Posted on 12/26/2018 7:45:56 PM PST by simpson96
President Donald Trump wants everyone to have a Merry Christmas.
Except for the White House Press Corps, that is. Or for most of its members, anyway, the ones who in his eyes -- and the eyes of many others -- will not give him a fair shake no matter what he does.
They are not worthy of a merry anything.
That is why Trump canceled the Christmas party, a cancellation that came after the media downplayed or ignored the president's attendance at the wreath ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery last week.
Had he not gone it would have been a scandal. He went and the story was buried.
Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania, thanked volunteers for laying Christmas wreathes at veterans' cemeteries across the country.
It is a program conducted annually by Wreaths Across America, a non-profit volunteer organization that shipped 1.7 million wreaths to some 1,600 locations across the country.
An interesting aside to Trump's visit was the news that Trump, who is a staunch pro-veteran, pro-military president, donates his $400,000 yearly salary to the Department of the Interior where it is used for the construction and repair of military cemeteries.
That story did not make the news either, along with the other non-story last week about how Trump and First Lady Melania have cut the White House staff and payroll significantly from the Obama years.
In its annual report to Congress, the White House Personnel Office said that the annual White House budget was cut from $60.9 million under former President Barack Obama to $25.1 million under Trump.
Not only are there 140 fewer people working at the White House under Trump, the staff of the first lady was reduced from 44 staffers under former first Lady Michelle Obama to five now working for First Lady Melania Trump.
While Trump's critics have painted him as a crass New York billionaire businessman and real estate tycoon out to make a buck out of the presidency, the opposite appears to be the truth.
The job may be costing him money -- the millions he would have been generating running his business empire had he not become president.
Politicians running for president frequently talk about their modest backgrounds. Not Trump. There is nothing modest about Trump, including how rich he is. He bragged about his wealth during the campaign. He financed his own campaign.
So, it will be interesting to see what kind of a former president he will be when he is out of office. Will he be a Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford and simply retire, return home, do good works and drop out of sight?
Or will he imitate Ronald Reagan or one of the Bushes by quietly returning home to the ranch or the farm after making a couple of paid speeches.
The third alternative is to follow in the path of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both once men of modest means, who have capitalized on their years as president to become very rich.
As a matter of fact, it was Bill and Hillary Clinton who set the standard for the selling of the presidency that Barack and Michelle Obama are currently following. And the Obamas are so good at making money that they are becoming richer than the Clintons, if that is possible.
Like the Clintons, the Obamas are grabbing with both hands.
The Clinton's reaped a fortune when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state during Obama's first term. She and Bill Clinton launched the Clinton Foundation. Countries seeking access poured billions into the allegedly non-profit foundation in what many called a pay for play operation.
Speaking fees for both soared.
But the Obamas are outdoing the Clintons, and they are doing it without either of them holding public office, the way Hillary Clinton did.
In addition to a joint $65 million book advance and a $50 million deal with Netflix that she shares with Barack, Michelle Obama is also raking in millions selling her memoir "Becoming" along with merchandise connected to the book in appearances across the country.
She is also paid $225,000 to speak at group events.
Barack, not to be outdone, gets a whopping $400,000 for a speech. He was paid $1.2 million in 2017 for three talks to the Wall Street firms he once criticized.
Forbes estimated that the Obamas are now worth more than $135 million.
And Obama gets an annual pension of $207,800.
Every day is Christmas when you leave the White House the way the Clintons and the Obamas did. Trump should be so lucky.
Go into politics, the dividends are enormous once you get to be a member of the ruling elite.
To be fair, michelle needs a lot of makeup artists, groomers and farriers.
Then you got the jockey to take her out for exercise, stable expenses, feed...I mean it really adds up.
Kind of surprised this was published in Lowell, MA.
When remembering the original image of his emperor-ship,
this one comes close. It does lack the tilt by a few
degrees. His nostrils were open doors which could easily be
viewed by overhead passengers.
To find him extracting nose hairs must be an explosive event. :-/
BILL SPEAKING FEES
(HAT TIP COUNTRECOUNT) The Clinton Foundation goes WAY BEYOND the Foundation with multiple foundations and shell companies.
The list of 48 “Foundations/shell companies owned by Clintons each with a fund-raising mechanism:
A) Clinton Bush Haiti Fund registered 1/28/10 and dissolved 12/27/12
B) Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI)
C) Clinton Development Initiative (CDI)
D) Clinton Family Foundation: in NY registered in 2001
E) Clinton Foundation: in AR registered 1998
F) Clinton Foundation: in Hong Kong registered 2014
G) Clinton Foundation: in Haiti
H) Clinton Foundation: registered to this address in Sweden: Birger Jarlsgatan 55, Stockholm, SW 11145
I) Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CFHAI): bogus co. run under CF
J) Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP): in Canada (Frank Giustra) many connections here.
K) Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI)
L) Clinton Global Citizens Award (CGCA)
M) Clinton Global Initiative (CGI): in AR registered 2005
N) Clinton Global Initiative Asia (CFIA)
O) Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU)
P) Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): total fuckery on back-dating this one, but claim to be around since 2002. Registration in MA not until 2009
Q) Clinton Health Matter Initiative (CHMI)
R) Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CSBI)
S) Clinton Institute (CI)
T) Clinton Small Business Initiative (CSBI)
U) Ciudad Verde Amarilo Triada Frailejon III: in Bogota
S) Clinton Institute (CI)
T) Clinton Small Business Initiative (CSBI)
U) Ciudad Verde Amarilo Triada Frailejon III: in Bogota
Y) The Clinton Initiatives (TCI)
Z) The Clinton Museum Store (TCMS)
AA) William J. Clinton Foundation (Kenya) Charity Trust: in Nairobi
BB) William J. Clinton Foundation UK: in London – dissolved on 10/10/17
CC) William J. Clinton Foundation (WJCF)
DD) William J. Clinton Presidential Center (CPC)
EE) WJC Investments (William Jefferson Clinton, for profit)
FF) WJC LLC (William Jefferson Clinton, for profit)
GG) Too Small to Fail
HH) Onward Together: Hillary’s most recent scandal
II) Haiti Development Fund LLC: in NY (50% ownership)
JJ) Acceso Fund LLC: in NY (50% ownership)
KK) Acceso Ofertal Local: in Colombia (fruit/veg supply)
LL) Acacia Development CO: in NY (investment)
MM) Acceso Worldwide Fund Inc.: in NY (investment)
NN) Fondo Acceso Sas: in Colombia – subsidiary of Acceso Fund LLC
OO) Acceso Cashew Enterprise Ltd: in Maharashtra IN (cashew co)
PP) Tukula Farmin Company Ltd: operates in in Kasungu Malawi and Mchinji
QQ) Moyo Nuts and Seeds Ltd: in Limbe MI
RR) Moyo Development Company: in Africa
SS) Acceso Peanut Enterprise Corp: in Haiti (false address and doesn’t exist)
TT) Acceso Boyaca SA: in Colombia (50% ownership)
UU) Chakipi Acceso SA: in Lima PE (50% ownership)
VV) Ruaha Development Co Ltd: in Upanga Tanzania
Some glaring examples of the Clintons using the Clinton Foundation while she was Secy State Dept to get-rich-quick-—just from foreign entities.
LEGEND-—Donation to Clinton Foundation/Global Initiative (CGI)-—followed by State Dept favor granted in return.
<><> Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi. <$5,000,000 Access to HRC at State Dept. and a $500,000 to the Clintons got environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with Shaikh Abdullah.
<><> Algeria <$500,000 to the Clintons got State Dept clearance for U.S. arms sales to Algeria. Deal included biological and chemical agents.
<><>Australia, Commonwealth of <$75,000,000 to the Clintons got Strong State Dept. for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which stands to be a boon for Australian multinational firms.
<><>Bahrain, Kingdom of <$250,000 to the Clintons got Muted criticism by State of Bahrain’s abysmal human rights practices.
<><>Boeing Corp.<$900,000 to the Clintons got State Dept. clearance for $29 billion arms U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia, including Boeing’s F-15 fighter.
<><>Brunei Darussalam, Sultanate of < $5,000,000 to the Clintons got State Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Brunei.
<><>Cameroon, Republic of <$100,000 to the Clintons got Influence buying by the Cameroon government with the Clinton State Department.
<><>Canada $500,000 donation to the Clintons got for State Dept support for Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, eventually vetoed by Barack Obama.
<><> Chagoury Group <$5,000,000 in cash and a $1,000,000,000 pledge to the Clintons got HRC to delay designating Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization because of Chagoury Group’s investments and operations in Nigeria. Chagoury Group received the “Sustainable Development Award” from the CGI. Chagooury helped the family of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha hide his wealth stolen from Nigeria’s oil revenues.
<><> Confederation of Indian Industry <$1,000,000 to the Clintons got Access for Indian businesses to U.S. government officials.
REALITY CHECK---Do not believe anything the Obamas say about their income. Clearly, they are living large off their "federal inheritance."
<><>The first place Obama visited after exiting office was French Polynesia ---home to offshore banks with numbered accounts;
PIC ----- Then-F/L Michele, her mother and daughters in the Moroccan palace. Look at that smile----Obama gave her $100 million tax dollars "to teach Muslim girls."
