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So glad he was using his political office to ascertain wealth, I believe you guys have been screaming about that since trump took office, no?

I guess he did have a lot of time to write while POTUS, he wasn't doing much else.

Having a “small” 4 million dollar house isn’t much of a defense ... 4 mill is 4 mill is 4 mill ...

I’ve heard from 4 - 8 million ... went with the low number ...

I meant, I would doubt it was 4 million, I would say its much more from the pictures.

meanwhile, her constituents live is shacks

7/18/1995
Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” is published
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/barack-obamas-dreams-from-my-father-is-published

He was given a 1/2 mil advance to authorize an abridged version for school publications 5 days before being sworn in in 2009. Royalties kept rolling into his divested account while he was POTUS.

Einstein.

so we agree he used his election to sell a book. imagine if trump did this lol. oohhhhhh the outrage.

I wonder how much has he made from those big bad banks he was against since leaving as well ?

We agree to nothing.
You specifically said he wrote the book while in office.

This is what you said, 4 posts ago:


I used facts to verbally 'depants' you and expose your cognitive "shortcomings" to the entire board.

And now I'm calling you out on this weak, pathetic attempt at a redirect.

Sit down, take this *L*... and live to fight another day.


Or, go right ahead and double-down on the dumb you've already established. Works either way for me.

It seems like we are fishing middle east countries to help fund US Infrastructure projects?

FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York City. Porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti, said Monday, May 14, he did nothing wrong by distributing a report last week that detailed the finances of the president's personal attorney, Cohen, and showed he had charged companies a hefty price for "insight" about Trump. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Seth Wenig/Associated Press
File photo: Michael Cohen’s reported offer to Qatar came as he was bragging to others that he could make millions from consulting on Trump and that foreign governments would be interested in having his expertise. At the time, Cohen was also angling, unsuccessfully, as it turned out, to enter the White House, telling associates that he might become counsel or chief of staff.

By The Washington Post |

PUBLISHED: May 16, 2018 at 4:47 pm | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 3:17 am



By Karen DeYoung, Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman | Washington Post

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, solicited a payment of at least $1 million from the government of Qatar in late 2016, in exchange for access to and advice about the then-incoming administration, according to several people with knowledge of the episode.

The offer, which Qatar declined, came on the margins of a Dec. 12 meeting that year at Trump Tower between the Persian Gulf state’s foreign minister and Michael Flynn, who became Trump’s first national security adviser. Steve Bannon, who became chief White House strategist, also attended, the people said.


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Cohen did not participate in the official meetings but spoke separately to a member of the Qatari delegation, Ahmed al-Rumaihi, who at the time was head of the investments division of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority.

Details emerged last week on how Cohen leveraged his relationship with Trump to receive millions of dollars from companies eager for insight and entree into the new president’s inner circle. They included AT&T, the global pharmaceutical giant Novartis, a Korean defense contractor and Columbus Nova, a New York-based investment firm with ties to a Russian oligarch. All have confirmed payments to Cohen.

But news of the Qatar solicitation marks the first time Cohen is believed to have pitched his influence directly to a foreign government.

A spokesman for Rumaihi, after first saying he would be available for an interview, said he was no longer available late Wednesday. The private company Rumaihi – who is no longer in government – founded last year, Sport Trinity, did not respond to a request for comment. The Intercept reported Wednesday that Rumaihi had confirmed the solicitation, and his refusal to pay Cohen, in an interview.

Cohen and his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. Qatar’s embassy in Washington declined to comment on the revelations.




Cohen’s offer to Qatar came as he was bragging to others that he could make millions from consulting on Trump and that foreign governments would be interested in having his expertise. At the time, Cohen was also angling, unsuccessfully, as it turned out, to enter the White House, telling associates that he might become counsel or chief of staff.

As Cohen collected clients, he texted associates articles that described him as Trump’s “fixer” and asked them to spread them around.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which conducted raids last month on Cohen’s New York residence and office, are investigating his activities. Cohen’s attempts to sell access were first publicly alleged last week by Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, an adult-film star who was paid $130,000 by Cohen before the election to keep quiet details of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

Trump, who said last month that he knew nothing about the Daniels payment and did not reimburse Cohen, reported an apparent reimbursement payment to his lawyer on financial disclosure documents released Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Avenatti has expanded his public allegations against Trump and those around him. Early this week, he tweeted a photograph of Cohen and Rumaihi, taken on the day of the December 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Thani was one of a number of senior foreign officials who visited transition headquarters at Trump Tower between the November election and January inauguration. Requested by Qatar, the session followed a meeting between then-candidate Trump and Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton canceled a separately scheduled meeting with the ruler due to what her campaign said was a scheduling conflict.

