Just hours before Trump’s inaugural, Obama showed what he’s really interested in and what he really cares about – he stabbed our Middle East ally in the back one final time.
Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday. The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
The Palestinian Authority doesn’t care about Palestinians and only uses the money it extorts from countries in order to fund more terror attacks on Israel, but Obama decided to toss them more of our tax money anyway. I guess he wanted to make sure that more money got into terrorists’ hands since all those billions released to Iran just wasn’t enough.
But he didn’t stop there!! The secret spending spree continued, according to the anonymous source to the AP:
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organizations, the congressional aides said. The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.
Must be great to be able to spend other people’s money – we won’t be missing this guy at all.