Thread: Hillary’s Latest Scandal: She And Bill Siphoned $100 Mil From Mideast Leaders

Hillary’s Latest Scandal: She And Bill Siphoned $100 Mil From Mideast Leaders


A new report from the Daily Caller News Foundation says that Persian Gulf states and their leaders donated $100 million to HIllary and Bill Clinton's
controversial Clinton Family Foundation. (AP)

5/12/2016

Scandal: A new investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton took in at least $100 million from Middle East leaders. Can such a financially and ethically compromised candidate truly function as our nation’s leader?

The investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation has uncovered a disturbing pattern of the Clintons’ raising money for the Clinton Foundation from regimes that have checkered records on human rights and that aren’t always operating in the best interests of the U.S. By the way, the $100 million we mentioned above doesn’t appear to include another $30 million given to the Clintons by two Mideast-based foundations and four billionaire Saudis.

All told, it’s a lot of money.

“These regimes are buying access,” Patrick Poole, a national security analyst who regularly writes for PJ Media, told the DCNF. “You’ve got the Saudis. You’ve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE (United Arab Emirates). There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension.”

Well, maybe not, given that Clinton, during her four-year tenure as secretary of state, used a clearly illegal private email server which is now under investigation by the FBI. Her open e-mail system likely was hacked by Chinese, Russian and perhaps other spy agencies, say cyberespionage experts. Such negligence would seem to disqualify her from ever holding a sensitive foreign policy post in the government again.

Meanwhile, former U.S. Attorney Joseph E. diGenova told the Caller that he believes the FBI has launched a second, possibly more serious investigation into possible political corruption involving the Clinton Foundation. This is potentially explosive, given that the Clintons seem to have run their charity in a way that lines their own pockets.

The question is an open one: Did the oil-rich Mideast nations give lavishly to the Clinton Foundation in an effort to influence future U.S. policy? And what about Bill Clinton’s business partnership with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s authoritarian ruler, from 2003 to 2008? Clinton took away some $15 million in “guaranteed payments” from the deal, his tax records show.

A picture of extraordinary greed is emerging from both Clintons in the years after they hold the highest posts in the U.S. government.

In just the past three years, after her stint as the nation’s top diplomat, Hillary Clinton spoke to dozens of deep-pocket firms on Wall Street, typically charging $250,000 a pop to hear her wit and wisdom — despite her bitter condemnations of Wall Street during her campaign.

All told, she took in an estimated $22 million from these speeches — an extraordinary amount, given the growing consensus among foreign-policy thinkers that Clinton was one of the worst secretaries of state ever.

So why would Arab potentates and Wall Street magnates alike pony up so much money for the Clintons? Is it because they believe so strongly in the philanthropic mission of the Clinton Family Foundation? Or is it that they hoped to have influence on a future Hillary Clinton presidency, which would of course feature First Gentleman Bill Clinton?

Remember, a Hillary Clinton presidency once looked like a sure thing. Now, given the growing possibility that she could be charged for criminal negligence for putting secret material on a private server, or perhaps even be charged with corruption, Clinton has far more serious problems than just getting elected. Her biggest problem may be staying out of prison.

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EXPOSED! Guess Who Gave Bill And Hillary Clinton $100 Million?!

EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million [VIDEO]


RICHARD POLLOCK
Reporter

10:39 PM 05/11/2016

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.
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“These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis. You’ve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundation’s website

Activist groups have charged the five states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — committed numerous human rights abuses.
For years, the accusations have centered on the Persian Gulf practice of importing hundreds of thousands of poor foreign laborers who work for low wages, including hundreds of thousands of female “domestic workers” who have no labor rights and often face exploitation and sexual abuse.

The ongoing Clinton financial relationship with despotic Persian Gulf states could hurt Hillary as a supporter of labor rights and tarnish her image as a vigorous supporter of women.
Yet as secretary of state, Clinton consciously and actively sought to legitimize the sheikdoms through many new Department of State programs.

It’s unclear what kind of promises or concessions the Clintons may have given the monarchs in return for their lavish financial support over the years, but last month the candidate reversed her long-standing support for fracking.

Hillary’s new position, unveiled last month at a CNN presidential debate with Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, put her in alignment with the Gulf State policy that opposes North American oil and gas fracking.

