Obama tweet smear in 3...2..

Barack Obama has taken a swipe at his successor’s legal troubles, one day after the special counsel, Robert Mueller, ended a plea deal with Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chair.

“Not only did I not get indicted, nobody in my administration got indicted,” the former president said at an event in Houston on Tuesday, “which by the way was the only administration in modern history that that can be said about. In fact, nobody came close to being indicted, partly because the people who joined us were there for the right reasons. We were there to serve.”

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“We did not adapt quickly enough to the fact that people were being left behind and frustrations were going to flare up … In those environments you then start getting a different kind of politics, you start getting a politics that’s based on ‘that person’s not like me and it must be their fault’. And you start getting a politics based on a nationalism that’s not pride in country but hatred for somebody on the other side of the border.”

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Then, he accused the president of “capitalising on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years”, adding that “the politics of resentment and paranoia have unfortunately found a home in the Republican party”.

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Obama also lamented the rise of insular nationalism in US politics, describing it as a threat to international stability and domestic prosperity.

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“When you start getting dysfunction in Washington which [makes it] difficult for decisions to get made and policymaking to run in an orderly process, what is one of our greatest assets – which is an extraordinary civil service, career staff, let’s say at the state department – when that begins to get undermined, that doesn’t just weaken our influence, it provides opportunities for disorder to start ramping up all around the world and ultimately makes us less safe and less prosperous.”

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Earlier in the day, Obama met Bush at his home in Houston in what Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, described as a “very pleasant and private visit … where they rekindled what was already a very warm friendship.”

  Guardian

Sullying pretty much everything he said later.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.