Tuesday, April 20, 2021

HIS 205 Obama’s Scandals

Here are Obama’s political scandals:

  • The ATF-led “Operation Fast & Furious”
  • The 2012 Benghazi attack
  • The Clinton Foundation’s pay-for-play scheme
  • Uranium One
  • The Department of Justice’s tracking of journalists, including Fox News’ James Rosen
  • The Veteran’s Affairs scandal
  • The Hillary Clinton private email scandal
  • The IRS targeting of conservative groups
  • The Solyndra scandal
  • NSA spying on Americans and the PRISM program, exposed by whistleblowers
  • Obama’s nuclear Iran deal
  • Obama’s intervention in Syria and subsequent failure to act on his “red line” declaration
  • Intrusion scandal – Sharyl Atkisson
  • John Doe persecution of donors to the Republican party by leaders in the democrat party, including night arrests
  • DOE canceling energy leases in states that did not vote for Obama
  • Stopping the FBI prosecution of New Black Panther leaders who threatened white voters in Philadelphia (and who later called on blacks to kill white babies)
  • Assassination of Finicum who was protesting BLM policies in Oregon
  • Making race relations worse in Missouri, Baltimore, and just about everywhere else
  • Beer summit with Harvard prof, after proclaiming ”I don’t have all the facts, but the police acted stupidly”
  • You didn’t build that
  • Spread the wealth around
  • Using the DOJ to punish police departments
  • Meddling in Israel’s elections
  • Pulling out of Iraq way too early
  • Arab Spring mess in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, including assassination of Quadaffi
  • Abject failure with North Korea
  • Loretta Lynch’s ”accidental” meeting with Bill Clinton in Phoenix
  • Unmasking Trump team names from e-mail messages gathered by NSA and CIA
  • Shovel Ready Jobs