Before he left office, the shrewd Obama scattered a strategic field of banana skins for the in-coming Trump Administration to skid and trip over (details in earlier post "Obama's Bananas").
These Obama banana skins had claimed the first major casualty in Trump's Administration, ironically, a military man in the form of General Michael Flynn.
With barely a month left in his Presidency, Obama invoked strong sanctions against Russia and ejected numerous diplomats based merely on suspicions and allegations of hacking. Why the necessity of such drastic actions and haste of execution, if not to set a bait for Trump to fall into a trap?
It was essential and reasonable for President-Elect Trump who wanted improved relations with Russia when he is President to send some sort of a feeler ahead to reassure Russia and ensure that irreparable damage in relations was not wreck by an Obama bent on souring up things before he left.
Had Obama not created this 11th hour sly mischief of the sanctions and ejections, there would not have been any advance issue with Russia for Flynn to pursue and he would have been firmly ensconced in the WH as National Security Adviser to Trump.
Flynn had been tripped by Obama's banana skin when he engineered the cover up for which no crime had been committed. This bungled cover up undermined VP Pence and cost Flynn his job.
Obama 1 Trump 0
I can still see some more Obama rotting bananas sticking out there with very slippery skins where another Trump Administration member may step on and skid or slip very badly.
It was not a smooth transition, just hypocritical optics and the proof had just happened.
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