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Title: Obama’s Grotesque Self-Revisionism
Post by: mystery-ak on November 20, 2020, 11:29:40 pm
   Obama’s Grotesque Self-Revisionism
By John Loftus

November 19, 2020 6:30 AM

The former president's assessment of Trump ignores his own administration’s lawlessness.

In an episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes last Sunday, former president Barack Obama not-so-subtly compared Trump’s tenure in the White House to something out of a banana republic or a one-party totalitarian state:

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I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified in order to get power. And that’s not unique to the United States. There are strong men and dictators around the world who think that I can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists. But that’s not who we’re supposed to be. And one of the signals I      think that Joe Biden needs to send to the world is that no, those values that we preached, and we believed in, and subscribed in, we still believe.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/obamas-grotesque-self-revisionism/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/obamas-grotesque-self-revisionism/)