$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented

CNN ^ | February 5, 2016 | By Robert Yoon

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.

In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.

[Liz]

Hillary gives one of her infamous $300,000 university speeches
to a sparsely-attended Georgetown audience. (G/U is Bill/s alma mater).

Hillary Clinton has said some stupid things but this is simply astonishing: "This is what we call smart power," Clinton said to a small audience at Georgetown. "Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions. That is what we believe in the 21st century will change -- change the prospects for peace."

SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zVHgqj8His

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When Hillary announced, she named four areas of focus for her campaign:
Number 4 was "Protecting Americans from external threats"

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

This as news reports ISIS terrorists are coming over the border, and salted in Syrian refugee hordes Obama is bringing into America. So don't expect candidate Hillary to actually do anything to protect Americans against this threat.

MEMORY LANE Hillary says: We must respect and empathize w/ Islamics (those who behead children)
Flopping Aces ^ | 12-06-14 | DrJohn / FR Posted by Starman417

Hillary Clinton has said some stupid things but this is simply astonishing: "This is what we call smart power," Clinton said to a small audience at Georgetown. "Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions. That is what we believe in the 21st century will change -- change the prospects for peace."

SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zVHgqj8His

Sap-happy progressives bought into Hillary/Obama's notion that getting greater cooperation from our allies, and less hostility from our enemies, was just a matter of giving them hugs and kisses. Hillary Clinton arrogantly declared it “smart power” (and fronted Time magazine cover).

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this reality.

Liz fyi.

[Mr Apple]

"SUM TOTAL Altogether, the Clintons are estimated to have made over $139 million from paid speeches.

$139 million
lol - - I think so small; with all the negative posts I've made about this woman, I'm surprised my house hasn't been blown up one night.

[Liz]

Plus there/s BILLIONS in the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund!!

You got that right.

At first glance, the Clintons astounding honoraria and humongous Foundation donations seem to provide the bulk of the couples mega income.

Bills honoraria increased dramatically pocketing some $50 million during Hillarys 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.

The Wash/Post reports 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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I firmly believe the Clinton Foundations gigantic donor list, and their astonishing blizzard of speaking honoraria, are a smoke screen for their secret wealth....and the way they make billions sub rosa....intertwining their vaunted do-goodism and their multiple tax-paid public offices.

The calculated Clintons have sought to branch out into other business activities. All of that is kept under wraps. Very little is known about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill and Hillarys non-speech business interests.

Reports keep surfacing indicating the Clintons were party to multi/billion dollar Mideast arms deals....Kazakhstan uranium mines....and Haitian gold mines...Libyan oil deals....telecom businesses, deals w/ financial powerhouses like Teneo, Goldman Sachs.....etc etc etc.

THE CON ARTIST CLINTONS GRABBED EVERYTHNG THAT WASNT NAILED DOWN Lucrative business interests were cunningly intertwined w/ the Foundations transparent do-good activities....enabled by Hillarys catbird seat at the State Dept.

At last count, the Clintons apparently raised an astounding $2 billion from their foundation activities and their political campaigns.....

.....does not include monies flowing in from the various lucrative business ventures, interest accrued, safe deposit boxes, real estate assets, passive income on which they pay no taxes, income from Chelseas hubbys hedge fund, monies invested in Goldman Sachs, interest in financial powerhouse Teneo..... etc etc etc.......

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The Clintons are worth a bundle.....accumulated in record time. Their livelihood was collected as they marched through American politics.

They co-opted taxpayers by using OUR govt and information they were privy to by virtue of govt office in order to pocket big bucks.

[Grampa Dave]

Help an old man with old eyes. What bank was the biggest donor to Shirl? Besides Shril, what iron do they have in this electional fire?

[Liz]

Actually we dont really know the full amt the cunning Clintons extorted from Wall Street——b/c they only let us know what THEY want us to know.

[TomGuy]

Ole BJ and Hill are making up for those times he was only earning $35,000/year as Governor of Arkansas.

"I think I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century when I took office," he told host David Gregory in an interview airing June 29, 2014, on NBC's Meet the Press.

