over to the NSA &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Stop right there. Let me ask you a question, because you talked about my intuition. One of the primary reasons, Chris, that I have believed &#8212; or I should better say, I have not believed the story that the Russians hacked the DNC server is because they didn\u2019t let the FBI look at it, and the FBI didn\u2019t try.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI didn\u2019t demand to forensically examine the hacked server. Instead, they turn it over to CrowdStrike, and then whatever CrowdStrike said about it became gospel. But the lack of interest by the Obama FBI into the supposedly hacked DNC server is the biggest red flag in all of this to me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, well, I mean, actually, it\u2019s standard practice if you\u2019re attacked, as I understand, it\u2019s what the FBI told us, was once the hack is sourced by foreign actors outside the &#8212; they cease their investigation. It\u2019s handed over. It\u2019s now a counterintelligence investigation, which I guess the FBI does. That\u2019d be another &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what the investigation of Trump was. The Mueller investigation precisely was a counterintelligence investigation, by definition. They didn\u2019t have any crimes. So they do this counterintelligence investigation for a whole host of reasons that facilitates leaks from the intelligence community. You don\u2019t have to leak criminal behavior. You can leak intelligence-related stuff that does not have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You know, counterintelligence investigations do not produce crimes, by definition. That\u2019s why they\u2019re called counterintelligence. They\u2019re not looking for crimes. They\u2019re looking for intelligence that\u2019s then turned over to professional intelligence analysts to tell everybody what it means. But it\u2019s not a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>They used a counterintelligence investigation to make people think they were looking at a criminal investigation or observing one. No, no. You\u2019re exactly right. I really appreciate the call. 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