“It speaks volumes that the Clinton Foundation’s CEO would casually admit on national television that its donors received access and “courtesy appointments” at Hillary Clinton’s State Department”, Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement.
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Lines wrapped around the campus at the College of Southern Nevada as students and Clinton supporters gathered.
At one point, a woman interrupted Clinton to say something that was mostly inaudible about immigration.
Hillary Clinton is expected to go back on the campaign trail Thursday, following a bout of pneumonia.
Hillary Clinton and Trump are locked in intense contest for the Silver State’s six electoral votes, with recent polls showing a statistical dead heat and both making regular campaign stops.
A spokesman for the 42nd president quickly said Clinton misspoke. “I’m hard of hearing; I’ll never be able to hear what you said”, Clinton said, telling the woman to come talk to him after the event.
Should Clinton win, the five board members appointed by the Clinton Foundation would step down. She has said no donor ever received inappropriate favors, but her staff have said she recognizes reorganization would be necessary to avoid any appearance of conflicts of interests. He also said that the Republican nominee made unlawful contributions out of his personal family foundation, while attacking Clinton’s foundation, which “saves millions of lives”.
Mitchell asked Shalala during the interview, “True or false?” after playing a clip of Trump saying, “It’s called pay for play”.
Bill Clinton set up the foundation as he prepared to leave the White House in 2001. “Requesting a courtesy meeting, when I was secretary of HHS, for instance, by a Republican senator, was not unusual”.
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“For that party, I looked at the list and other than two people, all of them are people who have been annual donors to the foundation and are long-time friends of the president”, Shalala said. Clinton was last in the state late last month, delivering a blistering speech in Reno detailing Trump’s ties to the alt-right, a movement she said is inspired by racism and other dark forces.
