The Clinton Foundation will stop accepting foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, a spokesman for the foundation said Thursday.
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The ex-president’s United Kingdom charity is a directly controlled offshoot of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
FILE – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton attends a news conference after visiting social projects supported by his foundation in Lima, June 8, 2010.
Bill Clinton said at the staff meeting that he and daughter Chelsea were not responding to external pressure to create new donor rules and were instead moving proactively to avoid the appearance of misconduct if there is another Clinton presidency.
On Tuesday, an editorial in the Boston Globe called for shutting down the foundation, because it represented a “political – and actual – distraction” to Clinton’s campaign.
The foundation, established in 1997, has been the focus of charitable work by the Clinton family since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001. It has also blurred the lines between donations and off-the-record political favors, while providing the Clintons with plausible deniability of auctioning off access to the most politically powerful couple in modern USA history.
While Clinton was secretary of state, the foundation put in place certain restrictions on accepting donations from corporations. After all, there’s a good chance Hillary Clinton will be president in just a few short months.
The Clinton Foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
The Clinton Foundation has long-been a target of criticism, especially during the years Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
The Clinton campaign has firmly denied any wrongdoing, saying that any decisions by State Department officials were made without considering the influence of donors. The New York Times revealed that Giustra benefitted when Clinton’s State Department signed off on a deal that helped Giustra’s uranium mining interests.
This charity works in 32 different countries and saw a huge increase in foreign donations while she helmed the State Department. He can say “there are some things that Donald Trump talks about that do have a germ of reason or a germ of truth”, or mention on a radio show the FBI’s findings have damaged Clinton, or he can tell Buzzfeed the Democrats are $10 million short for the DNC. He was pushing for more transparency than what was ultimately agreed upon between the foundation and the Obama transition team.
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On its website the Clinton Foundation claims to “operate programs around the world that have a significant impact in a wide range of issue areas, including economic development, climate change, health and wellness, and participation of girls and women”.
