ONLY THE OBOMBS AND
GRIFTERS HILLARY AND BILLARY HAVE LOOTED THE COUNTRY AS MUCH AS THE BUSH CRIME
FAMILY!
The perilous ramifications of the September 11 attacks on the
United States are only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt
for generations to come. This is one of many sad conclusions readers will draw
from Craig Unger's exceptional book House of Bush House of Saud: The Secret Relationship
Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. As Unger claims in this incisive study, the seeds for the
"Age of Terrorism" and September 11 were planted nearly 30 years ago
in what, at the time, appeared to be savvy business transactions that
subsequently translated into political currency and the union between the Saudi
royal family and the extended political family of George H. W. Bush.
Ben Freeman: Foreign Money Flowing into Washington Keeps U.S. in Prolonged Wars
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The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy (CRFP) sponsored the following post.
Foreign money flowing into Washington is keeping the United States in prolonged wars, and most Americans are not even aware of it, according to Dr. Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy.
“Right now, U.S. foreign policy is for sale — not to the lowest bidder, but to the highest bidder. War is a business. And our wars are not our own. They never have been,” he said Wednesday at an event in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Committee for a Responsible Foreign Policy.
Freeman and his team researched for six months Saudi Arabia’s 2017 lobbying activities in Washington, DC, including meetings, emails, contacts with journalists, and political campaign contributions, and the potential effect those activities had on foreign policy.
They found that Saudi Arabia had hired more than two dozen firms in that year with more than a hundred agents working on their behalf. In 2017, those agents had more than 2,500 contacts during this time, the majority of them with members of the Senate, news media, and the House–in that order.
Freeman said many of the contacts were related to arms sales, foreign military sales, and some of the votes that were held to stymie those arms sales. He said sometimes the lobbying is done by former members of Congress who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby former colleagues.
“Every time there is a vote on arms sales or anything related to Yemen, this lobby goes bananas,” he said. “And we can see the activity on the days that there are these votes. In some cases, they visit almost every single office on the day of those votes.”
Freeman said they also found more than $2.2 million in 2017 campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans. The list was a “who’s who” in the Democrat and Republican Party, he said.
The top Saudi campaign contributions were to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, totaling $94,496 because some donations in late 2016 were included, he said. He said Trump got “a little over $10,000” from Saudi Arabia.
And they found 12 instances where contact with a lobbyist pushing for or against a vote and a campaign contribution happened on the same day.
“In other words, a lobbying firm walks into a member of Congress’s office and says, ‘I need you to vote a certain way on this upcoming vote on an arms sale,’ and then later that day … they say, ‘Oh, by the way, here’s a $2,000 check to your campaign. Good luck on re-election, buddy,'” Freeman said.
He said the number of contacts expands exponentially if the time window is expanded, for example, to two weeks before a vote.
“The influence is absolutely pervasive, [and] there’s a lot more influence that we’re not even capturing,” he said.
To test how contacts and campaign contributions influenced a vote, Freeman and his team looked at the November 2018 Senate vote on the resolution to end the war in Yemen, which passed 63 to 37.
Freeman said 30 of those 37 who voted against ending the war had received campaign contributions from Saudi Arabia in 2017, with some receiving as much as tens of thousands of dollars. He said even more money went to them in 2018, close to certain votes.
“There’s a strong correlation between the way these folks vote and the money that’s coming in, and it’s directly tied to our issues of war and peace,” he said.
He said they also found that a “big crux” of Saudi Arabia’s lobbying effort was public relations.
They found 744 times that lobbyists, or “foreign agents,” for Saudi Arabia contacted media organizations in 2017.
“This is something that flies under the radar for a lot of folks that are looking at foreign influence,” he said. “And the interesting thing about these 744 contacts is that they don’t pick and choose. … They contact left-wing media and right-wing media.”
He stated that they also contact local media to shape stories at the local level, that they even contacted ESPN six times.
Freeman said they would begin looking at the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
He said Saudi Arabia and the UAE are “often working to the same purpose — to promote U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. They’re lobbying against Iran. They’re lobbying for arms sales for their countries, more U.S. military equipment, more U.S. militarization in the Middle East, more of us propping up their defense at our expense in a lot of cases.”
But Freeman asserted that foreign lobbying efforts were not unique to Saudi Arabia or the UAE. In fact, he said, the countries where the U.S. has foreign bases spend most of the money to lobby the U.S. to keep them there — almost half-a-billion dollars each year, not including unregistered foreign agents.
