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/sxales 1d ago

There were actual "scandals" under Obama, it is just that Fox News made up (or exaggerated) so many others that now people just assume they were all BS.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 1d ago

Cool. Actual scandals like...? 

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u/sxales 1d ago

The Chelsea Manning leaks were in 2010, and her prosecution under the Espionage Act in 2013

The handling of the Snowdon leaks in 2013

The resulting crack-down on whistleblowers, including the monitoring of journalist's phone records in 2012

Continued use of extrajudicial drone strikes, such as those that resulted in a 16-year-old American citizen being killed in 2011

The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

His response to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014

I am not comparing him to Trump or even Bush II, but he was also not the perfect president that Reddit likes to portray.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 1d ago

  The continued operation of Guantánamo Bay in violation of the Geneva convention

That doesn't violate the Geneva convention. Anyway, blame the Republicans who fought to keep it open, not the guy who fought to close it.