$400,000

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is probably around the amount of US taxpayers money that goes to the tRump organization for each trip to Mar-a-lago. We should really have a monthly accounting of how much he making off of these trips. He should throw in the amount of $$ he makes off the Secret Service in New York as well.

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1. Right! And some are so up-in-arms O gets that for speaking at a healthcare conference

One of his pet interests.

He's a private citizen now and frankly, it's none of our business, especially since no one is screaming about all the bills trump is running up and using his trips and Melania's refusal to live with him as ways to drain some of the US Treasury into his own pocket.

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3. Any critique is "up in arms"?

Yes he is a private citizen.
A private citizen who has stated he wants to play an active role in shaping the Democratic Party of the future.
Wall St via DLC type politics is a direction I and many disdain.

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5. but we don't know

what he said in the speech.

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6. And many don't begrudge a man who went thru the horrible obstructionism and racism...

the repugs put him through, and who has two daughters to put through college.

It's his business. And btw, he has given speeches for free also. Let the man make some money speaking at a healthcare conference.

And you still didn't say anything against trumps excesses while in office, something Obama never did.

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7. I post about Trump all the time

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8. You keep calling it a healthcare conference

Is the American Nursing Association paying the bill here?

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9. It is a healthcare conference and nobody is denying who is paying the fee.

Now get on trump for his excesses in draining government funds into his own pocket while in office.

Obama getting paid for a speech is a non-issue compared to that.

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10. The most dishonest candidate in history

and our candidate ranked lower than him in polling on trustworthiness. Why was that?

After the last election, it should be pretty clear that leading Democrats being associated with paid Wall Street speeches is a loser for us. It's not a non-issue.

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11. Obama is not a candidate and Clinton actually won. You apparently haven't heard of...

Comey and Putin.

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12. So the GS speeches were a positive?

OK.

There's a complaint on another thread about Steve Kornacki going on and on about this, to the exclusion of Trump's manifold conflicts of interest and endemic corruption. Don't we know by now that it's not a level-playing field? We are held to a higher standard of behavior and it's not fair. But it's real.

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13. The speeched didnt swing the election, again, see Comey and Putin. And again O is not a candidate.

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2. Methinks thou doth protest too much...

Lots and lots of defending, even without somebody else bringing it up.

Ought'a tell you something...

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4. I'm for that!