Merry Christmas from Donald Trump

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When Barack Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005, he was a 43-year old former law professor making $85,000 a year. In the 12 years since then, he won the White House, reworked the nation’s laws, ended two wars—and earned $20 million.

The former president didn’t waste much time capitalizing on his story once he got to the nation’s capital. In January 2005, the same month he joined the Senate, he got approval from its ethics committee for a $1.9 million advance against royalties with Random House for two non-fiction books and one children’s book.

The Obamas, who had earned less than $300,000 every year from 2000 to 2004, made an average of $2.4 million annually over the next four years, even before Barack got elected president. In the early stage of his Senate career, Michelle continued to work as the vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She earned $317,000 in 2005 and $274,000 in 2006 before her earnings tapered off in 2007 and 2008 as her husband ran for president. In 2005 and 2006, she served on the board of publicly traded TreeHouse Foods, earning more than $80,000.
Then came the big money. In the two weeks before he was inaugurated as the 44th president, Obama reworked his book deals. He agreed not to publish another non-fiction book during his time in office, while signing a $500,000 advance for a young adult version of Dreams From My Father. He also finished the manuscript for Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, which was eventually published in November 2010. He donated all post-tax profits from the children’s book to provide scholarships for children of wounded and fallen soldiers.

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Isn't it funny how we know what the Obamas and Clintons made before, during and after their presidencies since THEY RELEASE THEIR TAX RETURNS. Trump has never released his, any of them. When you have nothing to hide you're willing to provide the information. Making money from speaking engagements and books after office is also very different than Trump making money from foreign governments staying at his properties or greasing the palms of the Saudis so he can build golf courses or the Chinese so Ivanka can sell more crap there.

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No obsession, just the facts.

No, no one cares what the Clintons have made except you obsessed folk. They're not in the WH. Cheetolini is.

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Isn't it funny how we know what the Obamas and Clintons made before, during and after their presidencies since THEY RELEASE THEIR TAX RETURNS. Trump has never released his, any of them. When you have nothing to hide you're willing to provide the information. Making money from speaking engagements and books after office is also very different than Trump making money from foreign governments staying at his properties or greasing the palms of the Saudis so he can build golf courses or the Chinese so Ivanka can sell more crap there.

The Washington Examiner got its hands on emails showing that the Clinton Foundation sought ties with Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg at a time when he was in charge of an important element of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "Russian reset."

Hillary helped create "a major technology transfer initiative" that "may have substantially undermined U.S. national security," according to Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the author of " Clinton Cash."

Part of the "reset" was the creation of "Skolkovo," an industrial enclave near Moscow that was to become a kind of Russian Silicon Valley. The idea was to encourage U.S. firms to help out with both technology and investment, in exchange for market access.

Despite warnings from both the FBI and her own State Department about the possibility of Russia getting access to militarily sensitive technologies, Hillary went ahead with the program. Why?

At the time, Vekselberg -- head of the Skolkovo Foundation and a pal of Vladimir Putin -- was also a contributor to the Clinton Foundation. These ties later proved quite lucrative, with 17 of the 28 American companies that participated in the Skolkovo project also being donors to the Clinton Foundation.

All the way back in 2010, as Skolkovo was getting underway, former President Bill Clinton traveled to Russia to deliver a speech for which he was paid $500,000 by a mysterious Russian investment bank named "Renaissance Capital." While there he met with a variety of movers and shakers, including Vekselberg.

With the Clintons, one hand always washes the other.

Now that it has been revealed that thousands of emails on Hillary's unsecured home-brew server have been intentionally destroyed, it is certainly fitting to wonder whether damning or incriminating evidence about the Clinton Foundation and its ties to Hillary's office at the State Department was destroyed.

The U.S. State Department used to be known for its high-toned and principled stands in defense of U.S. foreign-policy goals and interests. But today, after two Democratic leaders, it appears to be more of a revolving door for crony capitalists.

We would hope Congress would continue to investigate the email scandal and what appears to be rampant abuse of office that has taken place at the State Department over the past eight years. Such clear conflicts of interest used to raise political hackles.

Congress should, at minimum, make sure that future secretaries of state no longer abuse their office to personally enrich their families and friends. Anything less is to condone criminality.

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Isn't it funny how we know what the Obamas and Clintons made before, during and after their presidencies since THEY RELEASE THEIR TAX RETURNS. Trump has never released his, any of them. When you have nothing to hide you're willing to provide the information. Making money from speaking engagements and books after office is also very different than Trump making money from foreign governments staying at his properties or greasing the palms of the Saudis so he can build golf courses or the Chinese so Ivanka can sell more crap there.

More than $9 million of State Department money made its way through the Peace Corps to the nonprofit started by Dr. Vanessa Kerry, John Kerry's daughter. And the money was handed out without competition.

