Mook attempted to direct attention instead to the financial connections that Donald Trump has to foreign companies, pointing to a New York Times report that showed at least one building partly owned by Trump had a loan owed in part to the Bank of China.
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And it’s even sweeter than that, too, because with the message, she included a vintage photo from the couple’s wedding day, showing off just how far they’ve come after so many years together. It was founded to create “social enterprises that help people lift themselves out of poverty”, according to Clinton charity filings. She is spending most of the week fundraising, with several high-dollar events in California.
Trump has talked of a 2009 series of emails that showed Douglas J. Band, a chief adviser to Bill Clinton, seeking to arrange a meeting between a senior us government official and Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian developer and foundation donor. Doesn’t the Clintons’ belated decision tacitly concede that was a mistake? That was readily apparent Monday, as both Trump and vice presidential nominee Mike Pence brought up the issue.
“It will take some time to adjust”, Mook added, saying that Clinton has been “transparent”. The ethics agreement did not prohibit the foundation from taking foreign contributions. Hillary Clinton is not expected to attend this year’s Global Initiative, which is being held from September 19-21. “But my point is that there is all this scrutiny because Hillary Clinton has been transparent”. A suggestion that Russian hackers search for Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails led to questions about whether he would be committing treason by asking foreign agents to hack a USA presidential candidate.
The family renamed their foundation the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2013, although Hillary Clinton stepped down from her board position a year ago after announcing her presidential bid. Clinton last week also said he would stop giving paid speeches.
“One money-laundering expert and former intelligence officer based in the Middle East – who had access to the foundation’s confidential banking information – told me that members of the royal family in Middle Eastern countries, including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have donated money to the CGEP that has then been sluiced through to the Clinton Foundation”.
The former president revealed the decision at a recent staff meeting.
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.
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The announcement of the new restrictions appeared to be a response to an ongoing political headache for Hillary Clinton, who has faced months of damaging criticism of her State Department tenure amid controversies over her use of a private email server and allegations that foundation donors received special access.
