It’s CNN, but it doesn’t sound good. This isn’t a situation where you can take fees from one charity and then turn around and “donate to charity” and come off as generous. It also doesn’t sound like GWB, so I’d like to hear more.
Agreed!
i saw this yesterday and the lamestream media is clearly running interference for Hillary because she has lots of embarrassing revelations in this area herself, but... i’m still disappointed in Dubya’s judgement on this. you’ve got to know how this looks and you’ve got to know eventually some ‘RAT will publicize it to call the GOP either hypocrites or uncaring bastards. these extravagant speaking fees for the the self-appointed governing elite are really a scandal in a country that has suffered through essentially zero real job growth for nearly 7 years now, and which has a 42.9% real unemployment rate. the gap between the rich and the middle class (and poor) is getting larger no matter whether the ‘RATS or the GOP are in charge. it’s bad for the future of the country. we’re living in a new era of robber barons, only these robber barons aren’t industrialists... they are politicians, media elite, and monopoly money internet gazillionaires.
George W Bush charged a military veterans’ charity $100,000 to speak at a fundraiser in 2012.
“It was great because he reduced his normal fee of $250,000 down to $100,000,” Meredith Iler, the former chair of Helping a Hero, told ABC News.
The former president was also provided with a private jet to travel to the event in Houston at a cost of $20,000, ABC News reported, citing unnamed officials.
A spokesman for the former president, Freddy Ford, confirmed the payment to ABC News.
Don't be naive. It sounds exactly like that self-serving clown.
Think about what the Clintoons rake in!
When charities request someone speak for them they pay them for the travel, hotels expenses etc. It’s SOP. Bush negotiated a deal at a lower cost then he normally gets from $250,000 down to $100,000. He’s entitled to it.
What’s not mentioned in the article is the enormous amount of time he provides free of charge because that’s the kind of guy he is.