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"Barack Obama has lost it. He was asked by a local reporter in Chicago about race relations in America.And on the heels of a sickening video where four black thugs tortured a special needs white man, Obama made an unbelievable statement. Obama claimed that race relations in America are not getting worse.

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During an interview with CBS Chicago’s Jay Levine, President Obama was asked about race relations during his time as POTUS. Levine made the comment that Obama must feel disappointed in the fact that racial tensions have gone downhill. Obama, however, disagreed with this assessment, and said that the only reason we think this is because of social media.

“In part because we see visuals of racial tensions, violence and so forth because of smart phones and the Internet,” the president said.

“What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time. Whether it’s tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook.”

Obama is referring to the horrible live streamed Facebook video of a black woman named Britanny Herring and her three friends torturing a special needs man because he allegedly voted for Donald Trump.

“I think the overall trajectory of race relations in this country is actually very positive,” continued Obama. “It doesn’t mean that all racial problems have gone away. It means that we have the capacity to get better.”

The Facebook Live video rocketed across social media and led the four thugs to be charged with a hate crime. The scene that was broadcast shocked many Americans. A special needs white man was bound, had his hair cut with a knife until his scalp bled, and was forced to drink toilet water while his black captors yelled profanities about Donald Trump and white people.

This video was the most searing example yet of why Americans believe Obama failed miserably at improving race relations. A Pew poll showed 28% of Americans believe Obama tried, but failed, to improve race relations. 25% think he made things worse. That adds up to 53% of Americans judging Obama as a failure on the topic of race relations.

And this video is a great example of why.

The hatred for Trump and his supporters that was broadcast daily by the so-called “mainstream” media – and that Hillary and Obama never really condemned – manifested itself in this attack. When Obama was first elected, many hoped the nation’s first black president would help heal the racial divide. Instead, Obama has acted like a race-baiter-in-chief. He’s wrapped his arms around the controversial Black Lives Matter movement and attacked the police. The nation’s reaction to racial controversies has only become more polarized during his time in office. But like ObamaCare, foreign policy and the economy, Obama has deluded himself into believing he is a grand success on race relations.

The horrific video of a special needs white man being tortured because of his race by four black assailants proves otherwise."

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"Last night in Chicago, Obama was lucky he didn’t throw out his shoulder from patting himself on the back so much.
To paraphrase Dan Hicks in his song: We keep telling you day after day/But you won’t listen, you always stay and stay/How can we miss you when you won’t go away?
How many first-person references did he have to make to himself before he won the bet?
Did you hear him mention “the quiet dignity of working people?”
How the hell would he know? He doesn’t know any working people, except as “deplorables” or “bitter clingers.”

Sadly, Obama forgot to mention so many of his greatest accomplishments:

Fast and Furious … the IRS’s persecution of the Tea Party … millions of illegal aliens on welfare … 333 rounds of golf (and nine days left!), 217 days of vacation (costing $95 million) … the VA … one in 20 adult Americans on “disability” … 95.1 million Americans out of the work force … an additional 10.7 million Americans on food stamps ….

You want more numbers? A health care plan that cost $3,750 in 2015 would cost an average of $5,250 this year. As Dave Barry described the so-called Affordable Care Act: “If you liked your doctor, maybe you’ll like your new doctor.”

“Hello Chicago,” he began. “It’s good to be home.”
Home? His first lie, at 9:02 p.m..
“We have shown the capacity to change.”
As we did on Nov. 8. And now, Jan. 20 will mark the end of an error.

Ten minutes in, he finally got around to blaming Bush. In a rush, Obama mentioned how he “shut down Iran’s nuclear capacity without firing a shot.” Yeah, right.
Then he mentioned “marriage equality.” Perhaps you recall, he was for gay marriage before he was against gay marriage before he was for gay marriage. And last night he took credit for … flip-flopping.
You were supposed to overlook all those little lies. Like his repeated bows to “the rule of law,” as if he and Eric Holder and Lois Lerner and Tim Geithner and the rest of them cared in the slightest about the law.

“We remain the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth.”
No thanks to you, pal.
“The unemployment rate is near a 10-year low.”
That’s because 14.9 million more Americans have given up looking for jobs in his socialist-strangled, red-tape-ruined economy.
At 9:17 p.m. he lamented the fate of the middle class. As if he hasn’t been president for these last eight dismal years.

“We’re going to have to forge a new social safety net.”
We? You’re outta here, bub. Elections have consequences, as somebody once said. Like life, as the Bard would say, a politician’s but a walking shadow that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

“Violent fanatics who claim to speak for Islam.” He still can’t bring himself to call them terrorists. But hey, ISIS is just the junior varsity, right Barry?”
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"The Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. It is livid about the move BOH made on his way out of the Oval Office door.
It says: “His administration just finalized rules to make it easier for the nation’s intelligence agencies to share unfiltered information about innocent people. New rules issued by the Obama administration under Executive Order 12333 will let the NSA—which collects information under that authority with little oversight, transparency, or concern for privacy—share the raw streams of communications it intercepts directly with agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report today by the New York Times.”

This is a turn for the worse. Domestic agencies like the FBI are subject to more privacy protections, including Constitutionally required warrants. Previously, the NSA shared data with these agencies only after it had screened the data, filtering out unnecessary personal information, including about innocent people whose communications were swept up the NSA’s massive surveillance operations."
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"President Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, according to the White House.
Manning was convicted in 2013 of leaking classified information about U.S. national security activities that were later disclosed by WikiLeaks.
The 35-year sentence Manning received was the longest ever imposed for a leak conviction. Manning has already served seven years of her sentence and will now be released on May 17, 2017.
She was originally set to be released be released in 2045.
A senior administration official said the president believes Manning has expressed remorse and that her time already served is “sufficient punishment for the serious crimes she committed."
Manning’s grant came in a batch of 209 commutations and 64 pardons, announced with four days left in Obama’s presidency. The former Army private, who is transgender, has reportedly struggled with mental health issues. She has tried to commit suicide twice and has spent time in solitary confinement as punishment.The White House had telegraphed the possibility of clemency for Manning in the past few days. Press secretary Josh Earnest last week said there are differences between her case and that of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who is facing espionage charges for leaking classified information on controversial surveillance programs. “Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing,” the spokesman told reporters Friday.“Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary, and has sought refuge in a country that most recently made a concerted effort to undermine confidence in our democracy,” he said of the former contractor, who is living in Russia. Obama sang a different tune in 2011, when he said Manning, then known as Bradley, "broke the law" and deserved punishment. Earnest on Tuesday all but ruled out a pardon for Snowden, saying he has not filed the proper paperwork with the Justice Department. While a formal petition is not legally required, Obama has typically only considered clemency for those who have applied. Obama’s move could have consequences for the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, whose organisation published material leaked by both Manning and Snowden. “If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case,” WikiLeaks tweeted last week.But the Justice Department does not plan to bring charges against Assange for publishing classified information, according to The Washington Post. The president’s decision is sure to roil the debate about weighty issues such as intelligence leaks and criminal justice reform. The move comes at a time when WikiLeaks is in the crosshairs of the Obama administration and lawmakers in both parties for its role in spreading emails allegedly hacked by Russia in an effort to undermine the 2016 elections.

