He wants it to shut down.
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“It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt political enterprise in history”, Trump said in a statement Monday.
The organization’s activity has provided fodder for Clinton’s political rivals to accuse her of “pay-to-play” schemes. A Clinton spokesman said the former president will also refrain from delivering paid speeches until the November election and will no longer give paid speeches if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that his family’s charitable foundation will alter how it works if Hillary Clinton wins the White House, amid mounting pressure from both critics and supporters. It also said her husband, former President Bill Clinton, would step down from the group’s board. This week, the left-leaning Huffington Post ran the headline “Just Shut It Down” – linking to a 2015 New York Times expose on the foundation – and joined the editorial boards of The Boston Globe and the New York Post in that assessment.
The institution, the full name of which is the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has collected about $2 billion in donations over the past two decades, Efe news reported.
The emails suggest State Department aides to Clinton looked into doing favors for Clinton Foundation donors or those linked to donors.
Republicans said the changes fell short and urged the Clinton Foundation to immediately stop receiving foreign donations.
Defending the foundation’s mission, Bill Clinton pointed to more than 11.5 million people in more than 70 countries who have gained access to HIV/AIDS drugs at a much lower cost and millions of American students who have healthier food and more physical education options because of the foundation.
The future of the Clinton Foundation has been one of the overarching questions shadowing Clinton’s campaign.
“The email in question from Doug Band was coming from his private email account, or his Clinton.com email account, it was not related to the foundation, and the State Department at every step was following every appropriate protocol”, Mook said.
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Clinton campaign officials have firmly denied any wrongdoing, saying any decisions by Clinton were made without considering donors’ influence. The ex-president, who oversees the foundation with daughter Chelsea Clinton, also said he would hold his final Clinton Global Initiative meeting next month in NY regardless of the election’s outcome.
