Barack Obama cited the sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump, criticized the president’s “ nativist, racist, and sexist ” agenda and told George Clooney that the November 2020 election keeps him awake at night during a series of events. to raise funds for Joe Biden.
For the past two months, the former president has been virtual chatting for Democratic donors, who pay up to $ 250,000 per ticket, in a bid to help his former vice president win the White House.
On Tuesday, he told Clooney that fear of voter suppression and a Trump effort to question the legitimacy of the election are keeping him from sleeping.
During similar events in recent weeks, which have raised $ 24 million, Obama also mentioned Trump’s accusations of “assaulting women,” according to the New York Times.
In conversation with billionaire Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, during that event he spoke about the state of American democracy under the current administration, even making a loose reference to Nazi Germany.
He made the scathing series of attacks without mentioning Trump by name.
Barack Obama mentioned the sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump, shutting down the President of the United States’ “nativist, racist, and sexist” agenda, and told George Clooney that the November 2020 election keeps him awake overnight during a series of fundraising events for Joe Biden
For the past two months, the former president has been calling virtual chats for Democratic donors who pay up to $ 250,000 per ticket in an attempt to help his former vice president win the White House.
Since leaving office, Obama has largely refrained from publicly criticizing his predecessor by name.
With less than 100 days to go, it has become considerably more caustic.
During his conversation with Pritzker, Obama spoke about how Donald Trump has a base of support that “filters out any conflicting information.”
“It’s glued to Fox News and Breitbart and Limbaugh and just this conservative echo chamber, and that’s why they’re going to vote,” Obama said, according to the Times.
“ What he has unleashed and what he continues to try to take advantage of is the fear, anger and resentment of people who, in some cases, are really having a bad time and have seen their perspectives or communities where they left, diminishing. And Trump is trying to take advantage of that and redirect in nativist, racist and sexist ways, ” he continued.
Obama also criticized Trump’s apparent obsession with preserving Confederate monuments during the coronavirus pandemic, calling it “his number one priority,” which “gives him an idea of what it is all about.”
The former president warned that another four years of the Trump administration and its “darker impulses” could have serious long-term consequences.
“The end point we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago, what happens when those things are unleashed,” he said, in an apparently opaque reference to Nazi Germany. ‘If you don’t pinch that in the bud, bad things can happen. Among the most cited civilized societies, in quotes.
In two months of participating in fundraising for Biden, Obama has raised approximately $ 24 million for the alleged Democratic presidential candidate
Obama praised Biden’s character and hailed him as a future “great president,” apparently even rejecting donors who have attempted to express “constructive criticism.”
Clooney, meanwhile, said this year’s election should be a simple choice for all those at the polls in November.
“Like, this is easy,” he said. There are two candidates here. One claims that our first black president was not a citizen, and the other was his vice president.
During their event, Clooney and Obama also shared a series of humorous moments. Obama was routinely interrupted by a barking dog, while Clooney seemed to have the same problem, sometimes even accidentally silencing himself.
According to event attendees, after the former president asked him a question, Clooney apologized for the barking and joked that his dogs “must be members of the Tea Party because every time you started talking about Obamacare” the barking would start.
The two men also discussed the difference in the way Trump has dealt with a varying degree of trouble compared to Biden’s.
Clooney made the comparison that Biden clearly cares and supports the Black Lives Matter protests, while Trump denounced the unrest as a work of the ‘terrorist organization’ Antifa.
Announced as a virtual conversation between Clooney and Obama, the event sold out all tickets ranging from $ 250 per person to $ 250,000.
Clooney and Obama also shared a series of humorous moments. Obama was routinely interrupted by a dog barking, while Clooney seemed to have the same problem, even occasionally accidentally silencing himself
Urging his support for his former vice president at similar events this week, Obama also cited Trump’s past accusations of “assaulting women,” according to the Times.
Despite leaving office nearly four years ago, Obama remains one of the most prolific figures in the Democratic Party to help attract both large and small taxpayers.
In two months of participating in fundraisers for Biden, Obama has raised approximately $ 24 million for the alleged Democratic presidential candidate.
In several of his other fundraising efforts, Obama has routinely accused Trump of stoking hatred and fear.
During a separate event with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Obama called Trump for fueling “anti-Asian sentiment” when he referred to the coronavirus as the “kung flu” and the “Chinese virus.”
“That still amazes and bothers me,” Obama said of the comments, adding that he hoped the seriousness of what he was saying would resonate on screen.
“We already saw this guy win once,” he said. Then he bragged about physically assaulting women, and that didn’t seem to matter. So enough said. Let’s get to work. ‘
Obama praised Biden’s character and hailed him as a future “great president,” apparently even rejecting donors who have attempted to express “constructive criticism,” according to the Times.
“We have a worthy candidate and we have a worthy platform,” Obama said in one of those talks. “But you know what, let’s not be so sophisticated that we constantly find reasons why this is not good enough or if the candidate is not doing this or the campaign seems to be misunderstanding.”
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