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Peter1469
05-15-2016, 09:45 AM
Remember the Clinton Cash Scandals? (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/remember-clinton-cash-scandals/)

Commentary magazine has a long article summing up the Clinton cash scandals.


Does anyone remember the Clinton Cash scandal? Thursday’s Wall Street Journalreport about the way the Clinton Global Initiative set up a deal that benefitted a company with ties to the former First Family should ring a bell. A year ago, the political world was focused on a wide-ranging scandal involving conflicts of interest, possible corruption, and sweetheart deal involving the former president and secretary of state. The publication of Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash (http://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369288) not only caused a furor because of the serious questions it raised about the Clinton Global Initiative and the private foundation that is run now by Bill and Chelsea Clinton, but also because it encouraged the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&hp&_r=0), the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-clintons-speech-income-shows-how-their-wealth-is-intertwined-with-charity/2015/04/22/12709ec0-dc8d-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html?hpid=z3), and the Journal (http://www.wsj.com/articles/gifts-to-hillary-clintons-family-charity-are-scrutinized-in-wake-of-book-1429754883?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak)to conduct their own investigations. Those efforts uncovered even more questionable conduct about the doings of Hillary Clinton, who was then and still is today the likely presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.

But then, as is often the case in our 24/7 news cycle world, the press got diverted. Those on the Clinton beat understandably began to devote more attention to the story about her private email server. The discussion about the deleted emails and the slow-motion drip, drip, drip of evidence that she had sent communications involving classified and even top secret information on an unprotected system had the effect of making many of us forget why it was that she may have had something to hide in all of those messages.


But more than anything else, the start of the presidential race had the effect of pushing the Clinton Cash story to the back burner. The three-ring circus that was the Republican presidential race made it difficult for anyone in media to turn their attention away from Donald Trump or from the baffled reactions of his opponents as he blustered, slandered, and lied his way into the hearts of GOP voters. Though Clinton found herself in an unexpectedly tough Democratic race of her own with Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist’s unwillingness to talk about Clinton’s ethical issues seemed to validate her campaign’s ongoing effort to convince the world that any questions about the foundation or the emails was part of the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” that she always blames for all of her self-inflicted troubles.


The general election campaign is about to begin with Democrats seeking to make the campaign a referendum on Trump’s character issues, policy ignorance, flip-flops, and record of bizarre and abusive statements. But their problem remains the same as it was a year ago: a presumptive nominee with serious flaws and problems of her own.




That’s why today’s story is a bigger problem for the Clintons than she, her apologists, or Democrats in general understand.

MMC
05-15-2016, 01:28 PM
Remember the Clinton Cash Scandals? (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/remember-clinton-cash-scandals/)

Commentary magazine has a long article summing up the Clinton cash scandals.

It's all coming out....Clinton Foundation Donors from Overseas, conflict of interests with Hillary heading State. People overseas lining up for some pay to play.

Peter1469
05-15-2016, 02:35 PM
The FBI won't ignore public corruption.

MMC
05-15-2016, 03:02 PM
The FBI won't ignore public corruption.

I don't see how they can miss the letters sent to the UN by a couple of countries making the same charge. Rand Paul told everybody they would learn some things out about the Clintons that people wont like.