Pressuring Trump, Clinton releases 2015 tax returns
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave a speech on the economy after touring Futuramic Tool & Engineering, in Warren, Mich. on Thursday.
WASHINGTON » Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign today that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns.
The filing shows that the Clintons paid a federal tax rate of 34.2 percent in 2015. The bulk of their income — more than $6 million — came from speaking fees for appearances made largely before Hillary Clinton launched her campaign in April 2015. They gave more than $1 million to charity.
The Clintons’ income puts them well within the ranks of the top 0.1 percent of Americans, though they pay a higher tax rate than many of their elite peers, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation based on 2013 data.
The release is part of an effort to undercut Trump’s character by questioning the celebrity businessman’s record. Trump has refused to make his filings public, saying they’re under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and that he’ll release them only once that review is complete. All major U.S. presidential candidates in modern history have released their returns.
The Clintons have disclosed returns for every year dating back to 1977, in part due to laws requiring public officials release returns. She put out her most recent eight years of tax filings last summer and several years during her first presidential bid.
Seeking common ground with blue-collar workers who have been attracted to Trump’s message, Clinton frequently mentions Trump’s returns as a way of underscoring how his economic plans would benefit his personal interests and questioning whether he’s as wealthy as he claims.
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Democrats believe Trump’s returns could be treasure trove of politically damaging information. They want to see his tax rate, charitable giving, and business dealings with foreign governments.
“Here’s a pretty incredible fact: There is a non-zero chance that Donald Trump isn’t paying (asterisk)any(asterisk) taxes,” Clinton tweeted, just minutes after releasing her own returns.
Protesters at Trump afternoon rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, held up signs reading “Tax Forms” before being escorted out by security.
Clinton’s strategy is borrowed from President Barack Obama’s winning playbook against Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama repeatedly used Romney’s business dealings against him and seized upon the former Massachusetts governor’s reluctance to release certain tax records.
Clinton’s campaign also released 10 years of returns from running mate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton. Over the last decade, the couple has donated 7.5 percent of their income to charity, the campaign said, and paid an effective tax rate of 25.6 percent last year.
Kaine, the Virginia senator who’s spent much of his life in public service, reported a far lower income than the Clintons. Over the past decade, he and his wife earned the most in 2014, more than $314,000 in adjusted gross income. The Clintons made about 90 times more, reporting nearly $28 million for the same year.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, has yet to say if he will release his taxes, which he has not done as governor of Indiana. A spokesman for the governor’s office referred all tax-related questions to his vice presidential campaign. The campaign did not respond to messages about whether Pence will release his returns.
Clinton has tried to paint Trump has an out-of-touch business mogul but her substantial wealth has caused headaches. Republicans have seized upon the millions in speaking fees and a tone-deaf comment by Clinton in a 2014 interview that she was “dead broke” after leaving the White House in 2001. The couple owed millions in legal fees, but quickly generated far more from book deals, paid appearances and consulting fees.
In total, the Clintons earned than $139 million between 2007 and 2014, according to eight years of federal income tax returns released by her campaign last July.
The bulk of their income came from speeches delivered to corporate and interest groups, which paid Bill Clinton and later Hillary Clinton after she resigned as secretary of state in early 2013.
Clinton delivered six paid speeches in 2015, including one to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. She commanded her highest rate from EBay, which paid her $315,000 for a March 2015 address in San Jose.
Bill Clinton’s consulting work for GEMS Education, a global network of for-profit schools based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, earned him more than $5.6 million in fees between 2010 and 2015, according to the Clinton tax returns.
Bill Clinton also earned more than $17 million over the same period for consulting work for Laureate Education, Inc., another worldwide for-profit education system based in Baltimore that makes most of its profits from overseas operations. Several former students have sued a school operated by the company, alleging fraud.
Bill Clinton’s office last year said he had ended his consulting relationship with Laureate, but no similar statement has been made regarding to GEMS, which stands for Global Education Management Systems. His office did not immediately respond to a question about whether he still has a relationship with GEMS.
Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan and Jeff Horwitz contributed to this report from Washington. Associated Press writer Josh Lederman contributed from Erie, Pa.
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Hmmmn, he says to trust him, that he does pay taxes and by advice of counsel, that because of an on-going audit, he will not release his taxes. Well, one, nothing prevents you from turning over such info during an audit, and/or previously completed year taxes.
