Trump calls for 'demonic' Barack Obama to be 'imprisoned' in bizarre late-night rant
Topics: Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Truth Social, US News
Callum Jones
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Topics: Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Truth Social, US News
Instead of getting an early night ahead of his high-stakes trip to China, Trump posted more than 50 times on Truth Social in the early hours of Tuesday morning (May 12), with many posts slamming former president Barack Obama.
One of the president's 'retruths' referred to Obama as the 'most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades', with another accusing him of 'treason'.
Trump's Truth Social post added: "Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But first Barack Obama."
Unsurprisingly, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were also in the firing line, but what exactly was Trump accusing his political rivals of in his bleary-eyed Truth Social sesh? The president hit on some familiar conspiracy theories:
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One post Trump shared claims 'Barack Obama... cooked up the entire Russia Hoax to steal the 2016 election'.
To recap, in 2019 a report from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that Russia did interfere in the 2016 presidential election in support of Trump.
Then last year, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard claimed that Obama had faked the whole thing.
Obama's team called the claims 'bizarre' and 'a weak attempt at distraction' at the time.
Trump reposted a quote said to be from Senator John Kennedy, asking him to return $120 million he allegedly earned through Obamacare.
There's just one problem - Kennedy never said anything like that.
Kennedy told the publication NOTUS: "Somebody told me there was something floating around on the internet about me accusing President Obama of stealing $120 million or something. I didn’t say that. I don’t know the basis of it."
The claim Obama earned royalties from Obamacare actually came from a satirical web publisher.
Another post reshared by Trump claimed: "Barack Hussein Obama wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 election was a million times worse than anything Nixon did during Watergate. "
It's a claim Trump himself has been making since 2017.
But at the time, the Justice Department said it had no evidence to support that claim, CNN reports.
Trump shared a video in which Gabbard claimed: "President Biden has not been the guy calling the shots. It is this cabal of the Democrat elite made up of the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama."
This appears to be an extension of Trump's earlier claims that because Biden sometimes used an autopen he did not make decisions himself.
CNN called the claims baseless.
UNILAD has reached out to Obama's office for comment.
While Obama may have left office nearly a decade ago, the former president spoke recently about how his continued involvement in politics and the Trump administration has caused 'genuine tension' in his marriage to Michelle.
Speaking to The New Yorker, Obama said: "It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her. I’m more forgiving of it, in the sense that I understand why people feel that way, because people aren’t looking at me in historical comparison to other presidents.
“They don’t care about the fact that no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.”
There is certainly no love lost between the political rivals, with Trump describing Obama as a 'terrible president' while speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s fundraising dinner earlier this year.
The Republican president said: "If you go back to Obama, he was a great divider. He divided this nation. He was a lousy president. The worst president in history was Biden. But Obama was a terrible president."
Obama, meanwhile, called out Trump recently for sharing a racist video of him and Michelle Obama as apes.
"I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this … That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way," Obama added to The New Yorker.