Posted on 10/16/2016 9:01:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
For someone who has held the Clintons in disdain for 25 years, I did not believe I could be stunned by any activity in which they participated. Still, you read Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer and you sit there slack-jawed. Is there nothing these people will not stoop to?
The introduction defines Schweizer and the creditability of the book. His two most recent books before this were Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison and Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets. Two clear attacks on the bipartisan graft and crony capitalism being done at the highest levels of our federal government.
His manuscript for Clinton Cash was provided to investigative reporters at The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News and FOX News. This was an obvious effort to diffuse the anticipated onslaught from the Clintons and their cronies and to a great extent establish the integrity of his findings. Clearly he was not some anti-Clinton wacko as he would soon be branded by the Clinton flock. The NYT and WP took parts of the book and exploded them into bigger stories of Clinton corruption.
Everyone will have their favorite story of the Clintons skirting rules to enrich themselves, but mine comes in the second chapter where President Bill hooks up with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. Calling him “president” is a loose use of the word as he has really been dictator of the country since 1990. Any elections are just charades. This guy is so despicable the sleaze oozes from the pages of the book. Why Clinton would want to associate with a guy like this and grace him with the credibility of our country defines the corruption of the Clintons and their endless money chasing as Bill says “I have to pay the bills.”
The book is so rich with material of questionable or illegal activity that even Schweizer blew right by something that was blatantly illegal. He was reviewing the relationship between Bill Clinton and the most notorious person from the book, Frank Guistra, a Canadian businessman. Clinton often flew on Giustra’s private plane. Schweizer mentions in passing that Clinton used the plane to attend campaign events for Ms. Clinton in 2008. Well, that is an in-kind contribution to a political campaign -- and from a foreigner. That is blatantly illegal, if Schweizer is correct. He was so overwhelmed with the Clintons’ activities Schweizer never even cited the illegality.
The book did disclose that Clinton accomplished something as secretary of state, which was a revelation. She decided to take over the secretary of commerce’s job helping American companies do business in foreign countries. This proved the Commerce Dept. does not need to exist, but that wasn’t the purpose of her work. As always with the Clintons, there were strings attached for their help. Boeing cut a $3.7 billion deal with Russia with Ms. Clinton’s help and magically a $900,000 donation showed up at the Clinton Foundation.
Then there is the fact that Clinton used the Foundation and State Department as an employment center for their minions. But Hillary could not live with that because her people could not make enough money as federal employees so she allowed them to do outside work (when did these people sleep?). If you are granted Special Government Employee (SGE) status, you can work outside the government for a period of 130 days. That was abused by Clinton and her favored aides such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills. Their attempt to hide this was so disconcerting that even the left-wing ProPublica had to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and the State Department came back and complained about having to do too much work to collect the info.
The Clinton Foundation has been rated to varying degrees by independent organizations. Part of the problem is its unusual model. Charity Navigator could not even rate the Clinton Foundation, citing its structure. With the thousands of charities that exist, one can easily question why this entity which should be pristine is so peculiar that it does not meet normal models of American charities.
The Clintons have said that if Ms. Clinton wins, and only if she wins, they will stop taking foreign and corporate contributions. That leaves many problems, of which I would like to describe three. 1) This policy opens up the foundation to a rush of questionable contributions from the time of the announcement until they make the change. 2) Wealthy individuals still have the ability to buy influence from the Clintons from their own bank accounts. 3) Foreigners can shuttle cash to American citizens and disguise things that way. Related entities to the Clinton Foundation will not be restricted from taking monies from corporations or foreigners. Whoever knows with the Clintons when they say “stop taking certain donations” really means to stop.
The only acceptable thing is to shut down this operation which is only a shill for the Clintons and all their cronies. If they want do charity work, they can become the face of fundraising for the Salvation Army.
You already know this, but the Clintons do everything for themselves and their team. Hillary is crisscrossing the country flailing at an attempt to tell people how she is the real candidate who cares about their wants, needs and desires.
Make no mistake, there were payments directly to Bill and Hillary Clinton for deals they engineered on others' behalf. That is called pay for play and blatantly illegal.
My question, which I have had for ages, is: Why would you vote for this circus?
I am waiting for the emails to drop showing collusion between the NFL and the democrat party.
They are a natural target.
Just another media vehicle for the sick democrats to use.
How a Gangster Government Functions: The Clinton-Obama-Lynch-Comey Corruptocracy Timeline
1999: Loretta Lynch is nominated by President Bill Clinton to be the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
2001-2010: Lynch is a partner at Hogan and Hartson, the Clinton’s private law firm.
2002-2003: James Comey is US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
2003-2005: James Comey is Deputy US Attorney General.
2003-2005: Lynch is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
2005-2010: Comey is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin, which donated millions to the Clinton Foundation. Comey is paid millions in salary and bonuses.
2010: Lynch is nominated by President Obama to again become the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
2010-2013: Comey is senior counsel of Bridgewater Associates, “the world’s largest macro hedge fund” with $122 billion in assets under management. Paid millions in salary and bonuses.
2012: Lynch as US Attorney for Eastern District of New York makes a sweetheart deal with the HSBC Bank in their drug-money laundering scandal. Fines equal five weeks profits.
