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Posted on 06/13/2025 2:00:10 PM PDT by simpson96
Hillary Clinton's money story is absolutely wild. We're talking about someone who went from being millions in debt to sitting on a $120 million fortune. And here's the crazy part – most of that cash didn't come from being a politician. This woman basically figured out how to turn her name recognition into a straight-up money printing machine.
Hillary Clinton Net Worth: Started From the Bottom, Now She's Here
Look, Hillary didn't come from money. She grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, with a dad who ran a small fabric business and a mom who stayed home. Nothing fancy about it. When she graduated from Yale Law School in 1973, she could've taken some big law firm job and started raking in cash immediately. But nope – she chose to work for the Children's Defense Fund instead. Talk about putting principles before paychecks.
Her first real job was teaching at the University of Arkansas Law School in 1974. The pay was trash, but whatever. Then in 1977, she joined Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, and that's when things started getting interesting. She became their first female associate, and by 1979, she was the first woman to make full partner. Get this – from 1978 until they hit the White House, Hillary was actually making more money than Bill. She was the breadwinner in that family.
At Rose Law, Hillary was what they call a "rainmaker" – basically someone who brings in the big clients and big money. She was sitting on corporate boards left and right: Wal-Mart from 1986 to 1992, TCBY from 1985 to 1992, and Lafarge from 1990 to 1992. Just her Lafarge gig alone was paying her $31,000 a year, and that's not even counting all the other board fees. She was basically collecting checks from everywhere.
When Hillary Clinton Net Worth Exploded
Here's where the story gets absolutely bonkers. When Bill and Hillary left the White House in 2001, they were flat broke. Actually worse than broke – they were millions in debt because of all those legal bills from the Monica Lewinsky scandal and other drama. But then Hillary basically said "hold my beer" and went on the most epic money-making spree in political history.
The Clintons have pulled in over $250 million – yeah, you read that right, a quarter of a billion dollars – from speaking gigs, book deals, consulting, and investments since leaving office. Hillary's book deals alone were insane. She got $8 million for "Living History" and then $14 million for "Hard Choices." Those aren't book advances, those are lottery winnings.
But the real money was in the speaking circuit. Hillary was charging ridiculous fees – we're talking six figures per speech. She reported about $10.5 million in speaking fees before expenses. Imagine getting paid more for one speech than most people make in five years. That's Hillary Clinton level money right there.
Current Hillary Clinton Net Worth: Living That $120 Million Life
Today, Hillary and Bill are sitting pretty with about $120 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. That's combined, but still – not too shabby for a couple who were broke 20 years ago. OpenSecrets had her individual net worth at $32 million back in 2014, but that number's definitely grown since then.
In 2015, their tax return showed they made $10.75 million and paid $3.62 million in taxes. That's a 34.2% tax rate, which means they're definitely not hiding money in some shady offshore accounts. They're making bank and paying their fair share.
These days, Hillary's still bringing in serious cash. She's got ongoing book royalties, still does some speaking gigs, and recently started teaching at Columbia University. Plus, estimates suggest she could be making anywhere from $413,000 to $567,000 annually just from her digital presence and social media. The woman basically turned herself into a brand, and that brand is worth serious money.
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Wise Cattle Futures investments.
She wrote some books and stuff. That was probably how she got rich. Yeah, that’s it.
James 5:1-3
King James Version
5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is CANKERED; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%205%3A1-3&version=KJV
CANKERED:
2. affected by a malign or corrupting influence.
There was a concerted effort of several different leftists in the media as the Clintons were just about to end their “service” in DC to say: “The Clintons will soon leave the White House in just about the same common people’s net worth as other outsiders when they came to Washington from Arkansas. Not the wealthy insiders they met here.”
Laughably absurd. The conspiracy of ALL the media saying that was to cover their grift and selfish wealth building. Took a lot of phony “best seller” book deals and money laundering to cover their wealth.
Russia was paid $500K for each oral service, I mean speech.
Hillary was a lowly nobody working at a very low level on the Dem IMPEACHMENT COMMITTEE right after graduating from law school and was FIRED from that job! But THIS was her FIRST job out of law school.
And the rest of it is sketchy, as well as glossing over her past as well.
Now that we have real people in charge of the FBI and DOJ it would be a good time to look into the Clinton Foundation.
Another never had a real job Democrat who somehow became a multi millionaire.
“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected.
Don’t you?
Why?
It saves time.”
Terry Pratchett - “The Last Continent”
If anyone wants a detailed overview of all of that, just ask me.
She betrayed the country to the Red Chinese.
Her entire Grift is funded by the foundation, all expenses for everything, it pays for everything.
So whatever she earns, it goes straight to the bank.
Politicians have mastered that Grift.
Donations/Bribes to the Campaign pay all the bills.
They hire their relatives.
They keep all the money “in-house”.
,,, no mention of how much she sold the WhiteHouse silver servce set for and anything else she and Billy Jeff piped out the door on their way out.
If the IRS decides your money was from illegal activities, they can do a forensic audit to determine whether all of the necessary taxes were paid. Yes, you owe taxes on ill-gotten money. Whether she has paid all the taxes or not an audit of where and when the money was acquired would be a first step to justice. (No, even if she’s a paid hit man she won’t ever see the inside of a jail cell. We have a multi teer justice system similar to that of the Middle Ages where landed gentry might, might just be confined to their mansion.) But this would lead to lots of other folks who set up the deals and some of them are probably still dealing and stealing. It would certainly stop loads of illegal money finding its way into the Democratic party coffers.
Not counting the hundreds of millions that Bill and her ripped off the Haitians...
Their daughter has pretty much faded from view but is and will stay stinking rich due to her gig with the Foundation...
I figured she would go into politics, but looks like she is too comfortably rich to care...
I can’t,for the life of me,figure out how the Clintons came to be worth close to a half billion dollars.
I recall she got $300,000 for a speech at UCLA in 2016 when she was campaigning for President.
Books and art are very good ways to launder money.
And here's my usual reminder..."If Hillary hadn't married Bobba...we'd all be going "Hillary who?".
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