Posted on 12/28/2016 8:06:31 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, told the host of Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday of his concerns that Trump would try to continue to run his Donald J. Trump Foundation while president of the United States:
My concern was … had Trump won, Trump would feel his position was solidified enough that he would go about as he pleased, that the Trump Foundation would remain in operation. Remember that last year, after he had announced [for the presidency] and was doing pretty well in the polls, the Trump Foundation received a donation from Viktor Pinchuk [a billionaire on Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest people], who’s a Ukrainian oligarch. This is somebody who gave a lot of money to the Clinton Foundation and got a lot of favors from the Clintons in return. So there was some very real concern [on my part] that [with Trump in the White House] it was going to be business as usual.
When Schweizer learned of Trump’s decision to dissolve his foundation to avoid any conflicts of interest, he said: “I’ve got to tell you, this is what leadership looks like.” He added:
This is not something that was imposed on him by somebody else. In the case of the Clintons, President Barack Obama forced the Clintons into doing a lot of things they didn’t want to do, when she became secretary of state…. These are all being done [by Trump] voluntarily. I’m extremely encouraged. I was worried that these avenues for conflicts of interest were going to remain [after he became President]…. So it’s very, very encouraging, and it’s a nice change from the Clintons, where they would have [had to be] dragged screaming and yelling to make even the most minor concession to a possible conflict of interest.
In his book Clinton Cash, Schweizer revealed why Hillary didn’t want to relinquish any part of the Clinton Foundation. By following the money trail, Schweizer exposed the connections between the Clinton's personal fortune (estimated to be in excess of $100 million), their close personal friends, the Clinton Foundation, and the governments of foreign nations.
The Trump Foundation is not without its problems, which the mainstream media is making every effort to expose and trumpet from every outlet. Said Schweizer, there is “legitimate criticism of the Trump Foundation” and he and his organization “are going to continue to monitor the leadership of the Trump administration, including Donald Trump himself and the children, for conflicts of interest.” But he added:
I’m very encouraged that these steps are being taken voluntarily to prevent these conflicts of interest … I think it is grounds for celebration. If you contrast that with the Clintons, when Hillary became secretary of stat — Barack Obama put very few restrictions on them, but the ones that he did, the Clintons fought [against] tooth and nail…. So this is a nice contrast to what I think we would have had with Bill and Hillary Clinton, which would have been … business as usual.
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I respect Schweizer and the efforts he has made. But, this is a trail of breadcrumbs anyone who was not a batshit crazy looney leftist or rabid TDS "sufferer" could follow. In fact, the inability to explain how the Clintons grifted a $100M should be a diagnostic for mental illness.
Instead of dissolving the foundation he should have just said that the books would be 100% open - every donation and every expenditure would be made public.
Then they could have continued to do good things and avoided any conflict of interests.
I see this as the first ‘win’ of the media against Trump. He should continue to tell them to go F themselves. This will NOT STOP because he dissolved the Foundation.
Having said that, I do not question his decision- if he thinks this is what he wants to do then OK. He can do more to ‘help’ people as president than he ever could through the foundation.
ALSO - USE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE TO QUESTION WHY THE MEDIA NEVER LOOKS AT THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
Funny you should say that. The only time I ever saw this guy (the author of Clinton Cash) on CNN was when they brought him in to discuss the, you guessed it, Trump Foundation.
Funny how that works!
Maybe it gives more moral standing for there to be an investigation of the Clinton Foundation
Trump is making huge sacrifices for this country and so are all of his family
Life changing
Targets on all their backs
I wish he could have just frozen all activities of his Foundation so that someday Barron could again operate it - and ditto with Eric’s Foundation
The recipients of trump money are going to miss this charity
Yes. He could have demonstrated how a tax exempt foundation is actually supposed to work.
Sadly, the Democrats are HURTING St. Jude’s by making Eric shut down the Charity work he does for them!!
She announced that she was running in 2020 just to keep the cash flowing.
I may not have enough decimal places...
Bkmk
This is an area where we need major reform. Too much money is going to groups whose only real mission is to undermine our country. A ‘charitable organization’ should only be one that doles out money directly to people in need - for health reasons, or to provide scholarships. That way we’d keep the George Soros types from getting a tax benefit for attempting to destroy this country.
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