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Jan. 19, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2017, Thursday, Hour #2
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Every more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair each and every day here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I'm going to have to get used to it.
I just saw a picture of Trump and his wife, Melania, the lovely and gracious Melania, at the top of the stairs, getting off the airplane at Joint Base Andrews.
And wow, this is a different picture than we've had in the past eight years.
Obviously, it takes some time to get used to it.
Not much, but – and it was a tweet.
He was thanking everybody and his family.
He says, we're going to make America great again.
As he's at the top of the stairs, getting ready to de-plane and head over to the Trump International Hotel, which the drive-bys are trying to tell us a conflict of interest for Trump to stay in his own hotel.
It's an unfair advantage in the other hotels in town.
Folks, I don't know another word.
Unhinged is the best word other than saying insane.
Deluded.
Here, grab audio soundbite number four.
This is the Senate Finance Committee, and the confirmation hearings for Trump's Treasury Secretary are underway there.
Steve Mnuchin is his name.
And Pat Roberts, Republican from Kansas, the chairman of the committee, he's having an exchange here with Senator Sherrod Brown.
Is it Sherrod or Sherrod?
How does he pronounce it?
Do you know?
He's got two R's in there, so I would think it's Sherrod.
If it was UnR, you'd say Sherrod.
But hell, who knows how he pronounces it?
I got in trouble once commenting about this guy and his name, so I'm just going to leave it at trying to pronounce it both ways.
You do remember that?
You know, Snerdley is really egging me on here to get to these frontline soundbites.
He says, look, if you don't play them all, he says, I know there's 11.
If you don't play them all, could you post them at rushlimbaugh.com?
I said, I think we can do that.
I mean, not all of them are, I mean, they're all good, but I mean, not all of them are top drawer, but they all make the point.
Well, we'll get to some of them here in a minute.
I really have this political story that I want to share with you.
I think this, it's the only honest assessment of the Democrats I've seen anywhere.
But the point about it is, if this story is accurate about the Democrats being quoted and told, they know the deep doo-doo they're in, which makes their behavior even more suspect.
If they know what kind of trouble they're in, I mean, in the future, electoral trouble.
They don't have numbers.
They don't have a bench.
They don't have, they have lost.
They're not even a national party.
They're looking at two generations of being in the minority, and two generations of not being able to name a Supreme Court justice.
And they know it, which makes all this behavior of theirs even more profound because it means it's on purpose.
They're acting childish and insane on purpose because they know that's what they have to do to fundraise and to maintain connection with their base.
And I will look.
I will acknowledge that many of them don't have to act.
Many of them are genuinely loony tunes anyway.
I mean, they know that they're in a roadrunner cartoon and that they are wild ecoyote.
But here, just listen, this is a classic.
This is a back and forth between Pat Roberts and Sherrod Sherrod Brown, Democrat Ohio.
And Orrin Hatch will pop in here, too.
I just have an observation.
Senator Wyden, I've got a volume pill here that you might want to take before the second round.
Just a suggestion, sir.
Mr. Chairman, I hope that that comment about volume doesn't set the tone for 2017 in this committee.
I like Senator Roberts, but I just can't quite believe that he would say that to a distinguished senator from Oregon.
I said that to the President of the United States at one time.
Perhaps you did.
But I would hope that that doesn't set the tone for the session.
Mr. Chairman, I sit on the ground.
I have the time.
The relationship we're building is so different from this.
I have the time.
This is just outrageous.
I don't know about outrageous, but I think just a little pinprick of humor might help this committee from time to time, which I engage in.
I'm sorry if I have incurred your wrath, sir.
Pat Roberts, take a volume.
You people on the Democrat side, take a volume.
I really hope that doesn't set the tone for this coming session of 2007.
That was Sherrod Sherrod Brown who was reacting that way.
So, I mean, folks, it's just delectable.
Let's go back to Soundbite 2 and 3.
I mentioned we had Sean Spicer.
He's a new White House press secretary.
I'll give you a chance to hear him in action.
This was this morning.
And in this bite, the drive-bys are outraged.
There's not a Hispanic in Trump's cabinet.
The question is from NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker.
Your list of cabinet picks is the first since 1988 that doesn't include any Hispanics.
What do you say to Hispanic groups who are concerned about that?
And more broadly, among the criticism, that this undercuts President-elect Trump's argument that he's here to serve all Americans.
