The price of a Clinton just keeps rising.
It used to be that it cost six figures to have Hillary come in and give a tepid speech at your event of choice. Now it costs six figures just to meet her.
Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country’s most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.
But the deal gets even better.
Mrs. Clinton raised about $143 million in August, the campaign’s best month yet. At a single event on Tuesday in Sagaponack, N.Y., 10 people paid at least $250,000 to meet her, raising $2.5 million.
At least.
Inflation is really kicking in as it now costs at least $250K for some to meet Hillary. Is meeting Hillary Clinton worth the price? Sure it is. The people dishing out this kind of cash tend to have agendas and the Clintons are for sale.
If Mr. Trump appears to be waging his campaign in rallies and network interviews, Mrs. Clinton’s second presidential bid seems to amount to a series of high-dollar fund-raisers with public appearances added to the schedule when they can be fit in. Last week, for example, she diverged just once from her packed fund-raising schedule to deliver a speech.
Welcome to Clintonworld.