Neat talking point. Where were you when about 20 of the past presidents, and even candidates, forked over years of tax filings in a transparency effort. I'm sure they would have loved your concern for their personal papers that tells so much about them. And of course you are not at all interested in Trump's business practices that scammed investors, contractors and friends, many by using and losing in the courts, so long as he continues to do whatever he does, legal or not, Constitutional or not, because he promised to drain a swamp almost as corrupt as the one he brought with him to DC.
Can you point me to Barack Obama's tax returns for the last 8 years that detail how he became such a wealthy man while president? No?
******* hypocrite.
Actually you can. And Obama did do what you are trying to claim.
Three-fourths of that money came from lucrative book deals, according to a FORBES analysis of 16 years of tax returns and financial disclosure documents. In total, Obama has earned $15.6 million as an author since arriving in Washington.
He has made $8.8 million from his bestseller
Audacity of Hope and children’s book
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters. Sales of his memoir
Dreams From My Father, originally published in 1995, also took off once he landed in the nation's capital, resulting in a $6.8 million windfall for the president. Obama made another $3.7 million from government salaries.
Over the next eight years, the Obamas made $10.8 million. Obama reported earnings of $3.1 million before taxes from his presidential salary (averaging $392,000 a year). Roughly $120,000 came from interest and dividends on investment holdings, which included U.S. treasury bills and an array of diversified funds.
The Obamas also turned into philanthropists. From 2000 to 2004, they disclosed charitable donations of just $10,770 on their tax returns, less than 1% of their total earnings. But from 2005 to 2015, they gave away $1.6 million, or 8% of their earnings.
Obama made less money every year he stayed in the Oval Office. His earnings started at $5.6 million in 2009 before dropping to $450,000 by 2015, as royalties from his books declined. He has not released his 2016 tax returns, but there is no indication that his earnings picked up during his final year in office.
How Barack Obama Has Made $20 Million Since Arriving In Washington
Trump rakes in at least
$175 million annually from commercial tenants like the state-owned Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...ing-from-the-presidency-let-us-count-the-ways