'They'd have called me Beijing Barry': Obama exposes Trump hypocrisy in scorching speech

Former US president Barack Obama delivered a blistering attack against his successor Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of mismanaging pandemic, as he appealed to people to come out and vote in favor of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Jumping into electoral campaign in support of his former vice president Biden and running-mate Kamala Harris, Obama appealed to people to defeat Trump and elect Biden-Harris team on vember 3.

 "y have a plan for ecomy and coronavirus pandemic," Obama said in his maiden campaign appearance, asserting that "Biden-Harris team will bring character and leadership back to government".

Obama spoke as sunset, sky going from pink to gray, framed by clouds and Lincoln Financial Field behind him. He stood by himself on st, far from even cars in lot. His podium was sanitized before he spoke, and though he was without a mask for speech, he put a 'VOTE mask' on soon after he finished, before walking off.

"We cant afford four more years of this, Philadelphia," Obama said in his blistering attack against Trump, which is quite unusual for a former president against an incumbent one. idea that this White House has done anything but screw this up is just untrue," Obama said at a drive-in rally.

"Tweeting at television doesn't fix things. Making stuff up doesn't make things better. You've got to have a plan. We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook. y probably used it to prop up a wobbly table somewhere," he said. Referring to a recent news report that Trump maintains a bank account in China, former US president said, "He's got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible? Can you imagine if I had had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for re-election.

You think Fox News might have been a little concerned about that. y would have called me Beijing Barry."

"Donald Trump isn't going to protect us. He can barely take basic steps to protect himself. If he'd actually been working whole time, it never would have gotten this bad," Obama said.

"Trump tweeted about secret cabals running world or that Navy SEALs didn't kill (Osama) bin Laden. Think about that. president of United States retweeted that. Imagine that. What? What?" he said.

Describing it as "most important election of lifetime", Obama urged his countrymen to go out and vote and t to be complacent like y did in 2016.

"We've got to turn out like never before. We cant leave any doubt in this election. We can't be complacent. I don't care about polls," he said.

 "Our democracy is t gonna work if people who are supposed to be our leaders lie every day and just make things up," Obama said. "This tion of truthfulness and democracy and citizenship and being responsible — se aren't Republican or Democratic principles. y're American principles. ... We need to reclaim m," Obama said.

At an earlier campaign stop in Philadelphia, Obama said that over last four years, he has lost hope. "And reason is because I never expected progress to move in a straight line," he said.  Afterward, Obama made a very brief stop at a canvassing event where he was greeted by two young children whose parents encourd m to get closer, but he kept his distance, waving at m.

"At end of day, people connect with people. And obviously this is an extraordinary election, because we're in midst of a pandemic, and we've got to make sure that we're doing it safely, which is only reason I'm t hugging and squeezing this cutie-pie," he said, pointing to little girl, "because I'm trying to model good hygiene. But neverless, folks seeing your effort out re is going to be inspiring."

 Obama exuded confidence that Biden will win. "We are going to be able to restore kind of spirit of hope and change and possibility we all believe in," he said.

In a statement, Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director, said Biden is "clearly t up to rigors" of campaigning for president, so he's calling in Obama as a reinforcement.

"And it begs question: How much did Obama kw about his White House being for sale to highest foreign bidder while Joe Biden was his Vice President? We w kw that Hunter Biden was on a world tour, selling access to his powerful far," he said.
 re's a reason Obama waited until re were Democrats left in primaries before he finally endorsed Joe Biden, Murtaugh said.

"It's because Biden has been a failure for 47 years in Washington and is w compromised by Communist Party of China. And Obama can't help Biden defend his own record of putting foreign interests ahead of working Americans in bad trade policies, crushing our energy jobs under massive regulations, killing manufacturing jobs, and refusing to enforce our borders," he alleged.

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