A Republican congressman suggested Barack Obama might secretly be helping control the White House. As stevebenen writes, too much of the GOP has pushed this line for the last seven years.
Not quite two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, congressional Republicans had reason for optimism. The party controlled the White House, the Senate, and the House, and GOP leaders were making ambitious plans. At the time, however, Rep. Mike Kelly feared one man might stand in the way of the party’s goals.
“President Obama himself said he was going to stay in Washington until his daughter graduated,” the Pennsylvania Republican. “I think we ought to pitch in to let him go someplace else, because he is only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is going to totally upset the new agenda. It just doesn’t make sense.”
Kelly was at least partially right — the congressman’s rhetoric just didn’t “make sense” — but the idea that Barack Obama was some kind of nefarious force, wielding power from the shadows, didn’t fade from Republicans’ imaginations after Kelly’s comments in March 2017. As recently as last year, Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo suggested that the former president might be secretly “running the country,” to which Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennesseethat Obama’s meetings with President Joe Biden led people to believe that the former president was “the de facto leader in the White House.”
Yesterday, Rep. Greg Murphy kept this going during an interview of his own with Bartiromo. After the far-right North Carolinian
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