Former President Bill Clinton used tax dollars from a decades-old federal program to subsidize the Clinton Foundation and support his wife’s private email server, according to a Politico report published Thursday.
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The program supplemented the income of his staff, it said, lifting pressure off Clinton-linked entities.
Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment – including servers – housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The blurred lines among the government, political, private and charitable facets of their lives are more reasons for Bill and Hillary Clinton’s skeptics to say they can’t be trusted.
That wasn’t a problem for the Clintons, who cashed in after his time in office with huge paydays for speeches to various groups.
Even worse, it also appears that Bill Clinton soaked the taxpayers for more than any other living ex-president having taken $16 million from the GSA fund. The act provides compensation for former presidents, including money to pay staff and other costs associated with the duties of an ex-president, like a pension and travel costs.
Politico’s report comes just two weeks after news broke that Obama’s Justice Department had ignored calls from the FBI to investigate potential corrupt ties between Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation, after three separate Federal Bureau of Investigation field officies found evidence of a pay-to-play relationship in which top Clinton donors received special access to Cinton and State Department officials while the former First Lady was Secretary of State.
Although the investigation does not reveal any illegal activities, Politico reported, it offers additional insight into the ties between the non-profit foundation, the U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton’s leadership and aides’ business dealings – relationships which have plagued the former secretary of state’s Democratic White House run in recent weeks.
Ratcliffe noted that when he questioned Lynch about Clinton’s use of a private email server last month, Lynch would not rule out future employment in a Clinton administration. Vogel added that aides told him that at times, the Foundation staff and the staff of the former president overlap and the database is where the two camps meet.
Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted that the story was “egregiously false” on Thursday morning.
And one Twitter user had a very good pint about Hillary’s email server if it was paid for with tax money…
Roughly 17 percent, meanwhile, remain undecided on the relationship between the Clintons and their foundation.
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The vice president went on to say that he expects the foundation to stop accepting foreign donations if Mrs. Clinton becomes president.
