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Donald Trump could erase Obama's legacy almost as soon as he takes office
Business Insider ^ | 2016-12-04 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 12/04/2016 2:23:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

President-elect Donald Trump's victory on Election Day has put some of President Barack Obama's hallmark achievements in jeopardy.

Trump has come out strongly against almost all of the top initiatives Obama spent eight years working on — the Asia pivot, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, Obamacare, and the Iran nuclear deal — and they're fragile enough that Trump could reverse course fairly easily.

"You have an outsider president being replaced by the most outsider candidate ever elected," Ian Bremmer, a geopolitical analyst and president of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider via email.

"There's nothing like one upsmanship, big league, to destroy your legacy."

Iran nuclear deal Trump has called the Iran deal one of "the worst deals ever made by any country in history" and threatened to rescind or renegotiate the agreement that gives Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbing its nuclear program.

"Trump has repeatedly slammed the deal as being a bad deal — the assumption is that he’s going to do something," Jonathan Schanzer, a Middle East expert who is a vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider after the election.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Obama's true legacy is to be either the worst, or second worst president ever (Jimmy Carter is still in the running).

I sure hope that President Trump doesn't take that legacy away from him.
61 posted on 12/04/2016 4:18:47 PM PST by DeSoto (Lock Her Up!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He can erase a lot of it, but he can’t deport the “refugees” that bammy brought in. Or can he?


62 posted on 12/04/2016 4:25:49 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Parley Baer

Don’t know, and I may be confused. I don’t find anywhere in the Constitution that gives the President the power to legislate. That is the function of Congress. Isn’t the executive order a function within the executive branch?


63 posted on 12/04/2016 4:32:57 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Emperor Obama's "executive orders" are not worth the paper they are written on.

64 posted on 12/04/2016 4:41:20 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: FES0844

Yeah by all means, please destroy the Muslims’s takeover and destruction plans for the U.S.


65 posted on 12/04/2016 5:22:56 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Tellurian

It’s all about timing.

The Democrats had figured that enough victims of life were introduced to their party of power.

America is the greatest event that ever happened to the World


66 posted on 12/04/2016 5:59:16 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama’s wetting his pants. That I can promise you.


67 posted on 12/04/2016 6:33:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m hoping he was so arrogant and sloppy that as soon as he leaves office people start going public with information that could land him at Club Gitmo.


68 posted on 12/04/2016 6:40:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Castles made of sand (high tide and big storm coming)


69 posted on 12/04/2016 7:20:29 PM PST by t4texas (No koolaid for me. Thanks!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

President Trump IS Obama’s legacy, his only accomplishment. I don’t see how Trump can undo that.


70 posted on 12/04/2016 7:25:18 PM PST by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What legacy? A Bic and a crappy Obamaphone made in China? There is no legacy. There is only a trail of failure and destruction.


71 posted on 12/04/2016 7:29:24 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I have a dream of seeing Obola spend his twilight years as a resident of Club Gitmo.

Being waterboarded...daily...just for fun.

72 posted on 12/04/2016 7:35:43 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

And being fed bacon sandwiches. Exclusively.


73 posted on 12/04/2016 7:46:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, while we’re at it, we could sentence him to listen to Rush Limbaugh live

and reruns...

all of them...

from the beginning...

every waking moment.


74 posted on 12/04/2016 8:07:46 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

No Glenn Beck though.


75 posted on 12/04/2016 8:08:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Come to think of it, he should be isolated from the other boy-raping savages.

He should be in with Hilary, and any other murdering lesbian terrorists.


76 posted on 12/04/2016 8:14:14 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day has put some of President Barack Obama’s hallmark achievements in jeopardy.” What hallmark achievements? He is leaving the Country in FAR worse shape than when he took office.


77 posted on 12/04/2016 10:49:19 PM PST by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: ColdOne
Now obama will be the most dangerous...these final 50 days.

And he does stupid things like stop the Dakota pipeline access which will only make it easier to "sell" undoing his "legacy"...

78 posted on 12/05/2016 3:10:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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