Clinton's took 100M from Saudis

[SunsetBengal]

I heard this from the daytime radioheads, last week I figured I would do a little google search and see what popped up.

This story seems pretty legit, pretty much parallels what I heard on the radio.

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


But then, after scrolling down through some of the links, I came across this gem.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals



Now, the Mother Jones piece is from a year ago, yet it was the 3rd link in the search of "Clintons receive 100M from Saudis". I find that quite interesting, especially when all of the other links to stories are from very recent.

Why do you think this is?

[Vas Deferens]

Read up on her antics shilling Boeing to the Russians. It's absolutely ridiculous this women is being brought forward as a legitimate POTUS candidate. She reeks of coruption.

[StLucieBengal]

(05-22-2016, 10:25 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Read up on her antics shilling Boeing to the Russians.  It's absolutely ridiculous this women is being brought forward as a legitimate POTUS candidate.  She reeks of coruption.

So true.

The way they exploited and got rich off the Clinton foundation should have kept her out of public office.  This is why michelle Obama won't run for office she doesn't want to expose the corruption in the soon to be Obama foundation.   

No other president has made their fortune post presidency like the Clintons.  Obama will do the same.   Being president isn't supposed to make you rich 

[BigPapaKain]

Eh just money back in America that was given away by Reagan.

[Griever]

(05-22-2016, 11:13 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Eh just money back in America that was given away by Reagan.

but

reagan was god

[*michaelsean*]

(05-23-2016, 10:31 AM)Griever Wrote: but

reagan was god

Saints aren't gods.

[Belsnickel]

(05-22-2016, 10:25 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Read up on her antics shilling Boeing to the Russians. It's absolutely ridiculous this women is being brought forward as a legitimate POTUS candidate. She reeks of coruption.

Quite frankly, corruption is becoming the name of the game here. I believe it always has been, but we're finding out more and more about it now. Hell, fun times here in Virginia with McAuliffe now being investigated.

[Millhouse]

Since the 'media' is generally liberally biased, it probably will be swept under the rug as die-hard libs will just turn a blind eye to it, assuming it is factually true that is.

But isnt it ironic that Hillary will ride the human rights civil liberties train like a champ to win the election, yet received a lot of money from countries like Saudia Arabia that institute Sharia Law which imprison human rights activists?

[BigPapaKain]

(05-24-2016, 02:07 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Since the 'media' is generally liberally biased, it probably will be swept under the rug as die-hard libs will just turn a blind eye to it, assuming it is factually true that is.

But isnt it ironic that Hillary will ride the human rights civil liberties train like a champ to win the election, yet received a lot of money from countries like Saudia Arabia that institute Sharia Law which imprison human rights activists?

Those regimes put in place by old conservatives you mean?

Definitely ironic.

[*michaelsean*]

(05-24-2016, 02:18 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Those regimes put in place by old conservatives you mean?

Definitely ironic.

Old conservatives? Is their age important? You forgot white male for the liberal talking point trifecta. Christian as well, but I don't know what a fourfecta is called.

[BigPapaKain]

(05-24-2016, 02:46 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Old conservatives? Is their age important? You forgot white male for the liberal talking point trifecta. Christian as well, but I don't know what a fourfecta is called.

Old as in active during the 70s and 80s.

Nice leap there.

[Millhouse]

(05-24-2016, 02:18 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Those regimes put in place by old conservatives you mean?

Definitely ironic.

Nope because the CIA wasn't partisan in the Cold War against the Soviets in that region.

[oncemoreuntothejimbreech]

[*bfine32*]

Looks like she also tried to stage a fake rally to call Trump out for only raising $4.5 Mil instead of $6 mil for Vets:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-s-camp-staged-veterans-against-trump-protest.html

I have zero idea how dirty I would feel if I ever voted for her to be the leader of this Nation.

[Rotobeast]

(05-24-2016, 10:11 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Looks like she also tried to stage a fake rally to call Trump out for only raising $4.5 Mil instead of $6 mil for Vets:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-s-camp-staged-veterans-against-trump-protest.html

I have zero idea how dirty I would feel if I ever voted for her to be the leader of this Nation.

Probably far less dirty than if you had seen her naked.

[GMDino]

(05-24-2016, 10:11 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Looks like she also tried to stage a fake rally to call Trump out for only raising $4.5 Mil instead of $6 mil for Vets:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-s-camp-staged-veterans-against-trump-protest.html

I have zero idea how dirty I would feel if I ever voted for her to be the leader of this Nation.

That's an "interesting" twist to him lying repeatedly for months.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/24/four-months-later-donald-trump-says-he-gave-1-million-to-veterans-group/

Quote:Almost four months after promising $1 million of his own money to veterans’ causes, Donald Trump moved to fulfill that pledge Monday evening — promising the entire sum to a single charity as he came under intense media scrutiny. 

Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, organized a nationally televised fundraiser for veterans’ causes in Des Moines on Jan. 28. That night, Trump said he had raised $6 million,  including the gift from his own pocket.


“Donald Trump gave $1 million,” he said then.


As recently as last week, Trump’s campaign manager had insisted that the mogul had already given that money away. But that was false: Trump had not.

Quote:In recent days, The Washington Post and other media outlets had pressed Trump and his campaign for details about how much the fundraiser had actually raised and whether Trump had given his portion.

The candidate refused to provide details. On Monday, a Post reporter used Twitter — Trump’s preferred social-media platform — to search publicly for any veterans groups that had received Trump’s money.

By Monday afternoon, The Post had found none. But it seems to have caught the candidate’s attention.

Later Monday evening, Trump called the home of James K. Kallstrom, a former FBI official who is chairman of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. The charity aids families of fallen Marines and federal law enforcement officers.