“We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) The administration official insisted that “the cases are entirely different.” The official said WikiLeaks’ activity “continues to concern the president but that is wholly separate from the decision the president made to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning.” Chase Strangio, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing Manning, said he was “relieved and thankful” for the president’s decision. He called the 35-year sentence unfair, arguing it contributed to his client’s poor mental health. “This move could quite literally save Chelsea’s life, and we are all better off knowing that Chelsea Manning will walk out of prison a free woman,” said Strangio. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he doesn’t agree with Obama’s decision to release Manning early.

“I think on the larger issue of criminal justice reform, the president is really undermining our political capital by granting clemency at an unprecedented rate,” Cornyn said. “People say, well why should we change the sentencing rules in criminal justice reform if the president can just do it with a flick of his pen?”
While it’s the president’s right to commute sentences, Cornyn said, it’s not a wise move.
Sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation’s sentencing laws never received a vote in Obama’s second term, despite enjoying support from him and lawmakers in both political parties.
Instead, Obama has relied on his 2014 clemency initiative to advance his goal of shortening sentences for non-violent offenders he views as unjust.
The president has mostly doled out commutations and pardons to people convicted of drug crimes who received lengthy mandatory minimum sentences under requirements that have since been scaled back by Congress.
Obama has granted commutations to 1,385 federal inmates as president, more than the total number given by the past 12 presidents combined. He has also pardoned 212 people.
The White House is expected to announce another round of clemency grants on Thursday, officials said.
Most of Obama’s clemency grants have gone to relatively unknown individuals but Tuesday’s batch contained some who are famous, as is typical for presidents in their final days.
The president pardoned retired Gen. James Cartwright, who was convicted in 2012 for lying to FBI investigators while under questioning about leaks about a top secret U.S. program to derail Iran’s nuclear program.
Oscar López-Rivera, a well-known Puerto Rican independence fighter, had his 75-year sentence commuted and will also be released May 17.
Former Major League Baseball legend Willie McCovey received a pardon for filing false tax returns."

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"US Sent $221 Million to Palestinians in Obama's Last Hours

Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority.

GOP members of Congress had been holding up the money.

A State Department official and several congressional aides say the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning, just before Donald Trump became president.

More than $227 million in foreign affairs funding was released at the time, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organisations."

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"It’s painfully obvious just how panicked the Obama administration was when Donald Trump won on November 8th – because the sheer amount of power-grabs they pulled in their final days was unprecedented.
Obama tried to permanently fund Planned Parenthood.
He undermined Utah and Nevada state officials when he stole their land and made it into federal parks.
He released terrorists from Gitmo and then he unleashed countless of felons onto the streets.
And although this arguably might not be his worst act in his final hours of office, it is certainly disgraceful.
We are now just finding out that Obama gave $221 million of taxpayers’ money to the Palestinians on the morning of Trump’s inauguration.
The Associated Press reported:
“Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organizations, the congressional aides said.
The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.”
Why in the world would they demand anonymity unless there was something to hide?
This wasn’t the first time Obama had granted federal funding to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’ objections, either.
In 2012, he unblocked nearly $200 million of frozen money to the Palestinians by using a legal waiver in the Palestinian Accountability Act.
So the irresponsible logic from Obama here is to pay taxpayers’ money to the terrorist-tied Palestinians so that they’ll hopefully remain accountable?
That makes zero sense.
The Associated Press also reported:
“The Obama administration had for some time been pressing for the release of the money for the Palestinian Authority, which comes from the U.S. Agency for International Development and is to be used for humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza, to support political and security reforms as well as help prepare for good governance and the rule of law in a future Palestinian state, according to the notification sent to Congress.
The $1.25 million for U.N. agencies is to be used as voluntary contributions to the U.N. Peacebuilding Fund; the U.N. Special Coordinator on improving the U.N. response to sexual exploitation and abuse; the Montreal Protocol Secretariat, which oversees the protection of the ozone layer; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; and the U.N. System Staff College.
The $4 million for climate programs includes assistance for clean energy, sustainable landscapes, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and creating a climate technology centre.
The last-minute allocation also contained $1.05 million in funding for the State Department’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan office and the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.”
Obama intentionally ignored Congress’ request to keep the money frozen and to renounce the Palestinian Authority with ties to international organizations, which of course, infuriated them.
The Palestinian Authority reportedly provides compensation to the families of terrorist prisoners incarcerated in Israeli prisons, as well as to the families of those who have killed themselves in attacks on Israeli civilians.
It goes without saying that Obama followed through on this act in the final hours of his presidency because President Trump vowed to be a strong supporter of Israel and will be visiting with Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu soon.
But Obama had to send one last selfishly disgraceful message."
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"The Trump administration has wasted no time reversing Obama policies, but actions such as the State Department’s purchase of nearly $100,000 in luxury lawn furniture – solely for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan – are proceeding untouched.State Department officials after the New Year revealed they would not open their acquisition of extravagant outdoor pieces to competitive bidding. Then on Jan. 24 they awarded a sole-source contract for $95,376.56 to Janus et Cie, a California-based company whose client list includes hotels, resorts and corporations worldwide.
The company’s “specific product was chosen for its aesthetics and no other product will meet the unique color and style needed,” the State Department said in its explanation for the non-competitive contract.“The specific design features coordinate with the unique architectural details, the environment, and the existing conditions of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad,” they added.The department conducted “extensive market research” on other luxury furniture providers, none of which could entirely satisfy the Islamabad compound’s needs, it said in a Sole Source Justification for Simplified Acquisition document.Indeed, if the Office of Acquisition Management had instead awarded multiple, competitive contracts to meet the specific design and durability requirements, the cost would have been greater, it claimed in the document, which was devoid of signatures or approvals from officials.
In a separate contracting-action of comparable opulence, State awarded a $164,000 annual contract to a company to perform maintenance on four pools and a hot tub at U.S. diplomatic residences affiliated with the U.S. Mission to Israel.
“Proper maintenance of swimming pools is health safety issue and is therefore an important element of the quality of life of the U.S. Mission,” State said in Contract No. SIS70017D0001, which was competitively awarded to Man Zigi Company.
The contractor five days per week (three days in winter) will check the temperature, the PH balance and conduct other tasks such as inspecting “the condition of the pool tiles for accumulation of dirt and bacteria” at the pool and hot tub of the ambassador’s residence in Herzliya Pituach. Maintenance also will be carried out on the pool of the deputy chief of mission’s residence in Herzliya Pituach and the adult and children’s pools at the recreation center at Kfar Shmaryahu.
Speculation continues about potential proposals by Trump to reform foreign aid. But as the president prioritizes executive actions – to back out of, for instance, Obama trade deals and to ensure pro-abortion foreign-aid organizations do not receive government funding – various congressionally approved foreign-assistance initiatives are proceeding as was planned under Obama.Among actions that the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, launched immediately prior to, during and after President Trump’s inauguration were endeavors to re-train incompetent teachers in Africa and keep juvenile gang members out of Honduran prisons. USAID on Inauguration Day alerted contractors to new opportunities in Africa, where the Read Liberia! project would encourage the government of Liberia to commit to supporting evidence-based reading instruction, among other targeted goals. The agency acknowledged that existing USAID-funded Liberian schools and unsupported schools alike are failing to improve student reading skills in first and second grade classrooms.Possible reasons for the shortcomings are poor teacher-training programs and the failure of the Liberian government and its partners to adequately invest in early grade reading initiatives, the agency said in Solicitation No. SOL-669-17-000004.In the first year of Read Liberia!, USAID will focus assistance to 2,700 kindergarten students in 60 schools and 57,600 first and second grade students in 640 schools. It did not disclose an estimated cost."

