This year’s headline: “If Hillary Clinton Wins, Foundation Will Stop Accepting Foreign Donations”.
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Also, the staff was also informed by the former president Bill Clinton that the organization (Clinton Global Initiative) would still hold its final meeting in NY coming September regardless of the outcome of the election.
If such fund-raising. But even when she was in office this rules did not prevent the foundation from accepting money from foreign governments.
Brownstein believes that a sufficient amount of damage has already been done, however, despite these decisions by the Clinton Foundation.
Foreign nationals and countries are prohibited from donating directly to US political campaigns, but have given hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, which works globally to combat AIDS/HIV, malaria, childhood obesity and climate change, and promotes women’s rights and other causes. Bill Clinton also announced that he will no longer give paid speeches. But the foundation, which has raised more than $2 million for causes that focus on the environment and health and wellness in developing countries around the world, has for years been viewed by some as a conflict of interest for the Democratic presidential candidate.
Trump said the exchange proved a “pay-to-play” relationship between donors and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
More than half of Democrats (52 percent) said the foundation was mostly charitable, while six in 10 Republicans and nearly four in 10 independents (38 percent) view it as a political organization aimed to boost the Clintons.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called the move “too little, too late”.
While Hillary Clinton stepped down from its board after launching her 2016 campaign, her husband and daughter have remained in leadership roles, prompting questions about the ability of the organization to continue its work during a future Clinton administration.
Emails of Hillary’s made public recently because of the continuous investigation into her private email server scandal revealed big donors to the foundation had access to the secretary of state’s aides.
While Clinton was secretary of state, the foundation put in place certain restrictions on accepting donations from corporations. Bowing to pressure in April 2015, the group announced that it would restrict donations to only six Western nations and disclose its donors more frequently.
The donations had become a lighting rod in Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Donald Trump, who has repeatedly implied that foreign donors had corrupted his opponent’s tenure as secretary of state. Based on her record, it is safe to suggest this new promise as a reaction to recent Clinton Foundation revelations and sharp criticism from the editorial board of a major newspaper publication, is virtually meaningless.
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The foundation has estimated that commitments by its members have improved the lives of more than 430 million people in more than 180 countries.
