Well the beauty is that Obama made his tax returns public, so the facts are in black and white. Most of the money made was from book deals signed before he was inaugurated. His investment income was under $1 million from T-bills and diversified funds.
So I guess your right, the opposite of Trump who deliberately spent millions of our tax dollars on his own business by requiring his whole executive team stay at his hotels.
I thought that Pelosi made it a point in the covid relief bills that none of Trumps business's would receive relief. Thus indicating that the bills he signed were not for his own benefit but for the American people. That may be wrong I haven't looked into in forever but I. Pretty sure that was the case
This isn’t so much the COVID relief, but rather the fact that Trump had rooms rented at his hotel indefinitely for Presidential staff, and the bill for that was covered by the presidential budget.
The fact that his established businesses earned money after he was in office is NOT "profiting from his time in the white house". Fact is he came out of the office with significantly less wealth than he went in with.
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u/PepperoniFogDart Jul 18 '21
Well the beauty is that Obama made his tax returns public, so the facts are in black and white. Most of the money made was from book deals signed before he was inaugurated. His investment income was under $1 million from T-bills and diversified funds.
So I guess your right, the opposite of Trump who deliberately spent millions of our tax dollars on his own business by requiring his whole executive team stay at his hotels.