If Clinton Needs to Close Her Foundation, Trump Needs to Dissolve His Company
Finally! An opinion that calls out the massive hypocrisy and bias in the coverage of Clinton versus Trump.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/if-clinton-needs-to-close-her-foundation-trump-needs-to-dissolve-his-company/ar-BBw9Kit
“Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit,” the Republican nominee declared back in June. At that time, he was referring to allegations that Clinton had traded influence in the State department for donations to her family foundation. Then, as now, such accusations were not substantiated by any smoking-gun evidence of a quid pro quo. Rather, they were based on instances that gave off the appearance of conflicting interests — like when Clinton approved the sale of a uranium company, which was owned by a foundation donor, to the Russian atomic-energy agency.
For a typical Republican candidate, such apparent conflicts of interest would be fertile ground to mine for attacks. But Trump is not a typical Republican candidate. In fact, there has never been an American presidential candidate more vulnerable to accusations of apparent conflicts of interest than Donald J. Trump: The mogul owns a business that profits off the commercial value of his own name, which he licenses to real-estate developers the world over — many of whom have direct ties to foreign governments and political parties.
And Trump has no plans to meaningfully distance himself from his business interests should he take office. In fact, at points in his campaign, he has seemingly promised to abuse his public power to advance his private interests.
Officially, his position is that he will place the company in a “blind trust” — and that his adult children will oversee its day-to-day operations. But unless Trump plans to cut off all personal relations with his offspring, this arrangement is roughly the opposite of a blind trust.
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The Clinton Foundation is NOTHING like the Trump Foundation or any of his business interests. 
All this crap from the Cheeto-Dusted Hot Air Buffoon and his pandering supporters is nothing more than projection. Trump's "Foundation" is nothing but a scam used to funnel bribery payments and purchase portraits of himself, among other things. His businesses are all intended to make him a profit. Making a profit in and of itself is not a bad thing and is why businesses are created in the first place. But Trump's business and contractual ties to foreign institutions and nationals literally make for a national security nightmare and provide real conflict of interest situations.
NO, THE CLINTON FOUNDATION SHOULD NOT BE CLOSED. IT IS LITERALLY A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH FOR TOO MANY AROUND THE WORLD.
I resent any implication that it should be closed.
