Here Are Every Single One Of President Barack Hussein Obama’s 633 Scandals
Remember when President Barack Obama and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett claimed that their administration has been devoid of any scandals?
The brilliant, hard-working geniuses at GRABIEN have compiled a list of 633 scandals — some of which are admittedly about as scandalous as Rosie O’Donnell eating a salad — that proves otherwise.
Take a look at the first 100 below:
Agency | Date | Description | Source | |
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1 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 04/01/2010 | Obama’s ATF, in tandem with the DoJ, arranged for thousands of heavy assault rifles to make their way into the hands of Mexican narco warlords, setting the stage for a mass slaughter of Mexicans (more than 300 to date). | The Washington Times |
2 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 06/28/2011 | The Obama Administration fired the ATF whistleblower who exposed the Fast and Furious scandal. | Fox News |
3 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 12/07/2011 | Documents reveal Obama’s ATF used “Fast and Furious” as part of a campaign for more gun control. | CBS News |
4 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 12/15/2011 | More than 1,000 guns from Obama’s “Fast and Furious” program remain lost. | The Washington Times |
5 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 12/09/2013 | Obama’s ATF used mentally disabled teens to run drug-and-gun stings. | Reason |
6 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 09/25/2013 | The DoJ’s internal watchdog says the ATF let a confidential informant keep as much as $5.2 million from illicit cigarette sales. | CBS News |
7 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 09/25/2013 | The DoJ’s internal watchdog says the ATF somehow “lost track” of 420 million cigarettes | CBS News |
8 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 08/04/2015 | Guns from Obama’s “Fast and Furious” programs were used in the killings of at least two Americans, and probably more. | National Review Online |
9 | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms | 09/20/2015 | Obama’s ATF is using its resources to threaten the makers of kombucha, a fermented tea with trace amounts of alcohol. | The Denver Post |
10 | AmeriCorps | 07/10/2009 | After AmeriCorps’ Inspector General uncovered corruption in the office of an Obama ally, Sacramento’s major Kevin Johnson, Obama fired the IG. | The Washington Times |
11 | AmeriCorps | 07/10/2009 | In firing AmeriCorps’ IG for doing his job too effectively, Obama broke a law that he as a senator sponsored. | The Washington Examiner |
12 | Amtrak | 05/31/2010 | After Amtrak’s inspector general uncovered waste, fraud, and abuse within Amtrak, Obama fired him. | The Washington Times |
13 | Barack Obama White House | 09/11/2001 | As recounted in his autobiography, Obama reacted to 9/11 by worrying it might dampen his political career on account of his middle name. | The Audacity of Hope |
14 | Barack Obama White House | 12/09/2008 | Before he was even in office, Obama was enmeshed in scandal. He was accused of consorting with then-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich over who would get his Senate seat, although he denied making contact with the governor’s office. However a witness says this wasn’t true, and Obama was pushing for Valerie Jarrett. | TIME |
15 | Barack Obama White House | 03/18/2009 | When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House, Obama gave him a bunch of DVDs as a gift (worse: they were in the wrong format). | The Daily Telegraph |
16 | Barack Obama White House | 03/24/2009 | Despite running on a promise to go through the budget “line by line” to cut wasteful spending, Obama quadrupled the deficit in his first year of office. | The Heritage Foundation |
17 | Barack Obama White House | 04/15/2009 | When one of his staffers referred to the pope as a “discredited leader,” Obama refused to say if he agreed. | CNS News |
18 | Barack Obama White House | 04/07/2009 | Obama seemed to think Austrians speak “Austrian” | The Washington Post |
19 | Barack Obama White House | 04/17/2009 | After enduring hours of anti-American speeches from crackpot South American leaders at the 2009 Summit of the Americas conference, Obama said … nothing. | Bloomberg |
20 | Barack Obama White House | 04/19/2009 | When the Grateful Dead was in D.C. for a show, Obama made sure they paid him a secret visit in the Oval Office. | The Washington Post |
21 | Barack Obama White House | 04/19/2009 | After Iran convicted an American journalist in a sham trial, the Obama White House was mute. | Yahoo News |
22 | Barack Obama White House | 07/09/2009 | Breaking a decades long precedent, Obama happily met with then-Libya dictator Muammar Gaddafi at a G8 Summit. | Tripoli Post |
