Barack Obama has to find an excuse for Hillary Clinton losing a near-guaranteed presidential race. And he has one. It's Vlad Putin. White House spokesman Josh Ernest explained, quote, You didn't need a security clearance to figure out who benefited from malicious Russian cyber activity. The president's elect didn't call it into question. He called on Russia to hack his opponent. He called on Russia to hack Secretary Clinton. So he certainly had a pretty good sense of whose side the cyber activity was coming down on. The last several weeks of the election were focused on a discussion of emails that had been hacked and leaked by the Russians. These were emails from the DNC and John Podesta, not from the RNC and Stephen Bannon. It was the president-elect who over the course of the campaign indicated he thought President

Putin was a strong leader. The president-elect's team, his campaign did not make any effort

to obscure this. Unquote. Now, as I explained yesterday, Hillary didn't lose because of Vladimir Putin.

She lost because she was an awful, terrible, horrible candidate that no one likes and wishes would go away,

and because Barack Obama has devastated his party at every single level of government.

But Obama has to find an at every single level of government.

But Obama has to find an excuse aside from his own arrogance and Hillary's own incompetence for the destruction of his legacy. And Putin is as good an excuse as any. But that's not

the only excuse Obama has trotted out. He's trotted out fake news, pretending that a bunch of

roobes reading false headlines on Facebook elevated Trump to the presidency. If only they'd paid attention to the real fake news distributed by the White House and members

of the mainstream media, all would have been well. And of course, Obama thinks the legacy

of racism is responsible for the backlash against his presidency. He was appearing with

the excreble Trevor Noah, and he explained, quote, we have by no means overcome the

legacies of slavery and

and Jim Crowe and colonialism and racism. Obama continued by stating he had handled the issue of race

just beautifully. I mean, ignore the race riots and the DOJ targeting police departments and Obama

making stupid comments about black people being shot by the cops. But he's a genius, and not

everybody had appreciated that. He said, quote, I don't think the trying to appeal to the better angels of our nature, as Lincoln put

it, is somehow compromised. There are many reasons why Hillary Clinton lost, but Putin, fake

news and racism aren't among them. Barack Obama most definitely is. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the

Ben Shapiro Show.

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