Trump Decries as ‘Terrible’ Chelsea Manning’s Critique of Obama

The column prompted an angry early Friday morning tweet from Trump’s personal account, calling Manning an “ungrateful traitor”.

After Obama commuted Manning’s sentence for Espionage Act violations by almost 30 years, she turned around and bit the hand that supported her with an honest appraisal that the former president was a weak leader “with few permanent accomplishments” to his name.

Last week Assange said there would be “many discussions” on his future before Manning leaves prison in May, after Mr Obama used his final hours in the White House to allow Manning to go free almost 30 years early. “In a new article for The Guardian, the disgraced former Army private is slamming President Obama as a weak leader with few permanent accomplishments”.

“Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy”, she wrote. “They won’t meet you in the middle”, she wrote.

“What we really need is a strong and unapologetic progressive to lead us”, she continued.

In her opinion piece, Manning didn’t mention Trump by name but said minorities will be “targeted” during his time in office.

Obama commuted Manning’s sentence in the final week of his presidency, which some criticized him for due to the severity of the crime.

The description led to an early-morning reprimand from Trump, who has always been critical of Manning.

Manning, a transgender woman, was serving a 35-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, having been convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.

Manning acknowledged that Obama’s opponents were unusually obstinate, writing that the former president “faced unparalleled resistance from his opponents, many of whom wanted him to fail”.

She wrote that most of the officers selected for this security detail “openly despises” Obama.

Trump also praised Fox News’ coverage in an interview with ABC News, seen in the video below, for more favorable reporting in regards to reports of crowd sizes at his inauguration and his subsequent speech at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, which was roundly criticized by many mainstream media pundits. “Queer and trans people expect to have their rights infringed upon”.

Here’s the thing: just because we may be offered what we want from the government does not silence or otherwise change the fact that there are deep-seated, systemic issues that need to be dealt with.