With the actual presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton soon beginning after more than a year of staged love-fest "interviews" costing hundreds of dollars a ticket and money-collecting from foreign governments, the Grey Lady has a scathing report on the Democratic race starting in her "lavish" mansions.
Kidding! That wouldn’t be right. No, instead the Times reports on candidates in the actually competitive Republican contest trying to attract donors, who the Times notes have been "fully unleashed" by Citizens United, to their campaigns. Typical Republicans with their money and white maleness.
But what about the shining haunts favored by elderly, wealthy grandmother Hillary Clinton? Two of them, actually.
First, the $1.7 million mansion in the "wealthy, white and pleasantly wooded hamlet of" Chappaqua, N.Y., bought in 1999 so Hillary could make her bid for the New York U.S. Senate seat.
The century-old Dutch colonial has five bedrooms.
Then there's the Clintons' home in the Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a $2.85 million brick-style colonial on Embassy Row.
According to the New York Times, the dead-broke Clintons made a $855,000 down payment on the D.C. mansion in 2000, when then-Sen. Clinton was about to begin an uneventful legislative career that preceded a failed presidential bid in 2008.
It was also a base for Clinton to "write her memoirs," the Times noted.
It is more than 5,000 square feet with seven bathrooms, which may seem excessive but presumably allows for easy walker access.
Both homes make ideal fundraising sites for Clinton, whose foundation receives money from popular organizations such as Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, Morgan Stanley, and the governments of Algeria and Saudi Arabia.
Clinton noted last June that she and her husband were "dead broke" when they left the White House and could scarcely afford these mortgages. The Clintons have made more than $100 million through speaking engagements alone since 2001. But hey, why talk about that? Those Republicans are so much more interesting.