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Oh-oh! Donations plunge to Clinton Foundation as Hillary speech money dries up
American Thinker ^ | 11/20/2016 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/21/2016 8:31:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Even before her defeat for the presidency, Hillary Clinton’s departure from the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation crippled its fundraising for that “good work” we have repeatedly been assured the foundation does.  Like hiring members of the Clinton machine to plot...Chelsea’s rise as a candidate for Congress.

Khaleda Raman reports for the U.K. Daily Mail:

Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted amid Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run, it has been revealed.

The non-profit organization's latest tax filings show contributions fell 37 per cent to $108million - down from $172million in 2014, according to the New York Post.

Donations fell as the former Secretary of State left the group in April last year shortly after announcing her run for the White House.

Her departure also meant that revenue brought in from paid speeches plunged from $3.6million in 2014 to just $357,500.

Why, it’s almost enough to make you believe that Hillary’s speeches weren’t about wonderfully entertaining and enlightening presentations at all, but rather about bribing a future president.


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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cfdonations; clinton; clintonfoundation; fundingtheleft; hillary; hillary2016; muslimworld; nevermind; slushfund; trumptransition
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To: circlecity
"And those numbers are all from before she lost. Guess she will just have to find a way to eek her way through life on the $200 million in bribes she was able to coerce before the spigot turned off."

Look for lots of layoffs as the revenue stream dries up. They have lots of employees (COUGH!hangers-onCOUGH!)who will probably be unloaded, but not until after it is too late and the cash stream has already disappeared.

21 posted on 11/21/2016 9:18:43 AM PST by leftcoaster
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To: Peter W. Kessler

“Maybe she’ll have a sale like Penney’s.”

You can’t discount power and influence you no longer have. All the people who “donated” to her since she quit the State Department were speculating on her return to power, influence, and...worth.

They chose poorly.


22 posted on 11/21/2016 9:27:45 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: SeekAndFind

coming soon.

the Obama foundation


23 posted on 11/21/2016 9:37:04 AM PST by RockyTx
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To: SeekAndFind
Karma gets sweeter every day! 😂
24 posted on 11/21/2016 9:40:05 AM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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LOL

Hillary has absolutely no power to change anything in Government so why would they still pay her $200,000+ for speeches? HAHAHAHAHA


25 posted on 11/21/2016 9:42:46 AM PST by KavMan
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To: SeekAndFind

Money for nothing and the Hen ain’t free.


26 posted on 11/21/2016 9:43:11 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny (agent Able Deplor))
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To: SeekAndFind

Looking forward to the day the Clinton’s monthly checking account fees exceed donations.


27 posted on 11/21/2016 9:49:07 AM PST by moovova
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To: SeekAndFind

“Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential run”

Those words give me the warm fuzzies!! Is it really less than two weeks since Election Day?


28 posted on 11/21/2016 9:49:59 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: SeekAndFind

No more influence, no more payola.

Seems pretty straight forward to me....


29 posted on 11/21/2016 9:52:17 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: SeekAndFind

I imagine they’ve got plenty of dark money squirrelled away.


30 posted on 11/21/2016 9:56:44 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bill’s next paid speech is to the West Strangeville, Iowa Breakfast Rotary for #75, gas money, and all the pancakes he can eat.


31 posted on 11/21/2016 10:06:04 AM PST by Strac6 (My Sig Sauer, My Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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To: \/\/ayne

They spiked the ball before they hit the end zone. They been Leon Letted.


32 posted on 11/21/2016 10:07:32 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever)
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To: KavMan
"Hillary has absolutely no power to change anything in Government so why would they still pay her $200,000+ for speeches? HAHAHAHAHA"

There is still her "safe spaces" -- organizations like private colleges charging $60,000 annually. They are plenty that will be more than happy to give her $200,000 of their students' money.

I doubt she's going to need give up her favorite wines.

