THE
GREATEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE BANKSTER CLASS AND THE RICH PRIOR TO TRUMP
OCCURRED DURING THE OBAMA-BIDEN BANKSTER REGIME. THEY SERVED THE 1% WELL AND
THEY HAVE BEEN RICHLY REWARDED WITH FRAUDULENT DERIVED BOOK DEALS AND BANISTER SPEECH
FEE BRIBES.
But soon enough, the reality of Barack Obama’s unpopularity, the reality
of the criminal abuse by his administration in trying to frame and otherwise
take down President Trump, and the reality of a booming economy helping all Americans, would
take the air out of her balloon. Eric Georgatos
The
Obamas quickly became super rich. Vanity Fair celebrated these
"Obamoguls" and hailed Michelle Obama for her "saintly
popularity." This so-called saint doesn't spurn the finer things. Last
August, TMZ reported the Obamas were buying a $15 million mansion on the coast
of Martha's Vineyard to match their $8 million Washington, D.C., mansion.
TO BUILD
AN OBAMA MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP THIRD TERM, FIRST OBOMB WOULD HAVE TO FINISH
OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS. HIS BANKSTERS HAVE DONE THAT. NEXT, SABOTAGE
AMERICAN BORDERS, VOTING AND JOBS FOR MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS. OBOMB, BIDEN AND
HOLDER HAVE ACHIEVED THAT WITH THE HELP OF GLOBALIST NANCY PELOSI.
“Why nepotism
beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are Team
Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites--bashing the corporate world and
influence-peddling industries from which they and their relatives have
benefited mightily. MICHELLE MALKIN
The
cheers are always presumed to be unanimous. Dissent from this party line is
ignored. And no one asks about the profits. For the Obamas, greed is cast as
just another inspiring voyage of self-discovery.
Michelle
Obama, Saintly Buckraker?
The
Hollywood Reporter recently broke a scoop about the latest Netflix documentary
from the Obamas, designed to offer us an oasis of joy as we suffer through the
coronavirus pandemic. It's called "Becoming," and it will be
available worldwide on May 6. As the title suggests, it promotes Michelle
Obama's memoir of the same name, which has sold more than 10 million copies. So
let's get this straight. The Obamas were awarded a book deal worth an estimated
$65 million for their memoirs, hers and then his. They also struck an estimated
$50 million production deal with Netflix. (We don't have actual numbers. Could
someone in the media ask for a tax return?)
With this
self-aggrandizing documentary, their second deal is being used to accentuate
the profits of their first. The buckraking here is intense. President Donald
Trump surely admires their self-promotional moxie. The Obamas quickly became
super rich. Vanity Fair celebrated these "Obamoguls" and hailed
Michelle Obama for her "saintly popularity." This so-called saint
doesn't spurn the finer things. Last August, TMZ reported the Obamas were
buying a $15 million mansion on the coast of Martha's Vineyard to match their
$8 million Washington, D.C., mansion. Non-Fox network coverage? Zero. In
December, they actually bought said Martha's Vineyard mansion for $11.75
million. Non-Fox network coverage? Again, zero. There would be no denting
haloes by asking how much they're giving to charity. The documentary celebrates
Michelle Obama's "Becoming" book tour events at stadiums that charged
Obama superfans $300 or more a ticket, often with celebrities like Oprah
Winfrey along for the ride.
Media
outlets repeated Obama's self-puffery without rebuttal. "Those months I
spent traveling -- meeting and connecting with people in cities across the
globe -- drove home the idea that what we have in common is deep and real and
can't be messed with," she said in a statement. She augmented her new
status as a self-help guru with a workbook of sorts: "Becoming: A Guided
Journal for Discovering Your Voice," complete with "an intimate and
inspiring introduction by the former First Lady and more than 150 inspiring
questions and quotes to help you discover -- and rediscover -- your
story."
Not
everyone famous is praised for self-help books for women. The current
president's daughter Ivanka Trump wrote one in 2017, and The New York Times was
brutal. "It reads more like the scrambled Tumblr feed of a demented
12-year-old who just checked out a copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from
the library," it wrote.
There are
never Republican critics of Obama in the "news" these days. In a
Washington Post story on the documentary, writer Sonia Rao quoted Anita
McBride, chief of staff to former first lady Laura Bush, who said Obama was
"a reluctant first lady" but then formed lasting public connections
through her "extraordinary use of media and pop culture and
television."
