With sarc tag noted, we should be clear about one thing: Hillary Clinton says she’ll stop taking money from foreign governments if she wins.

That is so far away from actually refusing to take money from foreign governments when it’s offered in reality, it’s not really anything at all.

She didn’t make any concession. She just said something.

In commercial real estate parlance, let’s pretend you say you’re going to put $10 million in escrow.

As the guy on the other side of that transaction, on behalf of me, my partners, my investors, my ancestors, and all that’s good and holy, I have to behave as if there’s an important distinction to be made between saying you’re going to put $10 million in escrow and actually putting $10 million in escrow.

You’d be surprised how many people suddenly find reasons not to put the money in escrow when the time comes. They need more time. Things changed. When go hard or closing time comes, suddenly, instead of actually putting $10 million in escrow, they have other things . . . to say.

Saying you’re going to put $10 million in escrow and NOT putting $10 million in escrow, in reality, those two things are the same thing!