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crickets

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17. In a nutshell, how dare the FBI investigate Flynn?

Reply to redwitch (Reply #3)

Tue May 12, 2020, 08:41 PM

May 2020

What is 'Obamagate'? 3 things to know about Trump's latest fixation
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213425695

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-obamagate-a9509501.html

Amid the chaos, the president coined the term “OBAMAGATE,” which appears to be a repackaging of his belief that his predecessor, Barack Obama, was privy to — or directed — a grand conspiracy among US intelligence officials to kneecap the Trump presidency in its nascence by using the FBI to entrap certain incoming Trump advisers such as erstwhile national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Link to tweet

(glorious takedown of the nonsense. well worth watching.)

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the spiel on fox news right now is all Obamagate: [View all] IcyPeas May 2020 OP

Murdoch and Moscow Mitch need to be sharing a cell somewhere Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1

Well, we know what talking point the on-air bloviators were handed... Aristus May 2020 #2

What is Obamagate? redwitch May 2020 #3

Something about a tan suit and being jacketless in the Oval Office prior to Jan 20, 2017. madinmaryland May 2020 #8

trumps latest hallucination spanone May 2020 #11

Because you commendably don't wallow in horseshit? JHB May 2020 #14

In a nutshell, how dare the FBI investigate Flynn? crickets May 2020 #17

Obama should sue them for defamation of character Generic Brad May 2020 #4

I know, I know.......always watch the beginning of that show, and that's a kennedy May 2020 #5

So, have any of the Fox-douches explained what the crimes are... madinmaryland May 2020 #6

It would be nice if DU didn't constantly give oxygen to bullshit SoonerPride May 2020 #7

Good Of Them To Help Getting Black Voters To The Polls.... The Magistrate May 2020 #9

+1 crickets May 2020 #15

Many more than 2008. Black kids who were teenagers then. Lock him up. May 2020 #18

Don't tell trump, but Obama isn't running. spanone May 2020 #10

distraction from coronavirusgate Skittles May 2020 #12

Madeupgate CanonRay May 2020 #13

The only crime BHO is guilty of is saying Totally Tunsie May 2020 #16

Don't know what that is supposed to be. Don't care what that is supposed to be. Squinch May 2020 #19

To use a Southern expression, "That reTHUG dog won't hunt"... abqtommy May 2020 #20