Donald Trump tells Democrats to investigate Obama book deals and Netflix contract AND ‘slush fund’ that uses taxpayer money for staff sexual harassment payouts as House committees continue to pound him

Monday, September 16, 2019
By Paul Martin

Trump wants congressional probe into Obama book and Netflix deals
Netflix production contract links former president with executives who bundled massive amounts of money for his re-election campaign
Congressional ‘slush fund’ has paid out millions in taxpayer money to settle workplace complaints on Capitol Hill, including sexual harassment cases
Trump is frustrated that Democrats continue to pursue investigations after the Mueller report largely cleared him

By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
DAILYMAIL.COM
16 September 2019

Donald Trump lashed out at his Democratic inquisitors in Congress on Monday, saying that if they have run out of fertile ground related to Robert Mueller’s campaign-collusion report, they should look into Barack Obama’s post-presidency windfalls and a once-secret source of payoff money for sexual harassment accusers on Capitol Hill.

The president’s predecessor is expected to collect up to $50 million from Netflix as part of a deal with his new production company, High Ground Productions, struck to produce films and TV shows. Barack and Michelle Obama also inked book deals that included $65 million in advance payments in 2017.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have complained about a little-known ‘Office of Compliance’ inside Congress that pays out settlements with taxpayer dollars in cases of sexual harassment and other complaints that would otherwise end up in civil court.

‘Look at the Obama Book Deal, or the ridiculous Netflix deal. Then look at all the deals made by the Dems in Congress, the “Congressional Slush Fund,” and lastly the IG Reports. Take a look at them. Those investigations would be over FAST!

In 2017 the Office of Compliance reported that taxpayers had been on the hook for $174,000 in payments to settle workplace disputes over sexual harassment in the House of Representatives. That’s a small part of the $17 million the office has paid out overall in cases related to a wide range of offenses.

Trump vented at the Obamas in July, marveling to reporters that Republicans in Congress never regarded them with the same level of suspicion that Democrats how show him.

‘We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president,’ he said in the Oval Office. ‘Let’s look into Obama the way they’ve looked at me.’

‘From day one, they’ve looked into everything that we’ve done. They could look into the book deal that President Obama made. Let’s subpoena all of his records.’

Republicans have groused that the Netflix deal, in particular, is a continuation of a political patronage arrangement with the company’s creative content chief Ted Sarandos, who, along with his wife, bundled about $600,000 in Obama campaign contributions.

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