The following are statements detailing use of monies.
Posted on 03/08/2017 3:30:27 PM PST by GregNH
Wow!
The following are statements detailing use of monies.
That’s not McCain’s foundation—that’s the university’s foundation.
...The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia gave $1 million to the McCain Institute Foundation in 2014, tax records show.
The donation was transferred to the Arizona State University’s fundraising arm to benefit the McCain Institute for International Leadership, which is run through the university...
...n April 2012, McCain met with several of his longtime political allies in Sedona, Ariz., to discuss his vision for a nonprofit aimed to preserve his political legacy.
Those in attendance included then-Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), then-CIA Director David Petraeus, former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker and actor Ben Affleck, the Arizona Republic reported in 2012.
The McCain Institute for International Leadership was created in December 2012, with an $8.7 million donation in unused funds from McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign....
No foundation that has anything to do with pols—current or retired—should take money from foreign governments. The same should probably apply to foreign nationals. Trump should put such a bill to congress as part of his swamp draining.
McCain is as corrupt and compromising as they come. And that donation from the Saudis is not a good thing.
But the $500k that his foundation pays each year does go to the related program with his name on it. And every state U has a big foundation with big dollars going into it.
His foundation is paying $500K a year in support of, and in return getting the naming rights on, this:
https://www.mccaininstitute.org/
I thought the John McCain Foundation was to help end human trafficking?
Figures.
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