NyPo reports:
Hillary Clinton says that when she and her husband moved out of the White House 15 years ago, they were “dead broke.” Today, they’re worth more than $150 million.
In the new documentary “Clinton Cash,” it becomes all too clear how the former First Couple went from rags to filthy rich — with the emphasis on filthy.
As the movie shows, the Clintons are political Teflon dons compared with another Beltway power couple, former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen.
The McDonnells were convicted of accepting more than $150,000 in gifts from a businessman while the governor was in office. Meanwhile, the Clintons raked in seven hundred times that amount — $105 million — under the pretext of speaking fees while Hillary was in public office.
Yet while the McDonnells face time in the Big House, the Clintons are once again aiming for the White House.
The documentary is based on a book by former Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer and was just screened during the Cannes Film Festival. It is set to be shown in major US cities, including Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention there in July.
Schweizer’s research has withstood a year of intense scrutiny from critics because it is fact, not fiction. And the facts are compelling.
The film whisks you around the globe, retracing how the Clintons personally pocketed six-figure speaking fees and collected billions of dollars for their family foundation.
How? By trading on Hillary’s position as secretary of state and possible future president.
She and her ex-president husband sold out to titans, dictators and shady characters in Nigeria, Congo, Kazakhstan and United Arab Emirates, not to mention at Goldman Sachs and TD Bank.
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