{"id":2786,"date":"2020-05-23T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2020-05-23T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:27:03","slug":"obamagate-trumps-latest-conspiracy-theory-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"\u201cObamagate\u201d: Trump\u2019s latest conspiracy theory, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;\u201cObamagate\u201d is a convoluted mess of conspiracy theories untethered to reality. It is a deflection from the utter catastrophe unfolding daily because of the Trump administration\u2019s disastrous coronavirus response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That may not matter. Trump has used the \u201cwitch hunt\u201d strategy since the start of his presidency, and, when it comes to his base and his allies in Congress and the administration,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-ukraine-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it works<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/15\/21257299\/obamagate-trump-flynn-unmasking-conspiracy\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/15\/21257299\/obamagate-trump-flynn-unmasking-conspiracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cObamagate\u201d is a convoluted mess of conspiracy theories untethered to reality. It is a deflection from the utter catastrophe unfolding daily because of the Trump administration\u2019s disastrous coronavirus response.<\/p>\n<p>That may not matter. Trump has used the \u201cwitch hunt\u201d strategy since the start of his presidency, and, when it comes to his base and his allies in Congress and the administration, it works.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[820,821,221,132,323,556,134,170],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bullshit","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-donald-trump","tag-lies","tag-misleading","tag-obama","tag-propaganda","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}