Two, what do we know about previous returns??? Well, that his effective tax rate was ZERO, yes ZERO. The disclosure comes via a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators who had investigated Trump’s finances while he was applying for a casino license in the state. Here’s the relevant snippet —
The Division notes that in 1978 and 1979 Trump incurred no federal income tax liability. In 1979, the lack of such liability is primarily attributable to losses incurred by Trump in the operation of rental properties located at Third Avenue, Fifth Avenue, East 56th Street, East 57 Street, East 61st Street and East 62 Street, New York City, New York. … The foregoing losses were also traced to interest due on amounts owed to Fred C. Trump and Chase Manhattan Bank during 1978 and 1979. Additionally, Trump incurred losses during 1978 and 1979 in the operations of the Park Briar Associates, Regency-Lexington Partners and 220 Prospect Street Company, partnerships in which Trump has an interest.
According to the report, Trump claimed an annual income during the five-year stretch investigators looked at of: $76,210 in 1975, $24,594 in 1976, $118,530 in 1977, negative-$406,379 in 1978, and negative-$3.4 million in 1979. His largest federal tax bill during that time was roughly $42,000 in 1977. As the Post notes, that same decade Trump boasted that he was worth about $200 million. Hmm.
Awfully suspect and fishy…..
Ike-Eli, Mr. Trumps return is under IRS audit. Same IRS under Hawaii born President Obama. Wait till the IRS completes its audit, to satisfy your suspect and fishy…..thoughts. Have you ever ran a business? Work hard for maximum profits in the first 11 months, than evaluate profits for employee bonus, new equipment investments, modernize the business, etc. costs to reduce end of year profits and payment of taxes. From your post, Mr. Trump has excellent CPA’s and Attorneys. An outstanding team. Certainly not like the one I was a member in 1994 and lost a Governor’s race.
Kuro, are you so dull to suggest that a President can order the release of an individual tax return–no, President can.
Being under audit does not prevent one from releasing their tax return. Hillary has released her returns every year for over 30 years. I’m sure Donald Trump could release his returns from previous years in which the audits are complete.
Emails: DOJ Shut Down FBI Investigation Of Clinton Foundation
AUGUST 11, 2016 By Bre Payton
Newly released emails reveal President Obama’s Justice Department rejected the FBI’s request to investigate the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with the State Department.
The FBI asked the DOJ to open an investigation into a potential pay-for-play relationship between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation, which spends a very small fraction of its funds on actual charity work, but the DOJ wasn’t interested — saying it had tried and failed to probe the organization in 2015, CNN reports.
Ike, it’s brilliant for Mr. Trump to hold releasing his tax returns until the Hawaii born President Obama’s IRS completes their audit. It will be that the released of Mr. Trumps tax return would have passed the scrutiny of Hawaii born President Obama.
kuroiwaj – I’m sure your comment makes sense to you. Or someone. Right?
An IRS audit does not prevent anyone from making his or her tax return public. If Trump is so concerned about the returns under audit why doesn’t he release his prior year returns that are done. 2010? 2011? 2012? 2013? It is obvious he doesn’t want the information out there because (to borrow a quote from Trump) “there is something going there”.
Mr. Trump is lying of course. That’s all he does.
Why didn’t Clinton release hers when she first entered the race? She knew she would have to. And the SA hasn’t mentioned that of the $1,042,000 the Clinton’s “donated” to charity, $1,000,000 was “donated” to themselves…The Clinton Foundation. Slight omission of some small facts.
Looks like Mr. Trump is stretching the definitions of income in his returns. We need to see how he is lying in them.
(CNN)A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department traveled to New York to interview job candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, a CNN investigation has found.
The fact that the aide, Cheryl Mills, was taking part in such a high level task for the Clinton foundation while also working as chief of staff for the secretary of state raises new questions about the blurred lines that have dogged the Clintons in recent years.
Upon entering office as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation agreed to a set of rules to ensure any activities by the foundation would not “create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as Secretary of State.”
On June 19, 2012, Mills, then the chief of staff for Clinton at the State Department, boarded a New York City-bound Amtrak train in Washington’s Union station.
First on CNN: Inside the debate over probing the Clinton Foundation
Inside the debate over probing the Clinton Foundation
The next morning, at the offices of a New York based executive search firm, Mills would interview two high-level business executives. Her mission was to help the Clinton Foundation find a new leader, a source told CNN.
