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18 facts from 10 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2009-2017
John Brennan served eight years in the Obama administration, first as homeland security advisor and deputy national security advisor for homeland security and counterterrorism.
“I served eight years, uh, in the Obama administration, uh, 1st as, uh, his homeland security advisor and deputy national security advisor for homeland security and counterterrorism.”
2010
When the site crashed during Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's visit, an engineer hardcoded his tweet to Barack Obama into the database.
“one of the engineers fake wrote a back end for the tweet that Medvedev sent from the iPad on stage at the Twitter headquarters and rewrote it and inserted it into the database.”
2010
Walter said that before the 2010 midterms, Democrats held sixty districts that Obama had lost or won by less than five points.
“when Democrats lost those sixty seats in 2010, there were sixty districts that Democrats held in 2010 that Obama either lost or won by less than five.”
2015
Joe Rogan said the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2015 essentially legalized propaganda aimed at Americans, a claim Kurt Metzger tied to Obama-era law.
“what they did was they essentially legalized propaganda so that they could protect us.”
2026
Dan Pfeiffer said Barack Obama was coming to Ohio to campaign for Sherrod Brown within days.
“President Obama's coming to campaign for you, I believe, in the next couple days here.”
2026
Critics including Scott Jennings argued that Barack Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke was elitist and condescending to ordinary Americans.
“they tried to argue that, uh, Obama was being elitist and condescending to real Americans”
2026
Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Democrats in Georgia the night before this episode.
“So last night, former President Barack Obama was in Georgia campaigning for the Democrats there.”
2026
Barack Obama joked that Donald Trump had made the White House look like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.
“I heard the president was not happy when, uh, I joked over the weekend that he's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory.”
2026
Obama said the White House had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hold a press event in front of a Cheesecake Factory in response to his joke.
“The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory”
Undated
Michelle Obama was a first-year associate assigned to advise Barack Obama when he joined her firm as a summer associate.
“I was a 1st year associate, so they tried to pair 1st years, sort of w with with new summer associates.”
Undated
Barack Obama's first date with Michelle included a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago and lunch at the museum.
“And we went to the Art Institute, where he showed me his suave, you know, view of art. And we had lunch at the museum.”
Undated
Michelle Obama says Barack Obama was the first Black student elected president of the Harvard Law Review.
“And he was the 1st Black student to be elected UM president of the Harvard Law Review.”
Undated
Barack Obama received a book contract after the Harvard Law Review presidency, leading to Dreams from My Father.
“so he got a book contract to write a story, Dreams from my father, um, which I thought was who writes a book at your age”
Undated
Michelle Obama says that when she and Barack were engaged, their combined student loan payments exceeded their mortgage payment.
“we were cobbling together our payments for our student loans at the time, which were more than our mortgage”
Undated
Michelle Obama says her main condition for supporting Barack's run was that he quit smoking, along with financial security.
“I told him that he definitely had to quit smoking because he was still toying with smoking.”
Undated
Barack Obama gave a Democratic National Convention speech that raised his profile, and Dreams from My Father returned to the bestseller list.
“But then he was chosen to give the speech at the Democratic National Convention and he just blew up.”
Undated
Tony Robbins says he warned Barack Obama that self-driving cars would displace about 8 million US truck, Uber and taxi drivers.
“In the next 10, 12, 13, 14 years, they're gonna become ubiquitous. And I said, There's 8 million truck drivers, you Uber drivers and taxi drivers.”
Undated
Pfeiffer said Obama's campaign built a website, stopthesmears.com, to rebut false claims about his birthplace.
“we built a website, stop the smears dot com to, like, fully take on these charges.”
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