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Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have kindly been asked by fellow Democrats to make themselves scarce during midterms, will embark on a 13-city speaking tour beginning in Las Vegas on November 18, according to Bloomberg.Tickets won't be cheap either - with prices for the first show ranging from around $72 to $750 on ticketmaster to watch the prototypical American power couple "sharing stories and inspiring anecdotes that shaped their historic careers in public service, while also discussing issues of the day and looking towards the future," according to an announcement from Live Nation. Bloomberg points out that the new speaking tour is likely to stoke criticism over the Clintons leveraging their political fame to give expensive speaking tours - including an infamous $500,000 speech to a Kremlin-linked investment bank amid the Uranium One deal (a trip during which Clinton and Putin hung out at the Russian president's house). The tour and ticket prices could reignite criticism of the former first couple for profiting from their former offices. During the 2016 campaign, Republicans blasted Hillary Clinton for giving highly paid speeches to corporate audiences after leaving public service.Indeed, the Clinton tour follows two years of declining popularity - between Hillary Clinton's historic 2016 loss to Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton's old rape allegations cropping up amid the #MeToo phenomenon. Vanity Fair writes "The Trump era has not been kind to the Clintons, the prototypical American power couple who, after three decades in the public eye, have seen their political capital vastly diminished. Hillary, indelibly marked by her 2016 election loss, has played only a limited role in the midterms, given the Democratic Party’s newfound aversion to her brand of establishment politics. Bill, meanwhile, has undergone a belated reckoning with #MeToo."
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Topic: Shunned By Democrats, Clintons Plan Post-Midterms Speaking Tour; Tickets Priced Up To $750 (Read 293 times)
