{"id":53452,"date":"2016-10-25T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53452"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:16:33","slug":"executive-orders-for-sale-leaked-email-shows-hillary-camp-answering-wealthy-donors-questions-about-how-executive-orders-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53452","title":{"rendered":"Executive Orders for Sale? Leaked Email Shows Hillary Camp Answering Wealthy Donor\u2019s Questions about How Executive Orders Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Melissa Dykes<br \/>\nThe Daily Sheeple<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-139002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hillarybreathfreshcorruption-e1476809625726.jpg\" alt=\"hillarybreathfreshcorruption\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you already thought the Executive Order system falls somewhere between problematic and completely unconstitutional, this takes it to a whole new, never before seen level of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the leaks, America now knows our government is essentially one giant pay-for-play operation. That\u2019s how it works. That\u2019s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/this-is-how-much-an-ambassadorship-costs-guccifer-2-0-leaks-dnc-pay-to-play-donor-list_092016\" target=\"_blank\">the DNC works<\/a>. That\u2019s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/popular-response-oan-clintons-pay-play-special-based-judicial-watch-panel-prompts-second-weekend-rebroadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Clinton Foundation works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But how far does that go?<\/p>\n<p>How about bypassing Congress entirely with money in the most literal sense possible.<\/p>\n<p>This leaked email chain hints at something that kind of makes votes and lobbyists and, well, all of it rather pointless.<\/p>\n<p>If someone\u2019s wealthy enough, can they straight up buy an executive order?<\/p>\n<p>These days, the president uses Executive Orders to bypass Congress, even though there is no constitutional provision that explicitly permits the use of executive orders. It\u2019s a system that\u2019s been heavily abused in the past but now, apparently, <em>it\u2019s for sale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A new revelation buried in the Wikileaks trove of tens of thousands of Hillary campaign chairman John Podesta\u2019s emails shows him discussing executive orders in relation to an \u201cidea\u201d a wealthy donor has.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/7643\" target=\"_blank\">In a leaked email thread<\/a> between Podesta and Mary Pat Bonner, a \u201cdonor adviser\u201d who\u00a0 gets millions for her elite connections in bringing in donors and for being what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/06\/us\/in-invisible-world-of-political-donor-advisers-a-highly-visible-player.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times describes as<\/a> a \u201cmaster of making donors happy,\u201d <strong>it\u2019s all but admitted that Executive Orders are another pay-for-play item on the corrupt American political menu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read this from the bottom up:<\/p>\n<p>(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod-772x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod-772x1024.jpg 772w, http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod-768x1019.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eospod.jpg 1101w\" alt=\"eospod\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an email with the subject line, \u201cIs there someone in your shop,\u201d Bonner writes, <strong>\u201cWho totally understands \u2018executive orders\u2019. It is to answer a very big donors questions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Podesta responds with simply, <strong>\u201cMe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bonner: <strong>\u201cIt is for Michael King.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Podesta: <strong>\u201cWhat does he need?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bonner: <strong>\u201cHe has an idea and just need answer [sic] to a bunch of easy questions about how this works.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh goody. Mega wealthy donor Michael King has an \u201cidea\u201d about executive orders\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Michael King they are likely referencing is rich TV mogul Michael King, the exec who inherited King World Productions later acquired by CBS. To give you an idea, King World Productions launched Harpo\u2019s The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil\u2019s talk show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/bill-clinton-michael-king-obama-fundraiser-374752\" target=\"_blank\">Back in 2012,<\/a> Bill Clinton teamed up with King on a pricey fundraiser for President Obama at King\u2019s Pacific Palisades estate where tickets ranged from general seating starting at $1,000 and went all the way up to $40,000 premium seats with meet-and-greets.<\/p>\n<p>While on the campaign trail over a year out from the election, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/hillarys-already-planning-to-sign-executive-orders-for-gun-control-if-shes-elected-president_102015\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton has already vowed she will use Executive Orders to pass gun control<\/a> regulations, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this email thread, you have to wonder what other EOs Hillary plans to pass as president\u2026 and whose \u201cidea\u201d they are.<\/p>\n<p>And how much that idea cost.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/executive-orders-for-sale-leaked-email-showed-hillary-camp-answering-wealthy-donors-questions-about-how-executive-orders-work_102016\">http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/executive-orders-for-sale-leaked-email-showed-hillary-camp-answering-wealthy-donors-questions-about-how-executive-orders-work_102016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}