Barack Obama broke all the norms for former Presidents by actively campaigning to sabotage President Trump.

Obama is going to regret this bad move.

And Barack Obama crawled out of hiding to attack Trump, and it just backfired big time.

In an interview with the soon-to-be-canceled CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, Obama resurrected the failed Democratic attack that President Trump is a threat to democracy.

Obama claimed Trump’s Department of Justice’s indictment of James Comey was a departure from how his Department of Justice, which went after the Little Sisters of the Poor and opened the Russia collusion hoax, somehow respected the rule of law.

“Well, there are a couple that I followed even though they weren’t law, and we’re going to have to do some work to return to this basic norm, and we probably now have to codify it. The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted, right?” Obama stated.

The media waged a years-long attack on Trump, pushing the lie that the Department of Justice operates independently of the Executive Branch to bombard Americans with the falsehood that Trump’s Justice Department was a departure from America’s operating principles.

Colbert finally admitted to that lie.

“Because technically it’s under the executive branch. The norm is that it’s independent,” Colbert replied.

Obama then explained how the Attorney General shouldn’t operate as the president’s personal lawyer in mafia terms.

“The idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consigliere,” Obama shot back.

This would be news to Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, who very much operated as Barack Obama’s consigliere.

“I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy,” Holder crowed while he was in office.  

Even though Democrats spent four years scheming to put Trump in jail on sham charges, Obama then claimed America couldn’t survive the party in power weaponizing the courts to target political opponents.

“Two of the core principles of a democracy, we can survive a lot of bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff that, you know, we can overcome. We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system. The awesome power of the state. You can’t have a situation in which whoever’s in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends,” Obama added.

Obama’s comments reinforced a notion that’s taken hold among Americans during the Trump years.

And that’s every time the Democrats level an accusation against Trump, it’s really a confession of their own bad behavior.

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