The FBI has reportedly launched a second investigation of the former secretary in addition to its probe of her private email server. This investigation is looking into “political corruption” and is seeking evidence where former Secretary Clinton may have offered official government favors to foundation donors.

Most troubling for Hillary, however, could be Bill’s personal, five-year business partnership with Dubai’s authoritarian ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum and his overall friendship with the rulers of the United Arab Emirates — a confederation of states that includes Dubai.

When Bill personally wooed bin-Rashid to join him as a business partner through his Dubai Investment Group, the sheikh was the crown prince of Dubai.

During Bill’s partnership with bin-Rashid, his stature rose. He now is the undisputed ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of the UAE.

The former president and bin-Rashid did their private financial deals with a California-based private equity fund called Yucaipa Partners, which is owned by billionaire and Democratic funder Ron Burkle. The three became business partners and sought to create an offshore sovereign wealth fund for Yucaipa.

Clinton ended his partnership with the investment firm five years later, but not before pocketing at least $15 million in “guaranteed payments” from the company, according to his personal tax returns from 2003 to 2008. The former president allegedly received another $20 million of “walking away money” to leave the partnership, according to The Daily Beast.
Today, Bill is a regular visitor to Dubai. His friend bin-Rashid runs Dubai as an absolute monarchy where there are no elections. Human rights groups deplore the labor practices of both Dubai and the UAE for the exploitation of at least 250,000 foreign laborers.

The International Labor Organization (ILO), founded by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor after World War I and now organized labor’s main international labor body, has continued to criticize labor conditions in the Persian Gulf states.

Its 2016 “World Employment and Social Outlook” report stated the governments in the Persian Gulf use “forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and the worst forms of child labour”

“Given the heavy reliance on migrant workers, the risk of forced labour or trafficking in the Arab States cannot be ignored,” the ILO concluded.

A 2014 Human Rights Watch report also focused on the 146,000 female migrant workers who work in the United Arab Emirates. The human rights group charged the women “suffered abuses that amounted to forced labor and trafficking.”

Migrant workers are excluded from the country’s labor laws. “Domestic workers have virtually no legal safeguards governing their employment,” the activist group reported.
The Clinton Foundation’s ties go beyond support from governments. Four billionaire Saudis, along with groups the Dubai Foundation and Friends of Saudi Arabia, contributed another $30 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the foundation’s website.

Bill’s Dubai links run deeper than just his dealings with sheikhs. Between 2011 and 2014, he received $5.6 million from the Dubai-based company GEMS Education for serving as the “honorary chairman.”

The American University of Dubai has a William Jefferson Clinton Scholars program and the former president has been a frequent guest of the university.

When she was secretary of state, Hillary also strengthened the Clinton-UAE relationship. The State Department approved Bill’s speaking engagements to the UAE, which delivered $1.1 million to him in speaking fees.

In 2005, Bill personally advised Dubai on the controversial deal where the emirate would own six U.S. ports. The deal was vigorously opposed by intelligence officials who viewed the port as vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. Facing ferocious opposition in Congress, Dubai withdrew its effort to purchase the U.S. ports.

Arab reformers have harshly criticized Clinton’s State Department programs designed to bolster the image of the UAE and legitimize the fortunes of many monarchies in the gulf.
“The fruit of Clinton’s own policy basically empowered the old regimes,” charges Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and co-founder of the Muslim Reform movement.

Looking back at her four years as secretary of state, Jasser told TheDCNF, “I could not see anywhere where she empowered reformers.” He said Bill and Hillary are part of the “global establishment” that seeks the status quo.

“The ‘global establishment’ has suffocated the peoples of these countries for generations,” he told TheDCNF. “And Hillary Clinton is part of the global establishment of monarchs, autocrats and dictators.”

Hillary launched major initiatives that were welcomed by the UAE. In September 2012, she personally hosted at the State Department a conference attended by executives from 90 American companies, called the Global Infrastructure Conference. It was attended by eight top UAE leaders.

The former secretary also heavily promoted and spoke before a December 2012 State Department program called the “Third Global Entrepreneurship Summit with Entrepreneurial Ventures of Arabia,” which was held in the UAE. The Persian Gulf nation called the State Department’s conference, “UAE’s flagship platform for innovation.”

Her effort helped legitimize the UAE’s poor global image. A 2015 Freedom House report flatly ranked UAE as “not free.” On a scale where one was “best” and a seven “worst,” Freedom House ranked the UAE a six for civil liberties, political rights and overall freedom.

