The Chris Moeller Archives

The next step

MSNBC missed this one.

Hillary Clinton has refused to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sacs, we know this, but there's much more. The Clinton's son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, was the recipient of a financial gift of an undisclosed sum from Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankstein, an investment in Mezvinsky's fledgling hedge fund in 2011, along with the permission to use that investment in marketing the product. Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton were married in 2010, and Hillary served as U.S. Secretary of State at that time.

The Clinton campaign, it's not surprising, will not disclose how much Blankstein invested, but we already know that Goldman has made donations of at least $2.5 million to Hillary and/or Bill in speaking fees and to the Clinton Foundation, and SEC filings by the investment firm indicate that the minimum investment allowed by Mezvinsky was $2 million.

The Clintons' career-long attempts to personally enrich themselves at the trough of American politics has now infected its second generation. In the wake of the State Department's public denunciation of Hillary's email violations, Clinton's refusal to testify in the proceedings, the looming FBI investigation, the campaign's cover-up, lies, and obfuscation, and its laughable suggestion that politics was the motivation behind the findings of the inspector general, an Obama appointee, it becomes decisively clear that Clinton should immediately end her campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination or risk the general election being lost to the right-wing authoritarian, Donald Trump.

posted by CM @ 10:31 AM