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"Whenever anyone questions Obama’s Christianity, the media has rushed to his defence.
But so much of Obama’s agenda conflicts with Christian belief, that it’s almost impossible to reconcile the two.
And Obama himself has provided this ammunition with his constant attacks on Christianity.
He mocked Christians by telling them to “get off their high horse” over Islamic extremism because of their crusades which took place hundreds of years ago.
Writing for The Resurgent, Erick Erickson notes that so much of Obama’s final days in office revolve around him finally pulling off the mask and revealing himself to be the radical leftist conservatives have always claimed him to be.
Since he is finally admitting his true political beliefs, Erickson wonders if this means Obama will finally admit he isn’t really a Christian at all.
Citing the litany of anti-Christian policies and bigotry Obama has pushed, Erickson writes:
“Can we finally acknowledge also that he is not the Christian he has pretended, for politics’ sake, to be. Being a person of faith is still a thing in the United States even if the left is currently struggling against it. It would have been a bridge too far for many people to vote for an atheist President so Barack Obama played the role of Christian.
He told Democrats, who four years later would boo God at the Democratic convention, that the GOP did not have a monopoly on faith. He hired a faith coordinator to do outreach. Then he and his administration systematically set out to persecute Christians in the United States and ignore them around the world.
His administration argued before the Supreme Court that the freedom of religion was really only a right to worship.
They insisted that faith based organizations pay for abortions.
They allowed the gay community to sue Christian organizations trying to adhere to their believes. The latest is a gay man suing a Catholic school in North Carolina that dismissed him after he decided to marry a man.
The President went to great pains to play down Christianity when it conflicted with Islam.
The President and much of his administration refused for years to acknowledge violence against Christians around the world.
For eight years, President Obama has talked a good game on faith while being at war with it. He has allowed those in his employ to harass Christian businesses, Christian schools, and Christian non-profits. He has presided over a Democratic Party that has increasingly and proudly displayed bigotry and intolerance toward people of faith.
After eight years, perhaps the Democrats will finally acknowledge what has been increasingly apparent in the past several years — Barack Obama used Christianity as a political tool when it suited him, but was never the Christian he claimed to be. He can, as he leaves office, finally admit the only god he believes in is himself. That might mean that others who’ve hidden behind Barack Obama’s claims to make their own will now be exposed as frauds, but so be it. Even Judas had to eventually be exposed. It’s all part of the plan.”
Under Obama, the Democratic Party has become increasingly secular and hostile to the Christian faith.
While Obama and liberals bend over backwards to defend Muslims, Christians are the targets of scorn and government persecution.
Christians and Christian businesses are being targeted because they don’t support abortion, homosexual marriage, or allowing mentally ill men in the girl’s bathroom just because they decide to identify as a woman.
No Obama action, speech, nor policy is consistent with his claim to be a Christian."
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OH BOY! Ted Nugent Sends Obama Off With a “Thank You” That’s Going Viral!
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"Barack Obama thought he had all his bases covered.
He believed his policy agenda was cemented through regulations.
But Obama could not have been more wrong, thanks to this massive error.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) allows Congress to override regulations by a simple majority vote.
However, many believe the statute only allows the overriding of regulations that were passed in the last 60 days.
But thanks to a major error by the Obama administration, one legal expert believes every Obama regulation going back as far as 2009 is subject to the CRA.
Todd Gaziano – a senior fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation and former counsel to then Representative David McIntosh – points out the CRA requires agencies to submit a report on any new regulations.
Many Obama agencies did not.
Gaziano notes that the 60 day CRA clock starts when the rule is either published, or Congress receives the agency report, according to whichever comes later.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
“Here’s how it works: It turns out that the first line of the CRA requires any federal agency promulgating a rule to submit a “report” on it to the House and Senate. The 60-day clock starts either when the rule is published or when Congress receives the report—whichever comes later.
“There was always intended to be consequences if agencies didn’t deliver these reports,” Mr. Gaziano tells me. “And while some Obama agencies may have been better at sending reports, others, through incompetence or spite, likely didn’t.” Bottom line: There are rules for which there are no reports. And if the Trump administration were now to submit those reports—for rules implemented long ago—Congress would be free to vote the regulations down.
There’s more. It turns out the CRA has a expansive definition of what counts as a “rule”—and it isn’t limited to those published in the Federal Register. The CRA also applies to “guidance” that agencies issue. Think the Obama administration’s controversial guidance on transgender bathrooms in schools or on Title IX and campus sexual assault. It is highly unlikely agencies submitted reports to lawmakers on these actions.
“If they haven’t reported it to Congress, it can now be challenged,” says Paul Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Larkin, also at Wednesday’s meeting, told me challenges could be leveled against any rule or guidance back to 1996, when the CRA was passed.”
By submitting reports that were otherwise missing, the Trump administration can start the 60 day clock on Obama regulations and congress can vote them into the ash heap of history.
Republicans have often accused Obama of being a lawless President.
Following the law was never a big priority for the Obama administration.
He stretched his power to the maximum limits and was even rebuked by the court for exceeding his authority.
It would be a delicious irony to see his agenda undone because of his lazy disregard for the law."

