Former President Obama: Don't Fall for Trump's Racist Border 'Stunt'
Lets hope Obama can get some folks to the polls--and of course to vote Dem!!
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Former President Obama: Don’t Fall for Trump’s Racist Border ‘Stunt’
‘They do this every election cycle—try to terrify folks—and then the election comes and the problem suddenly magically vanishes. You never hear about it again,’ Obama said.
Andrew Desiderio
11.02.18 4:28 PM ET
Joe Skipper/Reuters
MIAMI—Former President Barack Obama on Friday accused his successor of employing a politically and racially motivated strategy to scare Americans in the final days of the 2018 midterm campaign about “folks that don’t look like we look.”
“The character of our country is on the ballot,” Obama told a majority-African-American crowd here in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. “In the closing weeks of this election, we have seen repeated attempts to divide us with rhetoric designed to make us angry and make us fearful.”
The former president, without explicitly mentioning President Donald Trump, was decrying Trump’s attempts to gin up fears over illegal immigration and the caravan of a few thousand migrants that is making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to get his most ardent supporters to the polls.
“It’s an old playbook. It’s one that the powerful and the privileged turn to whenever control starts slipping away,” said Obama. “They’ll get folks riled up just to protect their power and their privilege. Even when it hurts to country. Even when it puts people at risk. It’s as cynical as politics gets.”
Trump has referred to the migrant caravan as a “mob,” an “invasion,” and “an assault on our country” overrun with “some very bad people” and “unknown Middle Easterners.” He has floated the possibility of deploying as many as 15,000 American troops to the border. Obama called that a “political stunt,” adding: “The men and women of our military deserve better than that.”
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