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Trump Accuses Obama of ‘Treason’ in Wild Rant as Epstein Questions Swirl
In a televised tirade filled with allegations of a sweeping conspiracy—one he claims reached the highest levels of the U.S. government—President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “treason.” Trump’s remarks extend to then–Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and several other top officials from the Obama administration, alleging they conspired to deny him the presidency not once, but three times.
President Obama was the “leader of the gang,” Trump told reporters, as he sat in the Oval Office, beside a visiting fellow head of state who remained largely silent during his reportedly eight-minute attack. Trump said Obama was “guilty,” had come up with the “concept,” and called for an investigation in the wake of widely disputed claims made by his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
An analysis from The Washington Post on Tuesday concluded that “Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘seditious conspiracy’ claim is based on thin gruel,” and that her “announcement flies in the face of the conclusions of four previous investigations totaling more than 2,500 pages.”
But Trump alleged that his administration has found “irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious. That Obama was trying to lead a coup. And it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people. But Obama headed it up.”
“This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country,” Trump charged.
Critics charge Trump and his administration are attempting to deflect from the fallout over his promise, and now refusal, to release the files on the notorious sex offender and disgraced financier, the late Jeffrey Epstein.
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Describing them as “long-held grievances,” The Wall Street Journal characterized Trump’s remarks as “among the harshest comments he has directed at Democratic leaders during his second term in office.”
Asked by a reporter who the U.S. Department of Justice “should target” in an investigation, Trump replied, “based on what I read and I read pretty much what you read, it would be President Obama.”
“He started it. And Biden was there with him, and Comey was there, and Clapper, the whole group was there,” Trump alleged, referring to President Obama’s former Vice President, President Joe Biden, along with former FBI Director James Comey, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. He also mentioned former CIA Director John Brennan.
“They were all there in a room, right here. This is the room,” Trump said of the Oval Office. “This is much more beautiful than it was then, but that’s okay. I have nice pictures up. They came out of the vaults. They were in there for a hundred years. This is much more beautiful . We have the Declaration of Independence now in the room, which wasn’t here, I guess people didn’t feel too good about putting it here, but I do.”
Trump claimed Gabbard’s files have President Obama “stone-cold.” He said, “the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?”
“Look, he’s guilty,” Trump declared. “He’s not a question. You know, I’d like to say, uh, let’s give it time. It’s there. He’s guilty.”
“This was treason, this was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election , they tried to obfuscate the election, they did things that nobody’s ever even imagined, even in other countries.”
The President alleged, “we have all of the documents, and from what Tulsi told me, she’s got thousands of additional documents coming.”
Trump said not only was it Obama’s “idea,” but “he also got it from Crooked Hillary Clinton. Crooked as a $3 bill.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump DNI Tulsi Gabbard “said her office found ‘overwhelming evidence’ that government officials committed ‘treasonous conspiracy in 2016’ to set up a ‘yearslong coup’ against Trump.”
“Gabbard said the information released by her office was evidence that Obama administration officials suppressed intelligence showing Russian actors didn’t impact the 2016 presidential election by using cyberattacks on election infrastructure. Gabbard said she sent criminal referrals to the DOJ based on her findings.”
Experts have disputed Gabbard’s claims, with several pointing to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on Russia’s efforts during the 2016 election, published in 2020 under the direction of then-Intelligence Chairman Marco Rubio, now Trump’s Secretary of State. That report found Russia engaged in efforts to impact the 2016 election but made clear no votes were changed.
Rubio’s statement says the Committee “found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”
“Now,” it concluded, “as we head towards the 2020 elections, China and Iran have joined Russia in attempts to disrupt our democracy, exacerbate societal divisions, and sow doubts about the legitimacy and integrity of our institutions, our electoral process and our republic.”
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President Trump on DNI report on 2016 Russian interference claims: “The leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?…He’s guilty. It’s not a question. You know, I like to say let’s give it time. It’s there. He’s guilty. This was treason.” pic.twitter.com/fNd0LGTq1N
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 22, 2025
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Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is “taking time to reflect” on a path forward.
Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, “says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.”
“Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner,” Politico reported, “for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.”
In a video posted to social media eleven minutes after the Politico story dropped, Platner says, “I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”
He said he and his supporters “were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, in a focus on defeating Susan Collins.”
