"The Obama administration has been the most lawless in U.S."

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Those idiotically laughable subject-line words were written by Ilya Shapiro, the libertarian, right-wing director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. (Note: Cato Institute is a Koch-funded entity.)

Think Shapiro would get upset about what TRUMP has done to the constitution? I googled it high and low, and the ONE issue where Shapiro softly criticizes his Holy Master is Trump’s attempt to use emergency powers to to fund his goddamned wall.

Note that this article was written in January 2017, when 45 was a noobie. Not that anything’s changed.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/top-10-ways-obama-violated-constitution-during-presidency
The Federalist, January 19, 2017
The Obama administration has been the most lawless in U.S. history. I don’t mean that in the Nixonian sense of personal corruption, whereby the president is personally above the law, although the idea that Barack Obama’s tenure has been ethically pure is laughable.

No, my accusation rests on the 44th president’s seeing himself as professionally above the law, ignoring the executive branch’s legal limits and disrespecting constitutional bounds like federalism and the separation of powers.
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1. It was the most lawless because he was presidenting while black (PWB).

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3. On 08/28/2014, Obama wore a tan suit just to show he "didn't care about national-security threats"

The Audacity of Taupe! How anti-American!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/style/amp22862882/obama-tan-suit-anniversary/
Five Years Later, Obama's Tan Suit 'Controversy' Seems More Ridiculous Than Ever
We've got bigger things to worry about, people.
Esquire Magazine
BY ELENA HILTON AUG 28, 2019
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The amount of chaos Trump has caused since becoming president is so egregious that his overly long ties and poorly tailored suits are the absolute least of anyone's worries. Obama's tan suit is still laughably bad, but I would honestly be fine if he had worn a T-shirt every day if it meant we had a somewhat competent president now.
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2. Complete fiction from someone dedicated to bothsiderism

Apparently, Shapiro is another zealot for whom facts don’t deter from his agenda.

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5. Utterly. He can dress it up in legalese, but a MAGAt is a MAGAt.

The concepts of irony, nuance, details, etc. are completely foreign to these people.

They utter the name “Soros” and think they’ve just discovered a secret knockout punch.

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13. They just spew propaganda, little of it based in fact

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4. Wasn't it a Mustardgate also?

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7. And that ever so elite arugula! nt

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10. O, the humanity!

No one does faux outrage like the right wing. They have that sad act *covered*.

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9. Yes, there was. Also GherkinGate, Terrorist Fist-bump Gate, Bike-Nerd Gate...

Imagine an American president using (gasp!) Dijon Mustard!

Also Greeting Gate, Assman gate, No Jacket Required Gate, Feet Gate and Latte Salute Gate.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedailybanter.com/.amp/2014/09/obamas-top-10-ridiculous-non-scandal-scandals/

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14. Latte Salute Gate

I remember that! Oh, the horror. Thank god we don’t have problems like THAT anymore.

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15. Right? The absolute horror!

Close call!

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6. Damn that tan suit

By any empirical measure, the Obama administration was the least lawless, least corrupt, most scandal free of any presidency in the past century.

Shapiro has a list of libertarian butt-hurt, largely over Obama successes.

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12. Whistle-clean and spotless.

So the right wing pushed birtherism, to discredit and undermine Obama in the public eye. (Don the Con even tested the political waters by going all-in on birtherism.)

And these same Republicans are twisting themselves into baroque pretzels to “excuse” Trump’s very real transgressions.

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8. "Cut and run" was a charge they loved throwing at him over the military too.

And the red line comment...

With what he's done in Syria, that all seems extra moronic but we know these people have no shame. They're defending an open criminal now.

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11. Yes! Whatever's beyond hypocrisy, the right wing is there.

This bullshit line about Obama in my OP:
“seeing himself as professionally above the law, ignoring the executive branch’s legal limits and disrespecting constitutional bounds like federalism and the separation of powers.”

That’s THE definition of Trump’s ideological bent. He thinks he’s a god-emperor. Apparently his cult base does, too.