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Hillary Clinton: We Were Dead Broke Clinton: 'We Gave Speeches to Pay Off Debt, Numerous Homes' Share Tweet Email
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff June 9, 2014 8:40 am
Hillary Clinton, who recently raked in $5 million dollars in speaking fees in 15 months, recounted to Diane Sawyer the sad tale of her former destitution, telling her, “We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt.”
According to Clinton, she and her husband, who has made over $100 million since leaving the White House, “struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education, you know, it was not easy.”
But, as Clinton’s story goes, the two hard-working, middle-class millionaires somehow managed to put food on the table in their multiple houses, even though they “had to make double the money, because of, obviously, taxes, and then pay off the debts and get us houses and take care of family members.”
Although Sawyer wondered if Americans would understand why Hillary Clinton needs a speaking fee of $200,000, “five times the median income in this country for one speech”, Clinton assured her that she’s taking the high road: “I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company as so many people who leave public life do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
“”She didn’t mention that multi-million dollar fine Bill had to pay for his perjury conviction.””
Remember they had a campaign to raise money to pay that fine and the legal expenses connected to it..... They don’t miss a trick!
Yeah, dead broke but you seem to have rebounded nicely. Why don’t we take a look at the number of people your age who were dead broke when you were dead broke to see what number of them rebounded at the same time and to the extent that you did? Think we’d see an anomaly Mrs. Clinton?
This was a place Hillary should have never gone. I guess she is senile.
I know WJC's salary as AR governor was kind of meager, but what about HRC's salary at the Rose Law Firm and her profits on the amazing cattle futures transaction, for example?
HRC was never poor in her life. She grew up in a well-to-do Chicago suburb.
Hillary Clinton is an absolute JOKE..her husband made over 400,000 after he left the Presidency yet she claims that she was “Dead Broke” seriously..I would LOVE to have 400,000 grand a year and see how broke I would be
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070706200204AAn0EbT
Old link on how the Clintons left the WH originally.
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Excerpts from a newspaper article back in 2001....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton say they’ll be happy to return the fancy sofas, rattan chairs and other furnishings they took from the White House if it turns out that the gifts were meant to dress up the executive mansion for future presidents too.
“All of these items were considered gifts to us,” Mrs. Clinton, now a Democratic senator from New York, said Monday in Rochester, New York. “That’s what the permanent record of the White House showed. ... But if there is a different intent, we will certainly honor the intention of the donor.”
The White House curator’s office is working with the Clintons to clarify any confusion about whether the items the Clintons took were personal gifts or items that were supposed to stay, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said.
In a statement, the Clintons said each of the gifts they accepted were identified by the White House gift office as a present to them. They said none of the gifts they took, including some $23,000 worth of household furnishings in question, was on a curator’s list of official White House property.
“Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher’s and curator’s offices,” the Clintons said in the statement that addressed the latest sour note to follow the former president and his wife out of the executive mansion. “Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred ... any item in question will be returned.”
The Washington Post quoted two donors in Monday’s editions as saying the furnishings they gave were intended for the White House, not the Clintons. They were Steve Mittman of New York, whose donation was valued at $19,900; and Joy Ficks of Cincinnati, who gave $3,650 worth.
And in its editions Tuesday, the newspaper quoted a former furniture industry executive, Brad Noe, as saying a sofa worth nearly $3,000 that he was supposed to have given to the Clintons wasn’t meant for them, but for the White House collection. “I would never give a gift to the Clintons,” Noe said.
“Everyone involved, including the White House curator, believed that each item was a gift to the Clintons,” said Jim Kennedy, speaking for the Clintons. “Now you have a couple of people saying that they didn’t intend for them to go to the Clintons and, of course, we want their wishes to be honored.”
The day before they left the White House, the Clintons released a list of $190,000 in gifts they chose to take with them, many of which they could use for their two new homes in Washington and in Chappaqua, New York.
But after criticism erupted, they offered to pay $86,000 for about half the gifts.
Now it’s the other half at issue. Some items in this group were on a National Park Service list of donations for the 1993 White House redecoration project.
The gift flap is one of several problems dogging Clinton’s first weeks as an ex-president and his wife’s first weeks as a senator.
Critics also questioned Clinton’s decision to rent an office in New York City that would have cost taxpayers more than $600,000 a year. Last week, he said his foundation would pay half the cost.
