Lara Trump Says Taxpayers Funded the Obama Presidential Center. They Did Not

Lara Trump (right), the wife of President Donald Trump’s third child Eric Trump, spread misinformation on Fox News last week during the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, using the platform to score political points with the far-right.

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Lara Trump has come under fire after claiming the recently opened Obama Presidential Center was funded by taxpayer dollars. However, per the Chicago Sun-Times, the center was funded entirely through private donations, including $125 million from AirBnB co-founder Brian Chesky and $100 million from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

“Yeah, the whole thing from start to finish has kind of been a disaster, right? It’s ugly to look at, it’s over budget, the taxpayers are footing the bill, apparently, for parts of this, and then they had to open the ceremony with this performative morality, virtue signal,” Trump said of the $850 million compound on Fox News.

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