"When I thought my political career was over, I could never do anything for anybody else again, people like Frank Giustra show up and start helping me when I can’t do anything back for them any more. It’s not like I’m President and they can get something out of it. So I thank you for that." (Bill Clinton in 2006)
There are three major problems with this.
Could he have picked a worse example than Frank Giustra?
In 2008, the New York Times (“After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton“) detailed how Giustra became a tremendously wealthy man precisely because he “got something out of” his relationship with Bill Clinton . . .
Which shows that you don’t have to be president to add value
. . . The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. . .
And, finally, guess who’s running for president
Hillary Clinton is running for president. Her chances aren’t even bad. The Clinton Foundation is raking in money hand over fist from people who presumably are aware of this. “It’s not like I’m President and they can get something out of it,” right, Bill? But if you — or your wife — were president, they could, right?
The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for
While Clinton was secretary of state, her department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors. That figure from Clinton’s three full fiscal years in office is almost double the value of arms sales to those countries during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that gave to the Clinton Foundation. That was a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.
American military contractors and their affiliates that donated to the Clinton Foundation — and in some cases, helped finance speaking fees to Bill Clinton — also got in on the action. Those firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of arms deals authorized by the Clinton State Department.
No wonder she won't take questions from the press.
No scandal is too far-fetched or too far for the long octopus tentacles of Bill and Hillary Clinton
No scandal is too far-fetched or too far for the long octopus tentacles of the Clintons. Their charity even received (again, who knows exactly how the hell much) between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s corrupt governing body, FIFA! Bill was once honorary chairman of the bid committee to get the U.S. to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. Sadly, we didn’t get it. Maybe he didn’t either. (A big enough donation, I mean.)
It’s almost impossible to believe that one couple can always be this close to so much corruption in one lifetime. Well, not without serving that lifetime in a federal lockup, that is.
For those people without no expectation of a clean competent government, the prospect of President Hillary offers no end of amusement.
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