First there was Benghazi — and then Email-gate. The two scandals have caused Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings with American voters to plummet. And despite her best efforts, it’s now Clinton, not Donald Trump, who is perceived as the more “dishonest” and “untrustworthy” candidate.
But Clinton’s reputation could soon be in for another blow. Not only has the State department re-opened its investigation into her unauthorized use of a private server, but a potentially more damaging scandal is looming: Whether Clinton used her position as Secretary of State to build a private fund-raising empire that peddled political influence to foreign governments for private gain – and in the process flouted “public integrity” laws.
Scandal has dogged the Clinton Foundation for years but new questions were raised last year after a flurry of media reports revealed more details about how the foundation’s monies were raised and spent. Among the most damaging revelations contained in those reports:
-Clinton used her official time as Secretary to solicit “charitable” donations for the Clinton Foundation from some of the world’s worst human rights violators including oil-rich powers like Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar with a demonstrated history of gender discrimination, persecution of gays, and crackdowns on civil liberties. These are the very same countries that the State Department, under Clinton’s leadership, has routinely criticized for these abuses. It’s not illegal to send contradictory signals to countries in need of internal reform, but it’s hardly the principled leadership upon which Clinton has built her good name.
-Even worse, and potentially criminal, Clinton may have solicited these donations under the terms of a quid pro quo. That is, donors received foreign aid benefits as a “reward” for their contributions. For example, according to […]
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