Clinton Pay to Play Scandal

• Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received staggering sums from Saudi benefactors — between $18 million and $50 million. (The foundation’s donations are reported in ranges, not specific numbers.)
• Groups with interests in China also donated between $750,000 and $1.75 million, at a minimum, to the Clinton Foundation.
• Emails uncovered by Judicial Watch demonstrate that Clinton Foundation donors and supporters received special favors and consideration from the Clinton State Department. 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton delivered highly revealing – and in many ways even stunning – testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations, regarding the Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scandal.

Now why do you suppose China and Saudi Arabia would care about an American foundation, set up to “do good.” Well, she was the Secretary of State.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08fbhpb3AM

How the Clintons became so wealthy and powerful

An article from 2015 reminds us of how the Clintons became fabulously wealthy--and powerful. "Clinton Foundation has basically been a foreign money-laundering operation. The scheme works like this: collect millions of dollars in foreign money, dump it into a foreign charity, pretend that the law prohibits you from ever disclosing the identities of those foreign donors to the foreign charity, then have the foreign charity bundle all the cash and send it to the Clinton Foundation. Then, when the time comes–whether it be a Clinton Foundation conference or a lavish Clinton Foundation trip overseas–make sure those individuals get some me-time with the Clintons."

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/29/is-the-clinton-foundation-just-an-international-money-laundering-scheme/?  Good links.

The media and the Clinton bubble

“Any voter outside the Clinton bubble who negotiated their way around the who-cares media in 2016 could clearly see that the Clintons over the decades filled a 50-car train of scandal baggage. But our ‘real news’ reporters live in perpetual denial.” Brent Bozell

"But in reality, the latest investigation into the Clinton Foundation was anything but fake news. According to reports, the investigation had been going on for months and was investigating whether the foundation was a part of a pay-to-play scheme in conjunction with Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

“The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes,” a report from The Hill noted.

The Hill also reported that the FBI was looking into the foundation’s tax-exempt assets" to make sure any weren’t converted to personal use.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/01/07/nbc-claims-new-fbi-probe-clinton-foundation-fake-news?

What did Obama do?

The Trump-Putin charges have gone nowhere. Russia hacking the election has zip, nada zilch evidence. What we do know is that Hillary Clinton accepted a lot of money from Russian sources for her foundation while she was Secretary of State, and that the U.S. relationship with Putin and Russia was just fine until well into Obama's second term. Is no one going to ask what did the Obama administration do to create a mess with a former ally? This nothing burger investigation appears to be a lot of smoke to cover up the real fire Obama started with Putin in spring 2014.

 

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/04/obama-putin-debated-ukraine-facts-during-phone-call/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-the-obama-vladimir-putin-relationship-died/article/2551463

Posting on Putin

The MSM (Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) plus all the leftist social media like Vox, HuffPo, Daily Beast are admitting that all the negative publicity they put out on Trump after he won the Republican primaries was no match for the truth about the Clinton campaign leaked by Wikileaks.

Putin must be feeling really powerful. He tips the scale of the civil war in Syria after Obama opts out, and causes chaos among millions of unhappy American Democrat voters creating a panic about the next president. A leak of Podesta's e-mails told Democrats what was going on in that party. A G-mail account . And Putin gets the credit for their dishonesty and duplicity.

Much of the anti-Putin, anti-Russia news slant is recent. Most Americans are not on social media and many don't trust the MSM or this administration to report accurately. So I'm not surprised when we hear/read that a survey (fake news?) showed Putin rated high with Republicans (it's still a minus number but has come up). And why not? For over a decade liberals told how wonderful the Russians were, they were our allies, good source of new businesses etc. , churches were op...en and growing. And before that liberals loved the Soviets. President Bush said he looked in Putin's eyes and saw his soul, or something like that. Hillary Clinton as Sec. State was very chummy offered a reset button for them to play with and Obama promised off mic that after the 2012 election he could be even more friendly (obviously another promise broken). 

The Russians haven't bombed any nightclubs or Christmas parties, they haven't been cozy with Cuba since the 90s, so where would Americans get a negative view if not from this administration--and many of us hit mute when Obama takes the platform for disinformation? As Democrats began blaming Putin for their own failures (Podesta's e-mails), Republicans' view of him went up. Even the recent Aleppo news strongly condemning and blaming Russia is a little strange, since this administration helped create the chaos in Syria. As one Russian reporter pointed out, there hasn't been a single day of peace since Obama took office.

 Watched an analysis (don't know her name) on Fox today of Obama's presser yesterday criticizing the media for their negative coverage of Clinton during the campaign. I guess seconds or a minute about her e-mails was just too much. She said there wasn't enough soap in the world to scrub the brown off their noses. I thought that was pretty good.

