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Bill Clinton Forgets the First Rule of Fibbing
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 05/06/2015 | John Merline

Posted on 05/06/2015 2:51:50 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

In his interview with NBC News that aired this week, Bill Clinton made one statement that seemed to come out of the blue. He said, in answer to a question about the Clinton Foundation's acceptance of foreign donations, that "over the last 15 years, I've taken almost no capital gains."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clintoncash; clintoncrimefamily; clintonfoundation; pages; peterschweizer

1 posted on 05/06/2015 2:51:51 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

Liars lie.


2 posted on 05/06/2015 3:01:30 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: kinsman redeemer; All

Well, he didn’t.

Capital gains are gains made from investments and profitable businesses and the like.

Capitol gains are gains made AFTER you TAKE capital from prophetable investments and bribes and profitable companies and the like.

Bill just went directly to bribes.
Hillary demanded prophetable investments by taking capitol gains.


3 posted on 05/06/2015 3:49:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.....


4 posted on 05/06/2015 4:13:32 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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His claim of “almost no capital gains” is just as true as Hillary’s line about being flat broke when the Clintons left the White House. The only reason they were in debt was because of his legal bills, and I suspect that most of those were forgiven since his lawyers were solid Democrats.


5 posted on 05/06/2015 4:19:44 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

That’s one theory.

Another is that he hasn’t yet sold any of the shares of stock that he, or one of his surrogates, received from the Clintons’ secret “admirers”.

But, but, there’s not a SHRED of EVIDENCE that the Clintons received any shares of stock from anyone...

Indeed...


6 posted on 05/06/2015 4:20:52 AM PDT by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

That’s one theory.

Another is that he hasn’t yet sold any of the shares of stock that he, or one of his surrogates, received from the Clintons’ secret “admirers”.

But, but, there’s not a SHRED of EVIDENCE that the Clintons received any shares of stock from anyone...

Indeed...


7 posted on 05/06/2015 4:22:51 AM PDT by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: tgusa

Or I$ i$ .... How out of touch can you get ?


8 posted on 05/06/2015 4:23:14 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The purpose of his statement was to mislead and misdirect. I teach my children that is lying. Also, lying includes not telling the whole truth or relying on the exact meanings of words to misdirect or purposefully leave the listener with the wrong impression of the truth.

From the article:
It didn't take long for some reporters to realize that this claim was easily checkable and that it was misleading at best.

The Clintons made their tax returns available while Hillary was in the U.S. Senate. And those tax filings show that Clinton claimed $155,590 in 2006, $27,427 in 2005, $57,313 in 2004 and $136,046 in 2000.

Add them up, and they total $376,376. And that was just during those six years. Who knows how much Bill's cleared in cap gains since then?

Bill Clinton is a compulsive liar. He lies.

9 posted on 05/06/2015 4:25:42 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

What he meant to say was that he has paid almost no capital gains tax.


10 posted on 05/06/2015 4:47:23 AM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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This was just more fodder for the peeps ‘cuz only rich Republicans take capital gains breaks. He was trying to put more street cred to Hillary’s mem that she’s like everyone else. NOT


11 posted on 05/06/2015 5:08:42 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Of Course he wouldn’t claim Capital Gains. They hid most of their ill gotten gains in overseas accounts.


12 posted on 05/06/2015 5:13:42 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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how does a charitable foundation have capital gains in the first place? Does little Billy have something he wants to tells us about undeclared stock compensation?


13 posted on 05/06/2015 5:18:09 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: IBD editorial writer

In the clips I’ve seen from the interview, Sweet Old Bill (just use the initials), looked mean, angry, hateful, and old. He has completely lost it. The rascal rogue has turned into scolding, angry old fool. The Clinton magic is gone.


14 posted on 05/06/2015 5:23:21 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: IBD editorial writer

The master of the soft shoe of lying has lost his touch. I see a man in declining health as well. His voice was very weak, his hands were trembling and he could barely manage a smile. They should quit the campaign, pay up and enjoy their grandchild for as long as they have..


15 posted on 05/06/2015 6:02:20 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

He was a better liar when he was young... takes effort to keep all the lies straight in memory.


16 posted on 05/06/2015 6:04:43 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Rewarding the angriest and most violent made the Middle East unstable"...Baltimore too. -D.G.)
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"Ah swear ..." Bill Clinton photo:  mail-9.jpg
17 posted on 05/06/2015 7:00:09 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Shake your bony finger at us, Birr Crinton.


18 posted on 05/06/2015 7:14:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: norwaypinesavage
The Clinton magic is gone.

Not to the American "democracy"

19 posted on 05/06/2015 7:35:29 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: kinsman redeemer
The purpose of his statement was to mislead and misdirect. I teach my children that is lying. Also, lying includes not telling the whole truth or relying on the exact meanings of words to misdirect or purposefully leave the listener with the wrong impression of the truth.

In the Catholic Penitential Act we say "...I have greatly sinned, in what I have done and what I have failed to do..." There are sins of commission and sins of omission. Some of the greatest lies are those that leave out important facts.

20 posted on 05/06/2015 7:35:52 AM PDT by mc5cents
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