Hillary’s Certainly Not ‘Dead Broke’ After Leaving State
Hillary Clinton made waves in June when she claimed to have been “dead broke” when she and Bill left the White House. Regardless of the merits of that dubious assertion, she’s not broke now – not by a long shot. Bloomberg reports, “Hillary Clinton has earned at least $12 million in 16 months since leaving the State Department, a windfall at odds with her party’s call to shrink the gap between the rich and the poor.” And just a reminder: Bill Clinton “has been paid almost $106 million in speaking fees alone since he left the White House.” Bloomberg adds, “Her earnings represent a fraction of the Clinton family’s total income and yet were large enough to rank her not only in the top 1 percent of the nation’s earners but in the top one-hundredth of the 1 percent.” That’s going to make her class warfare garbage harder to sell. More…
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