‘Time To Go After People’: Trump Accuses Obama Of ‘Treason’

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President Donald Trump made it clear he wants to “go after” former President Barack Obama and other officials in his administration.

On Tuesday (July 22), Trump accused Obama of “treason,” alleging that the former president, former FBI Director James Comey, and former CIA director John Brennan, and others unlawfully conspired against him amid the 2016 election, per Newsweek.

"After what they did to me—right or wrong—it's time to go after people," Trump said in the Oval Office.

The president’s comments come after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a report last week accusing Obama and other members of his administration of manufacturing intelligence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election to "lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump."

The Obama administration has strongly denied Gabbard’s claims, calling them false and politically driven. Officials said an intelligence report on Russian interference was based on credible evidence and later validated by bipartisan investigations, including the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“This was treason,” Trump said Tuesday. “Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them: [former FBI Director James] Comey, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, the whole group. They tried to rig an election and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020. And then because I knew I won that election by a lot, I did it a third time and I won in a landslide."

Trump attacked Obama as he fielded questions in the Oval Office over the controversy surrounding his administration’s handling of sealed documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president labeled calls to release the files as a “witch hunt.” Trump also claimed that he “didn’t know” about the Justice Department seeking a new interview with Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20 year prison sentence for sex trafficking minors among other crimes.

“I don’t follow it too much,” he said on the handling of the Epstein files.

Trump instead urged reporters to cover the alleged plot by Obama to rig the 2016 election, calling it “the other witch hunt.”

“This is like proof, irrefutable proof, that Obama was sedatious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup,” Trump said of Gabbard’s report." “This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

Trump added that the decision to take legal action against Obama and others would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who he said was a “very competent, very good, very loyal to our country person.”

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