President Donald Trump and his team have spent weeks trying to kill damaging headlines about their mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and while doing so, they have lashed out at a very familiar target: former President Barack Obama.
The Obama Distraction (Attempt)
The public has repeatedly told pollsters they think the government and Trump are covering up evidence related to Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking network. As a result, Team Trump has insisted that Obama was the mastermind of a convoluted conspiracy to interfere in elections, repeating long-debunked allegations alongside claims of treason and the threat of criminal trials.
Fox News, Trump’s most valuable propaganda ally, was on the case. The network blanketed the airwaves with hour after hour amplifying the Trump smear o