Menacing calls for the imprisonment or execution of former President Barack Obama skyrocketed on social media in the days after a Trump administration report that accused the former president of staging a coup against President Donald Trump following the 2016 presidential election, according to a liberal watchdog.

The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism issued a report this week detailing that since Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s criminal referral against Obama and members of his former national security team to the Department of Justice, calls for the death sentence against the former two-term Democrat have seen precipitous increases:

The White House decried the rhetoric against Obama.

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