WTF is "Obamagate"? That's easy: It's Donald Trump's reboot of "but her emails"

Even Donald Trump can't tell us what "Obamagate" is — other than his newest obsession, designed to distract from his total failure to handle the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic catastrophe. But with a news media still and always eager to prove it's equally tough on "both sides," it's conceivable that Trump can make Obamagate a thing.

Eager to pretend that the rising death tolls and skyrocketing unemployment rates don't exist, Trump has pivoted back to what he always planned on doing in the 2020 campaign: Pump out a bunch of conspiracy theories about former Vice President Joe Biden and other leading Democrats. His plan has always been to get the mainstream media to elevate these baseless smears until they dominate the 2020 election cycle, sucking attention away from Trump's extensive history of failures, scandals, lies and outright crimes.

And why not? With the help of WikiLeaks and the Russian government — along with the the spinelessness of FBI Director James Comey — Trump was able to trick the media into turning a total non-scandal about Hillary Clinton using a private email account to do government business (something that Trump's people have done on a much larger scale) into a five-alarm fire that lost her the election. Even though diligent journalists discovered that Trump had been accused of numerous sexual assaults, had defrauded countless people, and had run multiple businesses into the ground, voters in exit polls still thought "but her emails" was the bigger scandal.