(NewsNation) — New surveillance video appears to show University of Idaho stabbing victims Kaylee Goncalves and Maddie Mogen walking in downtown Moscow just hours before their deaths.

NewsNation obtained the video through the Facebook group “University of Idaho Murders – Case Discussion.”

In the video you see three people walking toward an outdoor surveillance camera on the sidewalk.

In the video, a woman asks, “Maddie, what did you say to Adam?”  

The second woman replies, “Like, I told Adam everything.”

The attorney for the Goncalves family tells NewsNation it is his understanding that Adam is a bartender and is not a suspect at this time.

Goncalves and Mogen hung out at a local bar around 10 p.m. before stopping at a food truck shortly before 2 a.m.

Surveillance video from the food truck circulated online and showed Goncalves and Mogen shortly before they returned home. Police said they cleared all of the people in the footage, including a person in a hoodie seen in the background.

Police say the stabbing occurred sometime between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.

The small city of Moscow, Idaho, was left reeling after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13.

The small community has been searching for answers in the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The four students were found dead in a home near campus.

As the search for suspects continues, a void of new information is being filled by unfounded accusations from armchair detectives.

Goncalves made statements to friends and family suggesting she had a stalker, but police have been unable to verify that information. 

France’s Kylian Mbappe scored twice in two minutes late in the game, including an 80th-minute penalty, to salvage a 2-2 draw with Argentina after 90 minutes and force extra time in the World Cup final on Sunday.

The Argentineans had struck through captain Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria in the first half and were in complete control until Mbappe inspired a dramatic comeback for France, who had looked toothless for much of the game.

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• Lindsay Esbjerg is a full-time shoe reseller on Poshmark with her husband, Ryan.
• They love working on their own schedule and have sold $775,000 worth of shoes since 2017.
• On average, they make four times the money they spend on each pair after fees and shipping costs.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lindsay Esbjerg, a 32-year-old Poshmark reseller in Portland, Maine. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I resell shoes on Poshmark full time under the closet name “RNZY,” which is my husband, Ryan’s, and my name combined. We currently have more than 150,000 followers on the platform, 2,200 active listings, and we average 500 sales a month on Poshmark. We make a profit of six figures a year and have made almost 19,000 total sales.

From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a Bath & Body Works store manager in Burlington, Vermont. After moving to Maine in 2015, I began managing sales and marketing for a small family-run business repurposing used sails into handbags.

In June 2017, I parted ways with the family business and began my reselling journey with Ryan. I’d sold a few household items at the time, but nothing significant. I was looking for a way to make money on my own schedule. Ryan left his job at the Marriott in Portland to take this on with me full time.

We spent the first few months selling anything we could find in our house on Facebook Marketplace

We sold clothes, shoes, coffee makers, candles, and more, hand-delivering goods within 50 miles of Portland.

In September 2017, we started selling on Poshmark. We’d seen people on Instagram using it and thought it would be a great marketplace to try. We sold shoes and clothing, but we quickly niched down to exclusively shoes. We both realized that we enjoyed the entire process of selling shoes — sourcing, cleaning, photographing, listing, and shipping. All the other items we sold were profitable, but we just didn’t enjoy the process as much.

Lindsay and Ryan Esbjerg cleaning the shoes.

Courtesy of Lindsay and Ryan Esbjerg

We find shoes to sell in thrift stores like Goodwill, Savers, Salvation Army, and Plato’s Closet all around New England. Ninety percent of the shoes we sell are gently used, but occasionally we do find some unworn pairs at thrift stores.

Poshmark is easy to set up and easy to use, and within a couple of months it became our No. 1 grossing platform. In 2021, we made $218,000 in sales on Poshmark. Our total sales since we started are more than $775,000. Poshmark does take a fee of $2.95 for sales under $15 and 20% of sales over $15. Facebook Marketplace also takes a 5% fee. On average, we make four times the money we spent on each pair after fees and shipping costs.

