Obama says Republicans going along with Trump because they're 'intimidated'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: NBC News

Former President Barack Obama told MSNBC in an interview Thursday that it has been troubling to watch Republicans defend President Donald Trump's baseless voter fraud claims.

"These are just bald assertions, they have been repeatedly rejected by the courts, and I think I’m, I’m less surprised by Donald Trump doing this, he has shown, you know, only a flimsy relationship with the truth," Obama told MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart during a sit-down interview. "I’m more troubled that you’re seeing a lot of Republican officials go along with it, not because they actually believe it, but because they feel intimidated by it."

Obama sat down to discuss his recently released 768-page best-selling memoir “A Promised Land," which covers his first term in office. In past years, Obama had been reluctant to openly criticize Trump and other Republicans. But his biting criticism of the president and his party comes a few weeks after an election Trump refuses to concede to Obama’s former vice-president, President-elect Joe Biden.

"Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. Kamala Harris is going to be the next vice president," Obama said. "I have been troubled, like every American, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or independent should be troubled, when you start having attempts to block, negate, overturn the people’s vote when there’s no actual evidence that there was anything illegal or fraudulent taking place."

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But he might Tweet something mean about them.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. intimidated by the base, their meal ticket to a continuing career in politics.

[bullimiami]

2. Intimidated is a nice way to say. Cowardly. Lilly Livered. Spineless. Yellow-Bellied Milksops.

[AZ8theist]

21. or more accurately, PISSING IN THEIR PANTS.

Doturd is blackmailing them with Russian kompromat.

[bullimiami]

23. the bravest people say that they were plenty scared, maybe even pants pissing scared. yet

they did what was needed or what was right. thats what bravery is.

they may smell like piss but they are still cowards.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. They've been bred for decades for this moment.

They gained their federal seats by selective breeding by the Republican Party. Now, when anyone of them could stand up and acknowledge reality, they have no backbone to do so.

[David__77]

5. I don't think that's generally true.

Republicans are the party of Trump. They're in the party they choose.

[kacekwl]

6. Intimidated by what. A fat old pasty loser who couldn't run a lemonade stand.

Stupid turd couldn't take his own tests in school. Couldn't get into to school unless daddy paid one to take him. I could go on but I'm tired.

[certainot]

16. they've been intimidated for 30 years by a few hundred assholes on the radio

and the key to democracy is figuring that out
so in the interview he laments he didn't think it would cause such an uproar!

that's what he thought because dems and media know fuck all about rw radio

we cant expect obama to listen to the fucking radio but dems should have known the outrage came out of limbaugh's ass - like much of the shit we have today

1500 radio stations 'outraged'!!! that is exactly why progressives lose power because asshole conservadems get pushed around by the same 1500 radio stations and think a few hundred coordinated blowhards represent actual public demand

really fucking stupid

Obama Criticizes Arrest of Harvard Professor
By Helene Cooper
July 22, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Obama bluntly accused the police of acting “stupidly” in arresting the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after an officer had established that Mr. Gates had not broken into his own home in Cambridge, Mass.

Mr. Obama stopped short of accusing the police department of racial profiling, as Mr. Gates has done.

[Hotler]

7. Is it or, do they hate us just like the orange one's minions do.

The only good democrat/liberal is a dead democrat/liberal kind of thing. All about owning us.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. FOMT - Fear Of Mean Tweets. . .

. . .as Rick Wilson would say.

[marble falls]

9. I think its because they didn't have a backup plan.

[mdbl]

10. The republican party has no honor and deserves no respect

they are truly in it to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. To them, two or four years of service means nothing more than having a permanent cook and maid.

[sandensea]

11. That - and because most of today's Republicans are committed fascists

Most GOP voters, frankly, see themselves as being in some (fantasy) war - just talk to any self-identified Repug, and they'll basically describe their dispute with Democrats that way, whether they use the term 'war' or not.

It's sad and pathetic - like everything that Hate Radio has brought us sine '92 or so.

But it is what it is.

[apnu]

12. Obama is right. Republicans are cowards.

All the chest thumping, gun humping they do id for show. They’re are all just scared beta males.

[Chemisse]

13. I'm glad he called them out on this.

True or not, it should be embarrassing for it to be said they are intimidated by Trump.

[Cha]

14. Maggots are ChickenShits Scared Shitless!

[dawn frenzy adams]

15. Oh no they're not.

They're not intimidated, they're criminals.

[melman]

17. They're not intimidated

They are complicit and deliberately so.

[Skittles]

18. PC way of saying GUTLESS COWARDS

putting PARTY ABOVE COUNTRY, IMAGINE THAT

[Maxheader]

19. Strengthens the 75 million..

goes completely over the heads of the 70 million....

[ibegurpard]

20. No they are not

He is them and they are him. He simply showed them how much they could get away with by shedding a polite veneer and and all norms and respect for rules and laws.

[Yeehah]

22. That's more tactful than saying they're vile, gutless cowards

But I know that's what President Obama wanted to say.

[Tommymac]

24. I disagree. They are consciously enabling Trump. No intimidation needed.

With all due respect to President Obama, he is wrong here. This is who they are.

They want sham elections that give the People the illusion they are democratically elected.

Authoritarians EVERY ONE. Traitors EVERY ONE.

And none will ever pay the price for Treason.

THAT is what is wrong with Our system today.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. That's giving them an out. They're just scumbags. nt