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President Makes History By Granting 231 Clemencies In 1 Day
President Obama has of- ficially completed the largest act of clemency in a single day by any president in U.S. his- tory. The POTUS granted clemency to 231 inmates Monday (Dec. 19), commut- ing sentences of 153 individu- als and approving 78 pardons.
To date, President Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,176 individuals (most of which were in 2016), including almost 400 life sen-
President Obama granted 231 clemencies on Monday.
tences. He also approved par- dons for 148 people thus far.
It is not a secret President Barack Obama and Comp- ton’s own Kendrick Lamar have built a good relationship. President Obama has gone on record to acknowledge K. Dot as one of his favorite rap- pers and now Kendrick Lamar made sure to let fans know how impactful the Pres- ident truly is, not only to the Hip-Hop culture, but also to world.
Last Friday (Dec. 16) The To Pimp A Butterfly artist visited the Big Apple to perform at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg for a secret pop- up show sponsored by Ameri- can Express. Before the show began, XXL caught up with the introspective rapper and posed some questions about
Kendrick Lamar tells the world about his respect for President Obama.
Obama and their conversa- tion about role models in urban communities, which Kendrick definitely embod- ies. Kendrick said, “You look at him as such a high figure in the world, but for him to em- brace you and have a connec- tion with you further than just being the President, and make you feel like an actual friend, that’s probably the best moment and one of his best characteristics. I meet a lot of people in high places and sometimes they get so de- tached from the world and from the people, they don’t even know how to interact with you. Basically watching him interact with my mother, my little niece, myself as a human, I think that’s the greatest thing.”
the President Obama’s term in office.
Kendrick took this oppor- tunity to speak about the first time he meet with President
Barack
FLOTUS Michelle Obama’s Final Interview Is With Queen Of Talk TV Oprah Winfrey
It’s Official: Hillary Clinton Won Popular Vote By 2.8 Million
Trump Plans To Keep His Aggressive Private Security Crew
Mrs. Michelle Obama talks with family friend, Oprah Winfrey in her last interview as First Lady.
Kendrick Lamar Praises President Obama For Showing Respect To Hip Hop Artists
Michelle Obama is cer- tainly proud of the work that’s been done during her hus- band’s administration, but the first lady tells Oprah in an un- aired clip that she does have one regret about what they weren’t able to accomplish over the last eight years.
“I wish we could have done something about gun violence,” she says.
Since taking office, Presi- dent Obama has had to ad- dress the nation well over a dozen times in the wake of mass shootings. Between these and other acts of gun violence throughout the country, both the president and Mrs. Obama have looked into the eyes of mothers who have lost children, people who have lost partners and family members who have lost loved ones.
“We have spent so much time mourning with so many fami- lies,” Mrs. Obama. “It never gets easy. We went to too many funerals. We’ve mourned too many unnecessary losses of life. And I wish we could have rallied the nation to do some- thing about it... That’s some- thing we didn’t get done.”
Mrs.Obama also made it quite clear how she feels about the disappointing “angry black woman” label.
In another clip previewed of her interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mrs. Obama says the slanderous label says more about the “person or people who wrote it” and is not a re- flection on who she is as a per- son. Since her time in the
White House, FLOTUS has been slammed with the title, the latest being The New York Times’ Style section who used it in an offputting tweet. In a book that was released in 2012, Mrs. Obama was given the title after allegations of her ar- guing with members of the West Wing staff.
“That was one of those things where you think, ‘Dang, you don’t even know me,’” Mrs. Obama said. “You just sort of feel like, ‘Wow, where did that come from?’ And that’s the first blowback.”
Taking things a step further, the First Lady explains how wealth and race shouldn’t play a factor into how Americans in- teract with each other. “You start thinking, ‘Oh, wow, we’re so afraid of each other,’” she said. “Color. Wealth. These things that don’t matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another, and it’s sad because the thing that least de- fines us as people is the color of our skin... It’s our values. It’s how we live our lives. And you can’t tell that from somebody’s race, somebody’s religion. Peo- ple have to act it out. They have to live those lives.”
As a motto, the Harvard grad vowed to ‘live out loud’ and let the public think whatever they felt. “That’s what I want young people to do: Just live your life. Live it out loud,” she said.
Her final interview aired on CBS Wednesday (Dec. 20) on OWN. Michelle Obama’s full interview is currently available on the free Watch OWN app.
Trump’s private security team will stay!
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to stick with members of his ag- gressive private security crew of loyal retired ex-cops and former FBI agents, and won’t rely solely on the Secret Serv- ice in the White House, ac- cording to Politico.
That would be a major break with tradition and raises fears that the future president could be surrounded by a cadre of strong-arm bodyguards who take an extremely hard line on protesters. The private pack has accompanied Trump on
his tour of “thank you” rallies, where the bodyguards have roughly ejected protesters from venues.
The private security team is led by Trump supporter and registered Republican Keith Schiller, a retired New York cop, who was videotaped dur- ing the presidential campaign apparently punching a pro- tester who was trying to re- trieve protest signs Schiller had ripped from his hands. That incident sparked a law- suit by five protesters.
Hillary Clinton has made few appearances since losing the election.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a final tally of 2.8 million votes over Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump in an election that saw 7 million more people vote than in 2012, according to the Cook Political Report.
The final results:
Clinton: 65,844,610 or 48.2 percent.
Trump: 62,979,636 or 46.1 percent.
Others: 7,804,213 or 5.7 percent.
The number of votes cast: 136,628,459. In 2012, that figure was 129,075,630.
The telling number is the Cook report is that in the 13 swing states, Trump won the popular vote over Clinton by nearly 2 percent, backing up his assertion Tuesday that Clinton campaigned in the wrong states.
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