The Clinton Foundation Bottomless Pit
We should be thankful that $2300 is the maximum allowable individual campaign contribution.
Because after getting a look at the amount of money contributed to the Clinton Foundation, without contribution limits, Barack Obama would now be at footnote in the Democratic primary.
More than $500 million dollars has been donated to the Clinton Foundation. Due to the release of the Clinton tax returns, the everyday American now knows most of the Clinton’s $10.25 million in charitable contributions went to their own foundation.
Yet the public doesn’t know that much about who donated what as Bill Clinton promised confidentiality to the contributors to the Foundation.
This is what we do know.
Other donors include the $10 million from the Saudi royal family and $100 million each from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, Canadian mining entrepreneur Frank Giustra and the Lundin Group, a Canadian oil and gas company.
This troubled the Editorial Board of USA Today enough to demand a complete list of donors be released.
“That is an enormous amount for someone to be raising from friends, business partners, foreign governments and interested parties who are either barred from making campaign contributions or limited to the $2,300 maximum. Because of the former president’s unusual position and the sheer size of this conduit into a potential presidential administration, the complete list of donors should be made public.”
And that is why Hillary Clinton is so ticked off.
With that bottomless pit of money just out of her reach, $2300 becomes the Great Equalizer, keeping HRC from buying her way into the White House.
All things happen for good reason.
<crossposted from Smashed Frog>
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Well they sure do have money, At least they seem to be using it to help others.
The $10.25 million donated to their own foundation has yet to be spent on anything charitable and was only donated when Hillary decided to run for the Presidency.
They are sneaky.