In fact, President Obama was anxious about this issue and the Senate Democrats were and Senate Republicans were even before she was confirmed.
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“If Secretary Clinton puts the right people in and she’s tough about it and has the right procedures in place and sends a message consistent with a strong commitment to ethics, it can be done”, said Norman L. Eisen, who was President Barack Obama’s top ethics counsel and later worked for Clinton as ambassador to the Czech Republic.
“He is it eh Republican nominee!’ So I think it’s insane but I also think it’s harmful”, she added.
As the 2016 presidential race nears, questions and concerns surrounding the Clinton Foundation are still proving to be an issue.
“I don’t know how you can conclude anything other than that you had a special in with the Clinton State Department if you were a donor to the Clinton Foundation”, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton defended the work of his charitable foundation Monday, telling supporters that it had “improved millions of lives around the world” but needs to change if his wife, Hillary Clinton, wins the White House.
The State Department said last week it was not aware of any actions taken by Clinton that were influenced by the Clinton Foundation.
Questions about Hillary Clinton’s email practices while serving as secretary of state have dogged Clinton’s run for the White House, and triggered an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe that found she was “extremely careless” with sensitive information by using a private server but recommended against bringing charges. He said the official name would be changed from the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation to the Clinton Foundation. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Trump’s campaign and Republicans have sought to cast suspicion over Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state and argued that foreign donors’ contributions to the foundation created inevitable conflict-of-interest questions.
Some of Clinton’s most influential visitors donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and to her and her husband’s political coffers.
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Grameen America, the bank’s non-profit USA flagship, which Yunus chairs, has given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the foundation – a figure that bank spokeswoman Becky Asch said reflects the institution’s annual fees to attend CGI meetings. The meeting occurred before an announcement about a State Department partnership with MAC AIDS to raise money to finance AIDS education and prevention.
