{"id":4792,"date":"2016-08-25T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2016-08-25T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:21:03","slug":"clinton-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/25\/clinton-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Vyan Walton on The Daily Kos <\/b><\/i>mounts a spirited defense <\/a>of the Clinton Foundation<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mr. Mook mentions some of the above, but he doesn\u2019t elaborate because Bash should already know all this, but quiteobviously she doesn\u2019t.<\/em>\u00a0He does point out\u00a0that while George W. Bush was president, members of his family were a part of several\u00a0foreign boards, specifically George H.W. Bush. He\u00a0was a member of the Carlyle Group <\/a>which had Saudi investors including members of the Bin Laden family.\u00a0 GHW Bush also ran the Points of Light Foundation<\/a> while he\u00a0was President<\/em>.\u00a0While Senator Bob Dole was running for president in 1996, his wife, Elizabeth Dole, was collecting a$200,000\/year salary as head of the American Red Cross<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what Bill Clinton is offering to do, stepping down from his own charity organization and ending his paid speeches which essentially\u00a0kills\u00a0his own personal revenue stream, is actually going far, far above and beyond what anyone has ever<\/em> been expected to do in the past.<\/p>\n

It is true that Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to the Foundation largely to help fund the Clinton Library (they also gave a similar amount to support the George W. Bush Presidential Library) but that they stopped giving anything while Clinton was Secretary of State. The Clinton Foundation lists its donors, which actually goes above and beyond legal requirements because charities don\u2019t have to\u00a0do that, but it doesn\u2019t specify exactly when <\/em>they gave in most cases, so many of the claims that they accepted foreign donations between 2008-2012 are not very well confirmed as noted by PolitiFact<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank Vyan Walton on The Daily Kos mounts a spirited defense of the Clinton Foundation: Mr. Mook mentions some of the above, but he doesn\u2019t elaborate because Bash should already know all this, but quiteobviously she doesn\u2019t.\u00a0He does point out\u00a0that while George W. Bush was president, members of his family \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}