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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Answer me this: Where in there mission statement or charter does it say that this is something that they do?
    Jeff, it's not so much what the Clinton Foundation's mission statement or charter says - it's what the U.S. Civil Service Oath of Office says, it's why there are concerns over "conflicts of interest" at congressional hearings. It's why, when pressed, Hillary Clinton said she would not do a lot of what she is being exposed as doing - funneling money to her foundation from foreign corporations, governments and individuals. These same people then have their business taken care of through her tireless directives, well,... maybe not "tireless."

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    I think the amount was $100,000. Who do you blame? The people selling the influence or the people buying it?
    I'll ask the "Students" from Trump University and get back to you.

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    I can't defend trump on some stuff but I can't believe you are throwing that up in light of the BS with Hillary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Who do you blame? The people selling the influence or the people buying it?
    Ethics is a 2-way street. Blame both.

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    So why are heron addicts treated as patients while the people selling the drug go to jail if Ethics is a 2-way street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 300miles View Post
    Ethics is a 2-way street. Blame both.


    You must admit that the cartoon was cute.

    And it's basically true after reading the emails.

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    Among all the rivers of money that have flowed to the Clinton family, one seems to raise the biggest national security questions of all: the stream of cash that came from 20 foreign governments who relied on weapons export approvals from Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

    Federal law designates the secretary of state as “responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales” of arms, military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that meant that Clinton was charged with rejecting or approving weapons deals — and when it came to Clinton Foundation donors, Hillary Clinton’s State Department did a whole lot of approving.

    While Clinton was secretary of state, her department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors. That figure from Clinton’s three full fiscal years in office is almost double the value of arms sales to those countries during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

    The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that gave to the Clinton Foundation. That was a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.

    American military contractors and their affiliates that donated to the Clinton Foundation — and in some cases, helped finance speaking fees to Bill Clinton — also got in on the action. Those firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of arms deals authorized by the Clinton State Department.

    Under a directive signed by President Clinton in 1995, the State Department is supposed to take foreign governments’ human rights records into account when reviewing arms deals. Yet, Hillary Clinton’s State Department increased approvals of such deals to Clinton Foundation donors that her own agency was sharply criticizing for systematic human rights abuses.

    As just one of many examples, in its 2011 Human Rights Report, Clinton’s State Department slammed Algeria’s government for imposing “restrictions on freedom of assembly and association,” tolerating “arbitrary killing,” “widespread corruption” and a “lack of judicial independence.”

    That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and the next year Clinton’s State Department approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country.
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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