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"Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.
Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it.
Former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was also Trump’s vice presidential-elect during much of the period covered by the DHS scans of the Indiana system.
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the incoming president of the association, told TheDCNF Tuesday that, “we know that between November 1 and December 16 we were scanned with about 14,800 scans, nearly 15,000 different times.”

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"A few weeks after President Trump won the 2016 election, Freedom Center journalist, Daniel Greenfield, wrote an article warning us that Obama was planning to run the country from outside the White House.
And that the "Obama Anonymous" network of staffers embedded in the government was the real threat.
And unfortunately Greenfield was right when he wrote these words...
Obama's D.C. mansion has become a shadow White House. And the so-called "Obama Anonymous network" of staffers embedded in the government is doing everything it can to overthrow our elected President and his administration.
This sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories – but it's true. Take a look:
Obama's huge, well-funded agitation outfit, Organizing for Action (OFA), has been on the front lines attacking Trump through staged protests – like the one at JFK airport after President Trump's travel ban was enacted.
A New York Times article stated that in the final days of the Obama administration, officials rushed to "spread information" about the alleged Russian tampering in the election and supposed ties between that country and Trump associates.
Then there's Obama Deep State – a network of political appointees, bureaucrats, and personnel scattered across numerous government agencies – known only as "Obama Anonymous".
My friend, this is more than un-American behavior – it's borderline treasonous and must be CRUSHED!
But this won't be quick or easy.
The Left didn't worm its way into power through showy outbursts or a dramatic coup. No – it was through silent planning, crafty messaging using pop culture as their vehicle, and the subtle brainwashing of the most impressionable group of people in our society – students.
My friend the only way to dethrone the Left, stop Obama shadow government from destroying Trump's presidency, and save our country – is to counter their lies and treasonous actions with the truth – the whole truth and nothing but.
And while The Freedom Center is at the frontlines of this fight – we can't do what we do without you.
That's why your assistance is so important.
It will not only allow the Freedom Center's writers continuing publishing hard-hitting articles that expose the Left for who they really are – and uncover Obama's deep state tactics...
It'll help us get as many Freedom Center speakers onto college campuses in 2017 as possible to counter and expose the lies of the Left.
I've said this before – our college campuses have become breeding grounds for the Left's agenda. It's there that students are spoon-fed radical propaganda day in and day out, and those who dare question it are condemned as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic or worse.
In these indoctrination mills, future Barack Obama's, Chuck Schumer's and Nancy Pelosi's are developing – waiting for their grand debut and their chance at radicalising America into their own leftist paradise.
My friend, Obama's shadow government is more than a war on President Trump. It's a war on our democracy, which makes it a war on our very country. If Obama's shadow government succeeds, America is gone.

Sincerely,
David Horowitz"

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"Obama’s policies encouraged groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood to take power in several critical Middle Eastern countries, claiming the group had “renounced” violence, even though we all know that simply was not true.
Not to mention the epic failure officially known as Libya — a place where Obama also touted “success.” One look at the situation today, however, tells an entirely different story of a place where democracy has failed to take place and extreme violence has become the norm.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban gained ground under Obama, as the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction reported in mid-2016 that the NATO-backed Afghan government was only in control of 65.6 percent of districts in the country – a drop from the 70.5 percent it held in January 2016, according to the Guardian.
Furthermore, Obama’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq allowed the Islamic State group to rise to prominence, and his terrible underestimation of the critical problem in Syria contributed to the serious destabilization in the Middle East — an outcome that has clearly had a ripple effect across Europe and into the United States.
Fortunately, President Donald Trump has expressed a commitment to undoing — as much as possible — the ill-advised decisions made by the Obama administration and has taken strides to clean up the mess his predecessor left behind."

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"United States Secretary of Defence James Mattis blamed former President Barack Obama for the U.S. losing the war in Afghanistan.
According to The Daily Caller, Mattis spoke in front of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s decision to give Mattis the power to examine the number of troops in Afghanistan.
During his testimony, Mattis explained how former President Barack Obama’s decision to pull support for Afghan troops in 2014 allowed the Taliban to build up its power in the country. As a result, the war in Afghanistan will not end any time soon, and it’s up to Trump and his team to resolve the situation."“I believe that we pulled out forces at a time, as you know, when the violence was lower, but we pulled them out on a timeline rather than consistent with the maturation of the government and the security forces,” Mattis said.
The Washington Examiner noted that Mattis blamed President Obama for his “misguided” decision.
“At one point, when we reduced our forces there, I believe in what was probably in hindsight a misguided application of our forces. We restricted them from using our air support, with some idea we would wean them off the need for it,” Mattis said.
According to The Daily Caller, Mattis spoke in front of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s decision to give Mattis the power to examine the number of troops in Afghanistan.
During his testimony, Mattis explained how former President Barack Obama’s decision to pull support for Afghan troops in 2014 allowed the Taliban to build up its power in the country. As a result, the war in Afghanistan will not end any time soon, and it’s up to Trump and his team to resolve the situation.
“I believe that we pulled out forces at a time, as you know, when the violence was lower, but we pulled them out on a timeline rather than consistent with the maturation of the government and the security forces,” Mattis said.
The Washington Examiner noted that Mattis blamed President Obama for his “misguided” decision.
“At one point, when we reduced our forces there, I believe in what was probably in hindsight a misguided application of our forces. We restricted them from using our air support, with some idea we would wean them off the need for it,” Mattis said.
Then, Mattis dropped a bomb and completely humiliated President Obama and his leadership. “The result was that as security declined, all the other stresses have come to bear, to include heavy casualties on the part of the Afghan forces, other nations pulled their forces out as well, and the Taliban was emboldened,” Mattis said.

