General Discussion

But as the Republican nears his 200-day mark, he’s starting to focus far less on his immediate Democratic predecessor and much more on his other Democratic predecessor.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lukunpczmw2o

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......All of this was stark raving mad — there is no such "proof" — though Trump has been working his way to this point for a while. Ten days ago, for example, he published an odd missive in which he said Obama was at least partially responsible for “creating” the Jeffrey Epstein files, which was bonkers for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that former Democratic president had already been out of office for years when the Trump administration investigated, arrested and charged the late millionaire pedophile.....

Between the two absurdities, Trump also amplified a fake video that appears to have been created with AI that depicts Obama being arrested in the Oval Office. The New York Times reported:

The fake video purports to show F.B.I. agents bursting into the meeting, pushing Mr. Obama into a kneeling position and putting him in handcuffs as Mr. Trump looks on smiling, while the song ‘Y.M.C.A.’ by the Village People plays. Later, the fake video shows Mr. Obama in an orange jumpsuit pacing in a cell. The start of the video shows a compilation of actual footage of Democratic leaders, including Mr. Obama and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying, ‘no one is above the law.’

This coincided with Trump also promoting fake mugshots of Obama and his team wearing prison jumpsuits.......

It’s worth emphasizing that there’s literally zero evidence of Obama having done anything wrong in connection with Trump’s Epstein and Russia scandals, and the suggestion that the Democratic president would be arrested because of Trump’s controversies is insane, even by 2025 standards.

What’s more, it’s very easy to believe that the incumbent Republican president is peddling this garbage in the hope of creating distractions and shifting blame away from himself.

But if that’s the case, why not just ignore Trump’s obvious absurdities? Because of an unfortunate truth: Just because his anti-Obama crusade is a distraction doesn’t mean nothing will happen. On the contrary, it’s very easy to believe that Trump — who’s already directed the Justice Department to investigate Biden — is moving toward the same step with Obama.