'Irrefutable proof!' Trump makes wild claims that Obama tried to 'lead a coup'
During an Oval Office meeting with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday, President Donald Trump kept circling back to attack former President Barack Obama, regardless of the reporters' questions.
Even when asked about information Trump has received on the man who tried to assassinate him in Butler, PA, before the 2024 election, Trump ended up accusing Obama of staging a "coup" against him.
"You know, they went into him very, you know, in great detail," Trump began saying about would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. "And I spoke with the FBI — the new FBI. I spoke to the FBI. If it was the old FBI, I wouldn't have believed a thing they said because the old FBI under Comey was crooked as hell."
Trump then started talking about the Horowitz Report, the 2018 Inspector General study that looked into the FBI and DOJ's actions during the 2016 election.
"That report has gotten lost and it shouldn't be lost. You should all go back, and it should be mandatory reading. Go back and read the Horowitz report on Comey and his cronies, and you'll see exactly. We're going to add that to all the stuff that we found," Trump said, referring to a DOJ investigation into Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.
"We found absolute — this isn't like evidence or — this is like proof, irrefutable proof, that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup and it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people," Trump continued. "But Obama headed it up. And, you know, I get a kick when I hear everyone talks about people I've never even heard of, it was this way — no, no, it was Obama. He headed it up and it says so right in the papers."
Trump called it "the biggest scandal in the history of our country."