| | | Hillary Clinton biographer Amie Parnes –who along with Jonathan Allen wrote the widely respected HRC— did not know the name Gilbert Chagoury. Everyone in America should by the end of the week and that is Donald Trump’s challenge: Why are all the Clinton Foundation folks working with the senior Clinton staff at State to help out a man who had to return $300 million to Nigeria to escape criminal prosecution (according to Wikipedia)? The Wikipedia entry reads as of this AM: “Chagoury was a close associate of Nigerian dictator, General Sani Abacha, who helped his business interests in the country. After Abacha died in 1998, Chagoury returned an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian government to secure his indemnity from possible criminal charges. [2]” My discussion with Amie from this morning:
Hillary Clinton Biographer Amie Parnes On Gilbert Chagoury
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | posted by Hugh Hewitt
Audio:
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Transcript:
HH: Joined now by Amie Parnes of The Hill. She is the author, along with Jon Allen, of HRC, the best one volume biography of Hillary Clinton out there. Of course, the Queen deserves reading as well for political purposes, but not for biographical purposes. Amie, good morning, it’s great to speak with you.
AP: Good morning, Hugh.
HH: Who is Gilbert Chagoury?
AP: Gilbert Chagoury? I don’t know. You tell me.
HH: Okay, I just wanted to know. That’s a Rorschach test for me. In the New York Times this morning, emails renew questions about Clinton Foundation and State Department overlap, Eric Lichtblau story. There is this paragraph. “Doug Band wrote to Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin that he needed to connect Gilbert Shagoury, a Lebanese Nigerian billionaire who is one of the Clinton Foundation’s top donors with someone at the State Department to talk about his interests in Lebanon. It’s Jeff Feltman, Ms. Abedin answered, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, who is the American ambassador. I’m sure he knows him. I’ll talk to Jeff. Mr. Band asked her to call Mr. Chagoury immediately, if possible. This is very important.” How significant is that exchange? And my gosh, this will never go away, Amie.
AP: No, I mean, I’ve been saying this all along that the email controversy, I think the new email controversy might in fact be the tie to the Foundation, because there isn’t any sort of defined, there wasn’t really a barrier between the two. In fact, as Jon and I wrote in our book, they used a lot of donors to, you know, smartly, I think, to tap into, you know, they built the China, the Expo Wall in China, or the Expo. So I think that that’s a big part of, you know, of how they do business. Continue Reading |
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