Is that
Michelle's gift to the media? No, it's the media's gift to Michelle. The
infatuated titans of "news" and entertainment media appear to have
granted her every "extraordinary" wish in building this
"billion-dollar brand."
The
cheers are always presumed to be unanimous. Dissent from this party line is
ignored. And no one asks about the profits. For the Obamas, greed is cast as
just another inspiring voyage of self-discovery.
Tim Graham is director of media
analysis a
Culture of Corruption: Obama
and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
by Michelle Malkin
Editorial Reviews
In her shocking new book,
Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt
dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.
From the Inside Flap
The era of hope and
change is dead....and it only took six months in office to kill it.
Never has an
administration taken office with more inflated expectations of turning
Washington around. Never have a media-anointed American Idol and his entourage
fallen so fast and hard. In her latest investigative tour de force, New York
Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin delivers a powerful, damning, and
comprehensive indictment of the culture of corruption that surrounds Team Obama's
brazen tax evaders, Wall Street cronies, petty crooks, slum lords, and
business-as-usual influence peddlers. In Culture of Corruption, Malkin reveals:
* Why nepotism
beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are Team
Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites--bashing the corporate world and
influence-peddling industries from which they and their relatives have
benefited mightily
* What secrets the
ethics-deficient members of Obama's cabinet--including Hillary Clinton--are
trying to hide
* Why the Obama White
House has more power-hungry, unaccountable "czars" than any other
administration
* How Team Obama's first
one hundred days of appointments became a litany of embarrassments as would-be
appointee after would-be appointee was exposed as a tax cheat or had to
withdraw for other reasons
* How Obama's old ACORN
and union cronies have squandered millions of taxpayer dollars and dues money
to enrich themselves and expand their power
* How Obama's Wall Street
money men and corporate lobbyists are ruining the economy and helping their
friends In Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin lays bare the Obama
administration's seamy underside that the liberal media would rather keep
hidden.
•
ISBN-10: 1596981091
•
ISBN-13: 978-1596981096
Michelle Malkin
No Shady Banking Buddy
Left Behind
First Lady Michelle
Obama's latest overseas jaunt is getting all the headlines. But President
Obama's money-grubbing junket to Chicago may cost taxpayers far more in the
long run. With his Gaultier-clad wife sashaying around the Spanish seaside, the
lonely fundraiser-in-chief returned to Illinois to take care of some
birthday-week business. Job One: Filling the Senate campaign coffers of his
corruption-tainted political protege Alexi Giannoulias.
Mission accomplished.
Obama's Thursday afternoon campaign event for Giannoulias, the beleaguered
state treasurer of Illinois, reportedly raked in $1 million. Lagging behind his
GOP opponent, liberal Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, Giannoulias has coveted
one-on-one, grip-and-grin time with Obama for months. In addition to the cash,
photo-ops and video of the Obama fundraising event that Giannoulias will milk
from now until Election Day, the White House has dispatched Vice President Joe
Biden, White House senior adviser David Axelrod and White House campaign
management guru David Plouffe to boost Giannoulias' bid. Plouffe proclaimed
Democrats "all in" for Giannoulias, whom he described as "a
great progressive champion."
Obama gave his own
personal seal of ethical approval,
telling deep-pocketed
donors this week: "I appreciate his
strong sense of advocacy
for ordinary Americans. You
can trust him -- you can
count on him." Uh-huh. And I've
got a bridge to Hope and Change
to sell you.
What would Giannoulias
know about "ordinary Americans"? Giannoulias, 34, befriended Obama
during pickup basketball games with an elite group that also included Michelle
Obama's brother, Craig; Chicago edu-crat Arne Duncan (now Education Secretary);
and hedge fund manager John Rogers (the ex-husband of the Obamas' ex-White
House social secretary, Desiree Rogers). He spread his wealth and influence
around early and often to support Obama's fledgling political career. He
pitched in $7,000 in 2003-2004 to Obama's Illinois State Senate bids. He hosted
fundraisers for Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2004 and for his presidential
campaign in 2007.
