Anyone who knows Hillary Clinton knows Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal (or Sid Vicious as he's known in DC) is one of Hillary's long time friends and advisers. He helped organize Bill Clinton's defense during the impeachment. He also worked high up in Hillary's 2008 campaign against Obama. In fact, when president Obama named Clinton as secretary of state, one of the rules on which he insisted was that Blumenthal could not become a State Department employee. Sid Vicious had just been too nasty towards Obama to allow him into the Obama administration.
So what was Hillary to do? She certainly did not want to just follow the rules set down by the president. Instead, she did what she always does and ignored the rules. First, she got Sid a consulting job with the Clinton foundation. Blumenthal worked just part time at most, but he got many hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from the "charitable" donations made to the foundation. Then when Hillary left the State Department and began planning her run for president, she had Blumenthal shift to giving "advice" to other organizations. For example, Sid became a consultant providing advice to Media Matters for America. That's the organization of David Brock, the rabid Clinton supporter who often acts at the main attack dog of Mrs. Clinton.
According to the Democrats on the House Benghazi committee, Blumenthal admitted that he was paid over $200,000 per year for providing advice on occasion to Brock's organization. And this was not Blumenthal's only Clinton related job. Overall, he got an enormous payday just for being Hillary's friend.
It's really unseemly to think that Hillary is paying her henchmen such extravagant sums. Even a far left outlet like the LA Times expressed discomfort at the big payday given to someone like Blumenthal.
Just imagine what four years of Hillary would be like.
So what was Hillary to do? She certainly did not want to just follow the rules set down by the president. Instead, she did what she always does and ignored the rules. First, she got Sid a consulting job with the Clinton foundation. Blumenthal worked just part time at most, but he got many hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from the "charitable" donations made to the foundation. Then when Hillary left the State Department and began planning her run for president, she had Blumenthal shift to giving "advice" to other organizations. For example, Sid became a consultant providing advice to Media Matters for America. That's the organization of David Brock, the rabid Clinton supporter who often acts at the main attack dog of Mrs. Clinton.
According to the Democrats on the House Benghazi committee, Blumenthal admitted that he was paid over $200,000 per year for providing advice on occasion to Brock's organization. And this was not Blumenthal's only Clinton related job. Overall, he got an enormous payday just for being Hillary's friend.
It's really unseemly to think that Hillary is paying her henchmen such extravagant sums. Even a far left outlet like the LA Times expressed discomfort at the big payday given to someone like Blumenthal.
Just imagine what four years of Hillary would be like.
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