Those countries, which include Germany, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Bermuda, want to make sure American troops stay on their soil to ensure that America continues to subsidize their security, he said.
Think tanks and universities are also top recipients of foreign contributions, he said.
“There is so much foreign money pouring in to think tanks in America,” and “there’s no disclosure” over how much a think-tank expert may be paid by a foreign country to promote a certain point of view, he said.
“It’s a dark space in terms of transparency,” he said.
At American universities all over the country, China has set up “Confucius Institutes” in exchange for agreements not to criticize China, he said. China has spent more than $486 million in contributions to universities since 2012.
“We need a lot more transparency there so we know when our sons and daughters are going to university, what they’re getting, and is that coming from a foreign government or not?” he added.
He appealed to Americans to help “flip the iceberg” of foreign influence in America.
“We know very little about foreign influence in America. What we do know is that it leads to greater U.S. militarization in the world, it keeps involved in wars longer than it probably should, it leads to more military bases abroad, [and] increases the likelihood of our involvement in all these ongoing conflicts in the world,” he said.
“And it just generally increases the amount of spending to the American taxpayer–in many cases, in ways that are decidedly not in the American interest, that are in foreign interests,” he said. “We need to flip the iceberg.”
The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy is a 501(c)(4) organization with the mission of pursuing a more restrained foreign policy that adheres to the Constitution. The organization aims to increase awareness of Congress’ Article I responsibility to oversee war. For more information on CRFP, please visit http://responsibleforeignpolicy.org.
Images
of 9/11: A Visual Remembrance
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The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real
time. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror wreaked that day by Islamic
jihadists and the heroism of ordinary Americans. In our effort to never
forget, Breitbart News provides you a visual remembrance of that fateful
day when the world changed.
Just
six days before — the view of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center
at sunset taken on September 5, 2001. (Jamie Squire /Allsport)
The Islamic hijackers on
American Airlines Flight 11 crash it into the north tower of the World Trade
Center (1 WTC) at 8:46am.
The first five minutes of
cable coverage.
United
Airlines Flight 175 approaches the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/ William
Kratzke)
At
9:03am, the Islamic hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 crash it into
the south tower of the World Trade Center (2 WTC). (AP Photo/Carmen
Taylor/File)
A
fireball explodes from the south tower. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor)
Smoke
billows from the north tower of the World Trade Center and flames and
debris explode from the south tower. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)
(AP
Photo/Todd Hollis)
(AP
Photo/ABC via APTN)
Plumes
of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
President
Bush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into his ear: “A second plane has
hit the second tower. America is under attack.” Bush was visiting Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
(AP Photo/Doug Mills)
(Photo
by Fabina Sbina/ Hugh Zareasky/Getty Images)
(Photo
by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Debris
fall from one of the burning twin towers (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Smoke
pours from the World Trade Center after both planes strike. (Photo by Robert
Giroux/Getty Images)
People
watching the burning towers from the street below. (Getty Images)
People
hang out of broken windows of the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Richard Pecorella has spent years searching for an image he says will bring him
peace: a photograph that proves his fiancee, whom he believes could be in this
photo, jumped to her death from the burning World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Amy
Sancetta)
A
man leaps to his death from a fire and smoke filled Tower One of the World
Trade Center. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
A
person jumps from smoke and flames at the World Trade Center. (Robert
Giroux/Getty Images)
People
in front of New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral react with horror as they look
down Fifth Ave towards the World Trade Center towers. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
A
man jumps from the north tower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A person falls headfirst from
the north tower. This image inspired a documentary. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A
woman cries watching the World Trade Center go up in flames. (Photo by
Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
At
9:37am, the Islamic hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 crashed it into
the Pentagon. In this photo, a helicopter flies over the Pentagon the
crash site. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim)
A
helicopter flies over the burning Pentagon. The Washington Monument can be seen
at right, through the smoke. The White House roof is visible in the trees of
Washington at left. (AP Photo/Tom Horan)
Vehicles
are seen traveling on Interstate 395, leaving Washington, in front of the
Pentagon. (AP Photo/Tom Horan)
Rescue
workers look over damage at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Kamneko Pajic)
At
9:45am, the FAA ordered the United States airspace shut down. No civilian
flight was allowed to take off and all aircraft in the air were ordered to
land at the nearest airport. In this photo a screen at the American Airlines
terminal at Los Angeles International Airport shows that all flights have been
canceled as the airport is shutdown. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
A
board at the Los Angeles Airport announces the closing of the airport. (GERARD
BURKHART/AFP/Getty Images)
At
9:58am, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. (AP
Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
The
south tower collapsing. The Millenium Hilton hotel is in foreground. (AP
Photo/Amy Sancetta)
The
south tower collapses. (AP Photo/Jim Collins)
(Photo
by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
(AP
Photo/Richard Drew)
The
south tower collapses. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
People
flee the falling south tower. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
At
10:03am, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania. In this photo, officials examine the crater at the crash site.
