Going for the jugular today after a reprieve on her email scandal from FBI Director James Comey yesterday, 68-year-old Democratic presumptive nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ripped GOP presumptive nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump for his Atlantic City casino bankruptcies. Hillary said many times June 10, 2014 and, more recently, Feb. 5, she and Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House Jan. 20, 2001. Today the Clintons claim an estimated net worth of around $112 million according to Fortune Magazine. When you add all of Bill and Hillary’s speeches since leaving office, it adds up to $153 million, for a combined 729 speeches, averaging $210.075 a speech, nowhere near, when you subtract all the living costs over the last 15 years, their net worth. Whatever the Clintons’ net worth it pales in comparison to Trump.
Over his 50-year real estate career, Trump has become an American business icon, possessing some of the most coveted properties in the U.S. and around the globe. Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth conservatively at $4.5 billion but other estimates have it at over $10 billion. “Donald Trump says he’s qualified to be president because of his business record. Now, three weeks ago he said, and I quote, ‘I’m going to do for the country what I did for my business,’” said Hillary speaking to campaign crowd in Atlantic City, NJ. Just like her excuses for sending and receiving classified or Top Secret emails while Secretary of State, Hillary has more excuses for how Trump’s a business failure. By anyone’s metrics, he’s one of the most successful real estate investors in U.S. history. Hillary readily admits that she and Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House in early 2001.
Spewing the kind of propaganda that makes her a clever candidate, Hillary insists Trump’s past bankruptcies should scare voters. “He’s probably hoping nobody will check up on what he as said. Because what he did for his businesses and his workers is nothing to brag about,” said Hillary, ripping Trump for pulling out of Atlantic City in 2014. Trump filed for bankruptcy Sept. 10, 2014 for his 2,010-room Atlantic City Taj Mahal casino when other casinos went under two years after hurricane Sandy decimated Atlantic City Oct. 22, 2012.. Hillary mentions nothing about the circumstances under which Trump had to pull the plug on the Taj Mahal. “In fact, it’s shameful,” Hillary told her Atlantic City audience, knowing full well that hurricane Sandy doomed the area. Hillary doesn’t talk about how she a Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001.
Hillary likes to point fingers at Trump but doesn’t like to talk about her Clinton Foundation, founded in 1997, taking in more that $2 billion in donations from corporations and foreign governments. How much of the Clintons’ wealth is tied to the Clinton Foundation is anyone’s guess. Making about $900,00 a year, Hillary and Bill’s daughter Chelsea earns a big salary for her role as Vice Chair of the foundation. Clinton Foundation CEO former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala makes about the same amount, raising questions about how the foundation’s $143 million in annual donations get spent. Hillary rips Trump for his Atlantic City bankruptcies but shows no accountability for Clinton Foundation’s fiscal management Blasting Trump for ripping off “workers, lenders, stockholders and contractor jobs and money,” Hillary thinks Trump’s unfit for president.
Mentioning nothing about how hurricane Sandy sent Atlantic City into a death spiral, Hillary spews the same talking points as Trump’s GOP rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, all blasting Trump’s bankruptcies. “Out of the hundreds of businesses I have owned over the decades, and hundreds of deals and transactions, I have used the chapter laws of our country in four instances, much as many of our country’s elite business people do [but nobody cares about]” said Trump, responding to Hillary’s charges. Whatever one says about Trump, it’s off-the-wall to criticize his real estate empire. Neither Hillary nor Bill have had Trump’s business success as career politicians. Criticizing Trump for using bankruptcy laws shows that Hillary doesn’t understand how existing U.S. laws help entrepreneurs achieve success.
Diverting attention away from highly critical comments by FBI Director Comey over the misuse of classified and Top Secret emails, Hillary goes on the attack the day after. With the GOP House dragging Comey into the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Hillary’s email problems could go on for a while. “Nobody understands the economy like I do and no one, especially not Crooked Hillary Clinton, will do more for the economy than I will,” said Trump, answering Hilary’s attacks. Getting Hillary and Bill to open up the Clinton Foundation’s books won’t be easy. Claiming anonymity for donors, the Foundation refuses to reveal sources of the some $143 million in annual donations, about a third coming from foreign governments. Over 50 years in business, there are no mysteries when it comes to Trump’s success. Hillary’s new riches raise far more questions.
