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The Obama Foundation is looking for 100 unpaid volunteers to work alongside the former president’s highly paid cronies at the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens in June. Officials are pitching the no-paycheck gigs as rooted in former President Barack Obama’s legacy of civic engagement. The recruitment campaign comes after Fox …
Longtime Obama confidante’s salary exceeds leaders at Bush, Carter, Reagan and Clinton foundations As construction nears completion on the long-delayed $850 million Obama Presidential Center, federal tax filings show the Obama Foundation paid CEO Valerie Jarrett $740,000 in 2024 while several former Obama White House officials collected six-figure salaries as foundation executives. The Obama Foundation …
‘Good Luck With That’: Defense Attorney Suggests Hunter Biden Taking Stand Would Lead To Conviction Defense attorney Randy Zelin suggested that Hunter Biden taking the stand in his federal gun trial starting Monday could lead to a jury convicting him. Hunter Biden is confronting three federal gun charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss in …