The Clinton Foundation, he declared, was “the most corrupt enterprise in political history”.
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No one is alleging that the Clinton Foundation didn’t (and doesn’t) do enormous amounts of good around the world.
Hillary Clinton’s critics jumped on an August 23 Associated Press analysis of her meetings with Clinton Foundation donors while secretary of state. And some of them – fewer than two a month – were with Clinton Foundation donors.
But there was much more to the actual story, and that becomes clear once you get past the headline. That’s half the 30,000 Clinton presented in her supposedly complete handover of her work communications past year.
The AP found that 85 of those 154 people, or “more than half”, had donated to the Clinton Foundation or “pledged commitments to its worldwide programs”. Those 85 people donated as much as $156 million. The AP first asked for Clinton’s calendars in 2010 and again in 2013.
The State Department is now estimating there are about 2,700 pages of schedules left.
“This is an example of pay-to-play politics the American people are sick and exhausted of”, Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on “State of the Union”.
Before Nov. 8, all emails and other correspondence involving contacts between the State Department and the Clinton foundation should be made public.
The investigation, and an article the AP published about it, came under scrutiny this week.
Clearly, none of these details were captured in the promotional tweet.
The number of persons of interest involved in this suppurating scandal, which has gone from an illicit server, to a panoply of Clinton lies to the public that disgusted the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, to erased emails, to “pay for play”, and now deep into the Clinton Foundation continues to grow. And there’s no need for a special prosecutor because holding meetings, in business or politics, no matter who sets them up, is hardly against the law. And while nothing in the AP story is proof of any wrongdoing, it is proof of bad judgment. For one, it noted that the AP analysis ignored the meetings Clinton had with world leaders and other US government officials – in far greater frequency than her meetings with private citizens.
Critics say Donald Trump’s campaign is too cozy with Russian Federation, but Hillary Clinton may have problems of her own.
A spokeswoman for the 36-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential nominee, said Chelsea Clinton was committed to ensuring that those benefiting from the foundation’s work would continue to receive “that often life-changing help”, and as a result Chelsea Clinton “would remain on the board to help steward the implementation of changes which do that appropriately”.
The Clinton Foundation’s website says the Rockefeller Foundation has donated between $10 million and $25 million, Western Union contributed between $1 million and $5 million, and UBS Wealth Management USA forked out between $500,001 and $1 million.
“I think it’s really fair to take a look at the work that the Clinton Foundation has done and take the time to hear about it, which is what we’ve been doing”, Brzezinski said. It plagues her 24 hours every single day.
Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Doug Band, a former high-ranking official with the foundation and adviser to Bill Clinton during his presidency, exchanged emails between June 2009 and March 2011.
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That’s not what the AP found, at all. State Department officials have said they are unaware of any agency actions influenced by the foundation. In fact, 60 percent of people share stories on social media without even reading the material.
