What is Obamagate? No one seems to know

This appeared in The Millennial Source

On Sunday, May 10, President Donald Trump tweeted an all-caps Happy Mother’s Day message. A few hours later, he tweeted a completely different all-caps message: “OBAMAGATE!”

Since then, Trump has used his Twitter account to push the narrative that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, had committed “The biggest political crime in American history.”

On Monday, when asked directly about those crimes, Trump remained vague and provided no details of what Obama and his administration allegedly did. Nonetheless, right-wing commentators on Fox News and other media outlets have treated the idea of Obama and his administration committing crimes as a given.

The specifics of those crimes and their alleged purpose is harder to determine.

#Spygate becomes #Obamagate

Prior to Trump’s Sunday tweets, the #Obamagate hashtag had been spreading with the help of prominent right-wing polemists and anonymous Twitter accounts with suspiciously high follower counts.

Prior to May 1, the hashtag had gained little traction online. Then, on May 1, Sebastian Gorka tweeted a video he called “one of the most comprehensive summaries of the #Obamagate scandal.” Gorka, a…