Kerry's nonprofit, Seed Global Health, got its first contract in 2012. Yes, that was when Hillary was still in office. But John Kerry then was a senator who headed the Committee on Foreign Relations, which is charged with overseeing both the State Department and the Peace Corps.

There is a clear conflict of interest there.

That's bad enough. But last year, in September, the Seed group got a four-year extension on its deal while John Kerry was secretary of state.

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Isn't it funny how we know what the Obamas and Clintons made before, during and after their presidencies since THEY RELEASE THEIR TAX RETURNS. Trump has never released his, any of them. When you have nothing to hide you're willing to provide the information. Making money from speaking engagements and books after office is also very different than Trump making money from foreign governments staying at his properties or greasing the palms of the Saudis so he can build golf courses or the Chinese so Ivanka can sell more crap there.

The size and scope of the symbiotic relationship between the Clintons and their donors is striking. At least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department when Hillary Clinton ran the place, according to a Vox analysis of foundation records and federal lobbying disclosures.

The following chart shows entities that donated to the foundation and lobbied the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure. The totals include funding for the foundation from both corporate and charitable arms of listed companies that lobbied State, even though the charities themselves don't necessarily lobby. One exception: The Gates Foundation, co-chaired by Microsoft co-founder and board member Bill Gates, is not Microsoft's charitable arm (that's another group) and does not register to lobby. The chart does not account for contributions made by execu

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No, no one cares what the Clintons have made except you obsessed folk. They're not in the WH. Cheetolini is.

Lock her up!!!!

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The Washington Examiner got its hands on emails showing that the Clinton Foundation sought ties with Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg at a time when he was in charge of an important element of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "Russian reset."

Hillary helped create "a major technology transfer initiative" that "may have substantially undermined U.S. national security," according to Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the author of " Clinton Cash."

Part of the "reset" was the creation of "Skolkovo," an industrial enclave near Moscow that was to become a kind of Russian Silicon Valley. The idea was to encourage U.S. firms to help out with both technology and investment, in exchange for market access.

Despite warnings from both the FBI and her own State Department about the possibility of Russia getting access to militarily sensitive technologies, Hillary went ahead with the program. Why?

At the time, Vekselberg -- head of the Skolkovo Foundation and a pal of Vladimir Putin -- was also a contributor to the Clinton Foundation. These ties later proved quite lucrative, with 17 of the 28 American companies that participated in the Skolkovo project also being donors to the Clinton Foundation.

All the way back in 2010, as Skolkovo was getting underway, former President Bill Clinton traveled to Russia to deliver a speech for which he was paid $500,000 by a mysterious Russian investment bank named "Renaissance Capital." While there he met with a variety of movers and shakers, including Vekselberg.

With the Clintons, one hand always washes the other.

Now that it has been revealed that thousands of emails on Hillary's unsecured home-brew server have been intentionally destroyed, it is certainly fitting to wonder whether damning or incriminating evidence about the Clinton Foundation and its ties to Hillary's office at the State Department was destroyed.

The U.S. State Department used to be known for its high-toned and principled stands in defense of U.S. foreign-policy goals and interests. But today, after two Democratic leaders, it appears to be more of a revolving door for crony capitalists.

We would hope Congress would continue to investigate the email scandal and what appears to be rampant abuse of office that has taken place at the State Department over the past eight years. Such clear conflicts of interest used to raise political hackles.

Congress should, at minimum, make sure that future secretaries of state no longer abuse their office to personally enrich their families and friends. Anything less is to condone criminality.

The washington examiner is the breitbart of "newspapers". Truly Fakenews.

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Lock him up

Lock her up!!!!

Yeah, who's doing official government business on unsecured phone lines? They should lock that guy up fur shur. What's that? Mueller Time!

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Yeah, who's doing official government business on unsecured phone lines? They should lock that guy up fur shur. What's that? Mueller Time!

Mueller is collecting a whopper of a paycheck for doing absolutely nothing. We should sue Sessions for neglect of duty and Mueller for grand larceny. A few fall guys unrelated to anything to do with what they were hired. If he felt like it, he could bring down Clinton and every member of co guess as well. But that wouldn’t fit the narrative.

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Mueller is collecting a whopper of a paycheck for doing absolutely nothing. We should sue Sessions for neglect of duty and Mueller for grand larceny. A few fall guys unrelated to anything to do with what they were hired. If he felt like it, he could bring down Clinton and every member of co guess as well. But that wouldn’t fit the narrative.

Mueller is quietly putting the finishing touches on his report, to be delivered after the midterm. It will help put the nail on the coffin of the Trump administration and family.

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Mueller is quietly putting the finishing touches on his report, to be delivered after the midterm. It will help put the nail on the coffin of the Trump administration and family.

