'Treason, treason, it’s treason,' Trump said, in an interview on Monday
Photo: Getty Images As the president’s mood has continued to decline over the past few months, he has returned to a favorite target, even if his volleys haven’t been all that accurate. In early May, Trump introduced a new grievance, Obamagate, which served as more of an umbrella term for his frustration rather than a tightly defined scandal. “It’s been going on for a long time,” he explained, poorly, on May 11.
Though it’s difficult to parse out the underlying claim the president is referring to in his conspiratorial shorthand, he appears to be referring to the FBI inquiry into former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the transition in 2017. As New York’s Jonathan Chait explains:
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