CNN’s Tapper: ‘Unprecedented’ To See a Former President Like Obama Going After His Successor

‘We have never seen anything like this in modern memory’

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TAPPER: "We have never seen anything like this in modern memory. George W. Bush did not attack President Obama. Obama didn’t do it to George W. Bush. Or I mean George W. Bush didn’t do it to Obama. Et cetera. It’s fairly at least in the modern era unprecedented to have a former president go after the immediate successor."

KUCINICH: "There’s a great book I think called the president’s club that details. It details very clearly this long, going back forever, this precedent that you don’t — because there’s only one other — couple other people that are living that understand the unique pressures of that job. So as you said modern history you don’t see that happen. But this is obviously either unprecedented times and you haven’t had a president quite like President Trump but I’ll say where Obama will go I think it’s first do no harm and won’t go anywhere to drive voters away. He might be very effective like Georgia where you have —"

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