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In reply to the discussion: Can you spell tone deaf? H-I-L-L-A-R-Y. Hillary Clinton: We Were 'Dead Broke' Upon Leaving WH [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)You, on the other hand? false accusations are your metier.
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Perhaps she intended to commiserate with the down and out. But the Clintons were no middle-class family in extremis. Bill Clintons salary as Arkansas governor was limited. (That was among the reasons the Clintons gave for investing in the Whitewater real estate development that made them targets of a grand jury and an independent prosecutor in the 1990s.) And the Clintons did leave the White House with abundant debts, mostly to lawyers (another legacy of the 1990s).
But President Clinton left office more than 13 years ago, and more than a decade before Hillary Clinton began her whirlwind of speeches. Both have written books that earned them millions, on top of his presidential pension and her Senate and secretary of State salaries. No one forced them to buy two large homes, one in Washington and the other in New York.
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