During Hillary’s term, the U.S. consulate in the UAE also organized with senior UAE officials a trade mission that traveled across the United States seeking U.S. investment.
In December 2011, Hillary personally led a U.S. delegation to the UAE and met bin-Rashid at his Zabeel Palace with UAE Foreign Minister and de facto leader Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Zayed family gave between $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the foundation’s web site.

The Clinton Foundation seems to have tolerated extremist Islamists in their Middle East offices. An Egyptian court sentenced a former top Clinton Foundation employee, Gehed el-Haddad, to life imprisonment in April 2015 for “inciting violence” and supporting an Islamist protest against the military-led ousting of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
From 2007 to 2012 el-Haddad was a Cairo city director of the Clinton Foundation in Egypt and ran its in-country office as well as directed communications.

El-Haddad had a well-known reputation for promoting radical Islam. He formally joined Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party in May 2011 as a senior adviser for foreign affairs, overlapping for more than a year during his tenure with the Clinton Foundation, according to his Linked-In social media page.

Clinton also could be doing the bidding for the Gulf States on domestic issues. As previously stated, she recently reversed her support for fracking and announced her opposition to it.
Hydraulic fracturing of shale has turned the United States from an importer of oil and gas to an exporter, which threatens oil producing states, but particularly oil producers such as Saudi Arabia and the gulf states.

A 2014 left-wing Mother Jones Magazine article lashed out at Clinton’s aggressive promotion of fracking overseas. “Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe,” it charged.

It was particularly critical of her convening a State Department shale oil conference in August 2010 that was closed to the press. “The media was barred from attending, and officials refused to reveal basic information, including which countries took part,” Mother Jones reported.

In a March 6 CNN debate, however, Clinton reversed her fracking position and laid out many conditions she would impose as president on the continuation of fracking.
“By the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place,” she told the audience.
Richard Rahn of the Institute for Global Economic Growth said he believes Hillary changed her tune on fracking in part to appease the sheikhs in the gulf.

“The Clinton’s always do everything in a calculated manner. ‘Ok, I go after fracking, why not go ahead and make my environmental friends happy, but at the same time reap the benefits from foreign source income by making my Sheikh’s happy,’” he told TheDCNF.

Dr. Steven J. Allen, vice president of the Capital Research Center, which monitors dark money flows to advocacy groups, agreed.

“Why would she take a position on fracking that would alienate people in places like Pennsylvania after it’s not plausible that Bernie could get the nomination,” Allen asked.
“The oil states in the Middle East would be interested in our not attaining energy independence. So fracking would be something they would be against and would be quite happy with her reversal,” he said.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton in March if she should shut down the Clinton Foundation. “Is there a case to be made, an ethical case to be made that the Clinton Foundation and the global initiative should essentially be wound down as a family foundation while you run for president,” she asked the Democratic candidate. “I think it is not unreasonable to suspect that people may give donations to The Clinton Foundation hoping that they will favorably influence your opinion toward them, as a presidential candidate, or eventually as president if you’re elected.”

Clinton sidestepped the question.

The Clinton campaign did not reply to an email request for comment from TheDCNF on its relationship with Persian Gulf leaders.


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EXPOSED! Guess Who Gave Bill And Hillary Clinton $100 Million?!

EXPOSED! Guess Who Gave Bill And Hillary Clinton
$100 Million?!


Kosar Featured Contributor



With conservative businessman Donald J. Trump winning the GOP nomination, it’s becoming likely that his opponent will be Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Hillary, who has been breaking laws during her four decades in politics, is shameless… just like her husband Bill. The Clinton Foundation was set up as a scam charity to receive funds from foreign governments in exchange for favors. There’s a reason why the Clintons could claim they were “broke” when they left the White House, and now they are multi-millionaires.

Now, a bombshell report confirms that Bill and Hillary Clinton received “at least $100 million” from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders!
How could Hillary Clinton, as President, defend America from Islamic terrorism and deal with the Middle East fairly? This is criminal:

As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.

“These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis. You’ve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.

Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundation’s website.

For years, the accusations have centered on the Persian Gulf practice of importing hundreds of thousands of poor foreign laborers who work for low wages, including hundreds of thousands of female “domestic workers” who have no labor rights and often face exploitation and sexual abuse.