 Huma Abedin's e-mails on her husband's laptop weren't hacked--the FBI found them when looking for sex crimes of her husband. I personally think that was very negative publicity--but certainly not from Putin.
FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation is still on-going. Was the FBI being manipulated by Putin?

One of the strangest things I heard in Obama's press conference yesterday was that he'd warned Putin personally in September not to interfere with our election. There would be consequences. If he believes Putin did it, why would he admit to one more failure?

Vote today for real change

No one called Trump a racist, homophobe, sexist, etc. before he came up against the Clinton Machine (with whom he used to pal around as just another rich guy) and the DNC. His record for hiring and promoting women and minorities is exemplary and there are dozens of YouTube testimonials about his behavior, professionalism, etc. But, he chose not to run as a Democrat; he could have--I think he has been both over the years, and contributed to the Clinton Foundation which is now under 5 different FBI investigations. BTW, the administrative costs for his foundation is 1%; the average for foundations is 2%. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a politician who cared about costs and could bring government costs down?

 

Mrs. Clinton on the other hand has been using mafia/mob techniques for 30 years to stay ahead of the law. First thing in the White House 25 years ago as FLOTUS she fired the travel staff and turned that lucrative job over to her friends. Then she tried to take over health insurance—she even brags that there was Hillarycare before Obamacare. Her name and image should be attached to the definition of GRIFTER.

 

 I'm a one issue voter, LIFE, and that includes at our end of the time line, and convicted murderers. I am over 70 and are you are next. But first she must further downgrade God's creation and purpose--has to lower the age of consent, bless polygamy and also incest. Democrats are obsessed with sex while calling people names and saying they own American values.

 

 

The best reason to elect Trump is that he is the ultimate outsider, he’s the change candidate—didn’t vote for war, hasn’t raised our taxes or stolen our health insurance. He didn’t poison Flint’s water, and he hasn’t approved a pipeline. He hasn’t cheated our veterans, or told pastors what they can preach and bakers what they can decorate. He actually uses his own money to help people.  It will be worth it just to have a president who can’t get a thing past Congress and who constantly keeps Media investigating rather than giving him a free ride like they did Obama and all Democrats.

Are we better than a banana republic?

We know the DNC chose the Democrat candidate, but also indirectly it chose Donald Trump by directing their friends in media to give him more air time (this all came out in Wikileaks). Donna Brizile got questions; Wolf Blitzer got questions, both CNN. http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/06/wikileaks-emails-cnn-asked-dnc-for-questions-for-interviews-with-trump-cruz/ The DNC figured he was the weakest of a very strong group, and therefore the easiest for their flawed, criminal, aging and health challenged candidate to beat (she had a brain blood clot in 2012 and is hypothyroid, neither fatal, but energy draining from weight gain and blood thinners and both can cause mental confusion). In any other year, for anyone... not named Clinton. . . her health issues alone would disqualify her. Remember all the rumors the Democrats started about McCain in 2008 because of his age (younger than she is now)?

The Democrats and many powerful Republicans got a surprise. The American people were sick of business as usual, and liked the idea of a non-politician not beholden to lobbyists, party poo-bahs, think tank "non-profits" and unions. Also, Americans wanted just about anyone but another Clinton.

Then Wikileaks came, Bill's 45 minute secret meeting with Lynch, then FBI investigation, Project Veritas videos, huge increases in Obamacare, and the media's role in this began dribbling out--it had been rigging the debates by giving Clinton the questions. Yesterday and today—new revelations about Chelsea’s wedding and living for a decade on payouts from the Clinton Foundation. Sickening, but will be ignored. Not a sex story.

The Clinton campaign really had to hustle to find ancient stories, mostly about sex, crude language and taxes that were legal. Her Foundation has 150x the resources of the Trump Foundation, but the media could only focus on his. He actually uses his wealth for good with no payback or tax breaks; she uses her wealth to destroy the trust of the citizens. Her foundation has five criminal investigations ongoing getting very little media attention and it's the day before the election. http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/30/now-five-fbi-field-offices-are-probing-clinton-charity-adding-fuel-to-the-fire/

And this is the government we tell the world is so great they need to be like us and send refugees?

New FBI Comey announcement

Democrats are so unhappy that Trump may have used his foundation donations (I think he's the only one who donates) for a portrait. Now Wikileaks shows some of Chelsea's wedding costs may have been covered by the Clinton Foundation, and Chelsea may have her own tax problems. Trump's foundation is about 1/150th the size of Clintons' and he donates about 60%; she donates about 6%.

