Barack Obama Praises ‘Resistance’ to Trump in DOJ and Military

David Gilmour Dec 2nd, 2025, 11:57 am

Former President Barack Obama hailed “resistance” to partisan pressure inside the military and Justice Department on Monday night as he warned that the nation’s institutions under the Trump administration were “more unstable” than at other stage in his lifetime.

Speaking in Arkansas at the launch of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s new Building Bridges lecture series , the conversation, hosted by Crystal Bridges board chair Olivia Walton , toggled between music, leadership, and the state of the nation.

The former president said that while the country has endured darker chapters in the past, like the civil war, he “would not have expected the legitimacy of an election

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