Posted on 05/01/2015 12:44:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea left earlier this week on a nine-day tour through Africa with a plane-full of family foundation donors and Hillary Clinton supporters in tow, adding jet fuel to accusations that contributors are getting rewarded -- and courted for even more money.
Those on the four-country tour are expected to observe foreign projects the Clinton Global Initiative has backed connected to health care, global warming, wildlife protection, education and agriculture.
While foundation aides tout their many successful initiatives in Africa, the trip comes amid the growing controversy over donations to the Clinton family's foundation. Conservative critics suggest this is yet another example of donors -- to both the foundation and Hillary Clinton's campaign -- getting something in return.
"If hopping on a private jet so you can go on safari with a bunch of rich celebrities now counts as charity work, then the Kardashian sisters should probably be eligible for sainthood," said Sean Davis, co-founder of conservative online magazine, The Federalist.
Further, the trip has fueled concerns that such donors are being primed for 2016 fundraising and would be a favored class if the former secretary of state wins the presidency. Jeff Bechdel, spokesman for the conservative America Rising PAC, said he expects "many of the donors on this trip" to show up as Clinton 2016 campaign contributors.
The Clintons have brought along 20 close allies, including donors who have given hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and in some cases millions of dollars -- to family foundation entities. There also are major Hillary Clinton backers who put their money and reputation behind her effort to win the presidency in 2008 and are expected to support her again in 2016.
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Oh those crazy Clintons. We can’t arrest them they are just so dang creative.
AND all expenses are TAX DEDUCTIBLE. SWEET FOR LIBERAL ELITE SCAMMERS LIKE THE CLINTONS...
Bump for excellence!
Thank you.
Who is watching the baby while Chelsea is away for nine days?
Is it bigoted of me to ask such as question?
No new mothers I have ever known, would ever be away from a new baby for so long. Just saying.
All meeting together to get their stories STRAIGHT!
It’s a fair question in my view.
I know nothing about her and her husbands lifestyle but would imagine they have a nanny, it sounds like Chelsea has been pretty active in the Clinton Foundation.
Like mother like daughter maybe.
Of course, I can’t speak to Chelsea’s parenting or any of that. Just my experience, with my own wife and other women we have known, that when they had children, they wanted to be with them. The women I’ve known have tried to avoid business trips whenever they could, so as to be there for their children. Especially when the children were babies, these mothers just wanted to be with their babies.
It just strikes me as odd that Chelsea, who is in a management position and able to set her own schedule, decided to go away from her baby for so long. It seems odd for a new mother to do that. Just my 2 cents.
I agree completely. That’s the way my wife was with our kids and how our kids were with theirs especially until they were older.
“All meeting together to get their stories STRAIGHT!”
Your comment made me chuckle as I recall my grandmother, the enforcer in our family, accusing my sisters and me of “...putting our heads together...” to present the same story when one of us had messed something up.
AS CANDIDATE HILLARY HYPOCRITICALLY "CHAMPIONS" THE MIDDLE-CLASS their billionaire pals are the ones who will be looting the US Treasury.
Doing the rounds to remind all the African grifters of that great Clintonoid proverb - you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
Her doting granny, of course. I said the same thing. What new mother voluntarily leaves such a young child to go traipsing off to Africa? Chelsea is definitely the apple that fell off Hil’s tree.
May they sit by a campfire and have rhino come stomping through.
Sounds like what her billionaire pals were paying for...
Of course... NOT until THEN will Evita speak to the press, debate of do any public appearances where she can be questioned!!
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