James Comey announced today that Mrs. Clinton is just reckless, negligent and careless as in July and he can't find additional criminal charges in the e-mails residing on the laptop of a pedophile married to her long time staffer. Isn't that a crime?

 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-comey-congress-new-letter-hillary-clinton-emails-still-no-charges/

http:// www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/06/clinton-aide-targets-chelsea-in-email-as-foundation-audit-shows-issues.html

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/06/clinton-aide-targets-chelsea-in-email-as-foundation-audit-shows-issues.html

John Podesta, Peter Kadzik, Hillary Clinton and Herb Sandler

John Podesta is Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.

• He’s best friends with Peter J. Kadzik, a senior official at the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI.
• The FBI is investigating Mrs. Clinton on two fronts—her emails (now expanded to the 650,000 on Weiner’s laptop), and the Clinton Foundation pay to play scandal.
• Kadzik led the cover-up of the Obama Administration’s targeting of conservative and Tea Party nonprofits in the last presidential election cycle.
• Podesta is paid $7,000 per month to be an advisor to the Sandler Foundation.
• Herb Sandler, the founder, is a major donor to the Clinton campaign and radical groups like ACORN.
• Sandler and his savings-and-loan empire was involved in the 2008 housing collapse.
• Podesta helped his friend Sandler with the fall out from the burst bubble he helped create.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/john-podesta-donor-foundation-230571

Anyone else but Bill Clinton would be investigated by the IRS

 From the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cold-clinton-reality-1477608696

Longtime Clinton aide Doug Band wrote a memo in 2011 to justify himself to lawyers at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett who were reviewing his role and conducting a governance review of the Clinton Foundation . . .
"The Band memo reveals exactly what critics of the Clintons have long said: They make little distinction between the private and public aspects of their lives, between the pursuit of personal enrichment, the operation of a nonprofit, and participation in U.S. politics.

Mr. Band writes that he and his colleague Justin Cooper “have, for the past ten years, served as the primary contact and point of management for President Clinton’s activities—which span from political activity... (e.g., campaigning on behalf of candidates for elected office), to business activity (e.g., providing advisory services to business entities with which he has a consulting arrangement), to Foundation activity.”

This excerpt and all the potential conflicts it describes, plus Chelsea’s warning about business “hustling” at foundation events, would seem more than ample cause to trigger an IRS audit of the foundation. For that matter, why aren’t the IRS and prosecutors already on the case? Any normal foundation has to keep records to show it is separating its nonprofit activity from any for-profit business."

Both Clintons should return to Haiti and shovel mud

Hillary Clinton failed Haiti as Secretary of State. Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation allowed their donors to do the rebuilding (U.S. tax dollars paid them) instead of those non-profits that had experience. They didn't listen to the Haitians about what they needed. To make way for the new industrial park the Clinton promoted as a "model," hundreds of farmers were removed from their land and given meager compensation in return. Many are now unemployed. The State Department and its partners said the park would create 65,000 jobs when fully operational.  Nearly four years later, there are just over 9,000 employees. Workers that Circa spoke with make the equivalent of $3.81 per day.

 Friends of the Clintons made out like bandits. The Haitian people still suffer. Now we've had Hurricane Matthew--don't believe anyone who has donated to the Clinton Foundation, or their relatives.

 http://circa.com/world/haiti-storyline

Other people's money

It should be amusing, but isn't. The liberal media and the social media are pretending that they've just found out foundations use "other people's money." It was a big story in Washington Post today.

Of course. That's the whole point of those laws. I could find a cause, like a school or clinic in Haiti, set up a 501c3 with my "wealth," and ask you to contribute. You get a tax break, after IRS approval, and I get to shelter my wealth for my family legacy.

Then my 501c3, which can't be for a political cause, could set up a 501c4 to support my ideological views. All these laws were set up by our government to protect the wealthy, especially the wealthy in government, and to buy influence. Some do a lot of good; others just launder money for return to their party. Planned Parenthood which kills the unborn (for a good cause--population control of poor and black) gets money from private donors, other foundations, and from the government, then in return, it supports those candidate, mostly Democrats, who support legal abortion. The Gates Foundation has many good projects (better to give it away than pay the government outrageous taxes), but "population control" has been one of the requirements for accepting the help in Africa. Controlling black populations, regardless of country, seems to be a liberal cause. 

However, the Clintons have something to sell; Donald Trump doesn't. Did Washington Post, which is currently investigating Trump's foundation, investigate Obama's brother Malik's foundation which had no problem getting 501c3 status from the IRS while conservative groups waited years, his "charity" seems to be funding his wives--he's a Muslim polygamist like his father.

Obama and Clinton bad mouth the one percenters but take their pay to play

"At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released SO FAR to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton's help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm's corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa. . . .Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity." . 

 

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/23/many-donors-to-clinton-foundation-met-with-her-at-state.html

 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/new-abedin-emails-reveal-hillary-clinton-state-department-gave-special-access-top-clinton-foundation-donors/

Who will have the time to vet before the election the 6,000 donors who have already provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion?  Certainly not our "free press."

 

Is this the best of the Democrat party?  First they cheat all the American people, then their own party.

Hillary's pay to play Foundation and her gun running

I'm pretty sure Glenn Beck was claiming this in explaining 4 years ago what happened in Benghazi, but was probably ignored or called crazy by the other media. I recall his drawing on his chalk board a map of how the armaments moved, but ended up in the wrong hands.

"In Obama’s second term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton authorized the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood, and friendly to the Libyan rebels, in an effort to topple the Libyan/Gaddafi government, and then ship those arms to Syria in order to fund Al Qaeda, and topple Assad in Syria". http://www.daily-sun.com/post/157634/Wikileaks-confirms-Hillary-sold-weapons-to-ISIS

96% of Hillary and Bill's charitable deductions went to the infamous Clinton Foundation.
Somehow, I don't think this is the way a 501c3 is supposed to work, if it were, we'd all set one up and pay ourselves and claim it on our taxes. But I'm guessing it's legal because Congress sets up these laws and rich politicians campaign against rich businessmen saying they are the crooks.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/12/96-percent-of-hillarys-charitable-donations-in-2015-went-to-clinton-foundation/

Why didn't she release her tax information during the primaries when running against socialist Bernie Sanders? I don't care if Trump ever releases his tax returns--they couldn't be as damning as Hillary's. He may not even be as wealthy as she is.  Over $10 million in speaking fees--ranging from $225,000 to $400,000. We've all heard this gravel voiced granny Gertie speak. Hopefully, her foreign audience had to listen through headphones to a translater.   That's just pay for play. And Washington Post is so biased in this article it doesn't even mention the "charity" she donated to--her own foundation. I also watched the ABC coverage of this, and it also didn't mention where her charitable deduction went, and immediately pounced on Trump!   https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-releases-2015-tax-return-calls-on-trump-to-release-his/2016/08/12/759bf95a-60a7-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html

For loyal Democrats

DEMOCRATS. I know how loyal you are. It's an admirable quality, except at the fringes of insanity. I used to be one of you and never questioned a candidate selected by the party. But how long will you hang in there with this?

"Hundreds of pages of emails, including many that Hillary Clinton didn’t turn over to the government, have been released by the nonprofit Judicial Watch. A report in the Wall St. Journal’s news pages says they “offer fresh examples of how top Clinton Foundation officials sought access to the State Department during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure.” Among the foundation donors that Clinton aide Huma Abedin offered to assist was Gilbert Chagoury. The Journal notes, “In the mid-1990s, he was known for his close association with Nigeria’s military dictator, Sani Abacha, which helped him land lucrative business contracts in construction and other areas.” (Wall St. Journal, August 10, 2016)

In case you're inclined to discount the WSJ, studies have shown that in its news coverage, it is our most liberal national newspaper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3732075/Secret-emails-reveal-Hillary-s-closest-aide-took-orders-Clinton-Foundation-open-State-Department-doors-one-biggest-donors.html
 
http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/new-emails-show-huma-scheming-for-hillary/

                                           

Hillary Clinton and the LGBTQ agenda

I haven't checked these amounts. You don't always know when photos appear on FB who or what is the source.  However, I do know that no country would donate to an American foundation (they don't get a tax break like we do) created by a former president and former secretary of state unless they expected payback/kickback/backscratch. We know Muslim countries have severe punishment for gays and transsexuals. Do we want that person in the White House who owes them? Why would the LGBTQ spokespeople endorse this when there has to be a time when the IOUs are called in?  What if she accepted donations from the KKK or Planned Parenthood (oh, wait, she does).

 

"Four oil-rich Arab nations, all with histories of philanthropy to United Nations and Middle Eastern causes, have donated vastly more money to the Clinton Foundation than they have to most other large private charities involved in the kinds of global work championed by the Clinton family.

Since 2001, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gave as much as $40 million to the Clinton Foundation. In contrast, six similar non-governmental global charities collected no money from those same four Middle Eastern countries; the International Committee of the Red Cross was given $6.82 million. Since 2001, these global foundations have raised a staggering $40 billion to $50 billion to fund their humanitarian work." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24782695.html

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/11/exclusive-persian-gulf-sheikhs-gave-bill-hillary-100-million/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/alatheia-nielsen/2016/06/14/clinton-foundation-takes-255m-countries-kill-imprison

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24782695.html#storylink=cpy