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Transcripts released by WikiLeaks of Clinton speeches to Wall Street bankers, for which she received six-figure paychecks, show her praising the recommendations of the 2010 Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction commission, which called for sweeping cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the elimination of 200,000 federal jobs; a tax on employees’
A Presidency From Hell?
A Commentary by Pat Buchanan
Friday, October 28, 2016
Should Donald Trump surge from behind to win, he would likely bring in with him both houses of Congress.
Much of his agenda -- tax cuts, deregulation, border security, deportation of criminals here illegally, repeal of Obamacare, appointing justices like Scalia, unleashing the energy industry -- could be readily enacted.
On new trade treaties with China and Mexico, Trump might need economic nationalists in Bernie Sanders' party to stand with him, as free-trade Republicans stood by their K-Street contributors.
Still, compatible agendas and GOP self-interest could transcend personal animosities and make for a successful four years.
But consider what a Hillary Clinton presidency would be like.
She would enter office as the least-admired president in history, without a vision or a mandate. She would take office with two-thirds of the nation believing she is untruthful and untrustworthy.
Reports of poor health and lack of stamina may be exaggerated. Yet she moves like a woman her age. Unlike Ronald Reagan, her husband, Bill, and President Obama, she is not a natural political athlete and lacks the personal and rhetorical skills to move people to action.
She makes few mistakes as a debater, but she is often shrill -- when she is not boring. Trump is right: Hillary Clinton is tough as a $2 steak. But save for those close to her, she appears not to be a terribly likable person.
Still, such attributes, or the lack of them, do not assure a failed presidency. James Polk, no charmer, was a one-term president, but a great one, victorious in the Mexican War, annexing California and the Southwest, negotiating a fair division of the Oregon territory with the British.
Yet the hostility Clinton would face the day she takes office would almost seem to ensure four years of pure hell.
The reason: her credibility, or rather her transparent lack of it.
Consider. Because the tapes revealed he did not tell the full truth about when he learned about Watergate, Richard Nixon was forced to resign.
In the Iran-Contra affair, Reagan faced potential impeachment charges, until ex-security adviser John Poindexter testified that Reagan told the truth when he said he had not known of the secret transfer of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras.
Bill Clinton was impeached -- for lying.
White House scandals, as Nixon said in Watergate, are almost always rooted in mendacity -- not the misdeed, but the cover-up, the lies, the perjury, the obstruction of justice that follow.
And here Hillary Clinton seems to have an almost insoluble problem.
She has testified for hours to FBI agents investigating why and how her server was set up and whether secret information passed through it.
Forty times during her FBI interrogation, Clinton said she could not or did not recall. This writer has friends who went to prison for telling a grand jury, "I can't recall."
After studying her testimony and the contents of her emails, FBI Director James Comey virtually accused Clinton of lying.
Moreover, thousands of emails were erased from her server, even after she had reportedly been sent a subpoena from Congress to retain them.
During her first two years as secretary of state, half of her outside visitors were contributors to the Clinton Foundation.
Yet there was not a single quid pro quo, Clinton tells us.
Yesterday's newspapers exploded with reports of how Bill Clinton aide Doug Band raised money for the Clinton Foundation, and then hit up the same corporate contributors to pay huge fees for Bill's speeches.
What were the corporations buying if not influence? What were the foreign contributors buying, if not influence with an ex-president, and a secretary of state and possible future president?
Did none of the big donors receive any official favors?
"There's a lot of smoke and there's no fire," says Hillary Clinton.
Perhaps, but there seems to be more smoke every day.
If once or twice in her hours of testimony to the FBI, grand jury or before Congress, Clinton were proven to have lied, her Justice Department would be obligated to name a special prosecutor, as was Nixon's.
And, with the election over, the investigative reporters of the adversary press, Pulitzers beckoning, would be cut loose to go after her.
The Republican House is already gearing up for investigations that could last deep into Clinton's first term.
There is a vast trove of public and sworn testimony from Hillary, about the server, the emails, the erasures, the Clinton Foundation. Now, thanks to WikiLeaks, there are tens of thousands of emails to sift through, and perhaps tens of thousands more to come.
What are the odds that not one contains information that contradicts her sworn testimony? Cong. Jim Jordan contends that Clinton may already have perjured herself.
And as the full-court press would begin with her inauguration, Clinton would have to deal with the Syrians, Russians, Taliban, North Koreans and Xi Jinping in the South China Sea -- and with Bill Clinton wandering around the White House with nothing to do.
This election is not over. But if Hillary Clinton wins, a truly hellish presidency could await her, and us.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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HILLARY CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN MOTTO: I SERVE THE
RICH AND FOUNDATION DONORS FIRST AND ONLY!
Clinton: “I love having the support of real
billionaires”
By a reporter
28 October 2016
28 October 2016
In a speech Wednesday in Lake Worth, Florida, near West Palm
Beach, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gushed about her
support from the super-rich, praising her billionaire supporters and
contrasting them to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
An excerpt is worth quoting as a demonstration of the abject
subservience of the Democratic candidate to the capitalist financial
aristocracy. According to the transcript supplied by the Clinton campaign, she
said:
“You know, I love having the support of real billionaires.
And they’ve been speaking out, because Donald gives a bad name to billionaires.
“Warren Buffett says, ‘Raise my taxes. It’s wrong I’m paying
a lower tax rate than my secretary pays.’ That is wrong. He knows it. Mark
Cuban says every time he’s sold a company, he has shared the profits with his
employees, making 300 millionaires, from security guards all the way up to
executives. Mike Bloomberg says he knows a con artist when he sees one.
