Obama Claims One Side Will Rig The Election

While speaking at a Democracy Forum in Chicago, Obama hinted Republicans would fix elections and weaponize the military in the future.

Obama said, “One side tries to stack the deck and lock in… ” and then paused.

After pausing, he continued, “A permanent grip on power, either by actively suppressing votes or politicizing the armed forces or using the judiciary criminal justice system to go after opponents.”

Listen to Obama here:

NEW: Obama says Republicans are the ones who rig elections and weaponize the justice system while speaking at a "Democracy Forum."

The comment was so outrageous that Obama could barely get the words out of his mouth.

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 6, 2024

Per Politico:

Former President Barack Obama called out divisiveness and polarization as “one of the greatest challenges of our time,” as he avoided any specific political references in his first public remarks since the election.

In a speech Thursday at his foundation’s Democracy Forum, Obama urged his audience to embrace pluralism and celebrate people’s differences – the closest he came to a political message in his remarks.

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“It’s about recognizing that in a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions… not only for the woke, but also for the waking,” Obama told the crowd of about 650 participants at the Obama Foundation event on Chicago’s South Side, just a few miles from where Obama’s presidential center is under construction.

Obama didn’t utter the names of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in remarks that ran about 45 minutes, and his nonprofit organization stays away from politics. But Obama’s underlying message about pluralism and building bridges across divides has obvious relevance to the political moment in a divided country.

“Building bridges is not contrary to equality and social justice. In fact, it is our best tool for delivering lasting change,” Obama told the crowd that included Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, who worked in his administration and Penny Pritzker, the Commerce secretary during his administration.

Obama claims that eventually “one side” is going to “stack the deck” by stealing elections and politicizing the US government.

He says this shamelessly, after he and the Dems just spent the last 10+ years doing exactly that.

These people are nothing short of evil. pic.twitter.com/PYRyAVhlkC

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) December 6, 2024

Here’s what New York Times reported:

In his first speech since the presidential election in November, Barack Obama urged Americans who want democracy to survive to look for ways to compromise, engage with the other side, turn away from identity politics and build relationships with unlikely potential allies.

“Pluralism is not about holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya,’” Mr. Obama said in Chicago on Thursday. “It is not about abandoning your convictions and folding when things get tough. It is about recognizing that, in a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions, and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke, but the waking.”

He added: “Purity tests are not a recipe for long-term success.”

Billed as an address on “the power of pluralism,” the speech — a road map of sorts for political survival for liberals in a second term for Donald J. Trump — was delivered before hundreds of people as part of an annual Democracy Forum put on by the Obama Foundation, a private nonprofit entity that is led by Mr. Obama.

Mr. Obama opened the speech with an acknowledgment that when he told friends of the focus of this year’s forum, the topic drew groans and eye rolls.

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