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Bill and Hillary Clinton were ‘dead broke’ when they left the White House in 2001. They were SO broke that they needed pal Terry Mcauliffe to front money to buy their swanky pad in Chappaqua, N.Y.
But that didn’t last long. All it took was a couple of book deals, a few high-dollars speeches, a successful campaign for US Senate, the Clinton Foundation launch, and they were back in the money!
But that’s not the ONLY source of income they’ve had these last few years.
Bill Clinton’s staff used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found.
Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. [EMPHASIS ADDED]
WOW. In case you thought you read the above incorrectly, lets summarize.
POLITICO: Clinton's used taxpayer dollars to fund their private server, and pay Clinton Foundation staffers.
Just, wow.
— Matt DDA (@DeplorableTrain) September 1, 2016
Pretty much. So, that bathroom server of hers? You know, the one that can be wiped with a cloth?
Its a pretty sure bet our taxpayer dollars, YOURS and MINE bought it. Even worse, they haven’t stopped asking for handouts!
But even as the Clintons got rich and grew their foundation into a $2 billion organization credited with major victories in the fights against childhood obesity and AIDS — while paying six-figure salaries to top aides — Bill Clinton continued drawing more cash from the Former President’s Act than any other ex-president, according to a POLITICO analysis. The analysis also found that Clinton’s representatives, between 2001, when the Clintons left the White House, and the end of this year, had requested allocations under the Act totaling $16 million. That’s more than any of the other living former presidents — Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush — requested during that span. [EMPHASIS ADDED]
Yes, you read that correctly. Hillary and Bill are STILL sticking it to the American taxpayers! Who needs $16 million of OUR tax dollars to live off of? Bill and Hillary do. I guess their pals who donated to the Clinton Foundation with the expectation of favors just aren’t cutting it.
Everything Hillary and Bill Clinton do continues to reek of corruption and greed. In fact,
Clintons in a nutshell: use a private server to escape FOIA and Hill subpoenas, and make taxpayers cover the costs.https://t.co/h6CV50tH5V
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 1, 2016
While some might be asking…
And others are applauding Hillary’s mega fundraising hard partying ways…
Paul McCartney, Clinton Global Citizen Jon Bon Jovi perform at Hillary’s Hamptons fundraiser https://t.co/Rwr0Vr7VGm pic.twitter.com/a4GfRVr1rV
— slone (@slone) August 31, 2016
We the taxpayers are left holding an empty bank bag thanks to Bill and Hillary dipping their greedy fingers into it. The Clinton campaign’s response to the Politico investigation?
This headline is egregiously false. Server hosting HRC's email during State tenure was paid for w/personal fundshttps://t.co/FblUHKlOhQ
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 1, 2016
Oh, ok. That makes it all better somehow. NOT. Exit question:
@dcexaminer She's not going to hold a press conference today to clear this up, is she.
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 1, 2016
I doubt it. Meanwhile consider this. Hillary has been claiming that her bathroom server was paid for out of private funds. Given this new revelation, they have a problem. If the server was paid for by even ONE CENT of taxpayer money, then ALL information on it is and should be considered government property. For that alone, Hillary isn’t worthy of the highest office in the land.
Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment
Oh, come on! We know the gov’t doesn’t pay cash for anything! That’s what gov’t cc’s are for!
I give this 4 Pinocchios!
/WaPo
Hillary has been claiming that her bathroom server was paid for out of private funds.
The real problem (just like federal $$ going to PP “don’t pay for abortions”) here is that $$$$ is fungible. It doesn’t matter what color the money is (a phrase from the acquisition world) if you can spend a little more of this stack on A because you freed up funds that were paying for B, then you effectively paid for A by giving money for B.
This is one big reason she shouldn’t have been using a privately run email system at all.
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