It’s been a hallmark of Trump’s candidacy and Administration that his accusations, as wild and profligate as they can be, are often based on a shred of truth concerning himself. We’ve seen this with his response to Clinton’s accusation during the debates of Trump being a Russian puppet with his childish retort that she was the puppet, for example.
So, last night when we saw the baffling clip of President Trump asserting there’s a scandal out there called Obamagate, and “everyone” knows about it, I was, secondarily, baffled, but primarily left wondering just what the hell is now brewing in the super-swamp known as the Trump Administration. From whitehouse.gov:
Q Mr. President, in one of your Mother’s Day tweets, you appear to accuse President Obama of the biggest political crime in American history, by far.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.
Q Those were your words. What crime exactly are you accusing President Obama of committing? And do you believe the Justice Department should prosecute him?
THE PRESIDENT: “Obamagate.” It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected. And it’s a disgrace that it happened. And if you look at what’s gone on, and if you look at, now, all of this information that’s being released — and from what I understand, that’s only the beginning — some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.
And you’ll be seeing what’s going on over the next — over the coming weeks. But I — and I wish you’d write honestly about it, but unfortunately, you choose not to do so.
Yeah. Jon, please.
Q What is the crime exactly that you’re accusing him of?
THE PRESIDENT: You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.
Watergate was, of course, possibly the biggest scandal in American political history. Trying to redirect everyone’s attention to an Obamagate just makes me wonder: what does Trump have his fingers into now? The testing shortages, scandalous as they are, don’t really equate to Watergate. What’s coming down the pike now?
