Other emails released through the State Department from the collection provided by Clinton shed light on the friendly relationship Pinchuk enjoyed with Clinton’s State Department. Republicans and many in the media immediately screamed pay for play, but there is no evidence that the donors who met with Clinton received anything, so no, it wasn’t pay for play.
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Blackstone donated between $250,000 and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
The amount of the newly uncovered emails is nearly half of the roughly 30,000 work-related documents that Clinton’s lawyers turned over to the State Department in 2014.
Fitton said he was stunned by the response when it was revealed in the latest batch of emails that there was an attempt to get a meeting with the secretary for a Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire through the Clinton Foundation, rather than official State Department channels. “Take my pulse while I’m talking to you – make sure I’m alive”, Clinton said to Kimmel of the health rumors.
Additionally, Clinton leads Trump on a range of top election issues according to the poll – likely Virginia voters give her the edge on the economy, terrorism, health care, and immigration, and she has almost 40-point advantages on race relations and foreign policy.
On Monday, Bill Clinton said in a statement that if his wife were to win, he would step down from the foundation’s board and stop all fundraising for it.
Toner said the State Department believed there was “no impropriety” in foundation officials seeking to meet Clinton, saying any secretary of state or aides get such requests from a wide range of people. Not unusual for a U.S. ally to get a meeting with the secretary of state, but an indicator that someone who donates to or is a “good friend” of the Clinton Foundation could get a meeting more easily than someone who isn’t.
Clinton also met in June 2011 with Nancy Mahon of the MAC AIDS, the charitable arm of MAC Cosmetics, which is owned by Estee Lauder. The meeting occurred before an announcement about a State Department partnership with MAC AIDS to raise money to finance AIDS education and prevention.
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. In fact, President Obama was anxious about this issue and the Senate Democrats were and Senate Republicans were even before she was confirmed. His concerns were focused on foreign government donations, mostly to CGI.
Bill Clinton “will not be involved” in the initiatives that are spinning off or merging with another foundation, Shalala said.
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“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 favouritism”, Lugar said.
