{"id":348920,"date":"2020-05-15T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348920"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:02:25","slug":"marie-harf-perpetuates-the-russia-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/15\/marie-harf-perpetuates-the-russia-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Harf Perpetuates the Russia Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to start with some audio sound bites from last night. I happened to be watching Fox News. And we\u2019ve just learned this week, because of the release of transcripts from the committee hearings that were chaired by Adam Schiff<\/a>, we\u2019ve just learned that all these Clinton people, Obama people, Clapper, Brennan, and all, that were running around claiming Trump colluded and they had evidence of it, Trump was a Russian agent, all of it was lies.<\/p>\n

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They were testifying under oath that they\u2019d never seen any of it, they\u2019d never seen any evidence, they had no knowledge whatsoever that Trump colluded with Russia on anything. So, it was all lies, public lies. And then we learned later that the CSO of CrowdStrike<\/a> — now, remember, CrowdStrike, a private sector firm that the DNC hired to forensically examine the server that was supposedly hacked by the Russians.<\/p>\n

Whenever anybody expressed curiosity or doubt over the allegation that the Russians meddled in the election, the answer was always they hacked the DNC server. That\u2019s what it was. That\u2019s the Russian meddling right there. They hacked the DNC server. And some of the emails in that server from John Podesta and Hillary Clinton and so forth ended up in WikiLeaks and all that.<\/p>\n

Well, we also learned that the CSO of CrowdStrike testified under oath that he had no idea who hacked that server. Not only that, he didn\u2019t even know if it had been hacked from outside. In fact, it looked like it hadn\u2019t been hacked. It looked like that it was an inside job of getting data off of that server at very rapid transfer speeds like happens when you\u2019re downloading or dumping to a thumb drive. Much faster speeds than you would get over an internet connection. So, the entire story was blown to smithereens this week.<\/p>\n

Now, you as regular listeners here have known for three years what BS this all was. So, all this stuff this week was was confirmation for you. But to a lot of people the Russians colluded, Trump helped \u2019em, Trump was a traitor, Trump was illegitimate, the election was illegitimate. A lot of people in America believed it and probably still do, to a certain extent.<\/p>\n

But the point is that everything publicly stated about it is a lie. Everything publicly stated has now been documented to be untrue, including this assertion that the Russians hacked the DNC server. Remember Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz, who was at the time the chairman of the DNC wouldn\u2019t even let the FBI see the server. They wanted to forensically examine it to find out what the hell happened.<\/p>\n

She said, no, you can\u2019t see it, and the FBI said, oh, okay, and went away. Then they hired CrowdStrike. And again, CrowdStrike CSO testifies under oath he had no idea who hacked the DNC server, found no evidence the Russians did it. We\u2019ve learned this this week. It\u2019s been all over the news this week. Now, it hasn\u2019t been all over CNN, and it hasn\u2019t been all over the New York Times. Which means it hasn\u2019t been all over, but those outfits are not really news. They\u2019re left-wing activist organizations disguised as journalists.<\/p>\n

This is just a lesson in how this stuff all works. The lies have been blown to smithereens. The truth has now been revealed. And even before you get to any of this, let\u2019s not forget that the great white knight, Robert J. Mueller the 19th, the guy that was gonna find evidence that Trump had done all this dirty stuff with the Russians, said, nah, after two years of a bogus investigation it was unnecessary. Nope, can\u2019t find anything. It was an attempted coup.<\/p>\n

But I want to show you with a couple sound bites how this stuff nevertheless gets perpetuated. Marie Harf was on Fox last night with Martha MacCallum. We got two bites. I watched this and I was screaming at the TV. I got hold of Cookie. I said, “I want these two bites.” It made me livid. Marie Harf. She was in the State Department during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

So the question, “There was a lot of shock, there was a lot of surprise that Hillary Clinton had indeed lost the election, that Donald Trump was elected. Was there concern, Ms. Harf, that the Russia policy was gonna be changed dramatically under the Trump administration?” The question is, were you all in the Obama outgoing administration worried that the Russians were going to co-opt the Trump administration?<\/p>\n

HARF: For months, we had seen a hostile foreign country, the Russians, interfere in our election. They stole emails. They hacked into servers.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Stop the tape. They did no such thing. We learned this week they did no such thing. And there she is either purposefully lying or ignorantly continuing with the narrative that they have established. “For months we had seen a hostile foreign country, the Russians, interfere in our election –” Nope. No, no, no, no, no.<\/p>\n

