‘Clinton Cash’ author blasts Hillary’s weak excuses

The author of a bombshell book that’s dogged Hillary Clinton’s early presidential campaign blasted the former secretary of state this week after she stammered and equivocated her way through a series of interview questions about the Clinton Foundation’s ties to foreign donors.

“Clinton Cash” author Peter Scwheizer excoriated Clinton for her unintelligible, nonsensical and dismissive attempts at explaining and excusing how the family earns its living, questioning Tuesday in the New York Post whether Clinton is guilty either of “[g]rave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?”

Schweizer was responding to Clinton’s Sunday appearance on a local New Hampshire television news segment, in which her responses to an interviewer’s questions strained the credulity of anyone familiar with her family’s charity or her tenure at the State Department.

Here’s Schweizer’s take:

When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Clinton why her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government, Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia.

“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton.

The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?

That sort of response might appear illogical even to the uninformed viewer. But Schweizer is better attuned than most to the Clinton family’s recurring dalliances with legal and ethical boundaries. His book is thoroughly researched and, owing to its use of widely available information, almost impossible to refute.

In introducing “Clinton Cash,” Schweizer was unequivocal that the Clintons have leveraged their influence in ways that appear, on the surface, to be criminal:

Using publicly available sources, including financial records, tax records, government documents, and more, my research team and I have uncovered a repeated pattern of financial transactions coinciding with official actions favorable to Clinton contributors that is troubling enough to warrant (in my opinion) further investigation by law enforcement officers.

So how did Hillary fare Sunday when WMUR’s McElveen ask her about the ethics of Bill Clinton accepting a $500,000 speaking fee, from a Russian state-sanctioned bank, just after the Russians revealed the Uranium One deal? She punted with an alibi about bad timing that aspires to the sophistication and forethought conjured by time-honored excuses like “the dog ate my homework.”

Here’s Schweizer dismantling Clinton’s “the timing doesn’t work” plea:

… Clinton was asked about the Kremlin-backed bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a single speech delivered in Moscow. Hillary’s response? She dodged the question completely and instead offered this blurry evasion.

“The timing doesn’t work,” said Clinton. “It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state.”

Hillary added that such “allegations” are being “made by people who are wielding the partisan ax.”

The reason Hillary ignored addressing the $500,000 direct payment from the Kremlin-backed bank to her husband is because that payment occurred, as the Times confirms, “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One.”

And as for her comment that the timing of the uranium investors’ donations “doesn’t work” as a damning revelation: In fact, the timing works perfectly.

As “Clinton Cash” revealed and others have confirmed, Uranium One’s then-chief Ian Telfer made donations totaling $2.35 million that Hillary Clinton’s foundation kept hidden. Telfer’s donations occurred as Hillary’s State Department was considering the Uranium One deal.

There’s much more to chew on in Schweizer’s full article.

It’s interesting to note that Schweizer’s revelations are clearly on Hillary’s mind. For her to rejoin an interviewer with “the timing doesn’t work” — a ready (if laughable) response to a question first leveled by “Clinton Cash” — indicates that Team Hillary considers spinning the Clinton Foundation’s sketchy (and possibly treasonous) business plan a campaign imperative.

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