Even Hillary’s lame team knew that having him make bank over the starving oppressed people of North Korea might be a bit much.
Bill Clinton pushed the State Department to allow him to accept speaking fees for events in North Korea and the Congo while his wife was secretary of state, even after the agency declined to approve both speeches.
Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, arranged the North Korea speech for the former president, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Citizens United.
After Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s then-chief of staff, instructed a Clinton Foundation official to decline the invitation, a foundation employee pressed further.
“This came via Tony Rodham,” wrote Amitabh Desai, the Clinton Foundation’s director of foreign policy, in a June 2012 email. “So we would be grateful for any specific concerns we could share, beyond just saying it would be concerning for [the U.S. government.”