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(CNN)With the recent revelations of how former President Bill Clinton mingled fundraising for the nonprofit Clinton Foundation with lucrative commercial opportunities for himself, Hillary Clinton and her campaign surrender any right to complain about alleged corner-cutting and murky dealings by the family foundation run by her opponent, Donald Trump.
Both candidates have accused each other of improperly using family nonprofits for personal benefit. Now, it seems, both candidates turn out to be right.
“There’s no other way to look at it except pure corruption” is how a Trump spokesman, Jason Miller, describes the practices detailed in a damning memo from 2011, released through the WikiLeaks website, that shows aides to Bill Clinton discussing how they raised millions of dollars from corporate donors for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — a nonprofit initiative of the Clinton Foundation — and also arranged for those same donors to separately pay Bill Clinton millions of dollars personally for “speeches, books and advisory service engagements.”
“While the Clinton Foundation has received the highest ratings from independent charitable watchdogs, Donald Trump’s use of foundation money to donate to the Florida Attorney General actually broke the law,” read a statement posted on the Clinton campaign website. “Donald Trump has no standing whatsoever to question the Clinton Foundation, which works to make AIDS and malaria drugs more accessible, when it’s been proven he uses his own foundation to launder illegal campaign donations.”
Don’t expect to hear much more from either campaign about their rivals’ foundation follies. It’s a topic where neither candidate has much high ground to stand upon.
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