Clinton told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that should his wife win the presidency, it would be “impossible” for CGI to continue operations. “It was the most fun thing I think I’ve ever done”.
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“Janet Yellen , Lael Brainard whom I know, several others, these are really smart people and they’ll do what they think is right”, Clinton said in an exclusive interview with CNBC from the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in NY. Clinton allies have said that those actions were the sort that a secretary of state’s office would typically have engaged in, even if the people had had no connection to the foundation.
Politico credits the cuts to the “concessions made by the Clinton Foundation to controversies swirling around Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign”.
Instead of shutting down the foundation – something the Clintons said would “hurt people” – or scrapping the board entirely, they are planning on handing over the reins over to Chelsea Clinton.
But over the past year, evidence has emerged that both Clinton and the foundation failed to live up to those promises. The networks virtually ignored the conflict-of-interest aspect in 95 percent of their stories, according to Ms. Nelson, who analyzed 62 network news stories about the Clinton Foundation that appeared from August 9 to September 9.
In an open letter Bill Clinton wrote last month, he acknowledged that changes were necessary for the foundation and offered broad strokes of what they might include. The Associated Press previously reported that numerous people she met with also gave money to her foundation, but there is little evidence of any special favors. He said the organization would only accept contributions from USA citizens, permanent residents and US -based independent foundations. An account in The Hill revealed that multiple “government watchdog groups” warned the Clinton family “to eliminate any perception that Clinton Foundation donors could use their wallets to gain undue access to a Hillary Clinton White House”. “But look back after 11 years and see what the aggregate is”, the former president said.
Delivering a speech he wrote himself, Clinton will talk about what the Clinton Foundation has meant to him and “how hard it is to say farewell to this work”.
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Bill Clinton will certainly try to make the case Wednesday that the Clinton Foundation and its offshoots have done good work, and few people would dispute that.
