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Posted on 05/09/2026 12:15:18 AM PDT by John Semmens
Former President Barrack Obama went on "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert and criticized "President Trump's lawfare-style investigations of those people he thinks wrongly prosecuted him. The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general (AG) to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants. The AG needs to be politically neutral and make his own decisions about who to investigate."
"What about when your AG Eric Holder described himself as 'the president's wing man?'" Colbert asked.
"Well, you see that was Eric's characterization, not mine," Obama replied. "I never told him explicitly to investigate anyone. Occasionally, he would ask my opinion regarding whether he ought or ought not to pursue certain lines of inquiry. But I never ordered him to do anything. My main concern after Trump's surprising upset of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was Russia's interference in the 2016 election. I wanted the FBI and the Intelligence Community to get to the bottom of that case."
"In my view, the AG is the people's lawyer, not the president's consigliere," Obama continued. "Our democracy is resilient. It can survive bad policies and rigged elections--as we saw with Joe's one term presidency--but we can't overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system. You can't have a situation where whoever is in charge starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends."
"Didn't President Biden go after Trump on several criminal charges?" Colbert said.
"I doubt that Joe was calling the shots during his presidency," Obama suggested. "There were some prosecutions of Trump in various jurisdictions. In some Trump was convicted. None directly involved Joe's participation. And, as we saw in the 2024 election, Trump won despite those convictions."
"Isn't the emergence of rising political stars like AOC and Mamdani an encouraging sign for America?" Colbert asked. "Don't they bring new ideas and excitement?"
"They are speaking of the radical transformation of America that I began with my presidency," Obama nodded. "So, at least Democrats have the right intentions. It's the Republicans that I am worried about. We need a loyal and obedient opposition, not a wrecker like Trump who wants to undo the kind of social democracy that the American people need and deserve. We must achieve this by any means we can."
In related news, Obama blamed Trump "for causing trouble in my marriage. Michelle wants me to retire from politics and spend more time with her. She doesn't share my sense of duty to my country. I tell her America needs me to lead again, but I'm term-limited out of the presidency. I've asked her to run. I'm sure she would win. I promised to do all the work needed to save the country, but she's still not interested. I'm left with trying to influence Democrats with big egos, but minimal competence. It's my own private Hell."
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ping
FAFO!
“In my view, the AG is the people’s lawyer”
If that was the case the position would be on the ballot, not nominated for confirmation. This clown has never been truthful about anything,…such an obam-a-nation.
There’s a tell. Obama finally admits it about 2020.
Time to make fun of his ears and use his middle name...
Renegade, Central Casting
Mmmmm......which election is the rigged one, Barak?
Well thats the black guy calling the kettle black…
“Isn’t the emergence of rising political stars like AOC and Mamdani an encouraging sign for America?” LOL! Yeah, it’s showing Americans that the left hase gone full bat $hit Crazy!
I think it was best said by Jack Webb on the old Dragnet series when it was noticed that the force went after cop killers much different from pick pockets:
“Now you figure it. If a man shoots down an armed officer, do you think he’d hesitate to shoot down an unarmed citizen?”
If someone goes after the most protected person in the world...
wy69
Osama Obama is still backing “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” ... once a traitor ... always a traitor
THE MENTAL MIDGET FROM KENYA NEEDS TO SHUT UP
Or... maybe he ought to keep running his mouth. Colbert actually asked a couple of pointed questions and Brocko gave some rather stunning admissions as answers. I’d love to have had him go on into the wee hours giving out the real motives of the left. My jaw was on the floor as I read this story.
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