Obama attacks Trump at a public convention with pre-recorded speeches

Former President of the United States Barack Obama accused Donald Trump of incompetence and of being a threat to democracy, in one of the most critical interventions of the Democratic Convention, held for the first time in a virtual way.

Barack Obama warned that American democracy is at risk if the current President, Donald Trump, wins the elections again, in November, accusing his successor of being unfit for office and of ignoring the country’s values.

“This administration has demonstrated that it will destroy our democracy if it is necessary to win,” Obama accused, on the third night of the Democratic convention, in a speech filmed in Philadelphia, the city where the United States Constitution was drafted and signed.

A Obama’s speech was one of the greatest condemnations ever made by an incumbent President by one of his predecessors.

Obama accused the Republican President of using the presidency to benefit friends and family and of turning the country’s highest office into “yet another ‘reality show’ that [Trump] you can use to get the attention you want “.

Obama asked voters to “believe” in the ability of Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden, who was his vice president, to “pull the country out of the dark times” of the Donald Trump administration.

“He [Biden] made me a better President. He has the character and the experience to make the country better“, he said, in a speech broadcast at the Democratic National Convention, which is taking place, for the first time, virtually, due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Barack Obama was one of the stars of this third night, which also featured speeches by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi, at a convention where the lack of audiences and pre-recorded speeches make it difficult to mobilize voters.

The highlight of the third day of the convention was the confirmation of Kamala Harris as a candidate for vice president, a moment usually received with crowd baths and ovations.

Instead, at the end of a historic speech in which he evoked his parents, immigrants in the country, the first woman of black and Indian descent to accept that nomination turned to the various television screens behind the stage to thank the applause broadcast. through televisions, in a deserted room.

Kamala Harris spoke from Wilmington, Delaware, where Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States in the November 3 elections, resides.

The senator was later personally congratulated by Biden, who entered the room from which the speech was broadcast, maintaining, however, the social distance.

Democrats officially confirmed on Tuesday the appointment of former Vice President Joe Biden as a candidate against Donald Trump in the United States presidential election on November 3.

The Democratic convention runs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, until Thursday, when Biden’s acceptance speech will be given as that political force’s candidate for the White House.

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