It was past midnight when the posts started coming. One after another, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early hours of Friday, 24 April, doing what he has done many times before — pointing the finger at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, calling it treason, and daring anyone to do something about it.
This time, the catalyst was a Fox News clip. Trump shared footage of anchor Bret Baier reporting on what the network described as newly declassified documents, claiming they showed that former CIA Director John Brennan had briefed then-President Obama on Clinton's alleged plan to smear Trump during the 2016 campaign. 'Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Obama on Hilary [sic] Clinton's purported plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016,' Baier said in the clip. Trump did not call explicitly for arrests in the post, but the context of his overnight activity made the direction clear.