There still isn\u2019t any evidence that they did anything above and beyond what they normally do. The Russians had not one iota\u2019s impact on the outcome of the election, not one. We don\u2019t even know that it was the Russians who hacked the server. And yet here she is — cue that back up to the top — here she is saying, “They stole emails; they hacked into servers.” Here, listen to the whole bite. I\u2019ll try to shut up during the whole thing, but it\u2019s really hard.<\/p>\n

HARF: For months, we had seen a hostile foreign country, the Russians, interfere in our election. They stole emails. They hacked into servers. They put them out at politically convenient times. And so we had seen months and months of this. And we were very disturbed by it. You saw intelligence information coming in that showed that there had possibly been some Americans who had been in contact with them, possibly in coordination with them.<\/p>\n

And so the counterintelligence investigation that was done at the time was not about Russia policy; it wasn\u2019t about the fact that Hillary Clinton lost. It was about the fact that we were a country under attack and there were real concerns and real evidence that there were possibly some Americans who had been helping them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s not a syllable of that that is true. Now, her claim here about what the purpose of the counterintelligence investigation was: “[W]e were a country under attack and there were real concerns and real evidence that there were possibly some Americans who had been helping them.” There isn\u2019t any evidence that anybody, particularly the Trump administration, had been helping the Russians.<\/p>\n

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If anybody had been working with the Russians, it was Democrats from the Hillary campaign. But this is just a classic illustration of how a false narrative and a series of lies get established and they continue despite being blown to smithereens. Everything this woman said in this sound bite is demonstrably false, is nowhere close to being true.<\/p>\n

“You saw intelligence information coming in that showed that there had possibly been some Americans who had been in contact with [the Russians], possibly in coordination with them.” Well, they tried to make that stick with people like George Papadopoulos. But… (Snort!) It was all made up. All this was, was an investigation hoping to be able to create a crime. They wanted to be able to create a crime, the FBI and whoever else, Brennan and Clapper who were trying to sustain this.<\/p>\n

Now, again, I don\u2019t know Marie Harf. I don\u2019t know whether she literally believes this or is she knowingly lying. It could go either way. There\u2019s one more question she was asked. “Well, unfortunately, Marie, they didn\u2019t have any evidence that any Americans were helping the Russians. There was months of Russian interference going on. If Obama was so concerned about what he saw, why did he wait \u2019til after the election to slap these sanctions on the Russians?”<\/p>\n

HARF: We certainly raised it privately with the Russians while it was happening. President Obama has said that. So has John Brennan and others. But we were very concerned that if we publicly slapped the Russians while it was going on in an aggressive way, that they would actually take further steps. And I should point out that before the election, we did announce that we had determined that the Russians had done some of the hacking. We did put a lot of the information out there. But the — the fact remains that there was some evidence, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

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HARF: We talked about Michael Flynn a lot, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop it. Now you get into Flynn. Now you\u2019re totally lying. There\u2019s no evidence, Marie. There never has been any evidence. The only question is, are you this dupable or are you in on the conspiracy to spread this caca? It just gets worse and worse and worse. But I\u2019m only pointing this out to illustrate how no matter what truth is revealed, no matter what set of lies is exposed as fraud, they still live on.<\/p>\n

This is why I say I don\u2019t think you should ever believe these people. I think the odds are whenever you read the New York Times or see Marie Harf say something, the default reaction ought to be not to believe it. Let\u2019s go back. She talked about Obama slapping sanctions on the Russians, talking to the Russians. We certainly did tell the Russians to stop it.<\/p>\n

This is when Obama said he got hold of Putin and said, “You better stop it. You better stop it right now.” But here\u2019s the truth of the matter. This is Obama on October 18, 2016 (this is before the election) and he\u2019s in the Rose Garden with the Italian prime minister, a joint press conference, and a Reuters correspondent said (paraphrased), “Donald Trump is telling his supporters the election\u2019s rigged.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s asking them to monitor certain areas on Election Day. How concerned are you, O\u2019Deity? 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? Are you worried the Russians are going to affect the outcome?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: [T]here is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even… you could even rig America\u2019s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.<\/p>\n