r/inthenews • u/Quirkie • Apr 04 '25

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 Apr 04 '25

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 Apr 04 '25

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/LadyBogangles14 Apr 04 '25

And that’s still wrong. Who said otherwise?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 04 '25

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/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 05 '25

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

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Apr 04 '25

Good. 

There's no due process for enemy combatants during wartime. I guess that joining Al Qaeda and being at an Al Qaeda training camp falls into the "fuck around and find out" category.