Trump is the latest critic to say the foundation’s plan to bar foreign and corporate donations if Clinton is elected president in November, which was announced Thursday, doesn’t go far enough. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between ,000 and 0,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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On the Trump side, are we seeing a kinder/gentler Trump?
“No issue better illustrates how corrupt my opponent is than her pay for play scandals as secretary of state“, Trump said. Under the pretenses of charitable work, the foundation has furthered the interests of the Clintons and their corporate and wealthy donors across the globe. “So, I think that it is both; him apologizing for his misstep in the past couple of weeks, but also is saying I have read the polls, I have seen what people have said, I can be honest and trustworthy”.
Judicial Watch has released other email exchanges showing Clinton Foundation donors getting access and other perks during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
Clinton got some bad news from a federal judge Monday, who gave the State Department until September 23 to determine a plan on how to release almost 15,000 documents the FBI had obtained as part of its investigation into her private email server – possibly creating a timeline where thousands of emails could be made public right before Election Day.
It will no longer take money from any foreign entity, government, foreign or domestic corporations, or corporate charities.
As more e-mails are released from Hillary Clinton’s service at the State Department, new revelations debunking claims the Clinton Foundation and State Department remained independent of one another.
Republicans have been outspoken against the foundation’s connections to the Clinton-run State Department for years.
The Clinton campaign has responded by seeking to portray her as more committed to transparency – and to charity – than Trump is.
“Since Hillary began her presidential campaign in 2015, Chelsea and I have made it clear that the work the Clinton Foundation started should continue if Hillary is elected, but that changes would be necessary”, Bill Clinton said in the email. What’s more, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine’s close friend Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his role as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative were part of the deliberations. This move provides her campaign with positive publicity, yet it remains unclear as to what extent these donations would not be allowed, and how past donations bought influence and favors when she served as Secretary of State.
“The Foundation has already laid out the unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hillary Clinton becomes president”.
Bill Clinton said that much of the foundation’s global activities would be transitioned to other organizations to continue that type of work.
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“The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people”, Trump said in a statement Monday. “Donald Trump needs to come clean with voters about his complex network of for-profit businesses that are hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China, and other business groups with ties to the Kremlin”, Podesta said. And Bill has long seemed obtuse in refusing to recognize that the Clinton Foundation could not continue in its current form with his wife heading toward the White House. Wasserman has donated between million and million to the Clinton Foundation through the Wasserman Foundation. But none of the exchanges appeared to show a direct quid pro quo. Bill Clinton also plans to cease giving paid speeches – another move meant to prevent further accusations of cronyism.
