To Republicans, Clinton is a serial liar.
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That one, the Clinton people couldn’t handle. Clinton has since apologized for using the term.
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”. So if you’re secretary of state and foreign countries – standing to benefit in a variety of ways, financial and otherwise, from USA policy – are pumping millions of dollars into your husband’s charitable foundation, well of course it looks like a potential problem.
It is believed the information contained in those emails will be so damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign that it could cost her the presidency. The messages could become public in mid-October.
The released emails leave the perception that donating to the Clinton Foundation gave the donor access to Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State that they might not have if they were a peasant from Timbuktu.
The agency said it expects to release the last of the files around December 30.
A USA judge ordered the State Department on Thursday to release by September 13 any emails it finds between Hillary Clinton and the White House from the week of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, among the thousands of additional emails uncovered by federal investigators. The department did not immediately respond.
The AP recently reported that 85 of 154 people from “private interests” who met with Clinton while she was Secretary of State had donated to the Foundation. She called the work “transformational” and “in line with American interests and values”. Jonathan Swan of the The Hill also listed seven ways where the Clinton Foundation has failed to meet its benchmarks concerning transparency. Other organizations – the Red Cross, the Carter Center, the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation – might pick up some of the Clinton Foundation’s charity work, though not all.
Finally, that the Clintons have already pledged to remove themselves from their charity and have it stop accepting foreign donations should Clinton be elected president suggests they at least recognize a conflict of interest, however belatedly.
The State Department is now estimating there are about 2,700 pages of schedules left.
Included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, he was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an appointment. And while they’re not as bad as Republicans make them out to be, it’s also the case that they legitimately screw up now and again, giving new life to all the rest of it. Bill really did lie to a grand jury about his sex life; Hillary really did handle her emails poorly and then really did exaggerate in suggesting the Federal Bureau of Investigation had exonerated her.
“TPP does not address the issue of currency manipulation”, Mr. Sullivan said. “I think winding down the program takes time”. I understand that, but if there were no evidence that there was any conflict, I would say, look, I appreciate the work that they did to help 11.5 million people around the world get more affordable medicines and I appreciate the work that was done to help more people make a living and get a job and help American kids battle obesity and get better foods. “Talk about Alt Right”. The GOP is hoping to find something untoward in the Clinton schedule while also painting her as untrustworthy. Its views are seen by many as white supremacist and anti-Semitic. “You say nefarious. I’m not saying it’s illegal”. This week, some expressed disappointment that Trump appeared to be softening his tone on deporting people who are in the country illegally.
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But by an ironic twist of fate, it is that deep disdain for the seedy nature of politicians like Clinton that has led to the nomination of the one candidate who will struggle to beat her in the presidential race.
