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— mike casca (@cascamike) May 18, 2016

Face palm! No one on team Clinton seems to be considering the appearance of impropriety in a presidential campaign whose primary issue is wealth inequality.

@cascamike Taxpayers Give Big Pensions to Ex-Presidents, Precisely So They Don’t Have to Sell Out https://t.co/olAisfSi6A

— Esra (@GuctasGules) May 18, 2016

From The Intercept:

“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Hillary Clinton complained in an interview in 2014, justifying her spree of paid speeches on Wall Street and elsewhere.

Those speeches have now turned into a major political controversy, with the campaign refusing to agree to release the transcripts of what was said.

Despite Clinton’s protestations, however, the reality is that this country does not allow its former presidents to live “dead broke.” Running the country has great retirement benefits. Ex-presidents are given pensions of nearly $200,000 annually as well as funding for office space and custodial staff.

The new normal is that our ex-presidents rely on huge paydays from private interest groups to fund their lifestyles. But that flies in the face of the original intent of the presidential pension, which was to preserve the dignity of former presidents and prevent corruption.

Hillary has said she will put Bill in charge of the economy if she is elected. That should give him the leverage to pay back the quid pro quo's. The sleaze team...