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Merkel Gives 5 Million to Clinton Foundation

Posted on 12/01/2016 6:21:49 AM PST by hapnHal

It was reported that Angela Merkel was involved in the US election. Direct connection has been made between her and Hillary Clinton.

Angela Merkel has been caught funnelling over $5 million of German taxpayers money to the Clinton Foundation in an underhanded effort to try and influence the recent U.S. elections.

Between July and September 2016, Merkel gave millions of German taxpayers money to the Clinton Foundation, according to German newspaper Die Welt.

According to a newly surfaced donor list, the Clinton charity received around $5 million from Germany’s Ministry for Environment. Ministry’s spokesperson said that they had “very positive experience” with the Clinton Foundation and the millions of dollars diverted to the Clintons were going to planting trees in countries like India, Mexico, and Vietnam.

The total amount of German taxpayer contribution to Clinton Foundation is not yet known. It is unclear if the Merkel government made further payments to the Clinton charity through other ministries or state-run agencies. German newspaper Die Welt details the government transaction:

The newly released list of donors show that Federal [German] Ministry for Environment transferred millions to the [Clinton] Foundation. In the third quarter of 2016, at the height of [Clinton’s] campaign, German taxpayers gave up to five million dollars to the family foundation.

Some observers believe that German government has some explaining to do for the donation that appears under the heading “Donors and Grantors”. “Why does a Ministry supports the election campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate?” asked Vera Lengsfeld — former civil rights activist and German parliamentarian — in her blog. “It seems German taxpayers unwittingly financed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.”


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1 posted on 12/01/2016 6:21:49 AM PST by hapnHal
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To: hapnHal
IIRC there will be national elections in Germany next year and it's my understanding that she's quite unpopular these days.Maybe she'll be looking for work at this time next year.
2 posted on 12/01/2016 6:24:17 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: hapnHal

The question is what did murkul get in return? She obviously did bammy’s bidding in letting millions of “refugees” into Europe to destroy Europe.


3 posted on 12/01/2016 6:27:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: hapnHal

Can someone Hang this evil women please hang her so I can watch.


4 posted on 12/01/2016 6:31:10 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!)
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To: hapnHal

I think the Germans deserve a chance to tour the Clinton forests of Vietnam India and Mexico that were planted with their money!

Zigge zagge Zigge zagge hoi hoi hoi!


5 posted on 12/01/2016 6:32:58 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: hapnHal

Abysmal reporting or letting a secret out??? Ya see, how could donations to a family charity, the Clinton Foundation and Slush Fund, possibly influence the outcome of the election? I mean, there is a firewall the length of the Mexican border between the Foundation and the campaign, right?

#LockHerUp


6 posted on 12/01/2016 6:33:55 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: hapnHal

Three observations of the story.

1. Merkel was not involved in the transfer or deal....this was conducted by a ministry within the government which is run by the SPD (center-left)...the partner party to Merkel’s CDU. The minister in charge of the agency probably did not brief Merkel. No evidence presented so far would suggest that Merkel knew...maybe later, such evidence will occur.

2. Roughly 93-percent of the yearly funding of the Clinton Foundation goes to rent costs, operations, staff, and salary (like to Chelsea). ONLY 6-to-7 percent goes to charities or anything related to actual charity events. If you ask anyone within the Germany government, about the statistic (readily available)....none know this fact. So, when they state it’s for something related to tree-planting....then 93-percent of the $5 million had nothing to do with trees. It might be a shocker to the German public.

3. The real big question is....just how many times and how many ministries within the German government gave the Clinton Foundation grants over the past decade? No one knows. It could be one....it could be one-hundred.

So far, this story has not surfaced in state-run TV news in Germany. It’s mentioned in the Welt (print-publication) and one or two other print products. It’s obviously something connected to lobbyists and you’d think that it’d be talked about in public. Yet nothing.


7 posted on 12/01/2016 6:33:59 AM PST by pepsionice
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Let's make a calculation.

The Clinton Foundation spends approximately 6% of funds received for actual charitable purposes. How kind of them.

If you multiply $15,000,000 x .06 you get $900,000. That should plant a few trees.

And, as an added benefit, the other $14,100,000 can go to support things like Chelsea's wedding, jaunts around the world to collect speaking fees by Bill and to just generally help the Clinton's live their "Rich and Famous" lifestyle without actually doing anything useful.

