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.
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.
Agree with all of you about the history of these scandals, but I’d think they’d be better used as background to the really flagrant pay-to-play conflicts and speeches involving the Clinton Foundation.
What’s astonishing is that not a single transcript has yet showed up about those Wall Street speeches. Either there is flagrant hypocrisy. Or there is drivel, making it clear the speech fees were simply laundering operations for bribery payments.