Blaze Media BY CHRIS ENLOE
Ironically, Obama was speaking at a ‘disinformation’ conference
Former President Barack Obama was blasted Thursday for “self-serving revisionist history” after claiming he was tough on Russia as president.
What happened?
While speaking at the “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference at the University of Chicago, Obama claimed he was forced to “drag” European allies to take action against Russia for invading and annexing Crimea in 2014.
“I will say that, as someone who grappled with the incursion into Crimea and the eastern portions of Ukraine, I have been encouraged by the European reaction. Because, in 2014, I often had to drag them kicking and screaming to respond in ways that we wouldâve wanted to see, from those of us who describe ourselves as Western democracies,” Obama said.