Qatar, whose natural gas resources and small population have made it the richest per capita country in the world, is home to the Middle East headquarters of U.S. Central Command and a major U.S. air base where 10,000 American troops are stationed. It is a substantial purchaser of U.S. defense equipment and a major investor in this country. Its government was deeply interested in continuing close relations, and there was, the people knowledgeable about the meeting said, a lot to talk about at the Dec. 12 Trump Tower meeting. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about sensitive issues.

Rumaihi was one of several Qatari officials accompanying the minister. Five days earlier, he had first encountered Cohen at a breakfast fundraiser in New York, where businessmen and transition officials were chatting about the new administration and exchanging contact information. The two also met later in the week at a New York hotel restaurant, where Cohen discussed Trump’s plans to solicit investment in a massive U.S. domestic infrastructure program.

Rumaihi told him that Qatar expected to invest in the program, and Cohen offered to help find projects for Qatar to sponsor, in exchange for a $1 million up-front fee.

Rumaihi, these people said, declined to pay.

The subject came up again at Trump Tower, when Rumaihi and Cohen, neither of whom attended the meeting between the foreign minister and Flynn, chatted outside.

The next day in Doha, the Qatari capital, the government announced it would invest $10 billion in the infrastructure program.

Four months later, on the eve of Trump’s first presidential trip abroad to Saudi Arabia, Qatar’s main rival in the Persian Gulf neighborhood, Saudi Arabia announced it would invest $20 billion in the U.S. infrastructure fund.

It was immediately following Trump’s trip to Riyadh that the Saudis, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, said they were severing relations with Qatar and instituting a blockade of its territory. Qatar’s more eclectic and liberal foreign and domestic policies had long irritated its neighbors in the region, and Trump’s visit had apparently convinced the Saudis that he would take their side in a dispute.

Trump tweeted his support for the Saudi-led move, saying he had heard in Riyadh about Qatar’s support for terrorism. It was not until September, just before his meeting with Tamim, that Trump was convinced by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to take a more balanced view of the situation.

when did his other books come out?

Facts remains 500K and royalties for his book, are a far cry from the fortune he obtained in office. His accounts have deposits form JP chase all over them, bro.

'Songs From My Father' 1995
'The Audacity of Hope' 2006
'Change We Can Believe In' 2008
'Of Thee I Sing' ( 40-page children's book written for his daughters) 2010
(Slow your "gotcha impulses... the book was written in 2008.)


This is not going well for you.
The hole is already deeper than you are tall., and you still have the shovel in your hands...

so he wrote the book in 95......got paid AFTER his election for it.......and that's not using the office to sell things or make money?

and again, I highly doubt he has received tens of millions of dollars form selling books - if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

For real. There's a difference in an anchoring value and a ridiculous value. An anchor would be asking for a pay raise 25% above what I make now, when my goal is 10%. Ridiculous is a 100% pay raise. You won't get far negotiating like a moron.

How does:
translate to (in your words) AFTER ?

Listen... this concludes our conversation.
You either knowingly lied or ignorantly spoke from your rectal orifice- and received your correction. Changing the subject and moving the goal posts does nothing to erase the words you typed or the spanking you got.

Go talk to someone who's more willing to tolerate your foolishness.
My time is too valuable to waste even another moment on the likes of you.

next, please.
anybody would be preferable.

Even the “ Universally Hated One” ... ....

Yeah... about that-

I was an ass that day.
And I deserve this rib poke of yours.
You could have said even more, and I would have deserved that, too.


...and the word was 'despised'...

Maybe I'll look back at today's comments and see the same- but I rather doubt it.

All I have to do is look up 14 posts to see where the sump pump backed up.

Your human too Clem .... and its not like i’m an angel or anything .... ...

I wasn’t going to ever say anything about it ,,,, but sheesh u left the door so wide open with that set up ... I couldn’t resist ... *L* ...

When are elections, and when are they sworn in? Ill wait.....

If he was given the money 5 DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SWORN (January) that means he didn't get the money until after he was elected (November). So he was paid AFTER the ELECTION, which I stated. . . . . .

99% of political campaigns have books published while campaigning or before.

Can u provide me a link to the book Mr. President published before or during the campaign about his run for office ...

Thanks ... can’t wait to read it ...

Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

No link? ... i’ll go do it ...

Thanks ...

I'm CHSDawg not Google.com

I couldn't find any links for Washington, adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, taft, fdr, Dwight, hoover, harding, Wilson, teddy, nor some others. I think that 99% number mayyyyy have been made up....just a hunch.

Or I was talking about modern political campaigns. But sure, John Adams and Jefferson never wrote