The steady decline of Meet the Press continues today as Trump shill Alex Castellanos flat out lied about the Clinton Foundation and then shadow Republican Chuck Todd refused to challenge him.
Castellanos stated concerning the Clinton Foundation “Most charities give 75% of their money as direct aid. The Clinton Foundation gives less than 10%. In 2013, they raised $140 million bucks and sent $9 million in direct aid. It’s a slush fund for the Clintons.”
An analysis by FactCheck (www.factcheck.org/...) reported the following quote from the charity monitoring group CharityWatch,
“Considering all of the organizations affiliated with the Clinton Foundation, he said, CharityWatch concluded about 89 percent of its budget is spent on programs. That’s the amount it spent on charity in 2013, he said.
We looked at the consolidated financial statements (see page 4) and calculated that in 2013, 88.3 percent of spending was designated as going toward program services — $196.6 million out of $222.6 million in reported expenses.”
I can forgive Alex Costellanos, he’s a paid spokesweasel for the Republicans. I can’t forgive Chuck Todd who let such an egregious falsehood go by without a retort. Tim Russert would have been all over that one.