Subject: Re: Hillary Clinton says she’s unlike the ‘truly well off’ - The Washington Post
From: "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:46:40 -0400

This is a joke, right. Just say you're fortunate to have the means you've
earned and stop trying to play the poor card. Good grief.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> If the Dems need a Presidential candidate who is “poor” by comparison, I
> got just the guy…...
>
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/22/hillary-clinton-says-shes-unlike-the-truly-well-off/?hpid=z5
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> Hillary Clinton says she’s unlike the ‘truly well off’
>
> Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Susan Walsh/Associated
> Press)
>
> Hillary Rodham Clinton defended scrutiny on her and her husband’s personal
> wealth by contrasting herself in an interview published Sunday with other
> multimillionaires who are “truly well off.”
>
> The comment immediately drew scorn from Republicans, who have highlighted
> a series of stumbles the former secretary of state and potential 2016
> Democratic presidential candidate has made on her book tour this month when
> talking about her personal fortune and six-figure speaking fees.
>
> In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/-sp-hillary-clinton-interview-will-she-run-for-president-2016>,
> Clinton was asked whether she could be a credible champion for fighting
> income inequality in the United States despite her wealth.
>
> “But they don’t see me as part of the problem,” she told the paper,
> “because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly
> well off, not to name names; and we’ve done it through dint of hard work.”
> The Guardian wrote that Clinton let off “another burst of laughter” in
> answering the question, suggesting that she found the question “painful.”
>
> Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have earned well
> over $100 million giving paid speeches and writing books since leaving the
> White House in 2001.
>
> Clinton’s quote could be interpreted in multiple ways. Rather than
> suggesting that she is not “truly well off,” she may be counting herself
> among the “truly well off” but saying that she, unlike other
> multimillionaires, pays “ordinary income tax.” A Clinton spokesman did not
> respond to a request for clarification of her remarks.
>
> Still, mentioning that she pays taxes as a defense of her wealth is
> striking considering that Bloomberg News reported last week
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-17/wealthy-clintons-use-trusts-to-limit-estate-tax-they-back.html>
> that the Clintons use “financial planning strategies befitting the top 1
> percent of U.S. households in wealth” to shield some of their wealth from
> standard estate taxes.
>
> Hillary Clinton’s speaking fee is $200,000 or more – and although the
> advance for her latest book, “Hard Choices,” has not been released, she
> received an $8 million advance for her first memoir, “Living History.”
>
> Republican operatives pounced on Clinton’s comments to the Guardian,
> saying it is the latest example of her being out of touch with the
> struggles of working Americans.
>
> “If Hillary is going to run for President she might be advised to take a
> lengthy sabbatical from her $200k per pop speaking tour and private
> shopping sprees at Bergdorfs to try and reconnect with what’s happening
> back here on Earth,” Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising, a
> Republican super PAC leading the attack against Clinton, wrote in an e-mail
> to reporters.
>
> Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and adviser to past presidential
> campaigns, tweeted: “Hillary’s so out of touch, she doesnt know shes out of
> touch. That she doesnt think she’s ‘really well off’ is crazy.”
>
> And Ryan Williams, a former spokesman to 2012 Republican presidential
> nominee Mitt Romney, tweeted: “Despite widespread mockery, the tone deaf
> Hillary Clinton poverty tour soldiers on.”
>
> Clinton’s allies defended her remarks to the Guardian by comparing her
> financial situation with that of Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican
> presidential nominee, who kept millions of dollars in accounts in the
> Cayman Islands and other foreign locales.
>
> “Secretary Clinton’s point is about paying your fair share in taxes,
> unlike leading Republicans who try to evade tax responsibilities using
> offshore loopholes,” said Adrienne Elrod, communications director for
> Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton super PAC.
>
> At the start of her book tour this month, Clinton sparked a conversation
> about her wealth by saying in an interview with ABC News that she and her
> husband were “dead broke” when they left the White House under a mountain
> of legal debt and “struggled” to buy two homes and pay for their daughter’s
> college education.
>
>

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