AND GET THIS: The $100 mill is to be held by the Chicago-based tax-exempt Obama Foundation, to be doled out when needed (cue laugh machine here).
<><> Like practiced con artists, the Obamas set-up this scam earlier---whining about "teaching Muslim girls, posing a smiling $100 million Michele with the message that costs taxpayers millions of tax dollars.
Ah! You posted the money shot — the most perfect “master of the universe” shot with the multi-national flags behind. That one is precious.
And yes, there’s a real danger of bird nesting. I also worry that bed bugs and fleas will believe the horizongal nose to be a warm two-entrance cave (or igloo), perfect for hatching their young.
<><> The $100 million in the Obamas pockets to (cough) "teach Muslim girls" came out of the Millenium Fund.
<><>Hillary's buddy Sid Blumenthal scored $53 million from the fund for some phony project in Tanzania.
<><>In Oct 2010, then-Secy Clinton awarded Huma Abedin's cousin (one that we know of) $1.25 million for a media technology project. The cousin is now incarcerated for other financial crimes.
OF NOTE---- Records show that Huma's Muslim cousin Omar Amanat and several other Abedin Muslim family members and related Muslim charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Omar Amanat, Abedin's Muslim cousin, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was officially appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as US secretary of state.
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ACTION NOW: Demand the books be opened-----taxpayers demand to know where the Millenium funds are going.
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice Comment Line: 202-353-1555 Switchboard: 202-514-2000
Hillary and Saudi King Abdullah circa 2012.
The Saudis placed multi-million dollar bets on 2016 Hillary to win. They showered the Clintons with petrodollars.
ITEM <><> Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi's $5,000,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation's Global Initiative. got them (A) access to HRC at State Dept, and, (B) a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with UAR's Shaikh Abdullah.
ITEM<><>EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million [VIDEO]
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
ITEM <><> As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole. “These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.
ITEM <><> Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundation’s website. Activist groups have charged the five states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — committed numerous human rights abuses.
ITEM <><>the Saudis helped stage Hillary's election night "victory"---giving her a huge expensive flat screen TV supposedly to air her crashing through a symbolic 500,000 dollar glass ceiling. (This from a kingdom where women are not allowed to drive).
ITEM <><> Several Persian Gulf states contributed millions to the Clinton presidential library in Arkansas.
ITEM<><> Saudi Arabia Funded 20% Of Hillary's Presidential Campaign, / Zerohedge ^ | Jun 14, 2016| Tyler Durden / FR Posted by xzins
(NOTE: It is illegal in the United States for foreign countries to influence the outcome of elections by funding candidates. That appears not to have stopped the Saudis, however.)
“Saudi Arabia provided with full enthusiasm 20 percent of the cost of Hillary Clinton’s election"......the report quoted Saudi Prince Mohammed as having said. According to the US Federal Election commission, over the past two years Clinton has raised a little more than $211.8 million. 20% of this sum is $42.4 million. The Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday that the senior royal was due to fly to Washington where he will meet Obama admin officials to discuss US-Saudi ties. --SNIP--
ITEM<><> Links between Saudi Arabia and the Clinton family, including with Hillary’s campaign, are well reported. In 2008, it was revealed that the Gulf kingdom had donated between $10m and $25m to the Clinton Foundation, a charity set up by Hillary’s husband and former US President Bill Clinton.
ITEM<><> Last year the Centre for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court paid public relations firm the Podesta Group $200,000 for a month- long project to provide “public relations services”. The Podesta Group was founded in 1988 by brothers John and Tony Podesta. John Podesta is the chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
Saudi Royals greet then-Secy Hillary (she checks to make sure she's on-camera). The suck-up begins.
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LOL......good one.
Do the Obamas hope to colonize the Muslim world?
Why are they spending such money on merely educating girls in another culture? Why don't they spend that money to ensure neigborhoods of Chicago are not infested with gun fights and murders?
If I was a Muslim, I'd say: fix your own slums in Chicago. When you accomplish that, then maybe you can "teach" us something.
Truth be told, this is another method of extortion. The Moroccan King agreed to pay $12 million of the Clinton Foundation, and in return Obama makes sure the Obama Foundation is awarded a $100 million grant to spend as it so chooses on "education" of Muslim girls.
Morocco's "Donation": Was it to Keep Hillary's Laughing Hyenas at Bay? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3483576/posts
It literally is the Obama/Clinton tag team of taxpayer ripoff, foreign government extortion, and criminal wealth creation. The Mafia has been surpassed. This is perhaps the most successful criminal organization the world has ever seen.
P.S. Love the Clinton photo with the Saudi prince -- that golden ball in the background is precious!
