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Changing Subject Amid a Pandemic, Trump Turns to an Old Ploy: Blame Obama
NYT ^ | May 14, 2020 | Peter Baker

Posted on 05/14/2020 7:53:34 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

WASHINGTON — President Trump has embarked on an aggressive new drive to rewrite the narrative of the Russia investigation by making dark and unsubstantiated accusations that former President Barack Obama masterminded a sinister plot to bring him down.

On Twitter, on television, in the Rose Garden and even on an official White House social media page, Mr. Trump in recent days has taken aim at his most recent predecessor in a way that no sitting president has in modern times, accusing Mr. Obama of undefined and unspecified crimes under the vague but politically charged catchphrase “Obamagate.”

The president went even further on Thursday by demanding that Mr. Obama be hauled before the Senate “to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA,” a scenario that itself has no precise precedent in American history. Within hours, Mr. Trump’s most faithful Republican ally in the Senate promptly announced that he would indeed investigate, although he would probably not summon Mr. Obama.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; obama; obamasfault; trump; trumpsright
Wow, NYT gives Obama a pass on everything refusing to do its job to investigate, because they see no evidence when they have not looked.
1 posted on 05/14/2020 7:53:34 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Creepy Joe wonders who the clean and articulate black dude is...


2 posted on 05/14/2020 7:57:10 PM 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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Remember all those articles they wrote about how Obama spent 8 years blaming Bush for everything?

Neither do I.


3 posted on 05/14/2020 7:59:07 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Like the woman who came to work one morning and told me she had just gotten a speeding ticket. "But I told that cop he was just out to get his quota!"

"How fast were you going?" I asked.

"Eighty-five in a fifty zone," she replied.

4 posted on 05/14/2020 8:00:46 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: edwinland

you tapped into my mind


5 posted on 05/14/2020 8:02:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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"Changing Subject Amid a Pandemic, NYT Turns to an Old Ploy: Blame Trump"

See how that works? We can do it, too.

6 posted on 05/14/2020 8:06:57 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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No one is “blaming” Obama for anything EXCEPT being super crooked.


7 posted on 05/14/2020 8:07:48 PM PDT by madison10 (Wash your hands & say your prayers cause Jesus & germs are everywhere)
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The NYT is the flagship outlet for the Ministry of Propaganda, there entire purpose is to give the narrative to the rest.


8 posted on 05/14/2020 8:16:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Mr. Trump’s most faithful Republican ally in the Senate
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That’s a blatant lie right there.

Flimsey was the one who threatened President Trump if he tried to do anything to end the Russia collusion witch hunt.


9 posted on 05/14/2020 8:18:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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funyt


10 posted on 05/14/2020 8:37:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

RINOs all ought to be squirming, sort of ok, we get it, JEB! wasn’t exactly a great candidate, and you took him down, Donald, but really, you are kidding yourself if you think you are going to to president.


11 posted on 05/14/2020 8:42:49 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Peter Baker - that’s all you need to know.


12 posted on 05/14/2020 8:58:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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REfusing to report facts, NYT resorts to an old ploy- misdirection by blaming Trump for blaming Obama


13 posted on 05/14/2020 9:04:28 PM PDT by Bob434
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“changing the subject” and “distraction” are the official spin memes the DNC memo sent to all of the fake stream enemedia ... they’ve ALL been using those since then, including joe biden ...


14 posted on 05/14/2020 9:30:05 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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NYTimes just continuing on with their traditional coverups of communists/Marxists since the Walter Duranty Soviet “Disinformation” writings about the great genocidal famines they created in the 1930’s.

They did a similar job on covering up communist atrocities in S Vietnam and Laos (some good coverage of Cambodia), in Cuba when Castro/Che took over and institutionalized mass torture/executions, the same in Angola/Mozambique, and the Red Terror of Ethiopia’s Marxist Dergue.


15 posted on 05/14/2020 11:42:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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"Remember all those articles they wrote about how Obama spent 8 years blaming Bush for everything?"


16 posted on 05/15/2020 12:05:01 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I wonder if President Trump will pardon Hussein.


17 posted on 05/15/2020 2:27:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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