SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025
On Fox, three friends cheer her on: Tulsi Gabbard has finally spotted the treason. She has even suggested that Barack Obama, the former president, should perhaps be criminally charged with a treason rap.
According to Gabbard, that decision will rest with Attorney General Bondi. But on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend, Director Gabbard seemed to be hoping that Bondi will act—and three friends were cheering her on.
For the record, this is the way it's going to go as our former nation continues to come undone. President Trump was charged with a bunch of crimes. Now, it may turn out to be President Obama's turn.
Below, we'll link you to the New York Times report about this turn of events. For now, here's the start of Zachary Leeman's report at Mediaite—his report on Gabbard's appearance on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend during the 8 o'clock hour:
Gabbard Says Obama Could Face Criminal Charges as She Alleges ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’ Against Trump
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard did not close the door on the possibility of former President Barack Obama facing criminal charges over what she’s describing as a “treasonous conspiracy” against President Donald Trump.
Gabbard joined Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday morning to discuss a declassified report she released on Friday which alleges that officials in Obama’s administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup” against Trump.
“No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The integrity of our democratic republic depends on it,” Gabbard wrote on X, saying she is referring documents to the Department of Justice.
That's the start of Leeman's report. Let it be said that the friends were cheering Gabbard on, especially Rachel Campos-Duffy, the inveterate Communist-hunter who explicitly applauded Gabbard for using the terms "treason" and "coup."
"That's a patriot right there," Campos-Duffy admiringly said, pointing at Gabbard as the segment ended.
President Obama could end up being charged with treason! Meanwhile, the rest of the American people are saddled with conduct like this.
Leeman provides partial videotape of the Fox & Friends Weekend session. Th Internet Archive has been slow in posting today, keeping us from directing you to other intriguing parts of the byplay.
In their news report for the New York Times, Barnes and Sanger explain the fairly obvious conflation upon which Gabbard's accusations are based. Along the way, they also report a otherwise well-known fact which viewers of shows on the Fox News Channel will simply never hear:
Gabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016
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Intelligence agencies and Senate investigators spent years reviewing the work, and concluded that during the 2016 election, the Russians conducted probing operations of election systems to see if they could change vote outcomes. While they extracted voter registration data in Illinois and Arizona, and probed in other states, there was no evidence that Moscow’s hackers attempted to actually change votes.
The Obama administration assessment never contended that Russian hackers manipulated votes.
Russia also conducted influence operations to change public opinion. That included using fake social media posts to sow division among Americans and leaking documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee to denigrate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.
Multiple reviews, including a Republican-led Senate report, backed the findings of American spy agencies in late 2016 that Russia was trying to influence the election by damaging Ms. Clinton’s campaign and bolstering Mr. Trump.
Among the Republican senators on the Intelligence Committee that produced the various reports on Russian influence operations was Marco Rubio of Florida, now the secretary of state.
The new report by Ms. Gabbard’s staff conflates those two activities by the Russians and tries to suggest that the Obama administration forced the intelligence community to alter its conclusions.
There you see the well-known fact which Fox News viewers never hear. The disappeared fact is this:
The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the Russians actually did "try to influence the [2016] election by damaging Ms. Clinton’s campaign and bolstering Mr. Trump."
Everybody knows about that—everyone except the millions of people who get their picture of the news from watching the Fox News Channel. On Fox, that basic fact has been disappeared as a favor to President Trump and the storylines he prefers.
In that passage from their report, Barnes and Sanger explain the conflation which lies at the heart of Gabbard's thrilling accusation. That said, this matter is simply too complicated to allow for helpful inclusion within our nation's deeply challenged imitation of a national discourse.
"Multiple reviews, including a Republican-led Senate report, backed the findings of American spy agencies in late 2016 that Russia was trying to influence the election."
Gabbard's conflation emerges from the disappearance of that fact. Beyond that, Barnes and Sanger explain the resulting conflation. That said, viewers of the Fox News Channel will never be exposed to the full range of relevant facts.
During this morning's session, Campos-Duffy mightily cheered the thought that Obama might have a T-bomb dropped on his head. With tribal payback on the way, a trio of friends on the Fox News Channel were eager to cheer Gabbard on.
Our societal meltdown is just getting started—but how did it get this far?
How did it ever get this far? We'll start a deeper dive into that question when Monday morning is here.
