Trump and Obama, forever linked in history

Published July 27, 2025 6:00am ET



This week brought another reminder that the political careers of President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama will forever be inextricably linked.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard put Obama squarely at the helm of a 2016 plot to discredit Trump before he took office, putting his successor in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s shadow. Trump, as is his wont, took it a step further.

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