MIKEY SMITH: 15 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens to have Barack Obama arrested
Donald Trump was supposed to be taking a breather. This was supposed to be a nice easy week, leading up to his holiday to Scotland.
But his misplaced sense of vengeance had other ideas.
Instead of letting things settle down, letting the trail go a bit cold...Trump has been taking every possible opportunity to go on the attack.
And ironically, by trying so obviously hard to try and distract people from the Epstein story...he's just made more people ask about the Epstein story
Here's how that happened, plus some more things Trump did in the last 24 hours.
Everything is fine.
1-9. All the ways he's tried to distract attention away from the Epstein story
So we're going to start with something different today. A list within a list.
Instead of going over the ways Donald Trump has tried to deflect attention away from the Epstein files in a lot of detail, which is what he wants the media to do, we're just going to do a little list.
Here's everything Donald Trump has done since Friday that he'd rather you were interested in than the Epstein story.
1. Ordered the release of evidence given to the Grand Jury on Epstein, subject to Court approval. Which is not what people are asking for, and will likely take months if not longer
2. Threatened the Washington Commanders American Football team with interfering in their new stadium deal if they don't return to their old, racist name
3. The same with the Cleveland Guardians, but without the threat
4. Went after California Senator Adam Schiff, who led Trump's first impeachment over long-dismissed claims of mortgage fraud from more than a decade ago
5. Launched a new, largely nonsense conspiracy theory, pushed out by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, claiming a fairly normal sequence of intelligence briefings about Russia trying to influence the American people to vote for him, which they did, was some kind of attempted coup.
6. Made repeated suggestions that those behind said briefings - including former President Barack Obama - should be arrested
7. Posted an AI video of Barack Obama being handcuffed and jailed
8. Posted a video of a girl in a bikini catching a snake. Nobody knows why.
9. Released the files! No, not really. But he did release some files about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
I think that's about everything.
10. He has NO IDEA why his old lawyer is going to chat to Ghislaine Maxwell
This afternoon, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche tweeted that he wants to have a chat with Ghislaine Maxwell - who was convicted and jailed for helping Epstein abuse underage girls.
If Maxwell "has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say," Blanche said in a post on X, adding that President Donald Trump "has told us to release all credible evidence."
A lawyer for Maxwell confirmed there were discussions with the government.
Asked about it in the Oval Office, Trump said he didn't know anything about it, but it sounded like something they should do.
He was also asked if he was concerned about the legitimacy of such questioning, given Todd Blanche ....used to be Trump's personal lawyer.
He said he did not.
11. He accused Barack Obama, personally, of treason and urged the Feds to arrest him
OK. We're going into this one a little bit.
During a sit-down with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, Trump was asked about Tulsi Gabbard having submitted a criminal referral about the daft conspiracy theory she's been shopping round the Fox hosts.
So who should the Department of Justice target for arrest, Mr President?
"It would be President Obama. And Biden was there with him ... the leader of the gang was Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. He's guilty"
He went on: "Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader.
"Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, Comey, Clapper.
"They tried to rig an election and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020.
"And then because I knew I won that election by a lot, I did it a third time and I won in a landslide."
Ordinarily we'd take the "lock her/him up" stuff with a pinch of salt. But he's going so hard on this, it would be pretty hard to walk it back.
12. Bernie Sanders has weighed in on Epstein
The Bern's response to Trump prevaricating over the Epstein files? "Mr President. Do it.
"Do what you promised the American people you would do. And stop trying to deflect attention away from what you promised. Be transparent, the way you promised you would be. Tell the truth, like you promised.
"Because hiding whatever he's hiding with the Epstein files is not the first time, to say the least, that he has lied to the American people."
13. He lashed out against a judge that ruled against him
US District Judge Allison Burroughs appeared to side with Harvard in Trump's ongoing vendetta against the university.
Trump branded her a "TOTAL DISASTER" and asked "how did this Trump-hating Judge get these cases?"
It's worth noting if only to remind us all that the separation of powers usually prevents Presidents leaning on judges.
"When she rules against us we will IMMEDIATELY appeal, Trump said. So we've got that to look forward to.
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14. Stephen Colbert told him to go f**k himself
After Trump seemed to confirm his part in influencing CBS to fire Stephen Colbert, the veteran talk show host took a shot back...
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Also in the intro of the show, Lin Manuel Miranda and Weird Al Yankovic played a Coldplay song while the camera revealed a series of his late-night TV host peers in the audience.
At the end of the bit, the camera settled on an animated Donald Trump cuddling the logo of Paramount, the parent company of CBS.
15. Jimmy Kimmel is "NEXT", then Jimmy Fallon
Trump took something of a victory lap this afternoon, basically confirming he got Colbert fired and gloating that he was going after the rest.
"The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes," he wrote on Truth Social.
"And, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone.
"These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television.
"It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"
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