Hillary Clinton and her scandals

[jimnyc]

Some want to poke at all of the republican candidates. The debates thus far have been used to try and force fights between them, or ask petty questions. When it was time for a democrat debate, it was played with kid gloves and giving Hillary a break. Is anyone going to ask the tough questions? EVER? And why not? Why does the Clinton family get free passes, and so often? Trump has the money, and damnit, even if he has to give it to another candidate if he starts going down the tubes. Play this stuff over and over and over. Make sure the public is aware. The MSM is trying their best to ensure these kind of things just are never discussed.

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Bernie Sanders Should Address All of Clinton's Scandals, Not Just the FBI's Email Investigation

Polling trajectory still shows Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination. In U.S. history, there has never been a president elected by American voters who possessed the negative favorability ratings of Hillary Clinton. According to CNN, 57% of Americans find Clinton "not honest and trustworthy" and one CNN poll states 55% of Americans have an "unfavorable" view of Clinton. Ironically, every one of the polls citing Clinton's enormous lead also show that voters don't trust the former Secretary of State; a reality that undermines each of these poll results.

Even without ongoing controversy surrounding emails, I explain that Hillary Clinton is unelectable due to negative favorability ratings in this Huffington Post article and in the following YouTube segment.

Bernie Sanders has every right to address the ongoing FBI investigation of Clinton's emails, as well as every other controversy linked to the former Secretary of State. While Clinton tried to turn Sanders into Ted Nugent during the first debate, and even accused him of sexism, it's within fair play to address relevant issues with Clinton's wisdom and judgment. At least with Sanders, he won't have to make anything up, since all of these controversies are widely publicized.

On Google, "Hillary Clinton email" is the second set of search words that pop up after "Hillary Clinton."

The average American couldn't get a job if a resume read that emails were being investigated by the FBI, so the Vermont Senator should address this controversy.

In addition, Sanders should address all of Clinton's controversies, from foreign donors to weapons deals and other issues. There's a lot to work with, and to ignore the obvious won't help Democrats or the future of our nation. This is a presidential race and Sanders would only be addressing relevant issues with judgement, not "going negative."

Not everything is Benghazi. The FBI isn't part of the GOP. My motivation to write and vote only for Bernie Sanders is explained in this YouTube segment. I'm not getting paid by the Sanders campaign. For the record, I have a great deal of respect for everything Hillary Clinton has accomplished, however I have serious concerns about ongoing scandals and other issues pertaining to a possible Clinton presidency.

rest - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-should-address-all-of-clintons-scandals_b_8486818.html

[jimnyc]

5 Hillary scandals the media is missing

Hillary Clinton can condemn Republicans as her “enemies,” dismiss the Veterans Administration scandal as “not widespread,” and get caught lying about what she knew about Benghazi and when she knew it — but the mainstream media doesn’t seem to give a damn.

They’ve ignored those stories in favor of articles about how Hillary has come through her email scandal with flying colors. They’ve crowned her as her party’s presidential nominee three months before the first primary caucus. And they’ve given her a pass on all the other scandals that tarnished her tenure as secretary of state.

This is exactly what Sen. Marco Rubio meant when he said: “The Democrats have the ultimate Super PAC: It’s called the mainstream media.”

It’s about time these reporters got serious about covering Hillary and redeemed their reputation.

With that in mind, I hereby offer a guide to five Hillary stories that haven’t gotten the proper coverage they deserve.

1. The Clinton Foundation scandal

In my book “Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary,” I interviewed people who had firsthand knowledge of Hillary’s unethical — and perhaps illegal — conflict of interest between her official role as secretary of state and her private interests in the Clinton Foundation.

One of these people, a veteran Foreign Service officer, described a trip on the secretary of state’s Air Force C-32. “Hillary took along stacks of papers in manila folders that were marked ‘CF’ and ‘CGO’ — the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative,” this person said. “They had dividers labeled ‘Donations,’ ‘Fund Raising,’ ‘AIDS/HIV,’ ‘Haiti,’ and so forth.”

Another interviewee, an intern at Foggy Bottom, described how he was ordered to gather up Clinton Foundation fundraising papers strewn all over Hillary’s conference table after a meeting. Among those who attended that meeting about foundation business were Hillary’s chief aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.

2. The uranium sale scandal

During her time at the State Department, Hillary voted to approve the sale of more than 20 percent of the United States’ uranium production capacity to Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy agency.

While the deal was going through, the company behind the uranium sale made four donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling $2.5 million. And shortly before the deal was finalized, Bill Clinton was invited to Moscow, where he was paid $500,000 to give a speech.

In total, Bill Clinton made almost $48 million in speaking fees while his wife was secretary of state.

