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How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’
MSN/NYTimes ^ | 5-30-2018 | Peter Baker

Posted on 05/30/2018 2:45:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

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Mr. Rhodes describes the reaction of foreign leaders. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan apologized for breaching protocol by meeting with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan after the election. Mr. Obama urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to take on a more vocal role defending the values they shared.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama that she felt more obliged to run for another term because of Mr. Trump’s election to defend the liberal international order. When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; benrhodesbook; criminalacts; globalism; goodriddance; illegalspying; kenyanidiot; obama; sovereignnation; tears; trump; worstpresidentever
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To: tcrlaf

Anyone who believes Merkel had a “tear in her eye” don’t have any idea the cold fish neo-german socialist marxist GDR born apparat she is. Cold manipulative new-socialist “democrat” EU dream of the original nazis. Germany at Europe’s throat.


81 posted on 05/30/2018 4:25:21 PM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: tcrlaf
Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama ...

Lima is a homo magnet?
82 posted on 05/30/2018 4:26:05 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: StAntKnee

Yes dear insect, you chose...poorly


83 posted on 05/30/2018 4:31:17 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: petitfour
It does sound mighty contrived.


Did anyone really believe this story?

Remember, Obama told everyone to do everything "by the book".

84 posted on 05/30/2018 4:32:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: tcrlaf

Slipping this link in here to get it on somewhere...
the clintons... 2 links to the same thing.. hope one of them works.

https://youtu.be/dg7QVq3dRas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg7QVq3dRas


85 posted on 05/30/2018 4:33:22 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: tcrlaf

No, Zero. You didn’t push too far. You were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong WRONG! Live with it. Deal with it. Stop trying to sabotage POTUS45, and shut up.


86 posted on 05/30/2018 4:41:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: petitfour

“...When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.”

Good.


87 posted on 05/30/2018 4:43:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: tcrlaf
The left is always Wrong regarding MAGA.

They are clueless on how to Make America Great Again.


88 posted on 05/30/2018 4:50:10 PM PDT by andmy_
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To: MplsSteve

Agree.
Remember what obama said after he lost the House?

Obama : maybe i didnt explain it well enough


89 posted on 05/30/2018 4:52:39 PM PDT by South Dakota (We need a real independent investigation of Bill/Hillary and Obama's actions)
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To: tcrlaf

The only legacy this mediocrity has left behind is a staggering 10 trillion of additional debt with nothing to show for it’


90 posted on 05/30/2018 4:57:47 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: South Dakota

swamp creature Peter Baker on swamp creature Ben Rhodes’ Random House book, is merely more PR for future Obama pair’s books for Random House.

and NYT makes sure it’s available to everyone on MSM and not behind a paywall at NYT.

what a joke.


91 posted on 05/30/2018 4:59:18 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: tcrlaf

What a crock of BS


92 posted on 05/30/2018 5:01:23 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: tcrlaf

What a crock of BS


93 posted on 05/30/2018 5:02:44 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: TexasM1A

I just made the same comment to my wife. Obama is blinded, and he’s a lot dumber and lazier intellectually and physically than anyone in the globalist mindset will admit.


94 posted on 05/30/2018 5:07:49 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: tcrlaf

“What if we were wrong?” NO, YOU AND ALL THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR ADVISORS WERE ABSOLUTELY WRONG.


95 posted on 05/30/2018 5:11:11 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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“What if we were wrong?”

About the Marxism, stupid?


96 posted on 05/30/2018 5:14:49 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: tcrlaf

“Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”........I believe you fell back to your tribe for eight years and got kicked out.


97 posted on 05/30/2018 5:16:14 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Eddie01

Post Of The Month! He’s thinking about it 24 hours a day! So is that ______ Valerie Jarrett, who has just been given “ 100% Blind Public Redemption “ by stupid ass Roseanne.


98 posted on 05/30/2018 5:18:25 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: tcrlaf
“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

Fake news! They NEVER think they are wrong.
99 posted on 05/30/2018 5:20:27 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: tcrlaf

I’m so tired of bullshit. The article is one huge crock of it.


100 posted on 05/30/2018 5:21:16 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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