Mrs. Clinton tried to pass off to Diane Sawyer that she and her husband, B.J. were darn near as broke as one Jed Clampett, before he struck oil, when they were evicted the White House, via Legal Insurrection [1]:
CLINTON: Well, you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt. We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy. Bill has worked really hard and it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard. First of all, we had to pay off all our debts. You know, you had to make double the money because of, obviously, taxes, and then pay off the debts and get us houses and take care of family members.
More, idib:
It is true, as The Fix at WaPo documents, that the Clintons left office with a lot of debt, much of it related to legal fees, which was paid down by 2004.
It’s equally true that the Clintons made financial deals before leaving office and soon thereafter that rendered the debt more than manageable, and generated tons of income.
In mid-December 2000, a month before Bill left office, Hillary signed a book deal with a near record $8 million advance:
Just how bad was Mrs. Clinton’s concussion? She completely forgot about her eight million dollar book advance she pocketed, much like the china, before she left the White House. A normal person gets an eight million dollar win fall, they celebrate In Mrs. Clinton’s case she pleads poverty.