WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists, and corporate donors to her family’s global charity, according to State Department calendars obtained by The Associated Press.
The woman who would become a 2016 presidential candidate met or spoke by phone with nearly 100 corporate executives, Clinton charity donors and political supporters during her four years at the State Department between 2009 and 2013, records show. Many of those meetings and calls, formally scheduled by her aides, involved heads of companies and organizations that were pursuing business or private interests with the Obama administration at the time, including with the State Department while Clinton was in charge.
In addition, at least 60 of those who met with Clinton have donated or pledged program commitments to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. A dozen have been among Hillary Clinton’s most reliable political fundraisers, bundling more than $100,000 in donations during her failed 2008 presidential campaign or providing larger amounts to Clinton-allied super political action committees this time. And at least six entities represented in the meetings paid former President Bill Clinton lucrative fees for speeches.
The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton’s meetings, in its examination of 1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents.
But the difference with Clinton’s meetings was that she was a 2008 presidential contender who was widely expected to try again in 2016. Her availability to luminaries from politics, business and charity shows the extent to which her office became a sounding board for their interests. And her ties with so many familiar faces from those intersecting worlds were complicated by their lucrative financial largess and political support over the years — even during her State Department tenure — for her campaigns and her husband’s, and for her family’s foundation.
Imagine what she’d sell out as President
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But NOW she wants big money out of campaign financing. Well, once she has used all she needs.
@Bill: She is just a little confused. Grammy hillobeans needs to have her shawl adjusted and to be put in her room for her nap. Her last lil funny .. she thinks there is a republican in the whitehouse and wants to fix all the damage that they have done. I guess she thinks its 2008
Review my post, I authored multiple post during her mid term that she was utilizing her position as secretary of slut to entrain foreign and corporate funding through hypocritical ideological parent pandering behaviour. Recall that the media serves the democrats and the left. The idealization and adulteration of self pity and self grievances has rendered this country a massive joke.
But this is what the democrats have pander since the big socialist fdr, and this is the crap that the clintons have pander to the world.
Oh! Where is the billion dollars lost under the slut’s watch ? Want to bet it is now part of the slut’s and whore dogs foundation
@MOS #8541:
Establishment progressives of both parties are all about pay to play. (aka. bribes and corruption.)