Clinton Foundation Official Requests State Lunch Favors, Emails Show

“And there is a real creepy vibe, to me, personally, at the Clinton Global Initiative”, Davidson said during the podcast, IJ Review notes. Trump said that “50 percent of people who saw her had to make a contribution to the Clinton Foundation”. That type of transition “takes a reasonable amount of time”, he said.

In another email forwarded by Band to Abedin, businessman and Clinton Foundation donor Gerardo Wertheim praises a rabbi the U.S. ambassador in Malta is going to meet with, with Band calling Wertheim a “great friend” and “big supporter”.

The relationship between Clinton and the Clinton Foundation has been under scrutiny after newly released emails showed top foundation donors requesting meetings or favors from her while she was secretary of state.

The Associated Press also reported that 85 of the 154 people from private interests who met with or had scheduled phone conversations with Clinton while she served as secretary of State had donated to the Clinton Foundation.

Hillary Clinton’s critics jumped on an August 23 Associated Press analysis of her meetings with Clinton Foundation donors while secretary of state.

Numerous exchanges document how Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band had only to shoot a quick email to Abedin about, say, how much trouble Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain ($32 million donor to the Clinton Global Initiative plus at least $50,000 from the Kingdom to the foundation) was having getting in to see “hrc”.

We focused on Mrs. Clinton’s meetings and calls involving those people outside her duties as secretary of state whom she chose to include in her busy schedule. When reports broke a year ago that she’d set up a parallel email system at home, she said: “I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totalled roughly 55,000 printed pages”. “I made policies based on what I thought was right”, Clinton said.

Conclusion: Access to Secretary of State Clinton could be bought, but it was not cheap.

And then there’s the exchange about Slimfast tycoon S. Daniel Abraham (donor of between $5 million and $10 million to the foundation) who just wanted 15 minutes of the secretary’s time.

“I would not be criticizing”.

Critics, including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have seized on the report.

Hillary Clinton gave her first national TV interview in over a month Wednesday night – a phoner with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

The Clinton Campaign has denied the charges, but in the last two days more than a dozen newspapers have written editorials questioning her credibility and integrity.

But by an ironic twist of fate, it is that deep disdain for the seedy nature of politicians like Clinton that has led to the nomination of the one candidate who will struggle to beat her in the presidential race. “Look at the rise in violence”, he said on Thursday. So far, nobody has been able to prove the sort of impropriety her opponent has been accusing her of – that State awarded big contracts to individuals and organizations that donated to the Clinton Foundation.

“All I can do is point to the evidence of what he has said, and what he has done from the start”.

“It’s deeply disturbing that he is taking hate groups that lived on the dark regions of the internet and making them mainstream”, Clinton said. He frequently emails Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who went on to work for Band’s consulting firm.