By Abiola Olawale
In a fiery statement from the Oval Office, Washington, United States of America (USA), President Donald Trump has accused former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with other high-profile ex-officials, of committing “treason” in connection to alleged efforts to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign.
This is as Trump said he is set to take legal actions against the two former United States leaders and others.
The New Diplomat reports that Trump’s accusations center on a recent report by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which released on July 18, 2025, which purportedly claimed that Obama administration officials allegedly manipulated intelligence to falsely suggest Russian interference in the 2016 election favored Trump.
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump alleged that former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, Obama, and others were involved in an unlawful conspiracy to undermine him.
His statements followed the release of a report by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on Friday.
He said: “It’s sort of a witch hunt, just a continuation of the witch hunt. The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold. Tulsi Gabbard, what they did to this country in 2016, starting in 2016, but going up all the way, going up to 2020 of the election.
“They tried to rig the election and they got caught and there should be very severe consequences for that. You know, when we caught Hillary Clinton, I said, you know what? Let’s not let’s not go too far here. It’s the ex-wife of a president. And I thought it was sort of terrible. And I let her off the hook and a very happy I did. But it’s time to start after what they did to me.
“And whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people. Obama’s been caught directly. So people say, oh, you know, a group. It’s not a group. It’s Obama. His orders are on the paper.
‘The papers are signed. The papers came right out of their office. They sent everything to be highly classified. Well, the highly classified has been released. And what they did in 2016 and in 2020 is very criminal. It’s criminal at the highest level.
“So that’s really the things you should be talking about. I know nothing about the other, but I think it’s appropriate that they do go.
“It wasn’t lots of people all over the place. It was them, too. But the leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And except for the fact that he gets shielded by the press for his entire life. That’s the one they look.
“He’s guilty. It’s not a question. You know, I like to say, let’s give it time. It’s there. He’s guilty. This was treason.
“This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever even imagined, even in other countries.”
