Monday, May 11, 2020

President Obama is correct to be concerned for our democracy.

May 9, 2020
By Kevin Freking

Former President Barack Obama (click here) harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster” during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, according to a recording obtained by Yahoo News.

Obama also reacted to the Justice Department dropping its criminal case against Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, saying he worried that the “basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”

More than 78,400 people with COVID-19 have died in the United States and more than 1.3 million people have tested positive, according to the latest estimates from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University....

And Trump's retaliation is TYPICAL. Trump's old tricks aren't going to work anymore. It is so common for Trump to retaliate against anyone who sees reality instead of his contrived alternate truth that it could be indictable.

May 11, 2010
By Tom Porter

President Donald Trump (click here) on Sunday launched a series of attacks on Twitter against Barack Obama and resurfaced a conspiracy theory that the former president was behind an FBI plot to undermine Trump's presidency.

The attacks came hours after Yahoo News reported on a leaked conversation between Obama and former officials, in which Obama criticized the Justice Department's decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn, Trump's former national-security adviser.

Flynn had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, before Trump became president in January 2017. The FBI had been probing allegations of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government....