‘German
funds given to Clinton Foundation should be returned, used to keep illegal
migrants out’
Published
time: 29 Nov, 2016 15:24
Former U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton © Carlos Barria / Reuters
They
should just alert us to the nature of politics, why we don’t want political
decisions being made in these kinds of areas, why we don’t want bribes being
paid. I am glad for the exposure, Lew Rockwell, Editor of LewRockwell.com, told
RT.
The
Clinton foundation could face scrutiny when Donald Trump becomes president as
his administration reportedly plans to pressure foreign governments to probe
the group's financial dealings.
This
comes following claims that the foundation received money from the German
government prior to the presidential election.
RT: What’s
your take on these recent?
Lew
Rockwell: … Trump was right about Hillary being crooked, about the Clinton
foundation being crooked, and I don’t think we’ve begun to see how much money
was actually paid. So we know from the Department of the Environment and from
this other German agency – millions of Euros – they got much more money than
that from all different governments. The question is: why politics are corrupt.
It is not unusual for politicians to be paid off. They thought they were buying
- probably the most benign explanation - they thought they were buying
preferment from the future Clinton administration. This proves what the Clinton
Foundation actually was – a way to bribe Hillary Clinton and her aide Bill
Clinton.
But
I think maybe there is other stuff going on too. This was obviously not German
government agencies giving the money, even though it was the poor taxpayers
footing the bill. But it was individuals determining this to happen. Were these
guys going to personally profit; what kind of crookedness is there on the part
of the German politicians and German bureaucrats, as well as the
Americans? They should just alert us to the nature of politics, why we
don’t want political decisions being made in these kinds of areas, why we don’t
want bribes being paid. I am glad for the exposure… And how about getting it
back since they didn’t get the favors they expected, really shouldn’t the
Clintons give this money back to the German people? Maybe [the German people]
could use it to keep some of the migrants out. That would be a nice
change.
RT: Why
do you think one provided these so-called donations to the Clinton Foundation?
Did they expect something in return?
LR: Yes,
and we don’t know what the quantity of these so-called donations were – the
payoffs, the bribes. Of course it was an attempt not only to influence the
future Hillary administration, they must have assumed it would help her in the
campaign too, because of shared staffer and that sort of thing - but maybe much
more than that, we don’t know. All we know for sure is that it is crooked; it
is a criminal act against the German people, against the American people too
for that matter – payoffs from one politician to another using other people’s
money. Let’s bring it all out, expose it, let’s do what we can to try to stop
it in the future. And I would hope that Trump never sets up a ‘Trump
Foundation’ of such a crooked nature.
RT: Would
you agree with the statement that there are double standards in the American
political system, as well as in the mass media?
LR: I
do have to note that since the Washington Post has dubbed me a ‘Russian
propaganda agent’ take that into account with what I’m about to say. They
wanted to string Donald Trump up by the heels. They would have wanted to beat
him with a stick like one of those Trump piñatas.
These
people just blow it off – the American press, but perhaps, it is not a big deal
to them. If it would’ve been Trump, they would have introduced impeachment
articles against him the minute he was inaugurated. That would have just been
the beginning of the trouble. I don’t say that would not have been wrong,
because it would have showed he was crooked; he was in the pay of people who
should be in not customers of his businesses, but politicians...
Double
standard is not quite the phrase – it’s the unbelievable two-faced nature of
the American political system and everything Hillary does - no matter how
criminal and how crooked, how lying – it’s perfectly ok, it’s not a problem. If
Trump looks at somebody crooked, it is a world-class hate crime.
German
govt. was certain of Clinton's victory
Petr
Bystron, Alternative for Germany (Afd,) told RT that "the political
establishment was the whole time sure that Hillary Clinton will win the
elections."
RT: What’s
your take on the Trump’s actions in order to encourage foreign governments to
investigate the Clinton Foundation’s finances?
Petr
Bystron: Well, this is for us a great scandal. It is absolutely
unbelievable. We see that the political establishment, how far it is from the
sorrows of ordinary people. We see also the second point – how sure the
political establishment was the whole time that Hillary Clinton will win the
elections. We have proofs that, for example, the Minister of Defense, [Ursula]
von der Leyen, said one day after the election that they have absolutely no
contacts to the Trump teams. So all was focused on Hillary Clinton – the whole
German government was expecting Hillary Clinton to win the election, and it
explains how it was possible that the German ministry was spending money for
Clinton.
RT: According
to some reports, Clinton’s charity received the cash to develop a number of
projects in several African countries. Could you comment on that?
PB: The
ministry said that the money was for forest and re-cultivation projects in
Kenya and in Ethiopia. This is a joke. Why should the money go around the world
from Germany to the US just to arrive back in Africa then? There are many
German organizations who could do it better than The Clinton Foundation.
RT: Why
do you think countries like Germany are often engaged in incidents like this?
PB: Well,
the answer is quite clear and short: those countries are the closest allies and
the strongest followers of the USA.
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