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Donald Trump hastily changed the subject to his years-long bid to seek revenge against Barack Obama as he was questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein files during a meeting Monday with the president of the Philipines at the White House.
The U.S. president accused his predecessor of “sedacious [sic]” behavior and ranted about an imaginary “coup” after Ed O’Keefe of CBS News asked him about the Justice Department reaching out to attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell to request a new interview about Epstein and the sex trafficking ring for which her involvement earned the socialite a 20-year prison sentence in 2022.
“I don’t know about it, but I think it’s something that would be, sounds appropriate to do,” the president said, before telling O’Keefe: “It’s sort of a witch hunt, the continuation of the witch hunt.”
He then said that “the witch hunt you should be talking about” was how Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, supposedly “caught President Obama absolutely cold”.
Trump proceeded to rant for several minutes about his long-debunked claims that Barack Obama was engaged in an illegal effort to spy on his campaign, overturn the 2016 election, and spread false information about links between his first campaign for office and Russia.
He previously appointed John Durham, a special prosecutor, to review the origins of that FBI investigation into his 2016 campaign for any criminal behavior in 2019; the probe came up with nothing against Obama or others in his administration, and found no evidence of a “Deep State” conspiracy against Trump.
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