“OBAMAGATE!” U.S. President Donald Trump has been shouting the phrase on TV and Twitter for the last week, broadly gesturing at the latest MAGA conspiracy theory that paints Barack Obama as the ultimate villain, and places himself in the familiar position of victim-in-chief.
The entire “Obamagate” conspiracy theory is based on cherry-picked facts, half-truths and entire falsehoods involving Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser.
Flynn is the Trump ally who pleaded guilty — twice — to lying to the FBI about talking to Russia before Trump took office. Nevertheless, the Department of Justice recently tried to drop charges against Flynn at his sentencing hearing, prompting accusations of political interference to benefit a