July 22, 2025

Fake Obama Arrest Videos, Real MLK Files & Bitcoin Billions: Trump's Epstein Distraction Trilogy

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Patrick Gutfield covers Trump's triple-header of distractions: posting fake AI videos of Obama getting arrested while his own supporters demand Epstein file transparency, releasing MLK assassination documents to change the subject, and Trump Media's sudden two billion dollar bitcoin fortune. From selective transparency syndrome to turning the presidency into a crypto side hustle.

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, d C. Where release the

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Epstein files. This is ballot, that's right.

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Stop trying to distract us and release the Epstein files. Hi,

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I'm Patrick Gutfield, and oh boy, we've got a doozy today.

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President Trump just reposted a fake AI video showing Barack

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Obama getting arrested in the Oval Office. And when I

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say fake, I mean Saturday Night Live wouldn't even use.

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This material because it's too ridiculous. So here's what happened.

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Someone made an AI generated video using footage from that

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awkward November twenty sixteen meeting between Obama and Trump, you know,

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the one where Obama had to pretend he was happy

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to meet the guy who spent years saying he wasn't

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born in America. In the fake video, FBI agents burst

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in put Obama in handcuffs while he's kneeling on then.

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And Trump just stands there smiling.

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Oh and they're playing Ymca by the Village People, which

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is either the most tone deaf soundtrack choice ever or

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the most perfectly Trump soundtrack choice ever. The video also

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shows Obama pacing around in an orange jumpsuit in a

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jail cell.

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Orange jumpsuit.

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That's rich, coming from someone who knows a thing or

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two about mugshots. Now, Trump didn't make this video himself.

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He just reposted it from TikTok Onto truth Social, which

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is the social media equivalent of your uncle forwarding you

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a chain email about how microwaving your phone will charge

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it faster.

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But wait, there's more.

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This comes as Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbard,

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is claiming there was a treasonous conspiracy by Obama administration

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officials in twenty sixteen. She says she's making a criminal

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referral to the FBI based on recently released documents. So

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Trump is essentially posting fan fiction about arresting Obama while

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his own intelligence chief is trying to make it reality.

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Here's the timing that's really interesting. This Obama arrest fantasy

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is happening right after Trump's Justice Department walked back their

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promise to release the full Epstein files. His own supporters

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are questioning his judgment on that decision, causing what reporters

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are calling strife within the MAGA movement. So when your

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base is mad about you not releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein,

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what do you do post a video about arresting your predecessor.

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That's like your house being on fire and deciding to

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rearrange the deck chairs. The administration did release files, just

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not the Epstein files. Today's distraction is a quarter million

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pages of documents about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Junior,

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and the timing here is about as subtle as a

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brick through a window.

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So here's what happened.

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President Trump signed an executive order demanding the release of

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these MLK assassination files, about two hundred and fifty thousand

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pages worth, and they're now posted on the National Archives website.

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The documents include investigator notes, interviews with people who knew

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James Earl Ray, and previously unreleased details about foreign intelligence

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services during the manhunt. Now Tulsea Gabbard, the Director of

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National Intelligence, oversaw the review of these documents, and while

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we don't know yet if they contain unflattering details about

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doctor King's personal life, the King family is understandably concerned.

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They've expressed worries that releasing these records might focus attention

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on King's well documented personal struggles rather than his historic

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contributions to civil rights. This massive document dump comes right

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after Trump's administration reversed course and decided not to release

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the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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So when people are mad you won't.

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Release one controversial set of documents, what do you do

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release a different controversial set of documents. The man's got

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selective transparency syndrome. Well, this is fascinating. Trump Media just

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announced they've accumulated roughly two billion dollars in bitcoin, and

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suddenly the company that couldn't make money off of Twitter

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knockoff is swimming in cryptocurrency.

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So here's what's happening.

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Trump Media, you know, the company behind Truth Social, the

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platform that makes Twitter look like a bastion of civil discourse,

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just revealed that bitcoin now makes up about two thirds

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of their total liquid assets two billion dollars worth. That's

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a lot of digital coins for a company whose main

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product is a social media site that Trump uses to

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post ai videos of Obama getting arrested. The stock jump

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nine percent when markets opened Monday, which makes sense when

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you realize that Trump's stake in the company is now

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worth nearly two point three billion dollars. Not bad for

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a guy who used to call cryptocurrency a scam.

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And here's the beautiful irony.

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Trump, who wants dismissed digital currency, has now made so

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much money from crypto that it accounts for most of

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his wealth on paper, That's like saying you hate vegetables

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and then becoming the world's largest carrot farmer. Critics are

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pointing out that having a president who profits directly from

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the policies he's pushing might create what they're calling an

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environment right for corruption, and by might they mean this

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podcast might have been written with the help of AI.

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So let me get this straight.

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Trump went from calling crypto a scam to making billions

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off it while simultaneously using his presidential power to boost

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the very industry that's making him rich. That's not a

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conflict of interest. That's a conflict of interest with a

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bow tie and a cryptocurrency wallet. Got to give him credit.

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The man turned being president into a side hustle.