'I Just Work Here,' Bill Clinton Says as Foundation Donor Questions Defense

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By Ali Elkin

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly squirmed a bit Wednesday as a Clinton Foundation donor railed against American media at a Clinton Global Initiative event in Marrakech, Morocco.

According to Politico, Mo Ibrahim said a recent trip to the U.S. left him “shocked” about “attacks” on the foundation, whose finances and transparency are scrutinized in a new book as Hillary Clinton campaigns for president.

“I used to respect the American media. And I was amazed because I started to watch the news and Fox and other guys and none of those people asked a question: what this foundation is doing actually,” said Ibrahim, a telecommunications billionaire and philanthropist.

“I just could not understand. ... I didn’t see anybody from the foundation standing up,” he said.

The former president appeared to try to deflect the comments with a joke. “I just work here, I don’t know,” Clinton said. “There is one set of rules for politics in America and another set for real life. And you just have to learn to deal with it.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-06/-i-just-work-here-bill-clinton-says-as-foundation-donor-questions-defense

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1. If there's one thing Bill is good at, it's choosing his words carefully when he's defending himself.

[AtomicKitten]

2. "I don't know nothing about birthing no babies, Ms. Scarlet."

As usual, the rightwing has overshot their criticism with no proof of quid pro quo. What Clinton Cash did illuminate, however, is that Hillary repeatedly violated the Memorandum of Understanding she signed with the Obama Admin as a condition to taking the job as SOS promising to report all new/increased foreign donations. The purpose of the agreement was to protect the SOS from accusations of wrongdoing. In repeatedly violating the agreement, however, Hillary is now cloaked in the appearance of wrongdoing, a self-inflicted wound. Both the rightwing and ClintonWorld are arguing about the accusations of quid pro quo when the real issue is the agreement she signed and why she did not hold up her end of it.