According to Mills’ attorney, her work for the Clinton Foundation while she was employed at the State Department was strictly voluntary. She received no pay and no government funds were used to finance the short trip.
Poor sarge. How was Chump’s wee, first it was the whole veiled threat to the second amendment nuts, then it was the Obama was the founder of ISIS, then double down on that, then Chumpsters like you defending Chump’s accusation that Obama was the founder of ISIS, then today making you and all the other Chumpsters look like fools by saying the whole thing was an attempt at sarcasm meaning that Obama was not actually the founder of ISIS as most Chumpsters were saying. LOL Chump can’t keep his lies straignt, and makes you guys look foolish at the same time.
Cover for the Chief of Staff for a State assignment? We’ll never know. Nothing wrong with volunteer work.
Hmmmm… just wondering if her “tax return” was prepared by the same group that “created” Hussein’s birth certificate ?
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children?
PoiDoggy, Yes, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children do tax returns to make up for the difference in the lower birth rates. Gotta get that $$$ somehow.
Health Department does taxes? Hmmmmm.
People here are worse than usual with their conspiracy theories.
Clinton donated $1,000,000 to the CGI. They called that a charitable contribution to a non profit. They lessen their taxes and get to use the money to cover their expenses. But of course you knew that.
lespark – You’re lying. The Clinton Family Foundation is not the CGI.
Lying will not help your manufactured case.
Then leave and take your hate with you.
Good to read that the Clintons disclosed their 2015 income taxes. Warren Buffet still earns more than them.
Its not the taxes that are a mystery but the money laundering foundation that now protected by Obama’s DOJ. It should be our DOJ but it not while we are under the rule of Obama and his side kick Hillary. How much longer must the America suffer under their rule.
Here is a hint–read the title of the respective article, then try and attempt to make a comment that has some nexus to said article.
Pressuring and Clinton are in the headline so here goes…News recently broke that the Department of Justice blocked the FBI’s attempt to investigate potential corruption at The Clinton Foundation. Things seem to have changed.
According to an exclusive The Daily Caller report, a former senior law enforcement official said the FBI has started multiple probes into alleged corruption linked to The Clinton Foundation. The person said investigators are zeroing in on the main offices in New York City. They’ll be helped by various U.S. attorneys, including Preet Bharara, who is stationed out of the Southern District of New York.
On the website, “The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation” states it runs “programs around the world that have a significant impact in a wide range of issue areas, including economic development, climate change, health and wellness, and participation of girls and women.” In 2015, The Washington Post reported that it raised over $2 billion in donations…..http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/report-fbi-is-now-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/
We have to bring the truth to the Americans. That’s why people like you have very distorted views. Did you ask your wife what Susan Collins’ affliction is?
raiderDogs, do not change the subject. We are not interested in any money laundering and other conspiracy theories. We just want Trump to reveal his tax returns. Not releasing his tax returns, Trump must be hiding something(s) that could be very politically damaging. He is known to be evasive and changes the subject whenever asked a question,this is just another instance.
The Clintons gave 1,0490,000 to charity. $1,000,000 to the Clinton foundation. The foundation only gives out 28% of their money to charity but 72% is to run their foundation who organizes Bill Clinton speaking payments. Wouldn’t all of us like to give money to ourselves and take it off our taxes.
Glad you caught that. They call that a loop hole. Wait until she gets in Office. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Of course you don’t care about it. However law abiding citizens care about it.
Lespark. You are right for once. As far as the Chumps tax returns . We certainly ain’t seen nothing yet.
On a day in which Clinton was hoping to inflict considerable damage on Donald Trump — this time, by ripping into his economic agenda — her campaign was on the defensive, scurrying to clean up the latest damaging revelations in years-old messages that were sent by Clinton and her staff and released as the result of a lawsuit.
what all these news channels and the IRS said for rich people the federal tax is 39% so how the hell do you only pay the IRS 34% they are not claiming the 200 million or more that they got from foreign countries.
just looked at the tax table if you make over 439 thousand your fed. tax is 39% not 34%.
Good grief. You really need to speak with an accountant before writing another comment.
You are conflating a foundation with personal income. Foundations pay not tax at all, provided that they properly distribute the return on their assets. WOW!
For the Clinton’s, the “proper distribution” is 3 for us, 1 to cover this whole thing up.