23 | Barack Obama White House | 07/21/2009 | After committing to cut a mere $100 million in spending in 90 days (around 1/10th of 1 percent of the budget), Obama missed his deadline. | CNN |
24 | Barack Obama White House | 07/29/2009 | Despite publicly asking federal agencies to look for places to cut costs, Obama arranged a massive spending boost for a legal aid agency whose own inspector general accused it of wasting money on goodies for its execs. | The Washington Times |
25 | Barack Obama White House | 08/24/2009 | Obama tried turning 9/11 into some kind of national holiday for liberalism. | The American Spectator |
26 | Barack Obama White House | 02/04/2010 | Barack Obama, commander in chief, pronounced Navy “corpsman” like “corpse-man.” | YouTube |
27 | Barack Obama White House | 04/22/2010 | While Obama hosted an Earth Day celebration in the Rose Garden, the Deepwater Horizon, which had been burning for two days, sank into the Gulf | The Daily Caller |
28 | Barack Obama White House | 04/23/2010 | The Coast Guard announces 11 Deepwater workers are dead; Obama travels to N.C. for a vacation, where he eats BBQ with Michelle. | The Daily Caller |
29 | Barack Obama White House | 04/24/2010 | Coast Guard announces oil is spewing into the Gulf; the Obamas continued their vacation | The Daily Caller |
30 | Barack Obama White House | 04/26/2010 | After an attempt at stopping the leak fails, the spill is now the size of Rhode Island; Obama hosts a ceremony with the Yankees and then plays a round of golf | The Daily Caller |
31 | Barack Obama White House | 04/28/2010 | The spill rate is upgraded to 5,000 barrels/day; Obama spends the day doing political events in Illinois | The Daily Caller |
32 | Barack Obama White House | 04/29/2010 | Louisiana Gov. declares a state of emergeny as the 600 mile spill is just 16 miles off the coast; Obama delivers a speech on cybersecurity and meets with FEMA — about hurricane preparedness | The Daily Caller |
33 | Barack Obama White House | 05/01/2010 | Efforts at stopping the leak continue to fail; Obama attends the White House Correspondents Dinner to tell jokes. | The Daily Caller |
34 | Barack Obama White House | 05/08/2010 | BP’s “containment dome” fails to contain the leak; Obama plays golf at Arkansas’ Fort Belvoir | The Daily Caller |
35 | Barack Obama White House | 05/09/2010 | Tar balls begin reaching the Alabama coastline; Obama delivers a commencement address at Hampton Univ. | The Daily Caller |
36 | Barack Obama White House | 05/17/2010 | By now the spill rate has been upgraded to 50,000 barrels/day; Obama hosts UCONN’s women’s basketball team at the White House | The Daily Caller |
37 | Barack Obama White House | 05/18/2010 | Oil balls are now washing ashore in Fla.; Obama meets with members of the Democratic Caucuses | The Daily Caller |
38 | Barack Obama White House | 05/22/2010 | The spill continues unabated; Obama announces a renovation project at the White House and delivers another commencement address | The Daily Caller |
39 | Barack Obama White House | 05/26/2010 | The spill continues unabated; Obama hosts the U.S. World Cup soccer team and Duke’s basketball team | The Daily Caller |
40 | Barack Obama White House | 05/28/2010 | Obama makes a brief visit to Loisiana to inspect the recovery efforts, then heads on vacation | The Daily Caller |
41 | Barack Obama White House | 05/29/2010 | Obama tried to illegally bribe a Democratic senatorial candidate (Joe Sestak) out of running. | CNN |
42 | Barack Obama White House | 09/13/2010 | After the Gulf disaster was finally contained, Obama commissioned a taxpayer funded study to see what Americans thought of his handling of the crisis | Yahoo News |
43 | Barack Obama White House | 12/17/2010 | When Obama met with elementary school children in Virginia, he read them his own book. | USA Today |
44 | Barack Obama White House | 01/10/2011 | He called France, not Britain, America’s strongest and oldest ally. | The Daily Signal |
45 | Barack Obama White House | 01/22/2011 | Against advice, Obama invited China’s government to a White House state dinner; the Chinese pianist ended up playing an anti-American tune during the event. | The Epoch Times |
46 | Barack Obama White House | 02/08/2011 | Under Obama, regulations soared to more than 1,500/year (by contrast Congress averages 200 laws/year). | The Competitive Enterprise Institute |
47 | Barack Obama White House | 02/14/2011 | For months Obama deflected calls to act on the deficit/debt by creating a commission to handle the issue; when the commission issued its report, Obama ignored it entirely. | The Heritage Foundation |
48 | Barack Obama White House | 02/17/2011 | After Obama touted China’s high-speed rail system as a model for America, the system announced it’s fighting corruption and insolvency. | The New York Times |
49 | Barack Obama White House | 02/23/2011 | Despite taking credit for disposing of Gaddafi, Obama was the last Western leader to speak in favor of regime change. | The Washington Post |
