President Donald Trump shared a fake video depicting the arrest and incarceration of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, and posted a rampage after a furious weekend.
Trump shared a video on Sunday to his true social platform from users of Pro Magatiktok after posting over the weekend about Tarsi Gabbard's claim that the Obama administration engaged in a “unsteady plot” to destroy the 2016 election victory.
The video begins with footage of Obama and other prominent Democrats, declaring that “no one has surpassed the law.” He then cut a frog, the mascot of a right-right meme, dressing and snorting at the clown, before showing the Ai-generated sequence of Obama arrested by the FBI during an oval office meeting with Trump in November 2016.
He then portrays Obama in prison in an orange jumpsuit. The arrest montage is set to one of Trump's favorite songs, “YMCA” of the villagers.
Following his announcement by the director of the National Intelligence Bureau on Friday, she had mentioned Obama administration officials to the Justice Department regarding the Intelligence Election, which was “manufactured” to promote the idea that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election.
Trump has posted at least 17 posts on Gabbard's announcement since Friday.
Gabbard argued that the newly declassified documents are evidence that Obama and some of his cabinet members “politicized intelligence to lay the foundation for a long-standing coup against President Trump.”
Democrats are plagued by mistake by dismissing her claims as unfounded. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, a top Democrat on the Intelligence Election Committee, said it was “another example of the national Intelligence Election Director trying to cook a book.”
Some MAGA supporters were also skeptical, and framed them as distractions considering the timing. Gabbard's announcement came days after the controversy over the Trump administration's processing of Jeffrey Epstein's files.
However, many other Trump supporters are on board. The video of the Obama arrest was shared by Magazine fans on social media Sunday night. “Make this a reality,” right-wing journalist Nick Thorto wrote in X, attorney general Pam Bondy.
A convicted criminal, Trump is increasingly normalizing the idea of using the Justice Department to chase his political opponents. On Sunday night alone, he sent Senator Adam Schiff to prison and posted a collage featuring fake mug shots of various Obama-era officials, including James Comey, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and others, and Susan Rice in an orange jumpsuit.
Trump was found guilty in May 2024 of 34 felony counts for forged business records, the first time in US history that the former president was convicted of a felony crime. He is suing the verdict.
The conservative Supreme Court ruled last summer that the president was exempt from prosecution for official conduct while in office and raised a bar to indict either Trump and his predecessor for the actions taken as president.
