In 2010/2011 Saudi Arabia was trying to secure one of largest arms deal ever between a US company and a ME country. The deal was worth 29.4 BILLION dollars to Boeing and had to be approved by the State Department - specifically Hillary Clinton.
Regional allies were sceptical; Robert Gates wrote in his book that Israel had to be bribed to stop them from publicly attacking the deal. They worried the deal would destabilise the region. And in fact the State Department released two reports during this period, outlining just how atrocious SA was, with it's endless human rights abuses, mass executions, and endless subjugation of women.
Saudi Arabia donated at least 10m (some sources say as much as 25M) to the Clinton Foundation (CF).
Boeing donated at least 10M to the CF.
Boeing also paid Bill 250K for a single speech.
And Hillary signed off on the deal.
When she did, she and her aides celebrated, and publicly admitted that the weapons deal was a "top priority". Not helping women in SA, not defending human rights, but signing off on a deal worth billions between two Foundation donors.
Hillary was confirmed in 2008, with the understanding that the CF would disclose ALL donors, to avoid even the look of impropriety. In fact Hillary signed an Memorandum of Understanding - a written promise to the President, that the donor list would be made public annually. Hillary broke that promise and stopped reporting CF donors. the Foundation also concealed over 1100 foreign donors by siphoning their money through a Canadian charity owned by yet another big donor.
Hillary's first big hire for her 2016 Presidential run was her Campaign Chairman, John Podesta. John and his brother Tony own one of DC's biggest lobbying firms. Tony has bundled many hundreds of thousands for Hillary and the DNC and (DSCC, etc). The Podesta groups, as the lobbying firm is known, counts among it's clients both Boeing and Saudi Arabia.
Oh and hey, those weapons Clinton signed off on, they're now being used to commit war crimes in Yemen. Two of the main groups benefiting from those Saudi military strikes in Yemen? ISIS and al Qaeda.
Every single bit of this is easily verifiable with simple google searches, and yet none of it has been brought up in a single interview or debate... Now you may think that this is all a bunch of co-incidences, or that there’s not documented proof of a relationship between getting 10s of millions from groups, while being asked to sign off on government contracts between these groups. You may ALSO think that hiring the guy who owns the lobbying firm that represents these groups as your campaign chairman is innocent. And sure, you may even think that taking hundreds of grand from lobbyists that represent foreign countries is legal.
But.
There’s no way that this behavior ^^^ is liberal or progressive. Obscuring donors, taking money from donors while signing off on weapons deals that benefit those donors, calling weapons sales to countries that oppress women and minorities a “top priority”? And this is just one example. If you claim to be a progressive or a liberal I’m hard pressed to understand supporting someone that behaves like this. I certainly won’t be.
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