In the beginning, we were making enough to pay our bills and slowly grow

We set aside the money we needed for bills and reinvested everything else. This allowed us to grow quickly while also covering all our expenses. When starting out, one of the biggest challenges was budgeting how much to spend on inventory and how much to save for living expenses.

Ryan and I quickly found which parts of the business we each excelled at. We both travel around New England purchasing shoes at thrift stores, but Ryan primarily handles the cleaning and photography while I do the listing and accounting. We both package and ship the shoes together every morning, and we work out of our home in our basement and garage.

We now have four employees who clean the shoes and photograph them. We hired our first employee three years ago. None of our employees work for us full time — they all work on their own schedule a few days a week.

Shoes ready to be sold.

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We share other users’ listings occasionally, but we don’t join Posh Parties. We don’t do any extra marketing besides sharing our own listings and sourcing shoes that people want. One aspect of Poshmark we wish we could improve is having to share all our listings to the feed every single day to get more eyes on them.

I enjoy the tools Poshmark offers, like bundling items together so the buyer can save on shipping costs. Another tool I like is that buyers can “like” pairs of shoes by pushing a button on the listing, which lets me know to send a discounted offer to the buyers who have chosen to “like” each pair. We do this weekly.

We began reselling as a way to have more time and freedom

Their basement workspace.

Courtesy of Lindsay and Ryan Esbjerg

We didn’t want to have to ask someone for time off or have anyone else scheduling our days. We work when we want to work.

On an average day, we wake up, take care of our daughter, and walk the dog. Then we both package orders from the previous night. I’ll get some pairs listed while Ryan prepares shoes to drop off to our employees, who clean and photograph them.

We then go for a longer walk around a local bike path. This is the type of activity that makes us love reselling. We can get up from whatever we’re doing during the day and get outside. In the afternoons, Ryan and I do a dropoff and pickup with our employees and our workday typically wraps up by 4 p.m.

Here’s my best advice for selling on the platform

Lindsay and Ryan Esbjerg with shoes ready to ship.

Courtesy of Lindsay and Ryan Esbjerg

One piece of advice I’d offer to a new Posher is to really focus on the quality of your listing. Make sure to take well-lit photos of items, write thorough descriptions, and use market-value pricing. We look up what the shoes have sold for previously on Poshmark. (We search for the pair of shoes on Poshmark and select “sold items.” Then we can see what the recent sale prices were.) The price we list has nothing to do with retail. Some pairs get listed over retail, some under — it’s all about what the value for that specific pair is, which is easy to figure out by looking at previous sales.

It’s important to use a photo of yourself on your Poshmark profile. You want to build trust with buyers so they know exactly who they’re purchasing from. We get positive reviews by being honest with our listings, carefully packaging each pair, and shipping rapidly. I personally love using Poshmark for the seller protection they offer and the transparency with the selling fees. If there are any issues with the shipping, like packages getting lost, Poshmark handles the cost so neither the buyer nor the seller is penalized. Poshmark also ensures that buyers can’t return items for issues that are out of the seller’s control, like shoes not fitting the buyer.

Keep track of everything so you know what’s working and what isn’t within your business. When Poshmark introduced the “Closet Insights” tool, which provides a comprehensive breakdown of sales and inventory data, it made this much easier. We’ve been using Google Sheets since day one, and we log every pair of shoes in it, including brand, size, style, color, and buy cost. Additionally, we use Quickbooks to track mileage, our expenses, and our income.

Last, but not least, set aside money for taxes as the year goes on so your business doesn’t get shocked when tax season rolls around. Self-employment tax is typically between 15% and 20%.

Are you a successful Poshmark reseller and want to share your story? Email Lauryn Haas at lhaas@insider.com.

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• Steph Douglass owns 29 rental units and is the co-founder of an Austin real estate brokerage.
• She bought and rents out a tiny house in her yard to pay for her mortgage.
• Douglass says you need less wealth than you think to start investing in real estate. 

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steph Douglass, owner of 29 rental units and co-founder of Open House Austin. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I bought my first house in 2013 in Austin, Texas when I was just 24-years-old. I didn’t think I would ever buy another one, but now I own 29 rental units.