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Akkita answered 7 years ago
The Truth:
The final, official report from the Government Accounting Office was released on June 11, 2002. The 220 page document says there was damage, although not as much as some of the early reports had suggested. The GAO says the damage included 62 missing computer keyboards, 26 cell phones, two cameras, ten antique doorknobs and several presidential medallions and office signs. The damage estimate was about $20,000. Clinton critics say the report proves that the departing Clinton staff members acted recklessly and disrespectfully. Clinton supporters say the report shows that the allegations of vandalism were exaggerated and that there were similar incidents when Clinton took over the White House from the staff of George Bush.
The GAO report concludes that even though damage was verified and that some of it appeared to have been intentional, there was not clear evidence of who was responsible for it.
This has been a subject of contention since President Bush took office. There were reports of vandalism, graffiti, and obscene messages in White House offices by outgoing Clinton staffers. Bush downplayed the reports saying he wanted to move on with the presidency. Clinton supporters, however, charged that the story was not true and that the Bush forces had made up the story to make Bush’s staff look better than Clinton’s. Former President Clinton offered to pay for any damage and his supporters called for an investigation.
Source(s):
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/t... “
Every library and every school had to buy at least one book. Every book store probably bought a million.
What? They had a heroine habit, or were compulsive gamblers? What crap.
What happened to all the cash Johnny Chung brought to the White House in those grocery bags? We haven’t forgotten, you grifters.
depending on the crowd substitute (Black Or Hispanic)
Of course; all of above, are all complete falsehoods, but you can can count on the LSM/DBM to report it's all true (no fact/truth checking)
So she’s saying she can’t handle her own finances and wants to become president to ruin the US? Oh, wait ... 0bama ....
Hillary Signed a Book Deal in Dec 2000 for $8million
But let’s assume that what she said is true. Prior to coming to the White House, he was a governor, she was a lawyer and successful futures trader (ha!), and they both were land speculators. Then he was the President, and she published a book, It Takes a Village (idiot), plus whatever it is that they got from the PRC and others. If they were insolvent and broke despite all of that, what business does Hillary have in public office altogether? If they can’t balance a household budget, they can’t balance the federal budget.
“”I know WJC’s salary as AR governor was kind of meager, but what about HRC’s salary at the Rose Law Firm and her profits on the amazing cattle futures transaction, for example?””
It’s been awhile but I seem to recall that his yearly salary as Governor was something like $30,000...On the 1992 Federal return, it lists his salary as governor as $34,527.
She was a partner in the Rose Law Firm so untangling figures there would be like trying to understand Whitewater all over again.
$203,172 is listed on the 1992 return as her income from the law firm partnership. She had Capital Gains of $16,336 from the sale of her interest in the Rose Building Limited Partnership.
Have no idea how much of their own money was used in the Governor’s residence or if the taxpayer footed that bill also. No matter - it was more money than they had seen before (that we can tell from available records anyway)and they proved they were quite incapable of handling large sums of money! Poor babies.
I haven’t looked at the Schedules attached to the returns but I do love this detective work having retired from it 7 years ago. Do not ask me why I waste so much time on the Clintons... It was the same in the nineties and it drove me batty!
I’ve been dead broke and it did not include a $1.3 mil mansion in Chapaqua and Secret Service protection. I remember a lot of tater tots and hot dogs.
“As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
— Hillary Clinton, after having been served truffle and Beluga caviar stuffed Guinea Fowl, in a Burrata cheese Mornay sauce, with a side order of caramelized white turnips in brandy, and a bottle of 1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine at Eleven Madison Park Restaurant, Flatiron District, NYC.
Yeah, they could have even purchased some very affordable property in Arkansas if they were truly broke, and lived a modest lifestyle. I do not think Hillary could tell the truth if you asked her her shoe size.
I’m too crestfallen by the loss of my Blackhawks in the conference finals to watch the finals.
I’ll be watching “24”.
Such horse puckey. They were still in the WH when they got publishing contracts worth several mil. Each of them.
We should all be so broke.
Wonderful reminders, thanks. At about that time, someone signed on to FR with the great screen name “Crouching Intern, Stolen Sofa” just so we’d never forget, I suppose. Where is that person now?
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