What Obama should have said at the press conference

[Richard D]

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So today I am calling upon Congress to pass a law that will delay this year’s meeting of the Electoral College by 14 days. If Congress won’t do it, I think the state legislatures need to step in and do it. And if the states won’t do it, the Department of Justice is going to ask the courts for an injunction to give us those 14 days. It would not be right for the electors to cast their votes now, with so much uncertainty in the air about the facts of what happened during the election. We need to ensure that this next phase of transferring power to the future president is not tainted by bad information.

I am also instructing James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, to arrange for briefings to any elector who wants one. Fifty-six electors have signed a letter asking for an intelligence briefing on Russia’s role in this election. They want access to the best possible information before they cast their votes. As president, I see it as my duty to provide it.

Director Clapper has also agreed to immediately declassify and release as much of our intelligence on the election as possible. You should see those files appearing in your email in-boxes by this evening. They’ll be PDFs. I suggest that you run them through a virus scanner before you click on them. Careless clicking, after all, is part of what got us here in the first place.

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https://theintercept.com/2016/12/18/what-president-obama-should-have-said-at-his-last-press-conference/

[underthematrix]

1. President Obama said exactly what he should have said as President

of the United States

[dionysus]

9. Not content to merely losing to trump, obama must now go down with the ship

As well. That's what it's becoming.. aiaiai

[kudzu22]

2. First question from the White House press corps:

Mr. President if you knew about Russian attempts to affect US politics since last year, why are you only bringing it up now? Why did you not make it public before the general election? Would you ask for the same delay if Hillary had won?

Sorry, it would be a colossal mistake to do anything other than what he did. He handled it the only way he could.

[JudyM]

4. Sorry, no. His honor is far less important than the threat tRump poses now.

[brooklynite]

3. And when the Republicans ignore the President, what happens?

[gordianot]

5. The founding fathers wrote the Constitution thinking the United States would be a sovereign nation.

They did not foresee the international trade deals and what would happen when a President ran on opposing trade deal and said President elect plans to make the United States a proxy of a foreign power. Obama is among other things a Constitutional lawyer and he knew the risks when the question of sovereignty came up. Hillary Clinton after July 2016 ran on caution to those trade deals. Now we are stuck with a mentally ill candidate elect who thinks business tactics are a way to dominate the world and operates on personal vanity. He appears to me intent on creating a family dynasty for succession of power we may have seen our last Presidential election. This is really very similar to 1933 and we are headed the wrong side of history. Ignore me I am nobody just a spectator but I will be able to tell my Grandchildren I opposed Donald Trump.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I immediately dismiss anything coming from Glen Greenwald's "Intercept". We know which side they...

were rooting for. I think GG's propaganda should be treated like the crap coming from RT or The National Enquirer.

[dionysus]

8. No kidding! Put down the dukes!

[dionysus]

7. Post-losing-to-trump fanfic. I've seen it all now.