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U.S. President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “treason” on Tuesday, accusing him, without providing evidence, of leading an effort to falsely tie him to Russia and undermine his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A spokesperson for Obama denounced Trump’s claims, saying “these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Trump has frequently attacked Obama by name, the Republican president has not, since returning to office in January, gone this far in pointing the finger at his Democratic predecessor with allegations of criminal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During remarks in the Oval Office, Trump leaped on comments from his intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, on Friday in which she threatened to refer Obama administration officials to the Justice Department for prosecution over an intelligence assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She declassified documents and said the information she was releasing showed a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d in 2016 by top Obama administration officials to undermine Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s there, he\u2019s guilty. This was treason,\u201d Trump said on Tuesday. \u201cThey tried to steal the election, they tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody\u2019s ever imagined, even in other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An assessment by the U.S. intelligence community in 2017 concluded that Russia, using social media disinformation, hacking and Russian bot farms, sought to damage Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign and bolster Trump. The assessment determined that the actual impact was likely limited and showed no evidence that Moscow\u2018s efforts actually changed voting outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 2020 bipartisan report by the Senate intelligence committee had found that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks website and others to try to influence the 2016 election to help Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has frequently denounced the assessments as a \u201choax.\u201d In recent days, Trump reposted on his Truth Social account a fake video showing Obama being arrested in handcuffs in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has been seeking to divert attention to other issues after coming under pressure from his conservative base to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backers of conspiracy theories about Epstein have urged Trump, who socialized with the disgraced financier during the 1990s and early 2000s, to release investigative files related to the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, asked in the Oval Office about Epstein, quickly pivoted into an attack on Obama and Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWhat they did to this country, starting in 2016 but going up all the way to 2020 and the election, and they tried to rig the election, and they got caught, and there should be very severe consequences for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump suggested action would be taken against Obama and his former officials, calling the Russia investigation a treasonous act and the former president guilty of \u201ctrying to lead a coup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to start, after what they did to me, and whether it\u2019s right or wrong, it\u2019s time to go after people. Obama has been caught directly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats, responding to Gabbard last Friday, had called her accusations false and politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratic Congressman Jim Himes posted on X in response to Trump\u2019s Oval Office allegations against Obama: \u201cThis is a lie. And if he\u2019s confused, the President should ask @SecRubio, who helped lead the bipartisan Senate investigation that unanimously concluded that there was no evidence of politicization in the intelligence community\u2019s behavior around the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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