On Wednesday, outgoing President Barack Obama issued a threat to President-elect Donald Trump, telling the incoming chief executive that he intends to step up and speak out if the new administration strays from current policy on contentious issues like illegal immigration, the UK Daily Mail reported.
According to the Daily Mail:
At his last scheduled news conference before leaving office on Friday, Obama said if there was ‘systemic discrimination,’ efforts to ‘silence dissent’ or to ‘roll back voting rights,’ he would be ‘speaking out.’
It was among his most activist descriptions of his next act, and indicates Obama may be rethinking his post-presidency role and heeding the urging of some activists to play a stronger function in the leaderless Democratic Party as it navigates the Trump administration.
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That group of issues, Obama explained, were ‘core values that may be at stake’ and would prompt him to get off the sidelines.
“If I saw systematic discrimination [is] being ratified in some fashion. I put in that category explicit or functional obstacles to people being able to vote, to exercise their franchise,” he added. Â “I put in that category institutional efforts to silence dissent or the press.”
The Daily Mail added:
He saved some of his most impassioned remarks for DREAMers. ‘And for me, at least, I would put in that category efforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids, and send them someplace else, when they love this country, they are our kids’ friends and their classmates and are now entering into community colleges or in some cases serving in our military …’
‘The notion that we would just arbitrarily, or because of politics, punish those kids, when they didn’t do anything wrong themselves, I think would be something that would merit me speaking out. It doesn’t mean that I would get on the ballot anywhere.’
Never mind that voters soundly rejected Obama’s policies when they elected Trump.
Here’s video of his comments:
Obama, however, told reporters that he wants to do some writing.
“I want to be quiet a little bit and not hear myself talk so darn much,” he said.
Millions of Americans would agree — we’d like to not hear him talk “so darn much” as well…
As a final note, we intend to have a live feed running during Trump’s inauguration. Â Contributor Bobbie Gerry is working to get that set up and plans to bring us live video and reports from Washington, D.C., so stay tuned here for that.
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