By Gary Bauer ~ The media has been celebrating Barack Obama’s return to the political stage since his speech at the University of Illinois last Friday. But the narrative is wrong. I would argue that Obama never left the scene.

Contrary to the tradition for ex-presidents, Obama stayed in Washington, DC. Of course, progressives constantly tell us that walls protecting America are bad, but one of the first things the Obamas did after leaving the White House was build a wall around their new Washington, DC, home.

I suspect many of the things we have seen and heard from Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, whose maneuvers led to the Mueller probe, have largely been directed by Obama. The political “bombs” planted by left-wing ideologues ensconced in various agencies around this city are also his doing.

And don’t forget that the FBI probe of the Trump campaign started under Obama. That was…