{"id":17138,"date":"2016-09-21T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17138"},"modified":"2016-09-21T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:10:28","slug":"wealth-an-issue-in-this-run-for-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17138","title":{"rendered":"Wealth an issue in this run for the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One candidate for the U.S. presidency, the Republican, keeps harping on his “fabulous” wealth.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump likes to boast about all the dough he has made in business, erecting tall buildings and getting his name slapped on the sides of them. It’s that boasting and braggadocio that make the release of his income tax returns a campaign issue … that and the questions about whether he’s paying his fair share of taxes and with which foreign governments he’s been doing business.<\/p>\n

Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, on the other hand, has said a number of other<\/em> things about her wealth. She has claimed to have been “dead broke” when she and her husband exited the White House in January 2001.Then she said she isn’t “truly well off.”<\/p>\n

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She’s pretty damn “well off” now. Collecting six-figure speaking fees every time she or her husband, the former president, stands before a microphone adds up quickly.<\/p>\n

Now, am I as concerned about her wealth as I am about Trump’s stubborn refusal to release his tax returns? Not at all.<\/p>\n

Hillary and Bill Clinton have released their returns. The public has seen where and how they have acquired their wealth. They haven’t enriched themselves through the Clinton Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative.<\/p>\n

Yes, the “dead broke” statement was troubling. You know and I know she and her husband weren’t “dead broke” in the way many Americans understand the meaning of the term. Heck, they were able to secure financing to purchase a high-end home after they left the White House; lenders don’t dole out money to those who are “dead broke,” if\u00a0you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

However, her financial portfolio is an open book. Hillary Clinton’s role in the various works of the foundation and the CGI have been scrutinized to the nth degree.<\/p>\n

Trump, on the other hand, remains a man of mystery regarding his supposedly vast holdings.<\/p>\n

He keeps bragging about them. In public. For all to hear.<\/em><\/p>\n

Inquiring minds want to know the truth behind the bluster.<\/p>\n\n

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One candidate for the U.S. presidency, the Republican, keeps harping on his “fabulous” wealth. Donald J. Trump likes to boast about all the dough he has made in business, erecting tall buildings and getting his name slapped on the sides of them. It’s that boasting and braggadocio that make the release of his income tax … Continue reading Wealth an issue in this run for the White House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[6533,1034,1424,2139,2343],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cgi","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-irs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17141,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}