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Obama's mystery fee for Italy speech renews debate over lucrative lecturing by ex-presidents
Fox News ^ | 05/11/2017

Posted on 05/11/2017 8:51:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Obama took heat from friend and foe alike by signing on for a pair of speeches at $400,000 apiece, but a mystery fee for a climate change address in Milan this week could leave those deals in the dust.

Neither Team Obama nor Seeds & Chips, the organization hosting the May 8-11 Italian summit, will say how much Obama is getting paid. That prompted wild speculation from one publication, which did a back-of-the-napkin estimation that put Obama's payment at a potential $3.2 million.

While that number appears to have been the total cost for all 3,500 tickets to the event on how food innovation can save humanity from climate change, which went for 850 euros, or $925, a piece, it still leaves open the question of how much Obama got.

The Express replaced its previous piece with an updated story that made no mention of any speaking fee, and representatives for the former president did not return Fox News’ request for comment. Michela Gelati -- a spokesperson for Seeds & Chips, -- told Fox News that they did not have the information.

The secrecy surrounding the ex-president's potential payday comes after he raised eyebrows by striking two lucrative deals that seemed to contradict his image as a champion of the 99 percent. Fox Business Network broke a story in late April about the $400,000 he’ll pull in this upcoming September for a talk on health care at a Wall Street conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald, a big Wall Street firm.

“With regard to this or any speech involving Wall Street sponsors, I'd just point out that in 2008 Barack Obama raised more money from Wall Street than any candidate in history

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; obamaspeech; pieobama; speakingfee

1 posted on 05/11/2017 8:51:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 05/11/2017 9:03:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wonder how Algore feels about the newbie horning in on his 15 trillion climate change shell game and con ?


3 posted on 05/11/2017 9:06:11 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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The puppets, al gore and obama, get millions from their puppet masters anyhow-—whether they “speak” or not, never matters for their multi-million dollar lifestyles. They have secret bank accounts and $500,000 dollars is nothing for the Deep State which steals trillions from taxpayers every year for over the last 100 years so they could get total control over all our institutions, churches, media, etc-—which they almost have. (Internet is their last little obstacle but the Deep State’s little butt boys, google, youtube, twitter, et. al, . are all working hard to get total control of all content on the web. At least enough so that the useful idiots-—vast masses—can be manipulated and the Deep State can control all their perceptions and all their emotions and desires.

Once that happens, nothing else matters. We will all be slaves. The psychopathic sodomites will have total lock grip (mind control) over every single person in the world and all children. Those who aren’t controlled will be targeted and destroyed— picked off the way they did Charles Lindburgh’ dad, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, —anyone who blocks their Jekyll Is. Luciferean, Malthusian (nihilist) agenda.


4 posted on 05/11/2017 9:30:31 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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Ummmm.....okay...


5 posted on 05/11/2017 9:51:24 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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we need to have it illegal for politicians to take money as speaking fees starting 5 years before they take office and ten years after they leave office.... the ex-presidents should be given an increased retirement package and banned doing any financial activities....its the cash that politicians get from speaking fees and book deals that is corrupting politicians and ruining this country.


6 posted on 05/11/2017 10:25:35 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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