Hillary Clinton Says She'll Donate Harvey Weinstein's Contributions

[DonViejo]

Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Wednesday that she will donate the money she received from disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein to charity. “Well, there’s no one to give it back to. What other people are saying, what my former colleagues are saying, is that they’re going to donate it to charity, and of course I will do that,” Clinton said, following in the footsteps of other Democratic politicians who have pledged to give Weinstein’s contributions to charity. Clinton added that the donations will be “part of” the 10 percent of her income that she donates to charity each year, but it was unclear whether she meant that the money from Weinstein would be in addition to that 10 percent. Weinstein was a major Democratic donor, having contributed the maximum $5,400 to Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Clinton told Zakaria said she would have called him a “friend” in the past.

Link to tweet

READ IT AT CNN

###

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clinton-says-shell-donate-harvey-weinsteins-contributions

[Not Ruth]

1. Thank you Hillary, give it all to Puerto Rico

[Tanuki]

2. Since she no longer has a campaign war chest, it seems that Hillary is giving the money

equivalent to Weinstein's campaign donations to charity out of her own personal income. Meanwhile, 45 is getting a complete pass on skimming a million or so dollars that people donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital in belief that their money would go to pediatric cancer research and treatment with "little or no overhead." If 45 were a tenth of the human being Hillary is, he would give that million dollars back to the sick and dying children he stole it from. Once again Hillary is being held to account for someone else's bad behavior, and 45 won't even take responsibility for his own.

[Not Ruth]

3. The NYC mayor is telling people to give money back, appears to have something to do with Cuomo

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday demanded his fellow Democrats purge their coffers of contributions from movie executive Harvey Weinstein, now the subject of metastasizing allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

The mayor did not mention Gov. Andrew Cuomo by name, but his remarks came hours after reports that while Cuomo has vowed to give up the $50,000 Weinstein gave to his 2018 re-election campaign, he did not address the more than $60,000 the Hollywood honcho put into his past political bids. The governor is the only prominent elected official in the state not to disgorge all of Weinstein's lucre.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have pledged to donate to women's groups the $14,200 and $11,800 they received, respectively, from the former Miramax mogul.

"My message to everyone with current accounts with money from Harvey Weinstein is: Give that money back. Give it to charity. Get the hell away from it," de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference in Queens. "No one in their right mind should be keeping money from Harvey Weinstein."

De Blasio acknowledged receiving $500 from Weinstein for his 2001 City Council campaign, but he noted that fundraising account has long since closed. Cuomo has in the past refused to reimburse donations from controversial figures including hedge fund magnate Daniel Loeb and Donald Trump.

The mayor separately criticized the organizers of Tuesday night's debate between himself and two challengers: Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and independent Bo Dietl, a celebrity ex-cop and private investigator. The raucous crowd, packed with supporters of all three candidates, repeatedly disrupted the proceedings—as did Dietl with repeated outbursts.

"It was not what the people of New York City deserved. It was not structured to be the kind of conversation it should have been," the mayor lamented. "With all due respect to the people who put together the debate, they didn't put it together the right way. If you invite a big crowd of partisans, you have to either create ground rules to really ensure that they keep respectful, or don't invite a big crowd of partisans."

Neither the Cuomo campaign nor Charter Communications, which made arrangements for the debate, responded to requests for comment.