“So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.”
“Those were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today.”
“Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me. And I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so.”
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a political commentator who served as the communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Platner.
“I’m sorry but ‘we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward’ is not an option on the table,” Miller wrote. “Either it’s false and you campaign with vigor or it’s true and you get out / apologize to everyone you let down.”
Journalist Ryan Grim, commenting on Platner’s video, noted that Platner “strongly suggests he is considering dropping out. Already Troy Jackson and Chellie Pingree, both gubernatorial candidates, are being kicked around in Maine circles as potential replacements.”
Several others, including Puck News’ Peter Hamby, predicted Platner will be dropping out.
Platner had postponed several campaign events before the Politico story was published.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 6, 2026
President Donald Trump is facing backlash after posting a video of children — including showing their unblurred faces — graduating from kindergarten, with some of the girls purportedly wearing hijabs.
“President Trump posted a captionless video of graduating kindergarteners on Truth Social on Monday, goading his supporters into verbally attacking little children simply for being Muslim,” The New Republic reported. “The clip is from Gateway STEM Academy, a majority-Black K-8 public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota. It shows about 21 children in caps and gowns on stage singing a song together. Most of the girls are wearing hijabs.”
The original post of the video which Trump reposted reads: “Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten.”
Trump did not add any comments. TNR called the post “Islamophobic, weird, and creepy,” while noting that the comments section of Trump’s post was filled with calls “by racist, xenophobic MAGA supporters” to “deport the children and ban hijabs.”
TNR also noted that it “should come as no surprise that Trump isn’t above attacking children who just learned how to read, but this post is still particularly discomforting—and will certainly contribute to the already potent level of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. and in Minnesota.”
Critics blasted Trump.
“There is something deeply unsettling about the president of the United States—the most powerful person in the world—going after kindergarten schoolchildren in Minnesota because they wore hijabs, as Trump has done this morning on his website,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote.
One social media commentator wrote, “Trump posted an unblurred video of more than a dozen Muslim kindergartners to Truth Social, exposing the children’s faces while targeting them for their religion.”
Another added, “Trump is a bigot. The president took to Truth Social to attack kindergarteners in hijabs. These are little kids. The president isn’t just a bigot, he’s also a coward.”
The original video was posted to the X social media platform in June.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) at the time commented, “If you are in a public school in America, you should be speaking english.”
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President Donald Trump’s apparent efforts to delay releasing the $5.8 million civil judgment to E. Jean Carroll are being met with a warning by the journalist’s legal team, who suggest there could be a legal maneuver for Trump to employ to forgo paying the judgment in either of the two cases he lost.
According to The Guardian, on July 4, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to release the $5.8 million judgment, which is in escrow, to Carroll by this coming Tuesday — or explain why he would not do so.
Carroll’s attorneys think Trump may be trying to buy time to mount another legal strategy, telling the judge that Trump’s request for an extension “appears to be little more than yet another play for time.”
“The case is separate from Trump’s appeal of a Manhattan civil jury’s 2024 award of $83.3m to Carroll for defamation,” The Guardian explains. “But her lawyers have suggested a legal scenario in which the president might seek to conjoin the cases and further delay payment of both.”
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge) wrote, “We can only assume that defendant is seeking … to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying plaintiff presumably in connection with his forthcoming petition and motion for a rehearing.”
Trump’s former attorney, Justin Smith, in one of his final acts, wrote to the Supreme Court suggesting that his client would be appealing the $83.3 million civil judgment.
Smith argued that the Supreme Court “may wish to consider the petitions together,” given they involve the same parties.
The larger judgment case involves possible questions of presidential immunity, and that has Carroll’s attorneys concerned.
“A conjoined case, Carroll’s lawyers fear, could result in both judgments being wiped out,” The Guardian reports.
The president has also made clear he is no fan of Judge Kaplan, after the jurist made several rulings that “angered” Trump.
“What else can you expect from a Trump Hating, Clinton appointed judge, who went out of his way to make sure that the result was as negative as it could possible be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in 2023, “speaking to, and in control of, a jury from an anti-Trump area which is probably the worst place in the US for me to get a fair ‘trial’.”
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