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Monday, August 22, 2016

WSJ: "The Clintons Really Do Think They Can Get Away With Anything"

After years of claiming that the Clinton Foundation poses no ethical conflicts for Bill and Hillary or the U.S. government, Bill Clinton now admits the truth—sort of.

If his wife becomes President, he says the Super PAC masquerading as a charity won’t accept foreign or corporate contributions. Bill will also resign from the foundation board, and Chelsea will stop raising money for it.

Now they tell us.

If such fund-raising poses a problem when she’s President, why didn’t it when she was Secretary of State or while she is running for President? The answer is that it did and does, and they know it, but the foundation was too important to their political futures to give it up until the dynastic couple were headed back to the Oval Office. Now that Hillary is running ahead of Donald Trump, Bill can graciously accept new restrictions on their pay-to-play politics.

Bill must be having a good laugh over this one. The foundation served for years as a conduit for corporate and foreign cash to burnish the Clinton image, pay for their travel expenses for speeches and foreign trips, and employ their coterie in between campaigns or government gigs. Donors could give as much as they wanted because the foundation is a “charity.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

They only have to fool the delegates.

Anonymous said...

I guess that my family and I could live on the interest from $2 billion.

Anonymous said...

I guarantee that what they will do is create other foundations that will be connected to The Clinton Foundation (like the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership).

Anonymous said...

They have so far.

Anonymous said...

I don't know who they think they are fooling, but they are absolutely not fooling anyone at all. They are corrupt and everyone knows it.