And both candidates are uber rich and they want us to believe they understand the plight facing to rest of us. They don’t and they absolutely don’t care.
Trump has no idea of how average working people live and struggle. Born with a gold spoon in his mouth. At least Hillary came from a working class family, and understand what it is like to study and work hard all your life, and also serve others. Trump is totally in it for himself, and his other rich friends
And then get kicked off an investigative committee for lying and doing such dubious things that even a lawyer was aghast to the point of firing her. What a waste of an Iny League education.
It’s funny how Trump keeps saying he’ll be tough on everyone, yet he can’t even handle any protesters at his rallies.
Handling “PAID” protesters can be very difficult.
Better than Hillary’s seizures when protesters from her side of the aisle fluster her.
Some how it alludes be as to Why it is so important the public needs to see any-ones Tax returns. as example I feel that my tax returns are only me and the IRS’s Business. Same for either parties. As long as the IRS does not show any Fraud.
PMINZ, we want to see if Trump has overseas corporations and businesses that are not paying their fair share of taxes. We also want to know if he has any off-shore shell accounts, hiding his wealth. Trump wants to stop US corporations from going to other countries. His tax returns will show whether he has investments and businesses off shore and in other countries, like Bangladesh where he has Trump ties made. His tax returns may also show his business and political relationship with Putin and the Russians.
Trump’s relationship with the Putin and the Russians becomes more intriguing each day. Trump held the Miss Universe contest in Moscow, with the help of Putin and the Russians. Paul Manafort, his campaign manager, used to be an aide to the Soviet backed former leader of Ukraine. Trump’s spokesperson Boris, on CNN, has a Russian connection. Trump also wanted the Russians to hack into Hillary’s email, to find the missing 30,000. Trump has also praised Putin. I sure would like to see his tax returns.
Trump’s personal income tax is no different than yours. All he has to do is provide the first two pages of Schedile A 1040. In order to do that you have to get the figures to fill in the boxes. That’s what they are auditing. He might have some carryover from years past that needs attention. But of course you knew that.
Mr. Trump ridiculed Mr. Romney for not providing tax returns. Mr. Trump said that any candidate that does not produce tax returns has something to hide.
Pot, meet kettle.
Mr. Trump is a psychotic. He’s losing in a landslide.
PMINZ, your grammar and spelling are so bad, I question your ability to think. Did you, or will you, go to college? (Trump University does not count.)
Are you saying college will make it worse?
Leave my grammer out of this, she no like bodda you.
Nobody cares about your tax returns because you’re not running for POTUS. One thing that is common with all of you Chump supporters is that you are certainly undereducated!
Irrelevant. Ms. Clinton’s corruption is already right out there for all to see— millions in speaking fees from Wall St. fat cats and millions in donations and Bill’s speaking fees, many from/for foreign governments, while she was Sec State and while she clearly had presidential aspirations. Tax returns? Meaningless. Monumental conflict of interest and influence peddling? Blatant, in your face corruption.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is not optimistic that he will be in charge of the Senate come November ― and Donald Trump, he implied, is not helping matters.
McConnell told a civic group in Kentucky on Thursday that the chances of the GOP retaining control of the Senate were “very dicey,” the Associated Press reported.
The party’s Senate majority was always going to be tenuous this year, according to McConnell, with 24 Republican-held seats up for grabs, compared to just 10 Democratic-held seats.
Mitch has nobody to blame but himself. If he and the other majority Senators got their head out of their… And passed meaningful legislation they wouldn’t have a problem. But of course you knew that.
His returns probably prove he’s a crook.
You do know what tax returns are, don’t you? They are the signed, legal statement that the taxpayer has filed the return, reported his income, in accordance with the law. Expecting to find evidence of criminal activity in such a document makes zero sense (well, it might to liberals, but go figure!). No, you see, criminals actually “hide” the evidence of their criminal acts, they generally, usually (never) put such evidence in a document they then sign and send to the IRS. Got it?
Winston, you seem to be very proud of your supposed brilliance while showing off your ignorance. While you are correct that criminals will try and hide evidence of criminal activity in their taxes, that non-disclosure is used by prosecutors as evidence of tax evasion (the way Al Capone was convicted). If the clinically narcissistic Donald Trump is actually a billionaire, and his tax returns lack evidence of that wealth and income or losses associated with it, then wiliki is correct, Trump’s returns probably prove he is a crook (in addition to his oh so obvious mental instability).
