During his presidency, Obama bragged that his administration was “the only thing between [Wall Street] and the pitchforks.”
In fact, Obama handed the robber barons and
outright criminals responsible for the 2008–09
financial crisis a multi-trillion-dollar bailout. His
administration oversaw the largest redistribution of
wealth in history from the bottom to the top one
percent, spearheading the attack on the living
standards of teachers and autoworkers.
The Republican staff of the US House Committee on Financial Services released a report Monday presenting its findings on why the Obama Justice Department and then-Attorney General Eric Holder chose not to prosecute the British-based HSBC bank for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
“This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or
convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate
committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute
the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on
the national economy.”
“Judicial Watch’s records request is designed to
expose how California state legislators are wasting
tax dollars to take care of another corrupt
politician – Eric Holder – under the guise of
resisting the rule of law on immigration and other
matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama
Justice Departments demonstrates a willingness to
bend the law in order to protect his political
patrons.”
Elizabeth Warren says she wants to get rid of corruption, but not once have I heard her complain about the massive corruption during the Obama years or at her precious CFPB, so she really doesn't care. JACK HELLNER
The moral decay of the US comes in part from
the media
By Jack
Hellner
When President Obama was elected, he pledged
to remake America. It is a shame he did
so
much damage to the fabric of America in eight
short years.
The Obama/Biden was the most
corrupt, criminal
administration
any of us has ever seen, yet the
media cheered
or covered up all the abuse of
power, obstruction
of Justice and other crimes.
Pollak:
Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law
10 May 20203860
2:47
Former President Barack Obama warned Friday that the “rule of
law is at risk” because former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will no
longer be prosecuted.
Obama’s remarks, leaked from a
private conference call with members of something called the “Obama Alumni
Association,” show a breathtaking lack of self-awareness.
Obama himself was the threat
to the rule of law, both during his presidency and as it ended.
As Breitbart News has previously noted, Obama routinely violated the Constitution’s separation of
powers, challenging America’s constitutional foundation in a way no president
before him had done in peacetime.
“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” Obama said,
threatening to use — and abuse — his executive power — rather than allow the
constitutional process of legislation to proceed.
Here are just a few of Obama’s
more egregious violations:
- Refusing
to submit the Iran deal to the Senate for ratification
- Declaring
the Senate in recess when it was not (struck down, later, in a 9-0 Supreme
Court decision)
- Defying the courts when
told to renew oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico, or to stop giving amnesty to illegal aliens
- Threatening
the Supreme Court after Citizens
United, and before the Obamacare decision
- Altering Obamacare’s
statutory deadline unilaterally
- Creating
the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for
Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs after admitting it
was unconstitutional
- Trying
to wipe out the coal industry
Moreover, the Flynn investigation itself undermined the rule of
law by targeting a man the government knew was innocent of any crime.
Similarly, Obama’s own effort to
protect Hillary Clinton, and his administration’s attempt to undermine Trump
through false allegations of “Russia collusion,” also violated the rule of law.
Last week it emerged that it was
Obama himself who told then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about
Flynn’s lawful conversation
with the Russian ambassador, which set the investigative wheels in motion.
Obama’s phony protest suggests he is feeling desperate as
attention turns, finally, to his own role in the affair.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday
evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED
NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert
Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Obama Compares Trump to Dictator — ‘There Has Been a Sense’ He Would ‘Do Anything to Stay in Power’
In a sit-down interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired on Sunday, former President Barack Obama took a shot at President Donald Trump by comparing him to a dictator.
Obama suggested there has been a “sense” during Trump’s presidency that he would “do anything to stay in power,” including killing people and suppressing journalists. He added that Joe Biden, who has been declared the 2020 presidential victor by the media, needs to signal to the world that is no longer the case.
“I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified in order to get power,” Obama advised. “And that’s not unique to the United States. There are strong men and dictators around the world who think that I can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists. But that’s not who we’re supposed to be. And one of the signals I think that Joe Biden needs to send to the world is that no, those values that we preached, and we believed in, and subscribed in, we still believe.”
Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent
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