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Your Call: Is It Time for the Clintons to Distance Themselves from Their Foundation?

August 18, 2016 - 6:00am

Though many claim the Clinton Foundation, founded 15 years ago by former President Bill Clinton, has done good work in some very poor parts of the world, others maintain the good works are a dodge for the enrichment it brings the Clintons, and at the very least will present a disturbing conflict of interest if Hillary Clinton is elected president in November. 

To spell it out:

Since its founding, the foundation has supported such charitable causes as relief in Haiti, global health and schools where there were none before. 

But the foundation has also provided posts or paychecks for some members of the Clinton political team, like Cheryl Mills, Douglas Band, and Huma Abedin, and gave the former president a platform, travel budget and a sizable income. Many of the foundation’s donations come from overseas, including from foreign governments with troubling human rights records.

Our question to you is simple:

Should the Clinton Foundation stop accepting money sooner rather than later?


Comments

The headline for this raised a good question: Should the Clinton's distance themselves from the foundation. It is apparent they have been using the charity as a way to reap large tax breaks and use the foundation as a personal account with significant benefits. The question asked by the poll itself was different: Should the Clinton Foundation Stop Accepting Money. The two questions are different and could result in a different answer from readers. The foundation has been around for awhile. It does apparently give away at least a small percentage of their money even though most of the donations are suspect and used for personal benefit of the Clintons. If it were to operate as a legitimate charity, it has the potential to be a good thing. Most reasonable observers cannot reasonably expect the Clintons to change their pattern of using public positions for self-enrichment schemes and the potential for taking in huge amounts of money if they can sell favors from the federal government in return for large donations will probably too tempting to ignore. So, the poll is somewhat misleading. No way of knowing which question most people were answering (the headline or the actual poll question). Perhaps the view of the editors is that any mention of the Clintons is automatically so wrapped up in politics so the wording of the question is not relevant.

The CGI was obviously set up to enrich the Clinton Family in perpetuity, including Chelsea and Hillary's sleazy brother. Every other charitable foundation was established after rich people reached success and they wanted to give back to the world they trampled all over. The Clintons got it backward: they want to get rich before ruining the country completely, to hedge their bets with golden parachutes knowing Hillary's presidency will be the final nail in America's coffin.

The foundation does more good than harm...we borrow more money from China than any other government, yet their human rights record is arguably the worst in the world...start talking about real issues and who has proposed to do the most good for our country moving forward. I'm not voting for either major party candidate, but Clinton has much better documented plans than Trump, which isn't saying much...classic.

Actually, it's probably already to late to worry about accepting contributions from certain people and groups. The damage has been done, and there is no erasing some rather questionable donations from the books. Oh, wait. I bet Hillary can make them disappear. After all, she was able to make 44,000 emails disappear!

It is sad right wing jerks lie so much about thr Clintons even when doing such good work helping others they try to make it look dirty...... How about instead of attacking thr Clintons they look at the disaster of repub economics, hatred, fear they spout causing our economy to nearly go bankrupt and then self inflicted wounds to keep it from recovering, you actually govrtn decently........ That is the real crime against America they try to hide by attacking those who are trying to make us better again. You all should be ashamed but you apparent have none left..... I say this as a real fiscal conservative which is now in the democratic party balancing the budget while repubs run up massive debts. Just what part of these don't you understand. ?

This blog mentions nothing you're raving about and they never mention the amount of help they gave Haiti and other countries. What 5 - 15% collected donations go to the cause while the rest of the donations go to make paychecks for clinton friends and of course top of the world travel expenses. This is a clinton money laundering operation and charges need to be filed. Remember when United Way was tagged with high salaries for the top administrators. Oh that's ok with jerry rigger.

You are on some kind of hallucinatory drugs, right? Or was this meant as Satire.. .. Nothing you say is remotely true..

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