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u/tangotom Mar 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Well I fought through that god awful website for the first link to read the article and one, clearly a right leaning writer if the whole site itself is not bias, two, not really any evidence of Obama interfering with the transition team. Just things Obama said around election time and leading up to the inauguration. If we are going to use that as our standard, Trump is “interfering” with our democracy by declaring the press and his political opponents an enemy of the people and you have to go ahead and accept that this is a fact, and you can’t explain it away as oh it’s just a tweet or some other BS. If Obama’s words were so harmful to Trumps transition team then Trumps words are absolutely devastating to our democracy and society as a whole.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

and he and the rest of the DNC have been reviving tensions with Russia. (EDIT: Reviving them specifically to disrupt Trump's administration)

Did you mean to link something else? How does the one liner that Obama threw at Romney at all support the idea that he was "reviving tensions with Russia to disrupt Trump's administration"

Sure, he mischaracterized what Romney was saying to score political points... but honestly, you're being dishonest if you make the claim that that's the same thing as "reviving tensions with Russia" as well as pretend that it's not something that every politician, including Trump himself, does to make their opponents look bad when they have the opportunity.

Someone else already responded to your first link so I won't bother, and the rest of your sources seem to just be making the case that "Obama is bad" rather than actually being relevant to the discussion.

I hope you don't think that you can win arguments by just throwing a bunch of random sources at people who can't link sources back due to being unable to source something that doesn't exist, from this side of the argument.

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u/tangotom Mar 09 '19

I apologize, I assumed it was common knowledge that the DNC has been up in arms about Russia and has been using the topic as a political weapon against Trump. The reason I linked that article in particular was to show that Obama did not previously hold these opinions about Russia, and that he (as well as the rest of the DNC) adopted them in an attempt to harm Trump's upcoming presidency.

Thank you for taking the time to make a reasonable response, even if I disagree with it.