WITH CHARITY FOR ALL? – AT 8:16 A.M. ET: Well, bottom line, the Clintons are not inspired by Abraham Lincoln. Turns out their super-charity, the Clinton Foundation, hasn't been overly generous with the poor and needy. From Fox:
The charity run by the Clintons has raised $2 billion since it was founded in 2001 -- $144.3 million in 2013 alone -- but only a small fraction of the take went to its “life-saving work,” according to analysts who monitor non-profits.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation claims 88 percent of the money it raises goes to actual charity work, but experts who have looked at the books put the number at about 10 percent. The rest, they say, goes mostly to salaries, benefits, travel and fund-raising.
“That claim is demonstrably false, and it is false not according to some partisan spin on the numbers, but because the organization’s own tax filings contradict the claim,” said Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, a conservative online magazine.
The foundation, originally called the Clinton Global Initiative, has come under close scrutiny as Hillary Clinton prepares for a presidential run. Revelations in the soon-to-be-released book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter Schweizer, have spurred numerous media investigations into the relationship between Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the foundation’s solicitation of foreign money and the ex-president’s lucrative speaking engagements around the world.
COMMENT: Where there's smoke, there's Clinton. We have all heard of "charities" that actually disburse very little of their income to those they claim to help. This looks like one of those organizations. The word "scam" comes to mind.
The fact that the analysis is coming from experts in non-profits, and not from a partisan source, is particularly compelling. It just keeps getting worse for Hillary. When she spoke at Columbia today, you had the feeling that a farce was in progress. Is this corrupt individual really going to be president?
April 30, 2015 |