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A few minutes before the sun rose over Mar-a-Lago, President Trump was up, thumbing a series of tweets about Barack Obama and some of the darker days of 20th century American history.

In a series of tweets, President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, but offered no evidence to support the allegation. (Reuters)

In particular, he was making accusations that Obama had tapped the phones in Trump tower just before the 2016 election tactics Trump said hearkened to the McCarthy hearings and Red Scare of the late 1940s and 50s.

Nothing found, Trump tweeted. This is McCarthyism!

McCarthyism is something of which Trump should have in-depth knowledge.

His lifelong attorney and mentor Roy Cohn, one of the men who helped mold Trump into Trump was, as one author called it, Joseph McCarthy's sidekick.

After World War II, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, made claims that large numbers of communist spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the U.S. government and needed to be weeded out.

The accusations happened during a period of escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and growing fears about the global spread of communism. McCarthy interrogated alleged sympathizers at Senate hearings that came to bear his name. Just an accusation could ruin reputations and careers.

[The irony of Republicans complaining about McCarthyism]

Cohn was the brains behind McCarthy's rise to power and, to many Americans, one ofthe first real television personalities, according to his obituary in The Washington Post.

Mr. Cohn, with his slick hair, dark complexion and heavy-lidded eyes, the obit said, was frequently seen whispering in the senator's ear.

Eventually, though, Cohn's influence in Washington waned as McCarthy and his hearings lost public support.

Decades later, after Cohn returned to New York, he had Trump's ear.

They first met in New York in October 1973, when Trump was 27 and beginning to make his fortune in his family's real estate business. Cohn, then 46, was a high-profile defense lawyer with connections in city government and in the courts.He used his connections to reward friends and punish opponents,according toThe Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

There were, however, legions of Cohn detractors. He was a source of great evil in this society, Victor A. Kovner, a Democratic activist in New York City and First Amendment lawyer, told O'Harrow and Boburg.He was a vicious, Red-baiting source of sweeping wrongdoing.

[The web of relationships between Team Trump and Russia]

Cohn represented Trump and his dad, Fred, when they faced Justice Department allegations that they discriminated against black rental applicants atthe apartment complexes the family owned or managed, according to O'Harrow and Boburg.

On Dec. 12, 1973, Cohn called a news conference saying they were suing the government for $100 million over the allegations. In an affidavit, Cohn said the government was trying to force subservience to the Welfare Department.

The Trumps ultimately settled the case with the government without admitting guilt and declared victory.

In the late 70s and into the 1980s, Cohn fought efforts to have him disbarred. Through it all, Trump was a loyal friend, trophy client and protege.

Roy had a whole crazy deal going, but Roy was a really smart guy who liked me and did a great job for me on different things, Trump told The Post, according the story published in June. And he was a tough lawyer, and thats what I wanted. Roy was a very tough guy.

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In this photo from 1976, Trump shows off plans for the future Grand Hyatt on East 42nd Street to a city official. Considering the era and the man, this is a remarkably tasteful, organic-looking hairstyle. Nevertheless, the hard-charging young developer appears to be studying the older mans pate-management techniques with an eye, as always, to the future.

By NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.

The year is 1985. Trump, pictured with his first wife, Ivana, is now parting his hair from left to right, as he does to this day (to the extent that the complex superstructure that is Trumps hair can be said to have something as straightforward as a part). This is believed to be the last picture in which more than three-quarters of an inch of Trumps forehead was exposed to public view.

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Mr. and first-Mrs. Trump at the 1988 U.S. Open. Note that Ivana has essentially the same hairstyle as Donald, the rightward sweep of her hair echoing her husbands, though Ivanas tresses are clearly attached to her forehead in a way that lends all the more mystery and intrigue to his.

