Under the gun over Epstein, Trump tries to finger Obama for ‘treason’
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Under the gun over Epstein, Trump tries to finger Obama for ‘treason’
Donald Trump meets Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. The two discussed a dossier alleging Russian involvement in the US presidential election. The dossier was compiled by the director of national intelligence for the Obama administration.
On Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), it was the Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr who bore witness to a stunning display of temerity as the US president accused one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, of trying to engineer a coup and committing “treason”.
Donald Trump meets Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Credit: AP
The allegation, spurious as it is, arises from a document compiled by Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, alleging a “treasonous conspiracy” by senior Obama administration officials in 2016 to wrongly assert that Russia interfered in the presidential election of that year, which Trump won.
In short, the dossier suggests intelligence officials changed their findings under political pressure from Obama and others, and embraced the narrative that Vladimir Putin’s regime tried to swing the vote for Trump.