Hillary Clinton is very upset that conservatives are trying to tear down her favorite bank, as my colleague Pete Kasperowicz reported.
It’s not hard to imagine why. For one thing, Ex-Im subsidizes the company that funds Clinton, Inc. Lachlan Markay at the Free Beacon has some details:
[T]he largest beneficiary of Ex-Im subsidies is airline giant Boeing, which has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. Another top beneficiary, General Electric, has given between $500,000 and $1 million. …
The top foreign beneficiary is state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex, a Clinton Foundation donor. Second on the list is Emirates Airline, the state-owned airline of the United Arab Emirates, a seven-figure donor.
French bank BNP Paribas, also a Clinton Foundation contributor, has provided Ex-Im-guaranteed loans for a number of companies on [Veronique] De Rugy’s list, including Emirates, Pemex, Irish airline RyanAir, and Refinería de Cartagena S.A., a subsidiary of Colombia’s state-owned oil company.
Republicans, in control of Congress, have a chance to kill off this pipeline of cash to Clinton, Inc., because Ex-Im’s charter expires June 30 unless Congress passes a bill reauthorizing the agency.
