Posted on 01/04/2016 12:13:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A former top aide to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state arranged for crucial access to Chinese officials so a top aide to former President Bill Clinton could promote his private car dealership business to China, a new report says.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department, arranged the visit between a Chinese delegation and Thomas 'Mack' McLarty, who was chief of staff in her husband's White House, at a dinner at the State Department.
McLarty had asked for an invitation to the dinner, which occurred in the spring of 2011, because of 'our substantial family investment in the automotive sector (including electric vehicle development in China), says the report in Politico.
Politico based the story on emails from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 which were released on New Year's Eve.
McLarty followed up with an email thanking Mills, and said the dinner allowed him to connect with both Hillary Clinton and Chinese officials. The thank-you email was forwarded to Hillary Clinton...
McLarty is now a prominent Democratic fund-raiser and donor, having contributed at least $400,000 to Democratic political action committees as well as Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns as well as her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids...
Neither Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign nor Mills' lawyer returned requests for comment by the newspaper...
McLarty dismissed a news report about access to Chinese officials he was allowed to promote his car business overseas, saying it was 'pretty standard' to reach out to presidential administrations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Full title: Hillary's chief of staff gave Clinton crony access to bilateral talks with China to promote his car dealerships there
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The Clintons are such brazenly crass money-grubbers. When are they going to start selling advertising space on her fat ass?
Corrupt? I don’t know. Was it the germ of the Buick rapture the Chinese indulged in? It’s good to sell them something besides defense secrets.
The negative associations would be avoided by all but the most desperate advertisers.
“Crony” is the right word.
Yup,. Dems run the most transparent criminal orgs.. From Planned Parenthood to the State Dept. From the WH to CONgressional Black Caucus.. The DoJ to the DNC..
Party on. :-)
A Clinton involved in a corruption scandal? I, for one, cannot believe it. It is that vast right wing conspiracy again /s/
Thanks!
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