2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess
Except it turns out not to be true. The nut fact that the AP uses to lead its coverage is wrong, and Braun and Sullivan’s reporting reveals absolutely no unethical conduct. In fact, they found so little unethical conduct that an enormous amount of space is taken up by a detailed recounting of the time Clinton tried to help a former Nobel Peace Prize winner who’s also the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Here’s the bottom line: Serving as secretary of state while your husband raises millions of dollars for a charitable foundation that is also a vehicle for your family’s political ambitions really does create a lot of space for potential conflicts of interest. Journalists have, rightly, scrutinized the situation closely. And however many times they take a run at it, they don’t come up with anything more scandalous than the revelation that maybe billionaire philanthropists have an easier time getting the State Department to look into their visa problems than an ordinary person would.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12618446/ap-clinton-foundation-meeting
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)to campaign funds and those wanting to make something out of the Clinton Foundation needs to clean up their campaign contributions and the meetings they provide, it is pay to play. Trump has bragged about his pay to play.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)help them without their control. Probably because too many rotten dirty Republicans and their own deeds causes them to want to hit on others. It is cognitive dissonance, FOX listeners needs a fix to make themselves feel superior, anything works for them.
Satch59
(1,353 posts)Brian Fallon is doing a great job but we need every surrogate out there.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)Thanks for sharing. CNN Legal View did a good job this morning too, touting all the goodness of the foundation and saying that no pay for play has been discovered.
So let Trump spew all his lies and look more idiotic and let's have the MSM smack down all his stupid surrogates.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)and he is in debt to China personally.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Anything Clinton sells eye-balls,and that is Network News bottom line. If you don't have the facts,no problem,just make up some of your own.
they DESPERATELY need a false equivalency to try to balance out how ungodly horrific Trump is.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)you believe in the empty morals of the AP and the Press peddling
this story. Bill Press was happy to shut down the foundation and
let people die because of the AP lies.
The Clintons need to stand up to AP and GOP bullies: and whole
Dem party show stand up for the foundation.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)
APPPLE_PIE
(18 posts)
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)
pansypoo53219
(20,974 posts)hillary FOR RATINGS & SO THEY CAN KEEP ZOMBIE REAGAN ALIVE.
DFW
(54,369 posts)He's that dirt bag Republican congressman from Utah who tried to skewer Cecile Richards at a congressional hearing with a "fact" that turned out to a lie one of his staffers had read from some right wing hate site. The AP has sunk far from the days when it took the "P" part of its name seriously.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)is pulling away: The foundation is not mess of any kind.