When I bought my first house, I was teaching fourth-grade math and didn’t have a very high income — I started at $43,000 and ended my 7-year-career at about $57,000 a year.

So I decided to rent out part of my house to a roommate, and I’ve used real estate to generate income for myself ever since.

For example, the tiny house in my yard completely pays the mortgage for the home my fiance and I live in. 

I added a large porch to the tiny house.

Steph Douglass

I started by sacrificing my own space 

After I bought my first home, I rented out part of it to a roommate. Then, once I moved out and bought a second home, I rented it out long-term. But even in my second home, I rented out a room as an Airbnb. 

Eventually, I got really sick of sharing my space. I had to sacrifice a lot of my privacy and I was tired of it. 

That’s when I transitioned to tiny houses, they were the best way for me to make money without having to sacrifice my own space.

People often overlook their yards, but there is valuable rental space back there.

My first tiny house was a converted detached garage already in my yard. But make sure to check that you live in a zone where you’re permitted to have a rental in your yard. You can check that at “your city.gov” like Austin.gov. 

Getting my garage ready to be rented took up a lot of time and resources. I found that buying finished tiny houses was a much better option.

My tiny house was transported via truck.

Steph Douglass

My tiny house was $89,000 and fully finished inside

I bought a pre-built, fully finished tiny house from a local place called Creative Living Solutions for about $89,000 which included delivery and tie-down fees (which secure the tiny house in place).

It was a pretty easy process. I walked around a lot and was able to see the different layouts of the tiny houses. These places need a lot of space so you can find similar stores in rural areas. 

I put 20% down, so about $18,000. Saving $18,000 is no small feat, but I think many people could do it if they saved up for a few years like I did. 

Then I took out an RV loan for the remaining 80%. An RV loan is about as hard to get as a car loan. You still need to qualify, and your interest rate is based on your qualifications. Our interest rate is 7%.

Here is the kitchen inside my tiny house.

Steph Douglass

We pay property taxes on the whole property (it’s on the back end of a property with a built house on it, which we would pay for anyway). We also paid 6.25% RV tax upon purchase like you would with a car purchase. Utilities are around $125 amount on average for electric, water, sewage and trash total. 

The tiny house came with almost everything — countertops, a fridge, and a microwave. The only things we had to get done were plumbing and electrical. So we added RV hookups to the back of our lot, behind our house, and hooked up the tiny home. We also skirted the tiny house, to cover the cinder blocks and wheels. We decided to add an expansive deck as well. All of these extras cost us about $10,000 more which we took from our savings. 

After delivery, the tiny house was ready to be rented within 10 days.

I was worried people wouldn’t be interested in renting it, but the bookings came pouring in

We rent it short term and I would say it stays booked 80 to 99% of the time. About 90% of our renters come from Airbnb, but we also use Booking.com and VRBO.

I always choose neutral furniture for my rental units.

Steph Douglass

Here are some of my best tips for making money off your tiny home

• Be fair and flexible with your pricing

Some people don’t want to budge on their prices and lose renters because of it. My tiny house goes anywhere from $79 a night up to $200 a night based on demand. I came up with my pricing by trial and error and use an unofficial formula instead.

If it’s not booked 5 days in advance, I’ll drop the price $10 a night. If the next day it’s still not booked, I’ll drop the price by another $10.

Every time you change the price, the algorithm bumps you up in the search. So not only will you attract more people with a lower price, but more people will also see your listing. 

• Change the title of your online listing frequently 

Changing the title of your rental every so often also bumps it up in the algorithm. We like to call our tiny house “The Cottage” but sometimes we will change how we describe the location or decor to keep things fresh.

I shop at second-hand stores to decorate my tiny house.

Steph Douglass

• Make it cute, but don’t break the bank

Having cute furniture goes a long way. But most of our furniture is from secondhand stores or Goodwill. I recommend going to a few different stores over a 5 day period and you’ll find all you need for really cheap. 