This is the kind of mealy-mouth, inconsequential irrelevance that they're known for.
This identity politics crap.
Well, he didn't have an Hispanic in the cabinet.
What does that mean for Trump's message?
And he's for everybody.
Well, anyway, here's how Spicer answered the question.
The number one thing that I think Americans should focus on is: is he hiring the best and the brightest?
Is he hiring people who are committed to enacting real change, respecting taxpayers, bringing about an agenda that will create jobs, lift up wages?
And I think that what you're seeing and you're going to continue to see, not just through the cabinet, but through the entire thing, is a diversity in gender, a diversity of thinking, and a diversity of ideology.
Wow, you mean so diversity is not just skin color?
Cool.
You mean diversity is not just surface things.
You mean diversity, not just ethnicity or race.
Yeah.
Diversity also includes gender thinking.
Ideology.
What difference does it make?
This is the kind of thing that's really kept this country back, this kind of political correctness.
What difference does it make?
The idea that somehow Hispanics are going to be slighted because there's not one in the cabinet?
It's absurd.
But this is the kind of politically correct thinking that the Democrats have successfully foisted on this country and have people distracted and have taken us away from the whole concept of merit-based achievement.
What they would say, you know what they would say to me?
But then, Mr. Lindborough, are you saying that in order to get the best and brightest, he couldn't have a Hispanic?
No, I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just saying because he doesn't have one doesn't make him anything of a racist or a reprobate, doesn't make him a discrimination expert, doesn't make him a discriminator, nothing.
It doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't mean that he doesn't like Hispanics.
It doesn't mean anything at all.
There are going to be Hispanics throughout his administration.
But this is how they try to frame things, establish narratives, portray Republicans as bigots.
And I actually think, you know, this behavior, I had somebody say to me that this back and forth between Pat Roberts and Sherrod Sherrod Brown over taking a volume person said they were just making fools of themselves.
You know, my instinctive reaction was, yeah, that doesn't matter.
They get away with it.
But they don't really.
And this is the great reality of the 2016 election.
All these past eight years and maybe even longer, I'll admit I've been under the impression, and I'm sure many of you have too, that whatever imbalanced, unhinged, deranged, mean-spirited, whatever oddball behavior by the Democrats, they got away with it.
They were never held accountable, never called on the carpet for it.
They were never ever penalized by their hypocrisy.
What we didn't know was that all of these years, a majority of the American people have been paying attention, have been disapproving of it, and given the first chance to actually vote for somebody that had no part of it, they did.
So I am of the opinion that if people see now, for example, a videotape of this back and forth, and not just this confirmation hearing, but these Democrats are being childish and immature and whiny and baby-ish in every one of these confirmation hearings.
Now, in the past, I've always assumed that low-information voters just let Democrats have a pass because they had been so programmed to believe that Republicans and conservatives are mean and extremists and racist bigots, sexists, that the Democrats will get away with anything.
It obviously is not the case.
But the knee-jerk reaction is still to think the Democrats get away with it.
But I think when they engage in activity that makes them look silly, it's not just me now thinking so and realizing.
I think all across America, they are making themselves look ridiculous.
And I welcome it.
I think it's finally, it's good that these people are decomposing and they're falling apart right in front of everybody's eyes.
I don't have to tell people who the Democrats are.
They are demonstrating it.
They are demonstrating their closed-mindedness, their unfairness, their unwillingness, their lack of devotion to Democratic ideals.
They're demonstrating all of this by refusing to show up at the inauguration.
Same thing with all these musicians and performers.
They think they're scoring points by not doing it.
They're not.
They are not helping themselves.
All these years, we've thought these people were actually helping themselves.
They're not.
They're making fools of themselves.
And in the case of the majority of Americans, that is the conclusion.
Otherwise, Trump wouldn't have won, folks.
So let them keep behaving this way.
I'm going to have fun continuing to categorize, but let them keep going.
The press was just kicked out of Trump's luncheon.
Really?
Well, now, I am watching.
I haven't seen that on the TV.
Of course, I've been in the midst of this prime monologue.
Well, did something happen to cause Trump to kick him out or did it just what coverage?
That's a point.
I didn't see any come.
What network?
What network?
I have, well, Fox doesn't say that.
CNN doesn't say that.
They're still talking about Mnuchin appearance.
Anyway, we'll follow up on this.
I'll find out.
