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   From: slime@nytimes.com   
      
   A crowd at President Trump's rally Sunday evening chanted "lock   
   him up" after the president accused his predecessor, former   
   President Obama, of being caught "spying" on the 2016 Trump   
   campaign.   
      
   During the event in Henderson, Nev., Trump told attendees that   
   the former president "got caught spying on my campaign,"   
   referring to longstanding accusations from him and his allies   
   that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with   
   Russia in 2016 was orchestrated by the Obama administration in   
   an attempt to sink his candidacy, a claim for which there is no   
   evidence.   
      
   In response, many attendees began chanting "lock him up!", a   
   riff on the "lock her up" chant the president encouraged during   
   his 2016 run against Hillary Clinton (D), during which he   
   alleged that his opponent had committed crimes by operating a   
   private email server as secretary of state.   
      
   The President says President Obama got caught spying on his   
   campaign and the crowd chants lock him up?   
   pic.twitter.com/mDYAWBO0n2   
      
   — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 14, 2020   
   The president has ratcheted up his rhetoric aimed at Obama in   
   recent months, accusing the former president in June of   
   committing "treason" while touting the upcoming results of the   
   Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the probe   
   into the Trump campaign.   
      
   “Treason. Treason. It’s treason,” Trump told CBN News in June.   
      
   “They’d been spying on my campaign,” the president added at the   
   time. “Turned out I was right. Let’s see what happens to them   
   now.”   
      
   His repeated baseless claims come as the Justice Department's   
   own inspector general previously told the Senate late last year   
   that neither the former president nor former Vice President Joe   
   Biden (D) were involved with the decision to begin the   
   investigation.   
      
   “We certainly didn’t see any evidence of that in the FBI’s files   
   or the department’s files," he told the Senate Judiciary   
   Committee in December.   
      
   https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516252-crowd-aims-lock-him-   
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