“We’re not winning in Afghanistan right now, and we will correct this as soon as possible,” he said with authority.
According to The New York Times, Mattis also laid out the Trump administration’s plan to win the war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. will reassess the need for additional troops in Afghanistan in an effort to support Afghan troops in their goal to reduce violence in the country. Those U.S. service members will include air power and possibly special operations forces. After a period of time, the Trump administration hopes that U.S. forces will have provided Afghan troops all they need to sustain safety in their country on their own."

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"Former U.S. President Barack Obama met with current South Korean President Moon Jae-in Monday, where the two discussed President Donald Trump’s policies for the Korean peninsula. Moon opposes Trump’s policy of expanding beyond largely-fruitless negotiations with North Korea on nuclear disarmament and has criticised Trump’s plans to increase pressure of Communist China to broker a deal. Moon specifically has been a harsh critic of U.S. plans to deploy missile defence systems throughout South Korea and Japan to stop a preemptive strike by North Korea. That opposition is largely driven by Communist China, who fears the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence, or THAAD, system can identify their military’s radar installations. Communist China’s state-run media give widespread coverage to anti-THAAD protests in South Korea, raising suspicions the Beijing government has a role in staging them. It also raises questions about Obama’s involvement in the issue. Traditionally, former Presidents do not comment on the policies of the current president, and the 40-minute long meeting centred largely on dealing with Trump. It also comes at a time when Beijing is looking toward U.S. opinion and policymakers to thwart Trump’s plans to expand THAAD.

That raises suspicions that Chinese donors to the Obama Foundation and Obama Presidential Library are exercising influence with the former President. Obama has already come under fire for his relationship with Communist Chinese-linked donors such as Robert W. Roche, the co-founder and chairman of the board of Acorn International Inc., a media and branding direct-sales company based in Shanghai. A large donor to Obama, Roche’s generosity won him a literal seat at the table during trade negotiations with Communist China — directly next to Obama himself. Three living former Presidents, the then-Secretary of State, were seated further down the table from Roche. Roche would meet with Obama officials in the White House 19 times, despite living in Shanghai. Roche’s ties to Obama were exposed in 2012 by Breitbart editor Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top adviser. It’s unusual for a former president to speak out on a current president’s policies, and it’s even stranger for one to meet with a foreign leader to map out a policy that largely follows the recommendations of a neighbouring power."

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"Former U.S. President Barack Obama met with current South Korean President Moon Jae-in Monday, where the two discussed President Donald Trump’s policies for the Korean peninsula. Moon opposes Trump’s policy of expanding beyond largely-fruitless negotiations with North Korea on nuclear disarmament and has criticised Trump’s plans to increase pressure of Communist China to broker a deal. Moon specifically has been a harsh critic of U.S. plans to deploy missile defence systems throughout South Korea and Japan to stop a preemptive strike by North Korea. That opposition is largely driven by Communist China, who fears the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence, or THAAD, system can identify their military’s radar installations. Communist China’s state-run media give widespread coverage to anti-THAAD protests in South Korea, raising suspicions the Beijing government has a role in staging them. It also raises questions about Obama’s involvement in the issue. Traditionally, former Presidents do not comment on the policies of the current president, and the 40-minute long meeting centred largely on dealing with Trump. It also comes at a time when Beijing is looking toward U.S. opinion and policymakers to thwart Trump’s plans to expand THAAD.

That raises suspicions that Chinese donors to the Obama Foundation and Obama Presidential Library are exercising influence with the former President. Obama has already come under fire for his relationship with Communist Chinese-linked donors such as Robert W. Roche, the co-founder and chairman of the board of Acorn International Inc., a media and branding direct-sales company based in Shanghai. A large donor to Obama, Roche’s generosity won him a literal seat at the table during trade negotiations with Communist China — directly next to Obama himself. Three living former Presidents, the then-Secretary of State, were seated further down the table from Roche. Roche would meet with Obama officials in the White House 19 times, despite living in Shanghai. Roche’s ties to Obama were exposed in 2012 by Breitbart editor Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top adviser. It’s unusual for a former president to speak out on a current president’s policies, and it’s even stranger for one to meet with a foreign leader to map out a policy that largely follows the recommendations of a neighbouring power."
And now Obama is in a position of being indicted for breaking the Logan Act which is a felony. Obama is acting as a shadow president.

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Julie Bishop:
"The Trump administration has explicitly rejected President Obama's approach of strategic patience because that led to a stalemate, during which time North Korea's illegal missile and nuclear program accelerated,"

The US and South Korea have activated the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system, which is capable of intercepting incoming warheads from North Korea.

"That deployment of such a defence system reflects a strong defence and security alliance between South Korea and the US and is a direct response to the threat posed by North Korea,"

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WASHINGTON – While President Donald Trump has cut over 800 regulations during just his first six months in office, freeing up small businesses to grow and prosper, one California farmer is hoping that his administration will drop a costly lawsuit held over from the Obama years. So he can pursue his livelihood, farming, without the shadow of a misapplied regulation.
John Duarte, a farmer and owner of Duarte Nursey, Inc., planted winter wheat in 2012 on land that he owns in Tehema County, California. In February 2013, he received a cease-and-desist order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing the Duarte family in this case.