“So we can do better. We’re going to raise taxes on the
wealthy, because they’ve gotten most of the gains from the economy. And I don’t
think it’s right that Donald Trump, a guy who claims he’s worth $10 billion,
should have paid zero in federal incomes taxes for 20 years. He paid less taxes
than probably everybody else here.”
There is no recorded response to these remarks from Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, who claimed that his campaign for the Democratic
presidential nomination was to free the political system from the domination of
the “millionaires and billionaires.”
Now Sanders is engaged in a most demeaning—and
revealing—effort, barnstorming college campuses and other arenas to which he
has been assigned by the Clinton campaign, claiming that the election of
Hillary Clinton, the sycophant of billionaires, is the necessary next stage of
his “political revolution.”
HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS IN “GIFT” BRIBES NOT REPORTED
EXCLUSIVE:
Hillary Clinton failed to disclose $400,000 in pricey presents, private jets
and vacations gifted to Bill although she was obligated to do so as Secretary
of State
·
Clinton aide Doug Band claimed in a 2011
memo published by Wikileaks that he helped obtain free vacations and personal
travel for Bill Clinton
·
Hillary Clinton did not report any gifts
or travel reimbursements for herself or her spouse in her financial disclosure
filings while at State Department
·
National Legal and Policy Center says
failure to report certain gifts could violate the Ethics in Government
Act or the Federal False Statements Act
·
PUBLISHED: 28 October 2016
Hillary Clinton did not disclose ‘expensive gifts,’ free
vacations, and complimentary private jet travel her family received from
business interests while she was at the State Department, according to leaked
emails and federal disclosure records reviewed by the DailyMail.com
Long-time Clinton aide Doug Band claimed in a confidential 2011
memo published by Wikileaks this week that he helped obtain free vacations and
personal travel for Bill Clinton and his family as part of his duties.
During Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, she did
not report any gifts or travel reimbursements for herself or her spouse in her
financial disclosure filings.
‘In support of the President’s for-profit activity, we also have
solicited and obtained, as appropriate, in-kind services for the President and
his family – for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like,’ wrote
Band in the Nov. 16, 2011 memo to attorneys conducting an internal review of
the Clinton Foundation.
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During Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, she did
not report any gifts or travel reimbursements for herself or her spouse in her
financial disclosure filings
He added that his job involved ‘supporting [Bill Clinton’s]
family/personal needs (e.g., securing in-kind private airplane travel, in-kind
vacation stays, and supporting family business and personal needs).’
The memo did not say whether Hillary Clinton was one of Bill
Clinton’s family members who received vacations, gifts, or personal
travel.
Band did not respond to request for comment.
In November 2011, according to the memo, the telecommunications
company Ericsson agreed to give Bill Clinton $400,000 in private plane travel.
The company also paid the former president an additional $750,000 to speak at
its conference that month in Hong Kong.
It was the largest speaking fee Bill Clinton had received up until
that point, and with the added plane fare, the payment reached well over $1
million.
Although Hillary Clinton reported in her disclosure filings that
her husband received a $750,000 honorarium for the speech, she did not disclose
the additional $400,000 in private plane expenses from Ericsson in the spousal
income or gifts and reimbursements sections.
In another Nov. 17, 2011 email, Band complained that Bill Clinton
was not required to submit an internal conflict-of-interest disclosure form –
unlike other top officials at the Clinton Global Initiative – despite the fact
that the former president received ‘expensive gifts’ for his home from CGI
sponsors.
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Bill Clinton aide Doug Band claimed in a confidential 2011 memo
published by Wikileaks this week that he helped obtain free vacations and
personal travel for Bill Clinton and his family as part of his duties
Bill Clinton ‘does not have to sign such a document even though he
is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some
that are at home etc,’ wrote Band.
Hillary Clinton did not disclose any gift or travel expenses that
she or her husband received while at the State Department. The federal
disclosure form requires officials to report gifts to themselves or a spouse
totalling more than $350 from a single source, such as ‘tangible items,
transportation, lodging, food, or entertainment’ and ‘travel-related cash
reimbursements.’
However, a federal official does not have to disclose gifts to a
spouse that are ‘totally independent of their relationship’ – for example,
business-related benefits that a spouse receives from his employer. While many
of the companies involved in CGI and Bill Clinton’s for-profit business had
interests before the State Department, government ethics experts said it can be
difficult to determine whether a gift to a public official’s spouse is
connected to their relationship.
Band's memo revealed
that his job involved ‘supporting [Bill Clinton’s] family/personal needs (e.g.,
securing in-kind private airplane travel, in-kind vacation stays, and
supporting family business and personal needs)'
It is also unclear whether Hillary Clinton travelled on any of
these ‘personal trips’ and ‘in-kind vacations,’ which Band wrote were given to
Bill Clinton’s ‘family.’ The Clintons have a 36-year-old daughter, Chelsea, who
is also involved in the Clinton Foundation.
A spokesperson for Clinton’s campaign did not respond to request
for comment.
According to the National Legal and Policy Center, a government
watchdog group, failure to report certain gifts in a financial disclosure form
could violate the Ethics in Government Act or the Federal False Statements Act.
Federal laws ‘require full disclosure of such expensive gifts and
reimbursements when special interests use a spouse to target a government
official,’ said Ken Boehm, chairman of the NLPC.
‘The just-disclosed emails of Clinton associate Doug Band that
Bill Clinton and his family members benefitted from hundreds of thousands of
dollars in free travel and gifts from special interests while Hillary Clinton
was Secretary of State raises substantial ethical and legal issues because the
Financial Disclosure reports filed by Secretary Clinton does not show these
expensive gifts and reimbursements,’ said Boehm.
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