Apparently, Trump has just kicked the press out of whatever luncheon he was having today.
I don't know if they did something to cause Trump to do that or if he just didn't want them in there to begin with.
But at any rate, now, this whole idea about the Hispanics in the cabinet, I think in the old days, they could harm Romney with a question like this.
They can harm George W. Bush.
And they could make Bush and Romney and other Republicans go out and do this kind of window dressing stuff.
But it wouldn't make the press like them anymore.
It wouldn't make the press respect them anymore.
It never did work out that way.
And Trump's continuing to be in their face.
Here's the next Spicer soundbite.
He continued that answer with this.
What's a shame right now is to see some of those individuals who we would call consensus candidates, people like Secretary Elaine Chao, Ben Carson, Nikki Haley, suddenly not be part of Senator Schumer's list that he will work with us to get done on day one.
It's disappointing.
This was not the precedent that was set by Senate Republicans when they worked with the Obama administration in 2008 to ensure that President Obama, despite political differences, got the cabinet of his choosing because they were qualified individuals.
Do you know that seven of Obama's cabinet picks were chosen the first day?
They were confirmed the first day.
Seven.
The Republicans were so eager to show their ability to cooperate with the first black president, and they made sure that nobody saw them as agents of opposition.
And Spicer is exactly right here.
It is a shame to see the Democrats hold up all of these confirmation hearings simply for the politics of it when they don't have the numbers to defeat any of these people.
And here's Elaine Chow, she minority, ethnic.
Here's Ben Carson.
He's African American.
Nikki Haley, she's in the liberal world.
All of these people are ethnic minorities.
We don't look at them that way, but they do.
And here are the Democrats standing in their way, providing obstacle after obstacle to their confirmation.
There's nothing wrong with these people.
They're doing it just because they can't handle what happened to them.
And Spicer is correctly pointing out that Schumer said that he was going to work with Senate Republicans to get all these people confirmed because that's what the Republicans did for Obama.
Anyway, there's no changing who the Democrats are.
There's no altering their behavior.
They have charted their course and they're on a boat to nowhere.
The dirty little secret is, as you will learn in a moment, well, before the program ends, they know it.
We'll be back.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, El Rushboard.
It's a leadership lunch Trump was at.
Cabinet members, congressional leadership.
It was basically a rah-rah rally.
And there was somebody with a cell phone there and pool coverage, and they ended up walking out.
Best I can determine here.
I don't think anybody was kicked out.
I don't know that the press was not supposed to be there or okay to be there.
I have a transcript of what happened.
The audio of it is cell phone audio from a distance.
It's very, very difficult to hear it, but there's nothing to it.
It's just Trump acknowledging these people and talking how great they are and his appreciation for how great they've been during testimony, how much help they've been during the campaign.
And just going out down the list of Republicans from Ryan and I don't know if Ryan was there, but McConnell and mainly his cabinet picks.
And something happened that the video feed of it ended.
But I can't find anything controversial about that.
But I'm in the midst of it here and don't have that much time to look at it.
If there's anything to this, you can count on the fact that we'll find out about it and let you know.
In the meantime, Renee in Butte, Montana, welcome.
You're next on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's certainly an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Yeah.
I wanted to comment on CNN's reporting yesterday, I believe it was, about President-elect being assassinated.
I believe that was their way of manipulating and encouraging all the fruitcapes out there to assassinate Trump without coming out and directly saying it.
You really do.
I really do.
You think they were actually trying to inspire, encourage somebody out there to try to assassinate Trump without saying those words.
Why else would they say that?
There's no other reason.
I mean, what an ignorant thing to concoct.
Well, look, I understand, and they're continuing to push the story.
I mean, here's, this is from this morning at 3.28.
I mean, the story ran initially last night in prime time.
And here's a 3.28 a.m. update.
Designated survivor from Obama cabinet to sit out inauguration in case of tragedy.
When Donald Trump is sworn in Friday, a group of civil servants you've never heard of will likely be running some of the country's most critical cabinet posts, at least temporarily.
And this story is about what would happen if the unthinkable happens.
Who would be president?
Now, I understand what you, I think it is the height of irresponsibility.
What CNN's going to hide behind, what they're going to say is, no, no, no, no, it's a legitimate story.
It's a legitimate story.
I mean, you have to admit, CNN would say.
These are heightened times.
There's much stress, a lot of tension, many, many security threats out there.
