Obama’s White House Portrait Vanishes from Public View As Criminal Referrals Mount

President Trump has quietly moved Barack Obama’s official White House portrait from its prominent position in the main entryway to the top of the Grand Staircase—a location where visitors on official tours will never see it. The photorealistic painting by Robert McCurdy now hangs alongside portraits of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, all relegated to an area generally inaccessible to the public. It’s the second time Trump has moved Obama’s portrait, having first replaced it in April with artwork depicting Trump raising his fist after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

While presidential portrait rearrangements aren’t unprecedented, the timing tells a deeper story. This isn’t just about redecorating—it’s about accountability finally catching up with the 44th president. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been methodically building a case that should make every American furious about what happened during Obama’s final months in office.

Gabbard said during a July 23 White House press briefing she had referred Obama to the Justice Department for possible criminal charges related to the “Russiagate” hoax, saying Obama led “the manufacturing” of the assessment that Russia interfered with the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.

The evidence keeps mounting, and where’s the mainstream media coverage? Special Counsel John Durham’s report confirmed what many of us suspected all along—that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate” the claims from the discredited Steele Dossier, the very document used to obtain warrants to spy on Trump associates. Does this sound like the behavior of innocent people to you? The FBI even offered former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele $1 million if he could prove his claims. He never did, because he couldn’t.

Now CIA Director John Ratcliffe has referred former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey to criminal investigation for allegedly making false statements to Congress. The very people who assured us Trump was a Russian asset are now facing potential criminal charges for lying about it under oath.