Worried What Trump Might Do? Blame Obama for Handing Him the Means!

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Donald Trump’s opponents say one of the main reasons he is unfit to lead the country is that he is thin-skinned and erratic and therefore cannot be trusted anywhere near the famous (and non-existent) nuclear button. What the same people always neglect to say is that outgoing President Barack Obama is giving his successor a whole new arsenal of instruments of power to abuse.

Progressives everywhere, as well as the media, will probably shower Obama with accolades over the next couple of weeks, wistfully reminiscing about a Democrat in the White House. Meanwhile,Obama’s expansion of the use of killer-drones will likely rate no more than an afterthought.

Last July, the Director of National Intelligence released a report claiming that — from Obama’s inauguration to the end of 2015 — 473 drone strikes “outside areas of active hostilities” killed between 2,372 and 2,581 combatants, as well as between 64 and 116 non-combatants. 

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