This is Judge Joe Brown, and he said the richest man to ever be U.S. President is not Donald Trump, but Barack Obama.
“You know how,” Judge Brown asked Stephanie Scurlock, anchor/reporter for WREG-TV (Memphis, TN). “His adopted father Lolo Soetoro was one of the 10 to 15 richest men on earth. And when he died he left a trust fund in Indonesia with three equal beneficiaries, Barack Obama —then known as Barry Soetoro because he was adopted— and his two siblings.”
Judge Brown told broadcast journalist Scurlock on November 22, 2019 (see source 1) that former President Obama has a whole false claim about his background.
“But when he got in the White House, he’d been working for a law firm that represented his daddy. He got lauded by Goldman Sachs who financed most of his daddy’s American investments. He protected British Petroleum when they had the blowout in the Gulf. Because guess what? His trust fund had heavy investments in BP,” Brown said.
Unfortunately Scurlock didn’t ask additional questions what Judge Brown told her and Memphis viewers last month.
But more than a month later Judge Brown, an American arbitration-based reality court show which aired for 15 seasons (see source 2), expanded on these revelations.
Curtis Scoon, a screenplay writer and producer (see source 3), interviewed Judge Brown (see source 4). The former Shelby County, Tennessee criminal court judge talked about a variety of topics and current events. At the 1:13:07 mark, Scoon asked: “...Do you think black people are missing an opportunity with [President] Trump?”
“Oh yeah,” Brown said gleefully. “See you’ve got somebody that is not a lifetime Republican. He’s been a Blue Dog [centrist] Democrat for most of his life. He usurped the Republican Party. So I think —this thing I’ve been tweeting about, ‘NO BENEFIT; NO VOTE’ ought to be the deal. We haven’t gotten a damn thing out of the Democratic Party for a long time. And the last one —Number 44 and the one before that, 43, Bush and Obama…
“…Well, there are pictures of Bush with his arm around eight-year-old Barack Obama because his step-daddy —adopted daddy, Lolo Soetoro— had done a lifetime worth of business with the Bush’s. Ah, Uncle George Herbert Walker, after whom George Herbert Walker Bush, Bush One President was named, founded Halliburton in 1946 in Oklahoma. And Lolo Soetoro had been international executive Vice President for Standard Oil,”’Brown said.
“There was talk of him [Soetoro] being a CIA asset,” Scoon interjected.
“Well yes, you see, he [Soetoro] ran the death squads for the Indonesian Army. On his own call anyone could be assassinated.
“So when George Herbert Walker Bush became head of the CIA under the Ford Administration, he just got with his old buddy in the oil business —Lolo Soetoro— and pulled off the hits.
“See, uh, Barack’s grandmother has been acknowledged as being the woman that operated the channels through which CIA money went to the Southwest Pacific,” said Brown.
Brown’s assertion was corroborated by Juan O’Savin, a QAnon researcher. O’Savin said during an interview that was posted on YouTube on July 28, 2019 (see source 5) that Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines was a CIA asset. Obama’s grandmother handled Marcos’ finances in the U.S. when the Filipino President was ousted.
Judge Brown continued. “So she introduced her daughter, who had just had Barry/Barack, to Lolo Soetoro and they got married and Lolo Soetoro adopted Barack Obama. The name was changed to Barry Soetoro.
“Now when he [Barry Soetoro] went to high school [Punahou School, known as Oahu College until 1934] in Hawaii. I know about that high school. I almost sent my oldest son to it. I could afford it, but I didn’t think that he deserved it. Twenty years ago the tuition was $95,000 a year, not including room and board. When Obama went there —I’ve talked to two of his classmates— they independently state that the tuition, not including room and board, was $45,000.
“Now Business Insider reports his [Barack Obama] income for 2017 at over $200 million net. That’s after taxes, deductions [and] right-offs. For this last year, 2018, they reported it as 570-plus million dollars, and that’s after all of deductions, tax right...
“…Trump doesn’t make that net. I mean, even some of the richest people in America don’t make that, why? Because when his [Barack Obama] step-daddy died he was one of the ten/15 richest men on earth, and he left everything in a trust fund, operated out of Indonesia so the American government can’t touch it.
“This makes Barack Obama one-third beneficiary for the assets of one of the 10-15 richest men on earth.
“You see so —we got a game run on us,” Brown said.
“So, you know that little thing that Bush W. does when he gets with Michelle, they giggle, and he gives her candy? The inside thing is that’s supposed to be the same kind of candy he used to give her husband when he was six, seven, eight years old.