The ongoing Clinton financial relationship with despotic Persian Gulf states could hurt Hillary as a supporter of labor rights and tarnish her image as a vigorous supporter of women.

Yet as secretary of state, Clinton consciously and actively sought to legitimize the sheikdoms through many new Department of State programs.

It’s unclear what kind of promises or concessions the Clintons may have given the monarchs in return for their lavish financial support over the years, but last month the candidate reversed her long-standing support for fracking.

Hillary’s new position, unveiled last month at a CNN presidential debate with Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, put her in alignment with the Gulf State policy that opposes North American oil and gas fracking.

After receiving millions of dollars, Hillary was willing to reverse her opinions on fracking, which would reduce America’s oil dependence on the Middle East. That sounds like more than a coincidence.

This is why the FBI has to finish their criminal investigation soon. It’s clear that Hillary Clinton’s illegal email server was a major part of this political corruption.

The Russian Kremlin already has 20,000 emails from the server after they were stolen by a hacker, and are threatening to release them. The American people deserve to know the truth!

Hillary’s husband Bill has a long-time friendship Dubai’s authoritarian ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum, and an overall friendship with the rulers of the United Arab Emirates — a confederation of states that includes Dubai.

This is why America needs a real leader in the White House. Donald Trump has been sounding the alarm about just how “crooked” Hillary really is. She deserves to be behind bars.

Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/e...#ixzz48yY2qYu7

Clinton Banked $6.7 Million From Paid Speeches in 2015

Justin Holcomb Posted: May 18, 2016 2:30 PM

Hillary and Bill Clinton brought in a combined total of $6.725 million in paid speeches in 2015, according to a personal financial disclosure form released late Tuesday night.

According to a document her campaign released last year, Clinton gave six paid speeches for a combined income of $1.475 million. One of her biggest pay days was a speech given to Ebay on March 3, 2015 for $315,000.

Bill proved to be the 'bread winner' of the pair by giving 22 paid speeches last year for a total of $5.25 million. Eleven of the speeches came after his wife announced her presidential bid.

In 2014, the Clintons made a combined $18 million from roughly 100 paid speeches to mostly large banking groups.

Clinton has taken heat from Democratic contestant Bernie Sanders for what he claims is the corruption between the elite politicians and Wall Street.

Clinton Banked $6.7 Million From Paid Speeches in 2015

Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight.

'Follow the money': Movie exposing secrets of how Clintons became rich after quitting the White House to be shown on eve of Hillary getting her party's nomination

'Clinton Cash' documentary is being screened at Cannes

Producers plan to air the blistering indictment on the eve of the Democratic National Convention - when she will be installed as candidate

Based on the book by the same name, the film links money given to Bill Clinton for paid speeches to decisions Hillary Clinton made at State

It also suggests all those contributions to the Clinton Foundation weren't pure altruism

They and were meant to get the Clintons to overlook human rights violations by unsavory world leaders, movie suggests

By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 16:32 GMT, 20 May 2016 | UPDATED: 16:45 GMT, 20 May 2016

Audiences in Cannes are getting a taste of the searing new documentary 'Clinton Cash,' which offers a harsh indictment of the paid speeches, personal favors, and personal enrichment that have accompanied Bill and Hillary Clinton through their decades in politics.

And if the movie-maker's wishes come true, so will Americans - the night before Clinton is formally named her party's White House candidate

The hour-long movie attempts to follow the money that has flowed toward Bill and Hillary Clinton since the former president left the White House, and suggests that much of it came from a cast of companies and countries seeking favorable treatment from the powerful pair.

Among the more damaging revelations in the film: out of 13 speeches ex-president Bill Clinton gave that earned more than $500,000 on the speaking circuit, 11 of them were during his wife's reign as secretary of state.

The film also probes the $1.4 million Bill Clinton got from a Nigerian newspaper to deliver two speeches in 2011 and 212, notwithstanding Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's human rights record.



'Clinton Cash' author Peter Schweizer narrates the new hour-long documentary of the same name, which
explores foreign influence on Hillary Clinton at the State Department through donations


The New York Times called 'Clinton Cash' 'the most anticipated and feared book' of the presidential election
cycle - and the movie will only make it bigger

It also also lays out unsavory dealings in South Sudan, the Democratic of the Congo, and Haiti, as it constructs at thesis that regimes and companies ingratiated themselves with the Clintons through charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation and by offering hefty speaking fees to the Clintons.

