The former president also said Thursday that whether Hillary Clinton wins or loses, the Clinton Foundation would end the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual gathering of global leaders, philanthropists, donors and celebrities to discuss topics of worldwide concern. “If Clinton is elected, the foundation should be shut down”.
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The largest program of the Clinton Foundation, the family philanthropy of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is still weighing whether to continue accepting foreign donations should Clinton be elected, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Bill Clinton also said the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in NY next month will be the final CGI meeting, no matter what happens with Hillary Clinton in November. More than half of Democrats (52 percent) said the foundation was mostly charitable, while six in 10 Republicans and nearly four in 10 independents (38 percent) view it as a political organization aimed to boost the Clintons.
The family renamed their foundation the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2013, although Hillary Clinton stepped down from her board position previous year after announcing her presidential bid. It also filed amended returns for 2012 and 2013 for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), formerly the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative.
This isn’t the first time that the Clinton Foundation has made this promise.
CHAI accounts for almost 60 percent of the $250 million the foundation spent in 2014, according to the foundation’s most recent annual report posted on its website.
Former president Bill Clinton speaks to media after a Clinton Foundation event. Half of all voters have heard a lot or some about foreign governments donating to the Clinton Foundation, and the same percentage of respondents have heard a lot or some about the nonprofit requesting “favors” from officials at the State Department while she led the Cabinet agency. Pence was suspicious that contributions to the Foundation directly affected actions Hillary took as Secretary of State and called for a new investigation. “I know it’ll be hard for President (Bill) Clinton because he cares very deeply about what the foundation has done”, Rendell said.
“I definitely think if she wins the presidency, they have to disband it”. “It’d be impossible to keep the foundation open without at least the appearance of a problem”. The Boston Globe reported that “since the foundation’s inception, it has collected as much as $25 million from Saudi Arabia, as much as $10 million from Kuwait, and up to $5 million a piece from the Citi Foundation, Barclays Capital, and Exxonmobil”.
Urena tweeted late Thursday that the Globe’s editorial had “absolutely no bearing” on the foundation’s decision.
Clinton has yet to address the future of the foundation or her husband’s role in it should she win the White House.
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Voters are about as wary about The Clinton Foundation taking money from citizens in other countries (34 percent), as they are about it taking money from US companies (35 percent). At a CNN town hall in June, she told Anderson Cooper, “We’ll cross that bridge if and when we come to it”.
