Posted on 08/24/2016 9:34:50 AM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The foundation started by Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton should shut down despite its good work, two major newspapers said in editorials on Wednesday, calling for its closure to avoid perceptions of "pay-for-play" amid the U.S. presidential campaign as critics step up their attacks over the issue.
Despite plans announced earlier this week to reorganize the foundation if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November, USA Today said the global charity must close for the Democratic presidential candidate to avoid any appearance of unethical ties.
"The only way to eliminate the odor surrounding the foundation is to wind it down and put it in mothballs, starting today, and transfer its important charitable work to another large American charity such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," the paper's editorial board wrote.
The Washington Post said in its editorial that the planned steps unveiled on Monday to rename the foundation, end foreign and corporate donations and have Bill Clinton resign from the board should have happened sooner - before his wife served as secretary of state - and still fall short.
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Bttt
To late to flush a clogged toilet. Need roto rooter, a plunger, or the plumber. In the Clinton’s case they have already been deploying their White Water type plumbers to arkinside as many witnesses ready to spill the beans as they can. They have already killed off all the deep throats that serviced Bill and Hill. But the smelly toilet bowl is still clogged and the press can’t hide the odor for much longer before the overflow hits the street.
Too late.
Yes. Erase the hard drive, and shred the hard copies. Quick. Especially if the elections don't go as desired.
Trump is holding her feet to the fire. Finally a GOP candidate who has the guts to tell it like it is. Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush Sr (and even Bush Jr after Lee Atwater died) would view it as beneath Washington decorum to suggest that a Democratic candidate was actually a treasonous crook.
Of course they are the problem. Name a conservative one. All these huge foundations are uber liberal no matter how they started out.
LOL so they are calling for it to be shut down, but they dont care about the criminal acts ALREADY COMMITTED, but hey, let’s just prevent future boo boos
More wagon-circling by the press. By shutting it down now, the Clinton Foundation corruption while Clinton was SoS becomes “old news.”
How would these Leaches live then ?
My sentiments exactly. Where is an accounting of any funds spent on humanitarian projects or human catastrophies ???? If the Clintons' Foundation had functioned with integrity and purpose - they would have been marketing it in the campaign.
Exactly.
As if shutting the charitable foundation will suddenly make the Clinton’s honest.
Oh no, they don’t! Just suddenly shutter the Foundation and now everything’s ok, vote for Hillary? I don’t think so!!
Ask the Haitians about the “good work” of the Foundation. They are completely fed up with it.
“Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” my ass, just transfer everything over to the CHELSEA FOUNDATION.
How else will Hillary keep bill busy? He can’t take the lolita express anymore.. how else will he get other people to pay for his “fact-finding” trips to the world’s sex tourism dedtinatipns.
The Clintons are like the organizations that raise money for the FOP: a small per cent goes to the FOP, with the semi-legal fund raisers pocketing most of every dollar. The FOP reasons, “A little of something is better than all of nothing.”
Hillary shakes down associates/gets paid for offering influence and ‘protection,’ `wacks’ her enemies and is untouchable by the feds ... Tony Soprano is in awe.
If you think the rest of the world holds us in contempt following 8 years of Obama, watch what happens if this upcoming election is stolen by an incontinent, incompetent, constantly avaricious, malicious, pay-for-play, 100% dishonest scoundrel like Hillary Clinton.
The Clintoons are living in a cesspool. They can rename the thing, even pretend to put someone else in charge, but it’s still a cesspool.
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