Will Obama donate book deals/$400K Wall Street speeches money to injured vets/drone victims?

[enhanced_deficit]

Will Obama donate money from his book deals/ $400K Wall Street speeches to wounded veterans of Afghan war & other wars he escalated/started, drone attacks innocent victims?
Should he?
President Bush is giving money from his book deal to US military veterans wounded in Iraq/Afghan wars.

There is no announcement from Obama so far. Speculation about Obama donating this money was apparently started by pro-Bush Fox news hosts:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDFFzKIavU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HDFFzKIavU

George W. Bush highlights military veterans in new book 'Portraits of Courage'

Feb. 27, 2017
https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/201702/tdy_gw_bush_vets_170227.today-inline-vid-featured-desktop.jpg

Bush will donate proceeds of the book, which can be pre-ordered online, to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, a non-profit organization that helps post-Sept. 11 veterans and their families make successful transitions to civilian life.


RELATED: Former president George W. Bush to appear on TODAY for his 'Portraits of Courage' book

(http://www.today.com/news/former-president-george-w-bush-appear-today-his-portraits-courage-t108308) Army Sgt. Major Christopher Self, Army First Lt. Melissa Stockwell, Army Sgt. First Class Michael Rodriguez and Air Force Master Sgt. Israel Del Toro appeared alongside Bush to speak about their lives after the military. They later continued the conversation in a Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/today/videos/vb.12566691349/10155071298751350/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video_explicit&notif_id=1488202014665022) interview.


http://www.today.com/news/george-w-bush-book-portraits-courage-honors-veterans-t108629




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The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan Occured on Obama's Watch (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?427493-The-12-Year-War-73-of-U-S-Casualties-in-Afghanistan-on-Obama-s-Watch&p=5221296#post5221296)

Elizabeth Warren: Obama was wrong. The system is more rigged than you know (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?510133-Elizabeth-Warren-Obama-was-wrong-The-system-is-more-rigged-than-you-know&)
“Money slithers through Washington like a snake...the influence is everywhere.”

Sanders: Obama's $400K Wall Street speech 'unfortunate'
04/28/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...00k-for-speech (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/331042-sanders-unfortunate-that-obama-accepting-400k-for-speech)

(http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?482652-Money-drenched-in-blood-Pope-scolds-Congress-for-US-made-weapons-sold-around-the-world&)Money drenched in blood: Pope scolds Congress for US made weapons sold around the world (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?482652-Money-drenched-in-blood-Pope-scolds-Congress-for-US-made-weapons-sold-around-the-world&)


Pastor Wright: Obama a puppet of bankers (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?510054#post6458352)
https://truthinmediablog.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/wall-st-for-obama.png

[Ender]

Has Bush? He has donated some- but also pocketed millions.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/on-talk-circuit-george-bush-makes-millions-but-few-waves-118697

[kpitcher]

A quick amazon check shows George W Bush has written 6 or more books since he started 2 wars. I don't see any info about him donating any money of any books other than this last one, which is about our soldiers, to vets.

[enhanced_deficit]

Ok, I stand corrected, so Bush also profiteered after his wars torn Presidency. In that case Obama will be behaving like Bush on his book deals if he only gave one of his books proceeds to cause of veterans wounded by wars he oversaw.
I had also just assumed that Bush did not make big checks from speeches to Wall Street, will need to look up that also to validate that assumption.

[rpfocus]

Ok, I stand corrected, so Bush also profiteered after his wars torn Presidency.

And Trump is profiting from the presidency within a few months of taking office, as well as giving crony positions to his daughter and son in law. Not interested in that though, right? Heh. As if Obama for some reason wasn't going to cash in like almost every modern president before him has?

[enhanced_deficit]

There will be plenty of time to address regular corruption issues, primary focus of this discussion was "money drenched in blood" involving leaders who led US into wars. These are not regular Joes making a little dough as a side gig after quitting their main jobs.

As for Trump, who says he's exempt from criticism?

Controversial critique of President Trump (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?510143-TRUMP-I-m-a-nationalist-and-a-globalist-I-m-both&p=6459920&viewfull=1#post6459920)

Trump repeating Obama's Afghan failures? 100+ US funded soldiers killed a week after MOAB drop (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509979-Trump-repeating-Obama-s-Afghan-failures-100-US-funded-soldiers-killed-a-week-after-MOAB-drop&)



He has mixed record in first couple of months and there tends to be lot of initial fakenews mixed with real news in media. Time will tell about the dominant character of his Presidency, just not quite ready to award him Nobel Peace prize yet so quickly based on such brief record.

[enhanced_deficit]

Trump pledges to donate $1 million of personal money to Harvey relief (http://kdvr.com/2017/08/31/trump-pledges-to-donate-1-million-of-personal-money-to-harvey-relief/)
FOX31 Denver Aug 31, 2017

This would put pressure on other high profile figures Obama, Clinton, Bush and others who can afford to make donations from their personal wealth.
Bush's fortunes seem to have dwindled down and only recent reported activity has been his painting art work that may not fetch big bucks. Obama may be in better position to match Trump's donation thanks to his Wall Street speeches deals gigs and winnings from Nobel Peace prize.



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http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...k-obama-food-/ (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/aug/28/blog-posting/outdated-photo-wrongly-suggests-barack-obama-food-/)

[Raginfridus]

No, he should do with his money what he pleases, but I hope that means charity (since we paid him). I don't like Bush or Obama anymore than the next red-blooded, freedom loving man, but the book profits are theirs to keep. Yeah, its profiteering and grandstanding, deflecting controversy for the current warmonger-in-chief, maybe also clearing the conscience, but voters ultimately went along.