Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday night launched a blatant attack on President Trump, his successor in the White House.
Obama did not hold back one of the speeches on the marquee on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, when he made the case for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture. no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the tremendous power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. ”
And because of Trump’s deal with the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of the nation’s economy, Obama has argued that ‘the consequences of that failure are dire. 170,000 Americans die. Millions of jobs went up, while those at the top took on more jobs than ever before. ”
Obama also claimed that during his tenure as Trump in the White House, “our worst impulses were disconnected, our proud reputation around the world was diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”
The two-time former president spoke from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia – a location selected to underscore his message that democracy itself is at this point in the run-up to these elections.
‘This president and the powerful – those who benefit from keeping things the way they are – are counting on your cynicism. They know they can not win you over with their policies. That they hope to make it as difficult as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that your vote does not matter, “Obama said when referring to the president’s repeated slams against voting by mail in the middle of it. coronavirus – and its claims that widespread voting by post will lead to a rigged election.
‘They win. That way, they get to make decisions that affect your life, and the lives of the people you love. That will be how the economy remains skewed to the rich and well connected, how our health systems more people will fall through the cracks. That will destroy a democracy until it is not a democracy at all, “Obama warned.
The former president insisted that ‘we can not do that. Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them undermine your democracy. ”
The current president – who has spent much of his nearly four years in office trying to undo the key achievements of Obama – apparently saw his predecessor’s speech, and retaliated in real time.
“HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT,” the president tweeted halfway through Obama’s speech.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that during the 2016 campaign – when Obama was still in the White House – Democratic partisans within the Justice Department and the FBI abused their powers to investigate members of his campaign and undermine his presidency. Although the Justice Watch Watchdog’s report found ‘significant’ FBI errors in the Russia investigation, it found no evidence of bias.
A few minutes later, the president tweeted “Why did he refuse to let go of JOE IT WAS ALL ABOUT, AND RARE WHEN? Why did he try not to run him? “
Trump referred to reports that Obama was trying to deny Biden another run of the White House.
The former president also made it clear at the start of the 2020 Democratic presidential election that he would remain neutral until one of the candidates in a primary field that won the nomination of two thousand last summer. However, his presence on the sidelines for months caused GOP to claim he was uncomfortable about Biden.
The former president signed Biden shortly after sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the last remaining primary rival, ended his campaign in April and supported the former vice president.
Hours before Obama’s speech, Trump targeted his predecessor, claiming that the reason he ran in the 2016 election was because Obama performed poorly as president.
“President Obama did not do a good job. And the reason I’m here is because of President Obama and Joe Biden, because if they did a good job, I would not be here. And probably, if they did a good job, I would not even have run, “Trump continued.
After Obama’s speech, Trump posted his audio bit on Twitter.
Obama has been out of the White House for nearly four years, but he remains extremely popular among Democrats. A Fox News poll in May showed that 78% of Democrats had a favorable view of Obama. And he used that popularity on Wednesday to make the case for his former vice president and for Biden’s running mate: sen. Kamala Harris of California.
Talking about “my friend Joe,” Obama said, “12 years ago, when I started my search for a vice president, I did not know I would finally find a brother. Joe and I came from different places and different generations. But what I soon came to admire about him is his resistance, born of too much struggle, his empathy, born of too much sorrow.Joe is a man who learned early on to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, lived by the words his parents taught him, ‘No one is better than you, but you are better than no one.’ “
“That empathy, that decency, that faith that everyone counts. That’s who Joe is,” Obama insisted.
Pointing to Harris, who is the first Black and South Asian woman to serve on a major political party national ticket, Obama said Biden “has chosen an ideal partner who is more than ready for the job” “someone who knows what it’s like to overcome barriers and who’s made a career fight to help others live out their own American dream.”
