Posted on 01/25/2020 7:35:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Then-President Barack Obama decried candidate Donald Trump as a “fascist” during a phone conversation with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) amid the heat of the 2016 presidential election, the failed vice-presidential pick Kaine reveals in a forthcoming documentary on Hillary Clinton, according to NBC News.
In an episode of Hillary, a four-part documentary series airing on Hulu, about the former secretary of state’s life, Kaine recalls his conversation with Obama while conversing with Clinton and wife Anne Holton.
“President Obama called me last night and said, ‘Tim, remember, this is no time to be a purist. You’ve got to keep a fascist out of the White House,'” said the Virginia Democrat, adding that the then-president “knows me and he knows that I could tend to err.”
“I echo that sentiment,” Clinton replied. “But that’s really — the weight of our responsibility is so huge.”
The date of the exchange is unknown.
Obama’s reported characterization of President Trump is his strongest attack on the Republican known to date. The former president took a veiled shot at Trump in his 2016 Democrat National Convention speech, warning “homegrown demagogues” threaten the United States.
Speaking Saturday at the Sundance film festival with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton expanded on thoughts about Obama’s pointed criticism.
“If you look at the definition [of fascist], which I’ve had the occasion to read several times,” said Clinton, “I think we can agree on several things: One, he has authoritarian tendencies and he admires authoritarian leaders, [Vladimir] Putin being his favorite,” she added. “He uses a form of really virulent nationalism. He identifies targets: immigrants, blacks, browns, gays, women, whoever the target of the day or week is … I think you see a lot of the characteristics of what we think of [as] nationalistic, fascistic kinds of tendencies and...
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All the accusations that leftists pin on conservatives are in fact self-referential. It’s one of the few good ways of learning the truth from them.
"Æthelblack the Unready"
“What else would you expect a communist to call a patriotic American”?
BINGO!
I detest Obama more than any of them. He is the worst. And I detest all those who supported him then and continue to support him.
Obuttmunch is a homo. Big Mike too.
Who cares. We’re better off with President Trump.
“...What else would you expect a communist to call a patriotic American?...”
Is that what Lizzie and Bernie call American patriots?? (chuckle)
It goes back further, remember what happened when the senators thought they could manage the day to day affairs of the Roman Republic better than the consul who had defeated Romes enemies and brought prosperity to Rome.. Their solution, knife the consul on the steps of the senate. E Tu senators ... And that worked out so well for the republic.
The thing that worries me is the illogical unhinged approach of democrats. They are now fanatics that say you must believe what we say. After the first of the year, I visited a friend of mine who I have been in regular contact for 58 yrs, since we started elementary school together. He started in on Impeachment. I said, why don’t we just try to wait and see what was presented in the senate, just like we did with Nixon and Clinton. He got all hot, accused me of being a “FOX NEWS TALKING POINT BOT”. I said at this point it only mattered what the senators thought and how they voted, that politics wasn’t my priority, my new grand daughter was ( she’s my first). When I left the next day, my only thought was sadness that my friend had so much hate about trump that I couldn’t understand. Enough hate that it was more important than 58 years of friendship. I hope that I never get that much hate in my heart. And I hope that my friend reevaluates his priorities.
I agree. I think President Trump is one of our best Presidents. Obamao is going to be remembered as a disaster. He and Big Mike just plain suck.
Kaine, Obama and Hillary would know a lot about “fascism” as they are the top practicioners of “Red Fascism” - a blend of “superiority complexes” from Fascism and “absolute authoritarianism/totalitarianism” from Communisms.
Kaine is a bozo. A few gray cells short of an amoeba but a relatively shrewd political hack.
Obama is a communist/Islamic traitor. PERIOD and you can keep the PERIOD.
Hillary is a psychopath, half-assed Marxist (Alinsky, Communist Party law firm internship), criminal par excellence (Scarface Capone is jealous of her even though he’s been dead since the 1930’s).
She’s the liberal equivalent of “white, southern trash” who she likes to kick around, only she’s “northern white high society trash”. It is even rumored that she is a woman.
The “Holy Trinity” of “Greed, Treason and Stupidity” of the Democrat Party (though there are other Trinities in the running for that title (Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff - Need I say any more?).
Zerohissef was a fascist of the first order
And a dictator: “I don’t need you...I gots a pen and a fone...”
Dumbles always project.
Today’s globalist left calls all decent people racist, fascist, or both. If you deviate from any of the 613 non-negotiable commands of today’s totalitarian left, will get you called whatever they think will make you back down.
Would a Facist work to get the government boot off your neck? Changing
WOTUS is the proof Trump is not Authoritarian
The Left always uses “projection”
I want to see the final chapter where the handcuff the bobble-headed harpie and perp walk her to jail.
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