Clinton Foundation Received Millions From Merkel Government
Between July and Sept. 2016, the German government gave up to $5M to the Clinton Foundation
Back in September when the travelling press corps asked Hillary Clinton who her favourite world leader was, she was quick to name German Chancellor Angela Merkel as her top choice — for good reasons. As Clinton was praising Mekrel, the German government was busy syphoning millions to the Clintons.
Between July and September 2016, unwitting German taxpayers gave as much as $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, Germany newspaper Die Welt reveals. Die Welt asked if Chancellor Merkel was trying to influence the outcome of U.S. presidential election.
According to a newly surfaced donor list, the Clinton charity received around $5 million from Germany’s Ministry for Environment. Ministry’s spokesperson said that they had “very positive experience” with the Clinton Foundation and the millions of dollars diverted to the Clintons were going to planting trees in countries like India, Mexico, and Vietnam.
The total amount of German taxpayer contribution to Clinton Foundation is not yet known. It is unclear if the Merkel government made further payments to the Clinton charity through other ministries or state-run agencies. German newspaper Die Welt details the government transaction:
The newly released list of donors show that Federal [German] Ministry for Environment transferred millions to the [Clinton] Foundation. In the third quarter of 2016, at the height of [Clinton’s] campaign, German taxpayers gave up to five million dollars to the family foundation.
Some observers believe that German government has some explaining to do for the donation that appears under the heading “Donors and Grantors”. “Why does a Ministry supports the election campaign of a U.S. presidential candidate?” asked Vera Lengsfeld — former civil rights activist and German parliamentarian — in her blog. “It seems German taxpayers unwittingly financed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.”
Environment Ministry however told DIE WELT that it “categorically doesn’t give any donations.” The said amount relates to “financing under the framework of [Germany’s] International Climate Initiative (IKI)” [Author’s translation]
After Republican candidate Donal Trump won the White House, Merkel’s investments went south.
Members of Merkel’s government have made no effort to hide their disgust for the new President-elect. Right before the U.S. election, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Republican candidate a “hate preacher.” Merkel’s second-in-command, Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned U.S. voters of impending doom if they were to elect Trump. Following Trump’s win, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas wrote on Twitter that the world was about to “get crazier.”
In her very first message to President-elect Trump, Merkel lectured him on gender, racial, and religious equality.
Since 1997, the Clinton Foundation has been able to collect and estimated $2 billion from corporations, rich donors, and foreign governments. State and non-state actors from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China were among foundation’s big donors.
Foreign donations — or as the Clintons affectionately calls them, “gifts” — have taken a nose dive since Clinton lost her presidential bid. Why this sudden dip in interest for “tree planting” activity in India and Mexico? One does wonder.
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Two witches from the same coven.
Birds of a feather…
Perhaps a payoff for Obama’s progressive wars and gerrymandering through immigration “reform”.
Good luck to the Germans. Good luck to the Syrians. It seems that Russia has your six. Hopefully, this will mark the beginning of the end of mass abortions, immigration reform, and opportunistic regime change.
Two crooked women supporting each other.
I don’t support Merkel’s socialism or her disastrous immigration policy, but I can maintain a certain respect her nonetheless because at least she earned a doctorate in physical chemistry. Pchem is not for dummies. Perhaps this just underscores how badly educated elites can screw things up, but somehow I find any comparison of Hillary and Merkel irritating. At least Merkel busted her ass becoming a REAL educated elite instead of a phony one like Hillary.
If they get stuck in the same cell which one will cry cruel and unusual punishment first?
Notice that the German Ministry for Environment was used to make the pay-off. The Environmental departments of more than one government have been treated as personal piggy-banks.
Merkel and Clinton? There is no comparison.
Merkel, while a loon, is a highly competent.
Hillary Clinton is a loser, and a pathetic one.
But for Clinton being married to Bill, she’d have been disbarred long ago, and working in a telephone boiler room selling swampland or scam penny stocks.
The warped Merkel, on the other hand, would be teaching at Harvard.
Merkel, while a loon, is a highly competent.
In what sense?
I’ve never seen anything in Merkel but another government drone with no obvious talents.
There are several ways one can drift to the top in a parliamentary government. As a dynamic leader (like, say, William Pit the Elder, a.k.a. Lord Chatham), as a silver-tongued devil (considered valuable in parliamentary debate, which tends to consist mainly of sophisticated insults of your opponents—think David Lloyd George), or as a compromise candidate who nobody much likes but nobody actually hates, either, and who seems amenable to control until it’s too late (like, maybe, Merkel).
Unfortunately for Germany and the West, Merkel has proven herself adept at survival and implementation.
Clinton, on the other hand, is a fu-k-up. If she didn’t have Bill’s coattails to ride on, no one except jurors in the jurisdiction she’d likely wind up being tried in for some financial crime, would ever hear of her.