Another Fake Media Driven Clinton Scandal – ‘The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess’
‘Here’s the bottom line’:
‘Serving as secretary of state while your husband raises millions of dollars for a charitable foundation that is also a vehicle for your family’s political ambitions really does create a lot of space for potential conflicts of interest’.
‘Journalists have, rightly, scrutinized the situation closely’.
‘And however many times they take a run at it, they don’t come up with anything more scandalous than the revelation that maybe billionaire philanthropists have an easier time getting the State Department to look into their visa problems than an ordinary person would’.
‘Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan of the Associated Press’
- ‘According to their reporting, Clinton spent a remarkably large share of her time as America’s chief diplomat talking to people who had donated money to the Clinton Foundation’.
- ‘She went out of her way to help these Clinton Foundation donors, and her decision to do so raises important concerns about the ethics of her conduct as secretary and potentially as president’.
‘Except it turns out not to be true’.
‘Braun and Sullivan’s reporting reveals absolutely no unethical conduct. In fact, they found so little unethical conduct that an enormous amount of space is taken up by a detailed recounting of the time Clinton tried to help a former Nobel Peace Prize winner who’s also the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and a Presidential Medal of Freedom’.
‘Hillary Clinton has met more than 154 people’
‘The stark fact highlighted in the AP’s tweet and social share card is, for starters, totally false’.
‘If you read that and thought to yourself that it seems wrong for the secretary of state to be spending so much time in meetings with Clinton Foundation donors rather than talking to US government officials and representatives of foreign countries, then you are in luck’.
‘To generate the 154 figure, the AP excluded from the denominator all employees of any government, whether US or foreign’.
‘Then when designing social media collateral, it just left out that part, because the truth is less striking and shareable’.
‘Even so, the number 154 is preposterously low, as Clinton would routinely meet dozens of civil society leaders, journalists, and others on any one of her many foreign trips as secretary of state’.
‘In the campaign’s official response to the AP, they argue that the data is “cherry picked” from a “limited subset” of her schedule’.
‘But regardless of that, the AP’s social media claims are simply false — ignoring well over 1,000 official meetings with foreign leaders and an unknown number of meetings with domestic US officials’.
From : http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12618446/ap-clinton-foundation-meeting
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