Where'd the cash come
from? Giannoulias' Greek immigrant family founded Chicago-based Broadway Bank,
a now-defunct financial institution that loaned tens of millions of dollars to
convicted mafia felons and faced bankruptcy after decades of engaging in risky,
high-flying behavior. It's the place where Obama parked his 2004 U.S. Senate
campaign funds. And it's the same place where a mutual friend of Obama
and Giannoulias -- convicted Obama fundraiser/slum lord Tony Rezko -- used to
bounce nearly $500,000 in bad checks written to Las Vegas casinos. This
week, the Chicago Sun-Times revealed an additional $22.75 million Broadway Bank
loan to a Rezko-owned business in 2006. Giannoulias held an ownership stake in
the bank at the time.
Giannoulias served as
Broadway Bank vice president and senior loan officer for four years. According
to the Chicago Tribune, during Giannoulias' tenure, some $27 million of
Broadway Bank's funny money went to mob crooks Michael "Jaws"
Giorango and Demitri Stavropoulos. Giorango is a hustler who fronted a
nationwide prostitution ring and was sentenced to six months in prison;
Stavropoulos is behind bars for operating a multistate bookmaking ring.
Giorango ran the $400-an-hour call girl operation out of high-rise luxury
apartments in Chicago with the infamous "Gold Coast Madam," Rose
Laws. Giorango and Stavropoulos used their Broadway Bank loans to start their
own risky lending business for nontraditional borrowers unable to secure
traditional bank financing.
Despite Giorango's
criminal record exposed by the Tribune in 2004, Broadway Bank approved massive
mortgages for him. Giannoulias' brother, Demetris, explained that as a
"relationship bank," Broadway wouldn't just throw someone under the
bus because of a "bad article." Instead, the bank went ahead and
rubber-stamped a September 2005 loan for $3.4 million to buy a 32-unit Los
Angeles apartment complex. The application falsely stated that the borrower,
Giorango, had "not been convicted of a felony." Giannoulias oversaw
the servicing of such shady loans totaling $11 million. Remember: He was no
low-level staffer. He was, as he reminded supporters when he needed to deflect
attention away from his youth, top management at Broadway Bank.
In January 2010, the bank
entered a consent decree with federal and Illinois state regulators. It
required Broadway Bank "to raise tens of millions in capital, stop paying
dividends to the family without regulatory approval, and hire an outside party
to evaluate the bank's senior management." The city's former inspector
general blasted Giannoulias and his family for tapping $70 million worth of
dividends in 2007 and 2008 as the real estate crash loomed. Broadway Bank was
sitting on an estimated $250 million in bad loans. In late April, federal
regulators shut it down. Cost to taxpayers: an estimated $390 million.
Giannoulias refused to drop out of the race -- and instead used the company
failure to argue that it made him (SET ITAL) more (END ITAL) qualified to serve
in office: "I have a renewed vigor and a new perspective on just how
horrible it is out there for so many people."
Forget ‘Michelle for President’
Our
betters in the MSM, and related ruling-class mouthpieces, have set the
narrative: the lackluster, too-crazy pack of Democrat presidential
candidates, even with a few token billionaires, will ultimately give way to the
entry of Michelle Obama into the race. The former First Lady, author of
an apparently best-selling memoir, will inject palpable blue energy throughout
the nation, return black America to a 95+% Democrat voting bloc, consolidate
the Obama voting coalitions that won two presidential elections, and the evil
interloper Trump will be sent packing.
Don’t
buy this narrative.
In
a country of 320+ million people, there is always a sizable segment who will
not be willing or able to discern or question anything beyond what they are
told by the MSM, and will follow the narrative. That segment is actually
becoming smaller every year; the reality of fake news has diluted the MSM’s
influence to a far greater degree than they understand. But that’s not
why I’m not buying the narrative.
Here’s
why:
‘Obama’ is how we got Trump. For all the
gigabytes devoted to explaining how Donald Trump was elected President of the
United States, the simplest two-word explanation has always been: Barack
Obama.
Most
Americans never agreed with the radical left-wing policies that President Obama
instituted, nor did they appreciate his subtle, persistent denigration of America’s
character, identity and place in the world. But Americans did salute to the
notion that we should be especially careful not to criticize America’s first
black President.
In
short, the absence of strong criticism of President Obama and his policies was
not due to their popularity, but rather due to a surrender to the political
reality enforced in great degree by the MSM that any such criticism would be
labeled as racist. His policies and view of America were in fact alarming
to many Americans, who silently bided their time until he was out of office.
