Why has Trump accused Obama of treason?
On Tuesday, during a meeting at the White House with the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, US president Donald Trump launched an incendiary attack on one of his predecessors, Barack Obama.
In a fluent speech he accused Obama of “treason” and “sedition”.
No evidence was given and the“papers” he mentioned seemed to refer to last week’s report from Tulsi Gabbard, his national security director, on the 2016 election that claimed to show “a treasonous conspiracy” with Russia to fix the election against Trump.
Trump has frequently attacked his political opponents, regularly…
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