Former President Bill Clinton simply stepped in to take her place. “Smart girl”, he told a crowd in Las Vegas.
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A Clinton family charity focused on public health will separate itself from the Clinton Foundation, lose the family name and remove Bill and Chelsea Clinton from its board if Hillary Clinton wins the election, the organization announced Wednesday. But Chelsea Clinton would continue her work with the organization.
“The worst thing we could do is spend that kind of money on a wall that would be better spent on bridges, roads and airports”, Clinton said.
Over the course of about 40 minutes, the former president spoke dismissively of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, argued that Donald Trump’s immigration proposals are misguided and suggested that the Republican nominee’s call to “make America great again” was racially tinged code for rolling the clock back 50 years. “So let me dispute any indication that Mrs. Clinton’s behavior on policy was changed in any way”, Shalala continued.
“She did it for me a long time”, former President Bill Clinton told the crowd. He also said that the foundation would stop accepting donations from corporations and foreign countries, only accepting those from individual Americans and charities. A little over twenty years ago, Bill was charming late night audiences with his classic visit to Arsenio Hall, now he’s visiting The Daily Show as Hillary recovers from pneumonia. “That is, if Hillary wins I’d be both a former president and a spouse. It never happened. It just did not happen”, Shalala said. “Requesting a courtesy meeting, when I was secretary of HHS, for instance, by a Republican senator, was not unusual”.
“The State Department does not believe it is inappropriate for the administration to consider individuals suggested by outside organizations when deciding who to invite to an official function”, State Department Director of Press Relations Elizabeth Trudeau said in a statement.
Another source close to the planning confirms to PEOPLE that the party will be held at the Rainbow Room, an iconic venue overlooking the NY skyline.
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Do we want the two of them leading our country? “I really can’t remember a time when a candidate for president made that kind of outreach to people who were so violently opposed to her”.
