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Fear of debt drove Clinton's dash for cash - They went from ‘dead broke’ to millionaires in months
Politico ^ | September 18, 2015 | Annie Karni and Isabelle Taft

Posted on 09/19/2015 2:18:18 PM PDT by Zakeet

What Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, pay in local property taxes on two luxury homes ($104,303) is twice the income of an average family.

She earns more for a 20-minute speech to an industry trade group than a dozen fast-food workers make in a year.

Her book royalties last year brought in $5 million, part of the couple's $30.5 million in income.

The Clintons are far from the "dead broke" couple, as she has described, who left the White House saddled with debt after Bill Clinton's presidency. In fact, they now rank comfortably among the top one-tenth of the top 1 percent of earners.

Her net worth is $32,015,000, according to POLITICO’s analysis of her most recent financial disclosure.

The Clintons financial turnaround is largely due to Bill Clinton turning on the money-making faucet immediately after leaving office — but it was always Hillary Clinton who was more concerned with the family's finances and wanted them to earn money to pay off their debts.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; corruption; hillarybio; poverty
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It was accurate to say they were ‘dead broke’ ... but they were so successful ... and they were so blessed by the success they’ve had ... because her Bubba has worked incredibly hard ... and they might have taken a few bribes!

1 posted on 09/19/2015 2:18:18 PM PDT by Zakeet
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Another sympathetic article by Politico to prop up Cankles.

Someone get Hillary a bigger shovel.


2 posted on 09/19/2015 2:19:55 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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The Po Gurl should never were Black anywhere near her face.....it accentuates that ever growing extra chin...


3 posted on 09/19/2015 2:21:18 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Dear Annie and Isabella.....We all know you two aren’t so bright, but the Clintons have had TENS of MILLIONS in Cayman Island Accounts for DECADES!!! Now they have BILLIONS....somewhere....why don’t you two little girls find out more about it.


4 posted on 09/19/2015 2:23:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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REMEMBER THIS? Hollywood hotshots protested the Beverly Hills Hotel over its ownership by Brunei's Muslim sultan and his embrace of Muslim Sharia law. Now it turns out the Brunei Muslim government has financial connections to the Clintons.

AND THIS? Bill Clinton and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein flew on Epstein’s private jet in 2002 to meet with the Sultan of Brunei.....one of the richest men in the world. The National Enquirer reported flight logs reveal Epstein — before he was arrested and jailed for soliciting teenage masseuses — picked up Clinton at a Japanese naval airport.

<><> The mega-rich Muslim Sultan of Brunei later donated between $1-5 million to the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.

<><> The Clinton Foundation took $1,250,000 (that we know of)
from Mideast Muslim kingdom--Qatar---(recently exposed as embroiled in FIFA bribery--that could ensnare the Clintons).

<><> The Clinton presidential library in Arkansas lists Muslim Brunei, Muslim Kuwait, Muslim Oman and Muslim Qatar as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million (at the time of research).

<><> The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the 2002 Brunei Muslim donation: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...

<><> Muslim Qatar became the new home of the Gitmo Five via the infamous Bergdahl swap.

<><> Hillary later told Fox's Greta Van Susteren that Muslim Qatar was "not a threat to the US." Hillary never mentioned Muslim Qatar subsidizing the Clinton Library/Foundation.

<><> Hillary's remarks lead some to believe the donation was a payoff....Hillary bribed to defend Muslim Qatar. Perhaps America's ntl security secrets landed in the Muslim kingdom?

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The Clinton Library bills itself as "linking the significance of
a 20th century American presidency with the ongoing
and far-reaching work of The Clinton Global Foundation."

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

No mention of Clinton being impeached and disbarred for lying.

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REALITY CHECK Despite its grandiose self-promotion, The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park---- is just another "Clinton Cash" snake pit.....subsidized by taxpayers,....and some shady foreign characters.

5 posted on 09/19/2015 2:28:54 PM PDT by Liz
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6 posted on 09/19/2015 2:31:39 PM PDT by Liz
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Some Clinton Foundation donors and board members’ shady dealings and criminal convictions are legendary. The blockbuster “Clinton Cash” book details the buck-raking couple’s sordid circle.

