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.
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.
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.
2008: Hillary Clinton
Warned ‘If I Am the President, We Will Attack Iran’ to Defend Israel
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Failed
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned in 2008 that she was prepared to
“obliterate” Iran if it produced a nuclear weapon and promised to retaliate if
the country launched a nuclear attack on Israel.
Clips of Clinton’s rhetoric resurfaced after social media users
protested President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Quds force
commander Qasem Soleimani which resulted in retaliatory airstrikes from Iran on
Tuesday night.
The hashtag #IvotedforHillaryClinton trended on Twitter on
Wednesday morning, a trend that Clinton participated in with a taunting gif.
But Clinton may have forgotten her own hawkish rhetoric during
the 2008 primary.
Ahead of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary that April, Hillary
Clinton was asked by Good Morning America what she would do if Israel was
attacked by Iran.
“If Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, what would
our response be?” Clinton said in an interview with then-host Chris Cuomo. “I
want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran.
That’s what we will do. There is no safe haven.”
She also warned that if Iran developed a nuclear weapon, the
United States had the power to “totally obliterate” the country.
“Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear
weapons program in the next 10 years during which they may foolishly consider
launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,”
she said.
She admitted that her comment was “terrible” but said it was
important to “deter” Iran from attacking Israel.
“That’s a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran
need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing
something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic,” she added.
At the time, Sen. Barack Obama criticized Clinton for sounding
like a warmonger.
“It’s not the language we need right now, and I think it’s
language reflective of George Bush,” Obama said in an interview with
NBC’s Meet the Press afterwards.
After he was elected president, Obama pursued a policy of
appeasement with Iran after appointing Clinton as Secretary of State. But
Clinton left the administration prior to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran,
leaving Secretary of State John Kerry to complete the deal.
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.
More Trouble For The Clintons: FBI Raids The
Home of DOJ Whistleblower Who Ratted on The
Clinton Foundation
FBI
agents spent six hours raiding the home of Department of Justice whistleblower
Dennis Nathan Cain on Nov. 19th. According to Cain's lawyer, he was in
possession of documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One.
He had handed them over to the DOJ’s inspector general and both the House and
Senate Intelligence committees, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
From The Daily Caller:
The Justice
Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that
federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom,
the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The
Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.
The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert
Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to
Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Although
Cain handed over the documents, the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras,
said the raid was excessive and went against whistleblower protections.
“The
bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the
Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” Socarras told The DCNF.
A
special agent from the FBI's Baltimore division believed Cain had stolen
federal property and demanded to be let into the house. Cain let the agent know
that he was protected under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection
Act and that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz recognized
his whistleblower status. He also made the agent aware that he had submitted
the classified information to the Senate and House Intelligence committees. At
that point the special agent in charge of the sting direct 16 other agents to
begin a sweep Cain's property.
Cain
immediately handed over the documents to the FBI out of fear. Despite having
the documents, the FBI continued their raid.
“After
asking and getting my approval to do so, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz had a member
of his staff physically take Mr. Cain’s classified document disclosure to the
House and Senate Intelligence committees,” Socarras said. “For the bureau to
show up at Mr. Cain’s home suggesting that those same documents are stolen
federal property, and then proceed to seize copies of the same documents after
being told at the house door that he is a legally protected whistleblower who
gave them to Congress, is an outrageous disregard of the law."
Cain
came across the classified information while working for a government
contractor. Under whistleblower protections, the inspector general is to share
that information with the attorney general. At that time, the attorney general was
Jeff Sessions.
“The
[whistleblower act] authorizes employees of contractors to take government
property and give it to the two intelligence committees confidentially,”
Socarras said.
Here's
how the information was handed off:
Cain met with a
senior member of Horowitz’s office at a church close to the White House to
deliver the documents to the IG, according to Socarras.
Cain sat in a pew with a hoodie and sun glasses, Socarras said.
Cain held a double-sealed envelope containing a flash drive with the documents.
The IG official met him and, without saying a word, took the pouch over Cain’s
shoulder and left.
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