Trump's team of economic "advisers" are his biggest donors- It's only corruption if you're a Clinton

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Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid
Donald Trump's team of economic "advisers" is made up of ... his biggest donors. Anybody want to write a story? No? Why not?

P Mimi Poinsett MD ?@yayayarndiva
Go to @aravosis timeline for his 25 + tweets about the Clinton Foundation- very informative


John Aravosis @aravosis
1) Clinton campaign is rightfully slamming AP for refusing to correct an outright lie about the Clinton foundation.


John Aravosis ?@aravosis
2) AP claimed in blockbuster story that HALF of Hillary's meeting while secretary were w/ Clinton foundation donors.




John Aravosis ?@aravosi
3) AP then gave numbers: 85 of 154 people who met or talked by phone with Hillary were donors. More than half!




John Aravosis ?@aravosi
4) Then you think about it. In 4 years as Sec of State, Hillary only met or talked to 154 people? Really?


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
5) AP would like us to believe that Hillary has fewer than one meeting or phone call per week as Sec of State? Uh, no.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
6) In fact, Hillary met over 1,700 people as Secretary. And if only 85 were donors to foundation, that's pretty lousy rate of pay-for-play.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
7) Oh but it gets worse for AP. AP devoted 1/3 of the story to Muhammad Yunus. He's their big smoking gun.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
8) probably because the AP reporters had no idea who Yunus actually is. He's huge. Done more than anyone alive to alleviate poverty.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
9) Yunus won the Nobel peace prize for founding the Grameen bank and pioneering concept of microlending to women in LDCs.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
10) no shit the Secretary of State met with Yunus. He's global poverty's Mother Teresa. That's AP's big smoking gun.

Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 23
AP said Muhammad Yunus got access to HRC in '09 as a Fdn donor. But here she is with him in '90s before Fdn existed

John Aravosis ?@aravosi
11) AP could find no actual examples of any pay-for-play, of any Clinton foundation donors who got anything special from the Secretary.




John Aravosis ?@aravosi
12) And AP's reporters outright lied about how many phone calls and meetings Hillary had as secretary, in order to inflate their story.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
13) and a final word to those out there arguing that the Clinton foundation should be closed.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
14) Clinton foundation provides AIDS meds to 11.5m people worldwide. More than half the adults & 3/4 of the kids getting treated worldwide.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
15) and you think we should just close the Clinton foundation, just like that, and take AIDS drugs away from 11.5m people? Seriously?


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
16) as a gay man, I've been particularly intrigued that every single voice calling for the Clinton foundation to close has been straight.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
17) I've watched straight cnn hosts and straight cnn guests ask why the Clinton foundation doesn't just close up shop now.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
18) because 11.5m people with AIDS, including 800,000 children, could die, if the Clinton foundation closes.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
19) so the next time someone brings up the Clinton foundation, you've now got the real facts. Use them.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
20) and another thing: GHW Bush created and promoted the Points of Light Foundation while president. Not a peep of concern out of anyone.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
21) Elizabeth Dole ran the Red Cross, accepting donations, while husband Bob ran for president in 1996. Not a peep of concern from anyone.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
22) and Alma Powell, Colin's wife, was chair of America's Promise, accepting huge corporate donations while Powell was Bush's Sec of State.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
23) and not a peep about Mrs. Powell's "corruption" either.


John Aravosis ?@aravosi
24) it's only corruption when you're a Democrat. It's only corruption when you're a Clinton.





Joy Reid ?@JoyAnnReid 15h15 hours ago Manhattan, NY
@mattyglesias: "The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess" http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12618446/ap-clinton-foundation-meeting …?

How the AP Spun the Story About the Clinton Foundation
https://t.co/G9JWe0XaYi

WaPo: AP's social-media promotion of its Clinton story was "tendentious and misleading"
https://t.co/K3Oq1FN71V