Hillary Clinton is surrounded by suggestions of controversy. Terms like “Clinton Foundation”, “email server”, and “Benghazi” hover around her like a faint smoke that hints at the existence of fire.
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Others will see it as a case of a dedicated government official taking some time from busy days to do work that benefits thousands of people in poor and developing countries and to move ahead with programs that the government is not necessarily equipped to do in a speedy manner. “It’s sloppy, click-grabbing shorthand that is a disservice to the reporting to which it refers”.
Unfortunately, the connections between these meetings and subsequent donations by those with whom she met are giving the public the impression that Secretary Clinton was running a “pay-to-play” operation when it came to giving individuals her time and attention.
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that more than half the non-governmental personnel granted meetings with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave large donations to the Clinton Foundation.
He also defended Hillary Clinton’s contact with donors to the foundation while serving as secretary of state, saying foundation donors like Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize victor Muhammad Yunus have no trouble reaching officials around the world.
Moreover, the AP only analyzed 154 meetings, based on what has been made available by the State Department, and thus its review only accounts for a fraction of Clinton’s meeting schedule during her tenure as secretary of state. The future of the Clinton Foundation has been one of the overarching questions shadowing Clinton’s campaign.
The Clinton Foundation has come under increased scrutiny over the past few weeks. On Twitter, he hit the AP for failing to correct its breaking news alert, which he called “100 percent factually inaccurate”.
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The AP report said 85 of the 154 people from private interests that she met with or had phone conversations donated more than $156 million to her family charity or pledge commitments to its global programs.
The Washington Post Fact-Checker wrote that there were “many more nuanced and important details in the story that are being misrepresented – by the AP’s own promotional tweet, and by Trump”.
Boardman argued that the story itself “was not almost so flawed as Yglesias and others have charged”.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was formed in 1997, originally to establish the Bill Clinton presidential library, but it quickly grew into an worldwide charitable organization that now has a budget of more than $223 million and has raised more than $2 billion to support 11 major programs focusing on such things as agriculture in Africa, combating childhood obesity, economic development in South America, natural disaster relief in Haiti, reducing the cost of Aids drugs and mitigating climate change, according to a BBC report.
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Clinton said that the Clinton Foundation has gone “above and beyond” legal standards to “avoid those questions”.
