Trump's deepfake video of Obama 'arrest' seeks distraction

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg Opinion

It is both sad and unsurprising that President Trump posted a deepfake video of former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office. Battling for position with his MAGA base, which is furious over his inaction on the so-called Epstein files, Trump has resorted to an old tactic: distraction. He has raised another conspiracy theory to change the subject away from a different conspiracy theory.

But in sharing the video, which was created by another user, he is sinking to a new low, even for the president who encouraged crowds to chant “Lock her up!” about his 2016 political opponent and has repeatedly smeared the “Biden crime family.”

But no political rival seems to capture Trump’s imagination like Obama. The apparently AI-generated video depicts FBI agents forcing Obama to the ground as Trump looks on in the Oval Office and the song “YMCA” plays in the background. Later, Obama is portrayed in an orange jumpsuit sitting in a jail cell, a MAGA fantasy made “real.”

For Trump, the video is a return to a theme that helped him break through with the conspiracy-minded Tea Party voters who would become his base. Then, it was birtherism. Now it is fake Obama being fake arrested. The throughline is that Obama, the nation’s first Black president, is somehow illegitimate.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-trumps-deepfake-video-of-obama-arrest-seeks-distraction/

[Turbineguy]

1. Trump is a victim of his own making.

He has to lie. Maybe he wants to put himself in a position to get 25th amendmented. If he's no longer President the GOP will want to move on and maybe try and repair the damage he did to the country.

[Norrrm]

2. Why don't you arrest him for real, Donald? You don't have the balls?

You own the AG.
You own the DOJ.