Hilarious Washington Post Story Documents Barack Obama’s Brave Struggle to Deal with Russian Hacking

RUSH: It’s 36 pages. It prints out on my printer (12-point font) to 36 pages. In a newspaper, 36 pages, and there’s nothing new in it! It’s incredible! It used to take me 25 minutes to mark this up. I finally, for the first time, used side by side on my laptop to do the markup … the Washington Post has this incredible story: Obama’s Brave Struggle to Stop Russia from Tampering with Our Election. Not a thing new in it!

It’s just written to make it look like it’s new.

… the Drive-Bys… It’s almost been pornography to watch them deal with this today. They think they are dealing with something brand new. They are praising the reporting at the Washington Post as some of the most phenomenal work that has been done ever to try to get to the bottom of the Russians helping Trump and sabotage the Democrats.

But it’s really about Obama’s brave struggle to stop the Russians from doing it, because Obama and Brennan and Clapper and Rice all knew it was happening. By the way, this is a central point. Any of this Russian hacking, whatever you want to believe about it, had to be happening during the Obama administration. Trump was just a candidate. So all of this… I mean, if the Russians succeeded — and I’m not conceding that they did; I’m just saying as a talking point here.

If the Russians succeeded (sigh) in getting into our electoral system and hacking things and this, it must have happened under the Obama administration. This Washington Post story is all about the brave struggle and the decisions the Obama people had to make. Do they go public with it? Do they cloud the minds of the American people? Do they frighten the American people by telling them what they know, or do they just issue threatening warnings to Putin and then roll the dice? It’s a brave struggle Obama undertook here to save the American electoral process.

But this story is like every other story on this. Page 25. May I read it to you? Thirty-six pages it prints out. Page 25: “Despite the dire warnings, there were no meltdowns in the United States’ voting infrastructure on Nov. 8, no evidence of hacking-related fraud, crashing of electronic ballots or manipulation of vote counts.” It’s 36 pages about how the Russians stole election, cheated, were doing all these things that Obama bravely trying to stop them.

Page 25: “Despite the dire warnings,” despite the meetings, despite the memos, despite the fears, “there were no meltdowns in the U.S. voting infrastructure. No evidence of hacking related fraud, crashing of electronic ballots or manipulation of vote counts.” So you ask: Then why did you people write the story? Of course, we know the answer to this. This is all about the keys to the kingdom. An outsider has found his way inside! You know, Trump’s the kind of guy, even on his best day they would not extend membership to him.

They are entitled, and nothing is more important than getting them back — including the country. They will do whatever needs to be done in the short term to get the keys to the kingdom. And, at the same time, they’re sending a message to any other would-be Trumps:

Do not try this.

They’re not gonna stop until they’ve extended every effort to destroy Donald Trump, to ruin Donald Trump. They’re not going to stop. There is a silent coup going on.

“A month later, Obama confronted Putin directly during a meeting of world leaders in Hangzhou, China. Accompanied only by interpreters, Obama told Putin that ‘we knew what he was doing and (he) better stop or else.’” (laughing) Gee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Well, it… This is the second attempt. The first time is when Obama told him, “Cut it out!” This time in China (laughing), Obama said — by the way, “accompanied only by interpreters.” You know, the importance of that is there was nobody else there that could leak this. I mean, this comes directly from Obama.

Accompanied only by interpreters, Obama told Putin that ‘we knew what [you’re] doing and [you] better stop or else,’ according to a senior aide who subsequently spoke with Obama. Putin responded by demanding proof and accusing the United States of interfering in Russia’s internal affairs.” That’s it! That’s Obama’s brave struggle to get the Russians to stop what we know you’re doing. The next paragraph reads like… (laughing) “Obama’s approach…” Let me read this like an NPR narrator. (impression) “Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse.

“As brazen as the Russian attacks on the election seemed, Obama and his top advisers feared that things could get far worse. They were concerned that any pre-election response could provoke an escalation from Putin. Moscow’s meddling to that point was seen as deeply concerning but unlikely to materially affect the outcome of the election. Far more worrisome to the Obama team was the prospect of a cyber-assault on voting systems before and on Election Day. They also worried that any action they took would be perceived as political interference in an already volatile campaign.

“By August, Trump was predicting that the election would be rigged. Obama officials feared providing fuel to such claims, playing into Russia’s efforts to discredit the outcome and potentially contaminating the expected Clinton triumph.” Folks, the buildup to this was that it was the worst thing that ever happened in American espionage. This was the crime of the century what the Russians were doing. Obama knew all about it brave struggle to stop it and decided not to do anything other than to tell Putin to “cut it out” because he was afraid that going public with this before the election would somehow be said to be interfering.

That’s not why they didn’t go public with it!

They didn’t go public with it because they thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide and they didn’t want to taint that. Thirty-six pages.

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