He added that the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual summit that brings together influential world leaders, would hold its final meeting next month in New York City regardless of the election’s outcome.
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Ahead of celebrating his 70th birthday on Friday, Clinton said he would resign from the board and would only accept contributions from US citizens and independent charities if his wife was elected president. The move was meant to quiet suspicions about foreign donors during Hillary’s time as secretary of state and make it clear that the same questionable dealings won’t go down the next time she’s in public office. Next year’s headline: “Clinton Foundation Accepts $250 Million in Foreign Donations”.
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.
Trump has talked of a 2009 series of emails that showed Douglas J. Band, a chief adviser to Bill Clinton, seeking to arrange a meeting between a senior us government official and Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian developer and foundation donor.
“CHAI is a separate legal entity from the Clinton Foundation with its own Board”, Regan Lachapelle, a CHAI spokeswoman, said in an email. The former president was visiting Clinton Foundation projects in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Africa.
The foundation should remove a political – and actual – distraction and stop accepting funding.
CGEP, which says Canadian law prevents it from disclosing its donors’ names without their permission, was founded by Bill Clinton, the former USA president, and Canadian businessman Frank Giustra in 2007 to improve work opportunities for people in poor countries.
It’s the same technique the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said was used on Mrs. Clinton and her State Department aides. CHAI files separate tax returns from the Clinton Foundation, but is included in the foundation’s audited expenses, annual reports and other promotional literature.
The William J. Clinton Foundation was founded in 2001 and the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2012.
But the group has vigorously defended its philanthropic mission, asserting that donations from governments outside the US were from grants awarded prior to Clinton’s appointment as secretary of state.
“This effort to shield Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation after more than a year of controversy is too little, too late”, said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
The Clinton Foundation has not yet responded to a request for comment on the report and the security company, FireEye, told Reuters they don’t comment on their clients. Bill Clinton will also decline any paid speeches, something he’s done since November.
Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee.
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“I definitely think if she wins the presidency they have to disband it”.
