Hillary Clinton defended her high-dollar speaking fees on Friday, telling ABC News that she’s donated every penny earned from colleges over the last year-and-a-half to her family’s eponymous foundation.
“All of the fees have been donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work. So it goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation,” Clinton said.
Clinton’s gaffes about her personal wealth during her book tour have brought renewed scrutiny to her lofty speaking fees, with Republicans and conservatives eager to brand the former secretary of state as out of touch.
The New York Times reported last year that Clinton makes $200,000 per speech.
Students at the University of Nevada Las Vegas asked her to return the $225,000 that she will make for a speech at an October fundraiser at the school.
According to ABC, Clinton didn’t indicate in the interview on Friday how she would respond to the students.
Hope she’s not exaggerating. Because if she is, we’ll never ever hear the end of it.
If HRC went to an impoverished city in this country or an impoverished country anywhere for the purpose of building housing with her own hands, and then canning and preserving food for them with her own hands, and then sewing up clothing for all those in need, and then she stood down guerilla armies with nothing more than a slingshot, it still wouldn’t stop the criticism of her because it’s all they got. She’s the grist for their hate mill.
It’s not so much her money as her reality-based from the hip candor.
If cashing in is a crime in this corrupt age of cashing in then indict all political Washington, their families and their sugar daddies/mommies.
Just don’t expect her to bake cookies.
I am sure that will make the students feel better about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to hear Hillary spout some more lies. Because the Clinton Foundation is Godly!
Kinda.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…