Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich Kindle Edition

This book is FACT. There is over 70 pages just listing source material. Read this book and just think... What if there was an actual investigation with any kind of teeth to really get into this. What an investigative journalist can come up with is scary. Only this scarier is the fact the Clinton supporters are so willfully blind to ALL of this OVER YEARS. If it was just 1 or 2 "eyebrow raising" issues, OK... Perhaps benefit of doubt is warranted. This book catalogs YEARS and multiple accounts of at the very best very coincidenecal contributions and payments around very favorable out comes for those "generous" folks that had business before the state department. This book only covers only foreign dealing. Read this book. Don't bury your head in the sand. The Clinton's are soooooooooo corrupt it's head spinning. What have they ever done to become multi millionaires? Why do so many politicians become so rich? Well beyond what their handsome salaries could ever afford? It's time we wake up. This is a bipartisan problem yes. The Clinton's may be the largest offenders but many in Washington are guilty of simular dealings. Look for "extortion" and "throw them all out" by the same author really pulls back the curtain on Washington DC.

I'm kind of startled by this book. There is never a 'smoking gun' moment but there IS a shocking pattern of behavior that must have taken incredible effort to research. The media seems to have failed to do the hard work of researching to this depth, but they are on the story now that Schweizer has pointed them in the correct direction.

I was amazed by how this book was both incredibly readable and incredibly well-sourced. I could easily work through it and if something caught my interest I could quickly dive deeper into the sources provided, many of which were available online.

I'm not sure how much this will affect Clinton's campaign but I do think everybody in America should be aware of the contents of this book. Maybe if they were, we could have a REAL Democratic primary!

CLINTON CASH is an astonishing book and I'm only sorry I didn't read it before the 2016 Presidential election. Author Peter Schweizer documents well how the Clinton Foundation, particularly as headed by Bill Clinton while his wife Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, evolved into an enormous mixer of money and power. Bill habitually gave speeches for which he was paid half a million dollars or more. (Generally, the more private the event, the bigger the honorarium.) Bill and friends developed quite a talent for hooking up investors who were heavy donors to the Foundation, helping them arrange permission to operate (frequently, mine precious metals) in less regulated, more corrupt countries such as much of Central Africa and Central Asia. It is astonishing -- if not downright jaw-dropping -- how often Bill and Hillary wound up simultaneously in the same or contiguous developing countries halfway around the world. And while the Clinton Foundation has undoubtedly given to many worthy causes, and instigated not a few, it has also been known to fall flat in environments like post-hurricane Haiti which one would not expect to pose so many challenges.

I do realize that author Peter Schweizer has been criticized for his connection to Breitbart publishing, but to harp on that is no more useful than saying, "So's your old man." My feeling is that CLINTON CASH is a book that very much needs to be read. If you don't cringe a little upon hearing the term "public-private partnership," you will after reading this book. I consider it essential to an understanding of how money and power collude in the 21st Century. Now, what can be done in the way of reform, I confess I don't know. But when people who profess a desire to do good wind up doing astonishingly well for themselves and their generous friends, we all need to take notice and not stop asking questions.

No matter what I write about this book someone will take offense, dismiss and attack what I write without reading a word of it. So, when you look at the votes and read the comments, take it all with a box of Morton Salt. This is a book that was written to draw lightning. Some of the writers who defend the Clintons, such as Newsweek, review this book as a hatchet job. Others will dismiss any examination of the author’s motives as unfair and irrelevant. I say, let the facts speak and judge the author on whether he is asking serious questions, presenting honest evidence, and drawing reasonable conclusions. In my view, he is. He is not making claims beyond what the evidence supports, but he does ask why there are always a preposterous number of coincidences around Bill and Hillary and everything they do. And how something that enriches this couple so fabulously can also somehow be characterized as both public service and charity.

Mind you, Hillary was the one claiming poverty when trying to get mortgages (plural) for their homes (also plural). They were part of the political wing that vilified Romney for his wealth without ever blushing at their being in the same ball park as him. Romney at least made his money in the private sector. The Clintons seem to have made theirs by trading on the political connections and power while dancing on a razor’s edge away from the legal definition of illegality. And somehow, for the Clintons and their acolytes, if they aren’t on videotape actually admitting to taking cash for delivering political favors it somehow never happened. As you read the evidence around the transactions reported in this book, I think you have to have some pretty thick rose colored lenses to not see some difficulty in the connections, arrangements, deals, payments, and reporting of the transactions as required by law. But we can each judge for ourselves. The Clintons hope you will reject the book. Hillary’s opponents hope you will either embrace it, or at least begin asking some probing questions of your own and go digging for more evidence.

