The president offered a less-than-satisfactory explanation of his latest distraction from his administration's disastrous pandemic response
Photo: Getty Images On Sunday, the day before the death count for the pandemic passed 80,000 in the United States, President Trump had a prolific day online, posting 126 tweets or retweets as part of his Mother’s Day celebration. Several of the missives treated a new political project of his:
In later tweets, he clarified that the term was just a rebranding of his festering complaints over the Justice Department’s probing of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
With the phrase sputtering around on Monday, the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker asked President Trump to define it at the White House coronavirus press conference: Rucker: In one of your Mother’s Day tweets, you appeared to accuse President Obama of ‘the biggest political crime in American history, by far’ — those were your words. What crime exactly are you accusing President Obama of committing, and do you believe the Justice Department should prosecute him?Trump: Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time.
The president provided his clarification standing next to a banner that claimed ‘America Leads the World in Testing’ — a Mission Accomplished-quality placard that ignores that Denmark, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, and Canada lead the U.S. in testing rates.
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