Michelle Obama: Trump victory ‘still hurts’ after six years
The Hill ^ | 11/14/2022 | Judy Kurtz
Posted on 11/14/2022, 12:00:04 PM
Michelle Obama says six years after Donald Trump’s White House win, his victory “still hurts.”
“It felt like something more something much uglier than a simple political defeat,” Obama said in a clip from the audio version of her forthcoming book, “The Light we Carry,” published Monday by NPR.
The part-self-help book, part-memoir is poised to be released on Tuesday.
“I couldn’t help but return to the choice our country had made to replace Barack Obama with Donald Trump. What were we to take from that?” Obama said.
“Barack and I always tried to operate on the principles of hope and hard work — choosing to overlook the bad in favor of the good, believing that most of us shared common goals and that progress could be made and measured, however incrementally, over time,” Obama said.
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