Donald Trump spent the hours after midnight on Truth Social attacking Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama and the Southern Poverty Law Center, turning a late-night posting spree into a fresh salvo at familiar targets. Around 12.20 a.m., he called for the Senate minority leader to resign, saying, “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer should resign over this. He won’t be missed!”
By 1.40 a.m., Trump had moved on to a different grievance, posting, “If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” after promoting calls from social media accounts for Obama and Hillary Clinton to be arrested. He also shared a screenshot of an X post from Elon Musk that said, “Their scam worked for decades.”
The overnight messages kept coming as Trump targeted the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling it “one of the greatest political scams in American History,” saying the nonprofit legal advocacy organization “has been charged with FRAUD” and describing it as “another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others.” He also shared a post from right-wing commentator Mario Nawfal, who claimed the group had paid $70,000 to Paul Mullet and alleged Mullet had been involved with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations. The posting spree was still unfolding around 3 a.m.
The timing matters because Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The case quickly drew skepticism from former federal prosecutors, who told CBS News it might struggle to get off the ground. Kyle Boynton said, “It’s not a valid indictment,” while William Johnston said, “When I looked at this indictment, I was very surprised that anyone would have ever charged a case like this,”
Trump and his allies have long argued that the Obama administration was part of a “treasonous conspiracy” and a “years-long coup” tied to intelligence reports on Russian interference, and the latest overnight barrage folded that old fight into the newer attack on the SPLC. The organization, a nonprofit legal advocacy group known for infiltrating extremist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, has defended its methods as standard investigative work. For Trump, the sequence showed a 79-year-old president still using Truth Social as a pressure valve, and still willing to push the same claims into the early morning hours.
