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OBAMA THREATENS TO CANCEL TAXPAYER-FUNDED SPEECH IN DENMARK IF HIS CONTRACT IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLI
Daily Caller ^ | 9/5/2018 | ANDREW KERR

Posted on 09/05/2018 7:25:52 PM PDT by bitt

Representatives for Barack Obama have threatened to cancel the former president’s upcoming paid speech at a Denmark university if details of his speaking contract are released to the public.

Obama will participate in a moderated question and answer session on Sept. 28 at the University of Southern Denmark before local business leaders, university students and local dignitaries, according to Business Kolding, the event’s organizer.

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To: rockinqsranch
He has to admit he's gay!!??
81 posted on 09/05/2018 10:37:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: bitt

Despite efforts to keep the media in the dark, JydskeVestkyn estimates Obama will rake in up to two million kroner, or $312,000, for partaking in the event.


82 posted on 09/05/2018 10:39:39 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Osage Orange

They are tossing in a free sex change op for Hussein. You know Denmark was where the first one was done.


83 posted on 09/05/2018 10:41:28 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: bitt

I’m betting they could Care Less about Obumbles.


84 posted on 09/05/2018 10:41:32 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Liz

If I had a microscope,,,I could read that.


85 posted on 09/05/2018 10:42:40 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: bitt
So sez the guy who once declares "there is a certain point where you have enough money" when reffering to others.

However as we now plainly see, it does not apply for himself.

86 posted on 09/05/2018 11:28:50 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: bitt
Imho all these "speaking fees" are just a way to bribe & buy influence with them in a pseudo legal way.
87 posted on 09/05/2018 11:34:04 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: All
Bammy scared to have his speech details exposed? Maybe he took a page out of Hillary's $300,000 speech demands.

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CIRCA 2014--WASH/PO By Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker

Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career. She was paid $300,000 to speak to UCLA students and faculty in March 201. When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the school had one request:

Could we get a reduced rate for public universities? The answer from Clinton’s representatives: $300,000 is the “special university rate.”

That e-mail exchange and other internal communications, obtained this week by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, provide a rare glimpse into the complex and meticulous backstage efforts to manage the likely 2016 presidential candidate’s lucrative speaking career.

At UCLA, efforts to book Clinton and then prepare for her visit were all-consuming, beginning almost immediately after she left her job as secretary of state on Feb. 1, 2013, until she delivered her Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership speech on March 5, 2014.

The documents show that Clinton’s representatives at the Harry Walker Agency exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details — from requesting lemon wedges and water on stage to a computer, scanner, and a spread of hummus and crudité in the green room backstage.

PIC---Gene Block, UCLA’s chief executive and chancellor, presents a medal to Hillary Rodham Clinton after her speech at the school March 5. (Nick Ut/AP)

Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair. Clinton’s representatives requested that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows — and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed additional back support.

After a lengthy call with a Clinton representative, UCLA administrator Patricia Lippert reported to campus colleagues, “She uses a lavalier [microphone] and will both speak from the audience and walk around stage, TED talk style. We need a teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors [for] her to read from.”

During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clinton’s team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30- minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.

In the nearly two years since stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton has made dozens of paid appearances across the country at industry conventions and Wall Street banks as well as at universities. Her UCLA fee, like those at other universities, went to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family’s nonprofit group.

But critics have argued that the carefully staged events and high speaking fees could complicate Clinton’s ability to run a populist campaign built around the economic struggles of the middle class.

Versions of Clinton’s standard speaking contracts have surfaced publicly this year — including her luxury travel requirements — but the contracts do not contain the extensive detail seen in the UCLA communications.

It is unclear how personally involved Clinton was in the UCLA negotiations and whether the requests from her agency were being directed by her or merely from underlings anticipating her preferences. A Clinton spokesman declined to comment on the speaking arrangements.

It is commonplace for celebrity speakers to request special accommodations — and Clinton was no exception. Her representatives asked for a case of still water, room temperature, to be deposited stage right. They also asked that “a carafe of warm/hot water, coffee cup and saucer, pitcher of room temperature water, water glass, and lemon wedges” be situated both on a table on stage as well as in another room where Clinton would stand for photos with VIPs.

For the green room, Clinton’s representatives requested: “Coffee, tea, room temp sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, crudité, hummus and sliced fruit.” They also asked for a computer, mouse and printer, as well as a scanner, which the university had to purchase for the occasion.

When university officials decided to award Clinton the UCLA Medal, Clinton’s team asked that it be presented to her in a box rather than draped around her neck. That request was sent to the university’s chancellor, Gene Block.

