Hillary Clinton recently brushed off the uproar over her outrageous campus speaking fees, saying she gave the estimated $2 million in collected honorariums to her Clinton Foundation to “continue its life-changing and life-saving work.”
Now that claim will be put to the test. Politico reports that “the Republican research group America Rising is calling on the Clinton Foundation to make sweeping public disclosures about how it spends its money.”
“In the past, the Clinton Foundation has spent millions on opulent travel and lodging for her family, financed glitzy, celebrity-fueled donor events and paid key Democratic aides who would likely play key roles in her presidential campaign,” (America Rising executive Tim) Miller said. “For Americans to credibly believe these speaking fees are being donated to charitable endeavors, the foundation must be transparent about how and where it has spent its millions since Hillary Clinton joined last year.”
Clinton aides declined to comment on the America Rising push.
As we reported yesterday, Clinton’s claim that she generously and benevolently donated her campus speaking fees – to her own charity – rang incredibly hollow.
And Althouse appropriately asked: “What is (Clinton’s) salary from the foundation? How much of her expenses are covered by family foundation money? How many members of her family make salaries from that foundation? To what extent is the foundation an income tax dodge? …”
It will be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out.
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