Smoke And Mirrors!

Trump is doing what Trump does best, create a distraction... but you know what? The public is starting to catch on and that is making them angry, being played like a fiddle.

Murkowski questions whether Trump admin is attacking Obama to distract from Epstein fallout

CNN

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn

July 23, 2025

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski questioned whether Trump administration officials are accusing former President Barack Obama of treason in order to distract from the fallout over its handling documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

“Obviously, this is new language. Words like treason are big words, right?” the Alaska Republican told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday in an interview on “The Source.”

“It does cause one to wonder if this is an effort by folks in the administration to have the conversation, move on to something else, other than the Epstein matter, move on to something else, another, somebody other than President Trump so let’s go back to prior presidents,” she said.

“Based on the timing of all of this, it does kind of cause you to question,” Murkowski said when asked by Collins if allegations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were a “distraction technique.”

Newsweek had this to say,

"Factually, it's wholly unsupported," he said. "The Durham investigation into the Russian interference yielded no serious charges. And the statute of limitations has long since run. If Trump was serious about doing this, his Department of Justice would have done it during his first administration."

Set your Way-Back-Machine to 2016 and the bipartisan Senate investigation: NBC News reported; 

President Donald Trump’s intelligence chiefs are conducting a systematic campaign to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, seeking to reverse an eight-year-old assessment that Russia waged an information war to boost Trump’s candidacy.

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have cited declassified emails to allege in social media posts and television appearances that Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence and conspired to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.

But a bipartisan Senate investigation in 2020 and a recent CIA review both found that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, launching a disinformation campaign designed to damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.

A three-year investigation by special counsel John Durham reported no criminal conspiracy by Obama administration officials to sabotage Trump, and Durham filed no charges against CIA officials.

So here we have a Republican investigation of what Trump is now saying they are starting a criminal investigation... do look here, there is nothing to see... look over there!

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, said the panel’s unanimous, bipartisan conclusion in 2020 was that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump.

“This is just another example of the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] trying to cook the books, rewrite history, and erode trust in the intelligence agencies she’s supposed to be leading,” Warner said in a statement, referring to Gabbard.

The Washington Post wrote about another investigation back then...

House Intelligence panel publicizes scope of Russia probe

By Karoun Demirjian

March 1, 2017

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will probe allegations of links between political campaign officials and the Russian government, as well as how classified information about alleged contacts came to be leaked to the media, its leaders announced late Wednesday.

The committee will probe whether Russia’s “active measures include links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns or any other U.S. person.” Such a category could include alleged contacts between Trump campaign members and Kremlin officials — although Nunes told reporters Monday he had seen no evidence that any improper contact had taken place.

Politico wrote back then after the hearings...

House Intelligence Committee Republicans closed their investigation of Russian election interference Monday, declaring they found no evidence that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign cooperated with the Kremlin, a conclusion Trump quickly celebrated — but which Democrats called premature and even misleading.

Soon after the Republican announcement, Trump triumphantly claimed vindication on Twitter. “THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,” he wrote.

Did you get that? Nobody found anything! Why is Trump & Company going after former president Obama? As a distraction! Back in his first term he did the same thing according to the Washington Post,

“Trump doesn’t govern, he performs. And like any magician, once you’ve seen the trick enough times, the magic fades.”