breaking news: trump indicted

Net worth of $70 million from books. More likely a way to funnel money for influence peddling. Slicker than Joe. This country has become very corrupt.

Your point is stupid and irrelevant, and as someone else noted, you shouldn't be engaged because you are stupid and irrelevant as well, but to help you out in your weirdo decision to figure out Obama's net worth, his standard speaking fee is $400,000/engagement.

What you SHOULD be doing is contemplating why someone would store Top Secret classified documents in their baffroom. That's the real mystery here, that none of us have solved.

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Do you have your head so far up that the $400,000 is more about influence peddling than any value from a speech? You really can’t possibly be that naive. Hey its your crap hole country. I’m on the closer side to checking out.

"Influence peddling" is a pretty meaningless allegation unless you have a link to what he influenced as President for the entities that gave him deals after his presidency. I doubt you'll come up with anything. And if you don't, then there is nothing corrupt about being famous and getting paid to write about it and speak about it or make comments about media projects.

Just your average book writer and speaker. Community organizer moves up to the east side, dumped Chicago at first chance. Must have been the murder rate.

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Obama house: tour Barack and Michelle's new Martha's Vineyard home

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The Obama house, on a 29-acre estate, has 7 bedrooms and 8 and a half bathrooms

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And again, I must bow to the king of parody!

You are my idol.

Learned how to cash in from his former boss:

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All of Joe Biden's Homes, In Photos

The Bidens are moving into America's grandest home today, but they already have an impressive real estate portfolio of their own.

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You left out the part about former President of United States. So, no, not "just your average book writer and speaker."

In all due respect, I think you are in over your head and may want to reconsider something like this in the future.

Meanwhile liberal administered cities becomes centers of corruption, crime, filth, homelessness, drug proliferation, immigration sanctuaries, and crappy public schools. Minorities are shackled to a corrupt system that pays them off for votes.

I'm not sure you know what influence peddling means. I think you're the only person who has ever confused or conflated "influence peddling" with a public speech.

The $400,000 is a speaking fee for a global celebrity. Nothing underhanded about it. The value/fee is calculated by the market. Trump pulls over $1 million for speeches at times. The only ones influenced are those in willing attendance, and nothing is peddled.

That doesn't even make sense, so I'm done for the night after pointing out that you left out a lot of his resume that makes his value much higher than 'former community organizer'. Yeah, he also left Chicago. Trump left Queens. I left Wisconsin. People move, especially as their life circumstances change. Do you live where you lived 20 years ago?

One of the reasons I voted for Obama the first time around. Unfortunately became another victim of permanent Washington. The wealth is too much of a draw.

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Obama Cracks Down On Influence Peddling

When President Obama was campaigning for the job, he promised to change the culture of lobbying and influence peddling in Washington. Bob Kaiser is a senior correspondent with The Washington Post and the author of the book So...

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I am out on this thread. I do think 2024 will be decided on what happens in the economy than anything. Good night, and best wishes in the future.

My apologies, this came out late tonight. Perhaps the trigger for the Trump indictment. Biden payment records sent to House Oversight Committee members last month. That and the SCIF viewing of FBI whistleblower previously reported. Now I am out. Explain away how this is normal.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bank-Memorandum-5.10.23.pdf

As opposed to the conservative administered cities? Oh wait, there are none

So, we have Trump inciting his Truth social base to descend on the courthouse to cause chaos at his indictment. (totally normal stuff for a President of the United State btw). And this will happen in a state with a right wing wannabe fascist-lite governor. This governor instituted a law that says that if you run over any protesters with your car, you cant be held responsible. The governor had in mind that these protesters would be dark skinned protesters against him and his policies and not white Red Cap wearing protesters that are his potential voters.

But now Trump is an enemy to DeSantis and silently would love to see Trump taken out as a candidate. But he needs the support of the Red Cap crowd.

Quite the conundrum isn't it.

As a side point. Did you take a moment to look at the insides of Mar A Lago in those pictures of the secret document boxes in the bathroom and ballroom?

Holy sh!t. I have never been in Mar A Lago of course, but those pictures present the place as 100% Trumpian. A rat infested dive with gaudy chandeliers and decor attempting to be dressed up as something Rich and opulent. Fake, fake, fake. Trump is fake billionaire, conman living in a run down Wedding convention building.

How in the hell did 30% of the country fall into the belief that he is a savy billionaire that had the ability to run this country? Like many have said. Trump is Trump. If you want to look at the stain of Trump on this country and find responsibility. You must look at those that supported him and still do to this day. Trump is a reflection on his supporters.

(1) My one big question is why did Trump fight so hard and take such risks not to release these documents. What likely nefarious purpose could he have.

(2) The sweet irony about this. Trump's whole life he escaped accountability by understanding how not to leave any paper trail that would lead back and implicate him. But now his greatest undoing, is this very behavior of hiding any paper trail.