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Donald Trumps claims that former president Barack Obama never reached out to the families of fallen solders on Monday really rubbed former attorney general Eric Holder the wrong way.

Holder took to Twitter later that night to denounce Trump and set the record straight.

Stop the damn lying youre the President. I went to Dover AFB with 44 and saw him comfort the families of both the fallen military & DEA, Holder wrote.

He even pulled out his archive of receipts to tweet a photo of him and Obama saluting alongside four soldiers.

During a press conference in the rose garden, Trump said the following when pressed about four soldiers who died on the ground in Niger in early October.

The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didnt make calls, a lot of them didnt make calls, Trump said.

I like to call when its appropriate, when I think Im able to do it, he continued.

Of course when pressed about his accusation, Trump resorted to his usual excuse, saying that he was told that information.

One thing is for sure, between former White House photographer Pete Souza and Holder, Trump will continuously get checked when he tries to come for their main man Barack.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder called out President Donald Trumps false remark about former POTUS Barack Obama on Monday, where he claimed that his predecessor did not care enough personally call the families of fallen U.S. soldiers.

Holder urged Trump to Stop lying, posting a photo that showed him standing alongside Obama inthe Dover air force base,Delaware, where both of them comforted the families of the fallen soldiers of the Military and the DEA.

Holders tweet was sparked from a comment that Trump made during an impromptu press conference that he held in the White House Rose Garden on Monday afternoon.

During the conference, he was asked about his silence following the killing of four Army Green Beret soldiers in Niger on Oct. 4. At this, the president replied saying that he had personally taken the time to write a letter to each one of their families and that he would call them up at some point. He went on to remark that while he finds ample time in his busy schedule to attend to something like this,Obama never made it a priority.

"Now it gets to a point where you know, you make four or five of them in one day, its a very, very tough day," Trump said, The Star reported."For me, thats by far the toughest. So the traditional way if you look at President Obama and other presidents most of em didnt make calls, a lot of em didnt make calls. I like to call when its appropriate when I think Im able to do it. They have made the ultimate sacrifice. So generally I would say that I like to call."

Former Attorney General Eric holder called out President Donald Trump for lying about Former President Barack Obama. In this photo, former President Barack Obama (L) and former Attorney General Eric Holder attend the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2013. Photo: Getty Images/ Chip Somodevilla

However, as soon as NBC reporter Peter Alexander challenged Trump to present proof of the fact that his predecessor did not care about the families of U.S. soldiers, the president started to backtrack on his allegation.

I dont know if he did, Trump said. I was told that he didnt often, and a lot of presidents dont. President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didnt, I dont know, thats what I was told. All I can do is ask my generals.

This is not the only time that Trump had refused to take responsibility for the inaccuracies in his knowledge about a subject. After he falsely claimed back in February, during a press conference that he had won with the biggest Electoral College margin of victory since former President Ronald Reagan, he was challenged to prove the fact by a reporter. I was given that information, Trump said at the time.

Many Twitter users reacted to Holder's evidence that defended Obama's honor and presidential record:

During Mondays press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trumps comment by saying that the president was stating a fact when he said that many of the former presidents did not habitually call the families of fallen soldiers. She further directed a statement to all the former Obama aides: Individuals claiming former presidents, like their bosses, called each family of the fallen, are mistaken.

However, former Obama aide Tommy Vietor told the Star: President Obama spent time with families of the fallen throughout his presidency through letters, calls, visits to Section 60 (for soldiers killed in the War on Terror) at Arlington and regular meetings with Gold Star families.

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For a brief period, it appeared the whole NFL kneeling thing was winding down and then bam, back to the drawing board, boys, as Commissioner Roger Goodell apparently didnt tell football players they had to stand for the national anthem, after all.

Whew. For a second there, it seemed like there was going to be a run on Doritos and dip. The groceries, and Sunday snack stashes, appear safe, at least for the time being.

Heres the latest in this whole fake social justice fight fake, because its based on a false narrative that white police randomly and rampantly target blacks and minorities to gun down and kill. Think Colin Kaepernick, circa August 2016, decked in police pig socks.

Anyhow: President Donald Trump has been on the right side of this NFL kneeling issue from the start, calling out league officials for allowing their paid players to use the football field their place of business for political protests. And just this week, Trump took to Twitter to suggest that stripping the NFL of its tax breaks would be a smart move.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders clarified that Trump was referring to the billions of taxpayer dollars that go into the subsidizing of professional sports stadiums.

If this industry [the NFL] is going to use money from American taxpayers to build the very fields they play on, is it really too much to ask that they show respect for the American flag at the beginning of the game? she asked.

No, no it isnt.

Goodell then weighed in, saying the league just needed to move past this controversy, and that we believe everyone should stand for the National Anthem.

How nice. Goodell, who helped fuel the controversy in the first place by refusing to tell players to get off their knees, now wants everybody to move on to play ball, so to speak. Pretty, pretty please, he says. Well, there are matters still to be resolved particularly since the NFL, in response to media reports that claimed Goodell told players to stand up, put out this clarifier: Umm, Goodell didnt say to stand.

