by Jack
One of the many things to come up in Trump’s speech yesterday was an allegation that Bill Clinton made a quid quo pro deal with Sweden’s telephone maker, Ericsson for $700,000 in [speaking] fees. In return Hillary (then Secretary of State) would soften the U.S. sanctions on Iran. This would allow the Swedish company to do business there while others couldn’t.
Trump was saying the Clinton foundation and the Clinton’s themselves received over $100M in questionable [speaking] fees from 2001 thru 2014. Bernie Sanders had railed on big money donations and phony speaker fees as just another way politicians sell influence. He accused Mrs. Clinton of taking such money and at one point she responded by saying she wasn’t doing anything illegal and she further defended herself by saying everyone in Washington does it. She said she was playing by the rules and when the rules change then she would change.
Trump’s latest speech sounded a lot more presidential. As long as he stays on script and doesn’t try to ad lib too much, his speaking style will probably be ok. He certainly drop a lot of bombs on the Clinton campaign and so far Hillary has not had any response to the charges. “I didn’t either” does not qualify as a response.
“Trump’s latest speech sounded a lot more presidential.”
You’re kidding me, right?
Jack, I’ve noticed this grammar error in a lot of your titles lately: there is no apostrophes needed in “Clintons.” Apostrophes signify possessive nouns or contractions, not plural nouns.
There isn’t a shred of evidence for Trump’s Ericsson “quid pro quo” allegations:
Ericsson ERIC -0.13% did pay Bill Clinton $750,000 while Hillary was Secretary of State, but the assertion that the company faced sanctions isn’t entirely true. Yes, the SEC did send Ericsson a letter in 2010 asking it to explain the nature of its operations in Iran, but Ericsson’s response makes it clear that the business it did in Iran was for commercial rather than for military purposes.
The book is unable to show any evidence that the State Department wanted to quash the business Ericsson was doing in Iran prior to Bill Clinton’s speech. In fact, there is evidence that the Clinton State Department and the rest of the Obama Administration wanted to spread the use of communications technology—like that which Ericsson provides—in Iran, in order to help dissidents combat oppressive governments.
But even if the payment from Ericsson didn’t end up affecting policy (and we can’t say for sure either way), it was probably not a good idea for Bill Clinton to accept money from a company who had business in front of the State Department while his wife was running it.
http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/donald-trump-crooked-hillary/
The fact checkers have had a field day with Trump’s speech. He told lie after lie after lie. He said once again that he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, which is a proven falsehood. He lied when he said the US is the most highly taxed nation in the world. He lied when he said “For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.” He lied when he said Clinton was asleep during the Benghazi attack. He lied when he said there is no way to screen refugees. And this is just the shortlist; a quick Google search wil turn up even more lies he told in today’s speech.
And this is what you call “presidential?”
I understand you want a rehabilitation for Trump since he is your likely nominee. But there is no rehabilitation possible for Trump at this point. The only way out of this is if Trump quits or the establishment just says “No, we will pick a different nominee, regardless of the votes.” Barring an extreme circumstance, Hillary Clinton is going to win.
Re : “Barring an extreme circumstance, Hillary Clinton is going to win. and the rest of the Chris cra*.
Dear Chris,
Hillary is what you consider to be “presidential?” No surprises there.
Trump does not need to be “rehabilitated” he only needs to win. I agree — at this point it appears that Hillary is going to win — but only because ideological progressive nitwit scum like you, ignorant or just plain stupid — will vote for this thoroughly corrupt and unindicted criminal.
This is neither “extreme” nor a “circumstance”, Hillary is a bag of **** that you will vote for. This is you, this is her. This is the Rat party. This is progressives.
Stopped by my local Ford Dealership this morning to look for a new truck. I saw a nice F-350 crew cab loaded with all the options that I liked and asked to take it for a test drive.
The salesperson (a lady wearing a Hillary for President lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat next to me, describing the truck and all its options. She explained that the Electric Seats were connected to the ventilation system and could be set to direct cool air to your butt in the summer & warm air to your butt in the winter.
So I mentioned that this must be a “Trump truck”. She looked at me a bit angry, and asked why I thought it was a Trump truck. I told her that if it were a Hillary truck, the seats would just blow smoke up my ass year round.
The two mile walk back to the dealership to pick up my truck was worth it.
Thank you Harold. I am laughing still. I hope you enjoyed the walk. That is the best way to clear progressive and Rat smoke.
Dismissal flavor of the week? Flippant sarcasm…how they do go on.
Let’s see. This is what passes for honesty and credibility for the woman our progressive friends call presidential material: I can’t recall, I don’t know, I don’t remember… (everything but gee golly whiz (250 times); a vast right-wing conspiracy, bimbo eruptions!
One of the first astonishing achievements (Harold recalled): $100,000 in profit within 9 months on a $1,000 investment in the volatile cattle futures market. Her story: she just studied the WSJ. The odds for her success were figured at 1 in 250 million.
Many miles of bad road and a lot more since.
Defiance and anger when our government has the audacity to question her and hold her accountable after Americans were left stranded to die in Benghazi. It was a video doncha know, a spontaneous protest.
Conservative American has the full archive. A sampling from the 16-17 pages:
So many miles of bad road. Time to build a wall to keep the Clintons OUT!
Americans were not “left stranded to die in Benghazi.” If you are going to call someone else a liar, don’t tell a lie while doing it.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/fact-check-trump-repeats-myth-benghazi/story?id=40045892
From else where on the web—
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/06/httpwwwhangthebankerscomclinton-foundation-hacked-documents.html
http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/fbi-revolt-of-watergate-proportions-if-hillary-skates/#!