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Bill Clinton Says He Will Stop Paid Speeches If Hillary Clinton Is Elected President
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“Do I have the most comprehensive disclosure of any presidential foundation? Yes,” he said. “Is our disclosure more extensive than most private foundations? Yes, they are, having nothing to do with politics. Has anybody proved that we did anything objectionable? No. Have we done a lot of good things with this money? Yes.”
Clinton said he has received calls from some contributors complaining about the coverage. He said: “One of my Republican supporters who has not yet been subject to public criticism called me the other day and said, ‘Here’s the message I get from all this coverage: If I put my money in a tax shelter in the Cayman islands and I don’t pay taxes, I’m a great man. If I give my money to one of these black box committees where you never have to reveal contributors, I’ll never get any grief. If I publicly give my money to you to help poor people, there’s something really wrong with me.’” Clinton declined to identify the supporter who had made those comments.
The former president also addressed questions about money flowing to the foundation from foreign governments with business before the U.S. government, keying in on a $500,000 donation from Algeria in 2010 that was earmarked for earthquake relief in Haiti. As International Business Times reported, that money came to the foundation at a time when Algeria was lobbying the State Department, and the country soon received a large increase in weapons export authorizations from the agency. Some of those export authorizations were for weapons classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents [and] biological agents.”
“[Critics] said, ‘Oh you got $500,000 from Algeria at very same time they were lobbying the State Department,’” Clinton said. “Those two facts are accurate but if you put them back-to-back they are incredibly misleading. Here’s why: I never considered that the Algerians gave me the money.”
Clinton said he has received calls from some contributors complaining about the coverage. He said: “One of my Republican supporters who has not yet been subject to public criticism called me the other day and said, ‘Here’s the message I get from all this coverage: If I put my money in a tax shelter in the Cayman islands and I don’t pay taxes, I’m a great man. If I give my money to one of these black box committees where you never have to reveal contributors, I’ll never get any grief. If I publicly give my money to you to help poor people, there’s something really wrong with me.’” Clinton declined to identify the supporter who had made those comments.
The former president also addressed questions about money flowing to the foundation from foreign governments with business before the U.S. government, keying in on a $500,000 donation from Algeria in 2010 that was earmarked for earthquake relief in Haiti. As International Business Times reported, that money came to the foundation at a time when Algeria was lobbying the State Department, and the country soon received a large increase in weapons export authorizations from the agency. Some of those export authorizations were for weapons classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents [and] biological agents.”
“[Critics] said, ‘Oh you got $500,000 from Algeria at very same time they were lobbying the State Department,’” Clinton said. “Those two facts are accurate but if you put them back-to-back they are incredibly misleading. Here’s why: I never considered that the Algerians gave me the money.”
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http://www.ibtimes.com/bill-clinton-says-he-will-stop-paid-speeches-if-hillary-clinton-elected-president-1961307
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Panama stuff is all about
their old shell corporations and setting up new ones with modern Clintonian money washing machines. Business is brisk. 
