Bertelsmann — the German publishing house with Third Reich roots and the Mohn family at its center. The sequence of events deserves a much closer look:
- Bertelsmann paid junior Senator Barack Obama between $2 and $3 million for his books Dreams of My Father and The Audacity of Hope.
- The same month Obama took office in January 2009, Bertelsmann established a 501(c)(3) foundation in Washington, DC.
- That foundation handed the new president a 15-point policy plan whose first and only major act was a call for an Iran nuclear deal.
- After Obama left office, Bertelsmann paid him $65 million for his post-presidency book deal.
The Iran deal, wasn’t a foreign policy idea Obama happened to land on. It was an asset that European interests had paid to acquire.
They gave him a 15-point plan for what young Barack Obama, one of the youngest presidents ever to take office, should do in his first years in office. And on that list is a nuclear deal with Iran.
