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started public allies in chicago. her platform is wildly larger, but her goals are to empower, her goals are to create opportunity, her goals are to help educate. the former first lady s new memoir called becoming reveals stories from her life like the one she shared about her fertility struggles. i felt like i tailed because i didn t know how common miscarriages were because we don t talk about it. in other excerpts she wrote candidly about the birther conspiracy which she said was, quote, deliberately many meant to stir up the wing nuts and the cooks, putting her own family at risk. for a famously guarded first
[ audience reacting ] and president obama worked harder at defeating me than crooked hillary clinton did, right? he was all over the place. it s the only time i ve actually seen him work hard, when he came to trying to beat trump. two things he should be telling that audience. they should be thankful and he should be as well that barack obama pulled the economy from the brink of disaster, and he inherited a really good economy that he tries to claim is his own all the time, his own making. he didn t run against president obama. but what else do you expect from the man who made his name in politics by peddling the racist birther conspiracy. i don t have to tell you that saying that black people don t work hard is one of the oldest ways to denigrate black people and their worth. and aside from that, this is coming from a man who has spent 239 days of his presidency at a golf club, who spends every morning in executive time, a fancy name the administration came up with for watching tv a
they should be thankful and he should be as well that barack obama pulled the economy from the brink of disaster, and he inherited a really good economy that he tries to claim is his own all the time, his own making. he didn t run against president obama. but what else do you expect from the man who made his name in politics by peddling the racist birther conspiracy. i don t have to tell you that saying that black people don t work hard is one of the oldest ways to denigrate black people and their worth. and aside from that, this is coming from a man who has spent 239 days of his presidency at a golf club, who spends every morning in executive time, a fancy name the administration came up with for watching tv and tweeting. a man whose daily schedule sometimes includes no events at all. like i said, just wow. it comes at the end of a huge week in the impeachment inquiry,
against president trump. that tells you everything you need to know. the people who have already spoken out against president trump want this to be public. they want to hear from rudy giuliani himself. they want the american people to have access to these facts. but as phil says, the facts are not on president trump s side. that is where he thrives when he can muddy the waters and throw out these generalizations and confuse the american people with all his noise. this goes back to the obama birther conspiracy. he didn t need the facts. he didn t want the facts, despite launching that egregious claim against the president and that has followed him through his political career even in an impeachment inquiry. he doesn t care about the facts. and republicans who will be his sycophants don t want the facts either. what s really remarkable about this is everything is moving so fast and the white house still does not remotely have its act together in terms of how it s going to message on th