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With the Clintons, the big conflict of interest is the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation. It's a charity (which apparently does pretty good
by jariel 7y ago
With the Clintons, the big conflict of interest is the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation.
It's a charity (which apparently does pretty good work) but it pays for a lot of things for the Clintons and gives them tremendous status.
Hillary Clinton accepted 100's of millions into her charity from officials with whom she, as a rep. of the US was directly doing business.
She was caught once, directly conferring titles to an individual who contributed to the fund, and the title had to be removed.
Even though I do not generally believe that this is a form of corruption, it's a massive conflict of interest. Just like an exec how owns 90% of a company and takes office has to put said investment in a 'blind trust' - I believe the Clinton Foundation should have effectively been turned into a 'blind trust' as well.
But there are 100% cases of soft pay for access going on here.
Edit: to be more precise, the Clinton charity accepted money from officials of countries and other orgs that the US was dealing with, wherein Hillary was a rep of the US Gov. Not necessarily individuals she was dealing with directly. I'm not throwing flames here, just saying 'conflict of interest'.