Obama Goes Full Clinton Foundation With Series Of $400,000 Wall Street Speeches

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Sep 18, 2017.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Obama Goes Full Clinton Foundation With Series Of $400,000 Wall Street Speeches


    For a man who once criticized the Clinton Foundation for taking millions of dollars in 'donations' from Wall Street "Fat Cats," Obama seems to be in a rush to replicate the lucrative Clinton scam via his very own Obama Foundation. As Bloomberg points out this morning, since leaving office in January, Obama has already collected millions in speaking fees from the same Wall Street banks that may have cost Hillary her shot at the White House.


    Last month, just before her book “What Happened” was published, Barack Obama spoke in New York to clients of Northern Trust Corp. for about $400,000, a person familiar with his appearance said. Last week, he reminisced about the White House for Carlyle Group LP, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, according to two people who were there. Next week, he’ll give a keynote speech at investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s health-care conference.

    Obama is coming to Wall Street less than a year after leaving the White House, following a path that’s well trod and well paid. While he can’t run for president, he continues to be an influential voice in a party torn between celebrating and vilifying corporate power. His new work with banks might suggest which side of the debate he’ll be on and disappoint anyone expecting him to avoid a trap that snared Clinton. Or, as some of his executive friends see it, he’s just a private citizen giving a few paid speeches to other successful people while writing his next book.

    “He was the president of the entire United States -- financial services are under that umbrella,” said former UBS Group AG executive Robert Wolf, an early supporter who joined the Obama Foundation board this year. “He doesn’t look at Wall Street like, ‘Oh, these are individuals who don’t want the best for the country.’ He doesn’t stereotype.”

    Now all he needs to do is use his foundation to raise money for Hurricane Irma victims in Barbuda, use that money to hire his buddies to rebuild the island and then sit back and wait for the kickbacks to roll in...then the transition to the Clinton Foundation will be complete.

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    Of course, as Bloomberg also notes, Obama's speeches previously went unreported for some odd reason. Frankly, we're shocked that these speeches didn't manage to attract the media's attention until now...they must have just missed it.

    Obama’s appearance at the Carlyle conference in Washington was previously unreported. The private equity giant has enjoyed some of the best political connections in the world, with executives and advisers who have included former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet secretaries. Obama discussed his life and the decisions he made in the White House, the people who heard him said. A spokesman for the firm wouldn’t comment.

    Northern Trust is a bank that specializes in wealth management for rich families and services for big funds. The event had gone unreported, but a program accessible on the firm’s website lists Obama alongside executives from Microsoft Corp., IBM and Michael Bloomberg, majority owner of Bloomberg LP.

    Northern Trust, based in Chicago, gave Obama a discount on a $1.32 million loan for a mansion in that city in 2005, after he was elected to the Senate, the Washington Post reported. The rate was changed to account for an offer from another lender, a spokesman for Obama said three years later. Doug Holt, a spokesman for Northern Trust, wouldn’t comment for this story.

    Meanwhile, we're almost certain that Obama will ignore conflict of interest concerns being raised given that he continues to exert his influence in the political world.

    But Jeff Hauser, who studies political corruption as head of the Revolving Door Project in Washington, said Obama should play by the same rules as other politicians because of his ongoing work with the Democratic Party.

    “He’s continuing to exercise the authority,” Hauser said, citing Obama’s support for the party’s redistricting committee and the push he gave Tom Perez in the race to head the Democratic National Committee. If he wants to play a role, “he ought to forgo a few hundred thousand here and maybe a half-million there.”

    “Not everyone’s going to be a Jimmy Carter, who does purely good works after he gets out,” said Sean Coffey, a Democratic donor who chairs the complex litigation group at corporate law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. Obama is used to being criticized, the attorney added. “I don’t think getting any grief for doing this is going to bother him at all.”

    "Not everyone's going to be a Jimmy Carter," indeed.
     
  2. American entrepreneurship ,

    as long as he pays his taxes on that intellectual property.
     
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  3. fhl

    fhl

    Trump made his money selling real estate.

    What did the Clintons sell to make 150million?

    And what is Obama selling?
     
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  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Oh yeah, it's OK when it's a democrat. Downright evil and racist when republican.
     
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  5. Republicans are evil though. Their logo has Satanic stars on it since 2000 when Cheney became president. Cheney has no pulse, literally since his "heart pump" was installed..

    And Ted Cruz is just horrible, nobody and nothing likes the man. His dad shot Lee Harvey to cover up the Kennedy assassination Trump says..

    Mitch McConnell.. and Kellyanne..

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  6. It's not OK to open fake universities and defraud people of their hard earned money.

    you keep on using the word ''racist''. Why is that ?
     
  7. They say racist a lot as they have learned to accuse others of what they are guilty of from Trump. But just a wild theory...

    Trump studied his populist fascism brain voodoo from the master.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
    1990 interview:
    "Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

    When Brenner asked Trump about how he came to possess Hitler's speeches, "Trump hesitated" and then said, "Who told you that?"
     
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  8. Liberals are nothing if not Hypocrites
     
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  9. fhl

    fhl

    The Trump University case was settled before it went to trial without admitting any guilt. He had to do it because it was a Mexican judge.
     
  10. Woohooohoo!!! Hypocrites they say!!

    You guys actually are true believers ain'tcha?. I mean I know a lot of Trump voters but not one voted for him thinking he was a fraction of what he billed himself. Most figured he was a filthy scam artist but they wanted to F up Washington to see if that would help jar the system. The other just had no clue who he was but did not like Hillary.

    But you guys think his is your hero and savior. Humans are amazing. Probably very lucky you never met someone like Jim Jones, you would have been powerless against him.
     
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