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Emails: Foundation 'resources' used for Chelsea Clinton's wedding

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An email released by WikiLeaks on Sunday appears to show a former top aide to Bill Clinton arguing that an investigation into Clinton Foundation spending would show that Chelsea Clinton used foundation resources for her own wedding.
The email, stolen from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta and published by WikiLeaks, shows a back-and-forth between Podesta and Doug Band, a former aide to Bill Clinton.
Band said he heard that Chelsea Clinton was "conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi [Clinton Global Initiative] to the foundation." He said he was hearing more "chatter" about how Chelsea was talking about internal issues like that, and said it was "not smart."
In a later follow-up to Podesta, Band wrote, "The investigation into her getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents..."

"I hope that you will speak to her and end this," Band added. "Once we go down this road..."
Other emails showed Band feuding with Chelsea Clinton. For instance, Clinton had warned that Band was using Bill Clinton's name without his consent to win clients to his firm, and Band replied by saying Chelsea was a "spoiled brat kid."
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Emails: Foundation 'resources' used for Chelsea Clinton's wedding | Washington Examiner!

From the originally posted email on Wikileaks:

From:doug@presidentclinton.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com CC: terry@tdmca.com, cheryl.mills@gmail.com Date: 2012-01-04 21:45 Subject: Re: I learned from the best The investigation into her getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents.... I hope that you will speak to her and end this Once we go down this road....
----- Original Message -----
From: John Podesta [mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 05:00 PM To: Doug Band Cc: terry@tdmca.com <terry@tdmca.com>; cheryl.mills@gmail.com <cheryl.mills@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: You are perfecting your skills for understatement.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM,
Doug Band <doug@presidentclinton.com> wrote: >
I just received a call from a close friend of wjcs who said that cvc told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the foundation > The bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the republican party > > I have heard more and more chatter of cvc and bari talking about lots of what is going on internally to people > > Not smart
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https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046

I was giving Chelsea credit for trying to run a clean organization. Maybe I was giving her to much credit.

Cost of her wedding:
Chelsea Clinton Wedding: The Extravagance and the Price Tag | The Fiscal Times
But A-list weddings come with a hefty price tag. Estimates put the total between $2 million and $5 million, including $750,000 for catering, $250,000 for flowers, and another $250,000 for the rehearsal dinner, according to an ABC News report (see sidebar for a full breakdown of costs). “This wedding has all of the bells and whistles of a typical celebrity wedding – and more,” says Millie Bratten, editor in chief of Brides magazine. “It’s not uncommon for the costs to run into the millions, which is good news for the local business of Reinbeck,” she added.
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Yeah, kind of elitist and illegal. Just kind of.
 
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The e-mails thing is getting a bit old. I greatly dislike Hillary, but honestly... it's starting to look like grasping at straws. Trump just had a restraining order filed against him and there are multiple pending cases of sexual assault. (I don't believe all of them, but still, even if just one is accurate it's too many.) He also has many fascist qualities.

It's pretty obvious at this point that Hillary has been groomed for the Presidency by those running the show, and Trump is just a prop to get her there. What they probably didn't expect is that Trump would actually get this much support, which is why they keep smearing him more and more with new damning information.

This election cycle is showing us two things:
1) How bloody corrupt our election system is.
2) How stupid America has become.
3) On some level the vote still matters, which is why this level of coercion of the People is required.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Emails: Foundation 'resources' used for Chelsea Clinton's wedding | Washington Examiner!

From the originally posted email on Wikileaks:


https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046

I was giving Chelsea credit for trying to run a clean organization. Maybe I was giving her to much credit.

Cost of her wedding:
Chelsea Clinton Wedding: The Extravagance and the Price Tag | The Fiscal Times


Yeah, kind of elitist and illegal. Just kind of.
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I wish these had come out before President not-Hillary meant President Trump by default.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
I think you are giving too much credibility to Wikileaks.
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Actually I am not.

Errata Security: Yes, we can validate the Wikileaks emails
Recently, WikiLeaks has released emails from Democrats. Many have repeatedly claimed that some of these emails are fake or have been modified, that there's no way to validate each and every one of them as being true. Actually, there is, using a mechanism called DKIM.
DKIM is a system designed to stop spam. It works by verifying the sender of the email. Moreover, as a side effect, it verifies that the email has not been altered.
Hillary's team uses "hillaryclinton.com", which as DKIM enabled. Thus, we can verify whether some of these emails are true.
Recently, in response to a leaked email suggesting Donna Brazile gave Hillary's team early access to debate questions, she defended herself by suggesting the email had been "doctored" or "falsified". That's not true. We can use DKIM to verify it.
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I’ve heard claims that emails released by Wikileaks have been doctored. I decided to try to try to test this.
Email has hidden data

From most people’s perspective Email messages have a date, to, from, subject, and body. There is potentially a lot more information that isn’t shown to users. They can also have an arbitrary number of attachments, alternative views like HTML vs plain text, an arbitrary amount of metadata, and a log of how the message got from sender to receiver. Messages often have more invisible than visible information, and some of that can be used to check the authenticity of a message. Much of the data is checked routinely in an effort to block SPAM. The default view on Wikileaks doesn’t have any of this extra data, but with a little digging I found the raw originals were available for download.
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Verifying Wikileaks DKIM-Signatures
 
Northern Light said:
The e-mails thing is getting a bit old. I greatly dislike Hillary, but honestly... it's starting to look like grasping at straws. Trump just had a restraining order filed against him and there are multiple pending cases of sexual assault. (I don't believe all of them, but still, even if just one is accurate it's too many.) He also has many fascist qualities.

