Mara Gay on Obama’s ‘Secret Bank Account’ Knock on Trump: ‘I Love That Clip!’

‘I love that clip because I think former president Obama was having a lot of fun today’

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OBAMA: "He continues to do business with China because he’s got a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible? How is that possible? A secret Chinese bank account. Listen, can you imagine if I had had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for re-election? You think — you think — you think Fox News might have been a little concerned about that? They would have called me Beijing Barry."
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MELBER: "Mara?"
GAY: "Well, I love that clip because I think former President Obama was having a lot of fun today. That really brought a lot of the energy to the event. But, you know, the whole speech really brought me back to 12 years ago to his Philadelphia speech on race when he was still a candidate, because Barack Obama can speak to issues that go beyond politics but are about human decency in a way that really no other political candidate can.”

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