In this week’s magazine, Steve Hayes has an excellent article about how Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department intersected with her husband’s dealings at the Clinton Foundation. I highly suggest you read the whole thing, but here is the bottom line:
People sought to influence her decisions as secretary of state by making donations to his foundation. And while we cannot yet offer definitive conclusions about the extent to which those efforts were successful, disclosures over the past several weeks make clear that Clinton and her top aides eagerly provided special access to Clinton Foundation donors—and, in some cases, provided that special access because they were Clinton Foundation donors.
Indeed, the Clinton Foundation has many of the trappings of a political machine—an extra-governmental organization whose purpose, at least in part, was to help the Clintons sustain their vast political network while awaiting her 2016 campaign for the White House. It is pretty clear these efforts included preferential treatment from Hillary Clinton, in her capacity as secretary of state, for Clinton Foundation patrons.
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