Clinton Foundation to Use Chelsea for Influence Laundering
August 26, 2016
The
Clinton Foundation ran a trial balloon of various potential commitments
in case Hillary Clinton wins. Then it popped most of them.
One
of the basic commitments was Chelsea Clinton leaving the Clinton
Foundation. Instead Chelsea will stay. And that turns the Clinton
Foundation into a blatant influence peddling arm of a potential Clinton
White House. The obvious reason to keep Chelsea there is to keep the
same game going that Hillary back at the State Department. Except that
Chelsea would have even more access to her mother, and therefore donors
to the White House, than Huma Abedin would.
Hillary Clinton has become so arrogant that her people are making it clear that the Clinton Foundation corruption will continue.
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Conflict of Interest? Chelsea Will Remain on Clinton Foundation Board if Hillary Wins
Posted by Mary Chastain Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 8:30pm
The Clinton Foundation has a dark cloud over them due to emails showing major donors asking then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for huge favors. They have tried to mend their ways by deciding to
stop accepting foreign donations if Hillary wins the presidency, but
they may have taken a big step back. Chelsea just decided to remain on
the board even if her mom wins.
Conflict of interest much? Besides Bill, who else has better access to Hillary than Chelsea?
From The Wall Street Journal:
A spokeswoman for Chelsea Clinton said the former first daughter plans to remain on the board because she “is committed to ensuring that those benefiting from the foundation’s work will be able to continue receiving that often-life-changing help.”However, the statement from the spokeswoman for Ms. Clinton left unclear whether she would continue to raise money for the foundation, which would be scaled back significantly if Hillary Clinton wins in November. It said Chelsea Clinton was remaining on the board to “steward the implementation of changes,” including “new fundraising policies.”
Former
President Bill Clinton decided “to resign from the board and stop
raising money for the foundation” to avoid a conflict of interest.
Doesn’t that sound familiar? Hillary did the exact same thing before she
became secretary of state, but emails show that people at the
foundation and major donors did not receive that memo.
These emails from Hillary’s term as secretary of state show Clinton Foundation officials asking her
aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin for favors from major donors.
Foundation lawyer Douglas Band even asked them to find a job at the
State Department for another foundation associate.
Then, on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that
“85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone
conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department
donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its
international programs.”
Ray Madoff, a Boston College Law School professor and director of the Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good, spoke to the Journal:
“The Clinton Foundation has been way too inattentive to the appearance of impropriety,” Ms. Madoff said. “Chelsea clearly has access to her parents so the appearance of impropriety continues.”She added, “If the Clintons didn’t have this ongoing problem, then it is a more difficult case. After all, Chelsea is a working adult and it makes sense that she would work on the Clinton Foundation.”
What
will stop them from using Chelsea, who obviously has even better access
to Hillary since, you know, she’s her daughter. Even if they promise
not to take advantage of Hillary as president, why should we believe
them? Evidence show us otherwise.
Laura J Alcorn
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