Winston, the federal prisons have many inmates who filed fraudulent returns. Just because a persons signs a return doesn’t mean the return is accurate. OK but lets get back to the Chump. I agree with you. Chump would never knowingly file a false return, he has too much to lose, and if there is a mistake I suspect his accountants would be liable for the fees and penalties while he would still owe the actual tax due. Of course the interest with Chump’s return have a lot to do with the speculation that Chump has (legally) paid no federal income taxes and Chump’s tax returns would expose business ties that would be somewhat questionable or politically damaging (say the Russian mob). Chumps problems are that he looks like he is hiding something. Nothing is stopping him from releasing his taxes, only true Chumpsters believe the audit excuse. So the Chumpster is caught between a rock and a hard place. He has to figure out what is worse, Clinton hammering him by saying he is hiding something, or releasing the the tax returns and potentially opening a Pandora’s box of new controversies. True believers like you would continue to accept the audit explanation, but this is the kind of stuff that will simmer throughout the campaign. Good luck with that.
Winston, to correct you, on your tax returns, you have to show your sources of income, and all your investment, capital gains, business and operational expenses. Warren Buffet, who is way richer than Donald Trump has released his tax returns, and also encouraged Trump to do the same, saying, being audited does not prevent you from releasing your tax returns
Vector, All Trump has to do is show that he filed his 1040 Schedule A. You would not understand his complete tax returns.
lespark – And you don’t understand what Schedule A is.
Just keep failing.
Hmmmn, Les, schedule A, huh???! Buahahahah, you are truly hilarious.
Then why doesn’t he release his tax returns? Very elementary question.
Some Republicans have argued that conservatives skeptical of Donald Trump should vote for him anyway, if only to prevent Hillary Clinton from nominating liberals to the Supreme Court. But the right’s leading legal scholars reject that idea: the risks of a President Trump would outweigh his influence on the high court.
“The only glimmer of hope in the Trump fiasco” is the list of 11 judges the candidate put forward as suitable Supreme Court nominees, said Richard Epstein, a Hoover Institution Fellow and professor at both New York University School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School. But that is based “on the questionable assumption that a man of his mercurial temperament and intellectual ignorance will keep to his word,” he said.
Even if a President Trump did honor that promise, “influence on the courts take time, and foreign affairs and domestic crises come up immediately,” Epstein said. And that’s not a risk the highly respected conservative legal scholar thinks is worth taking. “He is wholly unfit to deal with either of these two areas. In all other matters he is deficient,” Epstein added.
Trump has a terrible record on constitutional issues.
Trump’s campaign released the list of judges he would consider nominating to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in May. It was an attempt to appease conservative critics (though he later said he reserved the right to nominate someone not on the list). The list included six federal appeals court judges that then-President George W. Bush appointed and five state supreme court judges Republican governors selected. Conservatives in the media and in Congress roundly praised Trump’s list. Yet many right-leaning legal scholars tell The Huffington Post that, as important as the Supreme Court may be, it does not override all other issues when considering his candidacy.
“The Supreme Court—and judicial appointments more broadly—is probably the single best reason to vote for Trump,” said Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. “But even then, there’s a lot of uncertainty. How hard would Trump push to get a nominee confirmed? What would he do if his first choice were rejected? Would he make a ‘fabulous deal’ to trade judicial appointments for other priorities?”
“Trump put out a genuinely excellent list of potential appointees, but how much can we trust that list?” Shapiro continued. “Even Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, who were committed to appointing principled originalists and textualists, made mistakes; how would a president who knows nothing about the Constitution and thinks that judges ‘sign bills’ fare?”
These conservative legal luminaries distancing themselves from Trump has the potential to undermine one of the few remaining threads tying the candidate to the Republican establishment. For some senators, it may give an additional push to allow consideration of President Barack Obama’s nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, based on the belief that he would be better than any potential Clinton pick.
Well Well – Aren’t we L O N G Winded!
But lucid and cogent.
A House Republican task force has found that officials from the U.S. military’s Central Command pressured lower-level military analysts to downplay the threats of ISIS and radical Islamists.
The Daily Beast reported that the committee’s 10-page report confirms allegations by dozens of intelligence analysts that their reports were altered by CENTCOM higher-ups.