Commentary, the message from the NFLread, about the commissioners position on the anthem is not accurate. [T]here will be a discussion of these issues at the owners meeting next week.

Well, dont look for the solution to come from this meeting, either.

The whole anthem-kneeling stunt has little to do with police brutality or police bias or truth, for that matter. Rather, it has to do with fighting a race war that was really ratcheted under the previous White House administration.

It has to do with Eric Holder rather, the Eric Holder style of race warfare.

Holder, the attorney general for Barack Obama, spent much of his federal stint pressing causes for the Oppressed Black Man freeing the felons, for instance, whose crimes he insisted were rooted in skin color, or putting the federal screws to local police, or delivering speeches that labeled the United States as a nation of cowards for failing to discuss and adopt his personal views of race.

Well, Holder may be gone. But his spirit lives on. And its that spirit that seems to be driving much of the NFL players dig-in for kneeling.

NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith has been a busy man-about-town lately, blasting team owners who wont let their players kneel, releasing statements to the press about the poor players rights to free speech and so forth. And Smiths background?

Well, he worked as a trial lawyer and as a counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Holder in the Department of Justice.

The apple doesnt fall far from the tree, does it?

These days, the NFL seems a lot more like an Obama-Holder face-off against perceived social injustices than it does an arena for professional athleticism. That one of the leading NFL voices of this social justice crusade is directly tied to Holder and that he was probably mentored and guided and influenced by Holder only makes perfect, absolute perfect, sense.

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If Las Vegas took bets on whether recently departed Attorney General Eric Holder would return to corporate law firm Covington & Burling, the casinos would have run out of money faster than Greek banks. Newborn infants could have guessed at a homecoming for the former partner at Covington from 2001 to 2009. Last year, Holder bought a condo 300 feet from the firms headquarters. The National Law Journal headlined the news, Holders Return to Covington Was Six Years in the Making, as if acting as the nations top law enforcement officer was a temp gig. They even kept an 11th-floor corner office empty for his return.

If we had a more aggressive media, this would be an enormous scandal, more than the decamping of former Obama Administration officials to places like Uber and Amazon. That's because practically no law firm has done more to protect Wall Street executives from the consequences of their criminal activities than Covington & Burling. Their roster of clients includes every mega-bank in America: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America. Yet Holder has joined several of his ex-employees there, creating a shadow Justice Department and an unquestionable conflict of interest. In fact, given the pathetic fashion in which DoJ limited punishment for those who caused the greatest economic meltdown in 80 years, Holders new job looks a lot like his old job.

You could actually make a plausible argument that Covington & Burling bears responsibility for the Great Recession: In the late 1990s, Covington lawyers drafted the legal justification for MERS, the private electronic database that facilitated mortgage-backed securities trading. MERS saved banks from having to submit documents and fees with county land recording offices each time they transferred mortgages. So its unlikely you would have seen mortgage securitization at such a high volume without MERS, and by proxy, without those legal opinions. Of course, securitization drove subprime lending, the housing bubble, its eventual crash and the financial meltdown that followed. Though evidence pointed to MERS implication in the mass document fraud scandal that infected the foreclosure process, former Covington lawyer Holder never prosecuted them, and now hes back with the old team.

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Early Uber investor and former board member Shervin Pishevar is speaking out against Benchmark again. This time, he penned a letter to Ubers board, demanding that Benchmark Capital drop its lawsuit against former CEO Travis Kalanick. He also filed a legal motion, asking for the case to be dismissed, saying in his letter to the board that he had no choice.

The letter says Pishevar has tried in every way possible to convince my friends at Benchmark to drop this lawsuit, to end their public campaignagainst the founder and the companyand to divest their shares under aproposal which would reward them hugely for their investment. But Benchmark has refused to meet with Pishevar.

Pishevar accuses Benchmark of violating fiduciary duty, by its willingness to talk to others inappropriately. He also accuses Benchmarks Kris Frederickson of convincing Gautam Gupta, Ubers head of finance, to go to another company where he owned shares.

Pishevar claims that Benchmark has also conferred with Lowercase Capital in an attempt to remove Arianna Huffington from the board.

Recently, Pishevar circulated a petition attempting to pressure Benchmark to sell most of its shares and give up its board seat.

Last year, at our Disrupt event in San Francisco, TC talked with Pishevar about the venture market and specifically about Benchmarks Bill Gurley, who recently stepped off of Ubers board, installing his partner Matt Cohler in his stead. Said Pishevar in that stage appearance, I have tremendous respect for Bill Gurley. Hes a friend of mine. I look up to him. Him and [fellow Benchmark partner] Matt Cohler actually referred Uber to me for the Series B.

At the time, Pishevar was working as a venture capitalist with Menlo Ventures, which went on to lead that round.

Pishevar declined to comment for this story. We also reached out to Benchmark, which has yet to respond.

Here is the full text of the letter and below it, youll find the motion his attorneys filed.

UberTechnologies Inc.c/o Garrett CampChairman of the Board Directors1455 Market StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103

August 24, 2017

Dear Uber Board of Directors.

I write to inform you that, along with Steve Russell, I have cometo the conclusion that I have no choice but to seek to intervene in theunfortunate lawsuit that Benchmark Capital has brought against TravisKalanick, the founder and former CEO of Uber.