Obamas’s Up game in 3 card Monte and shell game sucker line long.
You nailed it beautifully. Love the "Obama/Clinton criminal tag team.....LOL.
WIKILEAKS: HILLARY GOT $12M FOR CLINTON CHARITY AS QUID PRO QUO FOR MOROCCO CGI MEETING
Richard Pollock | Daily Caller Reporter
SOURCE https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/20/wikileaks-hillary-got-12-million-for-clinton-charity-as-quid-pro-quo-for-morocco-meeting/
WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton (2nd R) and US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (2nd L) greet His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco (R), and his sister, Her Royal Highness Lalla Meryem (L), at the North Portico of the White House 20 June 2000 in Washington, DC. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO/Tim SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arranged a $12 million donation from Moroccan King Mohammed VI to her family’s charity in 2014 in return for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) hosting its international meeting in the North African Muslim nation, according to an email made public by Wikileaks. The Moroccan monarch’s funds went to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment and to CGI. The Jan. 18, 2015, email was included in Wikileaks’ latest batch of communications to and from Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta.
The email from Huma Abedin, Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff at the State Department, was addressed to Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook. Hillary Clinton was a director of the Clinton Foundation at the time. Singapore and Hong Kong officials reportedly were also vying to convene the CGI meeting in their countries, but the North African nation ultimately hosted it in a five-star hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2015. Abedin told Podesta and Mook that Morocco was not CGI’s “first choice.”
The actual meeting was paid for by OCP, the Moroccan-government-owned mining company that has been accused of serious human rights violations. Clinton vigorously supported the Moroccan King when she was Secretary of State and the U.S.-financed Export-Import Bank gave OCP a $92 million loan guarantee during her tenure as Secretary of State. The mining company also contributed between $5 million to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the charity’s web site.
Abedin described the arrangement in the email as having been organized by her boss. Hillary Clinton “created this mess and she knows it,” she told Podesta and Mook. She said the Moroccan deal was entirely dreamed up by her boss. “This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.” HRC stands for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Abedin said Clinton’s attendance at the CGI event was a condition of the $12 million contribution. “Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter,” Abedin said. Politico in 2015 reported that Clinton “was seen by Rabat as among its most ardent supporters in the Obama administration.” Rabat is the capital of Morocco. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice charged OCP with “serious human rights violations,” including exploitation of workers by not “adequately compensating the impoverished people who live there.”
Mohamed Yeslem Beisat, the Washington envoy for the Polisaro Front, as reportedby AL-Monitor, a Middle East news site in 2015 that “OCP is the first beneficiary of the war and the first beneficiary of the occupation — it is the one that is cashing in on the misery of thousands of refugees and hundreds of political detainees for the past 40 years.” Polisaro claims to lead a Moroccan government-in-exile based in Tindouf, Algeria. “They’re doing this because they know Hillary has some chances of being president of the United States. And they want her to support their brutal occupation of Western Sahara,” Beisat charged.
The Moroccan firm mines phosphates. Human rights critics have called OCP’s mining product “blood phosphates,” appropriating the term “blood diamonds” for gems mined in operations that kill and injure local workers OCP is not the only mining company linked to human rights violations that has donated to the Clinton Foundation. The foundation accepted a $100 million pledge from Lukas Lundin, who owns mining and oil drilling operations in North Africa and in the Congo.
(RELATED LINK: Clinton Foundation Got $100M From ‘Blood Minerals’ Firm)
OCP retained the law firm of Covington & Burling, one of Washington’s lobbying giants, paying the firm $1.4 million in fees from 2012 to 2015. Stuart Eizenstat, a former White House domestic policy chief under President Carter and an influential Democratic Party insider, was the main lobbyist for the mining firm. He was also President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the European Union, a Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary at the Department of Commerce.
Eizenstat specialized in foreign trade issues at Commerce where he worked in the International Trade Administration. Hillary Clinton officially visited Morocco twice, in November 2009 and in February 2012, meeting with the King on both occasions. The two also met in New York in December 2013 where it was believed the two discussed Morocco’s bid to host the CGI meeting and the King’s $12 million donation. The Moroccan World News described the meeting as showing “renewed friendship between the royal family and the Clinton family, as well as Hillary Clinton’s esteem for Morocco and its people.”
Abedin warned both campaign executives that if CGI decided to renege on the agreement, it would hurt Clinton’s relationship with the King. “It will break a lot of china to back out now,” she wrote. Ultimately, Clinton did not attend the meeting because it was close to the launch of her presidential campaign, but the former president and daughter Chelsea were present and during the conference were guests at one of the Moroccan King’s palaces.
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