How Much Money Does Bill Clinton Need?
Does he really not see a conflict in sitting with one of those wealthy people in a room where all the possible destinations for that person’s money—the foundation, the campaign, a super PAC, a speaker’s bureau—could be on the table at once?
.. “There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy,” Bill Clinton told McFadden. But they need to erase any doubts in the minds of the voters that they do know what’s appropriate.
.. when Cynthia McFadden, of NBC News, asked him yesterday whether he would continue giving speeches for money now that his wife has declared her candidacy for President. “I gotta pay our bills.” Those bills must be substantial: Bill Clinton routinely charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches. He has earned more than a hundred million dollars from them since leaving the White House.