The Rude Pundit: Remembering How Trump and the Right Tried to Convince Everyone Obama Was a Traitor

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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/09/remembering-how-trump-and-right-tried.html

The Rude Pundit

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9/19/2019
Remembering How Trump and the Right Tried to Convince Everyone Obama Was a Traitor

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Donald Trump, of course, was into this degradation of President Obama long before he ran for president in 2016 and went into overdrive while running. In June 2016, after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Trump said of Obama that "we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind." And, because Trump is a cowardly bitch, he hinted rather than stated, "And the something else in mind — you know, people can't believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism.' There's something going on. It's inconceivable. There's something going on."

You gotta think about those last lines - "It's inconceivable. There's something going on" - in light of the whistleblower allegations that Trump did something so alarming that an intelligence official felt compelled to report it to the inspector general of the intelligence community, who found it "urgent" enough that he wanted to tell Congress but was stopped by Trump's Acting Director of National Intelligence. Think about all those attacks on Obama, all those digging into the minute details of his words, his dress, his friends, Michelle, all in a vain attempt to show he was a traitor.

And compare that to Donald Trump, who it now seems was holding up funding to Ukraine, perhaps to try to force the country to find or create dirt on Joe Biden and/or Biden's son. That funding was passed by Congress, so, yeah, maybe they have an interest in this.

Or compare it to Trump's ongoing coddling and support of savage dictators and monarchs, like Kim Jong-un or MBS, or that prick Putin. Compare it to Trump saying he was awaiting word from Saudi Arabia on whether we should go to war for "the Kingdom." Trump always accuses others of being guilty of the very crimes he has committed. And you don't even have to try very hard to find them.

The right, especially the GOP in Congress, won't say a fucking word about the traitor whose traitorous acts are staring them right in their dumb faces. And that makes them accessories to Trump's crimes. But they'll go right ahead calling for investigations of Obama and Clinton and whoever else they can throw up as a smoke screen to their genuine destruction of our democracy.

[malaise]

1. Well said Rudie

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. K&R

My trumper neighbor said, "Obama sold us out." That was over a year ago. It scared me because TrumPutin's minions always accuse others of what they've already done in order to deflect.

If we survive TrumPutin and the Russiapublicans, I hope we can discover all the hidden ways they've subverted democracy and law.

[olegramps]

3. Each and every Republican is actively supporting the treasonous bastard.

There is only one solution. Drive the Republican scum bags traitors, fascists bastards out of the government and destroy their party.

[Pepsidog]

4. The hypocrisy is historic. And unless we do something about Fox and the Limbaughs we are doomed as a

nation. At what point is free speech allowed to divide and misinform our country to the point of endangering democracy. A thorny subject that must be addressed.