Posted on 05/25/2016 12:13:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an email obtained by POLITICO, the Trump campaign asks the RNC to research the scandal.
Donald Trump, who in recent days has accused Bill Clinton of rape and suggested he and Hillary Clinton may have had a role in the death of one of their close friends, plans to focus next on the Whitewater real estate scandal, POLITICO has learned.
Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo on Wednesday morning emailed a researcher at the Republican National Committee asking him to “work up information on HRC/Whitewater as soon as possible. This is for immediate use and for the afternoon talking points process.”
The email was obtained by POLITICO when Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, who Caputo copied on his request to the RNC, accidentally responded instead to Marc Caputo, a POLITICO reporter who is not related to the Republican consultant.
RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer issued a statement praising his committee’s research team as “the best in the business,” but neither he nor Hicks responded to questions about how or when the Trump campaign intended to invoke Whitewater, or whether they thought that spotlighting the matter might open Trump to more scrutiny of his own mixed record in real estate.
Whitewater refers to a scandal involving the Clintons’ real estate investment during the late 1970s through a company they formed called the Whitewater Development Corporation.
After Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, the Justice Department and the U.S. Congress investigated various aspects of the Whitewater deal, including allegations that Clinton, as governor of Arkansas in the mid-1980s, used his influence to arrange a $300,000 loan to the Clintons’ partner in the deal.
Some Clinton associates were convicted for their roles in the matter. But the former first couple, who lost tens of thousands of dollars on the deal, was never prosecuted, despite the Justice Department having prepared several draft indictments of Hillary Clinton, which are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit seeking to compel their release.
Whitewater became a fulcrum in a constellation of interconnected scandals that continued to plague the couple through Bill Clinton’s entire presidency, and that Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, is now spotlighting in an effort to damage Hillary Clinton, his likely general election rival.
In fact, in a recent interview, Trump signaled his interest in both Whitewater and a related conspiracy theory about the death of Clinton White House counsel Vince Foster, who was involved in responding to Whitewater inquiries and filing overdue tax returns for the Whitewater Development Corporation. His death was ruled a suicide, but conservative conspiracy theorists hypothesized that he was killed as part of a Whitewater cover up.
Trump said: “It’s the one thing with her, whether it’s Whitewater or whether it’s Vince or whether it’s Benghazi. It’s always a mess with Hillary.”
Spicer in his statement called the Trump campaign’s Whitewater research request “just another example of Republican campaigns up and down the ballot looking to us for the best information. Whether it’s the Trump campaign or top Senate, House or down ballot candidates we will consistently provide them with the resources they need to win.”
Hicks, in her errant email, attempted to warn Michael Caputo, not to directly contact the RNC researcher, Michael Abboud, with research requests. But Hicks’ email suggested the researcher may soon be joining the campaign team, which has mostly lacked a robust in-house research operation.
“He is still an employee of the RNC and we need to be sensitive to that until he comes over to our team full time,” Hicks wrote in the email accidentally sent to Marc Caputo.
The incontrovertible Billy Dale travel office story with cause the concrete to dry on the rest of the lies.
It’s only a cover up without litigation wrapped up as conspiracy until it’s not.
Go Trump Go!
Whitewater is too complicated for morons to understand although if they bring up Spiro Agnew it may help.
The murder of Vince Foster is much easier to understand, particularly now that new information has emerged.
Excellent.
And how about the “missing” billing records which mysteriously showed up in Hillary’s quarters in the White House?
And how about the mysterious “straddle” transaction where Hillary made $100,000 in one day, and where her stock broker later was sent to prison for securities fraud and money laundering?
We will see. Trump is a master poker player. Doubt he would leak it if it were true
However Steve Miller reading from Clinton Cash is priceless
This is very relevant and important because we have millions of voter under 32 years of age who probably have no information on her White water wrong doing and need to know in order to decide their vote. I don’t want to hear about “this is old news” It is NOT old news to this newer generation on voters so BRING IT ON . ( They also never heard of the rape and molestation on women by Bill Clinton)
Hillary was a large part of Whitewater and the cover ups. It might as well be tattooed on her ass. It will never go away, as much as the commie pukes in the democrat party and their propaganda arm -the media- would like it to.
Burn witch burn!
Bill & Hillary
1975 — Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham marry.
1977 — Mrs. Clinton joins the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1978 — The Clintons and the McDougals borrow nearly $200,000 from Citizens Bank to buy scenic though remote land along the White River in Flippin, Ark. Without telling Citizens Bank, they borrow $20,000 from another bank to make the down payment.
1978 — Mrs. Clinton begins trading commodities with an initial investment of $1,000.
Swearing in
1978 — Clinton is elected governor of Arkansas.
1979 — James McDougal joins Clinton’s gubernatorial administration as an economic advisor.
1979 — Mrs. Clinton closes out her commodities account after making nearly $100,000.
1979 — The Whitewater Development company is formed, with ownership shared between the Clintons and McDougals.
