Posted on 05/20/2016 6:02:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Xlintons are very vulnerable on this issue.
Trump ought to start peeling back this stinking foundation like a rotten onion.
Bear in the woods, dog licks his walnuts. Geez.
Poor guy LOL
Black-letter law says it doesn’t even matter if that foundation’s use of its funds is legitimately charitable. Why? Because it took money (barrels of money) from foreign governments while Hillary (as Secretary of State) was an employee of the federal government:So what if the money was legitimately used charitably? The only thing that would make it kosher would be an act of Congress (arguably for each instance) of the Foundation’s acceptance of foreign government money. As to the lavish “honoraria” Bill got from foreign governments, Bill held the position of former POTUS. Is that an office of profit or trust? Certainly it is an office of profit if Bill was collecting his pension. And beyond that there is the issue of whether his Secret Service protection was a profit to him.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
In any case, Hillary was a principal in both the Clinton Foundation and her marriage with Bill, while she was SoS and both entities were raking in foreign government bucks.
And in case a liberal judge is inclined to say, “Boys will be boys,” they must consider that SCOTUS has strained at gnats and swallowed camels in order to hold that Campaign Finance Reform did not do what it obviously did in violating “the freedom of . . . the press.” And Bill’s honoraria are available to Hillary’s use in her campaign, without limit. And in that context the answer to the question as to the legitimacy of the Clinton Foundation had better be, “it is squeaky clean, with no hint of impropriety.”What, in Clintonworld, are the chances of that?
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