Spokespeople for Bill and Hillary Clinton declined to comment.
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“The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world’s problems, set up a financial commitment that benefited a for-profit company part-owned by people with ties to the Clintons”, reports James Grimaldi of the Wall Street Journal.
According to The New York Post, some outlets have alleged that McMahon, who is a neighbor of the Clintons in Chappaqua, N.Y., is the Bill Clinton friend nicknamed “Energizer”.
“McMahon, 54, is rumored to be the woman dubbed “Energizer” by the Secret Service at the Clinton home because of her frequent visits, according to RadarOnline”.
Trump on Friday didn’t say if he’s focused on the Clinton foundation, but reiterated that Hillary Clinton has “been playing the woman card, and I have to hit her back whenever she does that”.
“Bill Clinton’s foundation doled out $2 million to a power company that’s partly owned by a wealthy divorcee”, Peter Alexander reported.
McMahon owns 29 percent of Energy Pioneer Solutions, which was given the money to make people’s homes more energy-efficient. It was at that conference that a Canadian investor announced that she was committing $2 million to the company, which was in the business of retrofitting houses to cut energy usage.
According to The Post’s story, the Clinton charity committed $2 million to Energy Pioneer Services, a company owned in part by McMahon, identified in The Wall Street Journal and The Post as a close personal friend of Bill Clinton’s.
The company got at $812,000 Energy Department grant under a plan to insulate people’s homes and let them pay through their utility bills.
The company was founded in 2009 by Scott Kleeb, who twice ran for Congress in Nebraska. Weiner, a top Democratic fundraiser and close political ally of the Clintons has an ownership interest in Pioneer Energy, but he is not listed as an officer of the company according to SEC documents. Under federal law, non-profit, tax-exempt organizations aren’t suppose to act on the private interests, but these are the Clintons.
A Clinton spokesman, Angel Urena, sums it up: “President Clinton counts many [Clinton Global Initiative] participants as friends”. Both Tobias and Weiner are Clinton friends.
It reports that the $2 million commitment was entered into the database on the Clinton Global Initiative’s website but removed a few months later.
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At a September 23, 2010 gathering in NY, the Clinton Global Initiative-a program within the Clinton Foundation that “convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges”-announced the $2 million commitment to Energy Pioneer Solutions from Kim Samuel, a Canadian academic and philanthropist”.