I like to stay neutral on big pieces like couches and comforters. But then spice it up with throw pillows and things that are easily replaceable as trends change. Also, people love plants — even fake ones.

• A management company is totally worth it

I use a management company and they handle the cleaning and coordinating with renters. The company also helps you get your property ready by finding furniture. It’s the only way to really make my rental units generate passive income. 

Before we hired the company, my fiance and I were tag-teaming all the work and it was really like a part-time job. But now we get to be almost totally hands-off. I don’t have to worry about guests or any issues — it’s all taken care of. I maybe spend 2 hours a month on the rentals and that’s just to make sure the invoices are paid and such.

We pay 30% in management fees. — I pay 20% property management fees and 10% cleaning fees, so it totals 30%. Cleaning fees depend on how many separate bookings I get per month, and the 20% management fee is based on the booking totals. It can fluctuate month by month quite a bit.

My mom actually works at the management company I use, but I recommend using a management company that specializes in short-term rentals. It’s not cheap to use one, but to me, it’s totally worth it because I barely have to do any real work. 

You can get into the real estate game earlier than you think

On average, the tiny house grosses $3,500 a month. And then once I pay the management fees, my mortgage, and the tiny house mortgage I’m basically breaking even. But I get to live in my house mortgage-free, which is huge, and it makes me feel really awesome and powerful to not have a giant payment to worry about. 

I added a porch to attract renters.

Steph Douglass

I’ve since bought two more tiny houses that sit behind my rental properties.

A lot of people think that there is this huge barrier to entry into real estate. But the government wants you to buy a home for the first time and incentivizes it in certain cases. So you can put as little as 3% or 5% down — and that’s really not that much. 

If the median price of a home is $500,000, then 3% of that is about $15,000. And then you need to account for closing costs at about $10,000. So I would say you need to have $25,000 to get started. 

Partnering with others is another way to make home-buying more affordable. I’ve partnered with my fiance, my mom, and my sisters. Instead of just asking people for money, I’ve gone 50/50 on houses so we all benefit. 

From there, you can rent it to a roommate, turn it into an Airbnb, or rent out lawn space so people can park their RVs. Then, take what you would have spent on rent and use it to buy another house.

There are just so many ways you can be creative and I cannot emphasize enough the power that comes with eliminating your mortgage payment or your rent. And I can use that money to buy more properties. 

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Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States.

“We’re looking at much-below normal temperatures, potentially record-low temperatures leading up to the Christmas holiday,” said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The “rare and hazardous arctic air mass will likely bring extreme and prolonged freezing conditions for southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana,” the National Weather Service in a special weather statement Sunday.

By Thursday night, temperatures will plunge as low as 13 degrees (minus 10.6 Celsius) in Jackson, Mississippi; and around 5 degrees (minus 15 Celsius) in Nashville, Tennessee, the National Weather Service predicts.

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The incoming artic air arrives as an earlier storm system in the Northeastern U.S. gradually winds down after burying parts of the region under two feet (61 centimeters) of snow. More than 80,000 customers in New England were still without power on Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages across the country.

For much of the U.S., the winter weather will get worse before it gets better. The coming week will bring the potential for a “significant winter storm” across the eastern two-thirds of the United States during the second half of the week, just before Christmas, according to the latest forecasts from the federal Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

“The main weather story that will make weather headlines next week will be the massive expanse of frigid temperatures from the Northern Rockies/Northern Plains to the Midwest through the middle of the week, and then reaching the Gulf Coast and much of the Eastern U.S. by Friday and into the weekend,” the Weather Prediction Center warned.

“An extremely strong arctic front will usher in the coldest air of the season by a considerable margin with the expectation of widespread subzero readings for overnight lows from the Northern Rockies to the central/northern Plains and the Upper Midwest, reaching as far south as northern Oklahoma and southern Missouri.”

In Atlanta, where the low temperature is expected to drop below freezing early Monday morning, forecasters warn of even colder air by late in the week, according to the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, Georgia. The low Friday night in Atlanta will be around 13 degrees (minus 10.6 Celsius) with the high temperature on Saturday still below the freezing mark at around 29 degrees (minus 1.7 Celsius), the Weather Service projects.

