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Post by the Scribe on May 8, 2020 18:28:21 GMT
Obama left Trump with a clean plate of peace in the middle east. Safe guards in place for health care and clean water and air. A pandemic team in place. He left us with a good economy that it took him eight years to recover after Bush. It took Trump to come in with a wrecking ball and tear it all up in three. It took only 21 days for Trump and the CONS to destroy the "greatest American economy in human history." Trump will leave office in 2021 with nothing left behind but broken promises.
Never mind Flynn lied and admitted to lying. He knew he was wrong. He did meet with Russians as did so many other Trump campaign officials. Who is the real SCUM here?
MUELLER REPORT: A total of 251 contacts between Trump’s team and RUSSIA-linked operatives have been identified, including at least 37 meetings. And we know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers were aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself. NONE of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to COVER UP every single one of them. 88 of these contacts, including 13 meetings, were held AFTER Trump received his first INTELLIGENCE briefing as a presidential candidate on August 17, 2016, when he was specifically WARNED about Russian attempts to infiltrate his campaign.
No one forced the Trump campaign staff to go to meet with any Russians. They have free will and should have known this was against the law. It looks suspicious and had the intelligence agencies ignored these facts they would be derelict in their duties. Imagine if Obama or his staff had done even one iota of what Trump has done. The right wing would have been screaming from the rafters. I have absolutely NO confidence in Barr's selective disclosure of information pertaining to any of this. He will only release what is in his narrative's favor given his past history.
Anyone in authority whether Obama, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security ALL had reason to suspect Trump and his campaign. To NOT do something about it would be a dereliction of duty. I certainly hope they did something because if not having all of these intelligence agencies is worthless. Frankly, Trump is out of his mind and has been that way for some time. Had it not been for the GOP election stealing machine we would never have this accidental president.
This makes Trump and Papadopoulos look guilty: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/25/donald-trump-wants-investigation-into-australias-role-in-russian-hoax
Also, how can one or two FBI agents bring down a president by disliking him via emails. It means nothing. What exactly did they do that was illegal? Hate Trump? I can give you a long list of Obama hating FBI agents. Should they be in jail? Trump is now coming perilously close to calling Obama "scum" and calling for his prosecution "What they did, what the Obama administration did, is unprecedented ... and I hope a lot of people will pay a big price because they are dishonest, crooked people. They are scum." -- Trump is now coming perilously close to calling Obama "scum" and calling for his prosecutionJustice Department Moves To Drop Prosecution Of Michael Flynn Case | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC 744 views•May 8, 2020
Kristen Welker, Frank Figliuzzi, and Michael Steele join Andrea Mitchell to discuss the unprecedented move by the Department of Justice to drop the prosecution of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on charges of lying to the FBI, charges to which Flynn had previously pleaded guilty twice before seeking to withdraw his plea. Aired on 05/08/2020.
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Post by the Scribe on May 11, 2020 0:32:01 GMT
Trump charges Obama with 'biggest political crime in American history'www.yahoo.com/news/trump-charges-obama-biggest-political-170713428.html Martin Pengelly in New York The GuardianMay 10, 2020, 12:42 PM MST
Trump charges Obama with 'biggest political crime in American history'
Donald Trump continued to fume over the Russia investigation on Sunday, more than a year after special counsel Robert Mueller filed his report without recommending charges against the president but only three days after the justice department said it would drop its case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser.
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“The biggest political crime in American history, by far!” the president wrote in a tweet accompanying a conservative talk show host’s claim that Barack Obama “used his last weeks in office to target incoming officials and sabotage the new administration”.
The tweet echoed previous messages retweeted by Trump, which earned rebukes for relaying conspiracy theories. On Sunday afternoon the president continued to send out a stream of tweets of memes and rightwing talking heads claiming an anti-Trump conspiracy. One tweet by Trump simply read: “OBAMAGATE!”
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Scroll back up to restore default view. Trump fired Flynn, a retired general, in early 2017, for lying to Vice-President Mike Pence about conversations with the Russian ambassador regarding sanctions levied by the Obama administration in retaliation for interference in the 2016 election.
The US intelligence community has long held that such efforts were meant to tip the election towards Trump and away from Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI – which Trump has acknowledged – and co-operated with Mueller, who was appointed to take over the investigation of Russian interference after Trump fired FBI director James Comey.
Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy but did lay out extensive links between Trump and Moscow and instances of possible obstruction of justice by the president.
Flynn sought to change his plea while awaiting sentencing and the president championed his case, floating a possible pardon. On Thursday, in an act that stunned the US media, attorney general William Barr said the justice department would drop the case entirely.
Michael Flynn at a campaign event in Virginia Beach in September 2016. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters
Trump and his supporters have loudly trumpeted the decision and across Saturday and Sunday the president unleashed a storm of retweets of supporters and conservative commentators attacking targets including Obama, Mueller, Comey and House intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff.
The talkshow host retweeted by the president, Buck Sexton, is a former CIA analyst who now hosts a show which he says “speaks truth to power, and cuts through the liberal nonsense coming from the mainstream media”.
In another message retweeted by the president, Sexton called former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe – who Trump fired just short of retirement – “a dishonorable partisan scumbag who has done incalculable damage to the reputation of the FBI and should be sitting in a cell for lying under oath”.
In February, the US justice department said it would not charge McCabe over claims he lied to investigators about a media leak.
Like Comey, McCabe released a book in which he was highly critical of Trump, who he said acted like a mob boss. McCabe also wrote that Trump had unleashed a “strain of insanity” in American public life.
In his own tweets, Trump did not directly address comments by Obama himself which were reported by Yahoo News. The former president told associates the Flynn decision was “the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic – not just institutional norms – but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/09/obama-leaked-conversation-us-rule-of-law-at-risk-flynn-case-dropped
But Trump’s anger was evident.
“When are the Fake Journalists,” he wrote on Sunday, “who received unwarranted Pulitzer Prizes for Russia, Russia, Russia, and the Impeachment Scam, going to turn in their tarnished awards so they can be given to the real journalists who got it right. I’ll give you the names, there are plenty of them!”
The president did not immediately name anyone.
But in 2018 the Pulitzer committee did, awarding its prize for national reporting jointly to the Washington Post and the New York Times for “deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.”
Trump has further reason to resent the Pulitzer committee and question its choices.
In 2019, for example, a New York Times team won a Pulitzer for an “exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges”.
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The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, was rewarded for “uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment”.
Trump’s actual impeachment, which he survived at trial in the Senate in February, concerned his attempts to have Ukraine investigate his political rivals. No reporter or news outlet won a 2020 Pulitzer, announced this week, for its coverage of that affair.
Trump’s focus on Sunday remained largely on the Russia investigation despite continuing developments in the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 1.3m Americans and killed nearly 80,000.
With cases confirmed among White House aides close to the president, top public health experts including Dr Anthony Fauci in quarantine and Trump reported by the New York Times to be “spooked”, the president claimed in a rare non-Russia-related tweet: “We are getting great marks for the handling of the CoronaVirus pandemic.”
He also attacked Obama and his vice-president, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president this year, over their response to the “disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu” in 2009.
Trump also marked a special day in the calendar, tweeting in trademark capitals: “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!”
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Post by the Scribe on May 12, 2020 9:49:28 GMT
This should trigger the short tempered incompetent Trump.
Obama Calls Trump Administration’s Virus Response ‘Chaotic Disaster’ | The Last Word | MSNBC
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Trump spent Mother’s Day rage tweeting after former President Obama criticized his pandemic response. Ben Rhodes tells Lawrence O’Donnell about the many ways President Obama prepared for a future pandemic that were ignored or dismantled by Trump: “What I think is so frustrating is… that has real life consequences.” Aired on 5/11/2020.
