Posted on 03/05/2022 9:29:12 AM PST by bitt
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quick to cast blame as war unfolded in Ukraine. On MSNBC last week, she blasted former President Trump for “giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin” with an offhand remark that the Russian president was a “genius.” Mrs. Clinton conveniently omitted mention that not too long ago, she and her husband had raked in millions working both sides of a Russia-Ukraine grift.
Judicial Watch broke the story of former president Bill Clinton’s multi-million-dollar haul from speech fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy. In a joint investigation with the Washington Examiner, Judicial Watch found that Mr. Clinton gave 215 speeches, taking in $48 million. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch in Freedom of Information Act litigation, State Department officials charged with reviewing proposed Bill Clinton speeches for possible conflicts of interest did not object to a single one.
The speech fees included a jaw-dropping $500,000 check from the Russian investment firm Renaissance Capital for a single speech. Years later, leaked emails revealed the close connection between Renaissance Capital and Putin’s inner circle. Reuters reported that the emails show top Renaissance officials awarding an unspecified stake in the firm to Matthias Warnig, a close Putin ally. “Warnig served as an officer in East Germany’s Stasi secret police at the same time as Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in the late 1980s,” Reuters noted.
The Clintons also cultivated a relationship with Putin-connected oligarch Victor Vekselberg, who donated an estimated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. In 2018, Vekselberg was one of seven oligarchs sanctioned by the Trump Administration for activities related to the Russian government’s “malign activity…including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine.”
According to findings by investigative reporter John Solomon, Vekselberg also was involved in the Uranium One controversy—another lucrative source of cash for the Clinton network. Uranium One was a Canadian uranium mining firm with U.S. holdings that the Russians wanted to buy. The vehicle for the purchase was Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation. Because uranium is a strategic asset, the U.S. government had to approve deal. Enter Vekselberg and Secretary of State Clinton.
At the time of Bill Clinton’s $500,000 Russian speaking engagement, the former president sought permission from the State Department to meet with Vekselberg and Arkady Dvorkovich, a senior official of Rosatom, during the Moscow trip. Russia needed sign-off from the State Department on the inter-agency panel responsible for deciding the fate of the deal.
You don’t need to be a genius to connect the dots between a $500,000 “speaking fee,” a trip to Moscow, and Russia’s goal of cornering a big chunk of the global uranium market.
The sale of Uranium One to Rosatom was approved by both the U.S. and Canadian governments. In the years surrounding the deal—including before it became public knowledge—entities connected to Uranium One donated $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
The Clintons had a Ukrainian benefactor as well. According to a New York Times report, Ukrainian oligarch and steel baron Victor Pinchuk steered between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, loaned his private plane to the Clintons, flew to LA to attend Mr. Clinton’s big 65th birthday party, and went to a dinner party at the Clintons’ home. Pinchuk hired Doug Schoen, Mr. Clinton’s former consultant, to arrange meetings with State Department officials to discuss Ukraine. Pinchuk also donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation.
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Ukraine seems to be a hub for all Democrat criminal activity. Is that why democrats are defending it?
The Clintons will Grift anyone. They don’t cull them.
that’s MY guess....
the fact that Putin bombed the secret (Fauci?) labs is interesting...
Is Putin going after the dimrat skeletons in the closet?
I’m sure all that Uranium sent to Russia didn’t hurt them too much, Hitlery.
“...the Russian president was a “genius”.
Did DJT really say that? I can’t find anything on it.
Ny Times report
The Clintons Ukrainian benefactor oligarch and steel baron Victor Pinchuk
<><>steered between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation,
<><>loaned his private plane to the Clintons,
<><>flew to LA to attend Mr. Clinton’s big 65th birthday party,
<><>attended a dinner party at the Clintons’ home.
<><> hired Doug Schoen, ex-Clinton dealmaker to arrange State Dept meetings to discuss Ukraine.
Hey Hitlery, how’s that reset button with the Ruskies going? You bich.
“Ukraine seems to be a hub for all Democrat criminal activity. Is that why democrats are defending it?”
They find themselves over a barrel, in a barrel, or
atop a barrel. Whichever the case, they will soon be rolling down hill along with the rounded object. Stuck on
the SPIN cycle.
No, but he probably said Putin was a genius compared to Biden or any other dimmiecrat.
“And when you’re president Hillary we can tackle Ukraine.”
Good point; thanks.
Ukraine seems to be a hub for all Democrat criminal activity. Is that why democrats are defending it?
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Nope, it used to be. Zelensky stopped it!
That’s why they do not support Ukraine!
THE OBAMA/HILLARY RUSSIAN LOVE AFFAIR-—Visiting Moscow on March 24, 2010, Secy Hillary
explained the Reset Button’s purpose: “Our goal (Obama and the State Dept) is to help strengthen Russia.”
No need to ask Obama and Clinton about their Russian connections-——the paper trail is long and wide.
HILLARY’S STATE DEPT——AND THE OBAMA YEARS-—UNRELENTING SCANDAL By Ari Lieberman/ frontpagemagazine.com
EXCERPT The taxpayer financed-Skolkovo Scandal – While serving as secretary of state, Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”
Hillary’s State Dept program transformed Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities. The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications.
The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends. According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”
Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of
dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or
investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.”
This makes my blood boil. The Clinton grifters took hundreds of millions of dollars from BOTH the Russians and Ukrainians in crooked deals and ALL of the Russian deals are all connected to Putin!
Then she has the unmitigated gall to claim Trump was in the pocket of Putin. All of the Clinton corruption is documented and the information is available to all, but a $45 million three year “investigation” could find no wrong-doing by Trump.
Yet she still persists in claiming she and her husband are guilt-free and Trump is the guilty one.
Absolutely disgusting. The Republic is so doomed when we have grifters like these two scummy hoodlums at the top.
How could he stand being so close to her? Her reeking of stale cabbage and urine....
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