I’ve written before about the Clintoon Foundation’s “interesting” financial dealings. In fact, I’ve observed – on more than one occasion – that appearances indicate there could well be a “pay for play” component to the Clintoon Foundation’s dealings while Clintoon was SECSTATE.
Well the news today to me seems, as Alice said in Wonderland might have put it, “Curioser and curioser”.
While Clintoon was SECSTATE, it turns out her chief-of-staff Cheryl Mills was in reasonably frequent contact with top executives at the Clintoon Foundaton. “Reasonably frequent” here translates to 148 phone messages for Mills from senior Clintoon Foundation executives over a 2 –year period (2010-2012). State Department phone logs show that no other private individual or concern came anywhere close in terms of the number of contacts with Mills over this period.
Further, regarding Mills there’s also this:
Last week, the State Department acknowledged that in June 2012, Mills spent two days traveling to New York to interview job applicants at the foundation. The State Department said Mills “volunteered” to do so, but neither the department nor a spokesman for the Clinton presidential campaign, nor Mills’s attorney, would say whether Mills used annual leave or unpaid days to perform that work – or whether it was done on the taxpayers’ time.
If that was done while Mills was “on the clock” as a Federal employee, that means it was done on taxpayer’s nickle. If so, yeah – IMO that’s a serious problem on multiple levels. Ditto if taxpayers funded Mills’ travel.
Moreover, some additional and previously unreleased email involving Clintoon confidante and protégé Huma Abedin has also come to light. What it contains is similarly quite disturbing.
Specifically, the public interest group Judicial Watch obtained a number of Abedin’s emails recently. Collectively, these emails show a pattern of high-dollar donors to the Clintoon Foundation receiving expedited access to the SECSTATE. Abedin appears to have been instrumental in coordinating that expedited access.
. . . the messages show Clinton aide Huma Abedin “provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state.” The documents include exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.
You can view the 725 pages of Abedin email recently released by Judicial Watch here if you like.
IMO, that’s disturbing as hell. It appears to bolster the theory that Clintoon was engaging in “quid quo pro” trading of official influence (as SECSTATE) for contributions to the Clintoon foundation.
And that’s not all, either. It appears a total of over 150 non-government officials representing private concerns met with Clintoon while she was SECSTATE. The exact number appears to have been 154.
So, how many of those private individuals have perchance “donated” to the Clintoon Foundation? Glad you asked.
Of those 154 private individuals, 85 – or over 55% of those individuals representing private concerns – also “dontated” to the Clintoon Foundation. At least 40 of those individuals – or nearly 26% –“donated” in excess of $100k. And 20 of them – or roughly 13% – “dontated” $1M or more.
That makes the lower limit for those “dontations” somewhere north of $22M. It’s estimated that the total “dontated” could be over $150M.
One extreme case was that of the the Crown Prince of Bahrain, who had previously contributed $32M to the Clintoon Foundation for a “scholarship fund”. That individual was given virtually immediate access to Clintoon in terms of getting a personal meeting with her after contacting Abedin.
After seeing all of that, well, it’s kinda hard to avoid the conclusion that there’s a damn good chance that “pay for play” is indeed exactly what was going on. Circumstantial? Yeah, it is. But here, the circumstances seem persuasive as hell.
Even so, Clintoon has her weak-minded sycophants incapable of facing ugly reality defenders. Predictably, both Clintoon and her defenders say that occurrences such as these are “coincidental”.
Yeah, right. And Al Capone was just a savvy businessman in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, too.
Clintoon and her cronies might want to remember one thing, though. Capone didn’t go to jail for racketeering.
He ended up in prison because investigators “followed the money”.
(Edited to Add: here’s an article from Yahoo News giving more details. I don’t recommend you read it immediately after eating.)
Author’s Note: new or occasional readers may notice the spelling “Clintoon” and assume that is a typographical error. It is not. That is intentional.
In behavior, both famous Clintoons are IMO exemplars of the stereotypical corrupt politician – and are such compelling exemplars that they appear to be near-cartoonish representations of same. (However, though each is IMO thoroughly corrupted they do appear to be corrupted in different ways.) Thus, referring to them as “Clintoons” simply seems apropos.
