when you add the Obamas’s Netflix money to the Penguin Random House money, the ex-President is off to a great start in the race to match the Clintons and their foundations.
the Netflix Dem donor who brokered the deal for the Obamas was, unsurprisingly, involved in the Leonardo DiCaprio deal with its promise of more global warming propaganda!
March 2015: Variety: Leonardo DiCaprio to Partner with Netflix on New Documentaries
The partnership, which includes DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company, will focus on environmental and conservation themes. The actor, an ardent environmentalist, will be a producer or executive producer on all projects...
DiCaprio was named as a U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change in September, and addressed the U.N. Climate Change Summit...
“This partnership is a natural extension of our incredible relationship with Leo on ‘Virunga,’” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos...
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-netflix-documentaries-1201446106/
Sarandos’s wife:
2012: Hollywood Reporter: Obama Dispatches Former Diplomat to Mend Hollywood Ties and Raise Campaign Funds (Exclusive)
Former Bahamas Ambassador Nicole Avant returns home to help fix the president’s troubled relationship with the entertainment industry. At least three meet-and-greet fundraisers are planned for his reelection campaign...
Nicole Avant, the daughter of longtime music executive and Democratic activist Clarence Avant, was one of Obama’s earliest and most dedicated Hollywood supporters — raising millions for the president’s 2008 campaign.
She was rewarded with a plum diplomatic post, which she has now put aside to support the president’s reelection in the city where she grew up...
Avant, with her deep ties to both the Democratic party and the entertainment industry, is being called upon to patch things over and rekindle at least some of Hollywood enthusiasm for Obama.
To that end, Avant and her husband, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, will host a major fundraiser attended by first lady Michelle Obama at their Beverly Hills home on January 31...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-diplomat-hollywood-bahamas-ambassador-278078
Obama doesn’t even have to pretend to be doing charitable work. They just give him the money. Remember when he had a mansion in Hawaii gifted to him when he was just starting out as resident (I think it was promised to him for after he was out of office)? I wonder what happened to that. Probably one of his smaller homes. It’s great how people with nothing get rich off the presidency.