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Pamela Taylor – Woman who called Michelle Obama an ‘ape in heels’ defrauded FEMA of $18K
A former West Virginia nonprofit director who called Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of thousands of dollars.
Pamela Taylor admitted to falsely registering for over $18,000 in FEMA disaster relief for a 2016 flood which was among the deadliest in West Virginia history, according to the Department of Justice.
Taylor claimed that her primary residence was damaged by the flood forcing her to stay in a rental. However, her primary residence was undamaged by the flood and she still lived there.
She agreed to pay restitution of $18,149.04 as a part of her plea agreement. She faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000 when she is sentenced in May.
“The flood was a natural disaster. Stealing from FEMA is a manmade disaster,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
Following the election of Donald Trump as president, Taylor posted on Facebook: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels.”
Taylor, who was a director of the nonprofit Clay County Development Corporation, was placed on leave after her controversial Facebook post.
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Michelle Obama says she will ‘never forgive’ Trump for putting her ‘family’s safety at risk’
- In her coming book, “Becoming,” the former first lady Michelle Obama said she would “never forgive” Donald Trump for promoting the false birther conspiracy, according to excerpts published ahead of the book’s release.
- During the 2012 US presidential election, Trump advocated the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not a US citizen and touted the demonstrably false claim that Obama’s birth certificate was not real.
- Michelle Obama reportedly called the conspiracy “crazy and mean-spirited” and said it endangered her family.
- “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington?” she wrote, according to The Washington Post. “What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk.”
Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” lays out some of the former first lady’s most damning statements on record against President Donald Trump, according to excerpts published ahead of the book’s release next week.
In the book, Obama reportedly chastised Trump for promoting what she called the “dangerous” birther conspiracy that she said jeopardized her family’s safety.
“The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” Obama wrote, according to a Washington Post review. “But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks.”
For years, even prior to the 2012 US presidential election, Trump advocated the racist conspiracy theory that questioned the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and his citizenship.
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The Obamas’ First Netflix Project Will Be Adapting This Book About the Trump Administration
The Obamas have licensed a book about the Trump administration’s incompetence, which is quite the passive-aggressive way to start out their Netflix deal. According to Deadline, Barack and Michelle have picked up the rights to Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, which describes how Trump’s animosity toward and failure to understand the basic structure of the government has left many departments severely understaffed or headed up by incompetent appointees. According to Deadline, the Obamas are considering making a possible series out of the book, which Lewis describes as a sort of “civics lesson” about how government really works — or in this case, doesn’t.
Article via Vulture
Michelle Obama Helped A Couple Exchange Their Wedding Vows
It’s not all work for former first lady Michelle Obama as she prepares for her nationwide tour to promote her new book, Becoming. On Saturday, she was on hand in her hometown to help a young couple tie the marital knot.
Stephanie Rivkin and Joel Sircus were married at Theater on the Lake in Chicago. Obama didn’t officiate the wedding, but she led the couple through their vows.
Rivkin is the daughter of Robert Rivkin, the city’s deputy mayor, and Cindy Moelis, the president of a charity organization founded by Penny Pritzker, who served under President Barack Obama. Pritzker, a longtime friend of the Obamas, also was one of the president’s major financial contritbutors.
Check out footage of part of the wedding ceremony in the video from TMZ here: Michelle Obama Helped A Couple Exchange Their Wedding Vows
The Obamas just signed a multiyear deal to make shows and movies for Netflix
- Barack and Michelle Obama have entered a multiyear agreement with Netflix to produce series and features.
- The Obamas say they hope “to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples, and help them share their stories with the entire world.”
The Tan Suit Barack and Bawwwdy Michelle are coming to Netflix.
The company announced Monday that the former first couple have signed a multiyear agreement to produce films and series for Netflix. The deal can include scripted and unscripted series, as well as documentaries and features. The content will be produced by Higher Ground Productions.
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