USA: Barack Obama slams Donald Trump in final midterm push
Just five days before the US midterm elections, former president Barack Obama took aim at President Donald Trump. He commented on the reaction of Trump's administration to a joke he had made the day before. "He was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments", Obama said. "They mobilized a whole-of-government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke." As the election is…
During a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, October 29, former president Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration's reaction to a joke he had made. Obama stated that the administration mobilized a "whole-of-government response" to the joke rather than addressing inflation. ABC News (US) reported that the joke concerned the White House appearing as if Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory.
In a separate matter, The Guardian US reported that Donald Trump has demanded the removal of Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and a rival sharing the name of Alaska’s Republican incumbent from next week's election ballot. Trump accused Democrats of an illegal scheme to confuse voters following an investigation regarding the recruitment of "spoiler" candidates intended to draw votes away from Senator Dan Sullivan.
Brief written by urgent.news from France 24, ABC News (US), The Guardian US, Le Monde English, The Hill — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
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