Former President Barack Obama Upset With Trump For Spreading False Information

Obama told his former aides, Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor that he was appalled that the Republicans didn’t call Trump out last week for pressuring the Justice Department to go after him and Biden. He said, “The allegations are so absurd that even Republican-controlled committees looking into it have dismissed them. And Attorney General Barr has dismissed them.” He added, “I’m disappointed that Republicans who know better have not checked him on this.”

The Trump campaign has yet to comment.

Obama additionally criticized conservative media for expanding partisanship. He argued that the approach benefited Trump at the detriment of his party. He said, “Trump is expressing or mirroring and, in some ways, explicitly exploiting and took on the crazy that was being pumped out through these venues each and every day.” He added, “If that stuff is still being pumped out and Trump goes away, someone else will meet that market demand. But on the other hand, do I think that is inevitably what the Republican Party has to be? No, I don’t think it does.”

Trump’s first conspiracy attack was the false claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Obama said that he noticed in research for his upcoming memoir, “A Promised Land,” that Trump had complimented him the first few years he was in office, even went so far as to say the Obama was doing “a great job.”

Obama claims that this is when things changed, and the birtherism conspiracy surfaced, which launched Trump’s long effort to undermine the nation’s first Black president.

He said, “The guy just decided he wanted attention, like whether it was to promote ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ or whatever, he sort of looked and saw what was being said.” He added, “and he said, ‘Oh, if that’s what folks want, I can do that with even less inhibition. … I don’t need a dog whistle, I’m just gonna go ahead and say it.’”

Barack also took a jab at Trump’s foreign policy, saying that he lacks the patience and focus to do the job. He said, “Over the last four years, it’s not as if Trump has been all that active internationally. I mean, the truth is he doesn’t have the patience and the focus to really substantially change a lot of U.S. foreign policy.” He added, “What he’s done is he’s systematically tried to decimate our entire foreign policy infrastructure.”