Trump posts AI video of Obama being arrested in Oval Office in front of Trump
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Time for another thinkpiece from Sam Moyn about how it’s only sparkling authoritarianism:
President Trump reposted a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office, as Trump administration officials continue to accuse Mr. Obama of trying to harm Mr. Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election, and the president seeks to redirect conversation from the Epstein files.
The short video, which appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence and posted on TikTok before being reposted on Mr. Trump’s Truth Social account on Sunday, comes days after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration trying to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Mr. Trump.
The video appears to be manipulated footage of an Oval Office meeting that took place in November 2016 between Mr. Obama, then the president, and Mr. Trump, who days earlier had defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, in the election.
The fake video purports to show F.B.I. agents bursting into the meeting, pushing Mr. Obama into a kneeling position and putting him in handcuffs as Mr. Trump looks on smiling, while the song “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People plays. Later, the fake video shows Mr. Obama in an orange jumpsuit pacing in a cell. The start of the video shows a compilation of actual footage of Democratic leaders, including Mr. Obama and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying, “no one is above the law.”
Karen Cassandra of Texas, and mango-hunter extraordinaire, informs me that fascist propaganda minister without portfolio Matt Taibbi has been on some rampage about how some “newly discovered” emails from the Obama administration — not discovered during Trump’s first term, surprisingly — show that the Russia Hoax [sic] was ginned up by Obama himself. I’m not getting out of the boat because life is too short, but let’s skip the “this is just to distract people from Epstein,” because even to the extent it is, these things become very very real to the MAGA base. And of course fully paid up Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard is running this particular “distraction,” which, given that she’s the Director of National Intelligence, is pretty bad.
On a related note, there were lots of great comments in this morning’s thread about Lauren Boebert and the Government Cheese Experience, so thanks for that. The right wing in this country is a Venn diagram with sectors labeled Stupid, Evil, and Crazy, and there’s increasingly a LOT of people in the section that overlaps all three.