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President Donald Trump has taken criticism from his opponents and the media for golfing on Memorial Day weekend. But his predecessor, President Barack Obama, golfed on seven of the eight Memorial Day weekends of his presidency.

Twitter appears to have removed its blue “verified” checkmark from a number of users on the platform over the past few days, a purge that included Rudy Takala, a journalist for Mediaite who reported on former President Obama’s abuse of government surveillance powers.

President Donald Trump should preemptively pardon former President Barack Obama for any crimes he may have committed in “Obamagate,” the effort by the previous administration to frame the incoming one for “Russia collusion.”

President Donald Trump and his deputies have shut down the coyote-run smuggling pipeline that has used federal agencies to deliver almost 500,000 youths and children to their illegal-alien parents living in northern cities. 

Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump is promoting an “already discredited conspiracy” theory with his Obamagate tweets instead of focusing on the coronavirus pandemic.

In a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network host Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump of attacking his predecessor former President Barack Obama amid the Department of Justice’s review of the 2016 Russia investigation under Obama’s leadership  because “he is so upset that Barack is everything he would have wanted to be in life” while also being black and not having a “rich father.”

A series of leaked phone calls from 2016 indicate former Vice President Joe Biden linked the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, who was probing a company with ties to his son, to more than $1 billion dollars in U.S. aid.

Former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s recently-declassified January 2017 email cited no wrongdoing by Michael Flynn.

Wednesday on MSNBC, network political commentator former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said former President Barack Obama’s administration did not have even “a hint of corruption during eight years.”

Again and again, it is President Trump’s quiet, patient modesty that shines through. Especially compared to the suffocating loud-mouthed arrogance of his predecessor.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” as Democrats on Capitol Hill and those in the media are crying foul over the Trump administration removal of State Department inspector general Steve Linick, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reminded viewers such moves are not unprecedented.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) stated that House Republicans have conducted their own investigation of the Russia probe for over three years, and while they’ve made criminal

Former Vice President Joe Biden once bragged about nearly being arrested for chasing a “lovely group of women” into an all-female dormitory in his youth.

Far-left actress and comedian Sarah Silverman bashed President Donald Trump on Monday for criticizing Barack Obama, saying that Trump doesn’t have “the labs” to criticize Barack Obama to his face.

Donald Trump said he had no doubt that Barack Obama and Joe Biden were personally involved with the Russia “hoax” investigation. “I have absolutely no doubt that Obama and Biden were involved.”

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” former President George W. Bush senior adviser Karl Rove said former President Barack Obama committed a “political drive-by shooting” with his veiled criticisms of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response during a virtual commencement speech on Saturday.

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said she believed the right’s culture war only came about of former President Barack Obama’s race.

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the Department of Justice’s review of the 2016 Russia investigation will likely not lead to a criminal investigation of former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed Monday to stop the Keystone XL pipeline “for good” if elected president.

“The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose,” Romney wrote on Twitter.

Sunday on MSNBC, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) slammed President Donald Trump, saying he was “just defunct of knowledge and talks like a third-grader.”

“Look, he was an incompetent president, that’s all I can say,” Trump told reporters after returning to the White House from Camp David.  “Grossly incompetent.”  

President Donald Trump is being criticized by his opponents after firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called it a “threat to accountable democracy.” However, President Barack Obama did not nominate an inspector general for the State Department during his entire first term.

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, explained his reluctance to call former President Barack Obama to testify before his committee despite calls from President Donald Trump for it to occur.

“The old ways of doing things, just don’t work,” Obama said in his online commencement speech to 2020 high school graduates who could not attend ceremonies due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fred Fleitz called on the Trump administration to name all Obama administration officials who made unmasking requests Americans’ identities.

“More than anything this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” he said. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

Documents indicate that the FBI unmasked Flynn and disseminated that intelligence to the DNI and Obama White House officials.

During Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, author and historian Jon Meacham sounded off on President Donald Trump in a tweet calling for former President Barack Obama to testify before Congress over the unmasking of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor in President Barack Obama’s administration, said Thursday she feels “humbled and honored” that former Vice President Joe Biden is considering her as a possible running mate.

Actress-singer and leftwing activist Bette Midler is once again lashing out at President Donald Trump, accusing him of being “mentally ill” for calling attention to the involvement of Obama-era officials in the “unmasking” of former his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn amidst the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

Lindsey Graham rejected President Trump’s demand for former President Barack Obama to testify as part of his panel’s June hearings on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.

The targeting of General Flynn was a key part of the Obama/Clinton/Deep State coup against President Trump.

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have broadcast themselves reading a children’s book aloud to the interwebs while “Obamagate” revelations about former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn have erupted.

Graham said Thursday the Judiciary Committee will begin holding hearings on the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.

“If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He knew EVERYTHING.”