Trump’s suit against Bob Woodward has been dismissed.
ReplyDeleteThe Times tries to defend the accused Dems by pointing out that the Russians actually did try to influence the [2016] election. But that fact does not refute the charge that the Obama Administration may have also manufactured evidence to use against Trump.
ReplyDeletethe Russians actually did try to influence the [2016] election.
DeleteNo fucking way, Dickhead in Cal. The whole thing was a hoax, fuckface. I heard Prince Orange Chickenshit say so many times. In fact Prince Orange Chickenshit specifically asked Putin at their meeting in Helsinki, and Putin told Prince Orange Chickenshit that he did not try to help Prince Orange Chickenshit win the election. So fuck you, Dickhead in Cal.
Here’s another alleged government conspiracy against Trump.
Delete“We Federal entities outsourced unlawful data collection to politically sympathetic partners. Rather than directly amassing data, they procured or exchanged it from or with nonprofits and technology firms."
This isn't some conspiracy theory cooked up by partisan critics. This is documented reality, backed by Freedom of Information Act requests and congressional testimony that the mainstream media has conveniently ignored.”
David, when you repeat the lie that the Russians helped Trump (the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax) you’re disloyal to President Trump and to America.
DeleteFuck you, Dickhead in Cal. It is impossible for President Obama to have violated the law. The fucking corrupt Supreme Court 6 said so, so go take a flying fuck, you fascist freak.
DeleteAnything to avoid the Felon being a child rapist, and I am the deranged one. Weirdos.
DeleteYes, @3:30, the SCOTUS decided that Presidents could not be prosecuted for crimes. At the time, people said that decision benefited Trump. It would be ironic if Obama turned out to the person who benefited.
DeleteThe Supremes will not protect Obama. If necessary, they’ll issue a new decision.
DeleteDavid the fucking USSC Trump can be a felon decree only applies to the felon. It works like a check valve. Anything the dumb ass does is OK, anything a Demoncrat does is illegal. You so fucking dumb. And weird. And your Daddy rapes children.
DeleteDIC - your level of reading comprehension is beyond parody. A Republican Senate Intelligence Committee, seated during Felon 45's first reign of terror, came to the fucking Orc's in the bed conclusion. You a big disgrace.
DeleteIt would be ironic if Obama turned out to the person who benefited.
DeleteThere is something seriously the fuck wrong with you, Dickhead in Cal. The only felon who benefited was your treasonous corrupt orange abomination.
Fuck you straight to hell.
David, you can read Gabbard's release here:
Deletehttps://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/DIG/DIG-Russia-Hoax-Memo-and-Timeline_revisited.pdf
It's 11 pages, so it's a manageable read. The thrust of the release isn't that anyone "manufactured evidence," but that they supposedly hid evidence. And that's precisely where the Times' notice of findings by the Senate committee matter.
Gabbard shows pre-election assessments that say:
Russia couldn't or wouldn't try to hack the voting infrastructure
She contrasts these with post-election assessments that say:
Russia may have used cyber gambits to affect the outcome in other ways.
From this, she concludes that the assessment was changed in an attempt to damage Trump.
In short, her whole premise is wrong-headed. Her evidence doesn't just fail to support her conclusion--it has nothing at all to do with her conclusion. She's trying to make the case that investigating Russian interference was from the very start an attempt to undermine Trump before he had served even a day in office.
Never mind the findings of all the other investigations, including one conducted by the Senate! This makes Trump look bad--therefore, Treason!
But that fact does not refute the charge that the Obama Administration may have also manufactured evidence to use against Trump.
DeleteLet's just say, for shits and giggles, that there's an iota of truth to this. Trump was a private individual. Why is there even a conversation about "treason" or a coup? In what universe is Gabbard making sense? The degenerate morons that populate this administration are breath taking.
Let's get one thing nice and sparkling clear here. There was only one victim of the Russia interference, and that was Hillary Clinton and the Dems who were fucking criminally hacked by Russian goons, and had their internal emails systematically released to the all too complicit major media outlets. And Donald J Chickenshit stood in front of God and country and asked Russia to criminally hack a former Secretary of State. So go fuck yourself, Dickhead in Cal.
DeleteThere's no conclusive evidence that Russia hacked Hillary Clinton or any other Dems.
Delete"Trump was a private individual. Why is there even a conversation about "treason" or a coup?"
