Isn’t it kind of amazing how “scandal free Obama” got away with conning Indonesia and Ethiopia into buying the Boeing 737 max 8 airplanes that has resulted in the deaths of 346 people? Why is this a big deal? Because Boeing just happened to donate $10 to the Obama library in Chicago and in return Obama dropped his $400,000 speaking fee at Boeing leadership retreat at a swank resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Kind of amazing how much money can buy. Obama is responsible for the deaths of 346 people, yet no one raises an eyebrow? Imagine if Trump had forced Indonesia and Ethiopia to buy these faulty Boeing planes, 346 people died, then Boeing donates $10 million to the Trump presidential library.
| Boeing gave Obama library $10 million after leaving off and approving Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane for Indonesia |
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In November 2011, in Bali, Indonesia, President Obama announced an agreement between Boeing and Lion Air.
“For the last several days I’ve been talking about how we have to make sure that we’ve got a presence in this region, that it can result directly in jobs at home,” Obama said.
“And what we see here — a multibillion-dollar deal between Lion Air — one of the fastest-growing airlines not just in the region, but in the world — and Boeing is going to result in over 100,000 jobs back in the United States of America, over a long period of time.”
“This represents the largest deal, if I’m not mistaken, that Boeing has ever done. We are looking at over 200 planes that are going to be sold.”
In September 2014, Obama met with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia at the White House.
“We’re strong trading partners,” Obama said. “And most recently, Boeing has done a deal with Ethiopia, which will result in jobs here in the United States.”
“I’m expecting a gold watch from Boeing at the end of my presidency because I know I’m on the list of top salesmen at Boeing,” Obama said at an export forum at the White House in September 2013.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Boeing donated $10 million to the Obama presidential library and museum in Chicago. And earlier this year, Obama dropped in to speak to a Boeing leadership retreat at a swank resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Obama gratefully waived his $400,000 speaking fee.
While pushing the sale of Boeing planes around the world, the Obama administration was at the same time fast tracking a dangerous deregulatory process at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that effectively put the corporations in charge of the safety certification process — and that in effect put Boeing in charge of certifying it’s faulty MCAS software that led to the tragedies in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The FAA certification system is known as the Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) program. Under that program, companies like Boeing can appoint their own representatives to act in the place of FAA inspectors.