The cease-and-desist order was based on allegations that the Duartes, in plowing their own land, had violated the Clean Water Act, which is supposed to govern “navigable waters” in the U.S., according to the EPA’s website.

Under the Obama administration, the government expanded this definition to include even soggy areas on agricultural land, which can be as small as pools of standing water that only appear in the wet seasons of the year in areas that are normally entirely dry. Farming practices in general are supposed to be exempt from the Clean Water Act.

John Duarte attributes this cease-and-desist order to a mistake made in the government office. In a July 16 statement posted on the Duarte Nursery Facebook page, Duarte said: “Wheat plantings and the shallow tillage involved have never triggered regulation, nor required permitting prior to this case. The prosecution got started when a federal bureaucrat confused the shallow 4-6 inch tillage operation with 3-4 feet deep ripping for vineyard or orchard preparation.”

This kind of mistake is forgivable, given that Duarte Nursery does sell trees and vines. However, when it was discovered that they were planting wheat instead of an orchard or vineyard, the government should have dropped the case and left the Duartes in peace, his lawyers said.

Instead, the bureaucrats doubled down.

The government denied the Duartes a hearing to establish the facts, prompting them to sue the government for taking away their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

And the feds responded to the family’s lawsuit with one against the family, for “destruction” of wetlands.

If the Duartes lose the suits, they will be force to pay $2.8 million in direct penalties, plus another $20-$30 million in additional mitigation to a private third-party organization, and they will lose the right to use their own land, according to Duarte’s statement.

So far, all the legal action taken against the Duartes has been by Obama administration officials.

Since the government side of the suit is now owned by the Trump administration, there may be hope that the government will drop the suit and leave the Duartes in peace.

EPA Director Scott Pruit has indicated sympathy with the Duartes, and members of Congress have petitioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions to drop the case against the California farmers.

President Trump has already directed that the EPA review the rules concerning what constitutes “navigable waters” under the Clean Water Act, which could lead to the case against the Duartes being thrown out anyway.

The government has been arguing that the exemptions granted for farming and plowing only apply if soil is not moved. Duarte said in his statement that he and other farmers “have yet to understand how plowing can be done without moving soil.”

“If this unprecedented prosecution succeeds, it threatens nearly every farm in the United States,” Duarte warned.

As well as suing for due process under the Fifth Amendment, the Duartes are arguing that the amount of fines being levied against them for simply plowing a wheat field violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, after a federal attorney said “they are suing us so we are suing them back,” the Duartes are suing the government for attempting to stifle their First Amendment right to free speech.

In June 2016, a judge sided with the federal government against the Duartes, saying they had indeed violated the Clean Water Act by plowing their wheat field. They have appealed the judge’s decision to throw out the First Amendment retaliation case to the Ninth Circuit Court, and the case will begin there on Aug. 15.

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David Horowitz :

"During the eight years of the Obama administration, half a million Christians, Yazidis and Muslims were slaughtered in the Middle East by ISIS and other Islamic jihadists, in a genocidal campaign waged in the name of Islam and its God. Twenty million others were driven into exile by these same jihadist forces. Libya and Yemen became terrorist states. America - once the dominant foreign power and anti-jihadist presence in the region – was replaced by Russia, an ally of the monster regimes in Syria and Iran, and their terrorist proxies. Under the patronage of the Obama administration, Iran – the largest and most dangerous terrorist state, with the blood of thousands of Americans on its hands - emerged from its isolation as a pariah state to re-enter the community of nations and become the region's dominant power, arming and directing its terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and Yemen.

These disasters are a direct consequence of the policies of appeasement and retreat of the Obama administration. Beyond that, they are a predictable result of the Democratic Party's long-standing resistance to the so-called war on terror, and its sabotage of George Bush's efforts to enforce 17 UN Security Council resolutions in Iraq, aimed at maintaining international order and peace in the Middle East.

In fact, the primary cause of the disasters in the Middle East is the Democratic Party's sabotage of the War in Iraq. Democrats first voted to authorize the armed overthrow of Iraq's terror regime but within three months of its inception reversed their position 180 degrees and declared the war "immoral, illegal and unnecessary." The reason for the Democrats' reversal on the war had nothing to do with the war itself or the so-called absence of weapons of mass destruction, but was rather a political response to the fact that an anti-war Democrat, Howard Dean, was running away with their presidential nomination. It was this that caused John Kerry and his party to forget that the war was about Saddam's defiance of 17 UN Security Council resolutions, and refusal to allow the UN inspectors to carry out their efforts to ascertain whether he had destroyed his nuclear and chemical arsenals.

Beginning in June 2003, Democrats began claiming – falsely – that Bush had lied to secure their support for the war. "Bush lied, people died," became the left's slogan to cripple the war effort. Bush couldn't have lied because Democrats had access to every bit of intelligence information on Iraq that he did. But this false narrative began what became a five-year campaign to demonize America's commander-in-chief and undermine his efforts to subdue the terrorists and pacify the region.

The Democrats' anti-war crusade climaxed with the election of Barack Obama, a leftwing activist and vocal opponent of the war, and of the majority of Senate Democrats who voted for it. At the time of Obama's election, America and its allies had won the war and subdued the terrorists by turning the Sunnis in Anbar province against them. But the new commander-in-chief refused to use American forces to secure the peace, and instead set out to withdraw all American military personnel from Iraq. This was a fatal step that created a power vacuum, which was quickly filled by Iran and ISIS.

Obama's generals had advised him to maintain a post-war force of 20,000 troops in country along with the military base America had built in Baghdad. But Obama had made military withdrawal the centerpiece of his foreign policy and ignored his national security team's advice. Had he not done so, American forces would have been able to effectively destroy ISIS at its birth, saving more than 500,000 lives and avoiding the creation of nearly 20 million refugees in Syria and Iraq.

Instead of protecting Iraq and the region from the Islamic terrorists, Obama surrendered the peace, turning Iraq over to Iran and the terrorists, and betraying every American and Iraqi who had given their lives to keep them out. The message of the Obama White House – to be repeated through all eight years of his tenure - was that America was the disturber of the peace, and not "radical Islamic terrorism" – words he refused to utter. Instead he even removed the phrase "war on terror" from all official statements and replaced it with "overseas contingency operations."