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Post by the Scribe on May 12, 2020 21:56:46 GMT
Trump Keeps Talking About 'Obamagate' but Can't Explain It | NowThis
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Post by the Scribe on May 17, 2020 13:32:17 GMT
'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obamawww.yahoo.com/news/eats-him-alive-inside-trumps-070024266.html David Smith in Washington The GuardianMay 16, 2020, 12:00 AM MSTPresident Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump once sat together in the Oval Office. “I was immediately struck by Trump’s body language,” wrote journalist Jon Karl in his memoir Front Row at The Trump Show. “I was seeing a side of him I had never seen. He seemed, believe it or not, humbled.” Related: Trump campaign focuses fire on Biden as pandemic undermines strategy It was November 2016 and, just for once, Trump was not in charge of the room, Karl recalls. Obama was still president, directing the action and setting the tone. His successor “seemed a little dazed” and “a little freaked out”. What the two men discussed in their meeting that day, only they know. But what became clear in the next three and a half years is that Obama remains something of an obsession for Trump; the subject of a political and personal inferiority complex. Observers point to a mix of anti-intellectualism, racism, vengeance and primitive envy over everything from Obama’s Nobel peace prize to the scale of his inauguration crowd and social media following. Ben Rhodes, a former Obama national security aide, tweeted this week: “Trump’s fact-free fixation on Obama dating back to birtherism is so absurd and stupid that it would be comic if it wasn’t so tragic.” Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/Pool/Getty Images “Birtherism” was a conspiracy theory that Trump started pushing in 2011 (“He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one but there is something on that birth certificate – maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim, I don’t know.”) . Nine years later, he has come full circle with “Obamagate”, which accuses his predecessor of working in league with the “deep state” to frame Trump for colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election. There is zero evidence for this claim. Indeed, a case could be made that the supposed “deep state” did more to help Trump than hurt him when the FBI reopened an investigation into his opponent, Hillary Clinton, just before election day. When questioned by reporters, Trump himself has struggled to articulate what “Obamagate” means. Ned Price, a former CIA analyst, dubbed it “a hashtag in search of a scandal”. But his allies in the Republican party and conservative media are stepping up to build a parallel universe where this is the big story and Obama is at the center of it. Sean Hannity, a host on Fox News, demanded: “What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?” Over the past week, the channel’s primetime shows have devoted more coverage to the bogus crimes of “Barack Hussein Obama” than to the coronavirus pandemic – and Trump’s mishandling of it. Trump has a problem where I think he’s just jealous of the fact that Obama is still so admired Tara Setmayer Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill, said: “Donald Trump always needs a foil. This riles up his base because they cling to anything that diverges responsibility for anything from Donald Trump over to someone else. And in this case Barack Obama is the boogeyman of the month.” Beyond political expediency, there is a more profound antipathy at work. From the Iran nuclear deal to the Trans Pacific Partnership, from environmental regulations to the Affordable Care Act, Trump has always seemed to be on a mission to erase his predecessor’s legacy. With few deep convictions of his own, Trump found a negative reference point in Obama. Between 22 November 2010 and 14 May 2020, he tweeted about Obama 2,933 times, according to the Trump Twitter Archive. U.S. President Barack Obama, right, speaks as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump listens during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Photograph: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images There are a few reasons, argues Setmayer, host of the Honestly Speaking podcast. “First off, Donald Trump has a problem where I think he’s just jealous of the fact that President Obama is still so admired. Number two, I think he has a problem with people of color who are in authority that don’t do the kind of song and dance that he wants them to do. “Barack Obama is not a ‘shuck and jive’ person of color, and those are the kinds of people that Donald Trump seems to be attracted to if you look at who he surrounds himself with as far as minorities are concerned.” Third, Setmayer points to the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where Trump sat stony-faced and humiliated as Obama lampooned the Celebrity Apprentice host’s nascent political ambitions. Obama even pointed to a photoshopped image of a Trump White House with hotel, casino, golf course and gold columns. “A lot of people think that this is where this all started,” Setmayer continued. “President Trump does not have a sense of humor, he’s not self-deprecating, and the White House correspondents’ dinner is a fun event where people make fun of each other, especially in politics.” “This obsession, of course, is absolutely rooted in racism. Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, a civil rights advocacy group, said: “This obsession, of course, is absolutely rooted in racism. Some of the accusations have been deeply racialized, from the questioning of Obama’s intelligence to talking about how much basketball he plays to questioning his birthplace and citizenship.” Trump has shredded many norms, including that of presidents maintaining a respectful contact with their predecessors. He has dismissed the idea of seeking Obama’s input during the coronavirus pandemic. For his part, Obama has carefully chosen his moments to condemn certain decisions or policies without mentioning Trump by name. But tensions flared last week when a tape leaked of Obama on a private conference call with about 3,000 alumni of his administration, describing Trump’s leadership in the pandemic as “an absolute chaotic disaster”. He also warned a justice department move to drop charges against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, indicates that “the rule of law is at risk”. Trump and his wife Melania with Barack and Michelle Obama at the inauguration in January 2017. Photograph: Rob Carr/Getty Images Trump has described Flynn as a wronged “hero” and argued that Obama and his vice-president, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for November’s election, should “pay a big price” for supposedly derailing the retired general’s career. Critics suggest that the president is seeking to weaponise the justice department for electoral gain. Matthew Miller, a former director of the office of public affairs at the department, said: “In terms of any real action against Barack Obama, he obviously doesn’t have anything to worry about. But when you look at what’s happened at the justice department with the complete politicisation of that department, I think it’s quite possible that they’re going to be coming after people from the Obama administration, using the criminal justice process any way they can.” The 2016 rally chants of “Lock her up!” might be replaced by “Lock him up!” It would be one of the gravest consequences of Trump’s Obama obsession. Miller added: “There’s some racism there but, most of all, it’s driven by the fact that Obama has the thing that Trump has always craved but never achieved, and that’s respect. I’ve always thought that the respect that Barack Obama gets from people in this country and around the world is something that just eats Trump alive inside.” Obama issued a tweet on Thursday that contained one word: “Vote.” He is expected to campaign vigorously for Biden, wooing voters who crave a return to what they saw as the dignity and stability of his era. But his presence is also likely to be inverted by Trump to rally his base with dark warnings that, like Clinton before him, Biden would effectively represent a third term of Obama. The 2016 rally chants of “Lock her up!” might be replaced by “Lock him up!” The 2020 election could yet turn into a final showdown between Obama and Trump, even if only one of their names is on the ballot. It will be a clash of opposites: one a mixed-race cerebral lawyer who has been married to the same woman for nearly three decades and publishes annual lists of his favorite books; the other a white billionaire and reality TV star who wed three times and measures success in TV ratings. Where one is renowned for elegant turns of phrase and shedding tears after mass shootings, the other serves up jumbled word salads and schoolboy spelling errors and has struggled to show empathy for the coronavirus dead. Michael D’Antonio, a political commentator and author of The Truth About Trump, said: “There’s so much that separates them, it’s hard to imagine two presidents more different. It’s very obvious Trump is continually comparing himself with Obama in his own mind. Obama’s over his head, over his shoulder, always looming as the guy who could speak in paragraphs and juggle more than one thing at once and deal with them effectively.”
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Post by the Scribe on May 17, 2020 22:11:25 GMT
As you prepare to vote next November 2020 ask yourself " Am I better off than I was 4 years ago?" Then proceed to vote and make sure your vote gets counted in spite of all Republiconservative shenanigans to prevent it.Trump: Obama Was A 'Grossly Incompetent' President | MSNBC‘Grossly incompetent’: Trump dismisses Obama over coronavirus criticismwww.yahoo.com/news/grossly-incompetent-trump-dismisses-obama-182547442.html Rishika Dugyala May 17, 2020, 11:25 AM MST
‘Grossly incompetent’: Trump dismisses Obama over coronavirus criticism
President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed his predecessor as “grossly incompetent,” a day after former President Barack Obama said leaders weren’t “even pretending to be in charge” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Asked about Obama’s comments, Trump first told a pool of reporters at the White House that administration officials “had a great weekend” during a working trip to Camp David.
“We did a lot of terrific meetings, tremendous progress is being made on many fronts, including coming up with a cure for this horrible plague that has beset our country,” he said.
When pressed further, Trump added: “Look, he was an incompetent president. That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent.”
Since leaving office, Obama has largely avoided weighing in on politics or how his successor is doing. But recently, with the coronavirus outbreak taking a huge toll on the country, he has become more outspoken.
In April, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs and unemployment was at 14.7 percent. As states ease coronavirus restrictions, the spread continues: There are nearly 1.5 million cases and more than 89,000 deaths in the U.S. The Trump administration has been criticized for a delayed response to the outbreak and a lack of organization in providing tests and medical supplies.
Last week, on a call with roughly 3,000 former staffers, Obama said the government has taken on a “What’s in it for me?” mindset, and he called the White House’s pandemic response “an absolute chaotic disaster.”
On Saturday, in a virtual address to graduates of historically black colleges and universities, Obama broached the topic again: “This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing.”
He didn’t name names, but the implication was clear.
