This is at least the third time Donald Trump has claimed to be the victim of such a historic transgression
Scandal victim. Photo: Shutterstock Obamagate, the opaque conspiracy theory that accuses President Obama of trying to sabotage his successor, is the “greatest political scandal in the history of the United States,” President Trump tweeted Friday. It’s at least the third time he’s claimed to be the victim of such a historic transgression.
Reality was much less exciting than Trump’s version of events. In 2016, foreign-policy scholar Stefan Halper, a former member of several Republican administrations, was asked to talk to George Papadopoulos and Carter Page about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. Halper also met with Sam Clovis, a Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser who would go on to work in the White House.
In 2019, Trump applied the phrase to what may actually be the biggest political scandal in U.S. history: the Russia probe. But in Trump’s view, the scandal is Robert Mueller’s investigation itself, not his campaign’s connections to the Kremlin or his own efforts to thwart the probe. Last February, Trump tweeted a quote from a Fox News talking head referring to “the Witch Hunt” as “the greatest scandal in American political history.
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