Washington, DC was plunged into the world of fantasy this week as President Donald Trump, already caught in roughly 18,000 lies by fact checkers, went on an angry tirade against former president Barack Obama, whom he now accuses of “Obamagate … the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR.”

While unable to name a specific crime, Trump appears to be mobilizing the Department of Justice and pliable Attorney General Bill Barr to launch a series of investigations into an alleged conspiracy by the Obama White House to “sabotage” his incoming administration by manufacturing a Russian conspiracy to aid Trump.

Trump is notoriously sensitive about the legitimacy of his 2016 election, which all seventeen intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice itself, and several Congressional committees unanimously agree was tainted with Russian interference aimed at helping the Trump campaign.

That sensitivity also led to a previous failed investigation into alleged widespread voter fraud, which was apparently intended to corroborate his claim that 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton; Trump lost the popular vote by 2.9 million votes.

As far back as 2011, Trump, who’s promoted numerous conspiracy theories, launched an equally failed investigation into the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency, claiming that the former president was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible for the office.

Rather than dignifying “Obamagate” with a response, concerned citizens are encouraged to watch Obama decimate Trump’s birtherism at the 2011 White House Correspondent’s dinner and then enjoy this scene from a vastly superior fantasy while replacing “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” with “A liar, his tirades, and Barr, oh my!”

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