Mary Katherine Ham:
Lack of competition doesn’t often breed better behavior, and the Democratic nomination process for president in 2016 is no different. Grandma Monopoly will keep all the donations she pleases, thanks very much, with a tiny nod to limiting the way in which those donations can come into her foundation. Will it be in giant gifts to the Clinton Foundation, gifts to the Clinton Global Initiative, or will they come in $20,000 attendance fees? These are the problems of America’s Chipotle-orderin’ everywoman.
The board of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has decided to continue accepting donations from foreign governments, primarily from six countries, even though Hillary Clinton is running for president, a summary of the new policy to be released Thursday shows.
The rules would permit donations from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the U.K.—countries that support or have supported Clinton Foundation programs on health, poverty and climate change, according to the summary.
That means other nations would be prohibited from making large donations to the foundation. But those governments would be allowed to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative, a subsidiary of the foundation where companies, nonprofit groups and government officials work on solutions to global problems.
Ministers from any government would be allowed to attend meetings and appear on panels at the group’s meetings and their governments would be allowed to pay attendance fees of $20,000.
Nice how they just went ahead and tainted Chelsea, should she choose to be President one day, with the same foreign money scandal that Hillary has tainted herself with.
Bill it is only a” taint” if the New York Times discovers this scam and prints it. Omission is a cornerstone of “The Fourth Estate.”