33 posted on 11/21/2016 10:11:50 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: SeekAndFind

Bad business, bribing Judge Crater.


34 posted on 11/21/2016 10:14:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: txrefugee

Erk...


35 posted on 11/21/2016 10:17:15 AM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Donations to the Clinton Foundation have been wiped out? You mean like with a cloth?


36 posted on 11/21/2016 10:26:08 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: All
The question always begging for an answer is ----did the buck-raking
charitable Clinton Foundation use the money solicited for charity go to the intended charity?

========================================

PODESTA EMAIL Mentions CHAI, AFL-CIO, Deutsche Bank.......indicates Podesta aided and abetted the Clinton Foundation's tax fraud and money laundering.

<><> ....(money raised for) the Island initiative budget "as is" includes a $100,000 salary for Ira (on top of his CHAI salary) and a staff of nine (that Ira said he did not need) .....

<><> ...... Swedish post code lottery donor funds (to be split among them)......

<><>....using Clinton Foundation funds to fund AFL-CIO/pension fund retrofit work.

LINK https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9938

=========================================

<><> ITEM----The legal culpability of a tax-free "charity" consists of:

<><> soliciting and taking money, and,

<><> showing how they spend it.

==========================================

REPORT MAIL FRAUD AND ELECTRONIC FRAUD HERE:

MAIL FRAUD https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.aspx

ELECTRONIC FRAUD---FBI electronic fraud unit
FBI tip page https://tips.fbi.gov

=================================

Just shut it down......its a useless shady foundation.

Moreover, the conniving Clintons used the tax-paid offices of the State Dept and classified info belonging to taxpayers to enrich themselves. Taxpayers demand reparations ..... any money made belongs to them.

37 posted on 11/21/2016 10:35:59 AM PST by Liz ( Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Clintons are in the ash heap of history

Absolutely no influence

Obama top dog in the dem party ( second time he put it to the Clintons)

Hillary with no incentive anymore will go full blown alcoholic
Even half or more of those who voted for her hated her


38 posted on 11/21/2016 10:36:32 AM PST by uncbob
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t wait to see the clawbacks.


39 posted on 11/21/2016 10:38:02 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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CLINTONS' QUID PRO QUO UP CLOSE

Hillary hadn’t even finished unpacking her things in her new office at the State Department after Barack Obama appointed her when a situation was dumped in her lap. The Swiss government was concerned that the IRS was suing UBS AG – one of the biggest banks in Switzerland – to get them to reveal the identities of tens of thousands of clients. (Wall Street Journal)

If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.

Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.

Well, the Swiss may have gotten off pretty easy, but at least a compromise had been reached, right? Job well done, Mrs. Clinton. Peace is maintained between the US and an influential ally. And now we can all go about our business. Except for one disturbing aspect of the story which cropped up in the following months.

From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according the foundation and the bank.

The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.

The WSJ is quick to point out that there is no evidence of any link between these events, but at what point does coincidence become too much to ignore? You’re talking about one of the richest, most powerful financial entities on the planet who, up until Clinton took over at state, had given a grand total of $60K to the foundation. (An amount which likely fell well short of how much USB spent on coffee and donuts during the same period.) And then, in a matter of weeks, the cash spigots opened up and increased tenfold over the next six years.

Tens of millions in loans to efforts supported by the foundation were in addition to a direct set of cash deposits into Bill Clinton’s pocket totally $1.5M… not the foundation’s coffers. And if I remember correctly, Bill and Hill were still filing their taxes jointly at the time, weren’t they?

The Swiss bank got a truly sweet deal and millions of dollars flowed immediately thereafter into the accounts of both the Clintons and their foundation. So we are asked to accept that there no causal relationship between these two sets of data points. We can’t prove that there is absent some secret recording turning up, but at what point can the media say that this beggars belief and the empress has no clothes?

40 posted on 11/21/2016 10:43:03 AM PST by Liz ( Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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