Were it not for the heroism of the passengers who stormed the cockpit, the
Islamic hijackers would have crashed the plane into either the United
States Capitol dome or the White House. (DAVID MAXWELL/AFP/Getty Images)
This
photo of the north tower of the World Trade Center shows the building 30
seconds before its collapse at 10:28am. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
People
run from the collapse of one of the twin towers. (AP Photo/FILE/Suzanne
Plunkett)
This
is a view of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn after the World Trade Center
towers collapsed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Smoke
rises from the New York skyline. (JOHN MOTTERN/AFP/Getty Images)
(AP
Photo/Louis Lanzano)
(Photo
by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Flags
fly at half-staff at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. as a large
cloud of smoke billows from the fire at the World Trade Center. (AP
Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
Thick
smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty where the
World Trade Center towers stood. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
The
Statue of Liberty stands as smoke rises from the World Trade Center. (AP
Photo/Stuart Ramson)
The
remains of the World Trade Center stands amid the debris. (AP Photo/Alexandre
Fuchs)
People
run from the debris of the collapsed towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
Pedestrians
on Beekman St. flee the area of the collapsed World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Amy
Sancetta,FILE)
Survivors
make their way through smoke, dust and debris on Fulton St., about a block from
the collapsed towers. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova,FILE)
Marcy
Borders covered in dust as she takes refuge in an office building after one of
the World Trade Center towers collapsed in New York. Borders was caught outside
on the street as the cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the area. (STAN
HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
A
police officer helps a woman to a bus after she fled the area near the World
Trade Center towers. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
People
flee the collapsing World Trade Center. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Dust
swirls around south Manhattan moments after a tower of the World Trade Center
collapsed. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Police
escort a civilian from the scene. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
People
walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings
collapsed. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
People
evacuate the area around the World Trade Center. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty
Images)
(Getty
Images)
(Photo
by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
A
car sits on its side amid rubble at the World Trade Center. (Photo by Ron
Agam/Getty Images)
Cars
are covered in rubble after the collapse of one of towers. (DOUG
KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
The
debris and wreckage. (Getty Images)
A
man walks through the rubble. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward
Fine covering his mouth as he walks through the debris after the collapse of
one of the World Trade Center Towers. Fine was on the 78th floor of 1 World
Trade Center when it was hit. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
A
man helps evacuate a woman through rubble and debris. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty
Images)
An
unidentified New York City firefighter walks away from Ground Zero after the
collapse of the Twin Towers. (Photo by Anthony Correia/Getty Images)
People
cover their faces as they move across the Brooklyn Bridge out of the smoke and
dust in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
People
flee lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
Pedestrians
crossing the Brooklyn Bridge as they flee Manhattan after the collapse of the
south tower. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
Traffic
in Washington, DC, gets gridlocked, as US government workers are released and
the city is shutdown following the attacks. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)
President
Bush watches television as he talks on the phone with New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani and New York Gov. George Pataki aboard Air Force One. (AP Photo/Doug
Mills)
President
Bush talks with Chief of Staff Andrew Card aboard Air Force One during a flight
to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
An
F-16 fighter flies just off the wing of Air Force One on a flight back to
Washington. (DOUG MILLS/AFP/Getty Images)
A
trader outside the London Stock Exchange reads the evening paper with “Terror
war on USA” on the front page. (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)
Newspaper
vendor Carlos Mercado sells the “Extra” edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
(SCOTT OLSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Deputy
U.S. marshal Dominic Guadagnoli helps a women after she was injured in the
attack on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
A
shell of what was once part of the facade of one of the twin towers rises above
the rubble that remains after both towers collapsed. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
New
York City firefighters rest during rescue operations at the World Trade Center.
(Ron Agam/Getty Images)
New
York City firefighters’ search and rescue efforts at the World Trade Center.
