Obama comments on Trump government-Diepresse.com
Ex-President Barack Obama calls on the citizens of the United States not to lose the courage and to face the new government attempts to intimidate: « It is up to all of us to solve the problem ». Nobody will come to the rescue.
Former US President Barack Obama According to media reports, called for President Donald Trump’s government to attempt to intimidate. In the speech before students, he emphasized loudly Cnnthat it has been talking publicly for the first time in a while. « I watched for a while. » The newspaper « Daily Sentinel » wrote that Obama had called for citizens in the USA, universities and the large lawyers not to lose the courage.
It is up to people in the USA to solve the problem. Nobody will come to rescue, CNN quoted him. « The most important office in this democracy is the citizen, » said Obama, according to a CNN reporter in the speech in front of over 5000 students of Hamilton College in the state of New York. Video recordings were not permitted at the event.
You may also have to make sacrifices
Law firms should be prepared to lose orders, said Obama according to the reports. Trump had massively put several legal companies under pressure, whose lawyers were involved in trials or investigations against him, for example.
The universities, for example, deprived the government because of its diversity programs, should use their foundation funds or save costs instead of surrendering demands before Trump’s claims. Obama said he was also concerned that the government threatened universities who did not want to give up their students who would perceive their right to freedom of speak.
Kamala Harris: Courage is contagious
The former vice president and democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris also commented on the government for the first time in a long time. In a speech in front of women, she said she was aware that Trump’s return to the Oval Office had triggered « a great feeling of fear ». She called for courage. There were many things that people knew about it would happen, said Harris. « I’m not here to tell you that I said it, » she said with a laugh. (APA/dpa)