Posted on 08/11/2016 6:21:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Because the Republicans have decided to nominate a misinformed, unqualified, and unstable candidate it is now virtually guaranteed that Hillary Clinton will be our next president. Our efforts now are not to be directed toward getting Trump in office based on some pipe dream that he will somehow save the Supreme Court. Our efforts need to be focused on keeping a Republican House and Senate. The reason is simple: We have a case for impeaching Hillary Clinton beginning in January of 2017.
Clinton is guilty of more serious crimes than those of her husband prior to his impeachment. Next year she will have been placed in office by accepting a series of bribes – some of which have been funneled through her private “charitable” foundation and illegally used to fund her campaign for the presidency. If that is not an impeachable offense then no offense is impeachable.
None of this should come as a surprise. The Clintons began accepting bribes from corporations long before Bill even got out of office. In May of 1999, bankruptcy attorney William Brandt gave $1 million to the Clinton Presidential Library. Three months later, the Clinton Justice Department dropped charges against him for lying under oath about illegal lobbying of federal officials. The same year Anheuser-Busch kicked in $1 million after the Clinton administration dropped a bid to regulate beer advertisements aimed at minors.
It only got worse the following year when Denise Rich paid three bribes to the Clintons in exchange for the pardon of her husband Marc Rich. One bribe was $100,000 to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign. Another was $450,000 to the Clinton presidential library. A final bribe was for $1 million to the Democratic Party. Rich was pardoned on Clinton’s last day in office.
Things have only gotten worse since Hillary became the Secretary of State. The Clinton Foundation has been collecting money from foreign-owned businesses without getting approval from the Obama administration. The foundation has also failed to disclose millions of dollars of gifts (bribes) from foreign entities seeking Hillary’s help to approve of transactions with serious national security implications.
Speaking of serious national security implications, it is interesting to observe the change in policy toward India since Bill left office in 2001. India had never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and was hit with sanctions for refusing to do so. India attempted to have those sanctions lifted by having Indian entities with a direct financial interest in lifting the sanctions pay Bill Clinton large speaking fees. Indians who could legally do so also made donations to Hillary’s senate and presidential campaigns. Additionally, millions were poured directly into the Clinton Foundation. After the bribes were deposited, Bill and Hillary went to work lifting the sanctions that Bill had imposed as president.
The activities of the Clinton Foundation deserve heightened scrutiny because foreign governments cannot contribute to American political campaigns. But they can donate to a “charity” like the foundation. They are also allowed to pay exorbitant fees for speeches. Americans of all political persuasions should be troubled by the fact that corporations benefiting from State Department actions while Hillary was Secretary of State have funded Clinton speeches. Notably, affiliates of companies funding Clinton speeches have been the direct recipients of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Predictably, the Clintons never disclosed any of the obvious conflicts of interests.
After the initial years following Bill Clinton’s presidency, his income from speeches started to dwindle. Then, when Hillary became Secretary of State in 2009 his high-paying overseas speeches suddenly started to increase in frequency. Of the thirteen speeches Bill Clinton has given for over half a million dollars, eleven occurred when his wife was Secretary of State.
Nigeria, which is one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, has been one of the biggest moneymakers for Bill Clinton. In his first eight years out of office, Bill never spoke in Nigeria. After Hillary became Secretary of State, Bill pulled in two of his top three speeches ever ($700,000 each) speaking in Nigeria.
Despite its record of corruption, Hillary granted Nigeria a waiver so it could continue to receive US assistance. This is despite the fact that in 2006 $1 million from a poverty alleviation fund was funneled into an organization run by Nduka Obaigbena in order to bring Beyonce to Nigeria. Obaigbena is also the alleged underwriter of Bill Clinton’s $700,000 speeches.
Clinton benefactor Gilbert Chagoury has been implicated in numerous bribery and corruption schemes in Nigeria. He has built a financial empire with the help of Sani Abacha, a Nigerian dictator whose time in office was known for brutality, bribery, and corruption. Abacha is also tied to Mark Rich who helped obtain oil assets in Nigeria and sell them for the benefit of General Abacha. During the same time frame, Abacha funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign assistance into European bank accounts.
Chagoury also funneled money into the 1996 Clinton reelection campaign and to the Democratic National Committee. He donated nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration group tied to the DNC. Even the Washington Post had the good sense to recognize that it was done to curry favor with the Clinton administration on behalf of the Abacha dictatorship.
