Bill Clinton defended his charity on Monday, saying it gets good ratings especially compared to Donald Trump’s own foundation.
All the Clinton Foundation has done is “save lives and create jobs all across America and all across the world,” Clinton said Monday at a Labor Day picnic in Detroit. It “has gotten top ratings from every one of these rating agencies,” he said.
Clinton instead attacked Trump, whose own foundation has been fined by the IRS for illegally contributing funds to the re-election campaign of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller fired back, pointing to concerns that foreign governments, corporations and other groups were able to solicite favor with the State Department by donating to the Clinton Foundation.
“There’s nothing funny about the growing evidence of corruption and conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s State Department,” Miller said in a statement. “The fact that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be compromised by tens of millions of dollars in foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation is no laughing matter either — it is downright terrifying.”
While there’s no proof that Clinton gave special favors as secretary of state, in exchange for donations to her foundation, the links have prompted outrage among Republicans who charge she’d engage in pay-to-play as president.
Clinton attacked Trump along several other lines as well, saying he was “dumbfounded” at Trump’s meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and subsequent speech vowing to round up illegal immigrants.
“I’m gonna tell you something folks,” Clinton said. “I’ve had that job. That damaged America and every serious country in the world, you cannot be the leader of a country, go down and … be nice to people, and then come home and dump on them for your own political benefit.”
“It’s a killer,” he added.