“So you know, the Democrats, the Republicans —nobody’s done much of anything for black folk. The Republicans are just been a right-off, but they’re anxious for votes now. The Democratic Party —I mean, more power to em, but if you vote for the Democrats you’ve given LGBTQ, etc., the end. So we [black people] get nothing out of it.
Yes, there is a direct link, but not quite exactly as Judge Brown laid out.
George Herbert Walker became President of W.A. Harriman in 1920. W.A. Harriman bought controlling interest of Dresser Industries in 1928. Dresser was a rival of Halliburton's but merged with Halliburton in 1998. More on that coming up.
From the Wiki article on Dresser Industries -
Dresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources. In 1998, Dresser merged with its main rival Halliburton.
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Following Dresser's death, his descendants decided to sell it, and in 1928 the Wall Street investment-banking firm ofW. A. Harriman and Company, Inc.,converted the firm into a public company by issuing 300,000 shares of stock.H. Neil Mallonwas selected as president and chief executive officer; he held that position until his retirement in 1962. Under Mallon, Dresser began a program of acquisitions designed to help it survive the threat posed to its core business by the introduction of welding for joining pipes together. Starting in 1930 Dresser began acquiring companies that manufactured valves, heaters, pumps, engines and compressors and the company diversified into such products as oil derricks, blowers, drill bits, refractories, and drilling mud.
George H.W. Bush's son Neil is named after Henry Neil Mallon.
Obituary - Henry Mallon, Head Of Dresser Industries
Henry Neil Mallon, who built Dresser Industries from an obscure pipeline equipment concern to a world leader in energy-related products, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 88 years old.
Vice President Bush, in a statement released from his office in Washington, said: ''Neil Mallon shaped my whole life. He gave me my first job and, when I started my first business, he was at my side sharing his vast experience. We'll miss him.''
Mr. Mallon was recruited as president of Dresser in 1928 while it was still in Pennsylvania, employed about 200 people and had resources of about $2 million.
His leadership brought rapid growth to the company, whose name was changed in 1944 to Dresser Industries. A year later, its headquarters was moved to Cleveland. In 1950, the company moved to Dallas.
Dresser currently employs 40,000 people in North America and reported earnings of $172.3 million in 1982 on revenues of $4.16 billion.
Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries in 1998. This merger actually crashed Halliburton's stock prices by ~80% due to asbestos related lawsuits filed against Dresser in 2001. Think about what this meant when Halliburton stocks soared due to Operation Desert Storm (Iraq War) related contracts...
Halliburton Blues
The Republicans' reputation for business acumen has taken a Texas-size beating in recent months. First there was Enron. Now come persistent rumors that Halliburton, another Texas energy company with Republican ties, might be joining it in Chapter 11.
Halliburton has consistently denied it will be forced into bankruptcy by asbestos-related lawsuits against its Dresser Industries subsidiary. But with asbestos class actions having already forced USG and W.R. Grace into bankruptcy, investors are understandably nervous. Since May 2001, Halliburton stock has plummeted 73%.
Here's more on the merger, showing the ties to the Bush family -
In 1998, Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries, which included Kellogg. Prescott Bush was a director of Dresser Industries, which is now part of Halliburton; his son, former president George H. W. Bush, worked for Dresser Industries in several positions from 1948 to 1951, before he founded Zapata Corporation.
So in typical lazy reporter fashion, none of them made this connection and asked "W" about it when Halliburton was given the contract for all that work in Iraq.
I'd argue in typical lazy reporter fashion, they set up the narrative Washington refused to bailout Halliburton in 2001 because of optics and ignored all the insider traders in Congress buying up the stock at firesale prices because they knew their holdings would more than quadruple in just a few short years...
The 1998 acquisition of Dresser was negotiated by Vice President Dick Cheney, then Halliburton's CEO. Analysts say Cheney isn't to blame. "He couldn't have anticipated that juries would start to award huge amounts of money in asbestos cases," says Poe Fratt, an oil analyst at A.G. Edwards. But Fratt does think Cheney is a liability for shareholders. Congress could step in and limit corporate exposure to asbestos suits or make jury awards tax deductible. But given the mood in Washington these days, no politician wants to be criticized for bailing out the veep's former company at taxpayer expense. "There's a snowball's chance in hell that asbestos legislation gets any traction," says Fratt, "especially in an election year."
I think this will be one of those "difficult truths" alluded to by a certain someone. I still have a bit of a hard time with it, I will admit. Not the money part once getting out of office, but just how far back the relationships go...and the show they put on "fighting" with each other when in office but then everyone is hunky dory after the fact.
