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Bill Clinton on Foundation Troubles: 'I Just Work Here. I Don't Know.'
The Weekly Standard ^ | 5-6-15 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 05/06/2015 9:49:31 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

At a Clinton Global Initiative event in Marrakesh, former President Bill Clinton was asked why he isn't defending the Clinton Foundation from increased scrutiny. "I just work here," Clinton replied. "I don't know."

The extended question to Clinton came from billionaire Mo Ibrahim who said, "I opened the newspaper and I was shocked to see these attacks on the foundation."

The billionaire continued, "I didn't see anybody from the foundation standing up and really having a go at that. I don't know what your board members--I know my daughter [a board member], she's useless. Because you should have stand up and really take issue. What is this money for? What have you done with it? And that's what people should ask."

"I just work here," Clinton responded. "I don't know."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; billclintonquote; cash; cgi; clinton; clintoncrimefamily; clintonfoundation; foundation; ibrahim
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1 posted on 05/06/2015 9:49:31 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ibrahim says his daughter (a board member) is useless?


2 posted on 05/06/2015 9:49:59 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I guess it depends on what the meaning of “work” is.


3 posted on 05/06/2015 9:50:49 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bill: “ above my pay grade”

(currently $122,660,000.00)


4 posted on 05/06/2015 9:52:00 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Thats why he’s called ‘toon.


5 posted on 05/06/2015 9:52:57 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: afraidfortherepublic
'I Just Work Here. I Don't Know.'

Could have said the same thing about his presidency!

6 posted on 05/06/2015 9:53:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bill Clinton does Sergeant Schultz: “I know nothing. Nothing.”


7 posted on 05/06/2015 9:54:15 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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Bill Clinton likes to depict himself as an innocent naïf--- a quaint hayseed, chewing on a straw, scratching the underbelly of his pet pig. The reality is shockingly at odds.

Scweizer himself sums up the Clintons on page 183 of his blockbuster book: "The Clintons are perhaps the most politically sophisticated public figures of their generation. They know how things work in the corridors of power and around the world; they know that foreign governments are trying to influence American foreign policy; and they know that bribery is rampant around the world.

"The (cunning-calculated) Clintons have numerous avenues for making money. Some of those avenues might not be as lucrative as giving a $700,000 speech in Nigeria, but they would be much cleaner." (p. 183) ///// /// LOTSA VERSIMILITUDE HERE---as Clinton tries to explain Foundation error and mistakes on someone else. A large organization called Enron made all sorts of accounting and tax mistakes---its accounting firm collapsed. Enron's CFO went to jail b/c he had established numerous shady entities offshore. The CFO's wife also went to jail for signing falsified tax returns.

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The Clinton Foundation got Millions from a Russian who trades with Iran: Victor Pinchuk owns the EastOne Group investing company and the Interpipe Group. He is the second richest man in Ukraine AND the largest individual donor to the Clinton Foundation......the Foundation spinoff "The Clinton Global Initiative" received millions from Pinchuk while Hillary was Secy of State.

New Yorker magazine confirms Bill Clinton pocketed $500,000 for a speech in Moscow that was paid for by “a Russian investment bank" that had ties to the Kremlin” at the time of the lucrative Uranium One deal.

<><> Was Uranium One corporate money ever deposited in Russian banks?

<><> Maybe Sberbank or Vnesheconombank?

<><> Maybe funneled from there to secret numbered accounts in Zurich and Geneva?

<><> Maybe secret accounts held by Obama?

We peons are asked to believe that Obama was on the golf course when foreign policy decisions were being made......looking like he "didn't know" about all these radical changes in foreign policy.

Heck, it wasn't b/c Valerie "forgot" to tell him.

<><> Maybe the deal was Obama pleading abject ignorance about US foreign policy being jerked around by the Clintons.......as long as he got his cut of the Clintons' foreign policy finagling?

8 posted on 05/06/2015 9:54:40 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Anyone know what Bill’s definition of “work” is?


9 posted on 05/06/2015 9:54:57 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Implausible deniability.
10 posted on 05/06/2015 9:55:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

"...wake me if they produce a blue dress and a cigar"

11 posted on 05/06/2015 9:57:02 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

He doesn’t recognize a Seldon Crisis when he sees one...


12 posted on 05/06/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Let’s ask whoever it was that hired Craig Livingstone. I’ll bet they know


13 posted on 05/06/2015 9:57:42 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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The most despicable self-dealing profit-making scheme by the cunning calculated Clintons was selling out the US and its uranium deposits to Russia.

The FBI needs to look into the Russian uranium deal.--particularly financial transactions of donors and investors who contributed to the buckraking Clinton Foundation:

Frank Giustra---$31.3 million donation and a pledge for $100 million more to the Clinton Foundation. He built the company that later merged with Uranium One. Shares once traded at 10 cents per share later sold at over 7.00 per share when the deal was completed.

Ian Telfer---$2.35 million donor to the Clinton Foundation. Mining investor who was chairman of Uranium One when an arm of the Russian government, Rosatom, acquired it.

Paul Reynolds--$1 million to $5 million Clinton Foundation donor. Adviser on 2007 UrAsia-Uranium One merger. Later helped raise $260 million for the company.

Frank Holmes--$250,000 to $500,000 Clinton foundation donor. Chief Executive of U.S. Global Investors Inc., which held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares in the first quarter of 2011.

Neil Woodyer--$50,000 to $100,000 Clinton foundation donor. Adviser to Uranium One. Founded Endeavour Mining with Mr. Giustra.

GMP Securities Ltd which worked on debt issue that raised $260 million for Uranium One.....and is donating portion of the profits to the Clinton foundation.

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FBI TIPS PAGE--YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS ---https://tips.fbi.gov

L/E should focus laser-like on GMP Securities Ltd. which worked on debt issue that raised $260 million for Uranium One.....and is donating portion of the profits to the Clinton foundation.

The scope and dimension for wrongdoing in that aspect of the Russian deal is enormous.

14 posted on 05/06/2015 9:57:56 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“I’m just in charge of the interns.”


15 posted on 05/06/2015 9:58:02 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I had a friend whose 14 year old son took his car out joyriding one time. When the police pulled the kid over, the kid said “It wasn’t me” reflexively, even though he was behind the wheel. Bill Clinton reminds me of that kid.


16 posted on 05/06/2015 9:58:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

"I just work here, I don't know."

17 posted on 05/06/2015 9:58:34 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: elhombrelibre

“Bill Clinton does Sergeant Schultz: “I know nothing. Nothing.””
You beat me to it. My first thought too.


18 posted on 05/06/2015 9:58:34 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Proud2BeRight

“I was just following orders.”


19 posted on 05/06/2015 9:58:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: KarlInOhio

I’ll bet he will have another cut on his forehead from anotber thrown lamp. He put Hillary right under the bus and drove off.


20 posted on 05/06/2015 9:59:15 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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