Obama says Republicans going along with Trump because they're 'intimidated'
Source: NBC News
Former President Barack Obama told MSNBC in an interview Thursday that it has been troubling to watch Republicans defend President Donald Trump's baseless voter fraud claims.
"These are just bald assertions, they have been repeatedly rejected by the courts, and I think Im, Im less surprised by Donald Trump doing this, he has shown, you know, only a flimsy relationship with the truth," Obama told MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart during a sit-down interview. "Im more troubled that youre seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it, not because they actually believe it, but because they feel intimidated by it."
Obama sat down to discuss his recently released 768-page best-selling memoir A Promised Land," which covers his first term in office. In past years, Obama had been reluctant to openly criticize Trump and other Republicans. But his biting criticism of the president and his party comes a few weeks after an election Trump refuses to concede to Obamas former vice-president, President-elect Joe Biden.
"Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. Kamala Harris is going to be the next vice president," Obama said. "I have been troubled, like every American, whether youre a Republican or a Democrat or independent should be troubled, when you start having attempts to block, negate, overturn the peoples vote when theres no actual evidence that there was anything illegal or fraudulent taking place."
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But he might Tweet something mean about them.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)bullimiami
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AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)Doturd is blackmailing them with Russian kompromat.
bullimiami
(13,103 posts)they did what was needed or what was right. thats what bravery is.
they may smell like piss but they are still cowards.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)They gained their federal seats by selective breeding by the Republican Party. Now, when anyone of them could stand up and acknowledge reality, they have no backbone to do so.
David__77
(23,503 posts)Republicans are the party of Trump. They're in the party they choose.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Stupid turd couldn't take his own tests in school. Couldn't get into to school unless daddy paid one to take him. I could go on but I'm tired.
certainot
(9,090 posts)and the key to democracy is figuring that out
so in the interview he laments he didn't think it would cause such an uproar!
that's what he thought because dems and media know fuck all about rw radio
we cant expect obama to listen to the fucking radio but dems should have known the outrage came out of limbaugh's ass - like much of the shit we have today
1500 radio stations 'outraged'!!! that is exactly why progressives lose power because asshole conservadems get pushed around by the same 1500 radio stations and think a few hundred coordinated blowhards represent actual public demand
really fucking stupid
Obama Criticizes Arrest of Harvard Professor
By Helene Cooper
July 22, 2009
WASHINGTON President Obama bluntly accused the police of acting stupidly in arresting the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after an officer had established that Mr. Gates had not broken into his own home in Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Obama stopped short of accusing the police department of racial profiling, as Mr. Gates has done.
Hotler
(11,445 posts)The only good democrat/liberal is a dead democrat/liberal kind of thing. All about owning us.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .as Rick Wilson would say.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)they are truly in it to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. To them, two or four years of service means nothing more than having a permanent cook and maid.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)Most GOP voters, frankly, see themselves as being in some (fantasy) war - just talk to any self-identified Repug, and they'll basically describe their dispute with Democrats that way, whether they use the term 'war' or not.
It's sad and pathetic - like everything that Hate Radio has brought us sine '92 or so.
But it is what it is.
apnu
(8,758 posts)All the chest thumping, gun humping they do id for show. Theyre are all just scared beta males.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)True or not, it should be embarrassing for it to be said they are intimidated by Trump.
Cha
(297,655 posts)dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)They're not intimidated, they're criminals.
melman
(7,681 posts)They are complicit and deliberately so.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)putting PARTY ABOVE COUNTRY, IMAGINE THAT
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)goes completely over the heads of the 70 million....
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)He is them and they are him. He simply showed them how much they could get away with by shedding a polite veneer and and all norms and respect for rules and laws.
Yeehah
(4,591 posts)But I know that's what President Obama wanted to say.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)With all due respect to President Obama, he is wrong here. This is who they are.
They want sham elections that give the People the illusion they are democratically elected.
Authoritarians EVERY ONE. Traitors EVERY ONE.
And none will ever pay the price for Treason.
THAT is what is wrong with Our system today.