Let me make sure I’ve got this straight:
- The Clintons haven’t received a dime in payments from the Clinton Foundation.
- The purpose of the Clinton Foundation is charitable assistance in some of the poorest places in the world.
- They do things like help people living with HIV/AIDS, slow deforestation, and help island nations deal with getting flooded by sea level rise.
How very selfish of the Clintons.
The piece in all this that I’ve missed in the news coverage is why it’s being cast as mainly a thing for liberal democrats and foreigners trying to buy access to the White House. What about all the Republicans who are part of the Clinton Foundation movement?
So of course I turned…to the Googles. Searching for “Republicans who contributed to Clinton Foundation” turns up many interesting stories. From a million years ago (ok I guess just last year), there was this Mediamatters story, listing the following prominent conservative people who donated:
Newsmax Media, Inc. (yes, that Newsmax)
Richard M. Scaife (yes, that Richard M. Scaife, now deceased)
News Corporation Foundation (yes, this News Corp, headed by Rupert Murdoch)
James R. Murdoch (yes, this James Murdoch, from Fox News)
I know my liberal friends might be saying “hey those aren’t all people!” – but, Corporations are people too, my friend!
Who else has participated and supported Clinton Foundation events?
Laura Bush
Mitt Romney
John McCain
Chris Christie
Carly Fiorina
T. Boone Pickens
Colin Powell
Condoleeza Rice
Hank Paulson
Now here’s an interesting question – that Mediamatters story from May 15, 2015 reported that Donald J. Trump was a donor in the $100,001-$250,000 category.
At the time, they included a link (which is still live) that goes to the Clinton Foundation donor listing. Presumably, they included the link as proof – so back then his name was on the list. Can anyone do some magical intertubes time-travel to dig up an archived copy of that page? Trump must have asked to have his name anonymized (which any foundation would do for a donor) so he was free to hypocritically rant and rave about the Clinton Foundation.
YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO RELEASE HIS TAXES! It would clearly show he “paid to play” with Hillary! Or whatever.
Some news outlets are picking up on this here and here, so clearly it’s out there.
I’m sure exposing his hypocrisy will make him shut up on this ridiculous issue. (NOT!)