(Ron Agam/Getty Images)
New
York City firefighters take a rest from rescue operations. (Photo by Ron
Agam/Getty Images)
An
unidentified New York City firefighter walks away from Ground Zero after the
collapse of the Twin Towers. (Anthony Correia/Getty Images)
Rescue
workers make their way through the rubble of the World Trade Center. (DOUG
KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
An
exhausted police officer rests on a car covered in dust near the World Trade
Center. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Late
afternoon, smoke rises in the distance before the Long Island and the Throgs
Neck Bridge between the Bronx and Queens, NY, following the destruction of the
Twin Towers (MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images)
Smoke
billows from where the World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood, as evening
descends on the City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Patricia
Petrowitz falls to her knees in prayer in Seattle’s St. James Cathedral during
a prayer service on September 11, 2001. The Cathedral was filled to standing
room only. (Tim Matsui/Getty Images)
Kellog
Metcalf closes his eyes during the prayer service in Seattle’s St. James
Cathedral. (Tim Matsui/Getty Images)
From
front left: Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. Trent Lott,
R-Miss., Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Senate Majority
Leader, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Rep. Richard Gephardt, House
Minority Leader, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and other Congressional members
stand together on the steps of the Capitol to show unity on the evening of
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in Washington. They sang “God Bless America.” (AP
Photo/Kenneth Lambert)
President
George W. Bush walks down the steps of Air Force One as he arrives at Andrews
Air Force Base in Maryland. (DOUG MILLS/AFP/Getty Images)
President
Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office on the evening of September 11.
(AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Volunteers
donate blood at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, at a blood
donation station set up to help victims of the World Trade Center attack.
Sadly, the donations were largely unnecessary because there were so few
survivors rescued from the collapsed towers. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
In
the days that followed, people returned to Ground Zero with photos of their
loved ones, searching for any news of their whereabouts. In this September 13,
2001 photograph, a woman poses with a picture of a missing loved one who was
last seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In
this September 15, 2001 photograph, a woman poses with a picture of a missing
loved one who was last seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Charlie Krupa)
A
woman is comforted as she holds a picture of a missing loved one who was last
seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
(AP
Photo/Kathy Willens)
(AP
Photo/Kathy Willens)
A
woman looks at missing person posters of victims from the World Trade Center
attacks.(AP Photo/Robert Spencer)
During
9/11, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became America’s mayor. In this
photo, he consoles Anita Deblase, of New York, whose son, James Deblase, 44,
was missing, at the site of the World Trade Center disaster. “He’s at the
bottom of the rubble,” she said. James Deblase worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Military
and fire personnel get set to unfurl a large American flag on the roof of the
Pentagon, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Firefighters
unfurl an American flag from the roof of the Pentagon Wednesday, Sept. 12,
2001. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
A
makeshift altar, constructed for a worship service, overlooks the the crash
site of United Airlines Flight 93, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, in Shanksville, Pa.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
An
American flag is posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center on Thursday,
Sept. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)
The
massive clean-up efforts at Ground Zero spanned months. Among the rubble,
a cast iron cross was found rising out of the destruction at the
World Trade Center. The cross fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building
Six on Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Pool)
On
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001, rescue and construction workers gathered around Father
Brian Jordan, second from left, who blessed the cross of steel beams found
amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center by a laborer two days after the
collapse of the Twin Towers. (AP Photo/Pool, Kathy Willens)
And over the years, the country rebuilt and the memorials arose…
On
July 23, 2011, Father Brian Jordan and former New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani look on during a blessing of the World Trade Center cross before it
was moved into its permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
On
May 15, 2014, President Barack Obama speaks during the dedication ceremony at
the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty
Images)
On
May 15, 2014, the South reflecting pool is viewed at the Ground Zero memorial
site during the dedication ceremony of the National September 11 Memorial
Museum. The museum spans seven stories, mostly underground, and contains
artifacts from the attack on the World Trade Center Towers on September 11,
2001 that include the 80 ft high tridents, the so-called “Ground Zero Cross,”
the destroyed remains of Company 21’s New York Fire Department Engine as well
as smaller items such as a letter that fell from a hijacked plane and posters
of missing loved ones projected onto the wall of the museum. (Spencer
Platt/Getty Images)
On
May 15, 2014, a rose is placed on a name engraved along the South reflecting
pool at the Ground Zero memorial site during the dedication ceremony. (Spencer
Platt/Getty Images)
On
May 15, 2014, a quote from Virgil fills a wall of the museum prior to the
dedication ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (John
Munson-Pool/Getty Images)
On
May 21, 2015, the National 9/11 Flag is displayed for the first time at the
National September 11 Memorial Museum. The flag was recovered nearly destroyed
from Ground Zero and was restored in “stitching ceremonies” held across the
country. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
On
October 29, 2014, One Word Trade Center as seen from the 9/11 Memorial grounds
where the fallen towers once stood. (Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP Images)
On
September 11, 2016, people visit the Pentagon’s 9/11 Memorial Park in
Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
On
September 9, 2018, people attend the dedication stand around the 93-foot tall
Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,
where the tower contains 40 wind chimes representing the 40 people that
perished in the crash of Flight 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
On
September 10, 2018, this is the Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National
Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where thousands of victims’ relatives,
survivors, rescuers and others are expected at Tuesday’s September 11
Anniversary ceremony. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plan
to join an observance there tower honoring victims. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Bill
And Hillary Tour Underwhelms In Ticket Sales, Attendance
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/01/bill-hillary-tour-underwhelms-ticket-sales-attendance/
Bill
and Hillary Clinton have taken their show on the road. Ticket sales for “An
Evening with the Clintons” are not what they once might have been, according to
all reports. With stops deliberately booked in what are assumed to be
Clinton-friendly cities, the aging power couple seems to be having trouble
filling seats.
