Former U. S. President Barack Obama pointedly says nobody was jailed during his administration, as President Donald Trump faces multiple investigations and scandals.
Former U. S. President Barack Obama told an audience in Brazil that his two-term White House administration showed power does not necessarily have to corrupt those who wield it, alluding to Lord Acton’s famous quote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Obama, whose presidency lasted from 2009 to 2017, was a keynote speaker at the VTEX DAY 2019 conference in Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
His comments appear to be a rebuke of the incumbent President Donald Trump, whose controversial administration has been rocked by multiple scandals and controversies, such as the ongoing drama around special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation.
President Trump came to power off the back of a campaign that promised it would “drain the swamp,” portraying himself as the man to clean up Washington of the corruption that tarnished it. He has since been dogged by accusations of corruption himself.
„Nobody was jailed. We made mistakes. We were not perfect.
