Bill and Hillary Clinton earned $10,745,378 last year
according to their newly-released tax returns, primarily from public speeches.
The Clintons raped colleges and universities in particular, sometimes to the
tune of two or three-hundred-thousand-dollars per bloviation.
The
power couple, who professed to be penniless upon leaving the White House after
Bill’s second term, did give a significant amount of their income to charity
last year, though. The duo claimed $1,042,000 in charitable deductions for
2015. A mere $1,000,000 of that went to their very own Clinton Family
Foundation. (The Clintons actually have two
separate “non-profits,” the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Family
Foundation, and have total control of each entity’s funds).
The other $42,000 was selflessly given to Desert Classic
Charities, a group that hosts an annual PGA golf event. Coincidentally, Doug
Band, a Clinton Foundation adviser and
Bill Clinton’s longtime assistant, was on the board of directors of that organization
until 2015, according to its
IRS filings.
In
a completely unrelated bit of inexplicably fortuitous financial flukery, Desert
Classic Charities then proceeded to contribute $700,000 to the Clinton
Foundation. Remarkable! And DCC only gave out a total of $1.6 million dollars to every possible charitable cause on
Earth in 2015. They must’ve really thought the Clinton Foundation was the “bees
knees” if they gave nearly half of all their donations for the year to this one
astoundingly altruistic Clinton Fund.
In
summation, the Clinton’s “donated” $1,042,000 and ended up with $1,700,000 more
in their two Foundations. They personally ended up $658,000 ahead! Talk about
“giving ‘til it hurts”! Is there no end to their largess? I guess it’s true
that you do have to give if you want to receive. You can’t make this up! Purveyors
of multi-level marketing scams, ponzi schemes, routine “pay-for-play”
endeavors, and classic old shell-games have to blush and give a doff of their
collective hats to this dynamic
Democratic duo!
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