Trump, RNC attack Clinton over foundation donors

“No, no, look – I know there is a lot of smoke and there is no fire”, Clinton replied, before blasting an Associated Press report out this week that said more than half of the private citizens with whom she met while at the State Department donated to the foundation.

“The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people”, Trump, the Republican nominee, said in a statement following the Clinton foundation’s announcement Thursday that it will bar foreign and corporate donations if Clinton is elected president.

Hillary Clinton met or talked by phone with at least 154 people from private interests, such as corporations, during her time as secretary of the state. The next day, according to Mrs Clinton emails, the State Department was working on a visa issue at Mr Schwarzman’s request.

Yet the frequency of the overlaps shows the mixing of access and donations. “I’m sure all we’ve seen is the tip of the iceberg and there will be more to follow”, Giuliani said.

In her first live television interview in almost a month, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night denied allegations that she gave Clinton Foundation donors special access when she was secretary of state.

Clinton critics have not proven that Clinton or the State Department materially granted any favors to possible donors, but the report and other emerging information is reigniting the firestorm over the foundation.

At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in MS on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.

“I think the more that people hear what she wants to do in terms of creating jobs and keeping this country safe and, most importantly, bringing people together to try and actually solve problems rather than dividing people and tearing them down”, says Sullivan. The conservative group said the documents include e-mail exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department. In a four-way general election match-up, Clinton holds a five-point margin over Trump 43-38 percent, while Libertarian Gary Johnson garners 11 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets five percent, it said.

Responding to Trump’s immigration plan to step up deportation, the Clinton campaign said his extreme right-wing agenda “is fueling a unsafe movement of hatred across the country”. Throughout the process, he pleaded for help in messages routed to Mrs Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him.

Trump’s name is listed on the Clinton Foundation’s website as having given between $100,001 and $250,000. In December that same year, Schwarzman and his wife, Christine, sat at Clinton’s table during the Kennedy Center Honors. The Sabans donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation – among the largest gifts to the charity. Eight Blackstone executives also gave between US$375,000 and US$800,000 to the foundation. And Blackstone’s charitable arm has pledged millions of dollars in commitments to three Clinton Global aid projects ranging from the U.S.to the Mideast. In 2014, the Clinton Foundation reported $439 million in assets and $338 million in revenue, with $217 million spent on programs.

“She doesn’t have one single proposal that hasn’t been tried and failed”, he said.