Hillary along with her daughter Chelsea are the two other Directors of Clinton Foundation, which is involved in massive charity work.
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The decision this week to wait until after the election to cut off foreign donations was criticized by some as being “too little, too late”, as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said.
More than half of the Clinton Foundation’s major donors would be prevented from contributing to the charity under the self-imposed ban on corporate and foreign donors the foundation said last week it would adopt if Hillary Clinton won the White House, according to a new Washington Post analysis of foundation donations.
Bill Clinton said the foundation plans to continue its work, but intends to refocus its efforts in a process that will take up to a year to complete. She will face Republican Donald Trump in the November 8 election.
Some parts of the charity network, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which represented 66 percent of spending by Clinton-allied charities in 2014, are also still exempt from the rules, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday, although the group’s board will “soon” meet to examine them.
But there have been plenty of headaches brought on by the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton campaign said its rivals had mischaracterized the exchange and that Clinton never took action because of donations to the foundation.
Last fall, the foundation filed amended tax returns for the years 2010 through 2013 because of possible errors in reporting contributions from foreign governments. And Chelsea Clinton, who is its vice chairwoman, would continue her leadership role. Even worse, it is beyond dispute that these very same donors and the Clintons’ political allies have won the focused attention of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when she served as Secretary of State.
According to the reps, the Clinton Foundation, which has been the target of attacks from Republicans, would only accept contributions from USA citizens and independent charities going forward if Hillary Clinton wins.
Still, Mr. Trump has seized on emails released over the past several weeks from Ms. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, in which a handful of donors are mentioned.
Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the foundation, said the decision to forgo corporate and foreign money had nothing to do with the emails.
The Clinton Foundation is not a charity.
The Clinton Foundation will put new restrictions on accepting donations if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
Some critics suggest that some of those 2 billion dollars came from foreign governments, some supporting policies that are completely antipodean to those upheld by the United States, which puts Clinton at a risk of possible blackmail if she makes it to the White House.
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Voters were wondering what would come of the Clinton Foundation if the family was in the White House again, and Thursday’s announcement made it clear that the nonprofit won’t shut down.
