CBS, NBC Celebrate Obama’s First Public Appearance Since Inauguration

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 24, 2017
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Former President Barack Obama made his first public appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, where the liberal media championed his return. “Meantime tonight, we're hearing from former President Obama speaking out in his first public event since leaving office, jumping back into the spotlight and a lot of attention focused on what he would say about his successor, President Trump,” hyped Anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News.

Hillary Clinton super-fan, Andrea Mitchell glorified his return but seemed disheartened that Obama had chosen not to attack President Trump. “Today former President Obama breaking his public silence for the first time since leaving the White House,” he reported. “Back in Chicago, signaling he will not lead the resistance against Donald Trump.

According to Mitchell, Obama’s aides told her that he was “deliberately not mentioning Trump.” “Ignoring the President's explosive Twitter accusation that Obama wiretapped him, and his other slams,” she explained. As an example of one of Trump’s “other slams,” Mitchell played a clip of the current President saying “I inherited a mess.” That’s the same criticism Obama leveled at his predecessor for eight long years and the media didn’t have a problem with it then. 

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