In the early hours of May 11, former President Donald Trump unleashed a fresh wave of accusations aimed at Barack Obama, using his social media platform to amplify calls for the former president to be arrested and even imprisoned. The posts, shared and reposted in rapid succession, leaned on inflammatory language and recycled claims that have been disputed for years—reviving a familiar pattern of late-night political escalation that quickly spread across partisan corners of the internet. Among the themes Trump pushed was the allegation that Obama orchestrated the narrative around Russian interference in the 2016 election and directed federal agencies...
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