If he had anything, believe you me, it would be released before midterms. If he waits until after (which it’s obvious he will), it’s because he A) Has nothing and B) Knows that releasing a nothing urgent before midterms would influence the election like no ones business. People would then not believe a single thing the democrats say. His appointment is a Trojan horse to the Democrats. This is not going to end well for them.

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Do you wear sunglasses at night?

Stop it. You are not Impeaching Kavanaugh, unless you can come up with a bit more than a " recovered memory"
You are not replacing the Judges appointed for Life, unless they commit a crime. They are spread out, all over the country, ready to address many issues that will come before them.

Dems have been investigation since Day One. Even before je was elected. The only cockroaches around are those Democrats that have been selling the " Russian Collusion...no wait, obstruction..no wait...where's that clear evidence Adam...you said it was there?

Tax Returns ? The IRS has had them all along. All of them. So far, no charges, not even a whiff, and not too long ago the IRS was knee deep in treating Conservatives not so kind. Ask Lois Lerner.

Just like everything the MSM feeds you, there isn't anything there. No collusion, no obstruction, no tax fraud, no crimes at all. Nothing. So the Dems will keep wasting the taxpayer's money , come up wit the next " smoking gun " like the missing National Enquirer safe. Lanny Davis said the goods are there.

You Democrats just can't ever admit that you took a beating. It HAD to be someone else, something else...

Where did it say impeach? (usual GOP reading ... add words to sentences to make them appear the way you think they should)

If I remember correctly... Lying Donald tRUMP insisted that his tax returns were being audited and could not be released.... what a dope... now they can... or was he lying?

MSM? what is that? I watch BBC News they tell it the way it is... and they seem to disagree with you re tax fraud, crimes etc... Re collusion there is a suspicion growing that tRUMP was not directly involved in the Russian Collusion but his family were. Watch him throw them under the bus.

My cockroach comment seems to have hit a nerve :) :)

The difference between Dems and Republickasses -- Dems investigate then talk... Repubs talk (actually usually lie) then investigate partially ... {Evidence the Nunes "Investigation"}

and finally .... you are mixing up beating with cheating... wear sunglasses if you don't like the light

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When Barack Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005, he was a 43-year old former law professor making $85,000 a year. In the 12 years since then, he won the White House, reworked the nation’s laws, ended two wars—and earned $20 million.

The former president didn’t waste much time capitalizing on his story once he got to the nation’s capital. In January 2005, the same month he joined the Senate, he got approval from its ethics committee for a $1.9 million advance against royalties with Random House for two non-fiction books and one children’s book.

The Obamas, who had earned less than $300,000 every year from 2000 to 2004, made an average of $2.4 million annually over the next four years, even before Barack got elected president. In the early stage of his Senate career, Michelle continued to work as the vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She earned $317,000 in 2005 and $274,000 in 2006 before her earnings tapered off in 2007 and 2008 as her husband ran for president. In 2005 and 2006, she served on the board of publicly traded TreeHouse Foods, earning more than $80,000.
Then came the big money. In the two weeks before he was inaugurated as the 44th president, Obama reworked his book deals. He agreed not to publish another non-fiction book during his time in office, while signing a $500,000 advance for a young adult version of Dreams From My Father. He also finished the manuscript for Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, which was eventually published in November 2010. He donated all post-tax profits from the children’s book to provide scholarships for children of wounded and fallen soldiers.

There's more, much more from Forbes

Way too funny ... in a response to the post re tRUMP being a liar... you start your response "When Barack Obama"... thanks I knew I could I stop reading at that point.

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Since Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001, they have turned political fame into a personal fortune, raking in more than $240 million, according to a FORBES analysis of 15 years of their tax returns.

Bill made most of the money, earning $189 million by writing books, giving speeches, consulting private companies and advising billionaire Ron Burkle. Days after his presidency ended, he earned $125,000 for a speech at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. in New York, according to a financial disclosure form Hillary filed as a senator in 2002. It was the first of hundreds of paid speeches that collectively made him an estimated $106 million over 15 years.

In 2004 he published his bestselling memoir My Life, one of the former president’s four titles. Clinton earned an estimated $38 million as an author from 2001 to 2015.

Way too funny ... in a response to the post re tRUMP being a liar... you start your response "Since Bill and Hillary Clinton...."... thanks I knew I could I stop reading at that point.

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Forrest Gump Rides Again...

Mueller is collecting a whopper of a paycheck for doing absolutely nothing. We should sue Sessions for neglect of duty and Mueller for grand larceny. A few fall guys unrelated to anything to do with what they were hired. If he felt like it, he could bring down Clinton and every member of co guess as well. But that wouldn’t fit the narrative.

Mueller is in net profit land.... and I would certainly invest in his stock were he to be a company {hey why not? companies are people after all, according to the Republickass members of SCOTUS}
Re Sessions and Mueller being locked up ... I partially agree... you can never really trust those Republicans types

co guess = Congress? Actually fits your narrative well ... stupid is as stupid writes