It's pretty obvious at this point that Hillary has been groomed for the Presidency by those running the show, and Trump is just a prop to get her there. What they probably didn't expect is that Trump would actually get this much support, which is why they keep smearing him more and more with new damning information.

This election cycle is showing us two things:
1) How bloody corrupt our election system is.
2) How stupid America has become.
3) On some level the vote still matters, which is why this level of coercion of the People is required.
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4) how much of the media is merely an extension of the political parties, and just how dishonest they are willing to be in order to push that parties agenda. Average credibility has sunk to Faux News levels.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
I meant in what they consider scandals.

This is hardly new or earthshaking revalations they are making.
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I would say that using Clinton Foundation charity funds for a multi million dollar wedding would be scandalous.
 
NonoBadDog said:
I would say that using Clinton Foundation charity funds for a multi million dollar wedding would be scandalous.
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Would you agree using Trump Foundation money to buy a portrait of yourself is scandalous, as well?
 
shagg said:
4) how much of the media is merely an extension of the political parties, and just how dishonest they are willing to be in order to push that parties agenda. Average credibility has sunk to Faux News levels.
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When a small group owns the entire media, the parties are beholden to them to get their message out. It's the beginning of autocratic states.

Murdock and his group own about 70% of U.S. media. If he decides he likes one candidate over the other, then the news will reflect that.

These are dangerous times for our democracy, what's left of it.
 
Fenton said:
Really ? Then why is the Hillary campaign pushing the fake Email narrative all of the sudden ?? Because these new revelations are so benign ??
Clinton campaign: Ignore 'whopper' emails from WikiLeaks in last 2 days - Business Insider

Oh, and great strategy Clinton campaign, you know because it worked so well for Donna Brazille
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Donna and Bernie and Podesta and Epstein and Haiti and WJC and Carlos and Huma and all of the other trashcans who make up the Demo/Socialist rosters.

"Denial is a powerful aphrodisiac. Most Libbos are addicted." --Anon
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Not simple enough to translate into sound bites.
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Here is a soundbite for ya:
Clinton foundation claims to save children with donated money from other people but actually uses it for elitist lifestyle wedding.
 
Geoist said:
Would you agree using Trump Foundation money to buy a portrait of yourself is scandalous, as well?
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If you want to talk about Trump start a thread.
 
NonoBadDog said:
If you want to talk about Trump start a thread.
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Well, clearly this is a big issue for you (after all, you started a thread). So now that you know Trump did the same thing I am assuming you will be going back to the polling place to vote third party.
 
Geoist said:
Well, clearly this is a big issue for you (after all, you started a thread). So now that you know Trump did the same thing I am assuming you will be going back to the polling place to vote third party.
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And yet you want to talk about Trump. Are you attempting to derail the thread? You can't rebut the OP so this is the rail you want to go down. That is called |diversion".
 
NonoBadDog said:
And yet you want to talk about Trump. Are you attempting to derail the thread? You can't rebut the OP so this is the rail you want to go down.
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Derail the thread? We are talking about misuse of foundation money, here.
 
Geoist said:
Derail the thread? We are talking about misuse of foundation money, here.
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Clinton Foundation money, not Trump Foundation money. They are two different entities.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Emails: Foundation 'resources' used for Chelsea Clinton's wedding | Washington Examiner!

From the originally posted email on Wikileaks:


https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046

I was giving Chelsea credit for trying to run a clean organization. Maybe I was giving her to much credit.

Cost of her wedding:
Chelsea Clinton Wedding: The Extravagance and the Price Tag | The Fiscal Times


Yeah, kind of elitist and illegal. Just kind of.
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Chelsea Privately Declared War On Clinton Foundation in 2011
 
NonoBadDog said:
Clinton Foundation money, not Trump Foundation money. They are two different entities.
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So Trump can do it but Clinton can't. Got it.

Btw, I refuse to vote for either Clinton or Trump. Too bad you can only see the bad done by one, but not the other. Too bad you proudly proclaim on your sig you voted for the man who did the very same thing you criticize Clinton for. :roll:
 
Geoist said:
So Trump can do it but Clinton can't. Got it.

Btw, I refuse to vote for either Clinton or Trump. Too bad you can only see the bad done by one, but not the other. Too bad you proudly proclaim on your sig you voted for the man who did the very same thing you criticize Clinton for. :roll:
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Now you are just trolling and not doing a very good job of it at that.
 
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