Why ‘Obamagate’ could flip politics on its head

This time around, the scandal isn't some half-baked conspiracy found exclusively within the deep, dark crevices of the internet. It's a legitimate potentially massive scandal that could toss US politics on its head, as evidence continues to build that the Obama administration participated in some Watergate-level corruption.

Though cable media has already brought out their first line of defence to dismiss the scandal—by opening the floodgates with numerous Obamagate articles to drown Google results with headlines "explaining" the situation to curious Americans—the scandal has a mountainous pile of circumstantial evidence behind it that makes any Dem-led controversy against Trump look like an ant hill.

The Obama administration's fingerprints continue to appear all over the possible espionage of the sitting president during his 2016 campaign and onward.

In 2016, Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, lied to Congress about whether or not the government was spying on Americans. CIA director John Brennan "oversaw an operation of illegal spying on a staffer of the legislative branch of the United States government," spied on Associated Press reporters, along with other miscellaneous acts of espionage on both citizens and politicians alike.

Trump was shot down in 2018 when he said that he was being spied on by the FBI, but those claims are now appearing to carry water. It's not unfathomable that Obama, who has openly criticized the sitting president—something former presidents tend to keep quiet on, though not always—has had quite the roll in pedaling out anti-Trump conspiracy theories, including the ludicrous Russiagate scandal.

When charges against Gen. Mike Flynn were dropped, information released by the Justice Department showed that President Obama had a frontline role in ensuring that Trump's first days in office were consumed with Russian conspiracy theories, despite there being zero credible evidence.

On January 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who'd remain in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from the Trump administration.

In an email to herself, former national-security adviser Susan Rice wrote an email about the meeting held with Joe Biden, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and FBI director James Comey, wherein Obama stressed that an investigation into the president should be done "by the book." In a corruption-free environment that never strays from "the book," one would think that that would go without saying.

“From a national-security perspective... President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia," Rice's email would continue on.

While there is no definitive smoking gun, the mounting evidence of a corrupt and spy-happy Obama administration could flip politics on its head. It's not concrete, as of yet, but Obamagate could have the potential to create political tidal waves not seen for decades.