Recall that Hillary claimed they were almost in poverty when they left the White House. [She could probably even come up with a photoshopped Food Stamps application, if she thought that would enhance her run for the White House.]

What a difference a few years of giving speeches and having a wife selling perks from the SoS office makes:

Clinton is considered the wealthiest living president and among the top-10 all-time wealthiest, with the Clintons' combined net worth at about $55 million, according to the website 24/7 Wall Street, which started evaluating the net worth of presidents in 2010.

Source: Bill Clinton: 'I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century'

[Liz]

Yes, they/re filthy rich....but they didn't make it the old fashioned way...they didn/t earn it by the sweat of their brows like most Americans do.

The cunning Clintons co-opted taxpayers.....using information they compiled in a succession of tax-paid offices....not to mention stealing tax dollars which they characterized as foreign aid.

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Every aspect of the Bill Clinton presidency must be examined for wrongdoing. Recent news reports say the notoriously greedy Clintons used their tax-exempt Clinton Foundation charity to setup a Romney-like money-making private equity fund in the corrupt country of Columbia.

Why Columbia?

WIKI REFERENCE---In 2000, the Clinton administration committed $1.3 billion in foreign aid to the corrupt country of Columbia...... and up to five hundred military personnel to train local forces. An additional three hundred civilian personnel were allowed to assist in the eradication of coca.

The Clinton deal was an addition to $330 million of previously approved US aid to Colombia. $818 million was earmarked for 2000, with $256 million for 2001.

The Clinton-era appropriations for his Columbia Plan made Colombia the third largest recipient of foreign aid from the United States at the time.

--SNIP--

As of 2008, the U.S. has provided nearly $1.3 billion to Colombia through Clinton Plan Colombia nonmilitary aid programs:

<><> Alternative Development (2000-2008 cost: $500 million)

<><> Internally Displaced Persons (2000-2008 cost: $247 million)

<><> Demobilization and Reintegration (2000-2008 cost: $44 million)

<><> Democracy and Human Rights (2000-2008 cost: $158 million)

<><> Promote the Rule of Law (2000-2008 cost: $238 million)

LONG READ--REST AT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia

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UT OH---Obama/s now requesting billions for Columbia---to (cough) curb the drug trade.

[TomGuy]

Wonder if there's a list of corporate boards that Hillary, Bill, Chelsea and even Huma sit on.

So far, regarding the Clinton Foundation, I have run across about 5 or 6 offshoots. One or two are said to be defunct. One is or was headquartered in the nation of Colombia.

I wonder how many exist that have not been 'discovered' by the prescient {snicker} media? I also wonder how many other off-book branches exist in other foreign countries.

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Decades from now, these grifters will be the subjects of many studies in "how to scam." They make Jesse Jackson and his shakedowns look like small potatoes in comparison, and Jackson has been shakingdown businesses and governmental entities for half-a-century.

[bgill]

Seriously, what could they possibly have to speak about? Nothing. Flat nothing. Especially nothing that’s worth a quarter million. It’s money laundering or pay offs and should be investigated.

[Liz]

......what could they possibly have to speak about? Nothing. Flat nothing.....nothing that/s worth a quarter million. It/s money laundering, bribes, pay offs and should be investigated.......

Amen.

[bgill]

Hey, who wouldn’t allow their name to be added to any number of boards while all they had to do was cash the checks rolling in. Throw in a nice oval office, staff who serve at your beck and call, free vacations out the wazoo and automatic tee times. Sweet.

[DouglasKC]

Most of these “speeches” are simply excuses to take in millions of dollars of influence money.

[Ann Archy]

And they are TOO BIG TO JAIL because they are DEMOCRATS!!!

[Liz]

LET/S PLAY CONNECT THE DOTS.

EXHIBIT ONE---Hillary/s State Dept Aide Shared Classified Information With Clinton Foundation, Email Shows; Cheryl Mills sent information marked confidential to Clinton Foundation in 2012 / BY Alana Goodman September 28, 2015

A key aide of Hillary Clinton emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in 2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton/s chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on July 12, 2012.

