“There has to be citizens who insist on it and participate to make sure it happens. Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.”Obama’s successor, President Donald Trump, is mired in a spate of ongoing scandals. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be sentenced on Thursday for tax and bank fraud. ″(Don’t be) afraid to resort to gathering people that have greater experience than you do,” Obama said, per The Deseret News. “People want their own facts that are suited to their opinions rather than shaping their opinions around facts,” Obama said, according to The Associated Press.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2019 08:37 UTC