Second among the causes of the Middle East's human tragedy was Obama's support for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad whom his secretaries of state, Clinton and Kerry both endorsed as a democratic reformer on the very eve of his savage war against his own people. This was followed by Obama's refusal to enforce the red line he drew to prevent Assad from using chemical weapons on the Syrian population. When Assad did use them, Obama averted his eyes and papered over his culpability by arranging a phony deal with Russia to remove Assad's chemical arsenal. Six years later, Assad was again using chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, the exposing Obama's ruse.

This capitulation to the Syrian tyrant was a powerful reiteration of Obama's signature message: The United States is the problem and is therefore committed to taking itself out of the picture. In other words, anti-American dictators and genocidal maniacs in the Middle East can have their way.

The third cause of the Middle Eastern morass was Obama's failure, early on in his Obama administration, to support the green revolution in Iran, when its brave citizens poured into the streets in 2009 to protest a rigged election and the totalitarian regime. Obama's silence was in effect support for the Jew-hating and America-hating regime, into whose ruling group Secretary of State Kerry's daughter soon married. Obama's betrayal of the Iranian people was a reiteration of his signature message to the region: America no longer cares to support freedom, and is willing to support its enemies, even those who kill Americans in the name of Islam.

The fourth cause of the Middle Eastern morass was Obama's intervention in Egypt - his overthrow of an American ally, Hosni Mubarak, and his open support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the spawner of al-Qaeda and Hamas and the chief sponsor of the Islamic jihad against the West. Obama's support for the Brotherhood was so strong that when it was overthrown by the Egyptian military following massive protests of the Egyptian people, the White House opposed the new regime of the pro-American General, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Through these policies, Obama alienated America's most important Arab ally in the Middle East and opened the door to Russia's influence in the region, and to the Kremlin's alliance with its most barbaric regimes, Syria and Iran.

The fifth cause of the terrorist upsurge that has shattered the peace of the Middle East was Obama's unauthorized, illegal intervention in Libya and murder of its ruler Gaddafi – a ruthless dictator no doubt – but a dedicated enemy of al-Qaeda with whom he was actively at war. The result of this naked American aggression, whose chief advocates were Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, was a Libya devoured by the terrorist wolves who now rule it – a failed state and a haven for the bloodthirsty savages of al-Qaeda and ISIS.

The sixth reason the Middle East is now in flames is Obama's policy of what he calls "strategic patience" but is in effect strategic cowardice and worse. Obama's failure to act decisively against ISIS – to take only one example - allowed the Islamic State (which Obama has even refused to concede is Islamic), to become the largest terrorist force ever, and to provide its armed missionaries with a free hand to destroy the oldest Christian community in the world in Iraq, exterminating 200,000 members of the faith, while driving many more into exile.

By way of contrast and showing what the Obama White House could have done, sixth months into the Trump administration, the ISIS stronghold of Mosul is liberated and Raqqa is about to fall, spelling the end of the Islamic State. The blood of those slaughtered Christians, as well as the Yazidis and Muslims, is squarely on the head of Barack Obama and his White House enablers – the Democratic Party and the Democrats' kept press.

The seventh cause of the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East – and the one with the most long-lasting consequences - is Obama's embrace of the terrorist regime in Iran. Iran has killed more Americans than any other enemy of this country. Its kill list goes back to the Marine bombing of 1983 and includes the supply of every I.E.D. in Iraq used to blow up several thousand American soldiers.

Yet Obama built his entire Middle East policy around the so-called "deal" with Iran, which provides that nation with a path to nuclear weapons, and has no realistic inspection or enforcement mechanisms. The "Iran deal" lifted the sanctions that had been placed on a regime whose leaders were so openly contemptuous of Obama that they led chants of "Death to America" in the middle of the negotiations. The Iran deal brought America's mortal enemy out of international isolation, provided it with the opportunity to acquire nuclear weapons, turned a blind eye to its ballistic missile development and stuffed its war chest with $200 billion in cash payments used to fund its weapons programs, and to support terrorist armies, including Hizbollah, Hamas and the Yemenite Houthis, busy creating havoc throughout the Middle East.

The Obama regime's role in the human disasters in the Middle East is a warning about what happens when American leaders sympathize with our enemies, hamstring our armed forces and abandon our responsibilities to help maintain the peace and defend freedom in a fractious, authoritarian and bloody-minded world. The Obama administration's enabling of the most barbaric forces in the Middle East is a national disgrace, and the most shameful episode in America's post-World War II experience.

The path to rectifying these disasters and to stopping Islamic genocides of "infidels" in the Middle East, is first of all to restore America's active presence in the region, taking a firm stance against radical Islamic terrorism. This is an effort which, thankfully, the Trump administration has already begun. Second, it is to make America's policy firmly and consistently anti-terrorist, which the Trump administration has not yet done. This would mean, for example, cutting off all funds to the terrorist Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza, and halting all "peace" negotiations until the Palestinians renounce terror and support Israel's right to exist. "

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'Few could argue with a straight face that former President Barack Obama and his administration didn’t have a spending problem, often creating government programs seemingly just for the sake of spending more taxpayer money, regardless of where it went or what it was used for.
Thus, we were only slightly stunned to read a recent report from the Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General that revealed that at least $815 million in grant money for land purchases had been doled out between 2014 and 2015 with absolutely no way to track the funds or ensure that they had been used for their intended purpose.
From the start, the report made clear that the DOI “does not centrally track information about grants awarded for the purpose of acquiring land. As such, DOI is unable to identify how much grant money has been used to purchase land, how much land has been purchased, and whether that land is being used for its intended purpose.”
It should be noted that the land purchased by virtue of these grants of taxpayer money are not considered federally-owned land, but are owned by the grantee, albeit with stipulations in place that the grantee is supposed to honor, such as preserving land intended for conservation or otherwise using the land for a specific intended purpose.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of a centralized system for tracking such purchases, the DOI quite simply has no idea where the money went or what it was ultimately spent on.
The OIG investigation surveyed some 108 DOI programs that issue grants for land purchases, and focused in on 16 of those programs for a closer look. From those 16 programs, there were 701 grants issued for land purchases over a two-year period, totaling about $815 million. The report made clear that actual amounts across the entirety of the board are most likely many times higher than what was revealed.
However, it was found that some of those grants had been issued to purchase land that had not been properly appraised according to national standards, nor were all of the grant recipients reporting back to the granting agencies their inventory or proof of purchase and compliance, as is required by law.
In fact, less than 44 percent of grant recipients had followed through on keeping the department informed of the purchase, or with proof that the land was being used as intended.
The report ultimately identified that there was a major monitoring gap in federally funded land purchases, which created ample opportunity for waste, fraud, and abuse.
As such, they recommended the department implement a standardized and uniform system for tracking land purchases with federal grants, as well as develop further guidance informing recipients of their responsibilities to report pertinent information back to the granting agencies, as is required by law."

