The Clinton Global Initiative meeting was hosted by the Moroccan King; oligarchs and corporate titans mingled amid palm trees, swimming pools and dazzling tiled courtyards. Clinton's mega-rich traveling delegation are big buck foundation donors — and donors to Hillary’s campaign. They were chauffeured to an opulent 56-room palace overlooking the snow-capped Atlas Mountains and served a fine-dining menu of “biolight” cuisine. Chelsea Clinton moderated a discussion on "women’s empowerment" w/ the only male panelist: Morocco billionaire, Othman Benjelloun, whose BMCE Bank is a million dollar meeting sponsor.
The Moroccan lavishness was a long way from Hillary’s campaign-trail visits to a low-rent Chipotle. The luxe week in Morocco highlighted question facing the Clintons: What to do with Bill? No other candidate has a spouse who is a former president w/ sprawling global charitable ventures rife with potential conflicts of interest whose common touch propelled his rise but who now charges up to $500,000 to give a speech.
Last April, Bill Clinton looked up at a TV in his midtown Manhattan office and saw the grainy security-camera photo of Hillary and Huma Abedin, at a Chipotle in Ohio, in dark sunglasses. He wondered aloud, “What are she and Huma doing? Robbing that place?”
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