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When people give the clintons money all they get is a receipt, when people give Trump money they get to go to university
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Is it though? I mean, if they were less than forthcoming about financial information, sure, but that's clearly not the case here. We've got 30 years of the Clintons' tax returns, and they disclose all their Foundation's donors, amounts, and where the money goes.
What's the obsession with press conferences?
It's another fake controversy you're chasing. And a weird one at that...
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So many days without a "major" press conference because she's hiding her flash light epinephrine and large sums of Bahrainian donations.
264 days without a major media press conference. It's not weird, actually it is weird. Presidents and candidates usually do them amirite?
He interprets the lack of complete information on Clinton's schedule as meaning there is no story here. Rather, it's a story in and of itself. The only access to schedules that the writers of the story had were those that came from a lawsuit, and even then those were hand picked by the State Department. Yglesias points out that they "couldn't come up with anything worse" than a few meetings that seem very positive for Clinton. Isn't that the whole point? That they picked and chose which ones were released to reflect positively on Clinton? It begs the question what else was on the schedule.
This isn't conspiratorial nonsense. Just because many of Clinton's critics, especially those on the right, are spewing nonsense about her constantly, does not mean that she is beyond criticism. There is typical politician stuff that every politician does. Clinton's issues go beyond that, while also falling short of the issues Trump has. Both things can be true.
Also, the 85 donors the AP cited donated $156 million. ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX MILLION. That is a fucking massive amount.
SHE doesn't get contributions from them. It's a charity, in which she no longer is an active member, and where she receives ZERO compensation. And as of yet, no one can point to one thing that shows any impropriety happened because of donations that were given to the foundation.
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Why do anything when all you have to do is remain silent and let the clown car other candidate continue to light his own campaign on fire?264 days without a major media press conference. It's not weird, actually it is weird. Presidents and candidates usually do them amirite?
Why do anything when all you have to do is remain silent and let the clown car other candidate continue to light his own campaign on fire?
Worked like a charm thus far.
Hillary is basically in hiding. Not sure when she had her last event. Doing fundraisers with Justin Timberlake instead.
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Furthermore, if she manages to accomplish even half the things on the DNC platform($15 minimum wage, tuition free stage college, gun control measures, public option, to name a few), it would be worth putting up with a more interventionist foreign policy than you would ideally want.
I also wonder why those who claim no allegiance to either main candidate use this as a stick to beat Clinton rather than Trump. I get why Trump fans do it, even if it's disingenuous. But if you're non-aligned it's a stick to beat both. Focusing on Clinton opens up the implication of sexism.
There just isn't any proof of wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.
I liked your post, but none of the proposals you mentioned are going to be things that will actually happen (mostly due to Republican control of the house) and her war hawk stuff will happen (with Republicans lending a hand when she needs it).
There never is really going to be concrete evidence, nor should we ever expect it, but at the same time, I bet nobody in this thread thinks that Clinton didn't do something for somebody in one country as Secretary of State and then get a donation around that time because of it. That's what we would expect from this sort of politics and Clinton clearly isn't above playing in that battlefield.
But really, it's not like Huma (who working for both the government and the charity was more than likely the person organizing the timing of all of this) was really going to write e-mails to Clinton about any of this stuff like, "Can you approve this weapons transfer so they will then donate tomorrow at 1 PM?" and the like. Nobody is that stupid and there likely isn't a single e-mail that even hints at that sort of thing.
So, your assertion is 100% right in the main and 100% wrong in the truth given we know that the evidence would never exist in the first place. Honestly, by this logic that she isn't culpable because there's no evidence, nobody in Congress could be proved to be doing anything for their donors. The paper trail just does not exist for any of them because nobody is that stupid.
In a way, it would be hypocritical to suggest that Republican congressman are bought and sold for and that the Clinton Foundation isn't.
Out of curiosity (I honestly don't know), did they ever figure out where large portion of funds for the Sanders campaign came from?2) We had a candidate in Bernie Sanders that didn't have any of this similar baggage.
Isn't this how things work though? When a person or state gives a lot of money to a politician or charity or other organization and then at a later date asks a favor of that same politician or charity or other organization and gets denied that favor, they could be put off of giving any more money. This is how the world works.
A sports executive who was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and whose firm paid Bill Clinton millions of dollars in consulting fees wanted help getting a visa for a British soccer player with a criminal past.
The crown prince of Bahrain, whose government gave more than $50,000 to the Clintons’ charity and who participated in its glitzy annual conference, wanted a last-minute meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
U2 rocker and philanthropist Bono, also a regular at foundation events, wanted high-level help broadcasting a live link to the International Space Station during concerts.
In each case, according to emails released Monday from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, the requests were directed to Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and confidante, Huma Abedin, who engaged with other top aides and sometimes Clinton herself about how to respond.
The emails show that, in these and similar cases, the donors did not always get what they wanted, particularly when they sought anything more than a meeting.
Trump is only held to the Trump Standard.Still, the fact that the other candidate is probably bought by Russia, evades taxes, violates federal election law, etc. is apparently no disgrace.
It opens up the implication, but it wouldn't be truthful.
I agree that the criticism over Clinton in terms of both foundation and political fundraising speaks more about our political environment than it does about her, but I think the reason people on the far left want to open up these topics are because:
1) We shouldn't just elect a Democratic President and call it a day, especially when one has dubious environmental goals (pro-fracking, big oil company funding), a history of war hawk policy support and a cozy relationship with Wall Street. Nobody from the left is trying to implicate her and not Trump, rather they are trying to have a discussion about the next President of the United States and why we need to be ready to protest and do whatever we can before we suddenly let policies slide by that are antithetical to the goals of liberals.
2) We had a candidate in Bernie Sanders that didn't have any of this similar baggage. It's not about sour grapes. It's about the fact that we can elect a leader without this sort of stuff. I mean, hell, Obama was against the Iraq War, certainly not a military hawk, and as someone with very little experience in DC, hardly had the connections to receive foreign money to his foundations, etc. So, there's a massive difference between what Obama was in 2008/is now and what Hillary Clinton could be when she's elected President.
Never mind press conferences. Hillary is basically in hiding. Not sure when she had her last event. Doing fundraisers with Justin Timberlake instead.
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some national headway for, say, a minimum wage raise of some sort since there would bound to be Republican constituents in Kansas desperately wanting to be able to have a living wage, etc.
Not to get off the subject but can someone explain to me where this magical 15/hr number came from? Honestly, in Kansas of all states to point out, 15 is far more than a living wage. I'm all for an increase, but this flat 15 seems like more trouble than it's worth, and seems to be impeding the push to fix the problem.