Friday, September 02, 2016

US ELECTION 2016_ US election 2016: Bill Clinton ‘used tax dollars to fund charity’

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The Times

US election 2016: Bill Clinton ‘used tax dollars to fund charity’

Bill Clinton speaks at annual gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative America, which is a part of The Clinton Foundation, in Denver. Picture: AP.

RHYS BLAKELY
The Times   7:43AM September 2, 2016


Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions took a knock yesterday when it was alleged that her husband used taxpayers’ money to subsidise their family charity.

The Clinton Foundation has cast a shadow over the Democratic nominee amid allegations that donors sought special government favours when she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

She denies any conflict of interest, but her poll numbers have suffered amid doubts over her trustworthiness, fuelled in part by the controversy over the private email server she used at the state department.

The sense that the Clintons often merged family and government business was revived yesterday when the Politico website reported that Bill Clinton used public funds to buy IT equipment that was used by the Clinton Foundation.

The money came from the government allowance that former presidents can claim — a benefit introduced in 1958 to keep them out of penury. There is no suggestion that Mr Clinton broke any law.

Since leaving the White House, Mr Clinton has requested $16 million in government benefits — the most by any living president.

Mrs Clinton famously said that the couple were “dead broke” when her husband’s term ended. They went on to make $230 million, largely through speaking fees and book deals. Their charity grew to become a $2 billion philanthropic powerhouse, but Mr Clinton continued to draw his Former Presidents Act benefits, provoking demands that the law be repealed.

According to Politico, government money was used to pay more than a dozen people who worked for Mr Clinton’s personal office and the Clinton Foundation, including Justin Cooper, who helped to set up Mrs Clinton’s private email account.

It emerged this week that the FBI had uncovered nearly 15,000 emails that had not been provided by Mrs Clinton when she was ordered to turn over all work-related correspondence. New emails may be made public weeks before the election in November.

The double-digit advantage Mrs Clinton held over Mr Trump in polls after the party conventions in July has been eroded by nagging doubts over her sincerity and ethics. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed her favourability rating falling to its lowest level since she first entered national politics in the early 1990s.

Some 41 per cent of Americans held a favourable impression of Mrs Clinton, while 56 per cent had an unfavourable one. Donald Trump was viewed favourably by 35 per cent and unfavourably by 63 per cent.

A Romanian hacker known as Guccifer who helped to expose Mrs Clinton’s private email domain was sentenced to four years and four months in prison by a court in Virginia yesterday. Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, was believed to have hacked into the email accounts of about 100 people including Colin Powell, the former secretary of state.

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Mrs Clinton famously said that the couple were “dead broke” when her husband’s term ended. They went on to make $230 million, largely through speaking fees and book deals. Their charity grew to become a $2 billion philanthropic powerhouse, but Mr Clinton continued to draw his Former Presidents Act benefits, provoking demands that the law be repealed.

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Christopher  12 hours ago

The Australia media coverage has so bias in it's support of Hillary and anti Trump reporting.

I am actually surprised to see a couple of paragraphs here in this the article.

We get more relevant info on Youtube and Google than in the Australia press.

If there is even half the truth being reported of what Hill and Bill have been up to, and Loretta Lynch.

It's enough to make you sick.

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