This is Judge Joe Brown, and he said the richest man to ever be U.S. President is not Donald Trump, but Barack Obama.
“You know how,” Judge Brown asked Stephanie Scurlock, anchor/reporter for WREG-TV (Memphis, TN). “His adopted father Lolo Soetoro was one of the 10 to 15 richest men on earth. And when he died he left a trust fund in Indonesia with three equal beneficiaries, Barack Obama —then known as Barry Soetoro because he was adopted— and his two siblings.”
Judge Brown told broadcast journalist Scurlock on November 22, 2019 (see source 1) that former President Obama has a whole false claim about his background.
“But when he got in the White House, he’d been working for a law firm that represented his daddy. He got lauded by Goldman Sachs who financed most of his daddy’s American investments. He protected British Petroleum when they had the blowout in the Gulf. Because guess what? His trust fund had heavy investments in BP,” Brown said.
Unfortunately Scurlock didn’t ask additional questions what Judge Brown told her and Memphis viewers last month.
But more than a month later Judge Brown, an American arbitration-based reality court show which aired for 15 seasons (see source 2), expanded on these revelations.
Curtis Scoon, a screenplay writer and producer (see source 3), interviewed Judge Brown (see source 4). The former Shelby County, Tennessee criminal court judge talked about a variety of topics and current events. At the 1:13:07 mark, Scoon asked: “...Do you think black people are missing an opportunity with [President] Trump?”
“Oh yeah,” Brown said gleefully. “See you’ve got somebody that is not a lifetime Republican. He’s been a Blue Dog [centrist] Democrat for most of his life. He usurped the Republican Party. So I think —this thing I’ve been tweeting about, ‘NO BENEFIT; NO VOTE’ ought to be the deal. We haven’t gotten a damn thing out of the Democratic Party for a long time. And the last one —Number 44 and the one before that, 43, Bush and Obama…
“…Well, there are pictures of Bush with his arm around eight-year-old Barack Obama because his step-daddy —adopted daddy, Lolo Soetoro— had done a lifetime worth of business with the Bush’s. Ah, Uncle George Herbert Walker, after whom George Herbert Walker Bush, Bush One President was named, founded Halliburton in 1946 in Oklahoma. And Lolo Soetoro had been international executive Vice President for Standard Oil,”’Brown said.
“There was talk of him [Soetoro] being a CIA asset,” Scoon interjected.
“Well yes, you see, he [Soetoro] ran the death squads for the Indonesian Army. On his own call anyone could be assassinated.
“So when George Herbert Walker Bush became head of the CIA under the Ford Administration, he just got with his old buddy in the oil business —Lolo Soetoro— and pulled off the hits.
“See, uh, Barack’s grandmother has been acknowledged as being the woman that operated the channels through which CIA money went to the Southwest Pacific,” said Brown.
Brown’s assertion was corroborated by Juan O’Savin, a QAnon researcher. O’Savin said during an interview that was posted on YouTube on July 28, 2019 (see source 5) that Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines was a CIA asset. Obama’s grandmother handled Marcos’ finances in the U.S. when the Filipino President was ousted.
Judge Brown continued. “So she introduced her daughter, who had just had Barry/Barack, to Lolo Soetoro and they got married and Lolo Soetoro adopted Barack Obama. The name was changed to Barry Soetoro.
“Now when he [Barry Soetoro] went to high school [Punahou School, known as Oahu College until 1934] in Hawaii. I know about that high school. I almost sent my oldest son to it. I could afford it, but I didn’t think that he deserved it. Twenty years ago the tuition was $95,000 a year, not including room and board. When Obama went there —I’ve talked to two of his classmates— they independently state that the tuition, not including room and board, was $45,000.
“Now Business Insider reports his [Barack Obama] income for 2017 at over $200 million net. That’s after taxes, deductions [and] right-offs. For this last year, 2018, they reported it as 570-plus million dollars, and that’s after all of deductions, tax right...
“…Trump doesn’t make that net. I mean, even some of the richest people in America don’t make that, why? Because when his [Barack Obama] step-daddy died he was one of the ten/15 richest men on earth, and he left everything in a trust fund, operated out of Indonesia so the American government can’t touch it.
“This makes Barack Obama one-third beneficiary for the assets of one of the 10-15 richest men on earth.
“You see so —we got a game run on us,” Brown said.
“So, you know that little thing that Bush W. does when he gets with Michelle, they giggle, and he gives her candy? The inside thing is that’s supposed to be the same kind of candy he used to give her husband when he was six, seven, eight years old.
