Clintons have been lying about all their scandals and payouts for decades, liberals have a blind eye to all that, but trump overstates fundraising donation and they get all giddy.
Liberal hypocrisy at its best.
Clintons "foundation" pays 10% to charities not including the discrepancies between the "on the books" donations vs what the donors said they gave.
read it and weep cause I know you will...
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says that āso littleā of the charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation āactually go to charitable worksā ā a figure CARLY for America later put at about 6 percent of its annual revenues ā but Fiorina is simply wrong.
Fiorina and others are referring only to the amount donated by the Clinton Foundation to outside charities, ignoring the fact that most of the Clinton Foundationās charitable work is performed in-house. One independent philanthropy watchdog did an analysis of Clinton Foundation funding and
concluded that about 89 percent of its funding went to charity.
Simply put, despite its name, the Clinton Foundation is not a private foundation ā which typically acts as a pass-through for private donations to other charitable organizations. Rather, it is a public charity. It conducts most of its charitable activities directly.
Fiorina Attacks
Fiorina has been
shadowing Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in order to contrast herself with her Democratic rival. In a
Fox News interview, Fiorina was asked about a
New York Times story about Sen. Marco Rubioās finances, and Fiorina responded that she wished the
New York Times would do more to investigate the Clintonsā finances, and particularly āwhat theyāve been doing with their donorsā money to the Clinton Global Initiative.ā
Fiorina, June 10: I mean, honestly, the question, I think, now for the Clintons is, āWhat else donāt we know? What donāt we know about your donors? What donāt we know about the conflicts of interest that those donors represent when Mrs. Clinton is serving as Secretary of State?ā We are now finding out that
solittle of those charitable donations actually go to charitable works.
Asked for backup, the CARLY for America super PAC noted that the Clinton Foundationās latest
IRS Form 990 shows total revenue of nearly $149 million in 2013, and total charitable grant disbursements of nearly $9 million (see page 10). That comes to roughly 6 percent of the budget going to grants. And besides those grants, the super PAC said, āthere really isnāt anything that can be categorized as charitable.ā
That just isnāt so. The Clinton Foundation does most of its charitable work itself.
Katherina Rosqueta, the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, described the Clinton Foundation as an āoperating foundation.ā
āThere is an important distinction between an operating foundation vs. a non-operating foundation,ā Rosqueta told us via email. āAn operating foundation implements programs so money it raises is not designed to be used exclusively for grant-making purposes. When most people hear āfoundationā, they think exclusively of a grant-making entity. In either case, the key is to understand how well the foundation uses money ā whether to implement programs or to grant out to nonprofits ā [to achieve] the intended social impact (e.g., improving education, creating livelihoods, improving health, etc.).ā
Craig Minassian, chief communications officer for the Clinton Foundation, said the Clinton Foundation is āan implementer.ā
āWe operate programs on the ground, around the world, that are making a difference on issues ranging from poverty and global health to climate change and womenās and girlsā participation,ā Minassian told us via email. āMany large foundations actually provide grants to the Clinton Foundation so that our staff can implement the work.ā
Asked for some examples of the work it performs itself, the Clinton Foundation listed these:
- Clinton Development Initiative staff in Africa train rural farmers and help them get access to seeds, equipment and markets for their crops.
- Clinton Climate Initiative staff help governments in Africa and the Caribbean region with reforestation efforts, and in island nations to help develop renewable energy projects.
- Staff at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, an independent, affiliated entity, work in dozens of nations to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine, scale up pediatric AIDS treatment and promote treatment of diarrhea through life-saving Zinc/ORS treatment.
- Clinton Health Matters staff work with local governments and businesses in the United States to develop wellness and physical activity plans.
