# Obama denounces Trump’s ‘cruelty and corruption’ at Ohio rally for Democrats

https://mins.news/en/item/114381

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-25 00:34 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/25/obama-slams-trumps-cruelty-and-corruption-at-ohio-rally-for-democrats?traffic_source=rss

> Barack Obama criticised what he called the “cruelty and corruption” of Donald Trump’s second term at a midterm campaign rally in Ohio. He condemned the US-Israel war on Iran as unnecessary and defended Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton against an attack ad by Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

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