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Q: Did former President Barack Obama follow President Donald Trump to the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany?

A: No. That claim was made on websites that dont make any warranties about the reliability of their information.

I read a posting on Facebook that said Obama showed up at the G-20 conference and is shadowing Trump. It sounds like fake news to me. Is it?

Former President Barack Obama didnt attend the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in early July as headlines on a viral story falsely claim. Several readers asked about the story, which Facebook users also flagged as potentially fake news.

Obama Goes to G20 Summit, reads the headline on one version of the story published July 8 on World-politicus.com. The same story, published on Wetheproudpatriots.com, was headlined, Obama Shows Up In Germany For G20 Acting Like The President Look What He Did To Screw Trump.

Obama is a shadow president that will not leave the current administration alone, the story says. He has been doing everything he can to mess up what Trump is doing. And being a liberal elite, he can get away with it. Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up too. A little odd, no? This concerning practice has gotten on the last nerve of the Trump administration and it shows that they are concerned with what Obama is trying to do. Obama needs to realize that he is no longer the president, no matter how much he wants to be.

But neither website provides any evidence to support the headlines stating that Obama was at the 2017 summit, where leaders from 19 countries and the European Union gathered to discuss international cooperation on financial and economic issues.

Instead, those websites point to aJuly 7 storypublished by the Young Conservatives website, which only faulted the Obama administration for not making hotel reservations for the U.S. delegation. BuzzFeed, followed by several other media outlets, had reported that the Trump administration couldnt find available hotel rooms in Hamburg. The president stayed at the city governments guesthouse.

In fact, the terms and conditions page of the We the Proud Patriots website says the site does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. And a disclaimer policy on World-politicus.com says it does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (world-politicus.com), is strictly at your own risk. That makes both websites unreliable sources for genuine news.

Other sites that published the story about Obama attempted to bolster their false headlines with photographic evidence.

Snoopack.com, for example, included a photo of Obama standing near German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but its an image from the 2015 summit in Turkey. The photo that Xbn-news.com published along with the story shows Obama talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2016 summit in China.

The official group photo from the 2017 summit includes Trump, not Obama.

In an email to FactCheck.org, an Obama spokesman confirmed that the former president was not at the G20 summit, Germany or even Europe and was never scheduled to be there. Obama was last in Germany in May for an event with German Chancellor Merkel, his spokesman said.

Editors note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebookto help identify and label viral fake news stories flagged by readers on the social media network.

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CNN gave three times more coverage to the alleged secret meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin at a G-20 dinner than former President Barack Obama's infamous hot mic gaffe with Russia's former president in 2012, according to a study by the Media Research Center.

The study, released on Wednesday by Newsbusters, showed that from the time the news broke late Tuesday afternoon on the previously undisclosed Trump-Putin talk through around midnight, CNN spent over 75 minutes covering the discussion.

Trump and his aides pushed back hard on the media's coverage of that meeting, downplaying its significance and suggesting there was nothing 'secret' about it.

The MRC study, meanwhile, contrasted CNN's coverage with that of the March 2012 conversation between Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

CNN COMMENTATOR WON'T CALL TRUMP HER PRESIDENT

Obamas microphone was on during the exchange where he told Medvedev that This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

Medvedev responded: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir [Putin].

According to the MRC study, during the same timeframe on March 26, 2012, CNN spent roughly 25 minutes discussing Obamas misfire.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer described the incident in 2012 as awkward, while the networks hosts used the Trump-Putin talk to discuss the presidents credibility and his posture in regard to Russia.

The context for Trump's interactions with Putin is different than it was for Obama and Medvedev, given the special counsel probe examining allegations of Russian meddling in the election and possible coordination with Trump associates. This backdrop helped make Trump's separate and official high-profile meeting with Putin an international news event.

But Trump later called the intense coverage of the dinner conversation "Fake News."

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Keegan-Michael Key revived his beloved Key & Peele character Luther, Obama's Anger Translator to criticize the Trump administration during the actor's Tuesday night visit to The Late Show.

"There is very few things we've heard from President Obama since he left office. Literally, just a couple sentences out there talking about policy," Stephen Colbert told Key. "I was wondering if I could read what Obama has said and Luther could translate that."

Key played along and after bugging his eyes out and upping his intensity transformed into Luther as Colbert read him Obama statements regarding health care and the Mexican border wall.

"Trumpcare! More like 'Trump Don't Care!," Luther yelled at the audience before taking aim at the Republicans. "Y'all gonna kill some people, but you know what? Most of the folks in America want this country to still have people living in it! I would say you people make me sick, but I can't afford that because I have no damn insurance."

Luther then poked fun at Donald Trump's nonsensical statement that the Mexican border wall must be transparent so people aren't crushed accidentally by 60-pound bags of drugs being tossed over the wall.

"I've seen a lot of movies from the Eighties, and I ain't seen nobody die from a head injury. Scarface, nope! Less Than Zero, nope! Cheech & Chong, drugs yes, but head injury, nope," he said. "And 60 pounds of drugs? Who they got throwing these things over the wall? You telling me John Cena got a Mexican cousin over there?"

