By now I think everyone realizes that no matter what Donald Trump does to help improve and protect the lives of Americans, he’s going to continue to get hammered day in and day out by the Dirty Dems and the fake media. And you know what? While he may not deserve such abuse, the Republican Party does.

Why? Because for eight years, even though the ugly truth stared them in the face day in and day out, they were scared to death to lay a glove on “the elephant in the room.” By the elephant in the room, I’m talking about the guy who was actually caught on a hot mic telling Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, “After my election I have more flexibility.” To which Medvedev responded, “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”

Really? Flexibility to do what? What did Obama want to do for (or with) the Russians that he didn’t want voters in the 2012 elections to know about?

Investigation? LOL. Nothing Obama did mattered, because the party line of establishment Republicans was that he was just an inexperienced, misguided, incompetent liberal ideologue. In fact, the Romney-McCain-McConnell-Boehner-Ryan-led establishment insisted that Obama loved America and was basically a good guy who just “didn’t have a clue.”

During his ill-fated presidential run, girly-man Romney even went out of his way to say that Obama was a “nice guy but in over his head” — at the same time that Obama was insulting and demeaning him. Psst … Mitt, Obama is not “nice guy.” He’s a mean-spirited Marxist whose goal it is (present tense intended) to totally destroy the United States of America and all of Western civilization. Never forget his bold battle cry: “Punish our enemies.”

Which is why it was so breathtaking when political hack Elijah Cummings called Donald Trump an “illegitimate president.” Of course, everyone’s definition of illegitimate is different. To me, the only illegitimate president in my lifetime was Barack Obama. What was illegitimate about him? Everything! To name some of the more obvious items:

Attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s hate-America, black separatist church for 20 years and referring to him as his mentor … his association with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers … his mentor-mentee relationship throughout his teenage years with American communist Frank Marshall Davis … his literary agent’s publicity brochure that stated he was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii” … his rush to seal his records at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard — including transcripts, theses, and test scores … forcing through Obamacare over the objections of the American people (and the blatant lies he fed them about it) … the fabricated Benghazi video story … the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups … ignoring the ongoing carnage on Chicago’s south side … effectively supporting Iran’s terrorist-sponsoring, fascist government … his outward disdain for Israel … creating a vacuum in Iraq that gave Isis the opportunity to rapidly expand … and much, much more.

The list goes on and on for virtually every day of his regime. Anyone who cares to take the time to do a bit of research on the Internet can easily make the list a hundred times longer.

But the overriding reason why Barack Obama was an illegitimate president is because he stated from the outset that he was going to fundamentally transform the United States of America. Not transform America, but fundamentally transform it.

Now, I’m no legal scholar, but that goal sounds an awful lot like sedition to me. Of course, sedition itself is not treasonous, but giving aid and comfort to a country’s enemies is. I’ll leave it to you to be the judge as to whether or not Obama crossed that line.

Yep, for eight long, painful years, the elephant in the room that no one — including Republicans — wanted to acknowledge was none other than Barack Obama. But the truth is that Obama was, and is, a media-created fraud. Everything about him was a media-manufactured myth — things like the oft-repeated absurdity that “He’s the smartest guy in the room” and constant references to his “remarkable oratorical skills.”

Not quite. Without a teleprompter and words prepared for him by a professional speech writer, the man stumbles and fumbles around like a grade-school kid every time he opens his mouth. It takes him five minutes to answer a question that Donald Trump could answer in 20 seconds (though, in all fairness, a lot of his stumbling and fumbling is probably due to intentional filibustering to avoid having to answer too many questions).

I used to cringe when the media made comments like, “The question is, how high up does this go? Is it possible that (gasp) it could go all the way to the White House?” Not all the way to Barack Obama, mind you, but “all the way to the White House.” Everyone was afraid to so much as hint that Obama himself might have been directly involved in any way in the thousands of untoward, corrupt, and criminal deeds that occurred during his time in office.

The man was protected like a piece of fine China — not just by the media, but by Democrats and Republicans alike. No matter what atrocities were brought to light, it was as though Barack Obama didn’t exist. At worst, the finger was nebulously pointed at “the White House.”

So now, here we are all these years later, and the young man who seemingly appeared out of nowhere has slipped into the night as an unscathed middle-aged man, already well along in his efforts to set up a shadow government. With billions of dollars at his disposal and the fake media behind him, he will have the wherewithal to wield enormous power in his continued efforts to destroy America and Western civilization.

So, even though Barack Obama is most decidedly not the smartest guy in the room, it would be a big mistake to underestimate him. And on top of the big bucks and the MSM he will have behind him, he possesses an important trait that has allowed him to pull off his decades-long scam without flinching: unmatched arrogance. Imagine his believing that Democrats, who have lost nearly 1,000 seats in state legislatures during his two terms in office, would do just fine if they would only become more adept at explaining his radical-left agenda.

Unfortunately, it’s almost certain that millions of Americans, both in and out of government, who were intimidated into not speaking up about Barack Obama and his roadmap for a Marxist America will continue to look the other way as he doubles down on his efforts to bring down the Trump administration, the United States, and the Western world. So, as much as I hate to say it, I’m afraid that Barack Obama is still the elephant in the room whom millions of Americans still pretend not to see.

Open your eyes, America! Trust me: The elephant is alive and well, and still very much in the room. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.