{"id":6443,"date":"2017-10-12T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:02:03","slug":"trump-carves-path-destruction-nader-asks-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/trump-carves-path-destruction-nader-asks-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Carves Path of Destruction, Nader Asks Obama: Where Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While list of programs and rules under attack grows,\u00a0a call for former president to fight back against “Trump-led assault on our weakening democracy”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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by\u00a0Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama congratulates U.S. President Donald Trump after he took the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As the Trump administration moves quickly and systematically to erase every last remnant of Barack Obama’s legislative and regulatory legacy\u2014from the Iran deal to the Affordable Care Act to the Clean Power Plan\u2014consumer advocate Ralph Nader has a simple question for the former president: where have you been?<\/p>\n

“Besides raising funds for his presidential library (about $1 billion), is getting press primarily for being paid $400,000 or more per speech before Wall Street and other big business audiences.”
\n\u2014Ralph Nader<\/p>\n

Obama, Nader writes in an\u00a0op-ed published Tuesday<\/a>, has remained “mostly silent as the belligerent Trump rolls back or destroys” his achievements.<\/p>\n

“The list of protective programs and responsible business laws destroyed by Trump’s wrecking crew of a cabinet grows longer every\u00a0week<\/a>,” Nader writes, but “[t]he mere thought of tangling with the Trumpster’s foul, prevaricatory, sneering tweets offends Obama’s own sense of civil discourse between politicians.”<\/p>\n

In recent days, the already\u00a0large list of programs<\/a>\u00a0and rules destroyed by Trump has grown rapidly. Over the past week alone, the Trump administration has:<\/p>\n