Let me get this straight

[hazlnut]

80 rich people gave money to a charity run by President Clinton.

In turn, they were moved to the front of the line, given access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton via phone meeting or brief in person meeting, a meet and greet.

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors. These people were given nothing in exchange for their money but what amounts to a personal thank you from a politician-celebrity? (According to SCOTUS the granting of the meeting itself does not constitute corruption)


And POLITICIANS have a problem with this ??-- money giving people access? I thought that was "free speech".


Trump surrogates are trying to argue that the quid pro quo is the granting of the meeting in exchange for the money.

SCOTUS has already ruled on this. And EVERY member of congress and the senate would be guilty of this if it were a crime.

Tramp as usual is talking out of his ass.

Shall we start looking at every interest group given access to a powerful committee chairmen after making donations to election war chests?

 

[JakeStarkey]

To get out to Park City to Romney's 'meet the biggies' events cost a lot of money.

Yes, everyone plays the pay for play game viciously.

 

[Siete]

80 rich people gave money to a charity run by President Clinton.

In turn, they were moved to the front of the line, given access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton via phone meeting or brief in person meeting, a meet and greet.

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors. These people were given nothing in exchange for their money but what amounts to a personal thank you from a politician-celebrity? (According to SCOTUS the granting of the meeting itself does not constitute corruption)


And POLITICIANS have a problem with this ??-- money giving people access? I thought that was "free speech".


Trump surrogates are trying to argue that the quid pro quo is the granting of the meeting in exchange for the money.

SCOTUS has already ruled on this. And EVERY member of congress and the senate would be guilty of this if it were a crime.

Tramp as usual is talking out of his ass.

Shall we start looking at every interest group given access to a powerful committee chairmen after making donations to election war chests?

more RW whining ... anything Clinton is illegal. Another attack from any angle partisan pipe dream, pay no attention. Nobody else is.

 

[BlindBoo]

Just goes to prove Hillary is the greatest criminal mastermind of all time. 30 years and ain't been caught yet.......

Either that or...........

 

[Care4all]

Everything Trump comes out and accuses her of, is a reflection of himself....we are learning a lot about him with this tactic of his, he's a criminal, he's corrupt, he's a liar, he's a cheat, he pays to play....

We will find out next that his doctor letter was a fake on him and he is unhealthy and unfit for office.

 

[g5000]

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors.

And you know this...how?

 

[g5000]

181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's State Department

The set includes oil, defense, drug, tech, and news companies, as well as labor unions and foreign interests. It includes organizations as innocuous as the Girl Scouts and those as in need of brand-burnishing as Nike, which was once forced to vow that it would end the use of child labor in foreign sweatshops. This list of donors to the Clinton foundation who lobbied State matters because it gives a sense of just how common it was for influence-seekers to give to the Clinton Foundation, and exactly which ones did.

 

[The Irish Ram]

80 rich people gave money to a charity run by President Clinton.

In turn, they were moved to the front of the line, given access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton via phone meeting or brief in person meeting, a meet and greet.

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors. These people were given nothing in exchange for their money but what amounts to a personal thank you from a politician-celebrity? (According to SCOTUS the granting of the meeting itself does not constitute corruption)


And POLITICIANS have a problem with this ??-- money giving people access? I thought that was "free speech".


Trump surrogates are trying to argue that the quid pro quo is the granting of the meeting in exchange for the money.

SCOTUS has already ruled on this. And EVERY member of congress and the senate would be guilty of this if it were a crime.

Tramp as usual is talking out of his ass.

Shall we start looking at every interest group given access to a powerful committee chairmen after making donations to election war chests?

No just the ones paying the Clinton's millions and millions for favors. Wish we would have looked into it before she sold our/her uranium mines to Putin...

 

[Fueri]

no it is the granting of the meeting in exchange for the money, that's buying access. then what happened as a result of that meeting is what was ultimately purchased.

Anyone that thinks that anyone gives large sums of money to politicians and expects nothing in exchange other than "a personal thank you", which serves no purpose, and that they get nothing in exchange for thousands and millions of dollars, is being willfully ignorant of the state of affairs of our political system.

 

[hazlnut]

The day you get anything straight is the day you get your head out of your ass and stop being a sniveling servile libturd puke.

Why don't you explain why you have a problem with this?

 

[hazlnut]

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors.

And you know this...how?

That is what is being reported so far.

Can you point to the specific major policy change or other action directly ordered by Sec. of State?

 

[g5000]

80 rich people gave money to a charity run by President Clinton.

In turn, they were moved to the front of the line, given access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton via phone meeting or brief in person meeting, a meet and greet.

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors.

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...s-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

 

[g5000]

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors.

And you know this...how?

That is what is being reported so far.

Link?

 

[g5000]

Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton's help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm's corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.


More than half of private interests who met with Clinton at State department made donations

 

[Care4all]

I say the only way to see if she did anything out of the ordinary is take every congress critter calling for an investigation and investigate them FIRST to see who they met with and if any of them have donated to the RNC or to the GOP or to them or to any of the PACS or charities in their names,

and calculate the percentage of meetings with these people compared to other people who did not donate, so we can come up with some kind of "norm" on what this percentage should be.

 

[g5000]

Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering low-interest "microcredit" for poor business owners, met with Clinton three times and talked with her by phone during a period when Bangladeshi government authorities investigated his oversight of a nonprofit bank and ultimately pressured him to resign from the bank's board. Throughout the process, he pleaded for help in messages routed to Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him.

More than half of private interests who met with Clinton at State department made donations

 

[g5000]

If ever there was such as a thing as "conflict of interest", the relationship between Senator/Secretary Clinton and the donors is it.

This mess SCREAMS conflict of interest. There simply is no denying this is a textbook case. If this isn't a conflict of interest, then no one on Earth has ever been guilty of a conflict of interest.

Not only that, who was locked out of access to the State Department for legitimate business because they weren't big donors to the Foundation?

 

[g5000]

No one can honestly believe a donor to the Clinton Foundation received unbiased or unweighted treatment by Senator/Secretary Clinton.

This is total sleaze. As sleazy as it gets.

 

[JakeStarkey]

80 rich people gave money to a charity run by President Clinton.

In turn, they were moved to the front of the line, given access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton via phone meeting or brief in person meeting, a meet and greet.

No U.S. policy was enacted or altered based on these brief curtosy meetings granted to 80 donors. These people were given nothing in exchange for their money but what amounts to a personal thank you from a politician-celebrity? (According to SCOTUS the granting of the meeting itself does not constitute corruption)


And POLITICIANS have a problem with this ??-- money giving people access? I thought that was "free speech".


Trump surrogates are trying to argue that the quid pro quo is the granting of the meeting in exchange for the money.

SCOTUS has already ruled on this. And EVERY member of congress and the senate would be guilty of this if it were a crime.

Tramp as usual is talking out of his ass.

Shall we start looking at every interest group given access to a powerful committee chairmen after making donations to election war chests?

No just the ones paying the Clinton's millions and millions for favors. Wish we would have looked into it before she sold our/her uranium mines to Putin...

Show the favors, TIR.

 

[JakeStarkey]

No one can honestly believe a donor to the Clinton Foundation received unbiased or unweighted treatment by Senator/Secretary Clinton. This is total sleaze. As sleazy as it gets.

That's an opinion until you can show us the hard evidence.