•The SEC charged a Clinton Foundation trustee with misallocating $9.5M from his database company. Shareholders sued for using the company jet to fly the Clintons around and paying Bill Clinton a $3M consulting fee.

• A Clinton Foundation trustee was accused of paying Bahraini executives (roughly $52 million) to win sales contracts for US-based Alcoa which later settled with the DOJ for $384M.

• A Clinton Foundation trustee donated to Hillary’s campaigns...gave the Clintons millions in honoraria and millions more to the foundation. The trustee was arrested for allegedly defrauding a bank. He pleaded guilty in a Bklyn court to “funneling more than $180,000 in illegal contributions to three federal candidates,” Hillary among them.

• An Indian legislator sat at the head table at the Clinton Global Initiative and dined privately with the Clintons at their home. He gave between $1-5 million to the Clinton Foundation....then was arrested for bribing members of parliament WRT a US-Indian nuclear-technology agreement....he was booted from his party, ending his political career.

• Venezuelan Claudio Osorio fundraised for Hillary and supported the Clinton Global Initiative. He falsified federal applications and bilked US taxpayers to score a loan of $10M tax dollars to build homes in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Osorio was convicted of financial fraud, using federal “humanitarian assistance for personal benefit,” and got 12 years in federal prison.

• He was on the federal terrorist no-fly list yet a Lebanese-British businessman donated $460,000 to Miami Democrats for voter-registration and attended the Clintons’ WH Christmas party. He was later convicted of money-laundering and “aiding a criminal organization WRT billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria.

The Lebanese businessman’s company pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. The eco-minded Clinton awarded him a prize for “sustainable development.”


7 posted on 09/19/2015 2:35:22 PM PDT by Liz
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8 posted on 09/19/2015 2:35:35 PM PDT by McBuff
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Dead broke? Bill Clinton has a lifetime check as a former president.


9 posted on 09/19/2015 2:36:42 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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Drove past the thing yesterday. Still looks like a double-wide on stilts.


10 posted on 09/19/2015 2:37:00 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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$5M in book royalties earned on one of the all-time worst stinker books. Nice work if you can get it. Smells like a payoff to me. There was no way her stinker was going to earn back the $14M advance she got.

“Hard Choices”...
$14-million advance for the book to HRH (er, HRC)

Sales:
Today: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,556 in Books
Week 1: 85,000 total copies sold
Week 2: 133,000 total copies sold
Week 3: 159,000 total copies sold
Week 42: 264,000 total copies sold (Mar. 2015)

Simon and Schuster, 6/17/14: “The 60k represents a less than 10% sell thru based on what they shipped.” Based on typical book-sales trends, this means, “They will be lucky to sell 150,000 total lifetime.”


11 posted on 09/19/2015 2:48:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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Her book royalties last year brought in $5 million, part of the couple's $30.5 million in income.

Her book "My Journey": From an Arkansas bag lady to D.C. Mobster

12 posted on 09/19/2015 2:52:40 PM PDT by varon (Don't point that finger at me unless you're prepared to have it broken off!)
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Fear of debt, my ass. It’s called GREED....right, Democraps?


13 posted on 09/19/2015 2:53:22 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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14 posted on 09/19/2015 3:07:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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“Honor is the gift a man or woman gives to him or her self.” Robert Roy McGregor

If honor is the measure of wealth, Billary are in fact dead broke.


15 posted on 09/19/2015 3:18:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Warms your heart to see grifters make good.


16 posted on 09/19/2015 3:23:31 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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Clinton Library---truly ugly.

17 posted on 09/19/2015 3:23:51 PM PDT by Liz
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Be easy on the queen of the double wide trailer.


18 posted on 09/19/2015 3:26:30 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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Bill needs somewhere to drag a $20.00 bill to attract women


19 posted on 09/19/2015 3:38:28 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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LOL.


20 posted on 09/19/2015 3:42:04 PM PDT by Liz
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