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David Horowitz :
". . .Illinois just declared August 4th "Barack Obama Day."
"Barack Obama Day" gives public employees a taxpayer-funded day off to celebrate a "community organizer" that put our country $20 trillion in debt, demoralized and defunded our military, and handed Iran the tools to build a nuclear bomb.
And now he's trying to rule from behind the scenes, directing a network of staffers embedded in the government who are trying to overthrow our duly-elected President.
America is not designed for dictators-for-life. We expect our Presidents to serve for a time, and then relinquish the reins.
No President before has remained in Washington to undermine his successor. No President before has built a personality cult to advance his agenda AFTER leaving office. And no President done so much to undermine our constitutional system.
For eight years, Barack Obama was the chief threat to our Republic – and he STILL is.
"Barack Obama Day" should make every freedom-loving patriot quake in their boots for the future of our country.
No President. No politician. NO AMERICAN should be placed on this kind of pedestal in their lifetime. “ HorowitzFreedomCenter.org

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" At $1.2M, Obama Set to Become Most Expensive Ex-President, the Washington Times reported, citing a Congressional Research Service memo.

Former President Barack Obama's budget request for 2018 makes him the most expensive president to taxpayers.

Obama's official allowance eclipses George W. Bush by $100,000 and Bill Clinton by $200,000,

Former president George H.W. Bush will get $942,000 next year, followed by Jimmy Carter at $456,000.

The allowances for an office and expenses — and pension for Obama — originated from a 1958 law, the Former Presidents Act, which provides for presidents when they leave office. It stemmed from Harry Truman's difficulty generating income.

Of course now, Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama left the White House as multimillionaires — plus he hits the private speaking tour, making $400,000 per speech — minimizing the need for such an allowance. But he takes one anyway."

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" $36,185.00… Every day, for eight full years...that’s what taxpayers spent on vacations for Barack Obama and his family. The total of more than $105 million over Obama’s two terms comes out to about $25 per minute, or roughly 41 cents per second.The details were released by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch said it obtained travel records from the Secret Service in response to a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, lawsuit. It found that the known total of travel expenses for former President Obama and his family was $105,662,975.27.

The latest records show President Trump’s travel expenses total slightly over $4 million, Judicial Watch noted.

The FOIA lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The most recent additions to the Obama vacation tab were Michelle Obama’s trip to Morocco ($244,218.01); Michelle Obama’s trip to Liberia at $107,890; Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain for $166,062.48; Obama’s November 2016 appearance at a Clinton campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, for $271,467.71; his Los Angeles trip in October 2016 to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for $195,855; and Michelle Obama’s October 2016 Clinton campaign rally appearance in North Carolina for $26,502.

There also was the family’s Martha’s Vineyard trip a year ago at a cost of $2,684,271.36, and the Secret Service expense of $1.8 million on the Obamas’ trip last Christmas to Honolulu.

Judicial Watch also said expenses related to President Trump’s travel have totaled $4,082,427.71, including his “Thank You Tour” last winter for $475,478 and his visits to Mar-a-Lago totaling $3.6 million.

Judicial Watch said it still is seeking more documentation about travel costs for both the Obamas and the Trump family.

“It is troubling to see such massive amounts of money paid out for trips that appear to have minimal value to the public interest,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And it is frustrating to have file multiple FOIA lawsuits and engage in long-running court battles to get basic information about the costs of presidential travel.”

WND reported in mid-2016, when the Obama tab was thought to be $80 million, that when Obama was a candidate in 2008, he told an interviewer that as the occupant of the Oval Office his vacations, his leisure and even his need for sleep would be sacrificed for the sake of the nation.

The statement came in an interview with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. It was recorded in 2008 but apparently not published until 2012.

In context, Obama said: “You have to understand that if you seek that office, you have to be prepared to give your life to it. Essentially the burden that any president, I think, strikes, with the American people is, um, you give me this office and in turn my, fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone. I am giving myself to you.”

He continued: “The American people should have no patience for whatever is going through your head because you’ve got a job to do. How I think about it is, um, that you don’t make that decision unless you are prepared to make that sacrifice … that bargain.”
And he noted: “I think what’s difficult and important for somebody like myself, who has a wonderful forbearing wife, and two gorgeous young children, is that they end up having to make some of those sacrifices, too.”

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"Former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign advertising agency received nearly $60 million in federal contracts after he took office, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. The liberal Democrat communications powerhouse was awarded nearly $15 million in a new contract in June. GMMB received a total of $58.4 million in federal contracts from 2009 to 2017, according to USASpending, which tracks federal spending through contracts, grants, loans and other forms. GMMB’s annual revenue is an estimated $32.6 million, according to D&B Hoovers, a private business research and rating firm.

Jim Margolis joined fellow Democrat Frank Greer in GMMB in 1985. Since then, Margolis has been one of the Democrat Party’s top media strategists. He was lead advertising strategist and advisor for former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and for the 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, which delivered considerable profits for GMMB. Margolis also produced the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Democrat National Conventions, and was the co-producer of Obama’s two inaugurations. Obama’s presidential campaign, “Obama for America,” disbursed to GMMB upwards of $700 million in media buys for his 2008 and 2012 campaigns combined, according to filings reported by the Federal Election Commission. GMMB confirms this amount on the company’s website, stating Margolis oversaw “each cycle’s half-billion dollar advertising effort.” The overwhelming majority of the $58 million funneled to GMMB came from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2011. The CFPB awarded the agency a whopping $43.7 million, about 75 percent of GMMB’s total federal funding stream."

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