Pointing fingers at a new “right wing conspiracy,” a reference to Hillary’s Monica Lewinsky days, the campaign of Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rejected any claims that she gave access to Clinton Foundation donors. Newly released emails of her chief-of-staff Huma Abedin show Hillary arranging meetings with Clinton Foundation donor, Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman. Clinton Foundation official Doug Band notified Abedin that the Crown Prince was coming to the U.S. and wanted a meeting with then Secretary of State Clinton. He’s a “good friend of ours,” Band wrote Abedin. Abedin wrote Band back saying that Crown Prince Salman would go through “normal channels.” After Abedin told Band she couldn’t make any commitments yet, two days later Crown Prince Salman was offered a morning meeting with Hillary.
When Hillary was given a pass Jul 5 by FBI Director James Comey on issues related to receiving-and-sending classified information on her private email server, Comey didn’t comment on Hillary’s pay-to-play practices while Secretary of State. “Once again this right wing organization [Judicial Watch] that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s is distorting the facts to make utterly false attacks,” said Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin. “No matter how this group tries to mischaracterize these documents, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton never took action as Secretary of State because of donations to the Clinton Foundation. Schwerin’s categorical denials can’t explain why Hillary, as Secretary of State and now Democratic nominee, backs the six-year-old Saudi proxy war in Syria, causing nearly 300,00 deaths, displacing 11 million more to the Mideast and Europe.
Hillary’s campaign insists again that any pay-to-play allegations against Hillary are part of the “vast right wing conspiracy,” that has dogged the Clintons over their careers. If nothing inappropriate went on at Hillary’s State Department, why would former President Bill Clinton announce last week that the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign donations if Hillary wins the White House. Bill’s decision to step down from the Clinton Health Access Initiative board, “no longer raise funds for it,” gives the strongest proof that he and Hillary solicited donations from foreign governments. Bill and Hillary refuse to release a list of Clinton Foundation donors, citing privacy concerns. Bill announced, if Hillary wins the president, the September meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative America “will be the last.” Talk of urgent changes confirms past conflicts-of-interest.
Whether or not Judicial Watch is a conservative group, voters have a right to know Hillary’s entrenched financial ties with foreign governments. Taking millions from the Saudis and Gulf States, there’s no question that Hillary gives Saudi Arabia 100% backing to its proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Pitting the U.S. against Russia, Hillary compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler March 5, 2014, after Putin seized Crimea March 1. Hillary’s past remarks about Putin mirror those of President Barack Obama, tossing out 60 years of U.S.-Russian diplomacy. Today’s relationship with Kremlin is the worst since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. If nothing inappropriate happened at the Clinton Foundation, why would Bill announce changes if Hillary becomes president? There’s no hiding the fact the Clinton Foundation took millions from foreign governments.
New emails released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom-of-Information Act show Huma Abedin giving access to Hillary for Clinton Foundation donations between $25,000 and $10 million. Other emails show Band arranging meetings for a wealthy Clinton Foundation donor with the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. Whatever the Hillary campaign denials about special access or preferential treatment to wealth Clinton Foundation donors, it doesn’t undo Hillary’s backing for the Saudi proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Meeting in Ventotene, Italy Aug. 21, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi that the European Union faced unprecedented “challenges” with Islamic terrorism from the Syrian and North African refugee crisis. Merkel offered no easy fix to the crisis.
Lashing out at GOP nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump, Clinton Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta diverted attention away from Hillary’s pay-to-play scandal while running the State Department. “The Foundation has already laid out unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hilary Clinton becomes president,” said Podesta, practically admitting that whatever went on the Clinton Foundation runs afoul with the presidential oath-of-office. “Donald Trump needs to come clean with voters about his complex network of for-profit businesses that are hundreds of millions in debt to big banks including the state-owned Bank of China . . .” said Podesta, running scared with the latest revelations about Hillary’s pay-to-play scandal. There’s no conflict of interest with Trump’s private businesses. Conflicts of interest occur when government officials sell their office to the highest bidder.