As you know, I have tried in every way possible to convince myfriends at Benchmark to drop this lawsuit, to end their public campaignagainst the founder and the company, and to divest their shares under a proposalwhich would reward them hugely for their investment.I have called for Benchmark to resign from the Board by proposing aspecific plan that would allow Benchmark to reduce its holdings so that therest of the Board can move forward constructively to address the challengesof building our company, securing new infusions of major capital, andrecruiting a world-class CEO to oversee our continued growth.

Instead, Benchmark has refused to meet with me to address theseconcerns. I asked as a friend to have a rational, adult conversation, tohave a conversation and try to make peace on behalf of all. Benchmarktold me they looked forward to talking with me when this is over but sawno possibility of a meaningful conversation with me about these issues.

But they have been more than willing to talk to others,inappropriately, and in violation of their fiduciary duty. They reached outdirectly to employees in a letter, which is utterly inappropriate for a venturecapital firm to do. Benchmark principal Kris Fredrickson helpedrecruited Gautam Gupta, the head of finance and effectively the acting UberCFO, to another company where he owned shares without ever informing Uberin fact, Frederickson told his partner and Uber board member BillGurley six months earlier, but Gurley never told Travis Kalanick,exacerbating the crisis facing the Company in May 2017 when Guptaleft. Even more troubling, we have been told that Benchmark has beenconferring with Lowercase Capital with respect to adverse action againstUber, indicating that they are seeking to remove Arianna Huffington fromthe Board and, in clear violation of their fiduciary duties, wrongfully leakedhighly confidential details from the investigation by former AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder.

Benchmark even intruded itself into staff recommendations made by Holder,urging contrary to the CEOs wishes that Holder recommend that theGeneral Counsel be retained, rather than offered a promotion, lest that beseen negatively; yet another inappropriate intrusion by a venture capitalinvestor, this time in an independent investigation

And perhaps most tellingly of all, Benchmark appears determined to insertits own candidate as CEO, Meg Whitman, prior to addressing any futureissues, telling me that they see no meaningful discussion without anacceptable CEO candidate being hired uninfected by improperinfluences. The improper influences here are Benchmarks own efforts tocontrol the company. They have no interest in reaching a peacefulaccordwhich will allow this great company to groweven more, to recruit a world-class CEO, to secure further important funding. Clearly, they have adifferent agenda than ours.

Benchmarks investment of $27 million has grown to some $8.4 billionbecause of the outstanding leadership of Travis Kalanick and histeam. Benchmark recognized as much, even as it was encouraging Travis toresign. For a venture capital firm to then turn around, having threatenedMr. Kalanick with a public campaign if he did not resign, and then launchthe campaign anyway complete with the filing of a frivolous lawsuitnotwithstanding an arbitration clause that prohibits such lawsuits from beingbrought in the first instance has unfortunately convinced us thatBenchmark is not operating in good faith, does not have the companys bestinterests at heart, and instead is seeking to take advantage of the currentcircumstances to try to take control of the Board. Conduct so completely atodds with Benchmarks fiduciary duty cannot be left unanswered, particularly at this terrible time for Mr. Kalanick and his family. We allowe a huge debt to Travis and his team for their tireless work in imagining,creating, and building Uber. I know how proud Bonnie Kalanick was of hersons work, and it is an affront to her memory which we cannot silentlytolerate that her passing should become the occasion for a secretive andpersonal assault on her son by those who, by sheer dint of his hard work anddetermination and that of his team, he has made wealthy beyond all theirother investments

The lawsuit brought by Benchmark seeks to cancel the Voting Agreementamendments adopted in 2016, when the Saudi Governments PublicInvestment Fund made a $3.5 billion dollar investment in Uber. TheAgreement was amended to give the Saudis the right to designate a boardmember; and to give founder and CEO Travis Kalanick three seats he hadthe right to designate. No one objected at the time; nor did they object anytime in the next year. It was only after Mr. Kalanick took a leave to dealwith his familys personal tragedies that Benchmark for the first time tookthe position that Mr. Kalanick should be forced to resign and to give up hisright to appoint additional Board members supposedly because he hadwithheld information that Benchmark in factknew all about.

There is no basis for canceling an agreement entered into by sophisticatedinvestors each advised by counsel. We have a direct and substantial interestin not allowing the governance of the company to be unilaterally changed atthe insistence of one party in violation of the procedures requiring writtenconsent to amend. And there is no basis for Benchmarks decision to ignorethe comprehensive arbitration provision which governs all disputes arisingout of that Agreement in favor of a high-profile filing that paints thecompany in a negative light to serve Benchmarks own interest in a public campaignagainst the founder.

We are seeking to intervene in the lawsuit because if Benchmark insists ontrying to use the courts to try to take over this company, we are committed todoing everything we can to try to stop this abuse.

We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to moveforward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanickand many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on thecompany which we have all supported, and for which we continue to havethe greatest expectations.

Sincerely,

Shervin Pishevar

Trustee, Sofreh LP

Former Uber Board Observer (2011-2015) and Advisor

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