“We’re going to limit severely the kind and amount of money we accept from foreign governments and citizens. Bill and Chelsea are not going to accept exorbitant speaking fees anymore, because we get that to average people working hard to make $60,000 a year, that just looks kinda clammy, and we have enough money. We’re going to disclose our donors frequently on our website-not annually, not quarterly, but monthly. We’re going to move toward a fundraising model of relying more on smaller donations. We’re going to put a cap on the size of donations we accept (and that cap should be more like five figures than seven). We’re going to raise less, and we’re going to do less.
So here’s what we’re going to do, starting on X date”-while she’s still a candidate, way before she’s even president. The presidency can’t be compromised by appearances of conflict of interest.
#BLOGO CLINTON GIUSTRA PRO#
No one has found any smoking gun of a quid pro quo, and we’re confident no one will but we agree the standard needs to be higher than that. Let them say they want the foundation to continue doing this important work.īut then let them say words to the effect: “However, we are aware of the appearances here involving some recent revelations. I’d like to see Bill and Hill, and I suppose even Chelsea since her name is on the thing too, stand up and give a press conference sometime in May or June where they say the following: Yes, first, let them remind everybody of the great work the foundation has done, the lives saved, the anti-HIV drugs dispensed, the water made potable, all that. They can make this issue, or “issue,” go away, if they want to. And whether that skepticism is warranted or not, its existence is pretty obviously a fact that the Clintons will need to deal with, and they ought to deal with it sooner rather than later by announcing some clear, simple, new rules about what the foundation will and will not do if she becomes the president. But to most of Washington and some unknown percentage of Americans, it’ll just sound complicated and fishy. Telfer also made other donations to the foundation of up to $5.6 million that according to The New York Times were reported It came from Ian Telfer, a friend of Giustra's. UPDATE: The $2.35 million in question was not from Giustra. And finally, they set it up as Canadian so that other Canadians could contribute and receive the usual tax credit. And so you may have noticed that on Sunday, the acting CEO of the Clinton Foundation offered up an explanation as to why the famous $2.35 million from Frank Giustra was unreported: because the Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership to which the money went was a Canadian entity, not an American one and apparently, under Canadian law, such donors have a legal right to privacy.
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