The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records request, is partially redacted because it includes foreign government information that has been classified Confidential by the State Department......but was not marked classified by the State Department until this past summer, intelligence sources tell the Free Beacon that it would have been classified at the time Mills sent it because foreign government information is considered classified from inception.

The message could add to concerns from congressional and FBI investigators about whether former Secretary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while at the State Department.

About half of the forwarded message was redacted due to its classified nature before the State Department released it to Citizens United last month. Although it is not clear what the redacted section includes, the State Department said in a court motion filed last week that it concerns both foreign government information and critical aspects of U.S. foreign relations, including U.S. foreign activities carried out by officials of the U.S. Government.

The State Department added that the disclosure of this information has the potential to damage and inject friction into our bilateral relationship with African countries whose cooperation is important to U.S. national security.

The Clinton Foundation and the State Department did not respond to request for comment about the email, or say whether Desai—a non-government employee who has worked at the foundation since 2007—would have been authorized to view “Confidential” information.

---SNIP---

REST AT http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-aide-shared-classified-information-with-foundation-email-shows/

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EXHIBIT TWO Cheryl was also feathering her own nest----Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on developing dirt-poor Sub-Saharan Africa.

SUB SAHARAN AFRICA / State Dept list
African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.

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EXHIBIT THREE--- Sub Sahara Muslim immigrants are streaming into the US at an unprecedented rate, all subsidized by struggling taxpayers. What do Obama, Cheryl Mills, and Hillary know about this?

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EXHIBIT FOUR--- The State Dept email, which discussed the relationship between the governments in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was originally drafted by Johnnie Carson, the State Department/s assistant secretary for African affairs, who sent it to Mills State Department email address.

Cheryl Mills later forwarded the full message to the foundation/s operative along with talking points for ex-President Clinton shortly before Bill Clinton was scheduled to visit the Congo region.

The head of a Canadian company with an enormous interest in the Congo's mining and oil sector, Lukas Lundin of Lundin Mining, announced a $100 million donation to the Clinton Foundation on the heels of Hillary/'s first presidential campaign.

After the Congolese government attempted to regain control of its own mines, the State Department intervened on behalf of Lundin Mining and another mining company, Freeport Mines, also a Clinton foundation donor.

A round of talks in 2010, thought to be aided by the Clinton State Department, concluded with the pair of well-connected companies retaining their stakes in the mines and with the Congolese government being shut out of its own resources. (hat tip Schweizer book---Clinton Cash)

MORAL OF THE STORY When Hillary smells money, she will flout the law to suck-up to Clnton Foundation donors....particularly w/ financial stakes in the lucrative oil/mineral mining industry.

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REFERENCE Several hundred State Dept emails were found on the Clinton Foundation servers.....explains why people donated hundreds of millions to the foundation.

Also explains what Hillary was doing when she was supposed to be monitoring crucial aspects of US ntl security...including protecting the lives of her employees in Benghazi.

All the behind-the-scenes data (that she tried to keep hidden from taxpayers) indicates the only thing she WAS on top of was any and all State Dept insider info on which she and Bill could make a buck.

An enterprising reporter itching for a Pulitzer needs to match-up Hillary/s official State Dept moves w/ the Clintons' vast buck-raking operation. That tell$ the whole $tory in exqui$ite detail.

[LucyT]

[ridesthemiles]

The Three Faces of Eve has nothing on the 666 faces of Shrillary.

[Mr Apple]

Hillary is such blatant spewer of B.S.

Yes, and it was also B S from this lying bitch at her Bengazi Hearing. Representative Jordan trapped her in a blatant lie. He pointed out that Hillary, the day after the Benghzi attack - had a conversation with the Egyptian Prime Minister and she told him:

"...we know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack....not a protest."

Jordan then followed up with this statement to Clinton:
"State Department experts knew the truth. You knew the truth" That's not what the American people got!"

Jordan:
"The American people want to know why? Why didn't you tell the American people exactly what you told the Prime Minister?

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We've all had enough of this lying sh*t! Issue the Warrant -and Lock this bitch up!

[Hojczyk]

NOT SPEAKIN FEES

BRIBES MORE LIKE. IT

[Vaduz]

Paid Speeches = Wink Wink