As expected, the denial from
Barack Obama’s camp on Donald Trump’s diversionary allegation was quick, swift
and effective. It was already amplified in appeal by the fact that the 45th
US President didn’t offer, as has been his favourite ‘hoot and scoot style’,
any evidence to back his wild claims that many US senators see as a ‘serious
breach’ and emphasize on the need for ‘serious investigation’.
The team of the 44th
US President has said that it was a policy cornerstone of the Obama White House
to never interfere in the Department of Justice probes. The team further
clarified that under the US law, no US president can order ‘wire tapping’ of
any US citizen and the accusations made by Donald Trump are ‘simply false’.
Now Barack Obama carries much
more weight than Donald Trump and people will have no problem in buying the
clarification put forward by his team, especially when Trump is still silent on
backing his wild accusations with some sort of evidence though almost 24 hours
have passed.
That brings us to the natural
extension of this row – that what would be the next body of lies tweetaculated
by Donald Trump who prefers to use his personal Twitter handle and personal
resort as his official mouthpiece and his official winter residence.
Interestingly, while
levelling frivolous allegations on Obama, Trump used the term McCarthyism.
McCarthyism was a notorious term given to the acts of US Senator John McCarthy
in 1950s and is basically about targeting and persecuting people for treason
crimes without even a shred of evidence – something that Trump is looking to be
masters at – something that is again evident by the bunch of these wild tweets against
Obama in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the growing row over his
campaign team’s Russia connections.
Trump is well habituated and
thus well suited for McCarthyism. That brings us to another conclusion that we
all know that, on one side, Trump is not well read, and at the same time, lacks
a team of advisers and support staff who could help him with such basic but
glaring mistakes in his tweetacules.
©SantoshChaubey