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Where is/can Hillary Clinton take US (sic)?
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And here is the reason why Hillary lost the election and made it so easy for Trump.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/busin...n/news-story/960207c475183eec89f6291889683c5c
THE Clinton family foundation turned out to be a liability for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But it wasn’t foreordained. Here’s how it happened.
After serving as Mitt Romney’s campaign manager in 2012, I formed an outside political group called America Rising tasked with doing opposition research on Ms Clinton.
She left the State Department in 2013 with sky-high favourable ratings, but we knew that popularity was the result of a general lack of scrutiny in the previous four years.
When we first started talking to reporters about the Clintons’ vulnerabilities, to their credit, they were almost always interested in the Clinton Foundation. Already, there were suspicions about the foundation unethically blurring the lines and bending the rules. The organisation represented the intersection of politics and money, the favourite topic of any good political reporter.
In August 2013, the New York Post broke a story showing the Clinton Foundation had spent $US50 million ($67 million) on private travel. Former President Bill Clinton had apparently become addicted to private jets. The general election was still more than three years away, and already the Clinton Foundation was transforming from a well-meaning charity to a private slush fund enriching the Clintons, making a mockery of Hillary’s claim the next year that her family was “dead broke.”
Uncovering this information was a challenge. Despite its lofty campaign promises about transparency, the Obama administration refused to co-operate with many of America Rising’s Freedom of Information Act requests.
Enter the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, whose president, Dave Bossie, went on to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy campaign manager. When our public-record requests for Ms Clinton’s State Department correspondence were denied, Mr Bossie took legal action, arguing that the public had a right to see this information.
The courts agreed, and the State Department started complying with the requests. We immediately understood why the Clinton forces took such pains to keep the correspondence from seeing the light of day.
One email chain showed Bill Clinton seeking permission from his wife to give a paid speech to the leaders of North Korea and Congo for a whopping $US650,000 ($877,000) fee that would be donated to the Clinton Foundation. Another email showed a major foundation donor with no national-security experience getting appointed to a highly sensitive government intelligence board.
As the emails dripped out, it became clear the Clintons were using their foundation to keep big financial supporters in place while laying the groundwork for her 2016 campaign.
Secretary Clinton’s painstaking efforts to conceal this information from the American public led her to conduct all her business on a private email server. In another twist of irony, her attempts to avoid public scrutiny caused the exact opposite and the national scandal she couldn’t shake.
The last few days of Ms Clinton’s campaign against GOP nominee Mr Trump were marked by a slew of negative headlines, including a new FBI investigation partially induced by the Clinton Foundation.
One-time Clinton loyalists were caught accusing Chelsea Clinton of using foundation funds to pay for her own wedding. Another damaging memo surfaced from a key Clinton confidante about the convergence of Bill Clinton’s business activities and the foundation’s fundraising goals, even using the term “Clinton Inc.”
On Election Day, 54 per cent of the American public had an unfavourable view of Ms Clinton. All of her scandals and controversies fell neatly into the buckets of untrustworthy, unethical and failed leadership we had been driving. The voters did the rest.
Matt Rhoades was the campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and founded the GOP super PAC America Rising and Definers Public Affairs.
This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/busin...n/news-story/960207c475183eec89f6291889683c5c
THE Clinton family foundation turned out to be a liability for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But it wasn’t foreordained. Here’s how it happened.
After serving as Mitt Romney’s campaign manager in 2012, I formed an outside political group called America Rising tasked with doing opposition research on Ms Clinton.
She left the State Department in 2013 with sky-high favourable ratings, but we knew that popularity was the result of a general lack of scrutiny in the previous four years.
When we first started talking to reporters about the Clintons’ vulnerabilities, to their credit, they were almost always interested in the Clinton Foundation. Already, there were suspicions about the foundation unethically blurring the lines and bending the rules. The organisation represented the intersection of politics and money, the favourite topic of any good political reporter.
In August 2013, the New York Post broke a story showing the Clinton Foundation had spent $US50 million ($67 million) on private travel. Former President Bill Clinton had apparently become addicted to private jets. The general election was still more than three years away, and already the Clinton Foundation was transforming from a well-meaning charity to a private slush fund enriching the Clintons, making a mockery of Hillary’s claim the next year that her family was “dead broke.”
