Trump could read a room. 

He knew fully that he could not successfully run against Obama after the collapse of the Birther narrative, the humiliation at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the Bin Laden Raid in such short order. 

Obama believed he had enjoyed the last laugh. 

What the forty-fourth president hadn’t realized was that he simply gave “The Donald” the time needed to plot his revenge and prepare for ousting Obama and the Democrats’ best-laid political plans for 2016.

There’s no doubt that Trump is the most dynamic and unconventional man to have run for president in our lifetime. And while we only remember his unlikely victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, we must not forget that the seeds for that victory were sown by Obama himself in the spring of 2011. 

Obama Weaponized the Intelligence Community in 2016 Against Trump

Obama knew it, too, which is why I would argue he weaponized the DOJ and FBI against Trump in the closing months of the 2016 Presidential Election and why he and Michelle remained living in Washington, D.C., throughout the Trump presidency, basically running a shadow government aimed at stopping Trump from dismantling Obama’s legacy.

Which, of course, Obama did. Today, Obama’s former number two, the empty-minded Joe Biden is the puppet president; he is basically Obama’s third term in office. 

And, again, the DOJ and FBI are being weaponized to prevent Trump from having a fair shot at the White House. So long as Trump is a viable candidate, he is a threat to Obama's legacy.

But it all goes back to 2011 and the run-up to the 2012 Election.

Had Trump run back then, he’d have ousted Obama, and we’d be living in a far different world today. 

In fact, it would have been a better time for him to have run because we could have stopped Obama from hijacking the government for his own interests as he ultimately did by the end of his second term. Because it was during Obama's second term that the worst excesses occurred to permanently distort our government of serving We, The People, to preserving They, the Special Interests. 

About the Author

Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books), and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy. Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon. The author's opinions are his own.