WPHT's Rich Zeoli Talks To 'Clinton Cash' Author Peter Schweizer
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of exploiting their positions to make millions of dollars in speaking fees while promising access to the Department of State.
Schweizer told Rich Zeoli on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT that evidence is there to suggest that paying former President Clinton to speak at an event served as an entrance fee to Secretary of State Clinton.
"Particularly when it comes to his big paydays overseas, these are influence payments more than they are speaking fees. Nobody faults an ex-President going out and hitting the lecture circuit. All of them do it. I don't think we have any concerns about it. The problem is Bill Clinton has done it while his wife was Secretary of State. From 2008 to 2009, something strange happened. His speaking fees, large speaking fees, basically tripled overnight. The question becomes, why did that happen? Did that happen because he was suddenly three times more eloquent or did it happen because his wife was Secretary of State?"
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He stated that the individuals the Clinton's dealt with were some of the worst tyrants and dictators in the underdeveloped world.
"If you're going to follow the money and the Clinton's are engaged in this on a global scale, you have to look at everything from Colombia to Africa to Canada to other parts of the World. What you find, by the way, is that there are some very, very troublesome people that the Clinton's are in business with."
Schweizer also said the media is turning on the Clinton's by giving more space to reporting on his book because of the way they've been treated in the past.
"A lot of the media are fed with up with the high handedness [and] the destructive behavior towards them by the Clinton campaign. Nobody is more aggressive, more nasty, and more troubling in their dealings with the media than the Clintons. They seek to intimidate in a way that no other campaign does."
