Rev. Jeremiah Wright Says Obama Offered Him Hush Money In 2008
(ill news) Look at the timing that Rev. Wright has. He must be one bitter brother, because he has waited for an election year to again attempt to prevent the president from getting reelected. Rev. claims that the Obama’s camp offered him quite a lot of money for him to be quiet until the elections were over. As you should know, Wright was the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and he presided over the church that the then-Senator was a member of. A new book, the unauthorized Obama biography, The Amateur, charges that they offered him good money via email if he’d only keep his damn mouth shut. We know now that he didn’t. The author of the book charges it all went down like this: “Who sent the e-mail?” Klein asked Wright. “It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.” “He offered you money?” “Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.” “How much money did he offer you?” “One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said. “Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?” “Yes,” Wright said. “Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, ‘You’re used to coming to my home, you’ve been here countless times, so what’s wrong with coming to my home?’ So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don’t know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere. “And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’ “And what did you say?” I asked. “I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’ “Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’ And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician.’ “And he said, ‘It’s going to get worse if you go out there and speak. It’s really going to get worse.’ “And he was so right.”
