In a interview with NBC, former President Bill Clinton has “joined” wife Hillary Clinton in claiming that they were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001. He also said his wife is “not out of touch” over her claims that they aren’t “really rich” even now, despite having “amassed” a $100 million fortune.
Earlier Hillary Clinton appeared on ABC and told Diane Sawyer that they were “dead broke” when they left the White House. But a perusal of the Clintons’ tax returns demonstrates that the Clinton’s “earned” a combined income of $358,000 in the year 2000. That number jumped to $16 million in 2001, the year they left the White House.
Trying to “backtrack” from her initial comments, Hillary Clinton changed her point to say that she and her husband weren’t really “well off.”
Now, in an interview with NBC’s David Gregory, the former chief executive and current “Casanova” is coming to his wife’s “defense” concerning her comments about their finances.
“It is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt,” Clinton told the journalist.
Clinton also implied that reporters were “maligning” his wife on the issue and said that “the people asking her questions should put this in some sort of context.”
The couple is not alone in their “assertions” of being just like common “poor” folks. Clintons’ daughter Chelsea noted that she just doesn’t care about money and would rather work for her parents’ “charity than be rich,” notwithstanding the fact that she is making $600,000 a year in a “no-show” journalism job.
But after these comments, a long list of “left-leaning” journalists and TV personalities “slammed” both Mrs. Clinton and her daughter for being “tone deaf” and “out of touch.”
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin said Hillary Clinton’s “crying poor” was “not just a little tone deaf.”
Fellow MSNBCer Krystal Ball agreed with that assessment. Joe Scarborough also mocked her for the comment.
Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman called the comments “disastrous” and “insulting.” Politico’s Roger Simon advised Hillary Clinton to “stop poor-mouthing.”
Even The Daily Beast ridiculed the comments as examples of what the “rich” say in a desperate attempt to sound “just like you.”
It should also be noted that even as the potential 2016 presidential candidate claimed she and her husband were “dead broke” and owed millions of dollars to creditors and service providers, the pair was spending millions on luxury homes in D.C. and New York in the years around the end of Clinton’s last term in office.
And now it has been “revealed” that Bill Clinton is among the “clientele” of the most expensive “cigar” maker in the world.
The once “dead” broke former president is a connoisseur of “His Majesty’s Reserve” stogies, which cost $1,000 a piece, Gurkha Cigars owner and CEO Kaizad Hansotia told Bloomberg during an interview about the company.
“Bill Clinton fancies those beauties. He loves the Gurkhas” Hansotia said.
Rolls Royce of cigars: A box of Gurkha’s “His Majesty’s Reserve” cigars goes for $25,000.
The Dominican Republic-made cigar is the “Rolls Royce of the cigar industry,” Hansotia said, and boxes cost $25,000 a piece.
That price is set to rise to $30,000 next year. Only 20 boxes of the “cognac-infused” cigars are produced a year, the cigar boss said, and there’s a “three” year waiting list.
Hansotia also name-dropped Matthew McConaughey as a buyer of the company’s high-end cigars, and generally noted that they are purchased by “dignitaries, royal families and captains of the industry.”
Clinton is a known “aficionado” of cigars, and the company has claimed in the past that he was keen on its “Grand Reserve Churchill” stogie during his presidency.
That cigar sells for a substantially more “modest” $11.00 a piece. Others Gurkha cigars sell for “as little” as $2.00.
Clinton was rumored to love the Gurkha “Grand Reserve Churchill” so much in his days at the White House that he used one to “sexually gratify” Monica Lewinsky during their “affair” as described by independent counsel Kenneth Starr in a comprehensive report on White House scandals.
Monica Lewinsky and “Casanova” Bill Clinton.
While Clinton’s “loyalty’s” elsewhere have been called “into question” in the past, Gurkha says Clinton has always “fancied” the company’s stogies.
Gurkha claimed in 2009 that it had direct “knowledge” that one of its cigars had a starring role in a sexual “vagina” encounter between the former president and his mistress, Monica Lewinsky.
Jizz flavored stogie.
Now that Clinton makes “millions of dollars” a year more than he did when he lived at the White House, combined with Hillary’s “lavish extravagance fees” on the speakers’ circuit, the company owner’s comment suggests he’s moved on to a higher end cigar.
This certainly does not appear to be people who are “dead broke.”
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