On Tuesday, Trump said he had initially decided not to pursue charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after winning the 2016 election, but now believes it’s time to take action against his political opponents.
President Donald Trump has accused former President Barack Obama of committing “treason” as he attempts to shift attention away from criticism over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
On Tuesday, Trump said he had initially decided not to pursue charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after winning the 2016 election, but now believes it’s time to take action against his political opponents.
Speaking from the Oval Office, he alleged that former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, Obama, and others were involved in an unlawful conspiracy to undermine him.
His statements followed the release of a report by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on Friday.
The report claims that Obama and members of his administration fabricated intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election as part of a broader effort to initiate what was described as a years-long attempt to remove Trump from office.
He said, “It’s sort of a witch hunt, just a continuation of the witch hunt. The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold. Tulsi Gabbard, what they did to this country in 2016, starting in 2016, but going up all the way, going up to 2020 of the election.
“They tried to rig the election and they got caught and there should be very severe consequences for that. You know, when we caught Hillary Clinton, I said, you know what? Let’s not let’s not go too far here. It’s the ex-wife of a president. And I thought it was sort of terrible. And I let her off the hook and a very happy I did. But it’s time to start after what they did to me.
“And whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people. Obama’s been caught directly. So people say, oh, you know, a group. It’s not a group. It’s Obama. His orders are on the paper.
‘The papers are signed. The papers came right out of their office. They sent everything to be highly classified. Well, the highly classified has been released. And what they did in 2016 and in 2020 is very criminal. It’s criminal at the highest level.
“So that’s really the things you should be talking about. I know nothing about the other, but I think it’s appropriate that they do go.”
When asked about Tulsi Gabbard’s criminal referral to the Department of Justice, and whom he believed the DOJ should investigate—specifically regarding figures from the Obama administration—Trump responded: “Well, 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. Brennan.
“They were all there in a room. Right here. This was the room. 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 100 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. But you know what? If you look at that, those papers, they have them stone cold. And it was President Obama.
‘Obama Was The Gang Leader’
“It wasn’t lots of people all over the place. It was them, too. But the leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And except for the fact that he gets shielded by the press for his entire life. That’s the one they look.
“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.”
“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,” he added.
Meanwhile, the long-rumoured “Epstein client list” has become something of a holy grail for the MAGA movement. Believers claim that, once released, the list would expose a host of liberal elites allegedly involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex-trafficking ring—proof, in their view, of deep corruption within the Democratic establishment.
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to declassify the Epstein files, including the supposed list.
Before entering government, Trump allies like Kash Patel, later appointed to the FBI, and Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, regularly appeared on podcasts and TV shows appealing to QAnon followers and Epstein conspiracy theorists.
They pushed for the release of the files and accused the Biden administration of concealing them for political reasons.
Shortly after the Fourth of July holiday weekend, the Justice Department quietly released a memo that landed like a bombshell.
A “systematic review” of the Epstein files by justice department officials “revealed no incriminating ‘client list.’”
The memo also stated that no evidence was found indicating Epstein blackmailed powerful individuals. It further confirmed that Epstein died by suicide in his Brooklyn jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Since the memo’s release, MAGA circles have been in disarray, with some of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters openly rebelling against his administration.
They’ve accused it of participating in a cover-up and have called for the resignation of Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files.
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