[FOX] Former President Bill Clinton quietly made a detour from his wife Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to give a private speech at a medical conference sponsored by a Democratic donor and contributor to the Clinton Foundation, the FOX Business Network has learned.
A spokesman for the former president confirmed to FBN that Clinton is scheduled to speak Monday night at the Breakthroughs in Medicine & Technology Summit, which is designed to "have interactive conversations about breakthroughs in medicine and technology that will greatly impact humanity, industry and economy on a global basis," according to the event website.
The conference is the brain child of Patrick Soon-Shiong, a surgeon and professor at UCLA and a billionaire entrepreneur worth a reported $12 billion. He is currently the chief executive of NantHealth, a health care technology company, part owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team as well as a second-largest shareholder of Tronc, formerly the Tribune Company.
The former president’s conference attendance comes as his wife is nearing the home stretch of her 2016 presidential campaign against GOP challenger Donald Trump. The move raised some eyebrows among the attendees at the event held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Clintons have come under fire for accepting high-dollar speaking fees from major corporations like Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS), including those that regularly do business with the federal government and may seek advantages if she wins the 2016 election.
The political couple’s charitable organization, the Clinton Foundation, has also landed them in hot water in recent months. Big donors to the charity have been found to have conducted business with the federal government during Hillary’s time serving as secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
[NYPOST] The Clinton campaign is gearing up for Donald Trump "to bet everything on one final, major attack," according to a fundraising email sent Monday morning by campaign manager Robby Mook.
Mook has come to this conclusion, he writes, because Trump has raised a ton of money but hasn’t spent anything on TV ads.
"Last month, Trump and the GOP raised over $80 million. And he hasn’t spent one dollar on any TV advertising. I’m not exaggerating -- literally since the general election began, he hasn’t spent any money whatsoever on one of the most critical components of a winning campaign," Mook writes.
"We have to anticipate that Trump’s going to spend big in the last lap of this race -- and we know that a flood of money in the final few weeks could undermine all the work we’ve put in to build this campaign," he ads.
But Mook believes that despite the coming attack, Clinton will win the presidential election.
"We’re going to win decisively. We’re going to earn a mandate to govern," Mook stated.
The Clinton campaign manager is asking for a $1 donation to help prepare for the coming onslaught.
Posted by: Fred ||
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Interesting. I agree with Mook that Hillary Clinton is favored to win. But notice the language about "mandate".
If you follow the financial/banking industry, this is a big deal to them. The idea of the conservative stock broker or financial planner is an antique, it went out at least a decade ago, and they are almost uniformly pushing for Hillary Clinton to win. Though they would never admit it, they know the current high stock market is a fragile phony thing made possible by endless money printing, the dollar being reserve currency, an artificially low borrowing rate, and a percentage of public employees that is more than twice as large as is justified or sustainable. One of the things that has them gripped with fear is the instability of a slim Clinton win and a lack of confidence in the economy and markets that would result.
Mook's words are a bone being tossed to that industry's insecurities. The foundations of what little economic health we have require a Hillary blowout. The current crop of people in banking/finance are amoral and greedy in a way that make the Gordon Gekko types of the 1980's look like choir boys. They have less loyaty to America or decency than at any time in their industry's history.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
08/16/2016 6:02 Comments ||
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Wishful thinking on Hillary's part. There are still the debates to come. These will not be like the Obama-Romney debates. There will most likely be more incriminating emails released. As Assange said indictable information will yet come. And still, there are the legal problems with the FBI U.S. Attorney field offices. And don't forget the multitude of lawsuits such as the FOIA lawsuits, the Benghazi family lawsuits, and the email lawsuits. Then there are the recent calls for perjury charges by the Congress because you lied to them. It is a long time to November.
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He is showing a campaign does not mean fleecing tax payers and donors. His blitz at the end will be ruthless and focused. Just the way he closes business deals.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/16/2016 9:10 Comments ||
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However it is interesting to watch the cult mindset on display from his most enthusiastic followers.
Unlike Hillary's mindless follower's who get distracted every time she points at something and says "squirrel!"
