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Barack Obama Breaks Silence: Calls on Bush and Clinton to Confront Trump’s Threat to Democracy.

Summary

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump. There is a very nice tradition that former presidents don’t step up to criticize their successors, particularly during their “honeymoon” period. It is a nicety that we can’t afford when, as now, our very democracy is in danger. Obama asked the question we’ve all been asking: What would Republicans do if it was a Democrat who tried to do some of the things that Trump is doing so cavalierly? “Imagine if I had done any of this,” he asked his audience at Hamilton College. Imagine he had threatened to destroy law firms that didn’t like the Affordable Care Act, or brought litigation against it, as Trump has done with his executive orders targeting firms that once employed lawyers who investigated him, or had pro bono programs he doesn’t like.

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