Former President Barack Obama said his administration was successful because he surrounded himself with people who didn’t always agree with him and because he believes “in things like facts and logic'
Former President Barack Obama said his administration was successful because he surrounded himself with people who didn’t always agree with him and because he believes “in things like facts and logic.”
Obama’s successor, President Donald Trump, is mired in a spate of ongoing scandals. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign, is about to wrap up. The White House is also struggling with its efforts to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and with reports that the federal trade and budget deficits have skyrocketed under Trump’s leadership.
″ afraid to resort to gathering people that have greater experience than you do,” Obama said, per The Deseret News. “I was good at making sure that the people who are working for me, with me, were there for the right reasons and there was a core integrity to what they were doing.”
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