It’s
not exactly a whirlwind tour. The schedule is downright lethargic in the
beginning. The first stop on November 27 was in Toronto, Canada with a stop the
next night in Montreal. The next stop on
the schedule is
Houston on December 4. In light of the passing of former President George H.W.
Bush, that date may be canceled or changed. But, that’s all there is to the
tour until 2019. They start back up in April 2019 in New York City and continue
through May, ending in Las Vegas on May 5. Does anyone else think it’s odd
that a former U.S. president and a former Secretary of State began a
self-promoting tour in Canada? Maybe it’s just me.
The
venue in Toronto only sold 3,300 tickets. Whole sections of the arena were
empty. I checked the website for ticket prices and for
the Houston stop, the cheap seats go for $15.00 and the most expensive ticket
price I could find was $1146.00. That’s a real bargain, especially
compared to the book tour events (it’s not just a book tour, they are events)
scheduled for former First Lady Michelle Obama. The high-end prices for the Michelle tour go for $10,000. That is
what I found and it’s not a stop in Houston but in Dallas at the American
Airlines Center. The Clinton venue in Houston is smaller.
Anyway,
you won’t be surprised to read that a good bit of the Clinton question and
answer conversation centers around her bitterness toward President Trump. He
lives rent-free in her head.
And
the former secretary of state was prepared to mock Trump’s interview with the
Washington Post just hours after it published, shaking her head at Trump
telling the paper “my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can
ever tell me.”
You “literally you can’t make
this stuff up,” she said. “A dozen times a day your head is spinning.”< And
near the end of the event, Hillary Clinton returned to Trump's gut, criticizing
him for saying he does not "believe" a recently released dire
government report on climate change. "It just riles me up," she said.
"If you won't listen to people who actually spend time over decades
studying problems, my goodness, your gut is not the answer to everything that
is important in the world, I'm sorry."
The
tour comes at a time when speculation is strong on whether or not Hillary will
actually make another attempt at a presidential run. She joked about standing
for Parliament in Canada when asked about any plans to run but you know she’s
thinking about. I don’t think she ever stops thinking about it. She’s consumed
with anger that Donald Trump won. While the next generation of Democrats is
ready to move up, the Clintons (especially Hillary) refuse to leave the stage.
It’s no wonder ticket sales are slow. Why would anyone pay money to listen to
them when almost any day an interview or quote is available in print or on
television? It’s not like either of them are saying anything new.
Also,
there’s the re-emergence of Monica Lewinsky. She’s been telling her story after
all these years. Don’t expect either Clinton to be asked about that whole
scandal, though. It’s not happening. The former horndog-in-chief
still gets a pass on the difficult questions.
But the kickoff comes at a
tenuous time for the Clintons: Not only is their standing in the Democratic
Party in question after neither was particularly prolific during the midterms,
but the event comes amid a renewed focus on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica
Lewinsky, a moment in history that has gained more attention recently because
of a multi-part series on the affair on A&E and other retrospectives. The
Lewinsky affair and other allegations against of sexual impropriety Bill
Clinton are also being re-examined in the light of the #MeToo era.
One topic that Hillary is quick
to criticize President Trump on is his relationship with Saudia Arabia. It’s
ironic given the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to state that they will no longer
accept financial donations from
The Kingdom as others have.
“We
have a president who is part of the cover-up as to what happened in that
consulate or embassy when Mr. Khashoggi was murdered,” Clinton said. “And we
have a president and those closest to him who have their own personal
commercial interests.”
