Trump accuses Obama of ‘betrayal’ in the Oval office
Days after President Donald Trump registered a false video generated by AI that showed the arrest of former President Barack Obama on his social media platform, the current president promoted conspiracy theories about Obama in the Oval office on Tuesday, accusing him of betrayal without providing evidence on the 2016 presidential elections.
“They tried to manipulate the elections, and were trapped. And there should be very severe consequences for that,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
A Obama spokesman retreated the Trump administration claims, saying that although “normally they would not dignify the constant nonsense” of the White House with an answer, the statements are “outrageous enough to deserve one.”
President Donald Trump meets President Filipino, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the Oval Office of the White House, on July 22, 2025, in Washington.
Alex Brandon/AP
“These strange accusations are ridiculous and a weak attempt of distraction,” the statement said.
Trump’s comments occur after the national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard presented a criminal referral to the Department of Justice that threatened the Obama Administration.
The Obama spokesman said that “nothing in the document issued last week undermines the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential elections, but did not successfully manipulate any vote.”
“These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the Bipartisan Committee of Senate Intellignce, led by then President Marco Rubio,” Obama’s spokesman said Tuesday.
When asked about the attached meeting of lawyer Todd Blanche with Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate convicted of the deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sexual trafficking in 2022, Trump resorted to the attacks against Obama, calling the former president the “gang leader.”
“This was betrayal. This was every word in which it occurred to you. They tried to steal the elections. They tried to obfuscate the elections. They did things that nobody has imagined, even in other countries,” Trump said in the Oval office on Tuesday.
The false video generated by AI on Trump’s social networks during the weekend showed Obama being arrested in the Oval office. The video was published on Tiktok before being replaced on Trump’s social networks on Sunday.
President Barack Obama welcomes President -elect Donald Trump to the White House, on January 20, 2017.
Jim Watson/AFP through Getty Images
Trump’s publication, and other recent comments, are produced as critics on both sides of the hall, say that the president is trying to distract from Epstein’s archives while the administration faces a setback for greater transparency with respect to the case.
