$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Not really. There's proof she and Bill took money for speeches. Even your girl $arah Palin takes $100K and Rudy Guiliani makes $270K per speech.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/17/the_...avies_partner/

For that matter, Hillary gets $200k per speech, but The Donald gets $1.5 million per speech. Does that mean he's 7.5X more bought and sold than Hillary?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/washi...?id=24551590#1

Of course not. “The Donald earned a staggering $1.5 million per speech at The Learning Annex’s ‘real estate wealth expos’ in 2006 and 2007,” according to Forbes. “Trump appeared at 17 seminars and collected this fee for each one.”

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

Of course not. “The Donald earned a staggering $1.5 million per speech at The Learning Annex’s ‘real estate wealth expos’ in 2006 and 2007,” according to Forbes. “Trump appeared at 17 seminars and collected this fee for each one.”

Is that the same thing as what the Clinton's did?

If it is, I don't see it.

Trump wasn't even a political figure back then.

How could there be some expectation that in return for these fees he was going to someday get himself elected and do favors in return?

And who pays for these fees at seminars like this?

Gullible schmucks that pay big bucks to listen to some huckster tell them they too can make all their dreams come true, all they gotta do is stand is front of the mirror in the morning and tell themselves they're awesome.

It's just one of those many scams based on P.T. Barnum's observation that '"there's a sucker born every minute." Yeah, it's sleazy, but it's not the same as the Political "Pay to Play" game.