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Bill Clinton hosts last charity event amid election scrutiny

“The stuff that they’ve said so far is just bull”, he said about questions about what happened while Hillary was Secretary of State and what will happen with the Foundation if Hillary became president.

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Clinton told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that should his wife win the presidency, it would be “impossible” for CGI to continue operations.

Bill Clinton delivered an emotional defense of his family’s charitable foundation Wednesday, applauding those who have contributing for having “validated hope and possibilities”.

This week’s event was held under a cloud of election year questions fueled by Donald Trump, who is locked in a close race against Hillary Clinton.

Some foundation allies grumbled that the announcement … was handled in an insensitive manner, according to the former officials. Bill Clinton is planning to leave the board of the Clinton Foundation, while his daughter is not. Whether it’s publicly feuding with Black Lives Matter or falling asleep during his wife’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, the former president has made more unfortunate headlines for the campaign he’s supposed to be championing.

The story came to light after the release of a groundbreaking book by Peter Schweizer – called “Clinton Cash” – which uncovered a serious of State Department decisions that appeared to favor big Clinton Foundation donors.

The move appears to be a concession to criticism that the Clinton Foundation should not conduct some of its normal activities if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

For everyone else, they’ll ‘have their jobs and benefits at least through the end of the calendar year, ‘ the spokesman said, adding that departing employees were getting resume help and hooked up with job leads.

“We’ve got a couple thousand people working for us around the world, and we owe them something”. “It was poorly managed, treated too glibly, patronizingly, completely lacking empathy at the fact that so many young people were going to be laid off”, a former C.G.I. official told Politico.

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Bloomberg reported that financial industry giants Goldman Sachs and Barclays will not participate this year, while marquee speakers like President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton herself won’t attend.

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