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Trump claims Crimea was taken from Obama
In an unprecedented move by a former president, Obama responds
In his bizarre 68-minute solo press conference following the G7 meeting in Biarritz, France, President Trump laid into former President Barak Obama, a heretofore no-no on foreign soil.
Between hawking his money-losing Doral Resort as the site of the next G7 meeting (“…it’s five minutes from the airport; it has the largest ballrooms; each country could have its own villa – we call them bungalows; it’s very large so there’s plenty of parking…") and claiming that “Melania has gotten to know Kim Jong Un very well” when, in fact, the two had never met, Trump said Obama was "outsmarted" by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Stating that there were a “lot of bad things” that happened between Obama and Putin, Trump focused on Russia's annexation of Crimea.
“And the other [reason] was in Ukraine, having to do with a certain section of Ukraine that you know very well (Note: clearly, Trump did not know the name of this "certain section of Ukraine" until prompted later in a reporter's follow-up question), where it was sort of taken away from President Obama,” Trump declared. “Not taken away from President Trump, taken away from President Obama. President Obama was not happy that this happened because it was embarrassing to him, right? It was very embarrassing to him.”
He continued: “And he wanted Russia to be out of the—what was called the G8. That was his determination. He was outsmarted by Putin. He was outsmarted. President Putin outsmarted President Obama. And I can understand how President Obama would feel. He wasn’t happy. And they’re not in for that reason.”
When asked by a reporter why he was for repeating his baseless claim that Putin was pushed out of the then-G8 for embarrassing Obama, noting that the other countries said they booted Russia because of its illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, Trump snapped back, “I know you like President Obama. If it was during my term, I would say sorry, folks, I made a mistake.”
“President Obama was pure and simply outsmarted,” Trump concluded. “They took Crimea during his term. That was not a good thing. It could have been stopped with the right… whatever. It could have been stopped. But President Obama was unable to stop it and it’s too bad.”
And then this: After two and a half years of unfounded and inappropriate criticism, former president Obama finally struck back.
In an unprecedented move, Obama issued the following statement:
I watched with great interest President Trump’s news conference at the G7 yesterday and I wanted to set the record straight on one thing – the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea.
President Trump said, "…it could have been stopped with the right ‘whatever.’"
Let me make something perfectly clear. My advisors presented me with several “whatevers.” While, for national security reasons I will not go into specific detail on the various options, I can say this: there were three very specific options:
WHATever, WhatEVER and WhatEVVERRR?
In the end we determined that each of the options ran the risk of escalating the crisis into a shooting war so, in concert with our six other allies in the former G8, we determined that the best way to punish Russia and President Putin for the egregious aggression was to impose economic sanctions on Russia and remove them from the G8.
One last thing, and this is specifically for President Trump: egregious means outstandingly bad; shocking, appalling, horrific, horrifying, horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, grievous, gross, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous.
An example of the use of the word “egregious” in a sentence would be, “President Trump’s performance at the G7 meeting was egregious.”
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