{"id":217531,"date":"2017-01-16T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217531"},"modified":"2017-01-17T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:11:26","slug":"clinton-global-initiative-goes-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/16\/clinton-global-initiative-goes-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Global Initiative Goes Out of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have you heard that the Clinton Global Initiative is shutting down? Now, the Clinton Global Initiative is under the umbrella of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. They don\u2019t actually call it the Crime Family Foundation. We just throw that in there to be uber-descriptive. But the Clinton Foundation has as part of it the Clinton Global Initiative. Now, the Clinton Global Initiative was essentially a way for Bill Clinton to attract chicks during the annual United Nations get-together in October.<\/p>\n

The Clinton Global Initiative happened at the same time. Usually it was the week before, sometimes the week after. The Clinton Global Initiative was originally established to help resuscitate Bill Clinton\u2019s reputation after he left office. Of course, the “engraving,” if you want to put it that way… The engraving on the Clinton presidency is two words: Monica Lewinsky. So Clinton was trying desperately — and Hillary, too, \u2019cause she was setting up her own presidential run. They wanted to do what they could to overcome that and erase it.<\/p>\n

So they ostensibly — they ostensibly — immersed themselves in charitable good works, and here came the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. They had meetings. And they had a big logo there, and they had a big backdrop that said “Clinton Global Initiative” on it, and they had a podium and a microphone. And whenever these grand pooh-bahs from around the world would show up at the U.N., they\u2019d show up at the Clinton Global Initiative and make speeches, and there would be panel discussions and they\u2019d talk about problems.<\/p>\n

Nothing was ever done. It was like Obama\u2019s workshops in the White House. Remember those, his first month in office? He\u2019d bring in workshops of four or five different groups of people and give them each a corner of the room and solve unemployment or solve climate change or solve the problem of fossil fuels. And they\u2019d worked all day, then report to Obama at the end of the day. Problem solved. Of course, nothing had been done but a bunch of people sitting around in the room thinking they\u2019re important and that they matter because Obama\u2019d had them in a work group in the White House.<\/p>\n

The Clinton Global Initiative was much the same thing. It gave Clinton an excuse to come to New York and go out to dinner every night, and the chick magnet aspect of it happened. I witnessed that firsthand. I witnessed that. I\u2019m not gonna tell the story again<\/a>, but I witnessed it firsthand. One might say I was even… Not victimized by it, but I was certainly targeted by it. At any rate, it\u2019s gone. The Clinton Global Initiative has shut its doors. I wonder why. I wonder why. There were 22 people working there; they\u2019ve all been fired.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You know one of the most recent tax returns filed at the Clinton Foundation? Something along the lines of… I don\u2019t have the number at the top of my head. But let\u2019s put it this way. The amount of money that actually went to charity was like $3 million, and travel, entertainment, and expenses was $125 million or some such thing. It was all legal. I mean, as long as you give away 10% every year of what\u2019s in the foundation, you\u2019re cool, or maybe it\u2019s not even that much. It may be 5%.<\/p>\n

But it was clear that the foundation was set up to hustle foreign donors for Hillary\u2019s presidential campaign. She was even collecting this money while she was secretary of state. That\u2019s what her private email server was all about, by the way, folks. If you\u2019ve not heard this, the reason that Hillary Clinton set up an email server in the house rather than use the State Department\/government network is \u2019cause she was hustling these donations for the Clinton Foundation and speeches, requests for speeches and all of this.<\/p>\n

And she didn\u2019t want any of that to be discoverable with Freedom of Information Act requests, because she was soliciting donations from foreign governments and foreign individuals on the pretext that she\u2019s gonna be president someday and would thus be able to pay back with policy or consideration or whatever those that had donated. And the Clinton Global Initiative was an arm of that. Now, it\u2019s been shut down. “The Clinton Foundation announced it\u2019s laying off 22 staffers on the Clinton Global Initiative,” and it says here, “keeping with a plan to deal with the negative spotlight put on the organization during [Hillary]\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The layoffs will take effect April 15, the Clinton Foundation said in a filing with the New York Department of Labor Thursday, citing the discontinuation of the Clinton Global Initiative. The move is part of a plan put in motion ahead of the presidential election in order to offset a storm of criticism…” That\u2019s not what\u2019s going on. There\u2019s no reason for it anymore. It was never what it was for.<\/p>\n

If this was a charitable undertaking, why stop it? I mean, good works are good works. Isn\u2019t it important? If you\u2019re really in this for good works, if you\u2019re really in this to be charitable and to help improve the human condition, what does it matter if you lose an election? You still raise money. You still go out for hurricane\/disaster relief or whatever. There are still plenty of people to fleece, still many opportunities out there to hustle money.<\/p>\n

Why give it up? It\u2019s obvious, isn\u2019t it? The whole thing was a shell to set up Hillary\u2019s presidency and to get the Clintons some walking around money. “Cash money,” as they say. Walking-around money. And now that she\u2019s not gonna be president… Is there any more on her running for mayor? (interruption) Is it mayor or governor? (interruption) And there\u2019s no more scuttlebutt on that? (interruption) Okay. Well, that\u2019s cool. Yeah, 22 people are being laid off at the Clinton Global Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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