r/inthenews • u/Quirkie • 2d ago

Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/ParrotTaint 2d ago

Fun fact about Obama's presidency:

Obama deported more people than any other president before him.

He also prosecuted more whistle blowers than any president before him.

So, in a way, he kind of did. The irony is that because he's a Democrat, these actions got less notice.

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u/LadyBogangles14 1d ago

I don’t think he deported a legal green card holder to a Salvadoran concentration camp and just shrugged his shoulders when asked to bring them home to the US.

ICE wasn’t snatching students off the street with no identification and denying due process rights.

It’s how you do things not just what you do.

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u/Plaidducky 1d ago

Maybe not that, but he did drone strike a full born US citizen with no criminal record and no due process and kill him.

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u/LadyBogangles14 1d ago

And that’s still wrong. Who said otherwise?

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u/Plaidducky 1d ago

Think that is the title of the article actually "Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said." if he had done any of that he would have gotten off scot-free just like every other president that commits atrocities and war crimes. And I may be a little out of line, but illegally killing someone tends to rank worse in my book then illegally imprisoning someone. Both are terrible and wrong, but one is fixable, the other isn't.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 1d ago

but illegally killing someone tends to rank worse in my book then illegally imprisoning someone. Both are terrible and wrong,

Both of those are terrible and wrong. Only one of those happened. 

Obama ordered drone strikes on enemy combatants and killed Al Qaeda members at an Al Qaeda training camp. 

That one of them happened to be a US dual national has no legal relevance. 

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u/Plaidducky 1d ago

Strangely enough, after declaring both MS-13 and TDA terrorist organizations that is the same justification Trump is using for his lack of due process too. That would make everybody he deported an enemy combatant. The same exact status as those Obama murdered without due process. It is the precedent that Obama set that is giving legal legitimacy to Trump's actions.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 1d ago

Obama didn't set any precedent. Lincoln never held trials for Confederate soldiers, they didn't pause Gettysburg to give everyone due process.