Bill Clinton defends embattled family foundation
“Now she’s 99 times better than Donald Trump”.
Critics, including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have seized on the report.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its global programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press.
Representatives for Trump and Clinton did not immediately say whether their candidates would agree to a campaign moratorium. “If any American voter is troubled by the idea that the Clintons want to continue working to solve the AIDS crisis on the side while Hillary Clinton is president, then don’t vote for her”.
She described Trump Wednesday night on CNN as a candidate who is campaigning on anger and hatred.
But the unfamiliarity with the movement of the large share of voters who do not hang out in the depths of Internet chat rooms and immerse themselves in political media gives Clinton a chance to slap her own label on it, and extend it to Trump. She is taking aim at the so-called alt-right movement, a loosely defined and relatively new network of anti-establishment activists on the right that extends from mere outside-the-box protectionist thinkers to flagrantly racist and anti-Semitic hatemongers. He has brought it into his campaign. “He is bringing it to our communities and our country”. Clinton famously called her husband’s opponents part of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” and her family has always been central to a cottage industry of sordid tales about her husband and family. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama complied. “It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office”.
They highlight that Trump has been informally advised by Roger Ailes, the former chairman and CEO of Fox News, which has aired segments questioning Clinton’s health, and GOP consultant Roger Stone, who has pushed politically loaded innuendo about the Clintons for years. But her health has remained front-and-center.
Clinton leads Trump in national and state polls, leaving many of her aides and supporters to conclude that addressing the issue isn’t worth the risk to her electoral standing.
Republican strategist Karl Rove later cast the incident as a “serious health episode” that would be an issue if Clinton ran for president, fueling a theory the concussion posed a graver threat to her abilities than Clinton and her team let on.
A statement Clinton issued on Monday said those changes will go into effect if Hillary Clinton is elected.
Before her interview, Clinton had largely ignored Trump’s criticism of the foundation, with campaign officials figuring her late-summer advantage gives her few incentives to personally push back against the email criticism or allegations of pay-for-play. But he said the Democratic nominee still bested Trump in his book.
Clinton’s team frequently points to Trump’s ties to Russian Federation.