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'Let it go': CNN panel dismantles Trump’s seething obsession with Obama
Trump’s Obama Fixation Is Not a Personality Quirk. It Is a Political Cover Story.The Story, BrieflyMS NOW’s Katy Tur and Peter Baker used Trump’s fixation on Barack Obama as the lens for a broader criticism: Trump keeps measuring himself against a more popular predecessor, blames Obama for his own failures, and cannot stop turning everything into a contest he is losing. The reporting also notes Trump reposting a racist video about Obama and Michelle Obama, then deleting it after Republican senators objected.Power Is Not the Problem HereThe central fact is simple: Trump holds the institutional…
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