No, Trump didn’t accuse Obama of meddling in the 2020 election over golf

It’s true that former President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social about his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. 

On Oct. 11, for example, Trump claimed, "Obama admits a total lack of enthusiasm for Kamala, especially with Black Men. I think Obama will be voting for me because he doesn’t like the fact that Kamala is an extremely Low IQ Person!"

But a screenshot shows another Truth Social post, purportedly by Trump and riddled with grammar and spelling errors, which is fabricated. 

"I have never been so angry in my life and its all because the loony leftist Jack Smith is interfering with my perfect reelection which was stolen from me by Joe Biden and Kamilla who is now supposed to be the Democratic presidential candidate but we all know that Obama is behind all of it because he was ashamed about how much better of a golfer that I am and I am the greatest golfer maybe even of all time but now I have to be in court instead all thanks to radical Jack….!!!!" the image said.

An Oct. 6 Threads post sharing it was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads.)

We found no evidence that Trump posted this. It doesn’t appear in his Truth Social account, and no news coverage quoting him saying as much exists — though an online search turned up a fact-check that concludes he didn’t make this statement. 

Trump did recently post about Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the prosecution team in the federal election case against Trump. 

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Former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social and addressed claims of his “incontinence,” saying, “I don’t poop myself.”

On Oct. 2, a judge unsealed a filing in which Smith made his case for why Trump shouldn’t be considered immune from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 

"The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," Trump said in an Oct. 2 post. "Deranged Jack Smith, the hand picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power. ‘TRUMP’ is dominating the Election cycle, leading in the Polls, and the Radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are totally ‘freaking out.’ This entire case is a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should be dismissed, entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!"

We rate claims that Trump posted on Truth Social that Obama was meddling in the 2020 presidential election because he’s ashamed of his golf game Pants on Fire!