50 | Barack Obama White House | 03/08/2011 | Since taking office, Americans’ share of the debt increased $50/day. | The Washington Times |
51 | Barack Obama White House | 03/10/2011 | Obama said he would like to be president of China so that criticism of him could be outlawed. | The New York Times |
52 | Barack Obama White House | 06/16/2011 | When business leaders came to meet Obama at the White House to discuss improved relations, they left “infuriated” with his behavior. | The Washington Post |
53 | Barack Obama White House | 07/23/2011 | During a debt ceiling debate, Obama claimed 80 percent of Americans wanted higher taxes as part of the deal; a Rasmussen poll that week showed that just 34 percent thought so. | Human Events |
54 | Barack Obama White House | 08/11/2011 | After Obama touted China’s electric car makers, they soon thereafter began focusing on gas engines. | Future of Capitalism |
55 | Barack Obama White House | 10/11/2011 | Obama wanted to apologize to Japan for America dropping nukes during WW2, but Japan told him not to. | Investors Business Daily |
56 | Barack Obama White House | 10/25/2011 | GAO report says Obama broke the law in using taxpayer funds to host bilateral China talks focused on aerospace | The Washington Examiner |
57 | Barack Obama White House | 10/31/2011 | Bypassed Congress on student loans, contracts, drugs, and mortgage legislation. | The Daily Caller |
58 | Barack Obama White House | 11/08/2011 | Generally ignored South America despite consequential developments during his presidency. | The Washington Post |
59 | Barack Obama White House | 12/10/2011 | Despite campaign promise to retain ban on slaughtering horses for meat, he ended the ban. | NewsBusters |
60 | Barack Obama White House | 01/25/2012 | During his State of the Union address, Obama misquoted Lincoln. | Human Events |
61 | Barack Obama White House | 02/20/2012 | The Obama White House somehow spelled Rhode Island as “Road Island.” | The Daily Mail |
62 | Barack Obama White House | 02/21/2012 | Two of Obama’s three biggest bills were only accomplished through political bribery. | The Daily Signal |
63 | Barack Obama White House | 02/22/2012 | He threatened Israel not to protect itself against Iran’s nuclear threat. | The Wall Street Journal |
64 | Barack Obama White House | 03/01/2012 | During an interview with Grantland’s Bill Simmons, Obama claimed to have known about then sensation Jeremy Lin before anybody else in the world. | New York Magazine |
65 | Barack Obama White House | 03/01/2012 | Despite a recent scandal involving throwing like a girl on national TV, Obama boasted Bill Simmons he’s actually an incredible athlete. | NewsBusters |
66 | Barack Obama White House | 03/01/2012 | During an interview with Grantland’s Bill Simmons, Obama claimed he was “way ahead of the curve on the podcast thing.” | Grantland |
67 | Barack Obama White House | 03/07/2012 | More than half of Obama’s big money contributors received plum payouts or positions. | The Washington Post |
68 | Barack Obama White House | 03/08/2012 | Tried to bribe Israel to promise not to challenge Iran while he was running for re-election. | Reuters |
69 | Barack Obama White House | 03/15/2012 | While mocking Republicans’ lack of historical knowledge, Obama mangled history himself. | ABC News |
70 | Barack Obama White House | 03/19/2012 | On the campaign trail, Obama often talked about how his cancer-stricken mother had to battle insurance companies to receive payments; in fact that was not true. | The Washington Post |
71 | Barack Obama White House | 04/03/2012 | Despite having taught constitutional law, Obama badly misstated the Constitution during an unscripted effort at defending ObamaCare (eventually forcing the DoJ to issue a “correction”). | The Wall Street Journal |
72 | Barack Obama White House | 04/09/2012 | Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe, violated the Hatch Act by participating in campaign activities. He went unsanctioned. | The Washington Free Beacon |
73 | Barack Obama White House | 04/13/2012 | After repeatedly bemoaning the injustice of Warren Buffett’s secretary paying a higher net tax rate than Warren Buffett, it was revealed Obama also pays a lower rate than his White House secretary. | ABC News |
74 | Barack Obama White House | 04/17/2012 | Obama signed an executive order giving himself power to regulate anything to do with water (even non-waters) | Human Events |
75 | Barack Obama White House | 04/22/2012 | As a candidate, Obama ran afgainst the use of signing statements and executive orders; as president he did a 180. | The New York Times |
76 | Barack Obama White House | 05/02/2012 | A pro-life Chinese dissident sought protection from the U.S.; the Obama State Dept. tricked him into coming to our Beijing embassy, where he was promptly returned to the Chinese (facing possible execution). | HotAir |
