2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Foundation Would Weigh Down a Hillary Presidency
"The Clintons have been targeted by trumped-up scandals from Whitewater to Benghazi. There also are self-inflicted wounds: President Bill Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail servers while secretary of state.
They may be on the verge of creating another one: The Clinton Foundation, which has done extraordinary good works over the past 15 years, would present an inherent conflict of interest should she become president, and may be problematic for her even now as a candidate.
Clinton has suggested that if she is elected, the foundation -- which collects contributions from wealthy interests including foreign governments -- would continue basically as is. "The work that it's done has been extraordinary," she said in March when asked whether there would be any ethical concerns about continuing the foundation. "The answer is transparency."
Ethics experts reject that. They say there wouldn't be any way to avoid the appearance of conflicts if she wins the presidency.
"If Bill seeks to raise large sums of money from donors who also have an interest in U.S. policy, the public will rightly question whether the grants affected United States foreign policy," says Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics expert at New York University School of Law. Ethics rules, he notes, are "not merely to prevent bad behavior but to foster public trust in the integrity of government choices." He's open, however, to the idea of the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea, running the foundation."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-22/clinton-foundation-would-weigh-down-a-hillary-presidency
The foundation hasn't been vetted yet.
think
(11,641 posts)would weigh down her presidency...
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/265402-report-fbi-expanding-clinton-investigation-to-look-into-public-corruption
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Alex4Martinez
(2,201 posts)The Clintons deserve credit for having astronomical ambitions but they have no boundaries.
Go ahead and have a series of Family Foundations, go do your global good or whatever.
And with one of the pair being SOS for a term, well that is a conflict on the face of it but again, whatever.
But to come back for more, to want to keep all that influence AND become president???
No, this is just too much.
Hillary: Get out of the room and let some other people breath, please.
senz
(11,945 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)that's more than "on the verge" of becoming a problem.
People are going to be surprised to find out how much they have been ignoring.
wiggs
(7,826 posts)announcement to highlight how much good the Clinton Foundation has done and will do in the future. Clintons have created a successful non-profit out of concern for humanity's most vulnerable. Billions raised. Millions helped. Etc. Carter, Gates, Ban Ki Moon all speak of the good done.
Then announce that ties will be severed for the near future....and that a new director will continue the work.
Of course, surrogates would also praise the Foundation for a week, and talk about the lack of Trump true philanthropy.