Analysts said that’s “an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president”.
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Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. It probably didn’t hurt that Abraham had donated more than $5 million to the foundation.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to slam her Republican opponent by describing Donald Trump as inextricably attached to the “alt-right” movement.
All three media entities say it’s now time for Bill and Hillary Clinton to shut down the Clinton Foundation, as it has become a major liability to the former first lady as she seeks the presidency.
The AP did not include foreign government representatives in its analysis “because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties”, it said.
Even if this isn’t the straight quid pro quo that it seems to be, the tandem operation of government and Clinton’s charity created a clear conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety again and again during her time as secretary of state. One such episode involves Bangladeshs’ Grameen Bank co-founder and Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus who sought Clinton’s intervention during his spat with the Bangladesh government (she obliged.) More disturbing for many watchdogs is the access that corporate fat cats and financial moguls who contributed to the Clinton Foundation got when she was Secretary of State, with email trails showing a cozy, nearly familial nexus.
If the number of scandals one had racked up over a lifetime in the political limelight is a test of one’s qualification and preparedness to assume the highest office of the land, Hillary Clinton wins hands down.
Of course, there is simply no way to fact-check Mr. Fallon because the AP only reviewed the documents they were able to obtain, which they had been requesting from a stonewalling State Department. “Spokesman Brian Fallon saying the story “relies on utterly flawed data” and ‘cherry-picked a limited subset of Clinton’s schedule'”.
Asked whether Trump’s donation of tens of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation was also an attempt to gain access, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN he “wasn’t paying to play”.
The call from two leading Usa news organizations came as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and other members of his party have taken to calling for a special prosecutor to investigate what they say is corruption.
The USA Today wrote “Mothball the Clinton Foundation” in its editorial.
Donald Trump throwing a new punch at Hillary Clinton.
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Foundation donors’ access to her state department has been known for a while, based on multiple news reports, and the AP report highlights how frequent that was.
