It’s painfully clear now just what Barack Obama is going to do post presidency: He’s going to focus all of his efforts on taking down his successor, damn the consequences.
President Trump last week revealed that Obama and his top cronies requested surveillance on the Republican candidate during his race against Hillary Clinton. The wiretapping found nothing, but it’s terrifying to think that an incumbent president can simply order secret surveillance on a political foe and win approval.
The mainstream media, always doing the dirty work of Obama, immediately dismissed the allegations, but Congress is going to move forward with an investigation, as it clearly should. The MSM reported that Obama is “livid” at Trump, but as The American Spectator points out, ” He is livid because Trump is exposing the soft coup that he had set in motion before leaving office. As Rush Limbaugh put it, Trump is picking up the grenades Obama tossed and throwing them back at him.”
Obama has set up a war room in his new residence (where top aide Valerie Jarrett now lives). And The Huffington Post reports that Obama has “dispatched his team ― more than a dozen strong, working out of an office in the West End neighborhood of Washington ― to keep tabs on the unreported stories [about Trump]. There is a regular conference call for ‘the Obama network,’ a meeting the ex-president attended with former aides a few weeks back, and ad hoc calls to Senate and House Democrats, state-based groups and grassroots organizations.”
The New York Post led the way on the story, reporting in February about “How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency.”
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.Since Donald Trump’s election, this little-known but well-funded protesting arm has beefed up staff and ramped up recruitment of young liberal activists, declaring on its website, “We’re not backing down.” Determined to salvage Obama’s legacy, it’s drawing battle lines on immigration, ObamaCare, race relations and climate change.
The Spectator reports this week that Michelle Obama is also in on the act.
One of those Obama-planted grenades blew up Michael Flynn, but the real target was Trump. Like Congressman John Lewis, the Obamas do not view Trump as a legitimate president. Shortly after Lewis made that comment, Michele Obama tweeted out praise of Lewis as a civil rights hero. It was a remarkably subversive tweet, designed to telegraph support for his attack on Trump under the guise of praising Lewis’s “legacy.” She wrote that the example of “great leaders” like Lewis should be “our call to action.”
While this may well end badly for Obama, the real losers are going to be the American people. Long gone is Obama’s pledge of “hope and change.” And, frankly, what he’s doing now has clear connections to Watergate, when a president clearly broke the law.
But it’s not likely the MSM will follow the story very far with Obama, so he might just get away with it all. Unless a lawmaker, a smart one, in Congress steps up to lead the probe.
Paging Rep. Trey Gowdy, white couresy phone, please.
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