Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta's account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.ADDED: I read that as new news, but I see it's from just before the election. I didn't remember.
AND: Someone at Facebook was highlighting the story. I need to learn to double-check dates before I assume that what looks like news to me is actually new. Presumably, this Facebook friend is making some sort of point about proportionality and Trump's perceived misdoings.
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Hey, it's a Democrat and Hillary. What is it: Dog bites man isn't news? Only man bites dog?
So the NYT can plead that of course Hillary took bribes--that's not news! Why report it, right? It would make the Lifelong republican GOPe members who hate Trump get a bad case of the sadz after all.
Hillary is corrupt, everyone knows that, right?
Now that I'm off of using the NYT excuse list, I bet we find out sometime that Hillary Clinton took a million dollar bribe from Russia in, say, October of 2016. But that wasn't newsworthy enough for the media to report, of course. Because Hillary would never let a Russian bribe affect her!
--Vance
Isn't this a crime? Why wouldn't Sessions jump on this to prove his bona fides to DJT?
11 PM of the Monday before the election, one presumes ...
Democrat corruption is a constant. One date is as good as the next.
Somebody had to pay off Chelsea's wedding..........
But.. but... but..
Hey look, a Russian .. I mean squirrel!
11 PM of the Monday before the election, one presumes ...
Late in the afternoon of the Friday before the election, actually. Is that more or less obscure?
The Russian hackers did us a favor. Close call.
Seriously, in the most apolitical, coldly non-partisan way, if you wonder why no one gives a shit about the hysteria aimed at Trump, look no further.
Trump needs somebody with savvy about the swamp to figure out how to use this to get rid of Mueller.
Not yet. It's still too soon. After a few more leftist flameouts on Russia, Trump needs to have Sessions take Mueller, if neccessary with him, out the door.
A month or two more of grandstanding by Senators and it will be time.
I would like an independent investigator, say Newt Gingrich or Rudy Giuliani, to review this for any wrong doing. Perhaps they could hire Sarah Palin an Ted Nugent as aides in the investigation. Only in this way can all these rumors be put to rest.
I read that as new news, but I see it's from just before the election. I didn't remember.
I assume that it wasn't exactly front page news in the Times or the Post.
If anybody in the comments has any connection with the Qataris, please let them know my birthday is Feb 28th and they are more than welcome to accompany their check to my party.
Thanks in advance.
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Trump needs somebody with savvy about the swamp to figure out how to use this to get rid of Mueller.
Today Paul Ryan was speaking for Mueller's integrity. If Washington is a swamp, Ryan is from the black lagoon.
It did not get much circulation on the original reveal, did it? I sure don't remember this. Somehow it did not get rebroadcasted or emphasized. Real News, ignored.
The Clinton foundation received hundreds of millions from all sorts of people with business before the USG and the State Department.
Qatar is just one of hundreds of patrons of the Clintons.
The largest personal bribery system in US history. And, for the most part, conducted in the open. With the full knowledge of the Obama administration, so they were certainly complicit. Quite amazing really.
Ann Althouse said...ADDED: I read that as new news, but I see it's from just before the election. I didn't remember.
Yeah, funny how that wasn't a huge story back then, huh? Foreign money, foreign interference...back then it wasn't much of a problem. Back when the Media was sure Hillary would win, you know, all sorts of things were small potatoes.
Attention GOPe, National Review, Democrats(I repeat myself) and MUELLER.
THIS IS COLLUSION.
Fire him already Trump.
So many anti-Trumpers swear they didn't vote for Hillary. If all the people who say they voted for Jill Stein actually had, she'd probably be President today. Well, I understand: if I had supported Hillary, I'd deny it, too.
Most major media ignored this story. The Daily Beast only covered to try to spin in a positive light after Pence mentioned.
Trump just rocked forty-thousand boy scouts at the jamboree. They loved him. Better than Kid Rock.
There's a good story. But it'll only get play on Twitter.
Probably makes the media cringe.
"Qatar is just one of hundreds of patrons of the Clintons. "
Wasn't there something in the Bible about swallowing a camel and straining at a gnat ?
Democrats are nothing new in history,
Sounds like "collusion" to me.
It's not new news now, but how well was it covered when it was new news?
What does it tell you that a diligent and regular reader of the NYT did not know this? I knew it, before the election.
I might have known but forgotten. I spend time reading the news every day.
Trump promised to lock her up. What is he waiting for? No special counsel needed.
It may not be news, but it might as well be. Ask any Dem: did you know the Clintons get $1M from Qatar while Hill was SoS?
I definitely remember the story, and it got almost no attention at all.
Clintons take bribes from terror-connected foreigners. Yawn. Water is wet.
Hackers who might be Russlies release John "Password is Password" Podesta's emails and it's ZOMFG Collussion Alert.
Too hard to prove as a crime. That was the beauty of the Clinton Foundation scheme.
This never gets old.
It is useful to highlight the enormous double standard of the DNC-Media complex. Clinton rakes in millions of foreign dollars: shrug. Trump might have spoken to a Russian: Treason!
Old news about Clinton corruption must stay UNDER THAT RUG.
I might have known but forgotten. I spend time reading the news every day.
The week prior to the election was more a news avalanche than usual. Back when all the right people hated Comey, when the tide of history was allegedly flowing Hillary's way and all the polls said good things for her.
Had any GOP taken that money, they would be out of a political career.
Not the Clintonoplois Clinton McAuliff never leave us alone corruption gang.
What page was that news presented? How much air time on CBSNBCABCCNNNPR did it get?
If you (and many others) haven't seen it before, &/or its relevance has changed, it is still "news" regardless of when first surfaced.
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