The AP, looking for evidence of influence peddling involving foundation donors and Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State, didn’t find evidence of wrongdoing, but the news service nevertheless published an overwrought story that dominated campaign coverage. While the investigation didn’t turn up anything illegal, it did show “how the Clintons blurred the line between their non-profit foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department, and the business dealings of Bill Clinton and the couple’s aides”.
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“I wonder why?” Trump asked, albeit without directly accusing rival candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of any impropriety.
The records from the GSA, which Politico obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, found that Clinton representatives requested $16 million in funds, which were also reportedly used to pay salaries for former Clinton aides (including a few that were connected to Hillary’s email scandal and its “pay for play” accusations).
A September 1 report from Politico claimed that Bill Clinton “used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server”.
It is important to note that at least 13 of the 22 staffers paid by the GSA to work for Bill Clinton were also staffers at the Clinton Foundation, according to Politico. Her use of that system was dubbed “extremely careless” by the Federal Bureau of Investigation director.
At the same time, though, Cooper was working with Doug Band, a trusted Bill Clinton lieutenant, and Declan Kelly, a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser-turned-State Department official, to launch a global consulting firm called Teneo. But selling self-portraits may not be able to pay the bills, which is why the Former Presidents Act was set up through the General Services Administration. “Cooper was not paid by GSA at all until 2011 (two years after he first helped set up Clinton’s email account), and during the time he was paid by GSA, he remained on the personal payroll of the Clintons for the goal of his work on the server”.
“T$3 here is no legal prohibition that would preclude the former president’s staff from receiving compensation from other sources or doing personal work for the former presidents”. It does not matter that favoritism is inescapable in the federal government and that the Clinton Foundation stories are really nothing new.
Again, nothing illegal, but it’s ethically questionable.
Fifty-four percent say the Clintons did not take enough action, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today survey released Thursday. “It’s hardware that runs a database that houses correspondence”, he added.
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Reports emerged earlier Thursday that Bill ClintonBill ClintonPoll: Majority of voters fault Clintons for handling of foundation Trump was spineless in Mexico The Hill’s 12:30 Report MORE spent taxpayer dollars for the Clinton Foundation. Hence, why the GSA questioned the purchase for its dual role.