It's an entirely legitimate question to ask.
What would happen if the unthinkable happened?
And then somebody would say, don't you think maybe you're trying to further the notion in the minds of the insane and the deranged out here to give them some sort of...
No, you can't accuse us of that.
This is a legitimate news story.
We're just doing a story on what is the line of succession should the unthinkable happen.
But you don't think doing this story is sort of a dog whistle to some of the lunatic insane people out there that would like?
No, no, no.
You know, we really resent you accusing us of this.
And that would be their line of defense.
But your question, why do it?
Well, speculation.
Because I don't know anybody at CNN.
Well, I do.
Actually, I know one person at CNN.
But I haven't talked to him in a long time.
So I can't claim to know what goes on over there.
But I don't think it'd be a stretch to conclude that, how to phrase this, some of them might be harboring hope that something happened.
Or if that's a little too brutal for you, let me rephrase it and say, there are probably some people over there who wouldn't be all that upset.
And in fact, there are probably a lot of people over there who think it'd be a great story.
Oh, man, would we love to break that story?
Oh, wow, would we love to cover that story?
I can understand your suspicion.
That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life.
Let me go where no man will go.
I alone will take the arrows on this.
In the first place, this luncheon in Washington, it's closed to the media.
Obama did these all the times.
It was a Republican leadership lunch, congratulatory type thing.
No news being made in this.
It's closed to the media.
I don't know if the media was in there.
I still can't figure out what happened.
It doesn't matter.
Somebody in there recorded it with a cell phone.
It might have been one of the Republicans.
Somebody had their cell phone up recording it, and I still can't figure out if media snuck in there and they were kicked out, but it was closed to the media.
It's not a big deal.
I want to go back to CNN's story because we just had a woman on the phone who said she thinks this is about trying to create that behavior that would result in harm coming to Trump.
And I have to tell you, folks, if we go back, if you look at Black Lives Matter, I mean, they constantly were doing things to inspire protests.
They wanted hell, fire, and damnation to descend on various people at certain times at various events.
What reason could there be for doing a story like this?
I mean, does it not demonstrate what somebody at CNN is thinking?
What if Trump can't be sworn in?
What if something happens and Trump, well, what would that something be?
Somebody at CNN had to come up with the idea, had to pitch it to somebody and say, yeah, yeah, great.
Maybe they all came up with the idea at the same time since they all think alike.
You can speculate on what their motivation would be, but there's no denying here why they're doing the story.
And it's not because people are clamoring to know what the line of succession is if the president-elect doesn't get sworn in.
Now, people on the left maybe want to know that.
The people who don't like Trump maybe want to know that.
And they may be holding out hope.
Maybe the purpose of the story was to find out if there's some way they can keep Obama in office.
I think that might have been involved in the germination of this.
Gosh, is there a way?
Is there a way that Obama wouldn't have to leave?
I mean, like, yeah, like, what if, well, what if, what if somebody attacks Trump?
What if Trump can't take the oath?
What happens?
Does it mean Obama gets to stay?
I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's where this whole thing started.
But it's, it's, it's, folks, it's hard to deny.
I mean, they're doing a story on what happens if Trump's not sworn in.
If there's an elephant in the room and we're looking at it, and the elephant in a room is the elephant.
By the way, there is a little history that we can fall back on.
You remember when after the election, Trump ditched the press to go have dinner with his family at the 21 Club in Manhattan?
What was the AP's complaint?
The AP actually said they were there in case there was an assassination attempt like there was on Reagan.
They have to have somebody assigned to cover the body, meaning that the president means we need somebody on the body.
Body coverage means somebody has constantly got eyes on the president, whoever it is, in case the unbelievable, the unacceptable, the untoward happens.
And this was their complaint.
What if somebody had taken a shot at Trump?
What if somebody had, and we weren't there, we weren't there?
That's not fair.
He can't ditch us this way.
And that was their concern.
What if something had happened to Trump and we weren't there?
So my point is, you know what's at the back of their minds.
So it was November 16th, AP.
Trump ditches media, the public's eyes and ears again.
And it's from the article.
So the White House depends on having journalists nearby at all times to relay the president's first comments on breaking news.
A pool of reporters and photographers was in the motorcade when JFK was shot and killed in Dallas.
The pool was just steps away from President Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel.
Yeah, but they didn't do stories about it before it happened.
JFK goes to Dallas.
