Contracts and internal emails connected to half a dozen speeches Clinton gave in the Bay Area soon after departing the White House offer a glimpse into the unusual demands and outsize expense reports associated with bringing him to town. The events took place as part of a speaker series sponsored by the Foothill Deanza Community College District, another by UC Davis and another run by a for-profit firm. The documents became public through an open-records request filed by the Republican National Committee amid a presidential race in which the lucrative speaking fees paid to the Clintons are being closely examined.
They show a former president who deftly avoided discussing past scandals by refusing questions that were not screened by his staff in advance. There is the nearly $1,400 bill for a day’s worth of phone calls from San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel and the $700 dinner for two. (Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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The Wash/Post reported Hillary earned $11.7 million for 51 speeches since Jan 2014.....she pocketed an astonishing $625,000 for two speeches in one day.
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Bill's honoraria increased dramatically. He pocketed some $50 million during Hillary's four-year term as Secretary of State....including an Irish scholarship fund, a Korean conglomerate, and, a Nigerian newspaper company......each of whom paid Clinton more than half a million dollars for a single speech.
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The Clinton Foundation dutifully tells the press the impeached Bill was such a "beloved president" that people wanted to hear what he had to say. That being the reason why countries paid him so much to speak.
REALITY CHECK But not many people could speak or understand English in far-off Nigeria, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Russia, places where the beloved impeached president pocketed big bucks for speeches.......word is they paid people to sit in the seats pretending they were listening to the "beloved impeached president."
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The conniving Bill Clinton avoided questions about lewinsky and his impeachment by not answering questions that had not been screened.
He and Hillary would become so skilled at churning profits out of their lectures that they would net more than $150 million from speaking alone after he left the White House.
Wow....she deserves a metal folding chair, no padding, a side folding table with a warm out of date diet Coke....and two fast food coupons for a speaking fee..