The Clinton Foundation
Hillary Clinton said in an 2014 ABC interview, “You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy. Bill has worked really hard. And it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard.”
Yes, the Clinton’s have done vary well in the past 15 years since leaving the White house.
- In December 2000, the Clinton’s bought a house in Washington, D.C. for $1.995 million.
- By Feb. 5, 2001, Bill Clinton was commanding regular speaking fees of $125,000 or more.
- Hillary Clinton herself did quite well in 2001. The book publisher Simon and Schuster paid her $2.84 million in royalties.
- By 2004, Hillary Clinton was ranked the 10th-wealthiest member of the Senate, with a net worth between $10 million and $50 million.
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The Clinton Foundation (founded in 1997 as the William J. Clinton Foundation, and called beginning in 2013 the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit corporation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton.
Through 2016 the foundation had raised an estimated $2 billion from U.S. corporations, foreign governments and corporations, political donors, and various other groups and individuals. During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State much of the money was being received by not only industrial, banking, and corporate interests but also by foreign governments who benefited by an open door of communication with the US Secretary of State.
Recent donors include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, Germany and a Canadian government agency promoting the Keystone XL pipeline.
- United Arab Emirates gave between $1 million and $5 million in 2014.
- The German government contributed between $100,000 and $250,000.
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has given between $10 million and $25 million since the foundation was created in 1999.
- The Australian government has given between $5 million and $10 million.
- Qatar’s government committee preparing for the 2022 soccer World Cup gave between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2014. Qatar’s government had previously donated between $1 million and $5 million.
- Oman has given the foundation between $1 million and $5 million.
- Rilin Enterprises pledged $2 million in 2013 to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment. The company is a privately-held Chinese construction and trade conglomerate and run by billionaire Wang Wenliang, who is also a delegate to the Chinese parliament. Public records show the firm has spent $1.4 million since 2012, lobbying Congress and the State Department. The firm owns a strategic port along the border with North Korea and was also one of the contractors that built the Chinese embassy in Washington.
Frank Giustra, Canadian business man and Clinton Foundation board member, paid the Clintons millions of dollars to induce Bill and Hillary to wield public influence in the United States, Kazakhstan and Russia, to assist Giustra in a complex scheme that ended up with Giustra’s Canadian company, Uranium One, controlling some 20 percent of all the uranium mined in the United States. Uranium One was then sold to a Russian company. From 2005 to 2013, the public record suggests Giustra was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in “charitable donations” to the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton in speaking fees.The New York Times tracked the flow of money from wealthy donor/participants in the deal to the Clinton Foundation and the pockets of Bill Clinton himself — straight from Russia:As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clinton’s, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Insofar as I am concerned, Bill (not President) and Hillary have been embarrassments to all Arkansans and all Americans. When we needed a leader with integrity, Bill’s thoughts were on sexual matters. This is a fine little state full of fine people, especially its children. We deserve better than the Clintons. We rank 50th in quality of both public education and medical care. How long has Arkansas been at the bottom and, more importantly, why? I would look first at her political leadership, legislators and judges. Hillary is a pathological liar with rapidly progressing Parkinson’s Disease. She has, at best 18-24 months remaining among the quick. Bill is both a liar and a crook, to wit, the Mena dope smuggling operation which resulted in, at least, the deaths of two teen-age boys who apparently saw something they should not have. The inconsistencies and bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of Vincent Foster is one of many similar examples of “suicide by Bill”. Bill’s treatment of women, especially sexually but psychologically as well, is likely explainable by the congenital physical deviation of his relatively small, male appendage. While that may make his behaviors explainable, it in no way forgives or excuses them. That Bill is a sexual pervert is eminently clear. Hillary will go on trying to mask her husband’s stupidity as well as the worsening symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, however this neuropathy impairs the patient both physicially (e.g. poor balance, unsteady gait, leg weakness, tremors of the arms, “pill rolling” finger movements, slurred speech, frequent, uncontrollable coughing fits due to dysphagia paralytica (a symptom of advanced Parkinson’s Disease, not dry mouth). All of the other reasons reported for her voice disorders, difficulty with speech articulation, hacking and coughing (asthma, “flu”, cold, heat, fatigue, thirst, etc.) are all “false flag” diagnoses. They are lying to us. They are as diagnostic as can be of Parkinson’s Disease (at the least). Hillary’s response, of course, is to lie to us about the “causes” of her physical symptoms, however over time, she will be unable to mask them. What about stopping abruptly while speaking because of inability to recall the next word? In Hillary’s case, that is a symptom of Parkinson’s Disease called “expressive aphasia”. It has a lot in common neurologically with impaired immediate recall, and both will get much worse with time. Yet, these are the people (because Bill has already demonstrated the lack of decorum, aplomb and grace to allow Hillary to run her own campaign without forcing his way into the picture) that millions of Americans want to lead the world’s most powerful country, to be not only its President, but it’s Commander-in-Chief as well? The fact that she allowed four Americans to die in Bengazi, despite their repeated pleas for help and she did absolutely nothing, is enough evidence for me of her poor judgment. The entire “computer affair” and cover-up merely confirms that she is not now mentally competent and lacks sound judgment. In short, both Bill and Hillary lack the integrity, honesty and competence to be anywhere near the Capitol, the White House or Washington, D.C. They would probably struggle in Smackover, AR, but better there than D.C. It would be nice to be able to write truthfully some positive aspects of Hillary and Bill’s personnae, however, in this case, that is not possible. God bless America.
Randall Smith, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Neuroscience
University of Arkansas College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR