Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Thursday that the latest WikiLeaks email drop contained "the smoking gun" showing how former President Bill Clinton benefited personally from donors to the Clinton Foundation.
"This memo is the smoking gun for how the Clintons used their foundation to create a massive for-profit paid speaking and consulting business to enrich themselves," Priebus said. "All of their talk about charitable work masks the fact they were eager to get their own cut of the action."
The November 2011 email WikiLeaks released Thursday disclosed longtime Clinton aide Doug Band saying that he brought in $50 million in personal work for the former president from foundation contributors — and lined up as much as $66 million more.
The email was hacked from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
"That the Clintons raked in millions of dollars while these same donors had business before Hillary Clinton's State Department points to a rampant pay-to-play culture that would be on full display should Hillary Clinton be elected president," Priebus said.
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