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Trump at a circa 1990 event with Clive Davis, Rod Stewart, and Rachel Hunter. That is not a lobotomy scar on the side of the billionaires head but rather a severe and deep part that suggests a problem area on the top and back of his scalp is being compensated for. Note that this party picture is composed as meticulously as an allegoric Renaissance painting, with Trump occupying the symbolic middle ground, in terms of possessing active follicles, between Davis and Stewart. To the right, Hunter represents hair in its unfallen, natural-ish state.

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Trump and then-girlfriend Marla Maples sanctifying their love, like all devoted couples do, at a press event in 1991. Note that Trumps hairline is now nearly contiguous with his eyebrows. Is this evidence of the scalp reduction he allegedly underwent in 1989, according to divorce papers filed by Ivana and recounted in the 1993 biography Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump?

By Ron Galella/WireImage.

Trumps 1993 wedding to Maples, the second Mrs. Trump. Strangely, the hair on the left side of the grooms head is a full half foot taller than on the right. This imbalance may be the result of the three or four inter-dimensional, gravity-warping vortexes clearly visible in the back of his head.

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Trump bending over to share a tender moment with his son Eric in 1991. This inadvertent overhead view reveals that, claims to Swedish ancestry notwithstanding, Trump is in fact part unicorn.

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Trump with the John F. Kennedy Jr. at a 1999 New York Knicks game. Observe how the businessmans hair breaks over his collar like a viscous, bird-killing oil slick. Why is J.F.K. Jr. the one wearing a hat?

By Keith Torrie/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.

Trump at an outdoor event in around 2000, after ordering his stylist to color his hair and eyebrows a then-chic shade known as Cigar-Stained-Teeth Blonde. Tellingly, the wind affects but a single quadrant of Trumps hair, as if the rest were bolted down like a storm cellar door.

By Budd Williams/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images.

In this 2002 photograph, Trump has changed his hair color to Burnt-Cheetos Auburn. As well, the conventional hairsprays and salon products of years past appear to have given way to rubber cement and snot.

By Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Unlike her husband, the third Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss, is comfortable enough in her femininity to show off her normal but comparatively high hairline in this 2002 photo.

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Trump, shown here, in 2003, with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett, experiments with white roots and light filaments wrapped around the back of his head. Historians call this developers middle-aged club kid phase.

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Trump at the 2004 Emmys. At this point, were just fucking with your stomach. Had lunch yet?

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Trump with son Donald Trump Jr. at a 2006 press event where they appear to be performers in a horrifying tableau vivant of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Skillful lighting reveals the fathers signature side-and-back comb-over (and over)The Trump Crosshatchwhile the sons mane has been styled to look genuinely, biologically luxuriant.

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Trump, at a 2013 red-carpet event for All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, in disguise as former U.S. representative Dick Gephardt, possibly to avoid good-writing scolds who consider All-Star Celebrity redundant, and fact checkers who might deem the claim debatable.

By Matthew Eisman/WireImage.

Trump at Trump Tower this past June, announcing his candidacy for president. Cannily, he appears to be courting the womens vote by having combed the hair on the left side of his head into the shape of a vagina.

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Hannitygrillied the three on the shocking revelations recently outlined by radio host Mark Levin and expanded on by Breitbart News that show that starting in June, 2016 the Obama administration filed requests with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers.

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On the eve of Inauguration Day, the New York Times reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department were monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign on suspicion of Russian ties.

Hannity was having none of it on Saturday, blasting top Obama friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett, whomThe Daily Mail recently reported is now living with the Obamas in their Washington D.C. mansion. Hannity made a reference to this in one his Tweets to Jarrett, saying:

Hannity followed that shot across the bow with a series of questions that the public has a right to know, peppering Jarrett like a skilled prosecutor:

After going after Jarrett, Hannity set his sights on Ben Rhodes, former Obama speechwriter and foreign policy advisor.

Then Hannity set this sights on Dan Pfeiffer, a senior advisor to President Obama and a current contributor to CNN.