2013: In March, Comey becomes a director at HSBC Holdings Bank. Paid millions in salary and bonuses.
2013: In September, Comey is nominated by President Obama to become the Director of the FBI.
2014: Lynch is nominated by President Obama to become the US Attorney General, replacing the disgraced Eric Holder.
2016: Lynch holds a secret meeting aboard a Gulfstream jet on the tarmac in Phoenix with ex-President Bill Clinton. A few days later, FBI Director Comey announces there will be no charges against presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Promises made to Lynch and Comey are unknown at this time.
We will find out the truth about the middle of Chelsea Clinton’s 2nd term.
If we’re not all resting in gulag graveyards.
For anyone living in a cave last week, the Podesta e-mails just evidenced that two New York Times reporters colluded with the Clinton campaign, when the book `Clinton Cash’ was released, to run a `news article’ in Carlos Slim’s newsletter showing that the book was in fact just another attack on this poor woman by the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy.
“This book has been researched and discredited already. There is no proof of its claims, because if any of it were true I would have been indicted by the FBI and convicted already.”
Love, Hillary
Justice Roberts allowed himself to be bullied into writing an opinion in favor of Obamacare which abused our Constitution and ruined medical practice, insurance, allowing companies running hospitals to charge exorbitant prices for simple procedures like setting a broken wrist...thousands of other examples of fraud.....Obama used his office to pound the Supreme Court into submission for a fraudulent, extremely costly, riddled with Cronyism for both Obamas with an UNCONSTITUTIONAL entitlement, Obamacare....with neither Congress nor the Senate doing one iota to stop the illegal acts by this President, BHO....Hillary Clinton is not a Community Organizer but a true Activist who will finish taking over the government that BHO has now crippled.
The Clinton's ARE WORSE THAN THOUGHT...They are the reason there is the overwhelming appeal of strongman Donald Trump.
Pray Trump wins...........
Towhall no friend of Trump
Be back
Think of the company YOU work for... How would YOU feel if a fellow employee made millions of dollars selling inside information to other companies? It would be called corruption... that's how corrupt Clintons’ got their millions.
“An honest public servant can't become rich in politics” - - President Harry S. Truman The liars the Clintons got rich... filthy rich ... selling what they did NOT own. Our country.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11919
I have been vigorously criticizing the Shweizer book, but I absolutely believe the Clintons have a money problem, and they are not fully aware of the danger of this. The problem is not that she is “caught” doing anything unethical or illegal, but that a) Republican Congressional hearings will widen and a long term perjury trap and endless cycles of news stories, and b) at some point the public may not want to spend the next 18 months and then 4 years talking about Clinton issues and may simply want to move on.
... Frankly it is inexcusable that all foreign donations were stopped months ago and that some continue today.
... My worst concern is that I do not believe the Clintons are in sync with the public mood on why her trust numbers have fallen so dramatically.
The views I express here represent the overwhelming majority of private views of Democrats I know but I am not convinced they have expressed this to her, as directly as I am expressing this here......
Hi all – we do need to make a decision on this ASAP as our friends who happen to be registered with FARA are already donating and raising. I do want to push back a bit (it’s my job!): I feel like we are leaving a good amount of money on the table (both for primary and general, and then DNC and state parties)… and how do we explain to people that we’ll take money from a corporate lobbyist but not them; that the Foundation takes $ from foreign govts but we now won’t.
Self-Research — spoke to HRC. As we discussed, her definition of what she sees remaining with personal lawyers and HFS is the narrow areas we discussed (e.g., taxes, health, finances/speeches, family) though she added BZ. I shared that HFS can continue to manage in partnership with outside personal counsel (including DEK, HT, me) but that self-research as a whole (and explained the larger paradigm) should be in NY and run by someone sitting in NYC,with which she agreed. We discussed HFS; she wants her doing these areas, vetting, and personnel from a perch in the Legal Counsel operation or the COO operation — RM let’s discuss so it is consistent with your vision, organizational paradigm and goals.
Here ya’ go...indication of connections? (Just search for keyword “NFL” or “football” in https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3072
EMAILID 3072
“John, Jake- (per my email here-”by memory”) Now that I am going on Fox more often I get invited to some interesting stuff & just got off my 1st ever “Big Call” (lol) with Frank Luntz. I have to admit I had no idea what to expect but was pretty impressed by the depth & breadth of the call as well as the diverse audience & questions. I think at least 100 nationwide leaders were on the call...people from Amazon, Southern Company, NFL, Cancer Research ...”
In addition to the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Clinton Foundation, there are separate Clinton family foundations, entities that maintain their own revenue streams. All these entities maintain separate operations for the Clintons’ pay-to-play global racketeering operations:
<><>the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI),
<><>the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (BHCC) Foundation,
<><>the Clinton Foundation Hong Kong,
<><> William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (Kenya),
<><>William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (UK),
<><> the Clinton Foundation Insalingsstiftelse (Sweden).
<><> Clinton/Guistra Partnership, Canada.
The Arkansas-based Clinton Library also raises huge amounts of money from Muslim Mideast sources.
That is a hellish timeline. BTTT!
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