A few days after President Donald Trump published a false video generated by AI-AI showing the arrest of former president Barack Obama on his social media platform, the current president pushed conspiracy theories on Obama on Tuesday in the Oval office, accusing him of betrayal without providing evidence concerning the 2016 presidential election.
“They tried to fuck the elections, and they were caught. And there should be very serious consequences for that,” Trump told journalists on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Obama has rejected the statements of the Trump administration, saying that even if they “would not normally not dignify constant nonsense” of the White House with an answer, the affirmations are “sufficiently scandalous to deserve one”.
President Donald Trump meets Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in the oval office of the White House, on July 22, 2025, in Washington.
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“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a low attempted distraction,” the statement said.
Trump’s comments are intervened after the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted a criminal dismissal to the Ministry of Justice threatening the Obama administration.
Obama’s spokesman said that “nothing in the document published last week undergoes the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but failed to manipulate votes”.
“These conclusions were confirmed in a 2020 report by the Senate of the Senate of the Senate of Bipartite, led by President Marco Rubio at the time,” Obama spokesman said on Tuesday.
Asked about the Deputy Prosecutor Todd Blanche Meeting with Ghislaine MaxwellThe partner found guilty of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who was found guilty of sexual traffic in 2022, Trump turned to the attacks on Obama, calling the former president the “gang leader”.
“It was a betrayal. It was each word you can think of. They tried to steal the elections. They tried to obscure the elections. They did things that no one even imagined, even in other countries,” Trump said in the oval office on Tuesday.
The false video generated by the AIa republished on Trump’s social media platform during the weekend showed that Obama was arrested in the oval office. The video was published on Tiktok before being republished on Trump’s social media platform on Sunday.
President Barack Obama welcomes the president elected Donald Trump to the White House on January 20, 2017.
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Trump’s message – and other recent comments – come as Critics on both sides of the aisle say that the president tries to distract From Epstein files, the administration faces a repression for more transparency concerning the case.
