Money donated to build Obama library being
sent on to politically charged Tides group
New York Post,
by
Isabel Vincent
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
9/26/2025 8:03:23 AM
Millions of dollars sent to Barack Obama’s foundation has ended up being donated to a progressive fund that supported anti-Israel groups, accused of setting up encampments at Ivy League universities, according to public documents.
Donations to The Obama Foundation, set up by the former president to build a 19-acre campus including a museum, athletic facility and fruit and vegetable gardens in Chicago, totalling $2 million were instead sent on to Tides Foundation in 2022 and 2023, according to their latest available federal tax filings.
The cash was earmarked to “support local organizations that are working to reduce violence in communities,” according to the nonprofit’s filings.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 9/26/2025 8:09:02 AM (No. 2009184)
Ho-hum. Just more money laundering by the Dems.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/26/2025 8:37:29 AM (No. 2009192)
That Barack. A real class act.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/26/2025 8:37:55 AM (No. 2009193)
This is what is being done since Trump cut the government "aid" money that was going to the dem NGOs. The dems are desperate for money since both the "aid" money and private donations have dried up. Tides will fund them although this is just a drop in the bucket.
Of course this is a one shot. BO is no longer on the big donation list. If people donating to his "library" find it is going to Tides, they may not help any more. After all, if they had wanted to donate to Tides, they could have done so directly. Further, when it was coming from the government, it was an almost automatic annual donation to dem causes. Private donations to specific causes need to be chased every year.
Dems play a game as to who owes what so the DNC doesn't owe that much but Future Forward, a major Democratic-leaning super PAC, reported almost $50 million in debt at the end of 2024. That's where the balance of Kamalalala's campaign debts have probably ended up. That will have to be dealt with before 2026 midterm funding can be freed up.
The RNC, on the other hand, has about $60 million in assets, mid 2025.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Muguy 9/26/2025 9:07:28 AM (No. 2009204)
Misappropriation of funds????
Nah-- Just NoBama attempting to "fundamentally change" everything the system with OPM-- other people's money
Looking for the information to come out about him and Clapper using a weaponized intelligence apparatus to derail the 2016 TRUMP administration before he was even sworn in...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/26/2025 9:09:52 AM (No. 2009206)
I wonder how much they will get from the biden foundation.
yuk
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 9/26/2025 9:32:13 AM (No. 2009225)
"...uggghhh, at some point you've made enough money!"
B. Hussein
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janjan 9/26/2025 9:45:53 AM (No. 2009232)
That’s got to be the ugliest building I’ve ever seen.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2025 9:59:55 AM (No. 2009240)
I believe Teeresa Heinz Kerry was/is new-deep in the Tides Foundation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/26/2025 10:10:47 AM (No. 2009251)
It only takes a few hundred bucks to build a 3 story OUT HOUSE, Obie gets to live on the first floor!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Namma 9/26/2025 10:41:12 AM (No. 2009270)
The builders should just quit. Walk away. Leave that fugley building stand there, unfinished. Great symbol of hussien and his administration
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/26/2025 10:53:14 AM (No. 2009274)
Since the money didn’t go where it should’ve gone, the donors should demand their money back.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2025 11:02:35 AM (No. 2009279)
Do they have earthquakes in Chicago?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2025 11:40:48 AM (No. 2009308)
Everything about The Zero is fraudulent and evil.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
legalart 9/26/2025 11:41:36 AM (No. 2009309)
So who cares? Because the question is, Anyone going to do something about this? Answer: NO. The scam will continue; remember Barry's skin color keeps him unscathed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/26/2025 12:13:50 PM (No. 2009328)
Can you say RICO, boys and girls? I knew you could!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/26/2025 12:24:26 PM (No. 2009341)
Per #7. Wow, you are right. It looks like an old Soviet apartment building without windows but even uglier.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/26/2025 12:35:40 PM (No. 2009346)
I know my donation to the Hussein Obama foundation didn't go to Tides because I didn't make any donation to the Hussein founndation and they will be drinking sweet iced Tea in hell before I do.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 9/26/2025 12:37:37 PM (No. 2009348)
Is that legal to funnel the money donated to a "library" to a political organization?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/26/2025 1:13:28 PM (No. 2009371)
Re#18. Its probably legal. Even if its not.....when has that stopped a Democrat?
USAID anyone??
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
privateer 9/26/2025 2:08:34 PM (No. 2009388)
Isn't the Tides Foundation connected with POSoros? It seems like Glenn Beck had that on his Follow The Networks chart.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/26/2025 2:16:36 PM (No. 2009392)
#8 is correct. I, too, picture the beauteous Dead-ay-zuh Heinz Kerry behind the scenes, plotting against the hated Right. That Ubama Library monstrosity is really quite horrible, a tasteless, artless money sink, sure to lower real estate prices in the area.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 9/26/2025 3:38:59 PM (No. 2009421)
How much does anyone want to bet, at least some of the money 'doled out' as contributions to pay for Obama's library, was initially taxpayer money going out the door in the form of USAID?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
danu 9/26/2025 5:06:04 PM (No. 2009461)
the pile of poo they are pleased to call a library does exaggerate the old saying, ugly is as ugly does.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
danu 9/26/2025 5:11:02 PM (No. 2009462)
possibly -12- the lore is mrs o'leary's cow took a kick, or a run, at burning down the city .
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/27/2025 7:21:34 AM (No. 2009614)
The city is burning itself down now. The cow left a long time ago because the place was not fit to live in.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/27/2025 8:28:46 AM (No. 2009661)
Does Obama claim the "donation " to Tides as a deduction on his taxes? Sounds like a Democrat thing. Use money donated by someone else to donate to somewhere and claim their money as your donation/deduction.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 9/27/2025 9:30:52 AM (No. 2009703)
I hope the donors realize this bait and switch.
Not the first time, either.
Sheeple are so easy to manipulate.
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I don't think I have ever used the acronym LMAO, but this seems the perfect occasion for it.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/27/2025 2:19:54 PM (No. 2009814)
Well, anyone stupid enough to give money to the 0bama building fund deserves to have it actually go elsewhere. In a case like this, I agree with my old pal William Claude Dukenfield: "Never Give A Sucker An Even Break.".
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 9/27/2025 3:07:35 PM (No. 2009825)
Typical Democrat shenanigans. They can’t be trusted.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
thefield 9/27/2025 7:47:04 PM (No. 2009890)
Is embezzlement the correct word?
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