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androbot01
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24 Aug 2016, 8:13 am

AP: More Than Half Those Who Met Clinton As Cabinet Secretary Gave Money To Clinton Foundation

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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.


This is not looking good for Hillary. CNN is reporting that she disputes the AP's numbers.



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24 Aug 2016, 10:49 pm

There is also talk that Preet Bharara, the federal district attorney for the southern district of New York state, may be opening an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Bharara has a reputation for going after suspected corruption among the rich and powerful, and was the one behind convicting the former state speaker of the assembly and state senate majority leader. Which adds to the heat for any illegal or questionable activity which may have been committed with the foundation.



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25 Aug 2016, 9:59 am

Corrupt to the core, what have I been saying?

Some major 'pay-for-play' going on with the Clinton Foundation, you think Hillary deleted those emails for no reason?



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25 Aug 2016, 10:22 am

the U.S. Constitution wrote:
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.


It's just a guideline, of course … not meant to be the law of the land or anything …


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25 Aug 2016, 11:12 pm

Jacoby wrote:
Corrupt to the core, what have I been saying?

Some major 'pay-for-play' going on with the Clinton Foundation, you think Hillary deleted those emails for no reason?

If you don't want corrupt politicians there is always the Taliban; it's said that when they were in power in Afghanistan they were not corrupts.


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26 Aug 2016, 1:21 pm

Tollorin wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Corrupt to the core, what have I been saying?

Some major 'pay-for-play' going on with the Clinton Foundation, you think Hillary deleted those emails for no reason?

If you don't want corrupt politicians there is always the Taliban; it's said that when they were in power in Afghanistan they were not corrupts.


I imagine castrating and hanging the ex-president from a lamp post probably does de-incentivize corruption a bit, they also eliminated the opium trade of which 90% of the world's illicit supply comes from. Isn't it funny that this massive heroin epidemic happened at the same time we occupied that same territory? I wonder how much better off the Afghanis feel after we freed the **** out of them?



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26 Aug 2016, 1:34 pm

Jacoby wrote:
Corrupt to the core, what have I been saying?

Some major 'pay-for-play' going on with the Clinton Foundation, you think Hillary deleted those emails for no reason?

Except she didn't get paid a dime from this charity.



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27 Aug 2016, 7:26 pm

This doesn't include anyone in a government position. So if we don't count almost everyone then a large percentage of meetings turn out to be from donors to a large prestigious charity.
The AP wont release its list of people so for all you know the maid counts.