Posted on 08/27/2016 9:19:59 AM PDT by upchuck
In her first national media interview in nearly a month, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night defended herself from accusations that she gave special access to Clinton Foundation donors while serving as Secretary of State.
Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clinton said her work at the State Department was never influenced by any outside forces.
"I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right to keep Americans safe and protect U.S. interests abroad," she said.
Clinton's comments came in response to an Associated Press story asserting more than half of the meetings Clinton took with representatives of non-governmental interests while she was Secretary of State were with people who directly or indirectly donated to her family's global charity.
Emails from Clinton's private server also showed that some Clinton Foundation donors sought access to Clinton while she served at the State Department. The emails did not, however, show Clinton giving special favors to those donors.
In her interview with Cooper, Clinton reiterated that her emails didn't show special favors were given to her donors.
She also asserted that neither she nor former President Bill Clinton ever made money off the charity. She challenged Cooper to ask similar questions of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has interests in hundreds of businesses and investments and possible foreign connections.
"You know more about the Foundation than you know about anything concerning Donald Trump's wealth, his business, his tax returns. I think it's quite remarkable," Clinton said.
"[Trump's] refusal to release his tax returns is even more concerning, given the recent news that his businesses are hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to big banks, including the state-owned bank of China and business groups with ties to the Kremlin."
Trump has not released his tax returns since 1981. He has, however filed a mandatory personal financial disclosure statement, which lists his current holdings.
The 104-page document identifies hundreds of Trump-run foreign and domestic companies, which like the Clinton Foundation, make some ethics experts nervous about potential conflicts of interest if Trump wins the presidency.
Charity?
Here is a good place for them to start their investigation! http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/
They can do an article a day on each Trump property or operation and still not get done by election day. ;-)
Trump was not in charge of keeping the USA safe. He has had nothing to do with that. He needs to remind people of that. She’s a world class dirt bag, along with Bill and Chelsea.
Give it up, Hildebeast. That dog ain’t gonna hunt.
Charity??? Oh my goodness she doesn’t know what she can opened in this can of worms...
First of all, if there had been a ‘loose hair’ on those reports that Trump turned over, the media would have been all over it, they weren’t, in fact, they were shocked that it was so detailed...
Yep, Hillary you just opened up a can of whoop ass on yourself, because right here on this site, any one of us can pull up at least 10 different articles proving that your ‘charity’ is nothing but a money laundering RICO mafia project....
Shift the attention to Trump, you are more insane than I thought!!!
Consider the many books that have been written about her, "full record and experience." None of them complimentary, AFAIK.
Go Trump/Pence.
The foundation explains everything. Roberts obamacare decision. Beghazi abandonment. Republican impotence. All of it. Pay to play.
Trump wasn’t working for the government and using tax payer dollars to build his businesses.
She’s on the defense.
Keep the pressure up !
The Greatest Crime Couple in the history of the republic…William Jefferson and Hillaryous Rotten Criminal. Let’s see…where did the greatest republic in the history of civilization go wrong?
AMEN brother.
Good point. One that could be used by Trump.
What makes her think that her buddies in the media are not going through Trumps life with a fine tooth comb? Apparently the Clinton Crime Foundation scrutiny is getting to her.
Think about it. Why would these fritters want to start a “charity”? And remember when Bush was involved with Bill in the Haiti mission? Why?
Good point. So is the msm.
Hillary will be on the defensive from here on out.
this is hildabeast SOP.
it’s kinda like a mirror technique:
accuse her opponent of the exact thing she is guilty of.
eg. her foundation is crooked>>>>call trump’s business crooked.
eg: hildabeast is a verified racist bigot>>>>call trump a racist.
eg: hildabeast directly responsible for over throw of 3 ME nation states and leaving those countries in chaos>>>>>call trump dangerous in foreign policy
I loath the Bush family. Barbara reminds me of the mob mom in the goonies.
Like Trump said in that Anderson Cooper interview “Hillary should be in jail”. That IS the bottom line here. End of story. JAIL JAIL JAIL! When our politicians are above the law we slide towards fascism. When a cop breaks the law, the judge goes extra hard against that cop because he is a cop who was entrusted. So WHY isn’t that same standard applied to politicians above all else? The incredible danger and damage that is created through corruption in politics is absolutely insane, millions of lives are put at risk. Think of it this way - Hillary does favors for foreign governments if they pay her off, so what is to stop her from arming terror with nukes? Look how corrupt this government is, what is to stop them from allowing a nuclear device to go off in a major US city? F that! She belongs in JAIL! The people should constantly CONSTANTLY demand it!
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