“So you know, the Democrats, the Republicans —nobody’s done much of anything for black folk. The Republicans are just been a right-off, but they’re anxious for votes now. The Democratic Party —I mean, more power to em, but if you vote for the Democrats you’ve given LGBTQ, etc., the end. So we [black people] get nothing out of it.
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive2.cgi?read=137830
Link to video of above at YouTube (entire interview worth listening to, but I timestamped it for your convenience) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoZLtJZ1_k4&t=4387s
Is that direct link between the Bush's and Halliburton true? If so, that's a major eye-opener for me, and would be for a whole lot of "normies".
Yes, there is a direct link, but not quite exactly as Judge Brown laid out.
George Herbert Walker became President of W.A. Harriman in 1920. W.A. Harriman bought controlling interest of Dresser Industries in 1928. Dresser was a rival of Halliburton's but merged with Halliburton in 1998. More on that coming up.
From the Wiki article on Dresser Industries -
Dresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources. In 1998, Dresser merged with its main rival Halliburton.
AND
Following Dresser's death, his descendants decided to sell it, and in 1928 the Wall Street investment-banking firm of W. A. Harriman and Company, Inc., converted the firm into a public company by issuing 300,000 shares of stock. H. Neil Mallon was selected as president and chief executive officer; he held that position until his retirement in 1962. Under Mallon, Dresser began a program of acquisitions designed to help it survive the threat posed to its core business by the introduction of welding for joining pipes together. Starting in 1930 Dresser began acquiring companies that manufactured valves, heaters, pumps, engines and compressors and the company diversified into such products as oil derricks, blowers, drill bits, refractories, and drilling mud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresser_Industries
Archived link - https://archive.ph/FFZlz
George H.W. Bush's son Neil is named after Henry Neil Mallon.
Obituary - Henry Mallon, Head Of Dresser Industries
Henry Neil Mallon, who built Dresser Industries from an obscure pipeline equipment concern to a world leader in energy-related products, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 88 years old.
Vice President Bush, in a statement released from his office in Washington, said: ''Neil Mallon shaped my whole life. He gave me my first job and, when I started my first business, he was at my side sharing his vast experience. We'll miss him.''
Mr. Mallon was recruited as president of Dresser in 1928 while it was still in Pennsylvania, employed about 200 people and had resources of about $2 million.
His leadership brought rapid growth to the company, whose name was changed in 1944 to Dresser Industries. A year later, its headquarters was moved to Cleveland. In 1950, the company moved to Dallas.
Dresser currently employs 40,000 people in North America and reported earnings of $172.3 million in 1982 on revenues of $4.16 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/03/obituaries/henry-mallon-head-of-dresser-industries.html
Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries in 1998. This merger actually crashed Halliburton's stock prices by ~80% due to asbestos related lawsuits filed against Dresser in 2001. Think about what this meant when Halliburton stocks soared due to Operation Desert Storm (Iraq War) related contracts...
Halliburton Blues
The Republicans' reputation for business acumen has taken a Texas-size beating in recent months. First there was Enron. Now come persistent rumors that Halliburton, another Texas energy company with Republican ties, might be joining it in Chapter 11.
Halliburton has consistently denied it will be forced into bankruptcy by asbestos-related lawsuits against its Dresser Industries subsidiary. But with asbestos class actions having already forced USG and W.R. Grace into bankruptcy, investors are understandably nervous. Since May 2001, Halliburton stock has plummeted 73%.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/03/01/318586/index.htm
Archived link - https://archive.ph/t6pit
Here's more on the merger, showing the ties to the Bush family -
In 1998, Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries, which included Kellogg. Prescott Bush was a director of Dresser Industries, which is now part of Halliburton; his son, former president George H. W. Bush, worked for Dresser Industries in several positions from 1948 to 1951, before he founded Zapata Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton
Archived link -https://archive.ph/ayexr
So in typical lazy reporter fashion, none of them made this connection and asked "W" about it when Halliburton was given the contract for all that work in Iraq.
I'd argue in typical lazy reporter fashion, they set up the narrative Washington refused to bailout Halliburton in 2001 because of optics and ignored all the insider traders in Congress buying up the stock at firesale prices because they knew their holdings would more than quadruple in just a few short years...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/03/01/318586/index.htm
Archived link - https://archive.ph/t6pit
I think this will be one of those "difficult truths" alluded to by a certain someone. I still have a bit of a hard time with it, I will admit. Not the money part once getting out of office, but just how far back the relationships go...and the show they put on "fighting" with each other when in office but then everyone is hunky dory after the fact.
Judge Joe Brown is based AF...I've always liked him..(I actually just watched this last week😁)