Trump smells blood after 'outright corrupt' relationships are revealed between Bill Clinton, his family foundation and a for-profit consultant who helped him and Hillary become filthy rich 

  • Donald Trump attacked the Clintons over the latest WikiLeaks release
  • The leaked 2011 memo, sent by Bill Clinton's former aide Doug Band reveals how he secured speaking fees for the ex-President
  • Band and another aide helped bring in $66 million from various ventures
  • Trump said Band called the arrangement 'unorthodox' but 'the rest of us call it outright corrupt'
  • Band said he ran 'Bill Clinton Inc.,' obtaining 'in-kind services for the President and his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacation' etc 
  • Many of these deals were struck while Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State   
  • Bill Clinton returned all but $100,000 he had been paid through the deals

Donald Trump attacked the Clintons on Thursday over the latest blockbuster hacked email released by WikiLeaks, which details how a close Bill Clinton aide helped rake in tens of millions for the former president while his wife was serving as secretary of state.

Doug Band sent the 12-page memo in 2011 to Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, several Clinton Foundation board members and lawyers, and 'special adviser' John Podesta – whose email was hacked and who is now Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.

'Just today we read about Clinton confidant Doug Band bragging that he had funnelled tens of millions of dollars to "Bill Clinton, Inc." through the Foundation donations, paid speeches and consulting contracts,' Trump said in a farm animal expo center in rural Springfield, Ohio.

'Mr. Band called the arrangement "unorthodox",' Trump said. 'The rest of us call it outright corrupt.'

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Donald Trump attacked the Clintons during a campaign rally on Thursday in Springfield, Ohio, for WikiLeaks revelations about how two aides helped Bill Clinton rake in millions in speaking fees and engagements

In fact, he continued, 'the Clinton Foundation even hired a law firm to find out if their pay-to-play scheme would jeopardize their charitable status with the IRS.'

'If the Clintons were willing to play this fast and loose with their enterprise when they weren't in the White House, just imagine what they'll do if given the chance to once again control the Oval Office!'

Trump, cheered on by a crowd estimated at 7,000 people, blasted Hillary Clinton as the new figurehead leading what amounts to an organized crime family.

'The more emails WikiLeaks releases, the more lines between the Clinton Foundation, the secretary of state's office and the Clintons' personal finances – they all get blurred,’ the Republican presidential nominee said.

'Honestly, I think we've had enough of the Clintons, in all fairness, right?' he asked. 'Don't you think? Had enough!'

The 12-page memo was sent by Clinton's former aide Doug Band (above) in 2011

'I mean, at what point – at what point do we say it? Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency.'

Wikileaks published the Doug Band memo on Wednesday, opening up a new window into the financial links between the Clinton Foundation, the former president's personal fortune and his wife's tenure as America's highest ranking diplomat.

Band and another aide, the memo states, helped secure $66 million from ventures including speaking fees.

Using his role as the president of his own consulting firm Teneo Holdings, Band wrote, he worked to raise funds for the foundation and Clinton personally.

Band also wrote that he helped obtain 'in-kind services for the President and his family – for personal, travel, hospital, vacation and the like.'

A hacked email released by WikiLeaks details how Doug Band (above, with Clinton in an undated photo), one of Bill Clinton’s closest aides, helped earn the former president millions after he left office

'Mr. Band called the arrangement "unorthodox",' Trump said at the Ohio rally. 'The rest of us call it outright corrupt'

'Throughout the past almost 11 years since President Clinton left office, I have sought to leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo to support and raise funds for the Foundation,' the close friend-of-Bill wrote.

'This memorandum strives to set forth how I have endeavored to support the Clinton Foundation and President Clinton personally.'

Under a section titled 'For-Profit Activity of President Clinton (i.e. Bill Clinton, Inc),' Band said he and deputy Justin Cooper brought Clinton all four of his advisory arrangements at the time.

Band's memo came as Chelsea Clinton (pictured above with her husband Marc Mezvinsky in May 2015) took a bigger leadership role in the foundation and expressed concerns about Band's role in the charity 

These yielded more than $30 million in personal income, added to another $66 million to be paid out over the following nine years as part of Teneo's consulting arrangement.

One of these roles was serving as honorary chairman of Laureate International Universities, a chain of for-profit colleges that paid Bill Clinton $3.5 million per year from 2010 until 2015, when the contract ended and his wife started her run for president.

Band said neither he nor Cooper were compensated directly for their work. It's common for Washington power-brokers to make money 'on the back end' of such arrangements, using them to build their client lists for other contracts.

Both men did receive salaries from the Clinton Foundation.

Band also said Teneo was responsible for negotiating a number of speaking fees for Clinton, including $1.15 million from the Swedish telecom giant Ericson and $900,000 from banking behemoth UBS.

Band at the same time solicited clients to donate to the Clinton Foundation.

This included $4.33 million over six years from the Coca-Cola Company and more than $1 million from Barclays Capital.

The deals are concerning considering Clinton's wife was serving as Secretary of State at the time. Above, the Clintons in January 2010, when Hillary was still Secretary of State

Teneo partner Declan Kelly (center, at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009) introduced former President Clinton to the heads of major companies like Coca-Cola, UBS Global Wealth Management and Dow Chemical

Band's partner at Teneo, Declan Kelly, helped introduce Clinton to several top executives of clients including UBS Global Wealth Management and Dow Chemical. After these meetings, these companies often upped their contributions to the Clinton Foundation.

Band’s memo was also sent to lawyers who were conducting a review of the foundation as Chelsea Clinton was taking on a larger role with the philanthropy, and after she raised red flags about Band's dual roles at Teneo and the foundation.

Chelsea became concerned when she learned that a member of his staff - who reported to Band - was making calls to British lawmakers 'on behalf of President Clinton,' for Teneo clients including Dow Chemical.

She said her dad did not know about the calls and that they would 'horrify' him, and that she feared Teneo was 'hustling business at CGI' – the foundation-operated Clinton Global Initiative.

Clinton ultimately broke with Teneo, returning all but $100,000 of the money he had been paid.  

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