Trump calling his predecessor incompetent is not new. He has railed against inheriting what he has called an ineffective and “broken” system when he came into office. He has said he won’t be asking former presidents for help because he wasn’t “going to learn much.” And in 2013, before his presidential aspirations were in the picture, Trump tweeted: “Who thinks that President Obama is totally incompetent?”
But the president’s brief comments on Sunday come as he pushes the unfounded “Obamagate” conspiracy theory, alleging that officials in the previous administration sought to undermine Trump and target his top associates — like former national security adviser Michael Flynn — with the Russia investigation.
Trump even began pushing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to more aggressively look into the origins of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. McConnell, along with most Republicans, has been cautious on embracing Trump’s position. www.politico.com/news/2020/05/16/trump-mitch-mcconnell-obamagate-261781
On Sunday morning, White House economic adviser Peter Navarro also had a strongly worded defense of the administration’s handling of pandemic mitigation.
“I’m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary,” Navarro said on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. “As far as I’m concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to China.”
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Post by the Scribe on May 19, 2020 16:36:54 GMT
White House portrait unveiling may be the latest casualty of the political dividewww.yahoo.com/news/white-house-portrait-unveiling-may-093000201.html NBC News Carol E. Lee, NBC News•May 19, 2020
White House portrait unveiling may be the latest casualty of the political divide More WASHINGTON — It's been a White House tradition for decades: a first-term president hosts his immediate predecessor in the East Room for a ceremony to unveil the portrait of the former president that will hang in the halls of the White House for posterity.
Republican presidents have done it for Democratic presidents, and vice versa — even when one of them ascended to the White House by defeating or sharply criticizing the other.
"We may have our differences politically," President Barack Obama said when he hosted former President George W. Bush for his portrait unveiling in 2012, "but the presidency transcends those differences."
Yet this modern ritual won't be taking place between Obama and President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. And if Trump wins a second term in November, it could be 2025 before Obama returns to the White House to see his portrait displayed among every U.S. president from George Washington to Bush.
Trump is unconcerned about shunning yet another presidential custom, and he has attacked Obama to an extent no other president has done to a predecessor. Most recently he's made unfounded accusations that Obama committed an unspecified crime.
Obama, for his part, has no interest in participating in the post-presidency rite of passage so long as Trump is in office, the people familiar with the matter said.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 30, 2020 10:34:16 GMT
Trump's Old Obama Insults Come Back To Haunt Him Amid New Russia Scandalwww.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-trump-obama-intelligence-tweets-071928163.html Ed Mazza HuffPostJune 30, 2020, 12:19 AM MST
In yet another case of a “tweet for everything,” President Donald Trump’s old attacks on former President Barack Obama aren’t aging very well.
The New York Times reported that Trump received a written briefing in February about a Russian military unit that paid bounties to Afghan militants for killing American soldiers. The Associated Press not only confirmed the report but said the administration knew of the plot since 2019.
Trump, however, claimed on Twitter that he was not briefed about the alleged bounties and an old Tweet from 2014 resurfaced as a result:
Fact--Obama does not read his intelligence briefings nor does he get briefed in person by the CIA or DOD. Too busy I guess!
In 2018, The Washington Post reported that Trump never reads his own written intelligence reports. According to officials, Trump prefers to receive an oral briefing just two or three times a week.
Trump’s claim that he knew nothing about the new allegations also caused this 2013 message to resurface:
Isn't the WORLD tired of hearing President Obama say he knew nothing about anything-time to take responsibility for all of your mistakes! 4:17 AM · Oct 31, 2013
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 31, 2020 1:10:46 GMT
OBAMA STRIKES BACK
Obama takes EPIC swipe against Trump during John Lewis eulogy, gets HUGE ovation
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 20, 2020 9:56:47 GMT
!OBAMA STRIKES BACK!Barack Obama Gives Blistering Critique Of Trump’s Presidency In DNC Speech www.yahoo.com/huffpost/barack-obama-speech-dnc-2020-024142097.html Dominique Mosbergen HuffPostAugust 19, 2020, 7:41 PM MST
Former President Barack Obama, on the third and penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention, delivered a speech skewering the job Donald Trump has done as president ― and lauding his “brother” Joe Biden for his character and political experience.
