claim: president barack obama "is the first president to keep a dog-trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense."
author: chain email
evidence_1: it's not true. this accusation gained popularity as the 2012 election cycle heated  up. there was a popular chain email entitled “barack obama's 32 month report  card by rich carroll” which many assertions were made, including: “first  president to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer  expense.”.
evidence_2: oct 31, 2011 ... a forwarded opinion, attributed to rich carroll, listing the many "firsts" of  president barack obama. ... first president to apply for college aid as a foreign  student, then deny he was a foreigner- fiction! this rumor ..... first president to  keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.
evidence_3: oct 25, 2012 ... first president to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer  expense. false. the now-deceased dog trainer who trained the obamas' dog  earned a total of $102,000 per year training many dogs for high-profile figures.  us taxpayers do not pay $102,000/year to a dog trainer.
evidence_4: aug 6, 2015 ... part 3 of 3: we've all seen the viral meme listing 30+ controversies, labeled as  president obama's accomplishments. ... first president to golf more than 150  separate times in his five years in office. false. in the ... first president to keep a  dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. false ...
evidence_5: did you know that president barack hussein obama flew bo, their dog, in on a  separate smaller jet to massachusetts for their vacation? ... single sentence in a  waterville, maine, newspaper article about the obamas' visit, which was  misinterpreted to mean that bo had flown on a plane accompanied only by a  single handler:.