Trump told Kallstrom that he would give the entire $1 million to the group, according to Kallstrom’s wife.  Sue Kallstrom said she was not sure whether the money had been transferred yet.

[Trump said he raised $6 million for vets. Now his campaign says it was less.]

Other big donors to Trump’s fundraiser had already made their gifts weeks before. Why had Trump waited so long?

“You have a lot of vetting to do,” Trump said Tuesday in a telephone interview conducted while he was flying to a campaign rally in Albuquerque.

For this particular donation, it would seem that little new vetting was required because Trump already knew the recipient well. The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation had already received more than $230,000 in donations from the Donald J. Trump Foundation — a charity controlled by Trump but largely funded by others. Last year, the group gave Trump its“Commandant’s Leadership Award” at a gala in New York.


When asked Tuesday whether he had given the money this week only because reporters had been asking about it, Trump responded: “You know, you’re a nasty guy. You’re really a nasty guy. I gave out millions of dollars that I had no obligation to do.”


Trump’s call on Monday night stood in contradiction to an account given Friday by campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. “The money is fully spent,” Lewandowski said then. “Mr. Trump’s money is fully spent.”



On Tuesday, Trump said Lewandowski would not have been in a position to know that. “I don’t know that Corey would even know when I gave it out,” he said.


In the same interview, Trump said the fundraiser had raised about $5.5 million for veterans overall. He said he was not sure how much of it remained to be given away.

That also contrasted with the account last week from Lewandowski, who said that about $4.5 million had been raised and that Trump’s effort had fallen short of the promised $6 million because some unnamed big donors had backed out.

On Tuesday, Trump said no major contributors had reneged. “For the most part, I think they all came through,” he said. “Some of them came through very late.”

Trump also said he had never actually promised that the fundraiser had raised $6 million. “I didn’t say six,” he said.


But, in video of the event, Trump tells the crowd, “We just cracked $6 million! Right? $6 million.”


Trump was told that he did, indeed, say “$6 million.”


“Well, I don’t, I don’t have the notes. I don’t have the tape of it,” he said. “Play [the tape] for me. Because I’d like to hear it.” 
Before the video could be cued up, Trump had moved on.

[Earlier: What we know, and what we don't, about the money Donald Trump raised for veterans]

The story of his nighttime gift seemed to highlight a unique quality of Trump: his acute sensitivity to losing face on social media. He had routinely rejected questions about the fundraiser for veterans if they were posed in person.


“Why should I give you records?” Trump said in an interview with The Post earlier this month, when he was asked about the money. “I don’t have to give you records.”


Then, on Monday, a Post reporter publicly queried multiple veterans groups on Twitter, asking whether they had received personal donations from Trump. None had.


Hours later, after 10:38 p.m. Eastern time, Trump responded on Twitter: “While under no obligation to do so, I have raised between 5 & 6 million dollars, including 1million dollars from me, for our VETERANS. Nice!”

And sometime that same evening, Trump called to make the donation to James Kallstrom’s group. Sue Kallstrom wasn’t sure what time the call was, only that it happened after she went to bed at 8 p.m.

“I guess he wants to take care of the vets,” she said. Among its other good works, the foundation provides $30,000 educational grants to the children of the fallen. “The foundation is thrilled, because the [money] is going to help a lot of people. Especially the children.”

Trump’s campaign has said the remainder of the donations would be given out by Memorial Day. Trump said he would ask his staff to send The Post a list of the groups that would receive that money, but his staff did not immediately provide it.

But it did appear that Trump’s staff was preparing to disburse more gifts. In Boston on Tuesday, the founder of  the city’s annual Wounded Vet Bike Run got a call.

“For some reason, a Trump campaign worker reached out to me today  and asked for our nonprofit number, and I gave it to ’em,” said Andrew Biggio, the group’s founder.

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The annual motorcycle ride raises money to help veterans and their families, including giving away cars and retrofitting motorcycles for the disabled. He said the staffer did not tell him how much money to expect. “I have no idea what’s coming down the pike,” Biggio said.

In recent weeks, other veterans  groups had been struggling to figure out how to ask for some of Trump’s remaining money. Trump had provided no formal way to apply.

Biggio said he had not formally applied but was pretty sure how he had come to be on Trump’s radar.

“I served in Iraq with Donald Trump’s bodyguard’s son,” he said.

But remember:  Hillary Clinton is the lyingest liar of them all.  

[BigPapaKain]

(05-24-2016, 10:11 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Looks like she also tried to stage a fake rally to call Trump out for only raising $4.5 Mil instead of $6 mil for Vets:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-s-camp-staged-veterans-against-trump-protest.html

I have zero idea how dirty I would feel if I ever voted for her to be the leader of this Nation.

Probably half as dirty as you would feel voting for Trump. But rolling in garbage is still rolling in garbage and both picks are hot garbage.

[*michaelsean*]

(05-24-2016, 04:22 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Old as in active during the 70s and 80s.

Nice leap there.

Oh.  Which ones did they install?  I assuming nothing happened from '76-'80.

[GMDino]

(05-25-2016, 07:41 AM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Probably half as dirty as you would feel voting for Trump. But rolling in garbage is still rolling in garbage and both picks are hot garbage.

Honestly I don't even care if they look at one candidate as the lesser of two evils...I just wish they'd see that they are both evil and their "reasoning" for picking one over the other is completely tainted by the "D" or the "R" after their name.

[Belsnickel]

(05-25-2016, 10:24 AM)GMDino Wrote: Honestly I don't even care if they look at one candidate as the lesser of two evils...I just wish they'd see that they are both evil and their "reasoning" for picking one over the other is completely tainted by the "D" or the "R" after their name.

Yup.