Overview

• Reshared on July 26 from Scotland, the doctored image depicting Obama as O.J. Simpson and Trump and Vance in police cars has amassed millions of views on Truth Social.
• Unexpected attention has centered on Vance’s long-haired, college-era portrayal, reviving and spawning new ‘long-haired JD Vance’ memes.
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she will submit more than 100 documents to the DOJ and FBI alleging Obama administration officials fabricated the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
• Obama’s spokesperson has called the collusion allegations “ridiculous” and a weak attempt to distract from other issues.
• Critics contend that Trump’s use of memes and AI deepfakes aims to divert scrutiny from demands to release Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein.