President Trump on Tuesday slammed former First Lady Michelle Obama, saying he would not be elected “if it were not for the work done” by her husband, former President Barack Obama.
Trump’s tweets come after the former first lady slammed the president and his administration on the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, saying his White House operates in “chaos” and without “empathy”, while voters urged casting her moods for Joe Biden as her life depends on it.
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“One please explain to @MichelleObama that Donald J. Trump would not be here, in the beautiful White House, if it were not for the work done by your husband, Barack Obama,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday.
He added: “Biden was just a reflection, a good reason for the very late & unenthusiastic remark.”
The president continued with his administration to build “the largest economy in history, of any country, shut it down, saved millions of lives, and now built an even larger economy than ever before.”
“Jobs are flowing, NASDAQ is already at a record high, the rest to follow,” he said. “Sit back and watch!”
The president, defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, then slammed the Obama-Biden administration for its “reaction” to the H1N1 Swine Flu, which he said was considered “weak and pathetic.”
“Look at the poll, it’s really bad,” he tweeted. “The big difference is that they got a free pass from the Corrupt Fake News Media!”
Trump then moved on to the Russia investigation, and jumped the former Obama administration for “spying” on his campaign.
“The ObamaBiden administration was the most corrupt in history, including the fact that they caught SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN, the biggest political scandal in the history of our country,” Trump said. “It’s called Treason, and more.”
He added: “Thank you for your very kind words Michelle!”
The president’s Twitter breadth came after the former first lady slammed the president in precocious remarks, in which she emphasized the “astonishing power of the presidency”, while saying the job “requires clear judgment, a mastery of complexities” and competing problems, a moral compass and an ability to listen. ”
“Every time we look to this White House for any leadership or consultation or for any semblance of stability, what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy,” she said Monday.
Obama concluded in an unassailable address that Trump “is the wrong president for our country.”
“He’s had more than enough time … He’s clearly in his head,” she said. “It simply came to our notice then. He just may not be who we need him to be. “
She added: “It’s what it is.”
Obama warned: “If you think things can not get any worse, trust me, they can, and they will if we do not make a change in these elections.”
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“If we hope to end this chaos, we must vote for Joe Biden, as our lives depend on it,” she said. ‘I know Joe. He is a deeply decent man, led by faith. ”
Obama said empathy was something she “has been thinking about a lot lately.”
“The ability to walk in someone’s shoes. The recognition that someone else’s experience has values as well,” she said. “Most of us practice this without a second thought.”
She went on to say that children in the US “see what happens when we stop demanding empathy from each other.”
“They look around and ask if we’re lying to them all this time,” she said. “They see people crying in messages who do not want to wear a mask to keep us all safe; they see people calling the police on people who think their own business only because of the color of their skin … They see that our leaders are fellow citizens enemies of the state, while emboldening torch-white supremacists. ”
Obama went on to refer to them as “they go low, we go high” phrase, declaring that “going high is the only thing that works”, but does not always mean that it is fun.
“When we degrade, degrade and dehumanize others, we just become part of the other noise that drowns everything else,” she said. “Let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted with vulnerability and cruelty.”
She added: “Going high means going the higher path – scraping and clawing to that mountain top.”
The address was widely praised by Democrats as a forceful accusation by the administration.
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Meanwhile, last week, U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was ordered last spring to investigate the origins of the investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign are collaborating with the Russians to influence the 2016 election, made his first charges against former FBI agents Attorney Kevin Clinesmith. Clinesmith was accused of making false statements.
It is unclear if and when more charges could come, but Attorney General Bill Barr said earlier this summer that he did not expect Durham’s findings to lead to a “criminal investigation” of former President Barack Obama as former Vice President Joe Biden – although they note that their concern for “potential criminality” in the conduct of that sin is “directed at others.”
