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Former U.S. President Barack Obama takes a photo of his wife Michelle as she poses on the top deck of the Rising Sun yacht.

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Over the weekend and into Monday, conservative media covered violence between pro- and anti-Trump protests that occurred in Berkeley, California on Saturday. In a typical formulation, LifeZette suggested that leftists had targeted their antagonists on the right. Summing up the scene, that publication wrote:

Breitbart focused on specific acts of violence supposedly perpetrated by leftists against Trump supporters in its article Mayhem in Berkeley: Trump Supporters, Counter-Protesters Clash During Rally. One, the publication wrote, was surrounded by a dozen protesters in black masks who he said attacked him with sticks and pepper spray while another was also bloodied as the melee moved from the park up Center Street toward the UC Berkeley campus.

Gateway Pundit published multiple posts on the violence, variously claiming that one protester insulted a wounded veteran in a wheelchair and alleging that Trump supporters were left to clean up garbage left by Antifa [anti-fascist] thugs who knocked over dumpsters. Media Research Centers Dan Gainor told Breitbart News Daily that the Berkeley disturbance compared unfavorably to Tea Party rallies, which featured a bunch of people showing up, very nice, very polite, neat, cleaning up, and that was it.

A common conspiracy theory, pushed by sites such as Infowars, suggested that the police had largely stayed back as Antifa agitators took pot shots at Donald Trump supporters. Gateway Pundit also wrote that police were no where [sic] in sight, despite reporting to the contrary from other conservative sites.

In The Lefts Embrace of Political Violence Backfires in Berkeley, the Daily Callers Scott Greer held that the violence had been orchestrated by anti-Trump agitators and that it had been a humiliating defeat for them. Connecting the Berkeley conflict to a handful of other incidents, Greer wrote, Now that elements of the Right have shown that they have the capability to defend themselves and drive the opposition, the only result of this embrace of violence is the radicalization of the Lefts enemies.

Many conservative outlets took notice of Barack and Michelle Obamas latest vacation, which found the couple on an enormous yacht owned by David Geffen. Sarcastically suggesting that it was a much needed respite for the couple, Independent Journal Reviewwhich has run into trouble with its past coverage of the Obamas travelspointed out that the former president appeared to have aged considerably during his time in office, despite having played333 rounds of golf during his two terms.

Breitbart noted that the couple had been joined by a group of A-listcelebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, on the yacht. Gateway Pundit offered some additional speculation about the guest list (which reportedly also included Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen), wondering whether the all-star crew had been up to something sinister. The question is are all these hardcore Obama supporters just getting together for fun in the sun in Tahiti or are they plotting the next phase of the New American Resistance? the site asked.

On Facebook, meanwhile, the Daily Caller scored a hit with a post characterizing Vice President Mike Pence as a huge badass:

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