Bill and Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband and daughter, would step down from the health project’s board and the project would no longer use the Clinton name and instead would go by its acronym, CHAI, if the family returned to the White House next year, the announcement said.
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Hillary Clinton, according to an aide to the former secretary of state, is not expected to attend the event where Politico reports the tickets cost between $50,000 and $250,000.
However, in late August the New York Times editorial board demanded that the Clintons cut ties with their own charity: “The Clinton Foundation has become a symbol of the Clintons’ laudable ambitions, but also of their tangled alliances and operational opacity”, it wrote.
Bill Clinton announced last month that if his wife was elected president, the foundation would no longer accept foreign and corporate donations, he would step down from its board and he no longer would raise money for the organization.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a news conference on the airport tarmac in front of her campaign plane in White Plains, New York, United States September 8, 2016.
She is set to return to the trail on Thursday.
Still, her staff have said she recognizes reorganization would be necessary to avoid any appearance of conflicts of interests.
The CHAI bylaws will also be changed to remove the Clinton Foundation’s right to appoint members to the organization board, and new board members will be selected to replace the ones who depart after these changes. “And keeping her in in a leadership position on the board I think, personally, is very important”.
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The move comes amid unprecedented criticism of the foundation and fears that Mrs. Clinton gave foundation donors special access while she was secretary of state.
“If they asked me to do it, I’d be happy to do it”, Clinton said.
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‘It speaks volumes that the Clinton Foundation’s CEO would casually admit on national television that its donors received access and “courtesy appointments” at Hillary Clinton’s State Department, ‘ Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement.
