Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton tour a primary school’s garden in Nairobi past year as part of a tour of the Clinton Foundation’s projects in Kenya. Clinton said the foundation would no longer hold annual meetings of its worldwide aid program, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it would spin off its foreign-based programs to other charities. Richard Painter, a former ethics adviser to President George W. Bush and now a University of Minnesota law school professor, said Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton should remove themselves completely from foundation leadership roles, but he added that potential conflicts would shadow any policy decision affecting past donors.
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“It’s a disgrace, this is a threat to the foundation of democracy”, said Mr Trump.
The spokesman, Brian Fallon, also said the report does not account for more than half her tenure leading the State Department and “omits more than 1700 meetings she took with world leaders, let alone countless others she took with other U.S. government officials, while serving as secretary of state”.
Kelly’s exchanges were primarily with Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, longtime Clinton advisers who have also worked for the Clinton Foundation.
Founded by President Bill Clinton, the foundation has become a major player in worldwide health and global philanthropy.
The MAC AIDS fund donated between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation and several million more in commitments to programs through the Clinton Global Initiative.
Donna Shalala is head of the Clinton Foundation.
“It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins”, Giuliani stated on Tuesday.
Lawyers for the State Department suggested to begin the release of the emails by October 14.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence Tuesday said that news reports that more than half of the people outside of government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state donated to the Clinton Foundation further proved the “the pay-to-play politics at her State Department”. Many and the mob scene and State Department who was dealing with this she called. him on his hand at eighty. four. cents received an email from God and. who is trying to a meeting for the crown Prince of Bahrain. when Mrs Clinton because normal channels the family were working well enough for. them. Donald Trump has also called for the foundation to be shut down. The foundation would also accept donations only from US citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, USA companies or corporate charities.
Shalala said Chelsea Clinton would remain on the board.
Among black voters, Clinton holds a huge lead – 87 per cent of black voters said they will support her, while the NY billionaire only enjoys the support of 8 per cent. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
“The Clintons, as they approach the presidency, if they are successful, will have to work with their attorneys to make certain that rules of the road are drawn up to give confidence to them and the American public that there will not be favoritism”, Lugar said. “But you know, it happens all the time”.
So what would remain of the foundation?
Grameen America, the bank’s nonprofit USA flagship, which Yunus chairs, has given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the foundation – a figure that bank spokeswoman Becky Asch said reflects the institution’s annual fees to attend CGI meetings. She also pointed to the presidential library and Clinton center in Little Rock, Ark.
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If Clinton wins the election, Bill Clinton will not have any official connection to the foundation, Shalala said, but “I’m sure he’s going to go visit his library”.
