“The crown prince’s pledge in 2005 to continue to invest in educating young Bahraini men and women happened years before and was wholly unrelated to any meeting with Secretary Clinton”, the statement read, adding that the U.S.’s relationship with Bahrain is an “enduring feature of the Kingdom’s foreign policy and, as deputy head of state, the crown prince has and will continue to meet with USA officials”.
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So Salman tried Plan B. The Clinton Foundation recently announced they will no longer accept money from foreign governments or corporations, if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
In each case, according to emails released Monday from Clinton’s time as secretary of state, the requests were directed to Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and confidante, Huma Abedin, who engaged with other top aides and sometimes Clinton herself about how to respond. He was “asking to see her”, Band wrote in June 2009.
Salman was not just any Middle East leader. He also was a generous Clinton Foundation donor.
The foundation’s site says the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program pledged US$32 million for the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative program. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
But the exchanges, among 725 pages of correspondence from Abedin disclosed as part of a lawsuit by the conservative group Judicial Watch, illustrate the way the Clintons’ worldwide network of friends and donors was able to get access to Clinton and her inner circle during her tenure running the State Department. They will also provide a status update so that District Judge James E. Boasberg can determine which ones would need to be produced under Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.
One day after news broke that top Hillary aide Huma Abedin served for a decade as the assistant editor of radical Islamic journal, the Clinton Foundation is embroiled in questions about pay-for-play and special access allegations.
The release of the correspondence follows previous disclosures of internal emails showing a similar pattern of access for foundation contributors, and it comes as Republicans allege that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, used her perch in the Obama administration to trade favors for donations.
Trump, in a statement, said the foundation “must be shut down immediately”.
HILLARY CLINTON: There is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton detailed the planned changes on Monday, saying in a prepared statement that the charity would only accept donations from American citizens, permanent residents, and US -based independent foundations.
Clinton also promised to step down from the foundation’s board of directors and stop soliciting donations.
“If Hillary is elected, we will transition those programs out of the foundation to other organizations committed to continuing their work”, he stated.
Abedin’s role in the Clinton Foundation has always been under scrutiny. Abedin advised Band that when she went through “normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet. She acknowledged in sworn testimony earlier this year that part of her duties included “family matters”.
It is not clear when the documents discovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation will become public, but attorneys for the State Department and Judicial Watch are negotiating a release that is likely to begin before the election and continue long after.
A sports executive who was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and whose firm paid Bill Clinton millions of dollars in consulting fees wanted help getting a visa for a British soccer player with a criminal past.
Mitchell seemed to defend Clinton and the foundation by noting, “Defenders point out that the charity has improved the lives of millions”.
And on Long Island, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell pushed back on suggestions that he may have given Clinton the idea to use a private email account, telling media outlets that “her people are trying to pin it on me”.
In 2011, the 56-year-old singer and his U2 bandmate The Edge celebrated both Bill Clinton’s 65th birthday and the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Foundation with a star-studded concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
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Joyce Aboussie, who donated between $10,000 and $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation. The St. Louis political power broker helped arrange a meeting between Clinton and Peabody Energy Vice President Cartan Sumner.