DeleteIt may be because he was President-elect. Americans had elected him president over Hillary Clinton and he was going to take office soon.
'Donald J Chickenshit stood in front of God and country and asked Russia to criminally hack a former Secretary of State."
DeleteActually that is not what he said or asked them to do.
It's interesting to see the comic book interpretations of actual events from the small children who sit on their beds, sucking their thumbs and reading the comic books while rooting for their heroes to beat the villains. You're not describing the real world. You're describing a show. A charade that is been invented for your entertainment.
DeleteDon't worry. Your heroes are down and out now. They are thoroughly beaten and at the bottom. But finding themselves at the bottom of such a deep dark hole will only make their rise back to victory all the more glorious and dramatic!
DeleteIn David's defense, he loves Trump for his bigotry, not because Trump is a child rapist.
DeleteI got your back, David.
Rather than talking about conflation and disappearing, it would be more helpful for Somerby to say that Gabbard is falsely accusing Obama of things he didn’t do, including treason.
ReplyDeleteSome commenters on this blog like false accusations.
DeleteRussian pawns Tulsi and Trump accuse Obama of making shit up about Russia. Makes sense to me. And I am the deranged one. Weirdos.
DeleteHow does the sitting president engage in a coup?
ReplyDeleteTrump tried it on January 6, 2020.
DeleteTrump's proposed Brazil tariff is super high as punishment for their Government jailing fellow autogolper Bolsonaro. Jesus no wonder they like their followers dumb. Explains ruining the education system.
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ReplyDeleteAccusations against Donald Trump were total bullshit; everyone knows it.
But the accusations against Barack Obama and his minions are perfectly legit. Have you read the documents she released, Bob?
No, this is not a "both sides" case, no matter how much you want it to be that.
The Republican Senate Committee and US Intelligence Agencies are wrong, Daddy doesn't rape children, and Daddy likes his cult dumb. But I am deranged. Weirdos.
DeleteI buy 88-octane E15 for my car. So far, I’ve had good results.
ReplyDeleteI hear the ethanol screws up the timing belt
DeleteGood timing requires a sober belt.
DeleteRelatives of 82-year-old Allentown resident Luis Leon are headed to a Guatemalan hospital Saturday in hopes of reuniting with the man they say disappeared without a trace into the American immigration system a month ago — and who, for a time, they thought was dead.
ReplyDeleteThe last time anyone in the family saw Leon was June 20, when he went with his wife to a Philadelphia immigration office to have his lost green card replaced.
There, the family says, he was handcuffed by two officers, who led him away without explanation. His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter, the family says.
Repeated inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database of detainees.
Finally, on Friday, a relative from Leon’s native Chile was told he had been taken first to a detention center in Minnesota and then to Guatemala. The hospital, citing privacy rules, would not verify his presence there when contacted by The Morning Call.
It is unclear whether Leon ended up in that Central American country deliberately or by mistake. A Supreme Court ruling in June reopened the door to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport immigrants to countries that are not their home countries.
Leon was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, according to his granddaughter, Nataly, who asked that her surname not be used because she fears U.S. government retribution against her and her relatives.
In Allentown, he lived a quiet life, raising four children and enjoying retirement after years working at a leather manufacturing plant.
It all fell apart, Nataly said, when he lost the wallet holding his green card and made the fateful appointment to replace it at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office on 41st Street in Philadelphia.
Sorry, above is mine. Posted before I could add the link:
Deletehttps://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/
Key item: Leon was granted political asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime,
DeleteImagine what kind of special asshole someone must be to do this to an 82 year old man.
DeleteHmm...it almost seems like there's no rhyme or reason to these persecutions.
DeleteThere is a pattern of deliberate cruelty.
DeleteSomerby and Tulsi have done a good job distracting all here from the Epstein scandal and Trump’s part in it.
ReplyDeleteBut the Epstein scandal has not distracted us from Tulsi.
DeleteIt should.
DeleteIf the MSM gives Gabbard's shit flinging the airtime it deserves it won't even be mentioned. Unfortunately that is not the way it works. The most noxious shit that comes out of this administration's pie holes is dwelled upon like it is gold. Obama, who recently called out the Democratic party for not being vocal enough, needs to address this publicly if that is the case. And i cavalierly calling a private citizen a traitor constitutes slander, lawyers should be involved.
DeleteThose young girls and women who were Trump’s victims deserve justice.
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