Hillary and Bill Clinton know ‘hard times’, as she explained in a recent interview with Dianne Sawyer, they left the White House ‘not only dead broke but in debt’, and they ‘struggled’ to pay for their ‘houses’.
According to Hillary, these hard times cause them to have to go out and make $100 million in speeches, amongst other things.
Yes, all Americans who are struggling financially, you can believe Hillary ‘knows your pain’.
On Monday morning, ABC teased an interview between all-but-announced presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the network’s Diane Sawyer set to air later in the evening.
One particular exchange jumped out at us. Clinton says that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, left the White House in debt, and needed the speaking fees they both earned in order to pay those debts.
SAWYER: You’ve made five million making speeches? The president’s made more than a hundred million dollars?
CLINTON: Well, you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt. We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy. Bill has worked really hard and it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard. First of all, we had to pay off all our debts. You know, you had to make double the money because of, obviously, taxes, and then pay off the debts and get us houses and take care of family members.
We also did not remember that, specifically. Clinton’s opponents didn’t seem inclined toward much sympathy, quickly lampooning it on Twitter. A specific target: Clinton’s reference to the need to buy “houses,” a comment reminiscent of John McCain’s awkward failure in 2008 to remember how many homes he owned.
And here are the houses, courtesy of the conservative group America Rising.
Certainly, the Clintons accrued an enormous amount in legal fees toward the end of the 1990s, but is Clinton’s tacit suggestion that the family was scraping by accurate?
Well, not exactly. Clinton left the White House to head to the Capitol as New York’s junior senator in 2000, meaning that she had to file annual disclosures of how much she and her husband earned, owned, and owed. We took a look at those filings, via Open Secrets. And this is what the Clinton’s wealth looked like for the first four years after they left office in early 2001.
We considered three things: what the Clintons reported as income on their taxes, what they reported as assets in Hillary Clinton’s mandated disclosures, and what was listed as being owed. The disclosures only give broad boundaries for the value of the assets owned, so the true value of their assets lies somewhere within the dark-red bar.
So, yes, it is technically true the Clintons left office in debt. But, a year later, the couple’s assets had soared. And, as was reported at the time, the Clintons’ debt was entirely gone by the end of 2004 — well before Hillary Clinton left the Senate and well before she left her position as secretary of state. Nor was that income entirely from speaking fees; Clinton’s memoir Living History earned the couple a great deal of income, including $2.8 million reported in her 2001 financial disclosure.
What’s more, there are perks that come with being a former president. According to an April report from the Congressional Research Service, Bill Clinton has received nearly $16 million in pensions and benefits from the federal government since leaving office. That includes $944,000 in fiscal year 2014 for office space, staff, and a pension.
If you were wondering, it was also not as though Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 bid for the presidency thrust the couple back into debt. For her 2009 disclosure, filed because of her appointment to lead the Department of State, the Clintons’ assets were worth somewhere between $10 million and $50 million.
They did, however, have up to $65,000 in credit card debt. Clinton made $200,
000-plus for individual speeches in 2013, after she left the State Department. So that credit card debt probably didn’t stick around long.
It fascinates me, just cause democrats are stupid, they think all Americans are. And what makes me sick this lying, cheating, conniving piece of human flesh will probably be our next worthless president, and only cause she is a woman, no other qualification. Just saying
Hi, good afternoon!
I do not know … how many of you all, have experienced situations that made you come almost to discouragement. That’s exactly what I’m feeling right now. Thanks to God who always cares for us all, and has given us the strength to go on, to continue our walk.
As I’ve been saying to you all, but are twenty (20) HIV test results defrauded, three (3) exam results Endoscopy defrauded, are two (2) results of examinations of Abdominal Ultrasound defrauded, it’s my life which was passionately destroyed, years 2009 and 2010 and, unfortunately, is being completely destroyed, since January 2011 to date (10.06.2014) … I have struggled, fought, with God’s help …!
This incessant struggle, I have hoped that the International Authorities help me to have the opportunity to fight for life with dignity, but until then, things seem to are going from bad to worse. It is as if the International Authorities that can help me, passionately knew the things that are going on, and there, the criminals, who are practicing their heinous against my life, accelerate the means they have used to take my life, or in the best of situations, from cheating with women who are carriers of the HIV virus. This is my situation today, this very moment. In addition to the crimes, they keep threatening to take my life at any time.
But … what’s causing me to almost lose heart, it is against the issue of the Social Security (INSS) to twenty (20) and three (3) consecutive months. Since the month of August (8) of the year 2012, so far. And … even after you move a process (paragraph 4102-07.2013.4.01.3311) on six (6) December 2013, the Federal Court, to transform the sickness in disability retirement, Mr. Judge, Dr. Victor Cretella Silva Passos, the 1st Court, gave judgment that I returned to receive sick pay immediately, and there would be no reason to turn sickness into retirement due to disability, based on the Valuation Expert Medica Federal Justice, Dr. Tatiana Aguiar Birth CRM 16380.
What proof stakeholder in everything that is happening to us, and illegality of the decision of Mr. Judge, Dr. Victor Cretella Steps Silva.Pois, I never stop getting sick pay, or sick pay, never I was denied.
What happened was that after completing a period of Extensions, I called the 135, Social Security, they scheduled a next skill in the Social Security for the day 05/15/2014, what happened, and they simply extended the benefit until the month of November (11) from year (2014).
One other illegality of joint parts, is the question that I presented on 01.21.2014, the Expert Dr. Tatiana Aguiar’s Birth of Federal law, a medical report, Dr. Pedro Ramos Ferreira Neto – CPF: 072 405 .085-84 Cremeb 3451, which clearly states that I am currently unable to perform my work activities permanently. This proves that I should is retired from January (01) 2014 …
I trusted God … and this is the main reason for not having completely discouraged. Well … I was sure that they (Federal Court) would not do such injustice, and that I would be retired, and money service time (two (2) years and four (4) months) in company I work for (Credit Cards), I could go to the United States, and prove to all that I have been reporting to you all for a long time …
Now what to do? Am humble (poor) too, and I am unable to make this trip to the United States, where he could show and prove to everyone the truth about all these many heinous crimes being committed against since the year 2009 … . Know that God somehow continue to help us!
Note: I would like to send documents via e-mail to everyone, please send the e-mail you all to my email: [email protected]. Thanks!
May God continue to bless you all!
Note: If perhaps God allowed me rest (die), [which I do not want] would like all these many heinous crimes that have been and continue to be committed against my life, go unpunished. Much by the contrary, that all these criminals were imported to the United States, and were condemned to perpetual imprisonment (In the Ten Commandments, the 6th, God tells us not to kill). Thank you!
A hug,
Alex Sousa Gomes.
THey were soo poor they had to steal all the W’s off the computers just to pay for gas money back to Arkansas!
Funny how you can’t watch the interview because of perimeter errors. Then force fed the interview with text. I call bull$#%&!@*!!!!!
what a lying sack of $#%&!@*
Lets do some checking up on that….It seems that Bill’s term as president was from January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001. Now if I remember correctly Hilary was a U.S. Senator from New York. Checking her term in off I found this: Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a United States Senator from New York from January 3, 2001 to January 21, 2009. Bill went on the speech tour right after leaving office and Hilary went to the Senate. Hmm, seems like something is not adding up here about her saying they were “dead Broke and in debt”.
They where broke because all the legal fees bill had to pay for lying and to us in national tv “I didn’t have sexual relationship with that woman” lol
lies
I’m sorry Right Wing Bull$#%&!@*!!!
What a bunch of BS.