The
truth is that Barack Obama was and is a radical leftist ideologue who in his
own words sought to fundamentally transform America. A few
observers saw this agenda from the beginning of Obama’s appearance on the
national scene, but they were voices in a wilderness dominated by a sycophantic
media. The American people never supported a fundamental transformation
of their country -- in leftist terms, a shredding of America’s Judeo-Christian
heritage in favor of a godless, George Soros-vision of an Open Society,
directed and controlled by almighty secular government -- and the more they
understood the truth of who Obama was and what he was trying to do, the angrier and more resentful they
became.
Donald
Trump was the anti-Obama for one simple reason: he loves America.
And
so…the “Michelle Obama riding on the residual goodwill of the Obama name!”
campaign narrative, doesn’t resonate.
Three-plus
years later, with black unemployment the lowest in recorded history, polls that
show roughly a third of likely voting black Americans supporting President
Trump are not an accident or a fluke. (And they may just mark the floor of his support in
2020.) They reflect conscious recognition among black Americans of simple
truths: black lives generally did not get better under eight years of Obama;
black lives generally have gotten much better under less than three years of
President Trump.
And
so…the “Michelle Obama will bring back the good old days of black prosperity!”
campaign narrative falls flat.
Barack Obama is the elephant in the room re Barr/Durham. Of all the names that
engaged Americans associate with the Russia Collusion hoax -- Brennan, Clapper,
Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, Rosenstein, Simpson, Steele, etc. --
there is one that is going to loom larger and larger in public thought as the
Horowitz IG report and Barr/Durham followup becomes public: Barack
Obama.
Our
own guess is that when the truth finally comes out, Americans across the
political spectrum will be stunned at the level of criminality and corruption
in the Obama administration. It will shock the collective
conscience of the nation that all of this was directed to brazenly and arrogantly
overturning the will of the American people for the ugly but simple reason that
Donald Trump was an outsider who threatened the Obama/leftist/globalist hold on
power.
If
the Horowitz report and Barr/Durham follow-up reveals, as seems increasingly likely,
the deliberate and nefarious concoction of the Russia Collusion Hoax by leaders
in the CIA, FBI, and DoJ, the vast majority of Americans, including millions
who have historically identified themselves politically as Democrats, will be
fiercely offended at this historic, unconscionable abuse. And who is at
the top of all the plotting and scheming and lying and weaponization of
government against the will of the people? Barack Obama.
And
so…the ”Michelle Obama will bring back the days of the scandal-free Obama
administration!” campaign narrative reeks.
Michelle’s heart isn’t in it… and may not be a happy heart anyway. Mrs. Obama is on record
saying she has no interest in running, and of course, those words by themselves
mean nothing as to whether she will enter the race. But we think they do
signal that at her core, her heart is not in it. And ‘it’ refers to the
pressure, the nastiness, the unrelenting spotlight, the
every-word-and-every-smirk-on-video scrutiny of an American presidential race.
Michelle
Obama’s eight years in a soft, adulatory spotlight as First Lady are not the
same as the brass tacks rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. And
even if the MSM did everything in its power to shield her (and it surely
would), the MSM is not the gatekeeper it once was. Plus, winners
tend to be happy warriors. There has always seemed to be an undercurrent
of anger in Michelle Obama’s countenance, and if it ever flared on the campaign
trail, she could quickly find herself in a big hole. Anger doesn’t win
elections.
Michelle
Obama may or may not get into the race; it’s probably a 50/50 proposition at
this point. And if she does get in, she’ll have access to the best
messaging talent the left can buy. So she’d make waves for a
while. But soon enough, the reality of Barack Obama’s unpopularity, the reality
of the criminal abuse by his administration in trying to frame and otherwise
take down President Trump, and the reality of a booming economy helping all Americans, would
take the air out of her balloon. “Bring Back Barack” is not a winning campaign
theme. And if a tweet or two happened to get under her skin, the result
could be ugly.
“Michelle
Obama for President” is not inevitable or invincible.
Eric Georgatos is a former corporate lawyer who operated the
Brushfires of Freedom blog from 2008-2016 (a book of top postings from the blog
is available at America, Can We Talk?).
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