Florida will not have a white Christmas, but forecasters are expecting that weekend to be unusually cold throughout the state.

Northern Florida cities such as Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Pensacola have predicted lows in the 20s (minus 3 Celsius) on Christmas Eve, with highs of about 40 (4 Celsius). Orlando and Tampa are not expected to break 50 (10 Celsius) on Christmas Eve and even Miami isn’t expected to get out of the 50s (15 Celsius).

In the Northeast, utility companies brought in extra workers from other states but were hampered by slick roads and dangerous conditions.

“This was a heavy, wet snow so that had impacts on both travel and the infrastructure up across that area,” said Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Vermont officials warned Saturday that some customers may not have their power restored for up to two to three days. The state was finding locations for potential warming centers in the hardest-hit areas in case they were needed, state officials said.

Police across New England responded to hundreds of crashes or vehicles sliding off the road during the weekend storm. Maine State Police said Saturday night that they had responded to more than 180 crashes since Friday evening. There had only been minor injuries, state police said.

(JTA) — The email landed like a batch of soggy latkes last week: Hanukkah candle-lighting would not be permitted at the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.

“We recognize the sacrifice many of you will make to attend the conference during the holiday of Chanukah. We apologize that the conference hotel will not allow us to light candles in a separate room, as we have done in the past,” the professional group for Jewish studies scholars said in a message to its members, of whom approximately 1,200 are expected at this week’s convening in Boston.

Thus began a MacGyver-like scramble by some of the country’s leading Jewish studies scholars to hack a Hanukkah solution that would comply with both halacha, Jewish law, and the Sheraton Boston’s interpretation of Massachusetts fire code.

At first, the scholarly group directed conference-goers to details about a Hanukkah celebration at a nearby synagogue where menorahs could be lit, at least on the first night of the holiday Sunday. But that was little consolation for those whose personal practice of Judaism is rooted in traditional Jew law — which says the Hanukkah menorah must be lit in the place one eats and sleeps.

Some conference attendees said they would rely on Jewish law’s provision for travelers, which says someone on the road can be considered as having fulfilled the commandment to ignite a Hanukkah light if his family at home does so. But not everyone at the conference has a family, and even some who do were unsatisfied with that option.

Electric menorahs offered another possibility. After all, such devices are frequently found in hotels and other public spaces, and they’re what Chabad, the Orthodox denomination, uses in its famous public Hanukkah celebrations, this year scheduled for more than 15,000 locations around the world. But not everyone owns one, and at any rate, the use of oil wicks or, in the last few centuries, wax candles that offer a similar experience is considered preferable, according to some interpreters of Jewish law.

On Facebook and over email, anger was expressed. Impractical suggestions for the conference to relocate were made. And fear mounted that some conference-goers would smuggle in contraband menorahs and light them in their hotel rooms.

“You can’t stop people from breaking the rules, and it’s certainly much less safe to have that than something being watched,” Joshua Shanes, a historian at the College of Charleston who was part of the behind-the-scenes scramble, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Finally, on Friday morning, with some scholars already Boston-bound, Laura Arnold Leibman, a professor at Reed College and a member of the AJS board, announced a solution.

“We were able to negotiate with the hotel what I am referring to as the ‘Kaplan-Shanes compr[om]ise’ this morning that should allow for a halachic solution to the candle lighting situation (see details below), and I was able to get a beautiful hanukkiah this morning from the Israel Bookstore in Brookline that will meet the fire code,” she wrote on Facebook, to plaudits from association members.

Under the plan, a single Hanukkah lamp can be lit, under supervision, at the hotel. But each candle must be contained within a glass enclosure with at least 2 inches of space above the flame — so Leibman bought glass votives used to hold yahrzeit memorial candles, as well as a massive menorah to which they could be affixed.

“This was the only Hanukkiah I could find in Brookline large enough to handle them [and] will clean them up before Sunday and glue them down for safety to the inserts,” Leibman wrote alongside pictures of the brass menorah on her hotel windowsill.

