White House Claims Obama Left Them Hostile Notes, Which Nobody Has Seen

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the national interest 10:25 A.M.
White House Claims Obama Left Them Hostile Notes, Which Nobody Has Seen
By Jonathan Chait
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images


White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham today made a bizarre accusation. “We came into the White House, I’ll tell you something,”she said, according to CNN’s Abby Phillip, “every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said, ‘You will fail,’ ‘You aren’t going to make it.’”

It is obviously impossible to prove a negative. Yet her account contains more than a few suspicious details. Forget the notes for a moment. Begin with her claim that every office (that’ a lot of offices!) was filled (it takes a lot of books to fill an office, even using the term “fill” loosely) with Obama books. What is an “Obama book?” A book written by Obama? A book Obama people might want to read?

Then there are the notes. Trump loves promoting the narrative that President Obama left “a mess” for him to clean up, and engineered deep state conspiracies to undermine him starting in 2016. Trump has floated the most bizarre conspiracy theories about Obama sabotage, including the claim that Obama tapped his phones. Trump would be extremely happy to circulate photos of any such “you will fail” notes, and any aid who produced such a note would have instantly become Trump’s momentary favorite. Yet nobody has produced any evidence of these notes, even though they were supposedly left throughout the building.

Reporter Jonathan Karl notes that he was in the White House on January 20, 2017, and saw no sign of either the “Obama book” or the notes. His photos show no sign of either:

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[RAB910]

1. to them hostile would have been

"Best of luck and be sure to respect America and Americans"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If that had really happened they'd have been ranting about it on January 21, 2017.

Same kind of bullshit the Bushies claimed about Clinton's staff, which wasn't true either.

[Runningdawg]

20. And every day since!

[Bettie]

23. If there had been notes,

there would have been people holding them up and sending them to all the media outlets on day one.

Trump would be handing out laminated copies with his electoral college numbers!

[mopinko]

3. i cant believe these idiots dont even know the move in/out protocols at the white house.

do they really think that obama cleaned out his own desk/stuff?
that shit is all done by permanent staff, and it all goes like clockwork.

[dewsgirl]

4. I wish MSM wouldn't cover this obvious propaganda.🙄

[Caliman73]

19. I agree. Or, if they do, they need to cover it as just another bold faced lie.

If they give it any coverage, which they should not, the headlines should read:

"Trump/White House promotes ridiculous lies about 'notes' from President Obama"

Something to that effect. Who are we going to believe, President Obama who showed nothing but grace, class, and compassion during the 8 years of his administration? or the man who has lied no fewer than 13,000 times in less one full term?

If they had ANY proof (as others have already stated) they would have shown it during the 2018 elections and Trump would be parading it endlessly to show "what a loser" President Obama was.

They are full of it and they are always given an air of legitimacy when the media reports it as anything but a straight up lie.

[dewsgirl]

21. I 100 percent agree.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Maybe she'd been drinking?

[PJMcK]

27. Ya think?! (n/t)

[CurtEastPoint]

29. Voila...

[PJMcK]

30. Dumb asses never learn (n/t)

[C_U_L8R]

6. All they have is bullshit and whining

The country will he so much better off when these losers are gone.

[The Polack MSgt]

7. What it looks like when the worst behaved

second graders you can find are running the country.

Messes, broken pottery and nonsensical stories that blame others for the problems

[mucifer]

8. Does anyone else remember they said the same when Bill Clinton left office they claimed he

trashed the white house. They have always been deplorable.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I was just going to mention this

I don't believe anything Trump, et. al say, anyway.

[COLGATE4]

28. Yep, They claimed that Clinton's people had

removed all the letter "W";s from the typewriters/computers.

[ScratchCat]

9. She wasn't even there in January 2017

Good god, when they have nothing to divert away from Trump, they pull the Obama pivot every time. This is just laughably stupid, like they wouldn't have been crying about this since 01/21/17 if it had really happened.

[Peacetrain]

10. They are trying to start to new controversy to distract from the hearings

Just keep slapping them down

[FM123]

11. What's next, secret messages on toilet paper?

[exboyfil]

12. Those Obama books were briefing books you moron

Trying to get the new administration up to speed with what was going on

Thank goodness that the country was not in crisis mode unlike when the Obama administration came in.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. :-)

[UTUSN]

14. The SHITLER mob tries to drag everybody down to their level

because they know that they themselves are inferior to anybody of decency, honor, excellence of personal achievement. They have a cynicism that *everybody* is low-down like them, that the better qualities of life are just an act.

[karynnj]

15. Echoes of 2001 claims that Clinton people "trashed" things and removed Ws from computers

It is a bit late to make these claims. In fact, there was a very nice public meeting of Trump and Obama, with Obama acting graciously. Not to mention, Obama had every department put together information on what the current situation was with what they thought relevant information.

Several State Department people spoke of Tillerson declining to meet at all with Kerry -- because he was told not to. It would seem from these two things, the Obama administration wanted a normal handoff. It was Trump who blew things up.

[WePurrsevere]

16. Lie... Distract... Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Geesh, they're so pathetic & obvious. nt

[CentralMass]

17. tRump is busy with his Sharpie as we speak..

[Wounded Bear]

18. Yeah, and the Clintons took all the W's out of the keyboards, too...

The Repubs are running out of material.

[Mc Mike]

22. Obama left thousands of dancing celebrating NJ Moslems in all the offices.

I saw it personally on tv.

[PA Democrat]

25. And they just found them TODAY!!!!!!

yeah.... that's the ticket.

[chriscan64]

26. In the traditional letter left on the desk in the oval office

Obama should have required a security deposit for the country.

[GoCubsGo]

31. Such bullshit.

If that were true, we would have heard about it at the time. No fucking way would they have let it go AT ALL, let alone for this long. We all know goddamn well that they would have been screeching about it for months on end if any of it were even remotely true. They are so full of shit, I can't stand it. I. AM. SO. FUCKING. SICK. OF. THEIR. GODDAMN. LYING.

[Flaleftist]

32. Trump would have tweeted out pictures on day one.

It's just more bullshit only his magat morons would believe.

[Golden Raisin]

33. The sets of Hannity, Carlson, Pirro, etal, would have been

wall-papered top-to-bottom with those notes the day after Inauguration, along with much bellicose fire-breathing from those Fox screamer hosts.