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Breaking down 'Obamagate,' Trump's latest theory about

the 'deep state' and Obama's role in the Russia investigation

Analysis by Marshall Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN

Updated 12:24 AM ET, Wed May 13, 2020

"Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his allies added a new dimension this week to their "deep state" conspiracy theory, directly accusing former President Barack Obama of leading a supposed "coup" to sabotage the Trump presidency.

Seizing on a viral hashtag, Trump dubbed the alleged scandal "Obamagate" and has been flooding the zone promoting exaggerated theories and false claims since the weekend. In the President's view, he was the victim of the "biggest political crime in American history" and the Obama appointees who he claims tried to undermine his administration deserve jail time for their misdeeds.

Trump ramped up his rhetoric over the weekend after Obama criticized the Justice Department for dropping its criminal case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Trump's new focus on Obama also served as a diversion from the coronavirus pandemic, as the nationwide death toll passed 80,000 and the unemployment rate tripled to a staggering 14.7%.

For years, Trump has claimed without proof that Democratic partisans within the Justice Department and the FBI abused their powers to investigate members of his campaign and undermine his presidency. "Obamagate" appears to be an extension of this underlying theory, which is part of the President's sustained effort to rewrite the history of the Russia investigation.

There is a pattern to Trump's messaging, and "Obamagate" is no different. The President is blending real findings of FBI misconduct with self-serving theories and cherry-picked information to weave together a much deeper and more sinister story."

More at link:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/trump-obama-obamagate-russia/index.html

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Trump and right-wing media distract from bad virus news

with alternate reality

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

Updated 1:07 AM ET, Wed May 13, 2020

"More than 82,000 Americans have died of coronavirus as of Tuesday. A top model now forecasts that 147,000 Americans will lose their lives by August. Millions are out of work. And the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is warning that reopening the country too early could have serious consequences.

Which is all to say that the news is not good for President Trump. Death and despair threaten to swallow his reelection hopes. A Tuesday CNN poll found that most Americans (54%) believe the US gov't is doing a poor job preventing the spread of the virus. And a majority (52%) still think the worst is on the horizon.

Major news organizations are reflecting this grim reality with clear-eyed reporting, bold headlines, and historic front pages. So what is Trump, Fox News, and the right-wing media machine doing? They're constructing a separate alternate reality to keep their fans distracted from the news and outraged at the long-standing villains in the right-wing media universe. The general idea is that President Obama and others improperly used the levers of gov't to conspire against Trump to win the 2016 election, with the "deep-state" later working to kneecap him when he was in office.

It's called "OBAMAGATE." And as Tim Miller explained in his superb piece, the key tenets of the theory do not make much sense: "The main ones being (a) when spelled out all in one place it is absurd on its face and (b) if anything, the supposed deep-staters' actions in 2016 served to help Donald Trump politically, particularly in the final weeks of the election when the FBI reopened the investigation into their supposedly preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton and then absolved Donald Trump of the actions they were supposedly framing him of in the New York Times.""