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I know you wished so hard it was the truth. But it wasn't. That's why it's been debunked.Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response
Hillary Clinton is surrounded by suggestions of controversy. Terms like "Clinton Foundation," "email server," and "Benghazi" hover around her like a faint smoke that hints at the existence of fire.
But finding the fire -- the lie, the misdeed, the unethical act -- is proving to be rather difficult, as evidenced this week by an inaccurate tweet and arguably misleading story from the Associated Press that were quickly rebutted by the Clinton campaign and dismissed by many media outlets
"The AP's big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess," his headline read.
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The AP’s defense of its bad Clinton Foundation story is also bad
But having looked into it, the reporters do not seem to have found any special favors. That in and of itself is an interesting conclusion. There has been a lot of discussion around potential conflicts of interest related to the Clinton Foundation, so the absence of any clear evidence of actual misconduct is a useful contribution to our understanding.
The story the AP wrote — full of arbitrary math, sensationalistic tweets, and strange insinuations — is not.
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Trump and the GOP has put themselves into the position of needing to apologize to Hillary Clinton. Republicans say where there is smoke, there's fire. Only Republicans create the smoke and then look for the fire. 30 years of smoke and no fire.
No...it wasn't misleading....it told the truth.....the minions in the media are now covering for hilary.....they don't want the Dr. Drew treatment.....
The Clinton Foundation story is being spun out of control
But here is where the AP blew their story. In an attempt to provide an example of how this becomes an “optics” problem for Hillary Clinton, they focused much of the article on the fact that she met several times with Muhammad Yunus, a Clinton Foundation donor. In case you don’t recognize that name, he is an economist from Bangladesh who pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance as a way to fight poverty, and founded Grameen Bank. For those efforts, Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
The connection the AP tries to make is that SoS Clinton met with Yunus because he was a Clinton Foundation donor. What they didn’t mention is that their relationship goes back over 30 years to the time Hillary (as first lady of Arkansas) heard about his work and brought him to her state to explore the possibility of implementing microfinance programs to assist the poor.
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Republicans think helping the poor is some fantastic bad joke and a waste of time an money.
On the Morning Joe interview, Mrs. Clinton say she met with around 17,000 people during her four years as SOS. The AP said half of those were her donors and then gave the number of donors at 85. 85 as half of 17,000 is the new GOP "fuzzy" math.