Last year, more than 50 analysts filed a formal complaint, alleging that their reports on ISIS and Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria – Al-Nusra Front – were being inappropriately altered by senior officials to paint a more optimistic picture.
The House panel, led by members of the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, was created after that shocking complaint was filed.
The Daily Beast did not confirm whether the White House was behind any instructions to doctor the reports.
Every figging day same thing.
Sarge and lespark it’s because you’re running out of intelligent things to say.
Still waiting for you to say something intelligent, but in the mean time check this out. >>>>SETH RICH DESTROYS DEMOCRATIC PARTY THEN GETS MURDERED
3 days ago by stfn25
The Seth Rich case has just exploded back into the headlines with Julian Assange’s assertion that Seth Rich was the “wiki leak” responsible for bringing down the DNC chair and exposing the rigged Democratic primary… that makes two murders in recent weeks that have been directly linked to events at DNC headquarters in (brain)Washing-ton, D.C.
Not only that but we now know that Seth Rich wasn’t just a staff member at the DNC, as was widely reported, he was the director of voter expansion data. Which means he had the electronic keys to the entire Democratic party.
As for motives of his leak, it would seem that Seth Rich was a Bernie supporter who felt betrayed by the rigged primary and so he leaked what he could to show that Hillary stole the nomination.
This video https://www.facebook.com/stfnews/videos/1113955812014861/ shows Seth Rich at the crime scene, and for the record he was only a few blocks away from a trauma center… As you will see in the video they had time to string crime scene tape around his body but didn’t have the time to travel 3 blocks to the emergency room. How many crimes does Hillary have to commit before the doj does its job?
“The Clinton’s gave more than One Million dollars to charity”. Was one of those “Charities”_ The Clinton Foundation??
And isn’t the Clinton Foundation a 501(c)(3) entity…..a Charitable organization?
What I would like to see, is the donations the Clinton Foundation receives, and the names of those donors.
Yes, MoiLee, the Clintons donated $1,000,000 to the Clinton Family Foundation and $42,000 to some thing called the Desert Classic Charities. They donated to themselves. Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/12/us/politics/clintons-1040-2015.html?_r=0
You’re lying, or you are no better an accountant than you are a lawyer.
They did not donate to themselves. They donated to a family foundation (my wife and I have one also) that is structured to give away investment returns on the assets – based on an IRS formula – of no less than 5% of its assets every year.
You don’t understand what family foundations are because you apparently don’t have one and didn’t bother top research what one is. It would be so helpful if just once – once – you knew what you were writing about. Just once.
The Clinton Family Foundation is not the Clinton Global Initiative.
Klastri, you think you are so smart. Well, in this case, you are quite dumb. If you did a little research about the Clinton Family Foundation, you would find it is the umbrella organization for many initiatives and projects including the Clinton Global Initiative. You can’t separate the two as you are trying to do. And the Clintons and their cronies are being rewarded handsomely by the Foundation. No matter how you try to spin it, most of the $1,000,000 donation to the Clinton Family Foundation will be used to pay the Clintons and their cronies employed by the Foundation and to support their lavish life styles. Here are the current Board members who benefit from such “donations”:
Bruce Lindsey, Chairman of the Board;
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Board;
President Bill Clinton;
Frank Giustra;
Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster;
Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD;
Hadeel Ibrahim;
Lisa Jackson;
Cheryl Mills;
Cheryl Saban, Ph.D.
Moi, Google Clinton Foundation Donors. You will see how deep the poop is.
To which charities did the Clintons donate $1 million? I would not be surprised if it went to the Clinton Foundation as a so it could then be used to cover their travels and lavish life style under the guise of Clinton Foundation business expenses.
My suspicions have been confirmed. The Clinton’s donated $1,042,000 to charities. The Desert Classic Charities received $42,000 and $1 million went to the Clinton Family Foundation. Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/12/us/politics/clintons-1040-2015.html?_r=0
Another mistake. You are confusing the Clinton Family Foundation with CGI.
Maybe pick one day next week to write things that are truthful and accurate? Just one day would be nice.
