What is the Clinton Foundation?
The Clinton Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by former President Bill Clinton. It seeks to bring people together using money to find creative solutions to global challenges. In 2005, the foundation established the Clinton Global Initiative in order to “convene global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.” Hillary Clinton joined in 2013 after leaving the State Department. Since its founding, the foundation has raised nearly $2 billion.
What are its guiding principles?
Here are the foundation’s guiding principles,
- We’re all in this together.
- Nothing truly happens unless a life is changed.
- No one has all the answers, but we can bring together the people who can find them.
- Results you can measure are the only results that matter.
- Empowerment is liberating and life-changing.
- There is always a way to be faster, leaner, and better.
- The greatest good is helping people live their best life story.
From Free Beacon.com
According to the Washington Times:
powerlineblog.comBill Clinton’s foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business with Iran, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.The Swedish entity, called the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse, was never disclosed to or cleared by State Department ethics officials, even though one of its largest sources of donations was a Swedish government-sanctioned lottery.
The story is a little complex, but here’s the gist of it from the Washington Times:
TheRightScoop.comBill Clinton’s foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business with Iran, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.
The Swedish entity, called the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse, was never disclosed to or cleared by State Department ethics officials, even though one of its largest sources of donations was a Swedish government-sanctioned lottery.As the money flowed to the foundation from Sweden, Mrs. Clinton’s team in Washington declined to blacklist any Swedish firms despite warnings from career officials at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm that Sweden was growing its economic ties with Iran and potentially undercutting Western efforts to end Tehran’s rogue nuclear program, diplomatic cables show.“Sweden does not support implementing tighter financial sanctions on Iran” and believes “more stringent financial standards could hurt Swedish exports,” one such cable from 2009 alerted Mrs. Clinton’s office in Washington.Separately, U.S. intelligence was reporting that Sweden’s second-largest employer, telecommunications giant Ericsson AB, was pitching cellphone tracking technology to Iran that could be used by the country’s security services, officials told The Times.By the time Mrs. Clinton left office in 2013, the Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse had collected millions of dollars inside Sweden for his global charitable efforts and Mr. Clinton personally pocketed a record $750,000 speech fee from Ericsson, one of the firms at the center of the sanctions debate.
WASHINGTON — The embattled Clinton Foundation can add a new name to its long list of donors under scrutiny — the scandal-tarred world soccer federation.
FIFA donated as much as $100,000 to the charity headed by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, foundation records revealed, with no further details available.
On Wednesday, US authorities indicted 14 soccer officials.
FBI agents arrested the officials meeting in Switzerland, as the head of the Justice Department described a conspiracy of bribery and corruption in the selection of World Cup host countries and sponsors.
The Clinton Foundation, already under fire for accepting multimillion-dollar contributions from nations including Saudi Arabia, disclosed only the range of the contribution — from $50,001 to $100,000.
Bill Clinton hobnobbed with FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2010.
Clinton was serving as honorary chairman of the effort to bring the event to the US in 2018 or 2022.
When the United States lost in 2010, Clinton was so enraged that he threw an object across a hotel room and shattered a wall mirror, Britain’s Telegraph reported.
Despite the star power that the United States brought to bear, the tiny Gulf emirate of Qatar prevailed for the 2022 competition.
Records show it received $250,000 to $500,000 from Qatar’s World Cup committee through 2014.
NYpost.com
The Clinton Foundation scandal raises a larger question: How can we trust Hillary Clinton with running our nation if she cannot even successfully manage her own foundation?
USNEWS.com
I would never vote for Hillary Clinton for any office. There is too much corruption in this family for me to trust them with our country. I will be watching to see is America looks past another Clinton scandal and makes her their Democratic candidate for President. With the above scandal and her Benghazi scandal my mind cannot fathom it. Hillary Clinton has been a media sweetheart for her entire political career. What will happen next? We all know politicians are corrupt, but this family has gone too far.Stay tuned for another episode of Hillary at Play in the near future.
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