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The Second Clinton Impeachment
Townhall.com ^ | August 11, 2016 | Mike Adams

Posted on 08/11/2016 6:21:43 AM PDT by Kaslin

Because the Republicans have decided to nominate a misinformed, unqualified, and unstable candidate it is now virtually guaranteed that Hillary Clinton will be our next president. Our efforts now are not to be directed toward getting Trump in office based on some pipe dream that he will somehow save the Supreme Court. Our efforts need to be focused on keeping a Republican House and Senate. The reason is simple: We have a case for impeaching Hillary Clinton beginning in January of 2017.

Clinton is guilty of more serious crimes than those of her husband prior to his impeachment. Next year she will have been placed in office by accepting a series of bribes – some of which have been funneled through her private “charitable” foundation and illegally used to fund her campaign for the presidency. If that is not an impeachable offense then no offense is impeachable.

None of this should come as a surprise. The Clintons began accepting bribes from corporations long before Bill even got out of office. In May of 1999, bankruptcy attorney William Brandt gave $1 million to the Clinton Presidential Library. Three months later, the Clinton Justice Department dropped charges against him for lying under oath about illegal lobbying of federal officials. The same year Anheuser-Busch kicked in $1 million after the Clinton administration dropped a bid to regulate beer advertisements aimed at minors.

It only got worse the following year when Denise Rich paid three bribes to the Clintons in exchange for the pardon of her husband Marc Rich. One bribe was $100,000 to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign. Another was $450,000 to the Clinton presidential library. A final bribe was for $1 million to the Democratic Party. Rich was pardoned on Clinton’s last day in office.

Things have only gotten worse since Hillary became the Secretary of State. The Clinton Foundation has been collecting money from foreign-owned businesses without getting approval from the Obama administration. The foundation has also failed to disclose millions of dollars of gifts (bribes) from foreign entities seeking Hillary’s help to approve of transactions with serious national security implications.

Speaking of serious national security implications, it is interesting to observe the change in policy toward India since Bill left office in 2001. India had never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and was hit with sanctions for refusing to do so. India attempted to have those sanctions lifted by having Indian entities with a direct financial interest in lifting the sanctions pay Bill Clinton large speaking fees. Indians who could legally do so also made donations to Hillary’s senate and presidential campaigns. Additionally, millions were poured directly into the Clinton Foundation. After the bribes were deposited, Bill and Hillary went to work lifting the sanctions that Bill had imposed as president.

The activities of the Clinton Foundation deserve heightened scrutiny because foreign governments cannot contribute to American political campaigns. But they can donate to a “charity” like the foundation. They are also allowed to pay exorbitant fees for speeches. Americans of all political persuasions should be troubled by the fact that corporations benefiting from State Department actions while Hillary was Secretary of State have funded Clinton speeches. Notably, affiliates of companies funding Clinton speeches have been the direct recipients of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Predictably, the Clintons never disclosed any of the obvious conflicts of interests.

After the initial years following Bill Clinton’s presidency, his income from speeches started to dwindle. Then, when Hillary became Secretary of State in 2009 his high-paying overseas speeches suddenly started to increase in frequency. Of the thirteen speeches Bill Clinton has given for over half a million dollars, eleven occurred when his wife was Secretary of State.

Nigeria, which is one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, has been one of the biggest moneymakers for Bill Clinton. In his first eight years out of office, Bill never spoke in Nigeria. After Hillary became Secretary of State, Bill pulled in two of his top three speeches ever ($700,000 each) speaking in Nigeria.

Despite its record of corruption, Hillary granted Nigeria a waiver so it could continue to receive US assistance. This is despite the fact that in 2006 $1 million from a poverty alleviation fund was funneled into an organization run by Nduka Obaigbena in order to bring Beyonce to Nigeria. Obaigbena is also the alleged underwriter of Bill Clinton’s $700,000 speeches.

Clinton benefactor Gilbert Chagoury has been implicated in numerous bribery and corruption schemes in Nigeria. He has built a financial empire with the help of Sani Abacha, a Nigerian dictator whose time in office was known for brutality, bribery, and corruption. Abacha is also tied to Mark Rich who helped obtain oil assets in Nigeria and sell them for the benefit of General Abacha. During the same time frame, Abacha funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign assistance into European bank accounts.

Chagoury also funneled money into the 1996 Clinton reelection campaign and to the Democratic National Committee. He donated nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration group tied to the DNC. Even the Washington Post had the good sense to recognize that it was done to curry favor with the Clinton administration on behalf of the Abacha dictatorship.

In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Switzerland of money laundering and of “aiding a criminal organization in connection with billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria.” Since his conviction he has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation. In 2009, after Hillary became Secretary of State, he pledged a whopping billion dollars to the Clintons.

