NBC’s Kristen Welker (along with CBS and Telemundo) reported that the couple “donated just over $1 million to charity – virtually all of it to the Clinton Foundation”. “Cheryl paid for her travel to New York City personally, and it was crystal clear to all involved that this had nothing to do with her official duties”.
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Hillary Clinton is at the center of an global corruption scandal that reveals her use of government authority and influence for personal gain. More than 10 million dollars. After the conclave was reported, Lynch denied that she and the former president discussed the email investigation. That said, there was little to suggest real wrongdoing, until an International Business Times investigation from May of 2015, found that donors to the foundation appeared to receive special treatment by Hillary Clinton’s State Department in the form of weapons deals. That is a higher tax rate than the one they registered in between 2007 and 2014. Wall Street firms UBS and Goldman Sachs paid both Clintons to speak that year.
“It violates the commitment Secretary Clinton made to Congress and the Executive Branch following her nomination to be Secretary of State”. Over 60% of the Clintons’ $10.6 million income comes from speeches.
“It’s called pay for play”, Trump said.
CHIP REID: Hillary and Bill Clinton, filing jointly, made about $10.7 million past year. She earned nothing in speaking fees in 2012, while at the State Department. “Vetting Romney’s Million in Charity” is another.
As it turns out, 96 percent of the Clintons’ 2015 charitable donations went to the Clinton Family Foundation, a tax-exempt charity owned by the Clintons but separate from the well-known Clinton Foundation.
“There are people who spent their lifetimes advancing national security who believe she’s the only person that you can trust”, Clinton said. They pulled in $10.6 million in 2015, much less than the almost $28 million they made the year before.
Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, released their tax returns on Thursday in an effort to pressure the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, into doing the same. “This [email release] does feed into the narrative out there that the Clintons in general don’t think that the rules apply to them, and can’t understand why anybody would ever question their ethics or their integrity”, said Tapper. When everybody does it – okay, I will do it. “This is exactly why the American public has lost trust in the USA government and is ready to elect an outsider like Donald Trump”.
Here’s ABC’s Cecilia Vega now.
We don’t know Trump’s income or tax obligation, of course, since he has so far refused to release his tax returns.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE (from Hillary Clinton campaign video): But if you didn’t see the tax returns, you’d think there’s nearly, like, something wrong – what’s wrong?
Of the $10.6 million Hillary and Bill Clinton earned previous year, they gave more than $1 million to charity, according to a tax filing released by the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign Friday.
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Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch released the 44 new email exchanges which it says were not in the original 30,000 handed over to the State Department, despite the Democratic presidential nominee’s claims she turned over all work-related emails amid the now-closed probe into her private server use. Further, Rodham is described by Eder as stating that he had to “lean” on his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to even get the rebuilding project for Haiti funded.
