Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris wants the public to understand that Chelsea Clinton is the poster child of white privilege.
Morris took to Facebook ahead of Chelsea’s scheduled speech at the Democratic National Convention today to set the record straight about her “pampered, privileged life” and explain why her comments should be taken with a grain, or pound, of salt.
The Pampered Privileged Life of Chelsea ClintonThe Pampered Privileged Life of Chelsea Clinton
Posted by Dick Morris on Thursday, July 28, 2016
Morris served as an advisor and confidant to Bill Clinton from the former president’s time as Governor of Arkansas through Clinton’s successful re-election to president in 1996.
“Chelsea has led a life of complete pampering and privilege and nepotism. She has never accomplished a single thing on her own and if her last name weren’t Clinton, nothing she does would be successful. Be prepared for another boring, boring speech,” Morris told his roughly 180,000 Facebook followers.
“She’s no Ivanka Trump,” he said. “In a comparison between the two of them … Ivanka’s accomplishments, achievements and her powerful role in running the Trump organization and her role in making those buildings get built is extraordinary. Whereas Chelsea has a highfalutin vocabulary but accomplishes very, very little.”
Morris then outlined Chelsea’s life of privilege, which started when she was escorted as a child by state police when Clinton served as governor of Arkansas and attended to full-time by a live-in nanny at taxpayer expense and continued into adulthood.
“She began her career with an entry-level job at McKinsey & Company, a post that many people die for. It’s one of the top two or three firms in the world, and she of course got it because of her last name,” Morris said. “Then she was hired by a hedge fund controlled by many donors to the Clinton Foundation, again obviously a payoff to the Clintons in an attempt to curry favor with them.”
That hedge fund, Avenue Capital Investment Group, was among several listed by the New York Post in 2014 that contributed significantly to Chelsea Clinton’s $15 million personal fortune.
“Then she married Marc Mezvinsky, who runs a hedge fund, not a particularly successful one, but one that has attracted a lot of money because it gets money from the Clinton donors. Under the guise of investing their money in the hedge fund, they can also invest in their political capital in currying favor with the Clintons,” Morris said.
The International Business Times reported in 2013 that the first daughter and her husband purchased a $10.3 million apartment in Madison Square Park in New York City that year. Mezvinsky, whose parents served as Democratic members of Congress from Iowa and Pennsylvania, worked at Goldman Sachs and 3G Capital before founding his own hedge fund in 2011. He’s is also worth about $15 million, the Post reports.
After Chelsea’s 2010 wedding, she landed a job at New York University.
“John Sexton, who was the head of NYU, hired her to be assistant vice provost of their campus of global affairs based in Abu Dhabi, and she didn’t live there she lived in New York. And her job was to help raise money for the university.
“She chaired a commission on Muslim-American relations, and Muslim western relations, and she said her qualifications for that was that she was married to a Jewish husband, so she knew about interfaith operations,” Morris told viewers with a laugh.
“While she was there, Bill went to Abu Dhabi and spoke at the first graduating class at the NYU campus in Abu Dhabi and there were huge demonstrations there because NYU was hiring basically slave laborers, Pakistanis, to build the campus and there were actually some debts reported as a result of overzealous and excessive workplace discipline,” said Morris, a former Fox News commentator.
The Wall Street Journal last fall documented the Clintons’ inside deals with officials in the United Arab Emirates, where Abu Dhabi is located, that were coordinated through State Department employee Sheryl Mills, who also worked for the Clinton Foundation and NYU. Bill Clinton raked in $500,000 a piece for several speeches in the oil rich country, according to the news site.
“Then she was hired ridiculously by NBC for $600,000 a year,” Morris continued. “She did four on-camera segments for them, one an interview with the gecko Geico, and the other three interview weren’t particularly more meaningful.”
“After it became clear she just couldn’t hack it and wasn’t any good they dropped her but continued to pay her the income for quite a while,” he said.
The Post confirms Chelsea’s deal with NBC:
Inexperienced in the ways of broadcast journalism, Chelsea, a member of America’s version of a political royal family, has earned about $1.55 million from NBC — slightly more than $445 for each second of air time.
“This woman has led a pampered, privileged life in which she’s succeeded at nothing, she’s failed at almost everything she’s tried, and now she’s going to be introducing her mother, who also led a life of privilege provided for by her husband, and provided for by the name that she’s trading off of just as Chelsea is trading off of second-hand,” Morris said.
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