During the West African Ebola virus epidemic , Limbaugh blamed Obama for allowing the spread of the disease to the United States in 2014 , claiming that he should have stopped air travel to West Africa . He claimed that both the media and the government , including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , deliberately downplayed its symptoms , expressing skepticism over the scientific consensus that the disease could only be spread through contact with bodily fluids and was not aerosol transmissible . When David Quammen criticized the idea of ending air travel to West Africa by pointing out that Liberia was founded due to slavery in the United States on '' Anderson Cooper 360 ° '' , Limbaugh suggested in response that the Obama administration was deliberately allowing Ebola to be transmitted to the United States due to its guilt over slavery , stating " People at the highest levels of our government say ' Why , why should n't we get it ? Why should only those three nations in Africa get it ? We 're no better than they are . ' And they have this attitude , ' Well , if they have it in Africa , by God , we deserve to get it , because they 're in Africa because of us and because of slavery . ' " Limbaugh has been consistently supportive of the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump , although he endorsed Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and took issue with Trump 's treatment of Cruz . Limbaugh later criticized Cruz 's hesitance to endorse Trump after his nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention , comparing it to Ted Kennedy 's lukewarm support of Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention
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