Mar-A-Lago Bilks US $900K

[Gun Smoke]

But you don't like it when Trump makes money and uses a legitimate place of business at that.

How did obama get 12M? Line of credit? Now you're talking about fiction. Obama is unemployed.

Plus 12M was just the purchase price---he would need much more to maintain the house and lifestyle.

Still no answer?

[S.A. Boggs]

Did he pay cash like Trump, laundering Russian money, or take a mortgage? The guy drew a nice salary for 12 years of government work, wrote a book, probably got good financial advice, etc. Former Presidents don't hurt for connections. A $12M place is easily within reach.

I know a guy with a family member who is an executive in a startup company, based in Janesville, WI, Paul Ryan's old district. The people running the company do not have Paul Ryan politics, but nonetheless they put him on their Board of Directors. When this guy asked, "Paul Ryan...why?" The answer was, "he knows so many people, can open so many doors.". If that's true of Paul Ryan, it is 100X more true of Obama. And as legal for Obama as it is for any Republican former government official.

Apparently Chinese, just like Biden did.
Sam

[togor]

But you don't like it when Trump makes money and uses a legitimate place of business at that.

How did obama get 12M? Line of credit? Now you're talking about fiction. Obama is unemployed.

Plus 12M was just the purchase price---he would need much more to maintain the house and lifestyle.

Still no answer?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathlee.../#29def2df3167

It's called a mortgage. Ever hear of one of those? Obamas put about 35% down on a property that had been marked down a few times and on the market for awhile, such that they got it at a 21% discount. "Former President Discount" or just good bargaining by the Obamas? Doesn't matter, sides came to terms honestly.

They got a $65M advance on their book. Will the publisher make money? I don't know, and it's not my business to know. But a $7M housing mortgage against that advance, doesn't look like they need to hock themselves to the Russians to cover their cash flow problems does it.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/2/14779892/barack-michelle-obama-65-million-book-deal-penguin-random-house

If you push on beyond this it's just bloody-minded trolling.

[Gun Smoke]

The muslim version of mein kampf probably.

[Johnny P]

Everyone politely and quietly put up with 8 years of do nothing Obama whose most notable achievement was doubling the national debt with NOTHING to show for it except more people on the government dole. It wouldn't have mattered who the President was, being a Republican is enough for the snails to come out from under their manure pile to cry about how bad the President is.

[Vern Humphrey]

Everyone politely and quietly put up with 8 years of do nothing Obama whose most notable achievement was doubling the national debt with NOTHING to show for it except more people on the government dole. It wouldn't have mattered who the President was, being a Republican is enough for the snails to come out from under their manure pile to cry about how bad the President is.

It's what they do. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, skunks gotta stink and liberals gotta lie.

[togor]

Yeah those were 8 polite and quiet years alright. In whose imagination? I was here, on the forum, and well, planet earth too 8 years of nonstop bitching, more like it. Happiest 8 years of this forum!!

[rayg]

Yeah those were 8 polite and quiet years alright. . Happiest 8 years of this forum!!

Hold on!...It's the Dem's making all the negative and unpolite noise not the Replub's. As every one knows the Dem's couldn't accept Trumps win and began all their sore loser noise...So Blame the Dem's for change not the Repub's ..

[Major Tom]

Don't forget O'Bama sending hundreds of million dollars to support terroism in the mid east.
Don't forget all and many luxury world wide vacations the O'Bamas enjoyed on the tax payer money.
900,00 is a drop in the ocean compared to what the O'Bamas wasted.

[togor]

That's a picture drawn with a pretty dull crayon.

[togor]

Hold on!...It's the Dem's making all the negative and unpolite noise not the Replub's. As every one knows the Dem's couldn't accept Trumps win and began all their sore loser noise...So Blame the Dem's for change not the Repub's ..

Right...all the posts here comparing Obama's wife to a bovine farm animal were tastefully done. Or Obama to a chimpanzee. You want to believe conservatives were polite in the Obama era, when you ought to know better.

Now...Obama is polite. To a fault, some say, but he is. Trump is not polite, and sees that as part of his charm, and so does the base! So, an impolite opposition for an impolite president in an impolite era. Sorry but conservatives can claim no virtue advantage whatsoever.

[rayg]

[I]say again..Hold on!...It's the Dem's making all the negative and unpolite noise not the Replub's. As every one knows the Dem's couldn't accept Trumps win and began all their sore loser noise...So Blame the Dem's for a change not the Repub's ..
As it's the truth....no matter how you try to duck it...

[togor]

Let's do the experiment in 2021, Biden wins and Republicans become the polite and loyal opposition. Sounds good to me.

[rayg]

Let's do the experiment in 2021, Biden wins and Republicans become the polite and loyal opposition. Sounds good to me.

No matter who ever won before even if a Dem....The Repub's were never a nasty as the Dem's now are or were ever before...You don't live in the real world or you're getting paid not to...Lol.

[Johnny P]

Yeah those were 8 polite and quiet years alright. In whose imagination? I was here, on the forum, and well, planet earth too 8 years of nonstop bitching, more like it. Happiest 8 years of this forum!!

Are you equating bitching to rioting, looting, and burning down neighborhoods? That make you happy?