Barack Obama

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged a better government response to the coronavirus pandemic, just days after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told him he “should’ve kept his mouth shut” about the issue. McConnell also called Obama “classless” for criticizing President Donald Trump. Obama hasn’t publicly criticized Trump by name…

In an extraordinary statement against a former president, the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has told Barack Obama to keep his mouth shut over criticism of Donald Trump and calle… Read More

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday evening slammed former President Barack Obama for what the Senate majority leader said was breaking tradition of not criticizing the sitting president."I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut," McConnell said in an interview with Trump 2020 senior adviser Lara…

Sean Hannity ventured into tinfoil hat territory Monday to stoke suspicions about Barack Obama. The Fox News host claimed the former president was activating “deep state operatives” with his critical comments about President Donald Trump. And panelists Sidney Powell, a lawyer for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, and…

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed former President Barack Obama for criticizing the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic during a private call last week, asserting that he "should have kept his mouth shut." "I think it's a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration…

(Reuters) - New York state on Sunday announced new coronavirus-safety measures to better protect nursing home residents, who are highly vulnerable to the respiratory illness and account for a large share of the nearly 80,000 Americans who have died from it. The effort to step up infection-prevention measures at New…

Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling it "an absolute chaotic disaster," according to an audio recording obtained by Yahoo News.The former president made his remarks in a private conference call with 3,000 former members of his administration while encouraging them to work for Joe…

Former President Barack Obama excoriated Justice Department over its decision to drop its case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, during a private call with the Obama Alumni Association, Yahoo News reported."There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting…

A controversial White House economic advisor acknowledged his "cubic model" demonstrating zero coronavirus deaths by May 15 was generated by "a canned function on Excel, a cubic polynomial."The model sparked a storm of criticism among outside economists who called it "utterly superficial and misleading" on Twitter.It also set off one…

The office of former President Barack Obama excoriated a Republican-led congressional investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and purported Ukrainian election interference as giving "credence to a Russian disinformation campaign," according to a March letter obtained by BuzzFeed News.The letter said the investigation, led by GOP Sens. Ron Johnson…