Uncovering this information was a challenge. Despite its lofty campaign promises about transparency, the Obama administration refused to co-operate with many of America Rising’s Freedom of Information Act requests.
Enter the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, whose president, Dave Bossie, went on to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy campaign manager. When our public-record requests for Ms Clinton’s State Department correspondence were denied, Mr Bossie took legal action, arguing that the public had a right to see this information.
The courts agreed, and the State Department started complying with the requests. We immediately understood why the Clinton forces took such pains to keep the correspondence from seeing the light of day.
One email chain showed Bill Clinton seeking permission from his wife to give a paid speech to the leaders of North Korea and Congo for a whopping $US650,000 ($877,000) fee that would be donated to the Clinton Foundation. Another email showed a major foundation donor with no national-security experience getting appointed to a highly sensitive government intelligence board.
As the emails dripped out, it became clear the Clintons were using their foundation to keep big financial supporters in place while laying the groundwork for her 2016 campaign.
Secretary Clinton’s painstaking efforts to conceal this information from the American public led her to conduct all her business on a private email server. In another twist of irony, her attempts to avoid public scrutiny caused the exact opposite and the national scandal she couldn’t shake.
The last few days of Ms Clinton’s campaign against GOP nominee Mr Trump were marked by a slew of negative headlines, including a new FBI investigation partially induced by the Clinton Foundation.
One-time Clinton loyalists were caught accusing Chelsea Clinton of using foundation funds to pay for her own wedding. Another damaging memo surfaced from a key Clinton confidante about the convergence of Bill Clinton’s business activities and the foundation’s fundraising goals, even using the term “Clinton Inc.”
On Election Day, 54 per cent of the American public had an unfavourable view of Ms Clinton. All of her scandals and controversies fell neatly into the buckets of untrustworthy, unethical and failed leadership we had been driving. The voters did the rest.
Matt Rhoades was the campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and founded the GOP super PAC America Rising and Definers Public Affairs.
This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission.
Lets talk about Hillary for a change......Donald has had his share this week from the lefties.
What is really going to happen to Hillary and the Clinton foundation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQkccU_0zw
What is really going to happen to Hillary and the Clinton foundation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQkccU_0zw
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People such as Wall St bankers, big business, the sheiks and the common lobbyist who cared for the poor and downtrodden will, obviously, keep on donating.
I mean, Chelsea might be running for some US Congress seat in NY... that and the poor are still poor and needs their help.
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So you are saying a youtube video made by a Islamic thug activist friend of Gadaffi is bonafide credentials for Hillary going to jail? The same Gadaffi who founded the Jamahiriya socialist dictatorship"
You would hate the old 90's site "Back to Black" where they gave Louis Farrakhan the rounds of the table for his hate mongering and hysterical grooming of probably many ISIS fighters today. I can't believe you would stoop so low as to give this piece of sh17 any credibility, if in fact you did know he was a piece of sh17 islamist racist.
Julia Gillard donated more Australian tax payers fund to the Clinton Foundation than any other country.......It is only recently that the current government ceased any further donations.
http://www.hangthebankers.com/australian-taxpayers-donation-corrupt-clinton-foundation/
http://www.hangthebankers.com/australian-taxpayers-donation-corrupt-clinton-foundation/
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Brazile admits she forwarded town hall questions
to Clinton camp
Former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile admitted Friday that she forwarded Democratic primary town hall questions to members of Hillary Clinton's campaign – something she had previously denied.to Clinton camp
In an essay for Time published Friday, called “Russian DNC Narrative Played Out Exactly As They Hoped,” the Democratic strategist said she had in fact passed on topics, despite saying she had not when her communications with the campaign were leaked by WikiLeaks in October.
“In October, a subsequent release of emails revealed that among the many things I did in my role as a Democratic operative and D.N.C. Vice Chair prior to assuming the interim D.N.C. Chair position was to share potential town hall topics with the Clinton campaign,” she wrote.
In October, emails from Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta's account were released by WikiLeaks showing that Brazile – then a CNN contributor – had forwarded questions ahead of a March primary debate.
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and now...
Women abandoned me at the polls: Hillary
Hillary Clinton has accused women of abandoning her in the 2016 presidential election and claims female voters were more willing to take a risk on Donald Trump.
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Hillary would have been worse 
