Fox Anchor and House Republican Suggest Obama Committed ‘Treason’ in Wild Segment: ‘This Was Actually a Coup Attempt’

Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone spoke to Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) on Monday and raised the possibility of ex-President Barack Obama being investigated for treason in a wild on-air exchange.

Casone ended the interview by asking about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent claim that declassified documents show Obama was behind the Trump-Russia collusion probe in 2016.

Casone began by saying Gabbard “revealed an explosive declassified document drop alleging that the Obama administration created and pushed the narrative that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Congressman, I want to get your reaction to this document dump from Tulsi Gabbard on Friday and what this means going forward. What do you think?”

“Well, we’ve known that there was a concerted effort coming from the administration to basically try to destroy President Trump in his first term. And so that just didn’t happen by osmosis. Somebody had to give the order, because it was coordinated,” replied Diaz-Balart, adding:

It looks like right now, which we all suspected, that this goes all the way to the top, potentially from President Obama himself. And so I’m grateful that this is finally coming out, because this was an actual coup attempt. You hear the Democrats talk about threat to democracy.

There is a threat and there was a threat to democracy, but it wasn’t coming from the right or from conservatives. It was coming from the left and it looks like it came all the way, whether it was President Obama or his closest associates, it looks like it went all the way to the White House. It is important that this is investigated so something like this, an attempted coup in essence, never happens again in the United States of America, the greatest democracy ever.

Casone followed up, “You know, my colleague Gregg Jarrett here at Fox wrote an op-ed at FoxNews.com: ‘How Obama and His Cronies Created the Trump-Russia Hoax,’ but he also poses the question, what happens next? And that is the question about what happens next. I mean, you could look at things like treason. You could look at things—I mean this isn’t about collusion anymore depending on where the investigation goes. Do you think that’s the right path to take right now, or is it more important to focus on the issues at hand for the nation?”

“I mean, look, you can do two things at the same time. I think it’s very important that we follow the facts and that we follow that trail to wherever it leads. We should not be politicizing,” Diaz-Balart replied, adding:

We have to be, I think, very thoughtful, but you cannot allow, if in fact that happened—which I suspect it did—you cannot allow, in essence, a coup, an organized, planned, aggressive coup to take place, almost take place, and no consequences for that action. But it has to be done seriously. So I tell people, let’s see where the facts go, but right now from what we are able to see just in those documents, it is really damning to President Obama and his entire administration.

And we can do that while at the same time do the other things. And yes, will the Democrats flip out if in fact the facts show that there was this conspiracy with the Democrat leadership and the Senate in particular? Will they flip out and be unable or unwilling to negotiate to do other things for the country? That remains to be seen. But look, we have to get our job done, and part of that job is investigating if there was a potential coup attempt.

Notably, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump himself publicly called for Russia to hack the Clinton campaign, which the country later did.

In 2020, a Republican-led investigation in the U.S. Senate concluded that Russia did indeed interfere in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf. The Senate panel investigating the election published a 1,000-page report, which found “Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf,” reported the AP at the time.

The report added that “the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News.