"Vote" : Barack Obama chose Thursday a sober response to Donald Trump who has been talking for several days about a resounding "OBAMAGATE" on which he has however provided no information.
With less than six months to go before the presidential election, the Republican billionaire is increasing the attacks on his Democratic predecessor by repeating this shock formula in reference to the Watergate that prompted Richard Nixon to resign.
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This conspiracy theory, initially relayed by ultra-conservative websites, suggests that the Democratic President in the last weeks of his term used the judiciary to harm Donald Trump at all costs.
Asked a few days ago during a press conference on this mysterious crime of which his predecessor would have been guilty, the American president had dodged: “You know what crime it is. This crime is obvious to everyone. ”
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On Thursday, Donald Trump reached a new milestone by calling on Congress to investigate, while remaining elusive over the alleged facts. "If I were a senator or elected member of the House, the first person I would call to testify in what is, by far, the biggest scandal in US history, would be former President Obama. He knew everything, ” he tweeted, calling on Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, one of his relatives, to take action.
But many elected officials from his camp do not follow him. "I don't think it would be opportune for me to do that," said Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Upper House Judiciary Committee.
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For years, before embarking on the race for the White House, Donald Trump relayed a conspiracy theory carried by some far-right circles questioning the birthplace of Barack Obama, first black president of the United States , and therefore its legitimacy to run the country.
Exasperated - "We have no time for this kind of nonsense" -, the 44th president of history had been forced to organize a press conference at the White House to publish his full birth certificate and close this controversy .