Former President Barack Obama cracked a joke during a Democratic campaign event in Milwaukee about the number of indictments handed down to President Trump’s former advisers.

“They promised to take on corruption. Remember that?” Mr. Obama asked an enthusiastic crowd at Milwaukee’s North Division High School Friday.

“They have gone to Washington and just plundered away. In Washington, they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team,” he said. “Nobody in my administration got indicted.”

In reality, Mr. Obama’s former CIA director, David Petraeus, was convicted in 2015 after pleading guilty to mishandling classified information.

Four former advisers to Mr. Trump have seen charges brought against them in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference. None of those charges have been directly related to alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump administration, and only one of the advisers, Michael Flynn, has been convicted.

Without naming Mr. Trump, Mr. Obama also slammed his successor for “pretending” to care about civility after a Florida man sent pipe bombs to multiple high-profile Democrats last week, including Mr. Obama. None of the 15 pipe bombs exploded, and no one was injured. Mr. Trump partly blamed the attack on the “fake news” media for spreading lies about him and stoking the country’s political angst.

Mr. Obama responded Friday, “I would like to think that everybody in America would think it’s wrong to spend all your time from a position of power vilifying people, questioning their patriotism, calling them enemies of the people and then suddenly pretending that you’re concerned about civility.”

“It shouldn’t be Democratic or Republican to say you don’t try to punish political opponents or threaten the freedom of the press just because you don’t like what they say,” he said.

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