The Clintons have a well-practiced and effective Method of dealing with an immediate crisis caused when yet another scandal arises, and they always do with these two. It works like this: The scandal breaks and Team Clinton immediately sends out people like Begala and Carville to attack the reporters, whistleblowers, or regular folks who dare tell the world what is going on. Another group of somewhat more removed Clintonistas hit the air, cable, and print media to deny the scandal outright. The Clintons avoid speaking for as long as possible. The idea is to consume as many of the information cycles as possible with their own accusations and denials to overwhelm the scandal outright. If they can’t do that and they must speak, they know it doesn’t matter what they say. It can be directly in conflict with the evidence because they have put so much by way of denial in the media that the “fair” media will quote the denials as if they were legitimate bits of evidence, too. Eventually, another event comes along and bumps this scandal from the headlines and then it will either go away or, if it does come back into view, they just refuse to discuss it as old news and declare that the public knows it was politically motivated and that there is nothing to it. Really. This is their method. And it works for them. Absurdly; it works.

You can see a similar method used by those on the Left here on Amazon and right here with this book. They will latch on to a book they hate and provide a vast number of one-star "reviews" of a sentence or two that say nothing at all except claiming the book is all lies, or old and outdated claims that have been disproven, or that the author is in thrall to the Koch brothers or some other Conservative paymaster. They often use fake names so you can't even tell if the same person is posting multiple attacks using multiple accounts. It is always the same. The idea is to overwhelm the book with so many reviews that the real reviews get hidden in the clutter and people just stop looking and reading. Do you see this pattern? Of course you do. It is right in front of your eyes.

The Clintons have raked in billions for their foundation (The Family Business) by using another well-oiled and smoothly running operation that works something like this. You can see a version of it in every deal cited in this book.

A super rich person the Clintons want as a donor and who needs or wants a piece of influence peddled for them by the Clinton Machine for their nation, oil venture, uranium deals, their for profit university, their “non-profit” charity, telemarketing business, or whatever, walks into the shadow of the great Sun of the Clinton Sphere of Influence. Checks are written to the Clinton Foundations, fabulously rich speaking fees are paid, and lavish travel and accommodations are provided to Bill and/or Hillary. While on scene giving the speech, photo opportunities and favorable stories are provided on camera to great fanfare and wide media coverage for the charitable work being publicized. Once the lights, cameras, and recorders are turned off and in the quiet after the reporters go off to wherever it is reporters go when not flacking for the Clintons, deals are worked out in quiet rooms without anything being done directly that breaks the law or at least not recorded and becoming evidence for breaking the law. Remember, this is all about access to the Clinton world. They provide connections to a vast entourage of connected influencers. The price of admission are the big donations to the Clinton Foundation and the fees to Bill and Hillary.

But unseemly is not illegal and seems to be something the Clintons are very comfortable with as they “do good” in the world for their Foundation. More money flows to the Foundation in seven figures and more. Mere millions are minor donations according to Lanny Davis on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Somehow, despite assurances of transparency by Bill and Hillary, these donations are generally not reported until they are caught not reporting them. Even when they are caught in a compromising position, the media barely talks about it because the Clintons declare them an oversight and promise to fix them right away. And because the public is never told to care it doesn’t pay attention to the absurdity of this level of corruption by someone running for President; essentially for a third and fourth term of the Clinton Machine.

The issues raised by Schweitzer in this book are serious and the Clintons need to answer for the vast ocean of money raised. We have already seen them admit to more than $30 million raised from more than a thousand donors that they never reported to authorities as was required by law and their own promises of transparency. That seems far too systematic and large-scale to be the mere mistake they want us to believe. Will the press hold them accountable? We shall see. I hope so, but won't hold my breath. What I honestly don't get is how Progressives who honestly believe in their agenda can stomach this kind of naked profiteering, money grubbing, influence peddling, and corruption so enthusiastically. Over the years we have seen that there is no shame from the Clintons; ever. But from the entire Democrat party? From all the Progressive Media? I mean the way the Clintons behave would make a Tammany Hall blush and Huey Long stare at their operations in admiration at the audacity of it all.

Those of us who remember the scandals from the first and second Clinton Administrations do not want to go through them again. But their fans will forgive them anything. Anything. And the Clintons have more than $2 billion raised by their vast machine to ensure they regain the Whitehouse.

Will we let them have it?

I hope not.

This book will never persuade anyone who is already worshipping at the altar of Hillary. Not because it fails to present convincing evidence and powerful arguments, but because those who already believe in Our Hillary - Right Or Wrong are not looking for evidence or weighing arguments.

While the book is interesting to those of us who could never be persuaded to vote for her under any circumstance whatsoever, the more interesting question is whether this book can get the traction with the public to start raising questions in the minds of those who might be leaning towards Hillary but have concerns or are leaning away from her and need a little more to move further away. I hope it does. In any case, I hope you get the book, read it with an open mind and think about the ridiculous number of coincidences the Clintons want you to believe don’t provide evidence of corrupt dealing.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson – Saline, MI