Trump has “shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends, no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves,” Obama said Wednesday night from Philadelphia.
Obama has, over the past four years, largely refrained from criticizing his successor, but he minced no words in his lambaste of the president during his DNC address.
“Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,” the former president said. “And the consequences of that failure are severe: 170,000 Americans dead, millions of jobs gone, our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”
Obama urged Americans to consider voting for Biden, his former vice president, who he said “made me a better president” and who has “got the character and the experience to make us a better country.”
“Twelve years ago, when I began my search for a vice president, I didn’t know I’d end up finding a brother,” Obama said. “Joe and I came from different places and different generations. But what I quickly came to admire about him is his resilience, born of too much struggle; his empathy, born of too much grief. Joe’s a man who learned early on to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, living by the words his parents taught him: ‘No one’s better than you, but you’re better than nobody.’”
Obama ― who officially endorsed Biden back in April ― also praised his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, for being “an ideal partner who’s more than prepared for the job, someone who knows what it’s like to overcome barriers and who’s made a career fighting to help others live out their own American dream.” www.npr.org/2020/04/14/830130815/obama-set-to-officially-endorse-biden
“Tonight, I am asking you to believe in Joe and Kamala’s ability to lead this country out of these dark times and build it back better,” Obama said, adding that democracy was “at stake” in November.
“This president and those in power, those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they are counting on your cynicism,” he said. “Do not let them take away your power. Don’t let them take away your democracy.”
Other than Obama, Harris, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were among the other notable speakers Wednesday at the convention, which is being held virtually this week due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday at the Chase Center in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, as well as former presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), are among the luminaries slated to speak before Biden.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 20, 2020 21:03:02 GMT
While Obama gave his DNC speech, Trump sent hate tweets 785,573 views•Aug 20, 2020
Trump TRIGGERED by Obama DNC Speech, Implodes 21,978 views•Aug 20, 2020
David Pakman Show 956K subscribers --Former President Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention, aggressively criticizing Donald Trump, which instantly triggers Trump and leads to another Twitter temper tantrum.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 22, 2020 11:31:12 GMT
Trump UNDID the Pandemic Crisis Team Obama had in place. Evidently this man does not understand how utterly stupid he is. Dunning Kruger Syndrome.
www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-obama-coronavirus-pandemic-responseTrump says Obama isn't a great president because 'much of what he's done we've undone'
Donald Trump said Barack Obama could not be considered a great president because he had undone many of the polices his predecessor had introduced during his time in office.
“President Obama, they say he was a great president – but you can't be a president when much of what he's done we've undone,” Mr Trump said.
His words came during a campaign visit to Old Forge, Pennsylvania, two days after Mr Obama gave a speech during the Democratic National Convention painting Mr Trump as a dire threat to the future of America.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-news-live-more-republicans-060900200.html
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 8, 2020 13:46:45 GMT
Trump's WHOLE PRESIDENCY seems to be based on his OBSESSION with former President Barack Obama. And an awful lot of that seems to be predicated on Obama's "blackness."Trump Fired A 'Faux-Bama,' Michael Cohen Says In Tell-All Memoir www.npr.org/2020/09/07/910550523/trump-fired-a-faux-bama-michael-cohen-alleges-in-tell-all-memoir September 7, 202011:22 PM ET Heard on Morning Edition Anastasia Tsioulcas
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Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Trump, listens to closing statements during a House Oversight Committee hearing in February 2019. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Long before he came into office, Donald Trump was so preoccupied with then-President Barack Obama that he hired a look-alike actor — a "faux-Bama" — to castigate and then pretend to fire on video.
That's just one of many episodes recounted and accusations levied by Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, in his new book, Disloyal: A Memoir, which is being published Tuesday and which NPR obtained before its publication.
Cohen includes a photograph of the "faux-Bama" episode in which Trump is seated at a desk across from a man who looks vaguely like the 44th American president. In the middle of Trump's desk are two books, one of which has "Barack Obama" emblazoned across the front. (If true, the incident is a remarkable ouroboros of a reality TV star cosplaying political power, who then comes to hold exactly that political power.)
