“Well, the real question here is whether Secretary Clinton has been taking questions from reporters, which she absolutely has”, Mook said. Saudi Arabia, for instance, gave between $10 million and $25 million, according to disclosures that generally report donations in broad ranges.
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Republicans said the changes fell short and urged the Clinton Foundation to immediately stop receiving foreign donations.
Hillary Clinton’s family foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she is elected president, and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November election.
The week before Tim Kaine visited North Carolina, a slew of damning headlines revealed more about Hillary Clinton’s unethical wheeling and dealing while at the State Department.
Priebus said the foundation’s continued acceptance of foreign donations during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was a “massive, ongoing conflict of interest that gets bigger by the day”.
“That money should be given back”, Trump said Monday on Fox & Friends. Its work covers 180 countries, helping fund more than 3,500 projects.
It’s Bill Clinton’s 70th birthday today, and by way of celebration the London office of Heat Street has been leafing through the financial records of the William J. Clinton Foundation UK looking for a good news story with which to toast him.
And he dismissed suggestions that the foundation should be shuttered if Hillary Clinton becomes president. “What they were doing during Crooked Hillary’s time as Secretary of State was wrong then, and it is wrong now”.
Neither former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, the Clinton Foundation’s principal lawyer, nor a spokeswoman for the foundation responded to requests for comment on the hacking and the precautions the organization has taken.
“The Clinton Foundation is a charity that helps people around the world”. The decision means that the former president will convene in September his 12th and final Clinton Global Initiative, an annual meeting that coincided with the U.N. General Assembly and frequently included President Barack Obama, foreign heads of state, corporate executives and celebrities to address commitments aimed at addressing poverty, health care, education, climate change and other topics.
One of the attendees at these conferences speaks to the stickiness of some donor relationships.
Even if Bill Clinton steps down, there could be remaining complications about a potential president’s name being affixed to an worldwide foundation.
“It is very hard to see how the organization called the Clinton Foundation can continue to exist during a Clinton presidency without that posing all sorts of consequences”, said John Wonderlich, interim executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group in Washington.
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Considering the scale and scope of the foundation, Mr. Wonderlich said it was easy to “name a hundred different types of conflicts”.