Anyone who has already voted - ain't gonna be won over by the other side.
It isn't even the MLB playoffs yet, so we have no idea who will win the World Series.
And as a Royals fan, I am absolutely immune to that tone. Or how Denver ruined the Super Bowl by winning the game because Cam Newton's Turn!
I think Rantburg has been fairly good about the whole deal. Me? Rick Perry - anyone out for a jog who shoots a coyote to protect his dog is good in my book.
Don't see me hopping about like I didn't make the cut for Bring It On! The Junior High Years.
I think Hillary! is her own worst promoter. Let Grannie Screech talk.
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He has not marshalled the get out the vote volunteers that should already be organizing mail-ins with the home bound, vans to transport people, and door-knocking to give information and offer to help people make it to the polls.
The people who are going to vote for Trump are smart enough and capable enough to find their own way to the polls. They don't need the Donkeycrat machine to pull the lever for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/16/2016 13:43 Comments ||
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I dunno. In addition to all your motivated voters, you need the somewhat willing voters. That means a GOTV and some advertising of some kind. I don't think Trump necessarily needs to enrich all the remoras consultants, but he does need an operation. Even if he doesn't poll a lot he needs enough to know where to put resources.
And he needs a GOTV effort even if he farms out a lot of it to the RNC.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/16/2016 14:12 Comments ||
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Y'all in contested states, what does the Clinton advertising look like?
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Depends which Contested states. She's pulling out ads from Virginia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania by early Sept according to her SuperPac. PrioritiesUSA already pulled out of Virginia in fact.
So make of that what you will, they can always go back in if things look bleak for them suddenly. Personally I think the race won't end up decided one way or another until the debates.
Posted by: Charles ||
08/16/2016 15:47 Comments ||
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I do not get any out here, other than the spatterings during nationwide broadcasts of events like the Olympics...that is, other than dang near every opinion show on TV.
My favorite so far was the weather channel's do Trumps golf courses cause global warming?
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At some point the Hildabeest is going to have to face the potential voters. She is being shielded and kept in a cocoon. When her handlers do let her out of her cage, she is extremely grating and tends to pi$$ off a lot of potential voters when she talks. Her and the hubby are the epitome of the crooked politician. I remember the Clintons well in the decade of the '90s and even before in Arkansas. Both are lying POS. Slick Willy argued about the meaning of the word "is" when he was asked about having sex with Monica in the WH. He dragged the country through an extended Jerry Springer show. Slick was one of two presidents impeached for lying. We don't need another 8 years of sleaze in the WH just because people think it would be cute or cool to have the first woman POTUS. They don't care whether she's worth a $hit; they just want a woman POTUS. How did it work out with the 1st (or is the 2nd) black POTUS. I'm about friggin fed up with damned social experiments. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with electing a black or a woman or a LBGTQ member for that matter and not have as a part of their agenda to take down the country. They just need to be fvcking competent, take the country in the right direction, defend the country, obey the law and follow the constitution.
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I don't see how she can possibly survive the debates, if she makes it THAT far. IMA thinking the other shoe is going to drop very soon. Don't know what it will look like... but I have a gut feeling.
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I agree with you Besoeker, the house of cards she has created is beginning to come apart. She can only hide for so long.
And as far as being the worst campaign ever, don't let you hate get in the way here. He has run with almost no staff to speak of, minimal advertising, very little money spent, brought out more voters in the primary than any other candidate in history, beat the GOP establishment and their 15 candidates hands down, continues to run within a few points of Hillary despite the GOP's never Trump campaign, and now he is going into the debates in a dead heat. Not even Reagan had it like this, its not a cult, its people tires of the same old political fraud. Get used to it, Trump wins or not, you will see the same at the Congress and Senate levels as well.
But in the end, call us all morons- name calling is one of the things you hate Trump for, a little hypocritical. Hate Trump, don't vote for him. Just remember where you vote goes, to Hillary. Rationalize it any way you want, that's what your doing.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/16/2016 18:30 Comments ||
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