Obama is Trump’s go-to scapegoat for White House woes

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" President Donald Trump’s administration has been plagued by damaging leaks and marked by protests against him and his policies. And as he tries to sell America on Republicans’ plan for health care reform, he risks facing humiliation should he fall short.

In his eyes, though, there’s one clear person to blame: Barack Obama.

The former president has emerged as the perfect scapegoat for Trump. The 44th commander in chief is a revered Democratic Party figure who is both loathed by conservatives and, in keeping in line with the precedent of past presidents, unlikely to publicly speak out against his successor.

And while Trump one month ago told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that the two “get along” and that Obama even “likes me,” he’s back to raging against his longtime foe.

In the past week alone, Trump has blamed Obama and his administration for setting up the first meeting between Jeff Sessions and Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. (Sessions failed to disclose having met with the ambassador last year when testifying about contact with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing to be attorney general), allowing the aforementioned ambassador to visit the White House 22 times in eight years, allegedly wiretapping Trump Tower phone lines during the campaign (an explosive accusation for which no evidence exists), releasing 122 detainees from Guantanamo Bay who later returned to terrorist activity (113 of those prisoners were released two days before Obama became president) and getting run over by a strengthening Russia (in his words).

Trump’s White House piled on with fresh accusations Friday, with Trump himself suggesting Obamacare is a ticking time bomb that was set to detonate once Obama left office and his top spokesman endorsing the idea of a so-called deep state full of Obama appointees seeking to undermine Trump’s presidency. "

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/barack-obama-donald-trump-scapegoat-blame-235938
 
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