{"id":17775,"date":"2025-10-16T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17775"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:47:26","slug":"obama-blows-peoples-minds-with-announcement-that-screams-hypocrisy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17775","title":{"rendered":"Obama Blows People\u2019s Minds with Announcement That Screams Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard to Chicago to address crime, asserting that it is \u201cinherently corrupting\u201d for a president to utilize the military \u201cagainst their own people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Obama expressed his dissatisfaction with Trump during the concluding episode of Marc Maron\u2019s WTF podcast, released on Monday. The former president stated his belief that Trump had \u201cweakened\u201d democracy throughout the initial year of his second administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting. And so when you now start seeing the politicization of the military \u2014 deliberately, right\u2014\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just landed in Chicago!\u201d Maron jumped in to add.<\/p>\n

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Obama continued denouncing Trump right after.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have what looks like a deliberate end run around not just a concept but a law that\u2019s been around for a long time, Posse Comitatus, that says you don\u2019t use our military on domestic soil unless there is an extraordinary emergency of some sort; that when you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or\u2014\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA terrorist attack,\u201d Maron chimed in.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA terrorist attack,\u201d Obama continued, \u201cThat is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s remarks follow President Trump\u2019s deployment of 200 National Guard troops from Texas to Chicago last week.<\/p>\n

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President Trump expressed his desire to diminish crime in Chicago, citing his revulsion at news stories detailing the number of shootings that occurred over Labor Day Weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I watch television last night, and I\u2019m watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, \u2018That\u2019s not our country. We have to do something,\u2019\u201d Trump said in early September.<\/p>\n

ABC 7 in Chicago reported that 58 individuals were shot in the city during the holiday weekend, representing an 87% increase compared to the same period the previous year.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s initiative to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, along with ICE and Border Patrol officials for the deportation of undocumented immigrants, has encountered opposition from Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson.<\/p>\n

Last Monday, two Democratic politicians initiated legal action against Trump to prevent the deployment of National Guard personnel.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Obama remarked that it was \u201cmind-boggling\u201d to consider how Fox News would have responded had he employed the National Guard as Trump has. He also stated that the president had significantly harmed the nation since resuming office in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is no doubt that a lot of the norms, civic habits, expectations, [and] institutional guardrails that we had \u2014 that we took for granted \u2014 for our democracy have been weakened deliberately,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re destroyed, but I think they have been damaged, and [the Trump Administration has] been systematic about it,\u201d Obama added.<\/p>\n

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Ray Lopez, a Democratic alderman representing Chicago\u2019s 15th Ward, voiced support for Donald Trump\u2019s decision to increase the number of federal personnel deployed to the city, saying many of his constituents agree with the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many people in the city of Chicago who completely support having the additional resources to keep both ICE agents and community protesters safe,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n

He then ripped Pritzker and Chicago leaders for having an adversarial relationship with an administration simply attempting to make the city safer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have seen is a complete abdication of responsibility, both by Governor Pritzker and by the mayor of the city of Chicago, who have refused up until this point to allow police just to maintain the peace for protesters and for ICE agents doing their job,\u201d Lopez continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to bring some sanity back to the conversation, and a majority of Chicagoans want to see that happen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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