That solved the problem of the flames themselves. But what of the obligation to light, which under traditional Jewish law each household must fulfill individually?

Enter the “Kaplan” of the compromise: Lawrence Kaplan, a professor of Judaic and rabbinic philosophy at McGill University who is perhaps best known for compiling and editing the teachings of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik of the philosophy of Maimonides, the 12th-century Jewish philosopher.

Kaplan wrote on Facebook that he had consulted Rabbi Daniel Fridman, the rabbi of the Teaneck Jewish Center and the top rabbi at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, for a way to have a single conference-goer fulfill the mitzvah of lighting a Hanukkah lamp on behalf of others. He learned that a contribution of a penny (or more) could enable someone to buy into the mitzvah — so a bowl for coins will sit aside the jerry-rigged menorah.

“I really l appreciate the effort and expense to which you went,” Kaplan wrote on Liebman’s Facebook post. “It was easy for me to suggest the idea but it was you who transformed it into a reality.”

Now, the discussion has shifted to whether contributions in excess of a penny can be turned into donations to the Association for Jewish Studies — and what can be done to prevent such a snafu in the future. Next year’s conference in San Francisco starts after the holiday ends, and the 2024 conference will be online-only. But in 2025, the first day of the conference again corresponds with the first night of Hanukkah.

Shanes and Liebman both indicated that they expected the right to light candles to be written into the contract with any future conference host, marking a return to the old custom of having conference-goers light candles on their own schedule.

“At least for this year,” Shanes said, “we’re all coming together. It’s a silver lining I suppose.”

This article originally appeared on JTA.org.

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• The allure of the presidency has drawn candidates with vast fortunes.
• Early presidents were rich landowners, and recent candidates got rich from tech, oil, and inheritance
• Donald Trump was the richest president ever, and is running in 2024, but there have been richer candidates.

Campaigning to be the president is an expensive business, and the challenge has drawn candidates with vast fortunes.

Three billionaires — Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and Donald Trump — threw their hats in the ring for 2020, but ultra-wealthy people have been on the ballot since the country’s first presidential election in 1788.

As the 2024 presidential race gets underway, Trump, the richest president in history, is again on the ballot. His fortune is estimated at around $3 billion. Current President Joe Biden is yet to declare whether he will seek re-election. But his estimated $9 million fortune is dwarfed by the riches of past presidents and candidates.

Below, Insider looks at some of the richest people ever to run for — and in some cases, win — the White House.

15. 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry had a net worth of $103 million in 2003.John Kerry.

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Source of wealth: Investments and marriage

Former Secretary of State John Kerry is one of the richest people ever to win the Democratic party’s presidential nomination, which he did in 2004. Political group Citizens United used his background to portray him as an out-of-touch elitist in ads. He lost to George W. Bush, who also came from substantial family wealth. Kerry’s fortune, estimated to have been $103 million in 2003 by the Center for Responsive Politics, is tied up in a portfolio of properties and other investments. 

But it is dwarfed by the fortune of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, who inherited vast sums from her late husband, John Heinz, a member of the ketchup dynasty. In 2004, The New York Times estimated her fortune at $1 billion. The couple signed a prenuptial agreement before their 1995 marriage and keep their financial affairs separate.

14. President Andrew Jackson was worth the equivalent of $119 million today.Andrew Jackson, the seventh president.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance and military

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, was one of the wealthiest presidents of the 1800s. He made some of his fortune in the military and married into a wealthy family. The Jacksons lived in the Hermitage, a 1,050-acre estate in Nashville, Tennessee.

13. President Theodore Roosevelt was worth the equivalent of $125 million today.Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance and real estate

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, came from a wealthy family and inherited a fortune as a young man. However, he lost much of his trust fund in a Dakota business venture and relied on his inheritance and earnings as an author and public servant for most of his life. 

He owned 235 acres in Oyster Bay, Long Island, which he bought after his 1883 marriage. That is now some of the most valuable land in the area, giving him a net worth that is the equivalent of $125 million in 2010, according to an estimate by 24/7 Wall Street.

