Fact check on Clinton 2001 rumor: "A conservative website called Radix News posted this graphic on its Facebook page:
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"The Clintons also accepted $190,027 worth of gifts to help fill their two new houses, in Chappaqua and Georgetown, while taking some furniture which donors had deeded to the White House not to its temporary occupants. Clinton’s blurred boundaries between himself and his office, along with an odd match between the Clintons’ neediness and their supporters’ fawning, fed what the conservative Barbara Olson* called “this final frenzy.” Despite his pending $10 million book deal and her $8 million advance, despite six-figure post-presidential speaking fees looming, the Clintons felt “broke.” As much as $14 million in legal bills, for a couple who never had any significant assets, was daunting but for them manageable." . . .
*killed on 9-11 aboard Flight 77 when it hit the Pentagon.
" 'After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen.' " . . .
In fact checking the above article, we came across this reminder of the Clinton character and their qualifications for the White House.
George Will remarked that Bill Clinton was “not the worst president we ever had, just the worst person who was ever president.”Gil Troy "American Historian "The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s' ".
"I heard someone say that the Clintons had stolen items or "taken them on accident" after they left the white house in 2001. Are these allegations true, and if so, what did the list of items taken consist of?""One of the bizarre things about both Clintons is that they combine a grandeur and generosity with a smallness and pettiness that they cannot see because of their genuine good works and their Baby Boomer self-righteousness. The way they left the White House was simply shocking, especially after the intense scrutiny they endured -- and knew they were still under. As he retired, President Clinton issued 176 pardons and sentence commutations. He pardoned his brother Roger Clinton as well as Marc Rich, the fugitive financier living in Switzerland charged with 51 counts of tax evasion.
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"The Clintons also accepted $190,027 worth of gifts to help fill their two new houses, in Chappaqua and Georgetown, while taking some furniture which donors had deeded to the White House not to its temporary occupants. Clinton’s blurred boundaries between himself and his office, along with an odd match between the Clintons’ neediness and their supporters’ fawning, fed what the conservative Barbara Olson* called “this final frenzy.” Despite his pending $10 million book deal and her $8 million advance, despite six-figure post-presidential speaking fees looming, the Clintons felt “broke.” As much as $14 million in legal bills, for a couple who never had any significant assets, was daunting but for them manageable." . . .
*killed on 9-11 aboard Flight 77 when it hit the Pentagon.
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