Gee, what'll happen if he's assassinated?
I'll tell you, it didn't take him long to get in gear to blame it on the right wing, even though a communist was the shooter.
Okay, popular demand requests, emails are coming in.
We're going to start here with the audio sound bites from the second half of a four-hour documentary on PBS Frontline last night.
The first two hours were Tuesday night.
Then the last two hours were last night.
And I am all over this.
I am constantly in this documentary.
In the episode that aired last night, I, your host, am accused of essentially ruining the Obama presidency and ruining the Republican establishment.
I am blamed for taking them all out.
But the real problem with all that is that I set the stage for Trump, who, while all this was going on, and you'll hear him say, meanwhile, Donald Trump was in Trump Tower, studying thousands of hours of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was in Trump Tower.
As though he's in there in some dark rooms, sneaking around, lurking and studying tapes, plotting and conspiring to take over the world.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was in Trump Tower, taking it all in, plotting strategy to destroy everything we've built.
So let's get started here.
This is the first bite.
And they start off recapping part one.
So you're the narrator talking about Obama's first two years in office.
In his first year, he faced unexpected populist anger from what was called the Tea Party for healthcare reform, Wall Street bailouts, and Obama himself.
How about being able to call half the country racist?
What's that going to do for your fundraising?
They use me this way throughout the show.
So, can you all hear this?
Well, I've got a transcript and can follow it.
There's a lot of, I hear a lot of noise.
The narrator says, in his first year, he faced unexpected populist anger from what was called the Tea Party over health care reform, Wall Street bailouts, and Obama himself.
And then they cut to me, hey, how about being able to call half the country racist?
What that's going to do for your fundraising.
Okay, the next bite.
Paul Ryan, this is Paul Ryan took on Obama, backed by a chorus of voices on conservative talk radio.
One of their first jobs would be to get behind a tough new budget that would radically change the size and scope of the American government.
It was written by Cantor's friend, Congressman Paul Ryan, and was called the Ryan Budget.
Ryan is no doubt an upcoming star.
Backing Ryan and the Tea Party class, a chorus of voices on conservative talk radio and websites.
Clearly threatened by him, just as they are threatened by Sarah Palin and the others.
It's laughably funny here.
This is paranoia.
I'm not going to try to disabuse them of their notion.
The Ryan budget?
There was never a Ryan.
There's an Obama budget.
One of their first jobs would be to get behind a tough new budget that would radically change the size and scope of the American government.
It was written by Cantor's friend.
Knows how dramatic, dramatic and dark, deeply dark these conspiratorial Republican efforts are to sabotage Barack Obama.
And then Obama gave the speech where he ripped in to Paul Ryan.
And again, they include my reaction.
Listen carefully.
As the White House staff gathered Washington's A-list, they made an error.
They accidentally invited Paul Ryan and gave him a front row seat.
Ryan was deeply offended by having been put into that position.
And his Republican friends were even more angry.
That was a personal bitch slap.
Pre-looking.
The Republicans were outraged.
A personal bitch slap.
But did you hear this?
They accidentally invited Paul Ryan and gave him a front row seat.
Accidentally put somebody in the front row?
Accidentally, they had a, it was purposeful.
This what?
That's why I called it a bitch slap.
This was Obama shooting Ryan down between the eyes in the front row, belittling him and telling him who's running the show and who's boss, who won and who lost.
And these clowns try to tell us that the White House goofed up and accidentally invited Ryan and gave him a front row seat.
Meanwhile, while all of this was going on, Donald Trump was in Trump Tower, listening and plotting and calculating.
In New York City, a political outsider was watching and listening.
This election was about defeating Obama.
It was about stopping Obama.
It was about stopping the Democrats.
It was not about Donald Trump until a vacuum in which he could step into and have some kind of influence.
Trump saw an opportunity.
The real estate developer and reality TV star was looking for a way to raise his political profile.
Back to this birther business for just a second.
If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding it?
I love this.
The way they take things I'm saying out of context and they throw it into the context they want to use.
I'm not complaining, folks.
I'm loving it.
I am eating it up.
So we've got plot.
Plotting over by turn.
Now, this is not Trump's presidential campaign.
Well, it is, but nobody knows that.
Trump is now plotting his birther movement.
Meanwhile, a populist businessman is in Trump Tower.
Plotting.
Here, the next bite, thanks to Rush Limbaugh, the Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling, and this put the nation in peril.