=12. Former Vice President and 2000 Democratic nominee Al Gore has a $200 million fortune.Former Vice President of the United States, Co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, Senior partner at KPCB Al Gore speaks during Slush 2017 startup and technology event in Helsinki, Finland.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance and investment

When Al Gore narrowly lost to George W Bush in the 2000 presidential election, he was worth about $1.7 million — a paltry sum by the standards of other contenders on the list. But in the years since, his wealth has ballooned, according to Bloomberg, to an estimated $200 million. This is owing to savvy sustainable investments and the sale of a news network he founded, Current TV, to Qatari-based Al Jazeera for an estimated $100 million in 2013, The New York Times reported at the time.

He also comes from a wealthy family. His father, US Senator Albert Gore Sr., who died in 1998, owned a controlling stake in Occidental Petroleum. Gore also receives an annual $20,000 royalty from Occidental for zinc mining on family land, The Times reported.

=12. 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney is worth $200 million.Democratic presidential candidate former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, at the end of a campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Source of wealth: Finance 

John Delaney, a former representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district, was a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

He made his millions founding Capital Source, a commercial lender, and co-founding Health Care Financial Partners, a lender for healthcare companies. 

Delaney began running for president in 2017 and dropped out in January, 2020, after spending more than $10 million on his campaign.

10. President Thomas Jefferson was worth the equivalent of $212 million today.Thomas Jefferson was the third president.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance, slavery, property, and politics

President Thomas Jefferson inherited 5,000 acres of land in Virginia from his father, Peter. When his father died, Jefferson began building a large house on the property, which he expanded slightly, and called it Monticello. Jefferson also inherited, bought, and sold hundreds of enslaved people throughout his life.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and famously opposed banks, saying they would “deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Jefferson struggled with finances later in life, especially after inheriting his father-in-law’s debt. 

 

9. Senator and 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney made $250 million running a private equity firm.Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is interviewed at the Silicon Slopes Tech Conference on January 19, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Source of wealth: Private equity

Mitt Romney started his career as a consultant with Bain & Company and built his fortune as a founding member of its investment arm, Bain Capital, Insider’s Henry Blodget previously reported.

Under his stewardship, Bain Capital became one of the world’s most successful private equity firms. His declared wealth when he unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in 2012 against Barack Obama was $250 million, according to The Washington Post. The Post, however, said that his total assets were likely much greater.

Having served as governor of Massachusetts, Romney was elected again to the Senate in 2018 to represent Utah. 

8. The $439 million fortune of Forbes Magazine Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes did not help him secure the GOP nomination in 1996 or 2000.Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media Steve Forbes speaks during the Forbes’ 2015 Philanthropy Summit Awards Dinner on June 3, 2015 in New York City.

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Source of wealth: Publishing, inheritance, and property

Publishing tycoon Steve Forbes, founder of the Forbes business magazine, ran on the GOP ticket in 1996 and again in 2000. On both occasions, the New York businessman was beaten in the primaries. 

He inherited a vast family publishing and property empire, valued at $439 million in 1996, according to the AP. He spent $69 million of his own money in his two unsuccessful presidential bids. 

7. George Washington’s $525 million fortune makes him the second-wealthiest president in American history.Portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) following the victory at Yorktown, October 19, 1781.

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Source of wealth: Real estate, slavery

Adjusted for inflation, the first president’s fortune would today stand at $525 million, Insider reported in 2017. This made him the wealthiest person to win the presidency until Trump’s 2016 victory.

Washington’s fortune was bound to his vast estates in Mount Vernon, Virginia, which stretched across 8,000 acres. He also owned 300 slaves. 

In the early days of the presidency, only white, male property owners were allowed to vote. This meant that many of the first presidents were wealthy landowners too.