3. The younger brother scandal

While Hillary was secretary of state, her younger brother, Tony Rodham, was appointed to the advisory board of VCS Mining, a US-based company that received a gold-mining contract in Haiti.

At the time, Bill Clinton was the UN special envoy to Haiti, and Hillary had a decisive say over America’s multimillion-dollar relief efforts in that earthquake-ravaged country.

Tony Rodham admitted that he met the chief executive of VCS Mining at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. “I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Tony told a reporter. “That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials. I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from.”

4. The son-in-law scandal

Bill and Hillary were never enthusiastic about Chelsea’s 2010 marriage to Marc Mezvinksy, whose father, Edward, spent 80 months in prison for bank, mail and wire fraud. But when Chelsea announced she was pregnant in the spring of 2014, the Clintons’ attitude toward Marc underwent a noticeable change.

Marc became more than a friend of the Clinton family; he was now a friend with benefits. He met with a series of wealthy investors who had close ties to Bill and Hillary, including Lloyd C. Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, which had paid Bill millions of dollars for speeches. Some of the moneymen who invested heavily in Marc’s hedge fund, Eaglevale Partners, lost their shirts when his investments in Greek bank stocks went bust.

5. Hillary’s health scandal

This past summer, Hillary’s campaign released a report from her personal physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, which said that Hillary had recovered from a concussion and a blot clot on her brain that caused her to faint in 2012. But that was not the whole story.

In fact, Hillary’s uncertain health — including blinding headaches, dizziness, and a trembling in her hands — has forced her to cancel several meetings and cut back on her campaign schedule.

She tells friends that her doctors can’t find any definitive problem, but Bill Clinton is so worried about her health situation that he urged her to travel with a full-time doctor to prevent another fainting spell, which could doom her campaign for president.

http://nypost.com/2015/11/02/5-hillary-scandals-the-media-is-missing/

[jimnyc]

10 Scandals Involving Hillary Clinton You May Have Forgotten

Hillary Clinton has been involved in scandals before. Here are some notable ones you may have forgotten.

Chinagate - The Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 allegedly took bribes from Chinese banks and their government to help their dwindling poll numbers. The Chinese embassy in D.C. helped siphon funds into the DNC. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (who was killed in a plane crash), and at Hillary’s instruction reportedly sold seats on department trade missions to China. Joint congressional hearings were canceled after Democrats threatened to bring up Republican campaign issues and then Monica Lewinsky actually saved this scandal from media attention.

Travelgate Scandal - Catherine Cornelius, a 25-year-old cousin of Bill's was allegedly promised the position of director of the travel office. Hillary Clinton then (indirectly) fired seven employees from the United States travel office and replaced them with associates from Arkansas. Records were either nowhere to be found or incorrectly filed. And, there's a reported attempt to give a White House airline contract to friend. Hillary had the FBI investigate Billy Dale, the head of the travel office, ruining his career who was found to do nothing wrong, but was then audited by the IRS for three years after.

"Billy Dale and his family went through hell thanks to the Clintons, Attorney General Janet Reno, the FBI and the IRS," Irvine wrote. "Hillary's greatest crime was not perjury, it was trying to send an innocent man to prison to justify having fired him and his staff without cause."

“A memorandum by a former Presidential aide depicts Hillary Rodham Clinton as the central figure in the 1993 travel office dismissals, a politically damaging episode that the aide said had resulted from a climate of fear in which officials did not dare question Mrs. Clinton's wishes," wrote the NYT in 1996.

Whitewater Scandal - Hillary and her husband were partners in a shady real estate development firm called Whitewater Development Corp in Arkansas. Accusations of impropriety against the Clintons and others soon surfaced, regarding improper campaign contributions, political and financial favors, and tax benefits. Clinton’s friends and majority owners, James and Susan McDougal were jailed for fraud, Clinton's successor, Governor Jim Tucker, was jailed for fraud along with municipal judges David Hale and Eugene Fitzhugh who worked with James McDougal. The Clintons walked away unscathed, having apparently done nothing wrong.

See Whitewater Timeline.

Vince Foster Jr. Mystery - Questions cloud the suicide of Vince Foster, former colleague, friend, and White House aid of Hillary’s who had connections to Travelgate, and the Whitewater scandals. Read the link above entitled "The Man Who Knew too Much. . ."

Filegate Scandal - Craig Livingstone, director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security "improperly" accessed FBI files on several hundred individuals.

Mrs. Clinton called it a, "completely honest bureaucratic snafu."

Many of these files were on people from previous Republican administrations. Hillary Clinton hired Livingston and is alleged to have looked at the files and requested this move. She was accused by Republicans of violating privacy rights of individuals she viewed as political adversaries.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/10-scandals-involving-hillary-clinton-you-may-have-forgotten#.iu5no8e:6iKY