José Andrés, Clinton Foundation working to feed Arkansas public school students | TheHill

Celebrity chef and activist José Andrés and the Clinton Foundation announced Monday that they would team up to feed children in Arkansas who are going without meals usually provided by public schools due to the coronavirus outbreak.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/487909-jose-andres-clinton-foundation-working-to-feed-arkansas-public

Headlines Spin Ukrainian Donations to Clinton Charity - FactCheck.org

Viral headlines wrongly suggest that the Ukrainian government gave more money than any other country to the Clinton Foundation. But the 2015 news report cited does not support that. https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/headlines-spin-ukrainian-donations-to-clinton-charity/

Fact-check: Trump makes series of false claims in two-day New York tweetstorm - CNN Politics

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims on Monday and Tuesday while lashing out at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Letitia James on Twitter.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/politics/fact-check-trump-false-new-york-tweetstorm/index.html

False Story Ties Clintons to Doctor's Death - FactCheck.org

Q: Did the late surgeon Dean Lorich expose "Clinton Foundation corruption in Haiti"? A: No. Lorich co-authored an article criticizing the medical response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, not the Clinton Foundation. ....
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/false-story-ties-clintons-to-doctors-death/

Bill Clinton blasts suggestion of misuse of foundation money, calling it a 'personal insult' -- CNBC

Bill Clinton dismissed the suggestion that his foundation's funds have been diverted to personal uses, calling such accusations a "personal insult." ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/13/bill-clinton-blasts-suggestion-of-misuse-of-foundation-funds-calling-it-a-personal-insult.html

AP's Clinton Foundation non-scandal was the worst journalistic malpractice of the 2016 election

The year 2016 was not exactly a banner year for the American press. In the ten days before the election, the New York Times first devoted every single column of their front page to a letter whose entire content was that there might possibly be some emails on a computer the FBI had not yet examined. Two days later, the Times buried the Trump–Russia story on an interior page with the assurance of anonymous sources that there was no ongoing investigation. The pair of articles not only demonstrates amazingly poor journalistic insight, but showcases the New York Times knee-jerk tendency to kick a Clinton at every opportunity.

However, that was not the worst, most egregious example of pure journalist malpractice that happened during the election. That “honor” belongs to the Associated Press....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1621562

The Huffington Post - US: Donor At The Center Of A Clinton Pay-To-Play Scandal Also Gave To Trump's Foundation

After Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, his foundation received a generous donation from a Ukrainian oligarch whose donations to the Clinton Foundation sparked accusations that Hillary Clinton engaged in an ethically murky mix of philanthropy and politics. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ukraine-victor-pinchuk_us_5834a687e4b01ba68ac35072?

The Anatomy of a Leak: How Did a Mistaken Clinton Story Happen?

On Wednesday, Bret Baier dropped a bombshell report on his Fox News show: An investigation into the Clinton Foundation was likely to lead to an indictment. New evidence was pouring in by the day. Fox is a right-leaning outlet, but Baier is one of their news reporters, and generally has a good reputation. A report in The Wall Street Journal, Fox’s corporate cousin, further confirmed the story. The Clinton campaign, wobbling from FBI Director James Comey’s letter to members of Congress announcing new emails pertinent to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, seemed on the verge of collapse.

Then things began to shift. Baier said on Thursday that he had spoken “inartfully” when he mentioned a likely indictment. On Friday, he moved past that to a full apology: “That just wasn’t inartful, it was a mistake and for that I'm sorry.”...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/tracking-the-fbi-stories-about-clinton/506642/?utm_source=feed

5 Points On How Allies Funneled Money To Clinton Foundation

A hacked memo published Wednesday by WikiLeaks sheds new light on the previously reported connections between the Clinton Foundation and a corporate consulting firm run by two longtime allies of the Clinton family.

Plenty of ink has been spilled on how onetime Clinton aide Douglas Band and Declan Kelly, who worked for Hillary Clinton's State Department, leveraged their connections to the former first family to attract investors to their firm, Teneo. Teneo clients were invited to attend annual meetings of the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative event, and the consulting firm used those meetings as an opportunity to recruit even more new clients.

The documents published by WikiLeaks this week purported to show that these intimate ties between Teneo and the Clinton Foundation made some in Clintonland deeply uneasy, fearing that they could lead to allegations of quid pro quo. One memo released Wednesday describes in detail how Band encouraged Teneo clients to donate to the Clinton Foundation, and pushed those donors to provide consulting contracts and paid speaking engagements for Bill Clinton.

TPM outlines what we know about the ties between Teneo, Bill Clinton’s private finances and the Clinton Foundation....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/what-we-know-clinton-foundation-teneo-doug-band

Trump mangles facts on Clinton and Haiti jobs project

Hillary Clinton is facing criticism for her role in facilitating the creation of an industrial park in post-earthquake Haiti that has been accused of displacing farmers and failing to live up to rosy job creation projections. Among the charges, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Clinton pushed aside regulations to create sweatshop-like conditions.

... The evidence is thin...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/11/donald-trump/trump-mangles-facts-clinton-and-haiti-jobs-project/

Pence wrongly says more than half of Hillary Clinton's meetings went to foundation donors

"We know that more than half of Hillary Clinton’s meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation."

... Here, we’ll focus on his claim that "more than half" of meetings Clinton took as secretary of state were with major donors to her family’s global charity....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/16/mike-pence/pence-wrongly-says-more-half-hillary-clintons-meet/

Pence repeats false claim on Clinton Foundation's limited charitable work

In the vice presidential debate, Republican Mike Pence tried to skewer Hillary Clinton by talking about the multi-billion dollar Clinton Foundation. Pence recycled a flawed GOP talking point that the foundation is a cash cow to enrich the Clintons and their friends.

