Donald Trump is spiraling again—this time dragging Barack Obama back into the spotlight with wild, baseless claims. In a series of angry posts on Truth Social, the president accused Obama and his former intelligence officials of staging what he called the “crime of the century.”
Trump shouted online: “The Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX is now TOTALLY UNDISPUTED! THE FACTS ARE ALL THERE, IN BLACK AND WHITE. It is the biggest scandal in American History. The perpetrators of this CRIME must pay a big price. This can never be allowed to happen in our Country again!”
He also shared a video from The Daily Signal featuring conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson, who accused Obama-era officials of plotting to “destroy” Trump after his 2016 win over Hillary Clinton. Trump piled on: “They must pay for the crime of the Century.”
This fresh round of attacks follows recent claims from Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who says newly declassified documents show a “treasonous conspiracy” by Obama and national security leaders to fake evidence of Russian interference. Gabbard claims the goal was to delegitimize Trump’s election and build a case for a “years-long coup.”
Her accusations are flimsy. U.S. intelligence agencies have consistently said Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump—though they never claimed votes were changed or machines hacked. Even a 2020 report by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, including now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirmed Russia’s efforts to support Trump.
Obama’s office pushed back hard: “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.”
Trump loyalists are still trying to spin this. Dan Scavino, a former top White House aide, cheered on claims that Hillary Clinton signed off on a plan to tie Trump to Putin. But even that comes with baggage—the New York Times pointed out that the so-called Clinton intel may have originated from Russian disinformation.
Meanwhile, Trump’s meltdown comes as questions continue swirling around his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite claiming they had a falling out over real estate, Trump recently changed his story, telling reporters that Epstein “stole” young staffers from Mar-a-Lago.
“He took people. I say, ‘Don’t do it anymore,’ you know, they work for me,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “He took some others. Once he did that, that was the end of him.”
One of those people? Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein’s trafficking ring, who later died by suicide in April.
As the Epstein files heat up, Trump is once again pointing fingers at old enemies—hoping his base stays focused on old conspiracies, instead of the skeletons in his own closet.
