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By: Real America News Updated 25 Aug 2022, 12: 31 pm EDT
In the middle of the investigations against former president Donald Trump
for having taken dozens of classified documents from the White House, a claim on social networks has been turned against former first lady Hillary Clinton, who is accused of having taken $200,000 dollars in gifts from the White House.
“The Clintons were forced to return some $200, dollars in furniture, porcelain and works of art that were “stolen” from the White House,” states the claim on social networks.
Well, that claim is FALSE . This is explained by a verification of information from the Snopes site, which recounts what happened to those gifts and why the former presidential candidate and husband, the former president Bill Clinton, they were able to take several products.
“In January 2001, former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton revealed that they had received $100,027 in gifts during the 2000, the last year of his eight-year term, ”says the report quoting The Washington Post.
However, many of the gifts were from Hollywood figures, Democratic donors, and a wide range of friends and acquaintances. The gifts, it is added, were given following the federal gift limit rules
that a representative or his wife can receive.
It is indicated that most of the gifts are works of art, cutlery, furniture , china and rugs.
“There was nothing illegal about that the Clintons keep the personal gifts that they had been given in the White House”, it is indicated, but the suspicions occurred after the Clintons themselves Clinton indicated that they would pay for some of those gifts.
Following a complaint from donors that the gifts were for the White House, the Clintons returned $28,000 in gifts.
“The total value of the gifts returned by the Clintons to the US Government amounted to almost $ 50,000” , indicates the report citing The New York Times. That is, not the $200,000 that the accusation affirms in social networks.
“The rules governing the acceptance of gifts by the President and other federal employees divide such items into two categories: those received from foreign officials or governments (foreign official gifts) and those received from the American public (domestic gifts). ”, he remembers.
“The president may keep foreign official gifts if their value is below a certain threshold; gifts over the threshold value belong to the people of the United States and must be purchased at a fair market price“, is added in the report.
Specifically, the Clintons had the right to pay for gifts that fell into the relevant category, but the total amount was much lower than what was claimed on Twitter and other social networks.
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