No speaking necessary at that event. All he had to do was bend deep at the waist, shame himself, disgrace his office, and accept the chain of Wahhabi Islamic supremacism over his wretched neck.
Posted on 07/09/2015 3:22:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former President George W. Bush is under fire for charging $100,000 to speak to a group of veterans wounded in a pair of wars he started when he was in office, just the latest front in a political battle over speaking fees that has hit both sides of the aisle.
Members of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity told ABC News that Bush charged $100,000 for his 2012 speech at a charity fundraiser for veterans who lost limbs in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. The former president was also given use of a private jet at a cost of $20,000 and former First Lady Laura Bush was paid $50,000 to speak to the group last year.
The fees infuriated one of the board members, who told CNN Wednesday that Bush should not have accepted any money.
"The point here is that a leader should not charge to speak on behalf of the men that he sent into combat, at any level, let alone the commander in chief," said Eddie Wright, a Marine who lost both his hands in a 2004 rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq.
Helping a Hero builds houses for wounded veterans. But Wright and others were involved in a legal battle last year accusing some of the group's leaders of siphoning money and forcing veterans' wives to sell beauty products. The criminal complaint and a defamation lawsuit filed in response were settled out of court, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Following the reports, Helping a Hero issued a statement supporting Bush.
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Of course they had to run to Bill and he said he does not charge veteran groups when he speaks. Great.....Bush just needs to return the money.
when has Dubya ever fought for anything?
1) Bush lied, people died
2) no more wars for oil
3) there were no WMDs in Iraq
all 3 of these blood libels were repeated over and over and over again while he was sitting in the WH and he refused to ever defend himself.
The Bushbashers don’t want to hear your spin!!
/sarc
No speaking necessary at that event. All he had to do was bend deep at the waist, shame himself, disgrace his office, and accept the chain of Wahhabi Islamic supremacism over his wretched neck.
I just read where they raised more than $3.2 MILLION so they paid the former POTUS to speak and he gave them a bargain price.
Hey ...life is a business...as for insulting the Bush Family and making them look bad, that is typical of Liberals and Hillary handlers doing this...they are very worried about Granny Benghazi getting smashed. and it has just begun...
“...for grievously wounded veterans in a war he started based on false premises.”
Actually, Congress allowed the war based on information everybody believed.
So how much did they raise because of their speaker?
How much did they raise? 100,000 less than they could have... I don’t care what the Clintons do, they are trash ... this is simply wrong.
I’ll bet he speaks for free if it’s about opening our borders to criminals and terrorists
George Junior tried to shove an Amnesty down our throats, but the Saudi 9-11 attack and his revenge attack on Saudi Arabia Iraq got in the way. (and rat Senator Robert Byrd also helped derail the Amnesty legislation Bush wanted to sign)
Doesn’t matter how much they raised or who paid.
Bush should have told the donor to direct the fee to the Vets, expensives are enough. He wasn’t at Goldman Sachs, He should have donated his time period.
Bad Job.
Ah I see Bush Derangement Syndrome isnt just for barking moonbats anymore...it’s alive and well on FR.
Thanks. I read that and still think it stinks. He should have taken the money from the private donor and gave it to the group. If he was poor or only living on his pension and SS, perhaps it MIGHT be different but again this guy is richer then God.
He should have donated the fee to wounded veterans groups...
He wasn’t doing it to profit. He doesn’t need the money and would do it for free. It was just an oversight. Good for Trump attacking the issue though because Jeb will do something stupid like this on the campaign trail.
Workers from Helping a Hero did not immediately return other requests for comment Thursday. But Chuck Jenness, the group's chairman, lists Bush as a "close friend" and said the Bush speech grossed $3.2 million.
Financial information for the group show it netted $2.45 million the year Bush spoke and $1 million the following year.
As a side note, the malcontent who made the report failed to disclose what Pres. Bush did with those funds.......Do you really think he pocketed the money or did he legally donate it back to the foundation?
There are tax incentives to both options............
No good deed goes unpunished...........
Why pay him? They should have told him to hit the road.
If he did, I stand corrected.
"Speaking and traveling fees for the former President were paid by the charity, but the amount was underwritten by a private donor, the charity lawyer said."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-veterans-charity-george-bush-charged-100000/story?id=32251253 So a private donor paid the discounted fee and costs so the charity could raise 3.4 million.
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