monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

But they claim, incredibly, that this was simply their going rate for lectures.

My point is that I'd like you to answer my question.

Quote:

Did they claim to have made this money from book sales?

You initially asked how they could make that much money from speeches. I asked you who had made the claim that this was their sole income source. You aren't answering that question.

Quote:

And those must have been some fantastic investments. Hillary described them as being in financial straits when Bill left office. Weren't they, in fact, repeatedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches, many by foreign groups?

Yes, they are paid ridiculous sums for speeches as are hundreds of others who give speeches (mainly to corporate groups who have the deep pockets). The Clintons are not unusual in this regard though at the top end of the pay scale.

Look, you can find out where the Clinton's income comes from with a simple google search. Just avoid the bad sources. Forbes, for example, has a graph HERE

Yet, there is no investigation of them for the possibility of influence peddling, yet Trump has been investigated for the better part of a year, with no incriminating fact found, for colluding with the Russians to fix the election.

Quote:

Yet, there is no investigation of them for the possibility of influence peddling, yet Trump has been investigated for the better part of a year, with no incriminating fact found, for colluding with the Russians to fix the election.

Which part pisses you off more?

But don't worry, it's all a dog and pony show. No president has been hung for their war crimes so do you really think anything will come of this for any higher up?

...the slow and tedious accumulation of information....

I think you guys are actually skeert of them finding something incriminating.

US using 'annihilation tactics' in final stages of ISIS fight in Mosul, Mattis says

“Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations. And the bottom line is we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot,” Mattis said in a televised interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Sunday the U.S. has switched to “annihilation tactics” against the Islamic State and is focused on completely surrounding the militants instead of moving them from place to place.

“Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations. And the bottom line is we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot,” Mattis said in a televised interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

He said the goal was to take out the militants before they could flee to neighboring countries.

“Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We’re not going to allow them to do so. We’re going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate,” Mattis said.

Does anyone here believe that two honest people could make $100 million in 15 years just by giving speeches?

Yet, there is no investigation of them for the possibility of influence peddling

The most feared possible blackmailer during the time I was growing up was the USSR. I was performing nuclear war drills as often as fire drills in school. China wasn't talked about that much, but probably should've been. The ME wasn't even on my radar until the hostage crisis my senior year in high school. A failure of education.