Then it looks at who among the Clintons' employers had something to gain, like TD Bank, a company that backed the Keystone XL pipeline and payed $2 million for Bill Clinton speeches.

The film doesn't present hard evidence of an illegal quid pro quo, but it lays out a torrent of information for viewers to consider, and throws in images of blood-stained cash to drive the point home.

As if on cue, Hillary Clinton released a personal financial disclosure form this week that reveals she got $5 million in royalties from her 2014 book and $1.5 million in speaking fees in 2015 as she was gearing up to run for president.

Based on the book by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer, the film connects the dots between donations to the Clinton Foundation or given to the ex-president for paid speeches and decisions Hillary Clinton made while being secretary of state.

'Cronyism and self-enrichment are a bipartisan affair, and Hillary and Bill Clinton have perfected them on a global scale,' Schweizer says in the film.



Peter Schweizer's book and documentary links donations coming into the Clinton Foundation, along with money
given to Bill Clinton for paid speeches, into policy moves Hillary Clinton made at the State Department



The film is being shopped around at Cannes for a distributor, while the creators are looking toward a television deal too.

The plan is to air the documentary the night before this summer's Democratic National convention – at precisely the time Hillary will be trying to recover from persistent attacks by rival Bernie Sanders that she is beholden to corporate interests.

The film follows the same storylines as Schweizer's 'Clinton Cash' book, which was released right as Hillary Clinton was getting on the campaign trail last year.

At the time Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul, who was also seeking the highest office, called it 'big news' that will 'shock people.'

The New York Times said it was 'proving to be the most anticipated and feared book' of the presidential cycle thus far.

Schweizer narrates the hour-long documentary and says his investigation of the Clintons basically followed what he called the 'oldest adage in American politics.'

'Follow the money,' he noted.

While the Clintons were 'dead broke' upon leaving the White House, as Hillary Clinton once said, the couple brought in at least $136.5 million between 2001 and 2012.

Speaking fees helped pay the bills, but what was notable, Schweizer pointed out, was that while Bill Clinton had been out of office for nearly a decade, all of the sudden his speaking fees skyrocketed.



The issue that's most familiar to Americans is that of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which Hillary Clinton signed
off on after one of the pipeline's major stakeholders paid her husband $2 million for speeches



The documentary Clinton Cash connects the dots between Hillary Clinton's 'shocking' approval of the Keystone
XL Pipeline and money given to her husband by a major stakeholder to speak

The reason? Hillary Clinton was just announced as President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of state.

The author noted that of the 13 speeches in his career that fetched the ex-president more than $500,000, 11 of them were during his wife's reign as secretary of state.

Politifact, for the record, rated this accounting as true.

From there, Schweizer looked at who was giving money to Bill Clinton, either for paid speeches or to the Clinton Foundation, and then whether those donors ever got anything in return from Hillary Clinton's State Department.

The example that's likely the most familiar to Americans revolves around the Keystone XL Pipeline project.

TD Bank, which had a stake in the pipeline project going through, had never sponsored a Bill Clinton speech before, but then suddenly moved $2 million his way.

At the same time, Schweizer pointed out, the State Department had to approve the project.



The documentary also looks at some of the unsavory allies the Clintons have made around the globe, in part
because those people are enriching the Clinton Foundation

Hillary Clinton soon decided to support the pipeline delaying the Obama's rejection of it.

'It was shocking,' Schweizer noted in the film. 'Organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were stunned, they wanted investigations, but everybody was mystified.'

'Nobody could understand why Hillary Clinton would sign off on this deal, particularly when she had been in favor of dealing with climate change and her boss, Barack Obama, by all indications, seemed to be opposed to this deal as well,' the writer added.

In another instance, Bill Clinton is paid $750,000 by the Swedish telecom company Ericsson, which was in trouble by the U.S. for selling equipment to Iran.

A week later, the documentary points out, the State Department ruled that Ericsson and other companies were off the hook and could provide oversight to themselves.

Beyond those cases, Clinton Cash explores some of the Clintons unsavory alliances in Africa, especially in countries where the leaders are known for civil rights abuses and corruption.

It also details the Clintons dealings in Haiti after the country's disastrous 2010 earthquake, calling what occurred 'disaster capitalism.'

'Follow the money': Movie exposing secrets of how Clintons became rich after quitting the White House to be shown on eve of Hillary getting her party's nomination

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