"10 cents on the dollar from the Clinton Foundation goes to charitable causes," Pence said.

This is based on a misunderstanding of how the foundation operates. In brief, it raises money to deliver services and projects itself. The amount of money it gives away as grants is a small sliver of its activities.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/04/mike-pence/pence-repeats-false-claim-clinton-foundations-limi/

Pence repeats debunked Associated Press tweet about Clinton Foundation

As he has several times recently, Mike Pence repeated a false claim that the Associated Press found that more than half of the individual meetings that she gave while Secretary of State were with major donors to the Clinton Foundation.

While the Associated Press initially tweeted the false claim that “More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation,” they have since admitted it was not true....
https://thinkprogress.org/pence-clinton-foundation-smear-d4f95a1ccd16#.absay3mjc

Clinton Foundation: Those ‘Hacked Files’ Aren’t Ours

A hacker going by the name Guccifer 2.0 claimed to have published files hacked from the Clinton Foundation on Tuesday, including spreadsheets that appear to show corporate money being funneled to politicians and a computer file titled “pay for play.”

The files—which weren’t posted in their entirety—look conspicuously corrupt, and their presentation seems designed to confirm long-standing suspicions that the foundation is indeed a pay for play operation that trades off the the Clinton family’s past, present, and potential future influence.

But there’s a problem. The president of the Clinton Foundation says the documents aren’t theirs, and there’s no evidence that the organization’s networks have been breached. So, is this the October surprise that Clinton’s opponents have been expecting? Or is it the next stage in what intelligence officials suspect is an ongoing “active measures” campaign to meddle with the U.S. election?...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/04/clinton-foundation-those-hacked-files-aren-t-ours.html

Clinton Foundation Controversy Creates Confusion In 2016 Campaign (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

More than her economic agenda, more than her plan to stop ISIS, Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the charitable foundation set up by her ex-president husband has become a campaign flashpoint. What does the Clinton Foundation do? Who gives money to it, and why? Did they distort US policy when she was Secretary of State? Would they if she’s president? This hour On Point, sorting fact from fiction on the Clinton Foundation. — John Harwood
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/08/30/clinton-foundation-controversy-emails-scandal

A Tale Of Two Foundations

One of these things is not like the other....
https://thinkprogress.org/a-tale-of-two-foundations-7035dc7cabd5#.68pyf6fly

Sigh. Yet Another Non-Scandal at the Clinton Foundation

Here is Politico today:

"Bill Clinton aides used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email support Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. This investigation, which is based on records obtained from the General Services Administration through the Freedom of Information Act, does not reveal anything illegal. But it does offer fresh evidence of how the Clintons blurred the line between their nonprofit foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department, and the business dealings of Bill Clinton and the couple’s aides."

 Sounds shady! Let's count the paragraphs until we get to an actual concrete description of what this is all about. Here we go: 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10... 11... 12... 13... 14... 15... 16... 17... 18... 19... 20... 21... 22... 23... 24... Bingo:...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/sigh-yet-another-non-scandal-clinton-foundation

Did the Clinton Foundation go 'above and beyond' in transparency?

Hillary Clinton dismissed criticism of the Clinton Foundation for creating the appearance of conflicts of interest for the State Department she led, arguing that the nonprofit has actually been more transparent and ethical than was required.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Clinton Aug. 24 about Donald Trump’s charge that she "sold favors and access" in exchange for donations to the foundation and why Bill Clinton would leave the foundation only if Hillary Clinton became president. Clinton responded that Trump is "ridiculous."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/31/hillary-clinton/did-clinton-foundation-go-above-and-beyond-transpa/...

Reince Priebus' False claim that 80% of Clinton Foundation costs are overhead

In a radio interview Aug. 23, 2016, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus wrongly interpreted tax forms submitted by the Clinton Foundation to claim that the foundation spends the vast majority of its donations on overhead and not charitable work.

 Speaking on The Mike Gallagher Show, Priebus described the foundation as a way to make the Clintons rich and said he couldn’t find examples of charitable work that they do.

"And so, these people ask the question in interviews, especially in the liberal media, you know, well ‘don’t you think they do great work?’ Well, I don’t know what great work they do," Priebus said. "I mean the fact is, is if they’ve got about 80 percent overhead and 20 percent of the money's actually getting into the place that it should, then it seems like the only work that the Clinton Foundation is doing is lining the pockets of Bill and Hillary Clinton. And that, to me, should be investigated …" 

The claim that 80 percent of the money the foundation raises goes to overhead -- a term used to described expenses that go to management and fundraising costs -- is something that has been made by Carly Fiorina and Rush Limbaugh in varying forms.

 But, despite what Priebus says, it’s an incorrect reading of tax forms submitted by the foundation, experts who monitor and study charitable organizations say....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/25/reince-priebus/reince-priebus-false-claim-80-clinton-foundation-c/

AP Editor Admits Tweet On Clinton Foundation Was ‘Sloppy’ And Wrong, Still Won’t Delete It

After years of investigation, Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, the Associated Press obtained two years of Hillary Clinton’s schedules from her tenure as Secretary of State. It culminated with this tweet on their findings:

BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation.

There was one problem: This tweet is completely inaccurate.....
https://thinkprogress.org/ap-executive-editor-admits-tweet-on-clinton-foundation-was-sloppy-and-wrong-still-won-t-delete-913d23f49297#.3itfkp7xr