Quote Originally Posted by Ragoczy View Post
A $500,000+ favor to a politician from a slumlord doesn't make you at all suspicious?
Particularly when said slumlord received tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state funding for building and maintaining those slums.

The funding for his travel and studies isn't that hard to explain, though: the "typical white" grandmother who raised him in Hawaii was VP of a fairly large bank, so throwing him a few $k here and there to help with tuition or fund his vacation wouldn't be a stretch for her.