1980 — McDougal quits his job with Clinton and buys a bank in Kingston, Ark., that he renames Madison Bank & Trust Co.
1980 — Clinton loses his re-election bid for governor. Mrs. Clinton calls McDougal asking for money.
1980 — Mrs. Clinton borrows $30,000 from Madison Bank to build a model home at Whitewater.
1982 — The McDougals buy a savings and loan bank and rename it Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
Annoucement
1982 — Clinton wins back the governorship.
1983 — Clinton borrows $20,000 from the Security Bank of Paragould to reduce Mrs. Clinton’s Madison Bank loan.
1984 — Clinton jogs over to McDougal’s office and asks him to help Mrs. Clinton by giving business to her at the Rose firm. McDougal agrees.
1985 — Mrs. Clinton meets with McDougal, and he agrees to pay a monthly retainer to the Rose firm.
1985 — McDougal barters the remaining Whitewater lots to Chris Wade for an airplane and the assumption of $35,000 in bank debt.
1985 — Mrs. Clinton angrily rebuffs the McDougals’ effort to have the Clintons sign over their interest in Whitewater.
1986 — The McDougals separate.
1986 — McDougal is forced to resign from Madison Guaranty.
1986 — Mrs. Clinton ends Rose’s retainer agreement with Madison.
1986 — Mrs. Clinton again refuses to transfer the Clintons’ interest in Whitewater to the McDougals.
1986 — Mrs. Clinton balks at giving Susan McDougal a financial disclosure form for Citizens Bank, now renamed 1st Ozark National Bank.
1987 — Mrs. Clinton deals directly with loan officers at 1st Ozark and assumes control of the Whitewater investment.
1987 — Clinton signs a bill expanding branch banking, a statute that primarily benefits Twin City Bank, the parent of 1st Ozark.
1989 — Madison fails in March, costing the taxpayers $60 million.
1989 — McDougal is indicted on charges relating to the Castle Grande, a Madison-funded real estate project Rose attorneys, including Hillary Clinton, worked on.
1990 — McDougal is acquitted of the charges.
1990 — Clinton tells McDougal’s lawyer he wants out of Whitewater, but Mrs. Clinton again balks.
Clintons
1991 — Clinton announces he is running for president.
1992 — Mrs. Clinton again refuses to relinquish the Clintons’ interest in Whitewater.
1992 — Clinton is elected president.
1992 — McDougal and Vince Foster, representing the Clintons, sign papers selling the Clintons’ interest in Whitewater to McDougal for $1,000.
1992 — Clinton’s presidential campaign, responding to pressure from the media, issues a statement that the Clintons did nothing improper with Whitewater dealings.
The scandal with the Travel Office shows just how vile and vicious Hil is.
My thought exactly.
He does not even need to bring it, it is now out there.
Those that don’t know may be curious enough to google
Beat that twisted, evil bitch like a rented mule. Club her until she dies on the toilet just like Elvis. Go Trump!
Hellary runs the ad about Trump expressing to make money/deal on a down real estate market, and Trump counters with Hillary’s Whitewater land scam. LoL.
Why do people beat rented mules? That is very cruel.
My you have a looooong memory - thank God.
I doubt he’s going to go into Whitewater specifics, it would be a loser.
When she goes feminist Trump will hit on her enabling Bill and destroying the women he’s molested.
When she goes Foreign Policy Trump will hit her on all her foreign policy failures — Libya, Egypt, Russia, Benghazi, Syria et al.
When she goes Economy Trumps going to hit her connection to Nafta then her support of TPP.
When it comes to Domestic Policy Trump will hit her on the second amendment, first amendment, email scandal, mishandling classified information.
Go, Trump, go! A whole generation of uninformed libtards needs to know the truth about the Clintons.
The ever hip and trendy younger crowd won’t pay any attention and say, “what difference does it make?”
The small print at the bottom read: “In the event the default continues for 30 days … payments made by the purchaser shall be considered as rent for the use of the premises.” In other words, the buyers did not actually take ownership of their property until the final payment was made. If a buyer missed just one monthly payment, all their previous payments would be classified as rent and they would have no equity in the land at all. - source
Clyde Soapes was a grain-elevator operator from Texas who heard about the lots in early 1980 and jumped at the chance to invest. He put $3,000 down and began making payments of $244.69 per month. He made thirty-five payments in all—totaling $11,564.15, just short of the $14,000 price for the lot. Then he suddenly fell ill with diabetes and missed a payment, then two. The Clintons informed him that he had lost the land and all of his money. There was no court proceeding or compensation. Months later they resold his property to a couple from Nevada for $16,500. After they too missed a payment, the Clintons resold it yet again.
Here we call those “agreements of sale” and they are treated like mortgages. You can’t just cancel them the way the Clintons did, they actually get foreclosed and sold through public auction, and the proceeds first are used to pay off any remaining debt, and then the balance goes to the former buyer.
Still may not be enough for the former buyer, if the auction doesn’t sell well, but it’s still better than total forfeiture of their investment and a windfall profit to the seller.
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