President Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video on social media showing former President Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents in the Oval Office.
Mr. Trump reposted the video, which was created by a TikTok user, on Sunday on his Truth Social platform.
The video shows Mr. Trump sitting next to Mr. Obama in the Oval Office, and two FBI agents come storming in, lift the former president off his seat and then force him to his knees to handcuff him. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, is laughing.
Before the arrest scene, a montage of Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former President Joseph R. Biden, are seen saying, “No one is above the law.”
Mr. Trump’s post was part of a series of illustrative social media statements related to the newly declassified records by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that accuse top Obama administration officials of conspiring against Mr. Trump in 2016.
Among the posts was an image similar to the title sequence of “The Brady Bunch,” but was titled “The Shady Bunch” and contained parody mug shots of several Obama-era officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James B. Comey and former and former CIA Director John O. Brennan.
Ms. Gabbard said the Obama administration manufactured a bogus intelligence report about Russian interference a month after the 2016 election and that officials must be held accountable for using it to attempt to undermine the Trump administration.
“We are referring all of the documents that we have uncovered to the Department of Justice and the FBI for a criminal referral,” Ms. Gabbard said on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News.
She said her office would hand over all the information to the Justice Department.
“There must be indictments,” she said. “Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people, they all must be held accountable.”
Ms. Gabbard said the report manufactured by Obama officials ran contrary to the intelligence community’s general assessment that Russia had not influenced the election results and was not capable of influencing the election.
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Ms. Gabbard is pushing a “dangerous lie” and “decade-old false claims about the Obama administration.”
“Few episodes in our nation’s history have been investigated as thoroughly as the Intelligence Community’s warning in 2016 that Russia was interfering in the election,” Mr. Himes said last week. “Baseless accusations of treason are unfortunately par for the course for this director of national intelligence, but that doesn’t make them any less damaging and unacceptable.”
Intelligence officials concluded that Russia did interfere with the election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network and the personal emails of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
Stolen documents and emails were posted on WikiLeaks, including conversations showing that DNC officials attempted to help Ms. Clinton beat Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont in the presidential primary, ultimately leading to the resignation of then-DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, and infuriating the party’s liberal base.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s $32 million 2019 report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election also concluded that Moscow “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”
A Republican-led Senate investigation in 2020 also said the “committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions.”
At the same time, the Mueller report also found that investigators “did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
• Seth McLaughlin contributed to this article.
