President Donald Trump took some familiar notes on Twitter as he responded to former President Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. Trump reiterated the false accusation that the former president spied on his 2016 campaign and was caught. And he needs to wait for Obama until April, when the primary was essentially over, to support former Vice President Joe Biden.
The tweets came after Obama offered his sharpest criticism of Trump’s presidency to date, describing him as unfit for office.
“I was hoping, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump would show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might feel the weight of the bureau and discover some respect for the democracy that was placed in his care, ”Obama said. ‘But he never did. For about four years he has shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the amazing power of his office to help everyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything other than one more reality show he can use to get the attention he desires. “
Trump in turn fired a few tweets in all captions and then shared a video taken at one of his appearances at the White House press conference, declaring that he would not be in the first place chosen if Obama and Biden had not done “such a bad job.”
HE SPEEDS ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOES!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2020
Trump’s claim that Obama spied on the 2016 Trump campaign is part of a baseless conspiracy theory called Obamagate, which claims that “deep state” government officials left over from the Obama era tried to undermine the Trump administration since before the president took office. The allegation was quickly refuted by the FBI and NSA in 2017; However, Trump has refused to accept this, and has reiterated his false claim in his first term.
Trump also focused on Obama’s choice to stay above the fray during the Democratic primary – while Obama met with and advised on all the campaigns he asked for, he did not nominate anyone, including his former vice president, to Joe Biden all had emphasized the nomination.
Why did He refuse to let YOU go about it ALL ABOUT, AND RARE WHEN LEFT? Why did he try not to run him?
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2020
Trump too retweeted various messages of his ally sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who took Obama’s record for work for “slow economic growth” and a “rough department of Justice.” Trump has presided over an economy in column amid the coronavirus pandemic, and his justice department has routinely accused the president of wrongdoing over the law.
Trump’s tweets are really nothing new. Trump is a vocal – and often – critic of Obama and his presidency, and begins his critique of his predecessor even before he was a member of the 2016 Republican primary. Trump was perhaps the loudest supplier of the racist birter conspiracy theory that the former president was not born in the United States. That criticism – such as complaints about the military, family separation, and even the country’s readiness for the coronavirus, which did not exist when Obama was president – has continued in Trump’s first term, despite Obama now for more than three out of office is half a year.
Obama, however, has largely refrained from commenting on Trump as his plate, and instead focused on encouraging people to vote. Wednesday night’s speech was a departure for him, breaking an unwritten rule that former presidents should not directly criticize sitting presidents.
But Obama – like the rest of the country – watched from a distance as Trump reworked the government to benefit himself and his friends, failing to respond adequately to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic collapse. . He apparently felt a need not to hold back, making him the case that if Trump is re-elected, “there will be no democracy at all.”
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