Move over ‘Banking Queen’ Barney ‘Fwank’ of Rush Limbaugh parody fame, Hillary Clinton is here.
And a meaner, more money-crazed Banking Queen you’ll never get.
Hillary doesn’t have Barney’s signature lisp, in either the Banking Queen parody or in real life, but she can bark like a dog.
For the past two years she’s been barking all the way to the bank, courtesy of the world’s biggest banks paying her for speeches held under lock and key.
But all dogs will be barking now that the cat’s been let out of the bag: Hillary Clinton was paid a whopping $21 million over the last two years for 20-25 minute speeches she made on behalf of the big fat-cat banks, not just American ones but Canadian ones too.
Limbaugh said yesterday that the impact of this revelation will be “devastating” to the Democrats.
“Monday on his radio show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh reacted to a report based on data highlighted in the Breitbart editor at large Peter Schweizer’s documentary “Clinton Cash,” which is based on his 2015 book “Clinton Cash,” showing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has pulled in $21 million for speeches over the past two years.(Breitbart, May 23, 2016)
“According to Limbaugh, the report is “devastating” for her presidential bid given how some Democratic base voters will react to the perception that she been “bought” by foreign governments, Wall Street and corporate America.
Partial transcript as follows:
“There’s something devastating. I… Folks, this is one of those things that the Drive-Bys are not gonna make a big deal of it, by design, but it’s gonna get out there. And this is gonna be one of these things that if Hillary loses, this is gonna be one of the reasons that people will eventually learn was a reason, post-election. They’re kind of ignoring it now, but if she loses, and they’re doing the postmortems, they’re gonna go back to stories like this.
“Do you realize that this woman, in the last two years, has made $21 million delivering speeches, mostly to banks? Twenty-one mil! I don’t think there’s a speech for less than $225,000 on the list, and they’re all listed. Some of them are as high as $400,000, but it’s generally in that range of 225, 250, up to $400,000. It’s every bank you’ve ever heard of )and then some), and every hedge fund that you’ve ever heard of (and then some). Every investment house that you’ve ever heard of. It’s $21 million in two years, speeches alone.
“Not Bill. This is Hillary. So what’s the big deal? Well, most of these speeches are delivered before Wall Street firms. Read: Banks. Who do Bernie Sanders supporters despise? Banks. “Corporate America. Hillary Clinton is owned by corporate America. Hillary Clinton’s presidency, if it ever happens, has already been bought by corporate America, and who knows what the foreign donors are and how many there are. But that’s a $100 million that has been given to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
“The Clinton presidency has already been bought — meaning policies, initiatives, what have you, have already been bought — by foreign governments, foreign entities, and United States corporate entities and banks. And this is the kind of thing that your average left-wing Democrat voter is going to learn. There are enough Democrat websites out there ticked off at Hillary over this; they’re gonna report it. The Drive-Bys won’t. They won’t make a big deal of it, but some of the other left-wing blogs will.
“Democrat voters are gonna hear about it, and it’s gonna tick ’em off.”
Here's a list of Hillary Clinton's speeches from 2013-2015:
4/18/2013, Morgan Stanley, Washington, DC: $225,000
4/24/2013, Deutsche Bank, Washington, DC: $225,000
4/24/2013, National Multi Housing Council, Dallas, Texas: $225,000
01/22/2015, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Whistler, Canada: $150,000
02/24/2015, Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, Santa Clara, Calif.: $225,500
03/11/2015, eBay Inc., San Jose, Calif.: $315,000
03/19/2015, American Camping Association, Atlantic City, NJ: $260,000
Rumour has it that the Dems have been stampeded into a panic. The Dems survived all Clinton scandals to date, but the fear that they won’t survive this one has them looking at an 11th-hour replacement of Clinton with Joe Biden.
Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump needs to change his strategy by getting ahead of the curve. The Democrats will wait until The Donald has fired all of his bullets at Clinton, then sanction ‘dark horse’ Biden at their convention, counting on it being too late for Trump to hit the Biden bullseye.
Just like the good guys did in old Western movies, Trump needs to head them off at the pass.
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