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CNN Opinion: What Trump is trying to achieve with 'Obamagate'
CNN ^ | May 16, 2020 | By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst

Posted on 05/17/2020 5:49:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

With the nation in the middle of a horrendous pandemic, President Donald Trump has decided to devote much of his time fueling the "Obamagate" conspiracy. Trump went on a Twitter rampage this past week, sharing falsehoods and misleading claims that promote the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama led a supposed "coup" to sabotage his presidency.

But when a Washington Post reporter pressed Trump earlier this week to explain what Obama did, the President failed to clarify and said, "You know what the crime is. The crime is obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours."

What's clear is that President Trump is attacking Obama with the goal of discrediting his opponent in 2020: Joe Biden. Trump understands that he will never be a widely beloved public figure -- he is more like the long list of "heels" in professional wrestling who gain their fame by stirring the fans to boo them.

President Trump's response is predictable -- he's going after Obama to undermine the foundation of Biden's reputation. By painting the Obama administration as corrupt and Nixonian, Trump may be trying to cast Biden as a new Spiro Agnew, Nixon's vice president who resigned in 1973 due to a tax evasion scandal.

Of course, the problem is that Obama wasn't corrupt and there isn't evidence that the previous administration was involved in some grand effort to set Trump up as a Russian stooge. Whatever one thinks of his policies and leadership, Obama's administration was also remarkably free from major scandals especially compared with other Presidents in recent times.

The "Obamagate" conspiracy theory needs to be understood in the context of the 2020 election. It is Trump's attempt to rewrite the history.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020bias; cnnbias; crossfirehurricane; dnctalkingpoints; election2016; julianzelizer; mueller; obamacrimes; obamagate; obamascandals; russia
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Obamagate: What did Biden know, and when did he forget it?
1 posted on 05/17/2020 5:49:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN colludes with Democrats on campaigns.

#FakeNews


2 posted on 05/17/2020 5:50:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>Of course, the problem is that Obama wasn’t corrupt

Bullstalin


3 posted on 05/17/2020 5:51:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise

Most lies in an article, breath taking!

I dropped cable subscription because of CNN and that Cable TV is unwatchable due to frequent commercials oh and the crappy programs.


4 posted on 05/17/2020 5:53:05 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Goebbels would blush at the BS these MSM a-holes routinely spout.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 5:54:37 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The PRAVDA of the USA...
Communist News Network....fake news.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 5:55:02 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was just channel surfing and briefly happened by CNN and they were discussing this. And in the middle was John King who, IIRC, a few years ago drew attention and concern from even CNN’s higher ups that he was so pro Obama that that could affect his objectivity in reporting so to speak. Great way to handle this topic CNN, lol.


7 posted on 05/17/2020 5:56:16 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The crime is treason and destruction of the US Constitution.

The penalty should be execution.

Any questions?


8 posted on 05/17/2020 5:56:28 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN is scared to death what’s coming down the road.
Durham will get to the bottom of it.
What happens after that remains to be seen.
I hope there are indictments even if there are
no convictions in a tainted, liberal jury pool in DC.
Let these criminals lose their houses and everything
they own defending themselves at a trial, regardless
of the outcome.


9 posted on 05/17/2020 5:57:34 AM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Conspiracy theories are a general class of explanations given by Constitutionalists that describe various crimes committed by Leftists.

ML/NJ


10 posted on 05/17/2020 5:57:57 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: 2banana

Why is there no discussion of all of the intradepartmental changes in policy on sharing information that Obama was doing between November and January 2016 to 2017? They were scrambling with all sorts of plans. Which is why Joe Biden looked at the name two weeks before leaving office.


11 posted on 05/17/2020 5:58:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is Trump trying to achieve? HUH? How about the rule of law. Oh, DUH! I forgot that trying to “prove” anything against the obxxx administration would be racis’. “How dare you?!”


12 posted on 05/17/2020 5:59:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A “horrendous pandemic” with a 99.9% survival rate.


13 posted on 05/17/2020 6:01:01 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now, admittedly, I haven’t read this CNN article, so I’ll take a crack at answering the headline question “What’s he trying to achieve?”
* Justice for the culprits.
* Restoration of the Rule of Law.
* End the two-tier justice system.
* End the unelected, perpetual “swamp” critters control of our lives.
* Save the Republic.

Is this what CNN says? Did I get it right?


14 posted on 05/17/2020 6:01:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Of course, the problem is that Obama wasn’t corrupt and there isn’t evidence that the previous administration was involved in some grand effort to set Trump up as a Russian stooge. Whatever one thinks of his policies and leadership, Obama’s administration was also remarkably free from major scandals especially compared with other Presidents in recent time”

I laughed out loud after reading this.

Trump will just have to keep using the bully pulpit to hammer Obamagate wrong doings home. The ChiCom paid propaganda machine will run in circles coming up with excuses.

FBI married, cheating lovers Stroke and Page rewrote the 302 to frame Flynn as lying to the FBI. They manufactured evidence. How many laws did they break? A 1000? Why? Obama ordered the FBI to lock up and silence Flynn to clear the way for the CIA to take out Trump. Obama is a traitor.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 6:04:07 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is gratifying to know this kind of screed gets virtually no readers. What a joke.


16 posted on 05/17/2020 6:05:13 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter
Cable TV is unwatchable due to frequent commercials

Wasn't cable originally sold in the very beginning as having no commercials since you were paying for it?
17 posted on 05/17/2020 6:15:11 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: tennmountainman
Notice that they aren't shaping the narrative now. Sure they are trying but even the title suggests the are in a reactive stance.

Yeah here comes the kickback scandal. This is how Trump cuts the medias nutz off right when they think they have him at the height of election season.

Just ask Joe this Mourning he is probably up early. I wonder if he has night terrors like Gary Conduit.

O.J will still golf with you Joe.

Plus reporters are so dumb

18 posted on 05/17/2020 6:15:12 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation, don’t stop believing our old lies


19 posted on 05/17/2020 6:19:29 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_E._Zelizer


20 posted on 05/17/2020 6:20:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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