The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the foundation’s flagship project credited with reducing the cost of life-saving HIV medicines in the developing world, is yet to decide if it will similarly introduce new limits on donors.
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The announcement follows former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor and longtime Clinton supporter Ed Rendell’s remarks that the foundation should shutdown if Hillary Clinton became president.
Should she win the presidency, the Clinton Foundation will only accept donations from American citizens and independent charities, representatives told ABC News.
“But now that they have admitted there is a problem, the Clinton Foundation should immediately cease accepting foreign donations and return every penny ever taken from other countries, several of which have atrocious human rights records and ties to terrorism”.
Clinton also said he will put an end to delivering paid speeches from now until the November 8 election, and continue to refrain from delivering them if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
Former President Bill Clinton turned 70 on Friday, August 19, 2016 and his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, shared a picture of the present that his 1-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte Mezvinsky, got for her “Poppop”.
Also, if there is indeed the potential that donations to the Clinton Foundation might somehow affect government policy, shouldn’t the foundation stop accepting donations now?
Voters’ negative views of the foundation appear to be rooted in how it is perceived: While 29 percent of voters say the foundation’s goal is mostly charitable in that it raises and spends money to provide help for those in need, nearly four in 10 voters (36 percent) say it is a mostly political organization that raises and spends money to further the interests of the Clinton family.
During Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the foundation has come under scrutiny – and The Boston Globe on Wednesday demanded in an editorial that the Clintons shut down the entity should voters send her to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the fall.
Last fall, the foundation filed amended tax returns for the years 2010 through 2013 because of possible errors in reporting contributions from foreign governments.
Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump in most national polls with less than three months before November’s election.
Some critics suggest that some of those 2 billion dollars came from foreign governments, some supporting policies that are completely antipodean to those upheld by the United States, which puts Clinton at a risk of possible blackmail if she makes it to the White House.
Clinton has yet to address the future of the foundation or her husband’s role in it should she win the White House. That criticism intensified after emails from Clinton’s time at the department were made public as part of a lawsuit.
“Again, why did she allow it to go on during the time she was secretary of state?”
At the staff meeting, Clinton said he and his daughter did not face any external pressure to make the changes, but wanted to avoid any potential issues or second guessing for Hillary Clinton should she move into the White House.
Also, the staff was also informed by the former president Bill Clinton that the organization (Clinton Global Initiative) would still hold its final meeting in NY coming September regardless of the outcome of the election. The foundation has estimated that commitments by its members have improved the lives of more than 430 million people in more than 180 countries.
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The last Clinton Global Initiative meeting is to be held in NY in September, coinciding with the UN General Assembly. He said he was hopeful that his organization could continue CGI University, an annual meeting of students held on a college campus in the spring.
