Hillary Clinton claims that despite the significant wealth she and Bill
have amassed since leaving the White House, they’re not “truly well off”
compared to the richest of Americans.
“They don't see me as part of the problem," Clinton told The Guardian newspaper in response to a question
about whether voters would see her as “credible” on the issue of income
inequality, despite her vast personal wealth. “We pay ordinary income tax,
unlike a lot of people who are truly well off — not to name names — and we've
done it through dint of hard work.”
The eyebrow-raising comment, made during an interview with the British
paper that ran late Saturday, follows another remark Clinton made about being
“dead broke” after leaving the White House and could further propel the image
of her being out of touch with Main Street as she continues to weigh a 2016
presidential run.
Since stepping down as Secretary of State in February 2013, Clinton has
hit the lucrative public speaking circuit, reportedly charging up to $200,000
per appearance and earning upwards of $5 million in the process.
Bill Clinton reportedly often nets up to $300,000 per speech and has
grossed a small fortune — between $10 million and $50 million, according to
2009 financial disclosure forms — since exiting the Oval Office.
Those astronomical earnings, however, didn’t stop Hillary from saying
on national television earlier this month that the former first couple left the
White House “dead broke” and unable to pay for multiple mortgages.
“We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together
the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it
was not easy,” Clinton told ABC News in nationally broadcast interview ahead of
the release of her new memoir, “Hard Choices.”
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt,” she
said, explaining that the family had huge legal bills to pay off due to the
investigations into Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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