77 | Barack Obama White House | 05/02/2012 | Obama admitted having invented a central character in his supposedly nonfiction autobiography (his girlfriend). | Politico |
78 | Barack Obama White House | 05/09/2012 | While still supposedly opposed to gay marriage, Obama lectured North Carolina about his “disappointment” in their constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. | The Hill |
79 | Barack Obama White House | 05/10/2012 | As a candidate, Obama ran on an anti-gay marriage platform; once in office, he announced he supports gay marriage. | CNN |
80 | Barack Obama White House | 05/15/2012 | Obama’s White House quietly inserted him into existing WhiteHouse.gov biographies of past presidents. | Commentary Magazine |
81 | Barack Obama White House | 05/20/2012 | Despite his promise to keep lobbyists away from his administration, visitor logs showed their visits were frequent. | The Washington Post |
82 | Barack Obama White House | 05/24/2012 | If the government used the same budgeting rules it forces on the private sector, it’s annual deficit would actually be $5 trillion (not $1.3 trillion). | USA Today |
83 | Barack Obama White House | 07/04/2012 | Despite boasting of imposing tough sanctions on Iran, his administration granted waivers to all 20 of Iran’s primary trading partners | The Wall Street Journal |
84 | Barack Obama White House | 07/12/2012 | Obama’s “jobs council” was packed with companies known for outsourcing. | The Huffington Post |
85 | Barack Obama White House | 07/26/2012 | The White House Facebook page somehow misspelled “Americans” | The New York Daily News |
86 | Barack Obama White House | 09/12/2012 | Under Obama, the number of regulators grew more than 25 percent. | The Washington Post |
87 | Barack Obama White House | 09/20/2012 | Obama’s White House staff was also caught up in the Colombia prostitution scandal. | Fox News |
88 | Barack Obama White House | 09/20/2012 | Obama Admin. regulations cost businesses $1.8 trillion in lost revenue, more than 20 times the White House’s estimate | The Washington Examiner |
89 | Barack Obama White House | 09/23/2012 | Obama kicked off his Middle East foreign policy by condemning U.S. foreign policy in the region until his presidency; by 2012, opinions of America in the Middle East were worse than when Obama arrived. | Reuters |
90 | Barack Obama White House | 09/25/2012 | At a United Nations meeting, Obama skipped out on meeting with his counterparts so he could instead focus on his re-election campaign. | Associated Press |
91 | Barack Obama White House | 10/04/2012 | Obama touted his “balanced approach” to debt reduction, but it was actually 88 percent percent tax hikes. | AEI |
92 | Barack Obama White House | 10/10/2012 | Obama crafted a tax plan that would have lowered taxes on the millionaires working in the White House. | The Washington Free Beacon |
93 | Barack Obama White House | 10/25/2012 | When Obama met the father of one of the men who died trying to save America’s consulate in Benghazi, the father described Obama as cold, impersonal, and ungrateful. | The Weekly Standard |
94 | Barack Obama White House | 11/01/2012 | The Obama Administration regularly ignored a law requiring information about the impact of proposed regulations. | The Daily Signal |
95 | Barack Obama White House | 11/23/2012 | The number of Americans on food stamps outnumbers the population of 24 states combined. | Breitbart |
96 | Barack Obama White House | 01/03/2013 | Obama’s vice president quickly developed a reputation for copping feels whenever meeting the wives of his colleagues, at one point even saying “Spread your legs I’m going to frisk you.” | HotAir |
97 | Barack Obama White House | 01/19/2013 | On a per-household basis, Obama’s first term raised the national debt more than 42 presidents in 53 terms combined. | CNS News |
98 | Barack Obama White House | 01/26/2013 | Despite promising to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, Obama actually did the opposite, doubling it to $1.1 trillion. | Congressional Budget Office |
99 | Barack Obama White House | 02/11/2013 | Under Obama, food stamp rolls have grown to more than 47 million — greater than the entire population of Spain. | CNS News |
100 | Barack Obama White House | 04/22/2013 | An official with the UN Human Rights Council said Americans got what they deserved in the Boston Marathon bombing; the Obama Administration did not respond. | Breitbart |
To see the remainder of the scandals, please head over to GRABIEN. I tried posting all of them here, but then my browser began to repeatedly crash …
Anyway.
As I indicated earlier, some of these “scandals” are clearly non-scandal scandals. That Obama once accidentally called France, versus Britain, America’s strongest and oldest ally does not concern me too much.
However, the underlying point is this: The claim that the president’s administration has been scandal-free is some straight-up FAKE NEWS!