Not even six months into the Trump administration, Luther concluded his rant by promising to keep a vigilant eye on the White House on behalf of Obama.

"Everyone of y'all in the White House has lost your damn mind! Imma tell you one last thing: I thought I was on a forced retirement y'all, but it look like Obama still need me, so I am back," Key's character said.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday disputed a new book's depiction of a bitter election-night exchange between him and then-candidate Donald Trump.

According to Devils Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency, by Joshua Green, a senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, Trump lashed out at Christie after the governor allegedly offered Trump his personal cell phone for the candidate to receive a congratulatory call from then-President Barack Obama.

Obama, the book reported, called Christie's cell phone to congratulate Trump, but Trump wanted to take the call on his own phone.

And Trump let Christie then serving as Trumps transition team chief know he was angry. "I don't want your phone," Trump said, according to the book.

Christie, however, disputed the entire account Tuesday.

"There was no call from President Obama to me," Christie said during a wide-ranging interview on MSNBCs "Deadline: White House."

"The book is wrong fundamentally in that there was no call from President Obama that evening," he added. "I didnt speak to the president that night at all."

Christie said on MSNBC that he received a call "from a member of (Obamas) senior staff" and that that person asked how the president could get in touch, "if your guy happens to win."

"And I said, Just call my phone and Ill give you his number,'" Christie said, adding that he then told Trump of the call because he felt it was a good sign.

"I said, I think they think at the White House you're going to win, because theyre calling and asking how to get in touch with you after that happens," Christie explained.

In his interview with MSNBC, Christie also said Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya because hes not "a sophisticated political actor."

"Hes not sophisticated in this stuff," Christie said.

Trump Jr., Christie said, should have consulted with the campaigns lawyer after receiving an email from music publicist and acquaintance Rob Goldstone, who wrote him that a Russian lawyer had information that would "incriminate" Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton and would be "very useful to your father."

What they should have done when the email first came in was to go to Don McGahn, Christie said. McGahn was the Trump campaign's chief lawyer and is now White House counsel.

"If they had gone to Don with that, I am willing to bet you everything Ive got in my pocket that Don would have said to them, Dont take that meeting and lets alert the FBI,'" Christie said.

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The House voted Tuesday to pass a Republican-backed bill delaying implementation of Obama-era reductions in smog-causing air pollutants.

Lawmakers voted 229 to 199 to approve the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017. The measure delays by eight more years the implementation of 2015 air pollution standards issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the prior administration.

The bill also makes key technical changes that environmentalists say will weaken the Clean Air Act, including switching the EPA's mandated review of air-quality standards from every five years to every 10. Ground-level ozone can cause breathing problems among sensitive groups, causing thousands of premature deaths each year.

The House voted largely along party lines to approve the bill and defeat a series of Democratic amendments. Similar legislation is advancing in the GOP-controlled Senate.

More than a dozen major health organizations opposed the bill, including the National Medical Assn., the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Assn. The head of the American Lung Assn. called the industry-backed bill a "direct assault" on the right of Americans to breathe healthy air, and urged senators from both parties to reject it.

"The bill would delay lifesaving protections against ozone pollution, exposing Americans to unnecessary pollution levels that will lead to asthma attacks and premature deaths that could have been prevented," said Harold P. Wimmer, the group's national president and CEO.

House Republicans on Tuesday lauded what they called common-sense legislation to protect American jobs. The GOP bill is supported by several pro-business groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, the American Chemistry Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

It is part of a larger push by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to weaken, block or delay stricter pollution and public health standards approved under President Obama.

Primary sponsor Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) praised the progress made in cleaning up the nation's air since the 1970s, when choking blankets of smog regularly blanketed U.S. cities. But he said the stricter standards approved by Obama's EPA would force American companies to invest billions of dollars in new pollution reduction measures.

"This bill keeps us moving forward toward cleaner air," said Olson, whose Houston-area district depends on the oil and gas industry. "This bill is about listening to job creators back home."

Democrats countered that the GOP bill, which they derided as the "Smoggy Skies Act," would cost lives through increased rates of asthma and lung disease while endangering decades of hard-won progress in cleaning up the environment.

"This is a blueprint to Make America Sick Again," said Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), mocking the Trump campaign slogan.

Ground-level ozone is created when common pollutants emitted by cars, power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and other sources react in the atmosphere to sunlight. The National Ambient Air Quality Standards adopted by the EPA in 2015 reduced the allowed amount of ground-level ozone from 75 parts per billion to 70 parts per billion.

The EPA estimated at the time that the $1.4 billion it would cost to meet the stricter standards would be far outweighed by billions of dollars saved from fewer emergency room visits and other public health gains.

The agency cited recent studies showing ozone at 72 parts per billion is harmful to healthy adults exercising outdoors. Children are at increased risk because their lungs are still developing and they are more likely to be active outdoors when ozone levels are high, the agency said.

The EPA projected that the "vast majority" of U.S. counties would meet the stricter standards by 2025 under state and federal rules and programs then underway. Many of those clean-air initiatives are now in the crosshairs of regulatory rollbacks and budget cuts championed by the Trump administration.

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