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Post 26 Jul 2016, 2:40 pm

And I would respect those who vote their conscience more than those who vote Mrs. Clinton.
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Post 26 Jul 2016, 8:56 pm

bbauska,

I'm not so sure about Hilary's innocence in how the DNC handled the process. I wouldn't be so quick to assume. Remember, there are 30,000 missing emails.

The WikiLeaks (Russians?) plan to release more DNC emails this week and again over the Labor Day weekend. I have to wonder if at least the Russians were able to capture some or all of the missing 30,000 emails? Maybe the Russians succeeded where the FBI was doomed to fail. I bet the criminal's lawyers who wiped her home server are shaking in their boots by now.

What a sword of Damocles to be hanging over the convention and campaign.
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Post 10 Aug 2016, 7:56 am

Always an optimist....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQq3hs_lXpY

So now an illegal, illicit and immoral war that she supported is a business opportunity? If this weren't so shameful and such a blatant and insensitive insult to all those Iraqis who lost loved ones as a result of our invasion and occupation, I might be tempted to think she was human.
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Post 10 Aug 2016, 11:11 am

Nothing to see here, move on.

And putting cash in the pocket of the person in power should be a disqualifying event for said candidate. The Daily Caller followed a string of e-mails to show how Bill Clinton scored speaking fees while the State Department went out of its way to benefit a big Clinton Foundation benefactor:

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly defended an embattled banker during an official visit to Bangladesh while Clinton Foundation officials tried to steer money from an Abu Dhabi oil company into the banker’s coffers.

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation traced the convoluted payment by TAQA — formally known as the the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company — to Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank. Yunus is a long-time friend and Clinton Foundation donor.

The oil company deal eventually put as much as $500,000 into President Bill Clinton’s pockets via a speaking fee he got in Scotland. …

The emails show foundation officials were trying to complete a deal offered by TAQA managing director Leo Koot in Scotland. He agreed to give $60,000 to the foundation for Bill to speak at a Scotland charity and auction. The winner of the auction was to get a “Special Day with President Bill Clinton in New York.”

The foundation accepted the $60,000, and Bill went to Scotland where he received an additional $250,000 to $500,000 for his speech before a group called “Business For Change,” according to the Foundation’s website. The black tie dinner was to raise funds for Yunus and his Grameen Bank.

Yunus is a long-time friend of the Clinton’s, going back to Bill’s time as governor of Arkansas. He has often been a featured speaker at the annual Clinton Global Initiative celebrity galas in New York. His Grameen America foundation donated between $100,000 to $250,000, according to the Clinton Foundation website.


That’s hardly the only bombshell waiting to explode from the Clinton Foundation files. The Uranium One deal not only personally benefited the Clintons, it moved control of much of the US’ uranium assets into the hands of the Russians. The deal even had connections to the Marc Rich pardon, an astounding act of corruption at the end of the Clinton administration.

And guess who that connection was? Good ol’ Gilbert Chagoury, Marc Rich’s partner:

Rich died in 2013. But his business partners, lawyers, advisers and friends have showered millions of dollars on the Clintons in the decade and a half following the scandal.

Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is well known as a close ally and business associate of Rich. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the “Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe.” They sold oil on international markets together. In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva of money laundering and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the reign of dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

As part of a plea deal, the conviction was later expunged.

Chagoury has been very generous to the Clintons in the years following the Rich pardon. He has organized an event at which Bill was paid $100,000 to speak (in 2003), donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and in 2009 pledged a cool $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. The Chagourys were also active in Hillary’s 2008 presidential bid. Michel Chaghouri, a relative in Los Angeles, was a bundler and served on her campaign staff. Numerous other relatives gave the maximum $4,600 each to her campaign.


Now, in any normal political cycle, these would indeed be bombshells. So far, though, Republicans — including the Donald Trump campaign — have barely mentioned the Clinton Foundation and its smelly commingling of Clintonian personal wealth, political ambition, and moneyed interests. Instead, the Trump campaign has showed almost non-existent message discipline while providing the media more than enough material to excuse their lack of interest into the potential corruption of the State Department for the Clintons’ personal pecuniary gain.

It’s time to shine a much brighter light on these connections — and time is definitely running out to do so.


The dots are all there.