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Democrats Must ‘Toughen Up’ Against Trump, Obama Tells Donors
The New York Times ^ | July 14, 2025, 3:32 p.m. ET | Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 07/14/2025 1:00:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Frustrated that prominent Democrats have not fought harder, former President Barack Obama said in a speech that his party’s leaders needed to step up.

Former President Barack Obama has a stern critique for members of his party: Too many have been cowed into silence.

In private remarks to party donors on Friday night, Mr. Obama scolded Democrats for failing to speak out against President Trump and his policies, suggesting they were shrinking from the challenge out of fear of retribution.

“It’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Mr. Obama said at a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee at the home of Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey.

“What I have been surprised by is the degree to which I’ve seen people who, when I was president, or progressives, liberals, stood for all kinds of stuff, who seem like they’re kind of cowed and intimidated and shrinking away from just asserting what they believe, or at least what they said they believe,” he added.

Locked out of power in Washington, Democrats have been largely arguing among themselves about how to confront a hostile Trump administration. Mr. Obama’s remarks were circulated by his office on Monday.

He expressed particular disdain for law firms that he said had been willing to “set aside the law” in response to Mr. Trump’s actions “not because, by the way, that they’re going to be thrown in jail, but because they might lose a few clients and might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house. I’m not impressed.”


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1 posted on 07/14/2025 1:00:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama is disappointed there isn’t more blood in the streets.


2 posted on 07/14/2025 1:03:07 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Mr. Obama scolded Democrats for failing to speak out against President Trump and his policies

Is Obama kidding? That's all the Dims have been doing for the past 7 mos.
3 posted on 07/14/2025 1:04:51 PM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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“Failing to speak out…”. Are you figging kidding me!?


4 posted on 07/14/2025 1:06:49 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Signalman

Indeed that wasn’t friendly fire Trump received.


5 posted on 07/14/2025 1:07:15 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Signalman

Correct.


6 posted on 07/14/2025 1:07:42 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Vaduz

It was an attempt to murder him in cold blood.


7 posted on 07/14/2025 1:08:03 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

what we need to do is get a lot tougher, yes,

tougher against enemies and traitors within our borders like, say, Obama or whatever his real name may be .... and his Puppetmeister-enablers...SorozNazi, the Saudi prince who placed him into his college, Pelousy who faked up the certification paper for his supposed “potus eligiblity” and etc etc.


8 posted on 07/14/2025 1:09:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bring it, Snowflakes Tighten up your “man bun” and buy a new Tattoo.


9 posted on 07/14/2025 1:10:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house

Just so I can finish my two solariums at my house in the Hamptons.


10 posted on 07/14/2025 1:14:35 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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What else is he gonna say?


11 posted on 07/14/2025 1:15:20 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cue the Soetoros workout gif. The one where he’s sweating balls while curling a 5 lb. weight.


12 posted on 07/14/2025 1:17:31 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If RATs don’t toughen up, what’s Obama gonna do ... hit them with his purse? Or send in Big Mike to deal with them?


13 posted on 07/14/2025 1:17:54 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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Indeed it started in 2016 when he ran the first time communism doesn’t like competition.

Reagan raps box


14 posted on 07/14/2025 1:18:45 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...I’m not impressed."

Exactly my reaction to Obama.

15 posted on 07/14/2025 1:20:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Toughen up?

You morons tried to bankrupt him. You tried to jail him. You tried to kill him. Yeah, try toughening up, whatever the hell that is .


16 posted on 07/14/2025 1:20:54 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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So ... gunfire in a Pennsylvania town isn’t “tough” enough for Zero?


17 posted on 07/14/2025 1:21:48 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He craves violence. Never a thought of reflecting on his unpopular positions and wisely adjusting/leading. Just more “they bring a knife we bring a gun” crap.


18 posted on 07/14/2025 1:23:34 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe more F-Bombs and attacking law enforcement will work


19 posted on 07/14/2025 1:23:58 PM PDT by digger48 (Mp)
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To: rbg81

He STILL isn’t quitting.


20 posted on 07/14/2025 1:30:39 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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