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    Trump demands closure of ‘corrupt’ Clinton Foundation

    Trump demands closure of ‘corrupt’ Clinton Foundation



    22 Aug 2016

    Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Hillary Clinton shut down the charitable foundation founded by her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, branding it a “corrupt enterprise.”

    “The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people,” the Republican presidential candidate said in a statement.

    “It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history,” Trump said, blasting the charity, which has raised some $2 billion dollars since it was founded in 2001 after Bill Clinton left office.

    “It must be shut down immediately,” he said.

    Speaking a short time later on Fox News, Trump said the foundation had received financial contributions from various countries “that discriminated against women and gays and everybody else.”

    That remark apparently referred to various nations seen as having checkered histories on human rights, Saudi Arabia among them, that made generous donations to the foundation when Clinton, now the Democratic presidential nominee, served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.

    “I mean, that money — it should be given back. They should not take that money,” Trump told Fox.

    The Clinton Foundation disburses funds domestically and overseas, handing out some $218 million in 2014.

    A firewall was supposed to have been in place to ensure that the foundation’s work remained completely separate from Hillary Clinton’s role as head of US diplomacy, but critics said that that barrier has been permeable at best.

    – Newly released Clinton emails –

    Meanwhile, nearly 15,000 emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private email server while serving as secretary of state were released, and raised fresh concerns about potential conflicts of interest between the foundation and her service as the top US diplomat.

    Judicial Watch, a conservative group that has targeted Clinton for years, released the emails, including some purporting to show that various donors to the Clinton Foundation had lobbied one of her top aides, Huma Abedin, for access to the former first lady.

    The emails were made public by a judge after the group filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

    The newly released email exchanges appeared to show that a rich donor, Casey Wasserman, asked Bill Clinton aide Doug Band to contact Abedin for help in setting up a meeting with diplomatic officials in London, raising fresh questions about special favors for top Clinton Foundation donors.

    State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had handed over about 14,900 new emails to the department, both personal and government-related, that would be made public.

    “There was nothing that we have seen that implied any kind of untoward relationship” giving a donor to the Foundation privileged access to the then-secretary of state, he said.

    Concerns were recently revived after emails surfaced showing that Band had contacted two senior State Department aides of Hillary Clinton, seeking their assistance in helping a donor — Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury — to secure a meeting with a US diplomat in Lebanon.

    Bill Clinton sought to tamp down the controversy, announcing last week that — if his wife is elected president in November — the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign or corporate donations, and he would step down from the board.

    The former president said additional measures would also be taken under a Hillary Clinton presidency to make sure some programs are continued independently.

    “Much of the foundation’s international work, like that of most global NGOs, is funded in part by donor governments’ bilateral aid programs. If Hillary is elected, we will transition those programs out of the foundation to other organizations committed to continuing their work,” the former president said in a statement on Monday.

    Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign manager, told CNN on Sunday that the additional safeguards were “unprecedented… in terms of disclosure and limits.”

    “Over 10 million people around the world get important AIDS medication, lifesaving AIDS and HIV medication because of the foundation,” Mook said, adding that “the foundation has reduced the cost of malaria drugs by 90 percent.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-...on-foundation/

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    Trump is right. Shut it down. Now. Transfer the funds to other NGO's or send it back to the donors.
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    Clintons Promise They'll Be Honest If Elected. You're A Fool To Believe Them.
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    By:Ben Shapiro August 22, 2016

    So, Bill Clinton now says that he’ll disassociate from the Clinton Foundation if Hillary Clinton is elected.
    Today, Bill declared:

    If she is elected, we will immediately implement the following changes: The Foundation will accept contributions only from US citizens, permanent residents, and US-based independent foundations, whose names we will continue to make public on a quarterly basis….While I will continue to support the work of the Foundation, I will step down from the Board and will no longer raise funds for it.
    If you believe that, there is a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.

    Last Thursday, the Clinton Foundation also announced that it would stop accepting donations from “corporations or foreign entities” upon Hillary’s election.

    If you believe that, there is a giant clock for sale in London.

    In 2008, the CEO of the Clinton Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding explicitly stating that “Apart for attendance fees for [Clinton Global Initiative], CGI will not accept contributions from foreign governments. CGI will also suspend plans for CGI-International events outside the United States during any service by Senator Clinton at the State Department.”

    This was nonsense. As Ed Morrissey of HotAir points out, “The Washington Post reported in November that the foundation had to restate six years of tax documents to account for previously undisclosed revenue from foreign governments…. it was the not-conservative Associated Press that later reported that corporate foundation donors had unprecedented access to the Secretary of State while Hillary ran Foggy Bottom, too.” The State Department routinely set up meetings on behalf of Clinton Foundation donors with top officials, including a corrupt Nigerian magnate and the crown prince of Bahrain.

    While the Clinton campaign accuses Donald Trump of corruption, implying that he could use the White House to enrich himself, we know that the Clintons have already done that – they used the State Department as a favor machine in order to raise money for their slush fund, and increase their net wealth from “dead broke” to $100 million over the course of a decade of retirement and government service.

    Perhaps that’s conservatives’ best option if Hillary’s elected: let’s just form an offshore nation and start siphoning large sums into the Clinton Foundation on the condition that Hillary embrace constitutional conservatism. She’s corrupt enough she just might do it.

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/8560/c...aign=position1

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