Fact Check: Obama's Speech Attacking Trump at University of Illinois
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/07/fact-check-obamas-speech-university-of-illinois/
President Barack Obama returned to the political fray on Friday morning, delivering a speech at the University of Illinois, which gave him an award for "ethics in government."
Leaving aside, for now, the question of whether Obama deserved an ethics award, all should agree that the University of Illinois had no business giving one.
That corrupt institution hoped to use Obama's speech to rewrite history - as did Obama, who portrayed a false and fanciful portrait of America, then and now.
The entire speech was based on a false conceit. CBS News said Obama was "speaking out against threats to U.S. democracy." He did not talk about the efforts by his administration to spy on the opposition during the last presidential campaign, or how his officials unmasked U.S. citizens in intelligence reports and leaked their names. Nor did Obama talk about how his former intelligence chief has gone amok, accusing President Donald Trump of "treason." The "threat" is supposedly Trump himself.
On one point, Obama was correct: he dinged "people inside the White House who secretly aren't following the president's orders." That is not an appropriate check on power, Obama said. "That's not how our democracy is supposed to work."
The answer, he said, was to vote for Democrats to take over Congress. Of course he would say that - though as Obama himself showed, it is not a fully effective check on power when the president threatens Congress with his "pen" and his "phone."
The rest of Obama's speech was full of misleading claims. ...
It's Obama's economy: - 
Trump is "capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years": -
Obama made the world safer: -
Trump is "appealing to tribe": -
Trump is threatening freedom of the press: -
Obama never used the Department of Justice against his enemies: -
Trump has no compassion for "immigrant children": -
Obamacare would not have led to single-payer (government) healthcare: -
Democrats are the answer: -
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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