Clinton’s use of a private e-mail system as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation’s ties to governments and corporations that have business with the USA have come under increasing attack by Republican nominee Donald Trump after the release this week of e-mail exchanges between a former Clinton Foundation executive and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. President Bill Clinton says hello to Megan Bartlett and her 3-month-old daughter Hannah Rice, Decatur, as he works the crowd at historic Manuel’s Tavern on Wednesday, August 24, 2016, during a stop in Atlanta.
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Mrs. Clinton hopes that half measures will restore public confidence.
Based on the records released so far, the AP found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton during her tenure as a Cabinet secretary had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the Clinton Foundation. The ones that met with Hillary, at least 40 of them donated more than $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told MSNBC on Wednesday that Clinton does not have a conflict of interest with charitable work, and pointed to her rival’s business interests with Wall Street, China and Russian Federation.
The investigative report follows on the heels of new emails turned over by the State Department that reveal numerous conversations between Bill Clinton’s top aides at the foundation and Hillary Clinton’s top staffers at State asking for special favors for foundation donors.
“The Clinton Foundation has been way too inattentive to the appearance of impropriety”, Madoff said. The Republican nominee, who donated to the Clinton Foundation, has repeatedly charged that his opponent, while secretary of state, provided access to foundation contributors in exchange for donations to the charity at the heart of Bill Clinton’s post-presidential legacy. More scandals and more cover-ups, but seriously, how is Hillary not in prison?
After leaving her job as USA secretary the state in 2013, Hillary Clinton joined the foundation’s board, and the organization was renamed the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
“If there’s something wrong with creating jobs and saving lives, I don’t know what it is”.
Mr. Fischer said deep-pocketed donors most commonly contribute to officials or candidates either through their campaigns or through associated super PACs. I’ll just say that’s B.S. The fact is if it’s a great charity and its a five-star rated charity, guess what, other people can raise the money.
The Clinton campaign brought their objections to the AP, and asked them to remove the false tweet. While Donald Trump continued the slump that began at his own shambolic convention, the Democratic nominee has risen to the top of nearly every national and swing-state poll.
Schweizer said, “I’m a little skeptical” about “the safeguards that they’re putting in place now”.
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Going forward, the Clintons should sever those ties – even though the foundation bears their names – and make it an independent organization until or unless they are both out of office. The Clinton campaign denies Clinton ever took any action because of donations to the foundation. Foundation should “probably” shutter if Clinton wins Senate Dems” campaign arm knocks GOP for Trump support GOP chairmen subpoena tech firms tied to Clinton’s email server MORE (R-Wis.), reportedly signaled that the Clinton Foundation should go further than Bill ClintonBill ClintonDem Senate candidate: Foundation should “probably’ shutter if Clinton wins Will the USA and Canada start a trade war over lumber?
