Clinton attacks executive pay — but she got $22 million in book advances


Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has struck a populist note on the campaign trail, attacking huge CEO paychecks and income inequality. It's a theme that would make more sense for a candidate less notoriously wealthy than Clinton, who received a total of $22 million in advances for her two memoirs — money, as The Week's Ed Morrissey points out at Hot Air, she received "in advance of any work at all, [and which is] roughly 440 times what average American households gross in a year."
Clinton has previously come under fire for charging public universities hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single speech, requiring a large private jet to transport her to charity events, and claiming she was "dead broke" while owning two multi-million dollar homes.
In definitely related news, Clinton is currently riding around Iowa in a van.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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