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Barack Obama’s office said Trump’s ‘bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction’.

Good morning.

Barack Obama has broken his silence on Donald Trump’s calls to prosecute him, unequivocally rejecting his successor’s accusations that he tried to engineer a “coup” after Trump’s 2016 election victory by “manufacturing” evidence of Russian interference.

Obama’s office took the unusual step of issuing an emphatic refutation after Trump told reporters his predecessor had tried to “lead a coup” against him and was guilty of “treason” over intelligence assessments suggesting that Russia had intervened to help defeat Hillary Clinton in the campaign.

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” the statement said. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

What else did the statement say? It went on to criticize claims made in an 11-page document released last week by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. It said: “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan senate Intelligence Committee, led by then Chairman Marco Rubio.”

Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 12:40 pm Also, and we aren't seeing it yet with covid and other hardships that I can tell, but people will at some point likely see increased hardships as punishment from God and the opportunity to get right with God. As industrial civilization goes further into reverse I would expect to see people reaching further back to old time religion that they've read about like Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God) and do it to less effect than the original.

What has been, it is what will be,
And what has been done, it is what will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one might say,
“See this, it is new”?
It has already existed for ages
Which were before us.

11 There is no remembrance of the [h]earlier things,
And of the later things as well, which will occur,
There will be no remembrance of them
Among those who will come later still.

4 “You shall not make for yourself [c]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the [d]punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing [e]favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Unbelief and Its Consequences

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth [m]in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident [n]within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not [o]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and [p]crawling creatures.

24 Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for [q]falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed [r]forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, 27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations [s]with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing [t]shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit [v]to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper, 29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, [w]haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

In my opinion, what will trigger it will be a major global financial crisis.

FullMoon wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:07 pm the outbreak of the ME war with an escalation in the Russian war are not what people want.

The Yorktown was assigned to what was then called the North Atlantic Patrol, trying to spot German ships and submarines for the British and helping convoys to get through. After nearly a year on the North Atlantic Patrol, the crew sensed the war drawing closer and closer. They thought the United States soon would be engaged in a full-scale war because antisubmarine actions were becoming more aggressive. In addition to spotting subs, the Yorktown’s planes were occasionally sneaking in depth charge attacks.

One evening, McIntosh and the crew listened to one of President Roosevelt’s fireside chats on the radio. The President was saying, “I hate war. Eleanor hates war. The people of the United States hate war and we don’t want war.” Just at that moment, a destroyer in the task force cut loose with a depth charge pattern on a sub. It was mid-November 1941.

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:45 pm Donald Trump is acting like a man who is in trouble, maybe for reasons we don't know. But if I had to guess, he is desperate to keep the economic bubble going, which is why he's attacking Jerome Powell and lying about who put Powell in.

The root cause of the declining approval could be the economy.