He also called the tactic a “diversion.”
Joe Biden issued his most thorough rebuke yet to a flurry of conspiratorial attacks levied by President Trump and his allies on Tuesday night, calling the tactic a “diversion” and declaring he would not “get down in the mud” in any such back and forth with the Trump campaign.
In a barrage of 126 tweets sent by Trump on Mother’s Day, the president began using the hashtag „#OBAMAGATE,“ saying it was „the biggest political crime in American history,“ and a day later, tweeted it „makes Watergate look small-time.“ At first it was unclear what the president was referring to, but Trump has now loosely defined Obamagate as the leaking of former Michael Flynn’s name to the media and the allegation the Obama administration sought to sabotage his campaign.
Last week, documents made available to two Republican senators by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell showed that Biden was among those who requested Michael Flynn’s identity be revealed in intelligence reports — a process known as “unmasking.