In December of 2009, Hillary Clinton gave a speech as a part of “International Anti-Corruption Day,” in which she praised the work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in combatting bribery. In fact, she would go on to chair the group two years later. This is the same woman who began her political career with a controversy over turning a $1000 investment in cattle futures into $100,000. Throughout her career, the biggest payments into her coffers have not come from countries like England and Germany. They have flowed from nations rife with corruption and bribery.

Nonetheless, in 2012 Hillary stated that fighting corruption is an “integral part of national security” adding that “our credibility depends on practicing what we preach.” She even said that bribery is “morally wrong – and far too common.”

Indeed. Screwing your country with bribes is far more serious than screwing your intern with cigars. Let the proceedings begin.

Author’s Note: The main source for this column was "Clinton Cash" by Peter Schweizer.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crookedhillary; hillary2016; impeachedx42; tds; tdshistory; tdsyetagain; wemustkeepcongress; x42
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To: Kaslin

It seems everyone wants their 15 seconds of fame and what ever the equivalent of a couple column inches in the paper might be. To bad they can’t come up with well written paragraphs that add to the confusion. This article is way too long.


21 posted on 08/11/2016 6:36:53 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: apillar

You’d be happy if we lose the Congress, wouldn’t you?


22 posted on 08/11/2016 6:38:23 AM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: DrDude

That is exactly the point Dr Adams is making


23 posted on 08/11/2016 6:40:03 AM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: The people have spoken

Ditto. There is no problem with President Trump.

That first sentence shows me this person has nothing to say.


24 posted on 08/11/2016 6:41:32 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Donglalinger

Dr Adams is worried about people like you and rightly so, because it is obvious that you don’t get it.


25 posted on 08/11/2016 6:41:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

When he leads with BS like this

“Because the Republicans have decided to nominate a misinformed, unqualified, and unstable candidate it is now virtually guaranteed that Hillary Clinton will be our next president”,

I see no reason to lend credence to anything that follows.


26 posted on 08/11/2016 6:42:06 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Kaslin

I am sick of hearing that Trump is unqualified! Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution imposes only three eligibility requirements on persons serving as president – based on the officeholder’s age, time of residency in the U.S., and citizenship status. Under the Twelfth Amendment, the same three qualifications apply to the Vice President of the United States.

Only “natural-born” U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents at least one of whom was a U.S. citizen at the time) may serve president of the United States, though from time to time that requirement is called into question, recently in the case of potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Texas), who was born in Canada to Cuban-born father and a U.S-born mother.

One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president; he was 43 years old when he was inaugurated in 1961. There is no maximum age limit set forth in the Constitution. Ronald Reagan was the oldest president; at the end of his term in 1988, he was nearly 77.

Finally, one must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years to be president, in addition to being a natural-born citizen. The Constitution is vague on this point. For example, it does not make clear whether those 14 years need to be consecutive or what the precise definition of residency is. So far, however, this requirement has never been challenged.
These are the only explicit criteria in the Constitution.


27 posted on 08/11/2016 6:42:37 AM PDT by native texan (Texans should be independent thinkers)
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To: Kaslin
You’d be happy if we lose the Congress, wouldn’t you?

No, the spineless RINO's we have in there now are probably still nominally better than the democrats completely unchecked...

28 posted on 08/11/2016 6:44:39 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Kaslin
It is total BS.

She will not be impeached for the same reason obummer has not been.

Two major reasons:

DC is totally corrupt. DOJ example #1.

VP will be Kaine, no more acceptable than Joe Biden.

29 posted on 08/11/2016 6:45:00 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: mountainlion

“It seems everyone wants their 15 seconds of fame”

Never has one man given so many writers so much to write about
a man they know little of.


30 posted on 08/11/2016 6:45:03 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: Kaslin

This from someone who thinks GW Bush was a better president than Reagan.


31 posted on 08/11/2016 6:46:18 AM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: Grampa Dave; stephenjohnbanker; Arthur Wildfire! March
Nigerian Gilbert Chagoury was convicted in Switzerland of money laundering and of “aiding a criminal organization in connection with billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria.” Since his conviction he has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation. In 2009, after Hillary became Secretary of State, he pledged a whopping billion dollars to the Clintons.

It doesn't take many brain cells to conclude that an individual connected to stolen money pledging a billion dollars to the "do-good Clinton Foundation" is in desperate need of money laundering.

Bill Clinton's inveterate globe-trotting....and his 27 trips offshore to Pedo Island.....means the Clintons have money stashed all over the place.

In fact, L/E looking into Pedo Island underage sex activities found Bill Clinton and Doug Band had over 20 phone nos and email addies. L/E recognizes that as evidence of money laundering and tax evasion.

