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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton is rich. She is not Mitt Romney rich. [View all]Beacool
(30,247 posts)19. When you owe $12M and do not have even 20% of it, then you are broke.
She never said that they weren't able to earn money after they left the WH, but when they needed to buy a house to establish residency in NY (she was running for the Senate while still first lady), they had to have Terry McAuliffe guarantee the loan.
The Clintons were the poorest couple to enter the WH since the Trumans.
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As others are saying, I actually like rich people. My experiences with them
closeupready
Jul 2014
#5
The problem is not how rich she is. the problem is how poor she claimed to be
CBGLuthier
Jul 2014
#9
They were broke because they owed millions of dollars and they didn't have the money.
Beacool
Jul 2014
#41
She's not out of touch, could care less if she's rich... she can relate at some level to the rest of
uponit7771
Jul 2014
#20
it's not the Clinton's wealth that's the dealbreaker for me. it's their 3rd Way, neolib, politics.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#23