President Obama personally comforted members of his White House staff after President-elect Trump pulled off a historic upset in the election last week, when many aides found themselves stunned by Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.
In a post-election interview with the New Yorker, Obama discussed his belief that social media and sensationalized news had robbed political discourse of facts, a phenomenon to which he partially attributed the rise of Trump.
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