Flashback: This tweet from David Plouffe about 'destroying Trump thoroughly' didn't age well

Brett T. | 6:14 PM on May 21, 2018

This old tweet from 2016 from David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008 and later a senior advisor to the president, bubbled up to the surface recently and gave some excellent insight into Team Obama and its stance on a Trump presidency.

If you thought that text from FBI agent Peter Strzok about the risk of Donald Trump being elected president and the FBI’s “insurance policy” just in case was a red flag, check out Plouffe’s take from around the same time:

https://twitter.com/davidplouffe/status/742462346069708800

Gee, Trump must be “destroyed thoroughly” — even if that meant the Obama administration placing a spy inside the Trump campaign (just theoretically speaking, of course).

Yikes this did not age well… #ObamaGate https://t.co/16NmJgfLoF

— jonny hopkins (@mnrube17) May 21, 2018

Every once in a while it's good to look back….. https://t.co/n9jSaJTSTb

— Joshashland (@joshashland1) May 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/ThinBlueLR/status/998681087655186435

This tweet now makes perfect sense, in literal terms. I hope there is a day of reckoning for you, too.

— Militant_Normalita⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@iWideOpen) May 21, 2018

This is a former Obama administration official that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired last year to work on his social advocacy organization.https://t.co/eAvukz8S3h pic.twitter.com/Wy45tizhPt

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 21, 2018

Remember this? (H/T @DualFed) By "his kind," he means a self-funding wealthy businessman not beholden to powerful crooks. The Russia probe was a message, not a legit investigation.

That message is: "Don't ever try to take our power and give it back to the American people again." https://t.co/LAB9y1Q5SP

— Richard Baris (@Peoples_Pundit) May 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/MissDemeanor123/status/998671980227383296