Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Friday that he’s blown away by all the money the Clintons made after they left the White House, as revealed in new emails published by WikiLeaks.
The Trump adviser said on Fox News Friday what “knocks my socks off is [Bill Clinton] and Hillary gained $153 million in speaking fees alone since he left the White House. That is just unbelievable. People feel correctly that our leaders are spending too much time worrying about rich people and big fees and not enough time about their own interests and America’s interest.”
Doug Band, who helped start the Clinton Foundation, described in a 2011 memo how President Clinton’s “business arrangements have yielded more than $30 million for him personally, with $66 million to be paid out over the next nine years should he choose to continue with the current arrangements.” Band wrote he served independently of the nonprofit as Clinton’s agent for these for-profit activities.
“These numbers are a surprise to me,” said Sessions “I knew he was making a lot of money on speeches for political reasons and connections, that people were paying not for the value of his speech. But those are stunning numbers.”
Sessions argued that the “American people feel is this is in a way a real corruption. It corrupts the purity of the interests of our leaders. They spend too much time raising money.”
“We’ve got do better about that. A lot of this money comes from foreign countries, which is doubly troubling,” Sessions said. “Donald Trump’s proposals ought to tighten up dramatically the ability of foreign companies and lobbyists to fund politicians in the United States.”
