Obama’s Russian Ruse

 When Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump in 2016, it was not only a slap in the face to an imperious woman who believed she was a shoo-in for the presidency, but also a repudiation of everything Barack Obama had done to destroy America since he officially entered politics in 2004.  The 2016 plan was for Obama to pass the baton to Clinton, who would administer the deathblow to a nation the left has attempted to ‘fundamentally transform” for decades.

Trump was elected because he promised to reverse Obama’s socialist Marxist legacy, and thin-skinned, conceited Obama couldn’t allow that.  The pain of Trump’s victory hit so hard that we are now finding out that it was Obama who decided that the American people, stupid plebs that we are, needed to be overruled.  Whether or not he believed Trump’s victory was valid or not, either way, Obama wanted Trump demeaned, and the voters who put him in office humiliated for picking someone so critical of his leftist policies.

Thus, Obama was determined to delegitimize Trump.  One way to accomplish that goal was to exploit his testosterone-fueled Russian nemesis — the guy Skinny Legs wouldn’t let use the gym at the 2013 G8 Summit in Northern Ireland.

The problem with the former president’s strategy was that the vengeful narcissist’s own Department of Intelligence consistently found that Russia was “probably not trying to ... influence [the election] by using cyber means.”  Based on newly released information, on December 7, 2016, just one month after Trump won the election, the then–director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated clearly that “foreign adversaries did not use cyber-attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US presidential election outcome.”

A declassified copy of a December 8, 2016 presidential daily brief was recently released by Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of National Intelligence.  The brief, prepared for Obama by the Department of Homeland Security, with reporting from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, National Security Agency, DHS, State Department, and open sources, stated,

We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure. Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states.

It was Obama’s people who found that although cyber-criminals “tried to steal data and to interrupt election processes by targeting election infrastructure ... these actions did not achieve a notable disruptive effect.”  At the time, it was also found that “criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes ... [and] probably were intended to cause psychological effects, such as undermining the credibility of the election process and candidates.”

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