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reasonedandinformed ago

How do HRC and WJC obtain over $100M in wealth from her salary as Secretary of State, some book deals, and speaking fees? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2043776/what-is-hillary-clinton-net-worth/

If you add up the payments that should be on IRS filings, they do not come close to explaining where they got all their wealth. The answer: Influence peddling and money laundering via the Clinton Foundation, CGI, etc.

Are_we_sure ago

That might be because they don't have 100M in wealth. The Sun's method for coming up with their figures is just goofy.

When you list various assets on the Financial Disclosure form used for Presidential candidates You don't put a single figure, you indicate the range the number is within. For example you could have a valuation that looks like this

Home in DC 1 to 5 million Stocks 35,001 to 150,001 Bond 250,001 to 999,999

What Hillary Clinton reported was wealth within this range $11.3 million and $52.7 million.

The Sun's source decided to do a simple average which is boneheaded. Figuring Mrs. Clinton’s minimum and maximum assets gives an average Hillary Clinton net worth of $31,265,004. Then they added another 80 million for Bill Clinton. The person who did this did understand that the 31 million figure they averaged includes Bill Clinton's wealth

By law, his assets must also be disclosed on his wife’s federal filing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-18/clintons-speaking-fees-decline-93-in-latest-disclosure http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/07/america-rising-now/pro-trump-super-pac-ad-wrong-clinton-wealth/

The Clintons’ net worth, as indicated on the form, is between $11.3 million and $52.7 million -- not including their multimillion dollar homes in Washington and New York, any federal government retirement accounts they may have, or personal items such as furniture and artwork. >The disclosure form requires reporting within wide ranges of values; the couple’s net worth totals didn’t change from the financial disclosure that Hillary Clinton filed in May 2015.

You can add in another $9 million of real estate for the Clintons that the form doesn't cover (1st and 2nd non rental homes) and say they could be possibly be worth as much as $60 million or the could be as low as $20.

So the Sun could have overestimated their wealth by a factor of five.