Clinton Foundation raised $200 million from 85 donors, ranging from “the rich to the tyrannous”

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Clinton’s race tainted by emails

• The Australian
• 12:00AM August 29, 2016
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Hillary Clinton must clear the air over her private emails if they are not to become the Achilles Heel of her White House campaign. The FBI’s disclosure that it had uncovered another 15,000 emails she failed to hand over was bad enough. No less troubling was the analysis by America’s Associated Press news agency which showed more than half the people outside government who met with her when she was Secretary of State, including prominent foreigners, donated money to the wealthy Clinton Foundation — a “pay for play” arrangement, as it has been termed in the US media, that raised $200 million from 85 donors, ranging from “the rich to the tyrannous”.

Mrs Clinton insists there was no quid pro quo. But the conclusion, as TheWall Street Journal has noted, is that the latest emails “are further evidence that Mrs Clinton set up her private server to prevent the public from seeing how Hillary and Bill mixed public power with their personal financial and political ambitions via the family foundation ... everyone in the world understood that a gift to the Clinton Foundation was a way to influence the US government”.

The emails emerged after Mrs Clinton insisted she had handed over all that had not been deleted. She also wrongly maintained the FBI had cleared her of any wrongdoing (it didn’t: it concluded she had been “extremely careless” but said it did not have enough evidence to charge her). She also claimed former Secretary of State General Colin Powell advised her to use a private server. He denies it.

The contents of the 15,000 emails will be disclosed in October, before voting day. But such is the skewed and unusual choice facing US voters that Mrs Clinton has surged in major polls over Donald Trump as he blunders from one absurdity to the next. Mrs Clinton must clear the air. Assuming she wins, a tainted White House would be a disaster.


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So you're saying with that $200 Million they were able to give $176 Million to helping children and the sick?! Pretty good!

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