Finally, Hannity asked the Watergate question of the former President:

Democrats and the media have used accusations of Trumps supposed connection to Russia to assail Trump for months, and since the President was sworn in, have continued to target administration officials such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and General Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign after giving incorrect information, possibly inadvertently, to Vice President Pence. Meanwhile, the media has joined the attack, throwing out endless questions about Russia and Trump and his team, as well as allowing disgraced Democrat officials like Donna Brazile to use Russian hacking as an excuse and deflectionfrom their own misdeeds.

When asked by Breitbart News for comment, Hannity said Ill let the Tweets speak for themselves.

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Former President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaStephen King mocks Trump wiretap allegations with short story Second GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to share info on wiretapping claims GOP senator demands more info from Trump on wiretapping claims MORE warned President Trump as he left office that North Korea would be the most urgent problem he would face, the New York TimesreportedSaturday.

The report details the Obama administrations efforts to lead a cyber war against North Koreas missile program, with a number of the North's military rockets later exploding or veering off course into the sea.

The Trump administration has said all options are on the table for countering the nuclear threat, according to the report. Trump has previously said North Korea will not obtain nuclear weapons.

North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won't happen! Trumptweetedin early January.

The Wall Street Journal in November reported that Obama officials had told members of the Trump transition team that North Korea would be the new administrations number one national security issue.

North Korea said in September that it had conducted a nuclear test. Over the past eight months, Pyongyang has launched three medium-range rockets and have aimed to create an intercontinental ballistic missile.

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I want you to stand in front of a mirror.

Now I want you to imagine Barack Obama is 40 days into his presidency, and that during his campaign he repeatedly and inexplicably praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Next imagine that late in the campaign and in the weeks that followed the election that brought Obama into office, American intelligence agencies determined conclusively that Russia had hacked the Republican National Committee and released thousands of stolen emails that were damaging to Obama's opponent.

And that Obama's campaign vigorously denied any contact with Russian officials before or after the election.

Then, imagine that not long after the inauguration, Obama's national security adviser was found to have lied about having contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He in fact spoke with the ambassador in December, the day the outgoing president issued sanctions against Russia for interfering with the election.

The adviser was fired.

Questions persisted. More evidence began to surface that people connected to Obama had been in contact with the Russians during the campaign.

Imagine that President Obama continued to deny there was any issue and brushed off reports as "fake news," criticizing the intelligence community for leaking information to the press.

As calls for an investigation into the Obama campaign's connections to Russia grew louder, news broke that Obama's new attorney general had been less than honest during his confirmation hearing when asked if he had contact with the Russians. He said he hadn't, but it turns out he had met twice with the Russian ambassador, one of those times during the Democratic National Convention.

Imagine the attorney general said his meetings were part of his work as a senator, but then news came out that the trip to the convention was paid for through the then-senator's campaign fund.

Under pressure, Obama's attorney general finally recused himself from investigations into issues surrounding the campaign and Russia.

Now imagine at this point, which again is in Obama's first 40 days as president, you learn that the fired national security adviser actually met with the Russian ambassador at Obama's house in Chicago, along with Obama's son-in-law. (You also have to imagine that Malia Obama is married and that a staffer in Obama's White House recently tried to push Malia's clothing line in a nationally televised interview. I know this is hard, just keep that imagination going.)

Next you learn that an Obama campaign official who made a change to the Democratic Party platform during its national convention, a change Russia would like the only change that candidate Obama's campaign requested also met with the Russian ambassador during the Democratic National Convention.

Imagine all of these things. And remember that President Obama and members of his campaign all said specifically and repeatedly that there had been no contact with Russia.

Imagine.

Now look into that mirror in front of you.

If this were true, would you think there should be an independent investigation into contacts between the Obama campaign and Russia? Are you angry?

If you answered yes to either of those questions and you don't feel the same way right now about the connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, you need to ask yourself: What is the difference between these two men?

Now look in the mirror again, long and hard. Because you have one last question to ask yourself.

And I think you know what it is.

rhuppke@chicagotribune.com

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