Obama takes aim at Trump for 'making stuff up'

October 27, 2018 20:19

Barack Obama criticised Donald Trumps tenure in office in a series of speeches in Milwaukee and Detroit that took aim at the US president and other Republicans for making stuff up.

The speeches were among Obamas sharpest and most direct critiques of his successor, but he was careful to not mention Trump by name. He said the character of our country is on the ballot in the first midterm election since Trump took office.

Obama cited a recent Trump comment that he would pass a tax cut before the November election. Congress isnt even in session before the election. He just makes it up, he said.

Nor did Obama spare the Republicans more broadly. They were were lying when they said they wanted to protect people with pre-existing conditions while trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he said, a reference to Wisconsins governor, Scott Walker.

What we have not seen before in our public life is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly, lying. Just making stuff up, Obama said. Calling up down. Calling black white. Thats what your governor is doing with these ads, just making stuff up, he said.

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