In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Switzerland of money laundering and of “aiding a criminal organization in connection with billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria.” Since his conviction he has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation. In 2009, after Hillary became Secretary of State, he pledged a whopping billion dollars to the Clintons.
In December of 2009, Hillary Clinton gave a speech as a part of “International Anti-Corruption Day,” in which she praised the work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in combatting bribery. In fact, she would go on to chair the group two years later. This is the same woman who began her political career with a controversy over turning a $1000 investment in cattle futures into $100,000. Throughout her career, the biggest payments into her coffers have not come from countries like England and Germany. They have flowed from nations rife with corruption and bribery.
Nonetheless, in 2012 Hillary stated that fighting corruption is an “integral part of national security” adding that “our credibility depends on practicing what we preach.” She even said that bribery is “morally wrong – and far too common.”
Indeed. Screwing your country with bribes is far more serious than screwing your intern with cigars. Let the proceedings begin.
Author’s Note: The main source for this column was "Clinton Cash" by Peter Schweizer.
Hate to say it but Trump also has a phone and a pen.
To Kaslin: “Ignoring your ad-hominem post, I’m finding that you are one of the more “level headed” posters in this thread.”
Mr Douglas
Since 2 August 2016
Yes, and a PRECEDENT! While we privately acknowledge that two wrongs don't make a right, we can publically state "Hey, no different than Obama". Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.
If your goal is to have Hillary NOT be President (and I understand that that is not the goal of many current “Republicans”), ask yourself, what is easier: getting mean old Trump elected in 2016, or mustering 67 Senate votes (which would include between 10 and 20 Democrat votes) for convicting Hillary in 2017 or later?
Anyone who cannot instantly answer that question correctly should keep his opinions to himself, forever.
Why don’t you get off this Trump incompetency meme! He beat 17 of your “qualified” candidates and is the nominee. That should tell you something. I was a Cruz supporter and now I’m so glad that Trump defeated him.
Tripe.
Adams restates important information, but many of us were aware that the Clinton Foundation/Global Initiative were a money-laundering, crime syndicate long be even Schweizer’s book.
Adams’ attack on Trump at the outset was entirely uncalled for, but I guess among those bought/sold establishment types you don’t get heard unless you first prove you are an anti-Trumper.
Obviously, Adams is lacking in logical skills. Just because you don’t like Trump that doesn’t mean he isn’t better than Clinton. Nor does it mean one has to choose between the Congress and the Candidate. One can support both.
As in just about every election, a winning candidate enhances congressional chances and a losing presidential candidate injures chances of winning congress.
Obviously, if the winner has more electoral votes, then they’ve brought out voters in those states, and many of out senate races this year are in blue/purple states.
Adams must have missed this particular civics class lecture in high school.
If Hillary is elected and Congress remains GOP-controlled, nothing will change.
“Our efforts now are not to be directed toward getting Trump in office based on some pipe dream that he will somehow save the Supreme Court.”
Sorry, I normally like Mike Adams, but there’s no point in reading further if he’s gone surrender monkey.
Exactly. Removal through impeachment is the real pipe dream. It’s only feasible if at least some of the opposition party is willing to break ranks, and that never happens with the Democrats.
Looks like they got to Adams.
I usually thought he wrote pretty good stuff.
Wonder who is next.
Amen, thx for saying that!
Love you, Mike. But you’re wrong about Trump. Do your homework, prof.
I agree totally. Once that camel got her nose into the tent, there will be no getting rid of her en toto, unless she croaks in office. Then we’d be stuck with Kaine.
If they didn’t prosecute Hillary for what she has already done, they will not impeach either. They haven’t even kept the current president in check for his many egregious and criminal acts. Never going to happen.
There are only two ways to stop Hillary now. Either elect Trump or start a revolution. Short of those two, Hillary will have little to no resistance doing all the nasty things she has openly said she will do.
Of course she could drop dead at any moment, with her terrible health and all.
But sure, by all means, make both chambers of Congress as conservative as possible. Just don’t count on that as the way to stop Hillary. Vote Trump.
It would be nice if we had a Republican House and Senate in the first place.
No sale.
The realistic place to raise the issues of the Clinton past, is now--in the Trump campaign. That is where those issues will truly resonate; and nothing illustrates the writer's confusion, more clearly, than his willingness to write off the one place where his attack on Mrs. Clinton makes sense.
And see Trump: The Issue.
Trump is the answer! Damn the lies & Damn the liars! Full speed ahead!
I got to the third sentence, where he pretends that we have a Republican House and Senate. :)
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