President Donald Trump republished a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Hall, while Trump administration officials continue to accuse Obama of trying to harm Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election, and the president seeks to redirect the conversation of Jeffrey Epstein’s archives.
The short video, which seems to have been generated by artificial intelligence and posted on Tiktok before being republished on Trump’s account on Sunday on Sunday, comes days after the national intelligence director’s office issued the latest in a series of Trump administration reports trying to undermine the evaluation of 8 years behind that Russia favored Trump’s election.
The video seems to be a manipulated footage of an oval hall meeting that took place in November 2016 between Obama, then president, and Trump, who had been defeating Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate in the election.
The fake video supposedly shows FBI agents by invading the meeting, pushing Obama to a position on his knees and placing handcuffs while Trump watches smiling, while Village People’s song “YMCA” touches. Later, the fake video shows Obama on an orange jumpsuit walking in a cell. The beginning of the video shows a compilation of real images of democratic leaders, including Obama and former President Joe Biden, saying, “No one is above the law.”
Obama’s office did not immediately respond to a comment on the video.
Trump regularly republished videos and photographs generated by AI or mounted on his social truth account.
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Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said last week that the latest report released by her offices showed a “treacherous conspiracy in 2016” by high Obama administration officials to harm Trump. She said she would make a criminal complaint to the FBI based on recently released documents.
A link to a real video of an interview Gabbard gave Fox News on Sunday on the subject was also posted on Trump’s social networks.
Democrats denounced the management’s effort to discredit Obama as politically motivated, full of errors and contradicting previous analyzes of the evaluation.
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The most recent document, released last week, did not show Russian election manipulation, and reinforced the intelligence officers’ view that found no evidence that Russia has hacked voting systems to change votes.
Democrats cited reporters from intelligence agencies and Senate researchers who found that although Russian hackers have overcome electoral systems to see if they could change results and extracted voter registration data in at least two states, there was no evidence that they tried to change votes.
Obama administration assessment also did not say that Russian hackers manipulated votes.
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Trump has been trying to change the conversation between his supporters, after the Justice Department retreated from the promise of releasing the full collection of files about Epstein, a multimillionaire financier and convicted of sex crimes who died in prison in 2019.
This decision annoyed some of the president’s most fervent supporters. Some questioned Trump’s trial on the subject, causing conflicts within the Maga movement that boosted Trump to two presidential victories.
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