Foreign Clinton Foundation donors received $165 billion in arms deals from Hillary’s State Department

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There are new questions about whether there was quid pro quo involving then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign governments linking donations to the Clinton Foundation and arms deals.

According to the International Business Times, Saudi Arabia received a huge arms deal of $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets. They were just one of the 20 nations who donated to the Clinton Foundation and went on to receive more than $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales during the tenure of Clinton as Secretary of State.

The deal with Saudi Arabia infuriated the Israelis because they felt the large sale of weapons to the Saudis would disrupt the balance of power in the Middle East.

But despite objections, Clinton’s State Department cleared the sale stating it was important for national security. In fact, Andrew Shapiro, an assistant secretary of state, said at a press conference that the deal was a “top priority” for Clinton personally.

While the Saudis donated more than $10 million to the Clinton Foundation before Clinton’s appointment, they didn’t stop once she became the Secretary of State. One time they donated nearly a million dollars just months before finalizing a deal to buy some Boeing fighter jets, according to the IBT report.

During the three years Clinton served as Secretary of State, nations who had donated to the Clinton Foundation received nearly double the arms sales as compared to a three-year period during the Bush administration.

That doesn’t even include separate arms deals by the Pentagon that the Clinton-led State Department authorized. They allowed the sale of $151 billion worth of arms to 16 countries who had donated to the Clinton Foundation. Those arm sales were also a massive 143 percent increase from the same period of George W. Bush administration.

Some of these countries include Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, and Qatar, even though their human rights abuses and failure to fight terrorism had strongly been criticized by the State Department.

Foreign governments that donated to the Clinton Foundation weren’t the only ones to benefit from the former Secretary’s generosity.

American defense contractors that were donors to the foundation or had just paid Bill Clinton for speaking fees also received Pentagon-negotiated deals authorized by Hillary’s State Department.

Bill  received $2.5 million in speaking fees from 13 companies lobbying the State Department while Hillary was its secretary.

Before joining the State Department, Clinton had to sign an agreement that forced her to disclose to the State Department these donations from foreign governments, including new donors and increases in existing donors.

The State Department and the White House both claimed to review the donations, according to IBT, but both found no issues relating to arms sales.