Obama Called Out the Trump Administration at His Wisconsin Rally
Former president Barack Obama spoke at a Milwaukee rally Friday, stumping for Wisconsin Democrats ahead of next month’s midterm elections. And while he never actually uttered the sitting president's name, Obama managed to make several extremely pointed jabs at his successor.
"They promised to take on corruption. Remember that?" he said of Trump and his administration. "They have gone to Washington and just plundered away. In Washington, they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. Nobody in my administration got indicted.”
As of earlier this month, there were 35 known indictments related to Robert Mueller’s investigation, including former Trump aides George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, and ex-National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn.
Though he previously refrained from criticizing Trump as ex-presidents traditionally do, Obama has dived back into the political fray this fall, lending his historic popularity to Democratic nominees in states like California and Ohio. On Friday, he supported Wisconsin Democrats, including Governor Scott Walker’s challenger, state schools superintendent Tony Evers, and Senator Tammy Baldwin.
In his speech in Milwaukee, Obama also called out Republicans for their non-reaction to the news that foreign spies listen in to the personal calls President Trump makes on his unsecured iPhone:
In the last election, it was Hillary’s emails. ‘This is terrible’ ... ‘This is a national security crisis’. They didn’t care about emails and you know how you know? Because if they did, they’d be up in arms right now that the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart.
Obama drops the mic: “Nobody in my administration got indicted." pic.twitter.com/D0IPouEJgy
- Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 27, 2018
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