But the Clinton Foundation, to
which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken
multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t
ruling out continuing to accept them.
The
Clinton Foundation accepted between
$10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as
late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was
reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the
kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.
Implying
corruption about the sitting president in business dealings is probably not the
best idea. She and her husband have a legacy
of corruption. She
should just sit that conversation out.
Harry Reid Exposes Greatest Liberal Scam of All-Time
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What's in the news day and night? The wall.
It's all anyone talks about or thinks about or debates. Have you heard? The U.S. government is partially shut down over the wall.
But it's all a massive liberal scam. A Ponzi scheme. Pure fraud. Bernie Madoff couldn't come up with a better scam.
Because the same liberal politicians and donors who scream about the "racism" and "immorality" and "ineffectiveness" of a wall all live behind walls.
President Trump needs to buy TV infomercial time and run a 30-minute TV show in a Ross Perot fashion -- featuring aerial views of the mansions and estates of liberals, protected by walls, gates, and armed guards. You know, the exact same protections they don't want you and me or our children to have.
Exhibit A is Harry Reid, the Democratic former Senate Majority Leader from my home state of Nevada.
Please ignore the advertising slogan "What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas." It's not true. Las Vegas is the crossroads of America. What happens here is happening everywhere. And I've uncovered the biggest liberal scam in America -- going on right here in Las Vegas.
It revolves around my home community in Henderson. I live in the exclusive Anthem Country Club. There are about 1,500 beautiful homes behind the gates of Anthem. Together, these homes are worth around $1 billion -- in just one country club in one Las Vegas suburb.
What's the amazing appeal of Anthem Country Club? It's got a big beautiful wall around it. And thick iron gates in front are protected by armed guards. The result? There is virtually no crime inside walled, gated, armed Anthem.
Life is good behind the gates of Anthem.
In the rest of Las Vegas ... not so much. In the rest of Vegas ... lots of crime, gang bangers, drugs, car-jackings, and home invasion robberies. Proving walls and gates and lots of armed guards are a good thing if you want your family to be safe.
But wait. My Anthem community recently added yet another feature to keep our residents safe. Every vehicle entering our gates must show a government-issued photo ID or they will be denied entry.
Guess who's my neighbor, just steps away from my home? Former Sen. Harry Reid. The one and only. He could have chosen anywhere in Nevada or America to retire. But he didn't. He chose the protection of fortress Anthem for his family.
There are many lessons we can learn from studying Anthem Country Club.
Lesson No. 1: If you want your family and children to be safe, BUILD A WALL -- preferably a wall that is also surrounded by armed guards. The Vatican understands this lesson. Every celebrity in Hollywood understands. All the wealthy politicians in Washington, D.C., understand. All the big-shot media executives understand. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and George Soros all understand. Barbara Streisand, George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Madonna all understand. They are protected by big walls, sturdy gates, and armed guards.
Lesson No. 2: Liberal Democrats are hypocrites. All the liberal bigmouths who denigrate the wall live behind walls and gates. None is a better example than Reid, former chief water carrier and bottle washer of President Barack Obama. Reid spent his entire Senate career fighting viciously against a wall. Reid argued walls were terrible and unnecessary things.
So, why did Harry choose Anthem? Because he loves his family. That's why we all want a wall at America's southern border. To protect our country and our children from bad people, drugs, disease, and violent crime. Welcome to the neighborhood, Harry. Can I bring a cake by?
Lesson No. 3: Liberals lie about everything. Liberals don't just use walls to separate themselves from the very poor and illegal alien voters they count on to elect them. They use limos and private jets and send their children to lily-white private schools where they'll never be around gangbangers or illegal aliens or Muslim refugees or disease.
Lesson No. 4: Guns must not be as bad as liberals claim. Because liberals may argue against gun ownership, but at the same time, they have armed guards protect them.
Lesson No. 5: The argument against voter identification is a total scam. How do all those gardeners, maids and pool cleaners drive through the gates of Anthem every day? The answer: They all already have a government-issued photo ID. So I guess it's a lie when liberal politicians claim that poor people and minorities don't have a photo ID or that it's too difficult for them to get or that it's "racist" to ask them for it.
Voter ID is an issue because liberals want election fraud. They can't win without it. They want illegals to be able to vote by the millions for Democrats.
Folks, we're being scammed. But not just any scam. This is the greatest scam of all time. Anthem, my beautiful, safe community, is the proof. What happens here in the suburbs of Vegas, is happening everywhere.
My advice? BUILD THE WALL.
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