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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

The Latest: Pelosi slams Trump for 'verbal abuse' on Twitter


The Latest on President Trump's discussions with lawmakers on taxes and the budget (all times local):

5 p.m.

The top House Democrat is lashing out at President Donald Trump for his "verbal abuse" in a Twitter attack.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded to

Sunday, 30 July 2017

Trump threatens to end insurance payments if no health-care bill


President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to end government payments to health insurers if Congress does not pass a new health-care bill and goaded them to not abandon their seven-year quest to replace the Obamacare law.
In a Twitter message on Saturday, Trump said "if a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!"
The tweet came a day after Senate Republicans failed to muster enough votes to repeal parts of the Affordable

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Trump wiretap claims: White House softens stance on unproven tweets


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Trump Tower in New York. 6 March 2017Image copyrightEPA
Image captionMr Trump said his offices at Trump Tower in New York were bugged during the election

Unsubstantiated claims by US President Donald Trump that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama were not meant literally, the White House press secretary says.
Sean Spicer said Mr Trump had broadly meant "surveillance and other activities" when he made the allegation in a tweet earlier this month.
He also suggested the president was not accusing his predecessor specifically.
Meanwhile, the justice department has asked for more time to provide information about the allegations.
A congressional committee had set a Monday deadline for the department to provide any evidence of President Trump's claims but a spokeswoman said it needed "additional time... to determine what if any responsive documents may exist".
The House Intelligence Committee said it would give the department until 20 March to comply with its request.
In his tweet Mr Trump said: "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory."
He added: "Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?"
Despite repeated requests, the White House has not given any evidence for the claim.
It has instead asked Congress to examine the allegation as part of an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's election.
A spokesman for Mr Obama has said the accusation is "simply false".

White House spokesman Sean Spicer speaks during press briefing on March 13, 2017Image copyrightAFP
Image captionWhite House Press Secretary has faced tough questioning over the claims

"The president used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities," Mr Spicer told reporters.
"There's a whole host of tactics that can be used to monitor somebody either through wiretap or other ways," he added, without giving details.
Mr Spicer also suggested Mr Trump was referring to the actions of the Obama administration and not accusing the former president directly.
Earlier, Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said she did not have any evidence to back up the wiretapping claim but said there were "many ways to surveil each other now".
"You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets - any number of ways... microwaves that turn into cameras. We know this is a fact of modern life," she told New Jersey's Bergen County Record.

Sunday, 26 February 2017

BARACK OBAMA IS BACK FROM VACATION AND HE LOOKS BETTER THAN EVER


He's literally glowing.

The last time we heard from Barack Obama, he was wearing flip flops in the Virgin Islands and kitesurfing with Richard Branson. Now that his vacation is over, the former president spent the day in New York City looking well-rested in a slightly unbuttoned shirt and a literal natural glow.

Hundreds waited outside on the street to catch sight of the former POTUS, and he was met with cheers when he stepped out of a building and into his car, casually clutching a cup of coffee and a pair of sunglasses. Classic.

Monday, 16 January 2017

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAREWELL ADDRESS AND WHY HE DIDN'T MENTION DONALD TRUMP

“No, no, no,” President Barack Obama said tonight in his farewell address to the nation when he mentioned “the peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to the next” and a chorus of boos erupted in Chicago’s McCormick Place. “I committed to President-Elect Trump that my administration would ensure the smoothest possible transition, just as President Bush did for me,” he added to big applause from the crowd of more than 18,000.

Donald Trump

There was a lot of talk about political division, threats to American democracy, race relations, “fear of change” and autocratic rule, “selective sorting of the facts,” social media, the climate change debate, “discrimination against Muslim Americans,” respecting immigrants, “arguing with strangers on the Internet,” and realizing there are “no quick fixes,” but the former Celebrity Apprentice host was only mentioned once in name by his soon-to-be predecessor.

The atmosphere that enveloped the 2016 race between Donald Trump and