Clinton discloses millions in book royalties, speaking fees

AP ^ | 05/18/2016 | STEPHEN BRAUN and KEN THOMAS

[RayofHope]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton has filed financial documents showing that in 2015 she earned more than $5 million in royalties from her book "Hard Choices" and about $1.5 million in speaking fees before she launched her presidential campaign.

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, continued his lucrative speaking tour through last November, reaping more than $5 million from banking, tech and other corporate interests.

[Gaffer]

How can this be? The b!tch was ‘dead broke’ when she and the two-d!ck billy goat left office.

[vpintheak]

What a gig...

[ctdonath2]

Pikers compared to Trump, who has earned 1000x as much in a similar timespan.

[Mouton]

Of course this does not include the money sent to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation and from which they jointly benefit.

[CedarDave]

Pikers compared to Trump, who has earned 1000x as much in a similar timespan.

True, but how many did she help by providing employment opportunities?

[holden]

One can just smell the thousands of boxes of books that were once in a warehouse somewhere, being incinerated.

HF

[Liz]

[Dilbert San Diego]

she got $5 million from that Hard Choices book??? Really?? The one for which sales fizzled out and never climbed the best seller list???

Was the $5 million an advance the publisher had to eat, or was it based on actual sales of the book????

[dfwgator]

Did Trump write his books with the sole intention of funding his campaign?

[holden]

“And what if I don’t?”
—Vince Foster

[exit82]

$11.5 million for lies, lies, and more lies.

[fwdude]

Maybe “millions” means “broke” to her.

[odawg]

Money laundering.

[hoosiermama]

Similar thoughts also. Who paid for all those books ?

[JBW1949]

It’s really hard for me to understand why anyone would pay to hear either of them speak....

[Moonman62]

It’s all bribes. Her books and speeches aren’t worth anything.

[oh8eleven]

she got $5 million from that Hard Choices book??? Really??
Yeah, my exact reaction too. She may have been given $5 million, but it wasn't generated from book sales.

[JBW1949]

I wonder if there has ever been a DNA check on Chelsea??? I’d bet money her biological father is Web Hubbell...She looks just like him....

[RayofHope]

Do I detect a bit of disbelief in these honest, honorable, moral, ethical, principled, righteous, right-minded, respectable folks.

I don't want to accuse you of being racist, prejudiced, bigoted, chauvinist, supremacist or disrespectful of women but that's all I have in my bag of tricks!!