In Disloyal, Cohen describes the many years he says he spent as a faithful soldier, first as a teenager who read and reread Trump's book The Art of the Deal, later as a successful taxi-medallion owner and personal injury lawyer who bought his dream home in a Trump-branded property on Manhattan's Upper East Side, then as a loyal lieutenant in Trump's inner circle for many years, and finally as a spurned figure whom the president cast aside. www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/11/29/142866785/the-tuesday-podcast-why-does-a-taxi-medallion-cost-1-million
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has dismissed Cohen, saying that he is attempting to profit off lies with this book.
Over Disloyal's 400-plus pages, Cohen rips through accounts of dozens of incidents, ranging from Trump allegedly cheating mom-and-pop vendors for services rendered at Trump properties to those of the president making racist remarks to his own involvement in trying to make a deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow. That's in addition to Cohen's narrative of the payoff that Trump made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election — which was made via Cohen. www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607943366/giuliani-says-trump-did-know-about-stormy-daniels-payment
According to Cohen, Trump told his former lawyer that Black and Latino voters were "too stupid" to vote for him, and said that any country run by Black leaders was a "sh**hole." On another occasion, after the death of South African President Nelson Mandela, Cohen says that Trump told him that apartheid-era South Africa had been "beautiful" and that Mandela had "f***** the whole country up."
Cohen also goes in deep on what he describes as the president's idolization of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he says Trump reveres because of his immense personal wealth and his immersive control of his country. "An entire society and civilization bent to the will of a single man was how Trump viewed the ideal historical form of government," Cohen writes. "With him as the man in charge, of course."
Cohen also alleges several episodes in which he says Trump was casually sexist to women and grabbed women in the Trump Organization office and kissed them on the lips.
In describing the runup to the 2016 presidential election, Cohen describes how the campaign and Trump allegedly used the media to boost him to victory. "The biggest influence by far" in Trump's victory, Cohen argues, "was the media. ... Rallies broadcast live, tweets, press conferences, idiotic interviews, 24-7 wall-to-wall coverage, all without spending a penny."
In addition, Cohen fills out details on his assertion that the Trump team fixed online polls to enhance the then-candidate's reputation — utilizing the services of Liberty University's John Gauger — and how closely he worked with David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media, whose publications include the National Enquirer, to "catch and kill" allegations of Trump's relationships with women as well as to take down political rivals, including Sen. Ted Cruz. www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686182230/trumps-ex-lawyer-cohen-acknowledges-scheme-to-rig-polls-in-presidential-race www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641490961/david-pecker-of-national-enquirer-publisher-said-to-have-immunity-in-cohen-case
Cohen also describes how he personally alternated between trying to butter up and bully reporters. The latter includes NPR's Tim Mak when at his former employer, the Daily Beast, Mak reported an allegation that Trump's former wife, Ivana Trump, had accused him of raping her during the couple's divorce proceedings. According to Cohen, he told Mak that if he pursued the story, that he would go after the journalist personally along with "everybody else you possibly know," adding: "I'm warning you, tread very f****** lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f****** disgusting. Do you understand me?" (The New York tough-guy tone is no accident: Cohen describes at length how he saw himself as a consigliere in an organization not unlike the Mafia.) www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-me-feel-violated-during-sex?source=twitter&via=mobile
Tonally, Cohen alternates between taking accountability for his own behavior and trying to describe what he found so magnetic in Trump. That language sometimes skims close to erotic terms: "It was physical," Cohen writes, "emotional, not quite spiritual, but a deep longing and need that Trump filled for me."
But, Cohen says, he also saw something quite different as well: "I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings," he writes, "and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man."
As is typical in political memoirs, Cohen also saves space for some petty score-settling, reserving particular disdain for one of his nemeses in the White House, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as well as Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he describes as "an aristocratic man-child possessed of supreme arrogance and a completely amoral will to power."
Cohen says he began writing Disloyal from prison, where he was sentenced after pleading guilty in 2018 to lying to Congress and for financial crimes and campaign finance violations involving hush-money payments made to women who have said that they had sexual relationships with Trump. www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676040070/michael-cohen-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-following-plea-that-implicated-trum
Cohen was released earlier this year and placed on home confinement due to coronavirus concerns. After his initial release, the Federal Bureau of Prisons returned him to prison, saying that he had refused the conditions of his release; in July, a federal judge ordered him back to home confinement, finding that it was retaliation for Cohen's plans to publish his book. www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894671062/judge-orders-former-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-released-from-prison
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