“The policies that governed the foundation’s activities during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state already went far beyond legal requirements and yet the foundation submitted to even more rigorous standards when Clinton declared her candidacy for president, and is pledging to go even further if she wins”, Fallon said in a statement. It was not clear whether criticism of the sometimes-circular relationships among the Clintons, their charitable work and their network of political donors has altered any other succession plans.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook urged the public to remember the “important, lifesaving work” the foundation has done over the past 15 years. “It must be shut down immediately”.
The institution, the full name of which is the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has collected about $2 billion in donations over the past two decades, Efe news reported.
Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a “pay-for-play” scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s 2009-2013 tenure as the country’s top diplomat.
Clinton got some bad news from a federal judge Monday, who gave the State Department until September 23 to determine a plan on how to release almost 15,000 documents the FBI had obtained as part of its investigation into her private email server – possibly creating a timeline where thousands of emails could be made public right before Election Day.
“Much of the foundation’s worldwide work, like that of most global NGOs, is funded in part by donor governments’ bilateral aid programs”.
“It must be shut down immediately”, he said.
The call comes following Republican accusations that Clinton gave foundation donors special treatment and access while she was secretary of State. “He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo desiring his use of his personal AOL email account of unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department”.
This isn’t the first time Trump has brought up the foundation or emails, but a previous attack didn’t end up going well.
“The process of determining the Clinton Foundation’s future if Hillary becomes president has not been easy”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton Foundation took in tens of millions of dollars from politicians and businessmen from a great number of foreign countries criticized for human rights abuses, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Brunei and Algeria, according to the New York Times.
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The Trump campaign began the week with a broadside against the foundation, distributing a research memo titled ‘Clinton Corruption: Ten Inconvenient Truths about the Clinton Foundation’. These are people that have skirted the law for a long time.