Klastri, you are wrong. The Clinton Family Foundation is the umbrella foundation for many initiatives, one of them being the Clinton Global Initiative. It also may interest you to know that Chelsea Clinton is the Vice Chair of the Clinton Family Foundation. Here is a list of other Clinton cronies who are officers of Foundation:
Donna E. Shalala, President;
Philip A. Berry, Chief Human Resources Officer;
Tom Borchard, Director of Operations & Security;
Ricardo Castro, General Counsel;
Amitabh Desai, Foreign Policy Director;
Mark Gunton, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership;
Robert Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Global Initiative;
Rain Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Health Matters Initiative;
Andrew Kessel, Chief Financial Officer;
Bari Lurie, Chief Of Staff, Office Of Chelsea Clinton;
Terri McCullough, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project;
Patti Miller, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Too Small to Fail;
Gregory Milne, Chief Metrics and Impact Officer;
Craig Minassian, Chief Communications Officer;
Walker Morris, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Development Initiative;
Maura Pally, Senior Vice President of Programs;
Lauren Pruneski, Chief Marketing Officer;
Daniel Schaefer, Chief Technology Officer;
Stephanie S. Streett, Executive Director;
Danielle Stilz, Chief Development Officer;
Kevin Thurm, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer;
Dymphna van der Lans, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Climate Initiative.
This is the most recent (released today) by the uber conservative and thoroughly Republican National Review.
And please cut out the talk about purges. As Donald Trump and Mike Pence reenact Thelma and Louise’s visit to the bottom of a ravine, Republicans are turning to America’s favorite pastime, after baseball — blaming others. I’ve seen a dozen different version of the same story.
That is, “[insert your political opinion] is the reason for Trump.” We’re told it’s the talk-radio circuit that midwifed the foul-mouthed clown onto the national stage. We’re told it’s the base who ignored demographic reality and abandoned its principles, all because of a circus act whose main character said things that made them feel good. We’re told it’s the establishment — whatever the hell that is, the definition changes daily to suit individual politics — whose ignorance and complicity drove voters into Trump’s tiny orange hands. We’re told it was Jeb and his Right to Rise PAC, who should have spent more money on attacking Trump (they spent more on that than any other GOP candidate), or we’re told it was Ted Cruz, who fed the crocodile until it ate him last (and later deposited him out its southern approaches).
No one outside Trump’s evaporating base of diehards seems to think nominating a buffoon was an especially good idea. Yet there he stands, setting conservative politics back a decade every time his tongue makes it past his teeth. Already there’s talk of a post-November political genocide, a messily elimination of this faction or that faction from the Republican party. There will be purges. The mass graves are being dug. And some are eagerly anticipating that sweet “I told you so” on November 9. Count me out. Purges didn’t look good on the KGB, and they wouldn’t be a good look for the GOP (though I did laugh when political consultant Mike Murphy cheerily hoped for “at least a few show trials”). I don’t want to purge a soul from this stupid, silly, busted party of ours. We did something dumb. It happens. It’s not the first time (Goldwater) and it won’t be the last.
Hmmmn, buahahahah, the National Review calls him a buffoon, every metric, every emperical piece of evidence says he is not just losing, but in many instances past the point of no return. So, I posit this question to the gang of Les, Sarge, Kuro, Winston, Thos, Ronin, Keoni, Moi……et el., who does your analytics (the data driven lever which predicates decision making) mules? Empty dog cans? Magic eight balls? Late night seance? Coconut shells?
Buahahahahahahahahahah?????!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438908/republican-party-2016-election-unity-no-purges
SA wassup?
When I hear Hill-airy speak she sounds to me like a Mono-tone 1980’s Robot Voice. I there someone Behind a Curtain controlling her, like in the Wizard of OZ?
I rather hear Hillary any day at least she has something to say. Cannot bear to listen to the screeching, hollering, and uncontrolled gesturing of Trump, a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
I no like to listen to eithor of the two they both make me ill.
Bernie Sanders released his 2015 tax returns in April, but Sneaky Hillary Clinton, who signed her 2015 tax return on March 27, 2016, did not release it until this week. I wonder why she did not release it during the campaign? My guess is that she was worried that Bernie would make an issue out of the $1,000,000 donation she made to the Clinton Family Foundation, 90% of which is used for the Clinton family lavish life style and for Clinton cronies who work for the Foundation with only 10% actually going to charitable causes. There is no question about it – the Clinton’s believe “charity begins at home.”
Ronin006: Shame on you for pointing that out. Exposing the Clinton’s hypocrisy offends the sensibilities of the of their supporters and they’ll have none of it. Witness the collusion of the media, SA included, and their holy mission of taking down Mr. Trump. The antics of Marie Antoinette Clinton and her sleazy husband go largely ignored and or apologized for by her loyal lemmings- uh, followers. The dirty little secret about the Clintons is that they look out first for their own interests, second for the interests of their wealthy donors, next a long list of anti-american left wing interest groups and a distant last are middle class working families.
