Trump admin leans into unsubstantiated claims Obama committed ‘treason’

The Trump medication says erstwhile President Obama sought to undermine Trump done faulty claims.

The medication of United States President Donald Trump has again pushed unsubstantiated claims that erstwhile President Barack Obama committed treason by falsely tying him to Russian efforts to interfere successful the 2016 election.

Speaking astatine the White House connected Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that Obama and cardinal allies had misled the nationalist and manipulated quality to undermine Trump.

Asked if she believed Obama had committed treason, Gabbard said it was up to the Department of Justice to bring transgression charges, but said that the actions of Obama and his allies could “only beryllium described arsenic a years-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an effort to undermine President Trump’s administration”.

Trump has often pushed baseless claims astir his governmental rivals and threatened them with persecution. He has besides remained fixated connected past grievances, promoting allegations that helium has been undermined by murky forces and repeating the mendacious assertion that helium was the existent victor of the 2020 election.

His medication has precocious travel nether accrued unit from members of his ain right-wing base, some of whom person been disappointed with his administration’s handling of accusation astir disgraced financier and enactment trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump has said that helium wants Obama, who served arsenic president earlier Trump’s archetypal word successful office, to look “accountability”.

“It’s there; he’s guilty. This was treason,” Trump said connected Tuesday, pushing accusations wide denounced arsenic baseless. “They tried to bargain the election, they tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever imagined, adjacent successful different countries.”

Asked astir those comments connected Wednesday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt did not specify what actions Trump would similar to see.

“It’s successful the Department of Justice’s hands and we spot them to determination the shot forward,” she said.

During her remarks connected Wednesday, Gabbard besides named respective figures from the Obama administration, including erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, erstwhile FBI Director James Comey, and erstwhile CIA Director John Brennan.

A spokesperson for Obama has antecedently said that Trump’s “bizarre” claims of treason are “ridiculous and a anemic effort astatine distraction”.

Trump faced allegations of attempting to overturn his nonaccomplishment successful 2020 done anti-democratic means aft a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol connected January 6, 2021, to forestall the certification of the predetermination results based connected mendacious claims pushed by Trump that the predetermination had been “stolen” done monolithic fraud.

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