Here's the suspicion: Any application that had to go through the State Department for review and approval could have been expedited or slow walked (or worse) at the "suggestion" of Sec Clinton. Simultaneously, private citizen Bill Clinton was accepting substantial contributions on behalf of the Clinton Foundation and/or being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to give speeches by entities who had applications pending before said State Dept. Your two-bit oil-infested country might get State Dept approval to buy a dozen F-22's if you contributed, or sent home empty handed if you didn't. Did this actually happen? I have no idea. But the opportunity was certainly there for the taking.
The press has been skating around this issue for years, I guess too timid or too star-struck by the Clinton's to make an issue out of it. I once heard a reporter ask Bill if there was any truth to the suggestion, and he just answered with a straight face, "No, how could there be? I'm a private citizen now. I have nothing to do with making those sorts of decisions." And the reporter just skipped off, happy as a lark.
Trouble is, a scam such as this would be extremely hard to prove. The Clinton's are no dummies. Surely they would never have said anything out loud or put anything in writing that would have connected the dots. But imagine the private dinner conversation at the Clinton's house as they were sharing some Sloppy Joe's and a Big Red:
BILL: Say sweetheart, guess who stopped by the Foundation today with a nice donation?
HILLARY: Why, I have no idea. Who?
BILL: That nice Crown Prince boy from Saudi Arabia.
HILLARY: Awww, how sweet.
And three weeks later the Saudi's request to buy jet fighters and gold-plated Humvees is approved. How convenient.
Yes, I know the Clinton Foundation spread a lot of cash around to legitimately deserving causes, but sources say the mafia is a major sponsor of neighborhood Little League baseball teams, too. So what?
And take it step further: What's to prevent the wife or daughter or son or brother, etc, of a major political figure....think House Speaker or Senate Majority Leader or even a major committee chair....from setting up their own "charitable foundation", too? The opportunities for arms-length corruption are off the charts!
But here to me is the best part....now maybe the Republicans will have to stop using Billary's possible grand larceny as a distraction.
"There's no Russian collusion. There's no Russian collusion. But...but...what about Crooked Hillary, huh? What about her? Lock her up!"
Oh puh-leeze. I say investigate the Clinton's and the Trump's both, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Oh please. They grilled her over Benghazi. They investigated "her emails" ad nauseum and came up with nothing.
ReplyDeleteAlso the FBI says it's been investigating these claims about the Clinton Foundation for a year and so far has found nothing wrong.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of distractions... I'm still waiting to see moron (not my word) Trump's tax returns.
ReplyDeleteI'm always impressed to see that people are holding on so tight to this issue, when it's been largely resolved already. Like Benghazi. But it does give trump supporters a catchy (sort of) chant to use at their nazi-like rallies.
ReplyDeleteI personally believe a Clinton pay-to-play scheme is entirely possible, but as I said, it would be virtually impossible to prove. There is no way they would say out loud or put in writing that would definitively connect the dots. There are just far too many "coincidences" for me to think otherwise. I say do a final, top-to-bottom investigation and then put it to bed forever.
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