Inside the Clinton Donor Network

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202

The Washington Post

By Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy

Published on Nov. 19, 2015

LITTLE ROCK — Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global network of donors while pioneering fundraising techniques that have transformed modern politics and paved the way for them to potentially become the first husband and wife to win the White House.

The grand total raised for all of their political campaigns and their family’s charitable foundation reaches at least $3 billion, according to a Washington Post investigation.
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The majority of the money — $2 billion — has gone to the Clinton Foundation, one of the world’s fastest-growing charities, which supports health, education and economic development initiatives around the globe. A handful of elite givers have contributed more than $25 million to the foundation, including Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, who is among the wealthy foreign donors who have given tens of millions.

Separately, donors have given $1 billion to support the Clintons’ political races and legal defense fund, making capped contributions to their campaigns and writing six-figure checks to the Democratic National Committee and allied super PACs.

The Post investigation found that many top Clinton patrons supported them in multiple ways, helping finance their political causes, their legal needs, their philanthropy and their personal bank accounts. In some cases, companies connected to their donors hired the Clintons as paid speakers, helping them collect more than $150 million on the lecture circuit in the past 15 years.

The couple’s biggest individual political benefactors are Univision chairman Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl, who have made 39 contributions totaling $2.4 million to support the Clintons’ races since 1992. The Sabans have also donated at least $10 million to the foundation.

The Clintons kept big contributors in their orbit for decades by methodically wooing competing interest groups — toggling between their liberal base and powerful constituencies, according to donors, friends and aides who have known the couple since their Arkansas days.

They made historic inroads on Wall Street, pulling in at least $69 million in political contributions from the employees and PACs of banks, insurance companies, and securities and investment firms. Wealthy hedge fund managers S. Donald Sussman and David E. Shaw are among their top campaign supporters, having given more than $1 million each.
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[cantbeserious]

1. Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen

eom

[antigop]

5. +100 nt

[jalan48]

2. The Clinton's must be really well liked to have all these people wanting to give them money.

No strings attached I'm sure.

[nc4bo]

3. I imagine there are barges full of sweet almond massage oil

With all the you-rub-my-back-I'll-rub-yours going on.

So much money involved in politick'in, cronyism and warring among the greedy f'ers. So many people here and around the world suffering, starving, dying, homeless, etc., you'd think there would be great shame across the land.

But there isn't.

You'd also think more people would wake the hell up to it. I really think this entire awfulness we see is completely by design.

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. I actually thought this graphic was well put together

[UglyGreed]

6. Ties that bind

but of course we are not allowed to connect the dots......

[Skwmom]

7. Per WP: Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors.

Isn't that a scary thought. Though there are already many politicians already working this game (albeit on a smaller scale).