Thank you Germany. You have contributed $15,000,000 to the U.S. Gross (and I do mean "gross") National Product.

8 posted on 12/01/2016 6:34:58 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: hapnHal

Stinky old liberal elites.... Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albiright, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer etc... enough is enough...


9 posted on 12/01/2016 6:35:27 AM PST by GOPJ ("Draining the Swamp" means dumping corrupt liberal elites...Jeremy Peters does NOT speak for us.)
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To: hapnHal

Gosh, what a surprise.

Communists and Globalists supporting their own.


10 posted on 12/01/2016 6:35:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!!)
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To: hapnHal

I just tweeted this to PEOTUS.


11 posted on 12/01/2016 6:38:08 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: pepsionice
Thanks---your observations are spot-on. As to the actual amount Germany gave the Clintons.....they should look here.

The Australian newspaper the "Herald Sun" ran an October article entitled, “Why have we donated to Clinton’s foundation?” The paper noted "Former Prime Minister Gillard donated $300 million of our money to the Clinton-affiliated Global Partnership for Education.”

That's one humongous amt of Australian govt money that fell into the hands of the conniving Clintons.

The Herald Sun needs to dig deeper---to determine if any of that money took a circuitous route then landed back into the personal coffers of the donors. Could have happened like this:

BACKSTORY 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.

12 posted on 12/01/2016 6:39:44 AM PST by Liz
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To: hapnHal
Merkel gave millions of German taxpayers money...

LOCK HER UP!

13 posted on 12/01/2016 6:40:13 AM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
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Angela Merkel has been caught funnelling over $5 million of German taxpayers money to the Clinton Foundation in an underhanded effort to try and influence the recent U.S. elections.


14 posted on 12/01/2016 6:44:48 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: angcat

Cuff her Danno.


15 posted on 12/01/2016 6:45:24 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: hapnHal

Why couldn’t Germany plant their own trees? Why did it have go fhrough the Clinton Foundation?


16 posted on 12/01/2016 6:46:02 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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Some observers inside Germany believe the German government has some explaining to do for the donation that appears under the heading “Donors and Grantors”.“Why does a Ministry supports the election campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate?” blogged Vera Lengsfeld — former civil rights activist and German parliamentarian. “It seems German taxpayers unwittingly financed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.”

NOTE: One Podesta email exposed that Chelsea's big-to-do wedding also came out of the Clinton Foundation's funds supposedly raised for "charity."

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Looks like global donors are going to drop the hammer on the Clintons. Many govt officials are questioning why their governments gave big buck tax dollars to the Clintons.......IN SECRET.

TO DATE:

<><> French federal comptrollers began following a trail of tens of millions in government money that ended up in Clinton Foundation coffers, according to a document reviewed by The NY Post.

<><> The Australian government announced that it would end its decade-long affiliation with the Clinton Foundation — amounting to as much as $25 million, according to the foundation’s Web site. (an Aussie paper reported three hundred million sent to the Clintons).

<><> Norway is also scaling back; donations reached $25 million in 2015.

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A source close to Pres-elect Trump's transition team indicated plans to pressure its yet unnamed US ambassadors to suggest foreign governments probe its ­Clinton Foundation financial dealings. “Haiti and Colombia will be key diplomatic posts because of all the money ­involved,” said the source.

Recently leaked ­e-mails marked FOB “Friends of Bill”, indicate Clinton insiders may have been given priority from the State Department as it prepared to spend some $10 billion in aid after a 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti. The State Dept denied any special treatment.

Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra (he facilitated the sale of US uranium deposits), pledged $100 million to the Clinton Foundation in 2005 and later benefited from the foundation’s philanthropic work in Columbia where Giustra acquired large parcels of land and set up an oil business, ­according to watchdog groups. (hat tip NY POST)

17 posted on 12/01/2016 6:46:16 AM PST by Liz
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HapnHal,

Could you post the link to the article?


18 posted on 12/01/2016 6:50:59 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: hapnHal

Can we complain that Germany was meddling in our election?


19 posted on 12/01/2016 7:02:03 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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To: hapnHal

You’d think the frugal Germans wouldn’t allow Merkel to spend tax money ifrom a private slush fund. They aren’t any smarter than Americans, who let Obama hand out millions to his Leftist friends without authorization.


20 posted on 12/01/2016 7:03:56 AM PST by txrefugee
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