• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    releasing a book after you leave office

    He released his books during his campaign for President and profited enormously of the residuals and subsequent compound return on investments.

    funnel taxpayer money into your own businesses, your friends and family’s business, solicit blatant bribes from both corporations and foreign countries, manipulating the stock market to enable insider trading, and on top of all that making bets on your own actions…

    The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions

    I’ll spot you that Obama didn’t pocket nearly as much as he could have. But it is crazy to suggest a man who has become a fixture of the Wall Street speaking circuit didn’t profit from the bank bailouts he oversaw.

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      He released his books during his campaign for President

      He released his presidential memoir in November of 2020. 4 years after he left office. His previous book was 4 years before he ran for president.

      Try again.

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          Books

          Obama, Barack (1995). Dreams from My Father. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-2343-8.

          (2006). The Audacity of Hope. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-23769-9.

          (2010). Of Thee I Sing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-83527-8.

          (2020). A Promised Land. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-5247-6316-9.[538]

          So 2010 was a children’s book. Yup. Whopping 40 pages. Illustrated. And “Obama finished writing the book in 2008, after he was elected but before taking office.[5]”

          And his memoir was 2020.

          Your own link.