Hillary Clinton said in an 2014 ABC interview, “You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. It was not easy. Bill has worked really hard. And it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard.”

Yes, the Clinton’s have done very well in the past 15 years since leaving the White house.

In December 2000, the Clinton’s bought a house in Washington, D.C. for $1.995 million.

By Feb. 5, 2001, Bill Clinton was commanding regular speaking fees of $125,000 or more.

Hillary Clinton herself did quite well in 2001. The book publisher Simon and Schuster paid her $2.84 million in royalties.

By 2004, Hillary Clinton was ranked the 10th-wealthiest member of the Senate, with a net worth between $10 million and $50 million.

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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer

The Clinton Foundation (founded in 1997 as the William J. Clinton Foundation, and called beginning in 2013 the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit corporation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton.

Through 2016 the foundation had raised an estimated $2 billion from U.S. corporations, foreign governments and corporations, political donors, and various other groups and individuals. During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State much of the money was being received by not only industrial, banking, and corporate interests but also by foreign governments who benefited by an open door of communication with the US Secretary of State.

Recent donors include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, Germany and a Canadian government agency promoting the Keystone XL pipeline.

United Arab Emirates gave between $1 million and $5 million in 2014.

The German government contributed between $100,000 and $250,000.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has given between $10 million and $25 million since the foundation was created in 1999.

The Australian government has given between $5 million and $10 million.

Qatar’s government committee preparing for the 2022 soccer World Cup gave between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2014. Qatar’s government had previously donated between $1 million and $5 million.

Oman has given the foundation between $1 million and $5 million.

Rilin Enterprises pledged $2 million in 2013 to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment. The company is a privately-held Chinese construction and trade conglomerate and run by billionaire Wang Wenliang, who is also a delegate to the Chinese parliament. Public records show the firm has spent $1.4 million since 2012, lobbying Congress and the State Department. The firm owns a strategic port along the border with North Korea and was also one of the contractors that built the Chinese embassy in Washington.

Uranium One

Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, was one of the first to document the story behind what has become known as the Uranium One scandal. Mr. Schweitzer painstakingly detailed the events that led to the transfer of 20% of uranium from the United States to Russia through a complex and confusing maze of domestic and foreign businesses. Building upon that foundation, the American public is now learning much more. The information being uncovered is creating an even stronger case of self-enrichment at the cost of national security.

Frank Giustra, Canadian business man and Clinton Foundation board member, paid the Clinton’s millions of dollars to leverage Bill and Hillary to wield public influence in the United States, Kazakhstan and Russia, to assist Giustra in a complex scheme that ended up with Giustra’s Canadian company, Uranium One, controlling some 20 percent of all the uranium mined in the United States. Uranium One was then sold to a Russian company.

From 2005 to 2013, the public record suggests Giustra was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in “charitable donations” to the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton in speaking fees.The New York Times tracked the flow of money from wealthy donor/participants in the deal to the Clinton Foundation and the pockets of Bill Clinton himself — straight from Russia: As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clinton’s, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.