You are deliberately conflating the Clinton Family Foundation with the Clinton Global Initiative.
You never know what you’re talking about. Never.
Klastri, let me count the times you’ve been wrong time and time again, but of course you knew that.
You never know what you are talking about. Never.
Go ahead and count them. Please.
Klastri, are you really as brain dead as your comments suggest or are you just trying to stimulate debate? The Clinton Global Initiative is part and parcel of the Clinton Family Foundation. Do your research for a change instead of constantly calling people liars.
Ronin006 – You’re lying. It’s an entirely separate corporation.
You insist on writing about things despite complete ignorance. It’s remarkable
Klastri, the Clinton Foundation website says you are wrong about there being no connection between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. This is what it has to say about the Foundation’s leadership team: “Working together with the Board of Directors, the Clinton Foundation’s leadership team is responsible for all aspects of the Foundation’s work around the world. Our leadership team consists of our chief executive officer, our chief financial officer, the leaders of our programmatic work (generally called chief executive officer or executive director of individual Foundation initiatives and the Presidential Center), and the leaders of our essential support functions.” Do you understand that? It says CEOs of individual Foundation initiatives are members of the Foundations leadership team, and that includes Robert Harrison, CEO, Clinton Global Initiatives. How can you say it is not part of the Clinton Foundation? The only one who believe such nonsense is you.
If I had a Dollar for every mistake Klastri made I’d be a rich man.
The Clintons donated to their favorite charity. $1,000,000. They’ll get to spend it all. Money laundering.
Of that, they gave just over a million to charity. But the contributions can hardly be seen as altruistic, since the money flowed back to an entity they control.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/12/96-percent-of-hillarys-charitable-donations-in-2015-went-to-clinton-foundation/#ixzz4HBXjCVYl
More leaked e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State prove that she was taking foreign policy advice from left-wing billionaire activist George Soros.
An e-mail provided by WikiLeaks showed Soros reaching out to Secretary Clinton over a foreign policy dispute in Albania.
“A serious situation has arisen in Albania which needs urgent attention at senior levels of the US government. You may know that an opposition demonstration in Tirana on Friday resulted in the deaths of three people and the destruction of property.
“There are serious concerns about further unrest connected to a counter-demonstration to be organized by the governing party on Wednesday and a follow-up event by the opposition two days later to memorialize the victims.
“The prospect of tens of thousands of people entering the streets in an already inflamed political environment bodes ill for the return of public order and the country’s fragile democratic process.”
“The prospect of tens of thousands of people entering the streets in an already inflamed political environment bodes ill for the return of public order and the country’s fragile democratic process.”
Soros advises the then Secretary of State get the international community involved and pressure the Prime Minister to “forestall further demonstrations” and “tone down public pronouncements” as well appointing a senior European official to act as the mediator.
The left wing billionaire also gave Clinton a list of potential nominees to appoint as mediator: Carl Bildt, Martti Ahtisaari and Miroslav Lajcak.
The e-mail was sent from Soros’ aide to Richard Verma, then the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs who forwarded it to several of Clinton’s top aides including Huma Abedin, Jacob Sullivan, and Philip Gordon. Sullivan forwarded it to Clinton.
Just three days after Clinton received the e-mail from Soros the EU ended up sending Soros’ suggested nominee Lajcak to mediate the civil unrest, the BBC reported.
You better be careful many who oppose the Clintons tend to meet some mysterious deaths.
I think your aluminum foil hat may be on a bit too tight.
Wow! There sure is a lot of animosity building between the candidates and their supporters. Charges, counter-charges, counter-counter-charges, etc. The whole thing is giving me a headache. For me it’s a simple choice. On one side you have a publicity hound with a bad hairdo, on the other side you have a serial liar with cankles and a robotic nails on the chalkboard voice. It’s a tough decision but I think I’ll go with the bad hairdo guy. At least he hasn’t been living off taxpayers for his whole adult life.
Actually, he has. He doesn’t pay taxes.
That, plus he’s a psychotic. There’s that too.
Another meaningless vote for bozo the clown. It’s a pitiful and brutal slaughter of he and his lambs.