The State Department needs to determine how many of them are work-related, although the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said that “several thousand” are work-related.
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But that promise may turn out to be utterly hollow as the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – the biggest single part of the Foundation – is considering continuing to accept foreign and corporate cash.
Chelsea Clinton would remain on the board of her family’s foundation even if her mother is elected president, a spokeswoman said Thursday. Commentators say it has struggled to make the transition from the scrappy party nomination fight to the battle to become USA commander in chief.
‘The Clinton Foundation has been way too inattentive to the appearance of impropriety, ‘ said Ray Madoff, director of the Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good.
Trump also met with black and Latino Republican leaders at his headquarters in New York City on Thursday morning.
In any other election, with any other opponent, Clinton would have a much harder time dogging two issues that she’s been able to avoid having to answer in any real way. “She’s only going to take care of herself, her consultants, her donors”, Trump said, referring to an Associated Press report that revealed many donors who met Clinton while she was secretary of state donated money to the Clinton Foundation. But first, she had to address her own controversy over that AP report that found numerous private individuals she met with as secretary had given to the Clinton Foundation first. “We focused on Mrs. Clinton’s meetings and calls involving those people outside her duties as secretary of state whom she chose to include in her busy schedule”. As has been widely reported, the AP’s framing of that figure was way off. “It excludes almost 2,000 meetings I had with world leaders”, Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday.
“It draws a conclusion and makes a suggestion that my meetings with people like the late, great Elie Wiesel or Melinda Gates or the Nobel Prize victor Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders”, she added. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.
She said: “Their plan was amnesty”.
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CORDES: In Atlanta, former President Bill Clinton argued the foundation was being targeted unfairly. Its work produced a book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich”. So, you know, stay tuned, there’ll be a lot of different opportunities for me to talk to the press as well as continuing to talk to the American public. For me, foreign policy is also a key issue, and thus I’m hesitant to say this. “I’m proud of what they’ve done”, he added.
