Clinton also reiterated that neither she nor former president Bill Clinton nor their daughter, Chelsea, ever accepted money from the foundation. “When Democrats do that, they call it a conflict”.
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Second, we’re actually talking about relatively few meetings.
Hillary Clinton has lied to the American people so frequently that multiple polls now show that nearly 7 in 10 of our fellow citizens say she is not honest or trustworthy, while only 11 percent say she is, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll.
“The amounts involved, the favors done and the significant numbers of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately”, Trump proclaimed.
“This (foundation) becomes a conduit for people to gain access, and gaining access is a favor”, Pence told CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Meanwhile, it’s been seven months since a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing the daily schedules, so it’s hard to believe it can’t step up the process before Election Day.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Associated Press were involved in a battle over the news agency’s story that looked at the former secretary of state’s proclivity to meet with donors.
This “extraordinary” finding, as the AP put it, was deemed less extraordinary by other journalists and pundits who noted that Clinton had held thousands of meetings with government employees, foreign representatives, civil leaders, journalists and others while Secretary of State that were not accounted for in the AP’s report.
The AP issued its own statement on Wednesday, noting that it is still seeking further records from the State Department and will continue to examine them.
In June, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said, “Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many, many dollars from foreign governments – governments which are dictatorships?” – “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”. UBS had drawn scrutiny from the IRS regarding a large number of secret bank accounts held by United States citizens in violation of federal law. But she said the story linked to the tweet was “completely rock solid”.
One of those requests came from Gerardo Werthein, a South American businessman who has donated in excess of $1 million to the foundation, according to its website. At this time, we have not confirmed that the documents are, in fact, responsive. “Our responsibility is just to give them fair and balanced, rock-solid reporting and let them agree with it, disagree with it, talk about it, think what they might about it”.
On Friday morning, Clinton answered the charges of critics who say the current roadmap for the foundation going forward is full of potential conflicts.
In one December 2010 email chain with Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin, then-top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band offers names for a State Department lunch with Chinese President Hu Jintao scheduled for January 2011.
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Republicans vilify the foundation and some even want it shut down for tawdry political gain and out of their histrionic disdain for the Clintons – unfortunately to the considerable disadvantage of the world.