“Chancellor Block has agreed to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s request to have the medal presented in a box,” Assistant Provost Margaret Leal-Sotelo wrote in one e-mail.

Lippert replied: “I can either have the jewelers box open or closed, in case the Chancellor doesn’t want to risk opening it.” By contract, Clinton’s approval was needed for any promotional materials. Clinton gave permission for the university to record the event, but “for archival purposes only.”

For public distribution, Clinton’s speaking agency approved only a two-minute highlight video to upload to YouTube. “Please make sure it is available only for one (1) year from the date of posting,” a Harry Walker Agency official added.

Clinton posed for individual photos with 100 VIPS, or 50 couples — “We get a total of 50 clicks,” one university official explained — as well as two group photos. Lippert wrote to colleagues that Clinton’s representatives wanted the group shots “prestaged,” with participants assembled and ready to take the photographs before Clinton arrived “so the secretary isn’t waiting for these folks to get their act together.” Reiterating the request, Lippert added, “She doesn’t like to stand around waiting for people.”

Like many major universities, UCLA regularly pays high-profile speakers to visit campus. Many of the visits are funded through a private endowment and not with tuition or public dollars. Clinton’s appearance was privately funded as part of a lecture series endowed by Meyer Luskin, an investor and president of Scope Industries, a food waste recycling company.

88 posted on 09/06/2018 12:29:43 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: All
Just posting this little gem here---in case Bammy needs a speech reference (smirk).

SEPT 2016--- officials from the State, Justice and Treasury departments said Obama's $1.3 billion to Iran was paid in cash on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5. The money came from a little-known fund administered by the Treasury Department for settling litigation claims. The so-called Judgment Fund is taxpayer money Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed, allowing the president to bypass direct congressional approval to make a settlement. The U.S. previously paid out $278 million in Iran-related claims by using the fund in 1991.

Republicans have decried the payments as ransom, a charge that Obama administration has rejected.....a group of Republican senators announced their support for legislation that would bar payments from the Judgment Fund to Iran until Tehran pays the nearly $55.6 billion that U.S. courts have judged that it owes to American victims of Iranian terrorism.

UPDATE H.J.Ansari Zarif, the deputy for parliamentary and Iranian affairs within Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he would expose "everyone who allegedly accepted bribes" to facilitate Obama's nuke deal with Iran. "... we will reveal which western politicians received monies during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen,” Mr. Zarif reportedly said.

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Aha....the plot thickens. This also explains why Obama blithely handed over billions of tax dollars to Iran. Looks like Obama and his crowd got filthy rich on this deal.

In case you wondered how the Halfrican intended to pay for his billion dollar final resting place dedicated to the Sun God….”Obama’s "presidential center." NOTE: Obama said no federal funds will be used......just tax dollars with an Iranian postmark.

89 posted on 09/06/2018 1:19:50 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: bitt

Who is Obama?


90 posted on 09/06/2018 1:22:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: bitt

Lets see the Magic Negros liberal fascist contract.

Leak it anonymously. Send it to Wikileaks!


91 posted on 09/06/2018 2:32:05 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
Uh Oh, now you've gone and done it.

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92 posted on 09/06/2018 3:02:06 AM PDT by Jed Eckert
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To: Paladin2

Lyndon, Bill’s “feature,” or both?


93 posted on 09/06/2018 3:15:36 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: gaijin

What on earth?!! Are these people out of their mind ?
Well... we know the answer.


94 posted on 09/06/2018 6:52:09 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: bitt

Good. Release it.


95 posted on 09/06/2018 6:59:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Songcraft

What a waste of gold — and actually letting people pee in it!


96 posted on 09/06/2018 7:48:00 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: seawolf101
That is hillarious. Her fees just keep going down.

Or, they are just listed in descending order...

97 posted on 09/06/2018 8:17:45 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: bitt

What about transparency?


98 posted on 09/06/2018 8:20:18 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: bitt
OBAMA THREATENS TO CANCEL TAXPAYER-FUNDED SPEECH IN DENMARK IF HIS CONTRACT IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLI

I don't want details; I just want to know WHICH country's 'tax-payers'!

99 posted on 09/07/2018 4:49:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Following the link; I answered my own question:

...the event has already sparked criticism from citizens of Denmark’s Kolding Municipality, which is providing 750,000 kroner, or $117,000, in taxpayer funds to support the behind-closed-doors event titled “A Conversation with President Barack Obama.”


100 posted on 09/07/2018 4:52:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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