=6. President John F. Kennedy was born into one ultra-wealthy family and married into another, giving him a net worth of $1 billion.President John F. Kennedy smokes a cigar during a Democratic fundraising dinner at the Commonwealth Armory at Boston University.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance

John F. Kennedy was born into enormous wealth, and married oil heiress Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953. His career was bankrolled by his father, Joe Kennedy, one of the richest men in America, who had made his fortune in banking, stock trading and bootlegging. 

When elected to the White House, JFK gave away his $100,000 annual salary to charity, Business Insider previously reported. Had he not been assassinated in 1963, Kennedy stood to inherit a significant portion of his family’s fortune, calculated at about $1 billion.

Although that figure would have made him richer than Washington, Insider still considers Washington the second-richest serving president, because Kennedy never actually had that wealth in office.

=6. Vice President and GOP presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller had a $1 billion fortune, mostly inherited from his grandfather.New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908 – 1979) and his second wife Happy at an election night celebration, waving their hands, following the defeat of Frank O’Connor, 1966.

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Source of wealth: Inheritance

Nelson A. Rockefeller was the grandson of one of the richest men in the world: oil magnate John A. Rockefeller. 

When he became vice-president to Gerald Ford in 1974, estimates put his part of the inherited family fortune at $1.3 billion. Before becoming vice president, he made three unsuccessful runs for the presidency as a Republican candidate: in 1960, 1964 and 1968. 

4. Former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer used his $1.6 billion fortune to fund his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination.Tom Steyer holds one of his Need to Impeach town hall meetings at DoubleTree Hotel on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Largo, MD.

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Source of wealth: Finance

Tom Steyer was one of the latest entrants to the 2020 presidential race, before suspending his candidacy in February that year. He spent millions of his own fortune on environmental causes and paid for ads on prime-time TV calling for President Trump to be impeached.

Steyer ran hedge fund Farallon Capital for 26 years, but stepped aside from the position in 2012 to focus on environmental and political causes.

Forbes estimates Steyer’s net worth to be $1.6 billion.

3. With a current net worth of $3.2 billion, Donald Trump is the richest president in America’s history.President Donald Trump walks into the East Room of the White House to speak about his judicial appointments in November 2019.

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Source of wealth: Real estate, inheritance

Donald Trump was one of the richest presidents in history. And having recently announced his plans for a political comeback with a 2024 presidential bid, he is again one of the richest candidates on record.

Trump’s net worth, which he often exaggerates, has been notoriously hard to pin down. As of September 2022, Forbes estimated it at $3.2 billion.

Trump rakes in millions of dollars of revenue from his various properties including New York real estate and his golf and country clubs around the world, Insider reported.

As he gears up his 2024 campaign, his businesses and finances are coming under scrutiny as never before. The New York attorney general is investigating his business, and he recently lost a Supreme Court battle to prevent Congress accessing his financial statements. 

2. Two-time third-party candidate Ross Perot had a $4.1 billion fortune.Texas oil magnate Ross Perot posing for TIME in his office.

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Source of wealth: Technology and investments

Ross Perot was a plain-speaking Texan, who in 1992 became the most popular third-party candidate ever to run for the presidency when he took on George H.W. Bush.

He ran again in 1996 and lost to Bill Clinton. 

At the time, he was the richest man ever to run for president, with his self-made fortune estimated at $3.5 billion. 

Perot was one of the first tech billionaires, selling his company Electronic Data Systems to General Motors for $2.4 billion in 1984 and investing a fortune in municipal bonds. At the time of his death in July 2019, Forbes estimated his fortune at $4.1 billion.

1. With a net worth of $55.9 billion, 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg is more than 17 times richer than TrumpFormer New York City Mayor Bloomberg speaks at the Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester

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Source of wealth: Financial media

Bloomberg, a businessman, former mayor of New York City, and multibillionaire, ran an unsuccessful campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination. 

He made his fortune from Bloomberg LP, the media company he cofounded that now brings in $10 billion in annual revenue.

Bloomberg largely self-financed his 2020 campaign before dropping out following disappointing primary results. Before suspending his presidential bid, Bloomberg spent roughly a quarter of a billion dollars on advertising in the Super Tuesday states alone.