These days, he must be thinking: You can’t win for losing.
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She added that that her work as secretary of state “was not influenced by outside forces”.
“It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins”, Trump said in Austin, Texas, this week. “It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office”. Richard Painter, a former ethics adviser to President George W. Bush and now a University of Minnesota law school professor, said Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton should remove themselves completely from foundation leadership roles, but he added that potential conflicts would shadow any policy decision affecting past donors. “Donald Trump will renegotiate the failed Clinton-era trade deals that have forced employers overseas and killed jobs in OH”. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between ,000 and 0,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton’s campaign says any donor who expected special favors from Clinton in return would have been disappointed.
The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by October 15.
Only half of the detailed schedules have been released so far, according to the AP, which reported earlier this week that a majority of the private citizens with whom Clinton met or spoke by phone during her tenure had donated to the Clinton Foundation.
First, Trump’s wrong about three things. Abraham has given $2 million this election to a super-PAC supporting Clinton.The imperative to accommodate donors like these existed separate from their usefulness to the foundation. It’s a nonprofit foundation. Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has taken one dime in salary from the foundation. They see no problem with taking huge speaking fees, charitable donations and other money from people who are betting it will buy them a friendly ear or useful connections. There are more than a few legitimate areas of investigation in Hillary Clinton’s past – her support for the Iraq War, the U.S. intervention in Libya, and her general history of foreign policy hawkishness.
These failures included $2.35 million in undisclosed donations that flowed to the Clinton Foundation from a family foundation linked to a company that had a takeover deal that required approval by US government agencies including the State Department. If she apologized for that, she would have to face a jury of her peers, so she’ll just keep lying instead. And little by little, voters are learning that she likely used her family’s foundation to trade access to the State Department for hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars in donations.
Third, nobody can deny that the Clinton Foundation has done a world of good, especially in the field of health care – providing direct help, according to the foundation’s website, to some 430 million people in 180 countries.
Abedin, a longtime confidante of Clinton who is now working for her campaign, responded that Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa had sought a meeting with Clinton the previous week “thru normal channels”, and that the secretary of state had said she “doesn’t want to commit to anything for Thurs or Friday until she knows how she will feel”.
But that’s past history.
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“Makes me nervous to get involved but I’ll ask”, Clinton aide Huma Abedin responded to Band’s request – expediting an interview at the embassy in London – on the soccer player.
