“The term special prosecutor strikes fear in the hearts of longtime Clinton-ites, who still recall when Kenneth Starr was appointed to look into the Whitewater controversy, an investigation that metastasized to include Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and eventually contributed to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment”, Cordes said.
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And the complex plan for allowing donations from US citizens and permanent residents, keeping some parts of the Clinton Foundation alive, and maintaining scores of Clinton-family allies on the payroll is less an opportunity for a clean slate than a guarantee of new controversy. Their donations to Clinton’s family organization totaled more than $170 million.
“They get a lot of things for this”, Trump said of the foundation donors.
According to the Associated Press, 55 percent of the private individuals who met or had private phone conversations with Clinton when she was secretary of State were donors to the Clinton Foundation.
The Associated Press reported that at least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had telephone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its global programs.
Victor Pinchuk, who has given up to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, appeared on the guest list that was sent between Dennis Cheng, an executive at the foundation, and Huma Abedin, then Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department, ahead of a June 2012 dinner.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has consistently claimed that the mainstream media is unfair to his campaign and gives preferential coverage to Hillary Clinton. In Austin, Texas, he accused the Clintons of running a criminal enterprise.
“It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tightening their grips on the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.
USA Today described this proposal as plan “laughable and laudable”.
“Taking Bill off the board and ending his official fundraising role won’t stop people from trying to buy access through the foundation”, the paper said in an editorial published Wednesday.
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Trump, helped by a revamped campaign team, has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the foundation and said it should be shut down immediately. “If Hillary Clinton doesn’t support these steps, she boosts Trump’s farcical presidential campaign and, if she’s elected, opens herself up to the same kind of pay-to-play charges that she was subject to as secretary”.