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REFERENCE --- When he went to jail, investigators found Ponzi King Bernie Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.

COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.

But the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.

32 posted on 08/11/2016 6:47:59 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Kaslin

The reason is simple: We have a case for impeaching Hillary Clinton beginning in January of 2017.”

Uh Mike, There is just One Big Problem, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Ryan will be the ones DEFENDING HER, Not Impeaching Her.


33 posted on 08/11/2016 6:50:11 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Kaslin
"Dr Adams is worried about people like you and rightly so, because it is obvious that you don’t get it."

The first Clinton impeachment was a failure.It only made him more popular. If he thinks McCain,Flake, Ayotte,Kirk,Collins,Hatch will vote to convict he is the one that doesn't get it.

Also if all those fantasyland things came to pass Kaine is still picking the Supreme Court Justices

34 posted on 08/11/2016 6:50:15 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“When you start out with an outrages lie, the rest is not worth reading.”

NR should be banned!


35 posted on 08/11/2016 6:51:59 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: All
Shady offshore activity in Central America.....rings a bell....here's why:

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 Colombia.

Why Colombia?

WIKI REFERENCE---In 2000, the Clinton administration committed $1.3 billion in foreign aid to the corrupt country of Colombia...... 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 Colombia 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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04/16/2008----Former President Bill Clinton has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking on behalf of a Colombia-based group pushing the trade pact, and representatives of that organization tell The Huffington Post that the former president shared their sentiment.

In June 2005, Clinton was paid $800,000 by the Colombia-based Gold Service International to give four speeches throughout Latin America. The organization is, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombia’s business opportunities.

The group’s chief operating officer, Andres Franco, said in an interview that the group supports the congressional ratification of the free trade agreement and that, when Clinton was on his speaking tour, he expressed similar opinions. “He was supportive of the trade agreement at the time that he came, but that was several years ago.

In the present context, I don’t know what his position would be. It is not only about union trade rights. It is about what benefit or damage it can do to the US economy,” said Franco. “Events with the Clinton campaign [concerning Mark Penn] are not good at all for the trade agreement... Right now it became a campaign issues and that is sad, because it needs to go through.”

The comments were supported by a June 23, 2005 article from the news portal Terra (uncovered by Ben Smith at Politico) in which Clinton offered unambiguous support for the free trade agreement with Colombia.

They appear to be the first public indication that Clinton has, at least in the past, supported the trade deal. But evidence that the former president has been sympathetic to Colombia’s position is widely known. In 2007, Clinton met personally with and accepted an award from Colombia’s controversial president, Alvaro Uribe, during a time when the country was attempting to improve its image within the United States.

Subsequently, Clinton urged Congress to view the country in a more favorable light.

Moreover, Clinton has helped Frank Giustra, one of the biggest donors to the Clinton Global Initiative, score meetings with high-ranking Colombian officials. Giustra has several business interests in the country, and both he and Clinton have collaborated on an effort to (cough) "fight poverty in developing world by partnering up with mining companies in Colombia and elsewhere." http://nypost.com/2008/12/19/bubba-sheik-ing-the-money-tree/

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Ut oh, Obama's asking for billions to eradicate coca in Central America (cue govt fraud machine).

36 posted on 08/11/2016 6:53:15 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Kaslin

Couldn’t get past the first sentence.


37 posted on 08/11/2016 6:53:28 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Kaslin

Logically Mike should be in the “anybody but Cankles” camp, but he seems to prefer Cankles to Trump, he just wants to impeach her right away.

Strange.


38 posted on 08/11/2016 6:53:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: stanne

The point of Dr Adams is that if Hillary Rotten Clinton is elected, which could be very likely that an impeachment is not possible if we lose Congress and especially the Senate. Hillary will not be impeached


39 posted on 08/11/2016 6:53:57 AM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin; Admin Moderator; WildHighlander57; Conservative Gato; Psalm 144; onyx; Jane Long; ...
This op-ed by Dr Adams requires careful reading and he is exactly right

DOCTOR Adams? Oh let's be sure to give him ALL possible due respect here, you think he's right about this?

" Because the Republicans have decided to nominate a misinformed, unqualified, and unstable candidate it is now virtually guaranteed that Hillary Clinton will be our next president."

The mod should pull down this anti-Trump thread by an anti-Trump 'RAT sympathizer, and YOU should figure out what resort Cincinnatus Wife is staying in for the duration, and join her for margaritas this afternoon.
40 posted on 08/11/2016 6:54:00 AM PDT by mkjessup (The 'RATS are the ENEMY!! From OBAMA-'RAT to HILLARY ROTTEN RAT! GET RID OF THE 'RATS!!)
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