That spring in Washington, the president had a more pressing problem.
We do not need to raise the debt ceiling.
There is no crisis.
This is stimulus all over again.
It's just TARP all over again.
This is the same lie repeated over and over again.
The same attempt to make you think your country is coming to a screeching halt and is ending.
With time running out, the president decided to act.
He'd reach out directly to the ultimate insider, the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
He had to act.
Limbaugh was taking too much control of the process while not even a member.
Limbaugh was correctly telling his listeners that the debt ceiling is simply a phony number that could be moved at any time.
Anyway, I have to take a break here, folks, programming format clock and everything, but there's more.
If you want to hear it, we'll be back.
Hey, let me ask you a question.
Let's say Ted Turner goes in.
I know he doesn't own it anymore, but he founded it, and he's still a big guy.
Ted Turner goes into CNN.
And while Ted Turner is there, some terrorist group launches an attack on CNN and wipes the building out and everybody in it, including Ted Turner.
Who would replace Ted Turner in that scenario?
Well, it's a legitimate question.
I mean, people want a right to know.
You know, what would happen if something, who would run it?
Who would take him out?
Why are you offended by you telling me you're offended by that?
Oh, you think they're going to be coming after me on that?
Oh, ignoring what they've done.
You may be right.
Here is Scott in Los Angeles.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
How are you doing?
Doing great, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
One day away from making America great.
Again, yes.
Yes, again.
Okay, so a famous Democrat said, never let a crisis go to waste.
That's right.
That would be Ram Emmanuel.
Ram Emmanuel, with all the talk of Russian hacking, I think that a perfect solution to this is to say that there is only one way to prevent Russians or anybody else in the future from ever hacking or meddling with our elections again.
And that one way is mandatory voter ID.
You know, it's fascinating you mentioned this.
It is fascinating that of all the things, this Russian hacking, first, thank you very much, Scott.
I appreciate it.
Let me tell you why this is fascinating to me.
In the first place, the Russians did not hack the vote.
And there's not a single person has ever said they did.
The conventional wisdom is in Washington, you have to say, apparently, for some reason, you have to admit, you have to acknowledge.
The Russians did tamper.
Oh, yes.
We all agree.
The Russians tampered.
Really?
Yeah, well, what'd they do?
Well, they hacked.
Yeah, hacked what?
Well, DNC server.
Okay, what did they do that had anything to do with votes?
What did the Russians do if, I mean, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote?
Shouldn't they be thanking the Russians on the Democrat side?
What more can the Russians do but get her the popular vote?
Yes, but Hillary lost the Electoral College.
Yeah, well, I mean, who knows in advance what you got to do to make that happen?
There's nobody, nobody, don't doubt me, nobody is alleging the Russians hacked the vote.
They want you to think it.
They are saying it in such a way they want you and every low-information voter to think the Russians stole the election.
They're trying to engrave that narrative on that whole election.
But Obama gave his swan song press conversation.
You know what he said at this press conference?
This is the most incredible thing.
He said, the reason that we are the only country among advanced countries to make it harder to vote traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery.
There is an ugly history to voting rights that we should not be shy about talking about.
He went on to blame it on voter ID.
The president of the United States had the audacity to say the United States of America is the hardest democracy in the world to vote in.
That's just tantamount not true.
That's total BS.
And they want to lay this at the blame of voter ID.
Somehow that stands in the way of fair elections.
And the reason is because that's how they cheat, folks.
Voter ID prevents dead people voting.
It prevents people voting twice and three times under different fake identifications.
But for the president to say, the reason that we are the only country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote traces back to Jim Crow and slavery?
Everybody's talking about the sycophantic comments they made about the media.
This is outrageous.
How many voting rights acts do we have?
How complicated and confusing have we made it?
All on a premise that black people and minorities are denied the right to vote and they are not.
Nobody is.
The Democrats have made it easy for there to be fraud and multiple votes multiple times.
Voter ID would clean it up.
That enraged me when I heard that yesterday at his press conference.
Back in just a second.
Obama said yesterday, there's a whole bunch of people out there who are going out there and they want to vote and they're not eligible.
We have people who are eligible to vote who don't vote because it's too hard.
What an absolute crock.
Somehow we got lots of people who want to vote, but they can't.
They've got restrictions on them.
Like what?
I mean, this frosts me.
Just hang on.
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