Indeed, strategists and pundits have been saying for months that Trump must get people’s eyes off his bombast and offensiveness and try to make the contest about Clinton’ s many scandals, perceived missteps and shortcomings while she served as secretary of state. It remains unclear how many of those documents – recovered from the accounts of people with whom Clinton had exchanged messages or deleted off Clinton’s server – are new, rather than duplicates of 343 emails already made public by the State Department. He reiterated calls by Donald Trump’s campaign for the federal government to appoint a special prosecutor to examine possible corruption.
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In examining people Clinton had met with during her tenure at the State Department and how many of them had given to the Clinton Foundation, the AP had excluded those with whom Clinton would be expected to meet as secretary of state – US government employees and officials from foreign countries, for example. Clinton Foundation spokesman Craig Minassian said the emails “aren’t related to the Clinton Foundation’s work improving lives around the world”.
A top Hillary Clinton surrogate denied Sunday that it was at all unusual for donors to and allies of the Clinton Foundation to ask the Democratic nominee for help or access during her time at the State Department.
“When Republicans meet with their donors, with their supporters, they call it a meeting”, she told CBS” “Face the Nation”.
But finding the fire – the lie, the misdeed, the unethical act – is proving to be rather hard, as evidenced this week by an inaccurate tweet and arguably misleading story from the Associated Press that were quickly rebutted by the Clinton campaign and dismissed by many media outlets.
Although ABC was unable to verify the identity of Collins, the Clinton Foundation lists a Timothy Collins – founder of investment firm Ripplewood Advisors – as a major donor. She also said the analysis should have included meetings with federal employees and foreign diplomats.
At the center of this latest in a string of Clinton controversies is the Clinton Foundation, a philanthropic organization founded by Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. “I think the documents are overly classified”.
“We ask them questions, they are unresponsive”, Carroll said.
“A wiser course (for Clintons) would be to ban contributions from foreign and corporate entities now”, according to New York Times. “Instead of counting on her friends in the Obama administration to shield her from accountability, Hillary Clinton should demand that these public records be released before voting begins”.
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As for Clinton’s aversion to take questions from the press, even deploying candies, like chocolate, to shut them up, we’re left with a “stay tuned” regarding future press conferences; a rather transparent way of saying it’s not happening.
