Obamas had been as a result of meet Reiners on night time they had been killed, Michelle reveals | EUROtoday

Former first woman Michelle Obama has revealed she and her husband Barack Obama had been as a result of have dinner with Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday night time earlier than the Hollywood couple had been discovered lifeless that afternoon.

Director Reiner, 78, and his spouse Michele, 68, had been discovered stabbed to dying at their Los Angeles residence. Reiner was a long-time liberal activist and pals with the previous president and his spouse.

“We’ve known them for many many years and we were supposed to be seeing them that night – last night and we got the news,” Obama informed Jimmy Kimmel on Monday.

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President Donald Trump has sparked widespread criticism for a put up about Reiner, blaming his dying on ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ and later claiming the director was “very bad for our country”

While Obama didn’t particularly point out Trump’s put up, she took a jab on the feedback on Kimmel’s present.

“Let me just say this, unlike some people, Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know,” she mentioned.

“They’re not deranged or crazed. What they have always been are passionate people in a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on, they were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about.

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“They cared about their family, they cared about this country and they cared about fairness and equity and that is the truth, I do know them.”

Reiners was recognized for being outspoken towards the Trump administration, describing Trump as “mentally unfit” and “unqualified” to be president.

“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” the president’s put up mentioned.

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Quite a lot of distinguished GOP members together with Marjorie Taylor Greene who condemned the president’s phrases as “inappropriate” and “disgraceful”, calling for the “dreadful” message to be taken down.

When pressed in regards to the feedback, President Trump doubled down.

“Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” he informed reporters. “He was a deranged person, as far as Trump is concerned … I thought he was very bad for our country.”