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In reply to the discussion: Some of the Clinton Foundation's Recent Foreign Connections [View all]Hekate
(90,562 posts)....corruption and quid pro quo, and none of those charges has held up to scrutiny. Those are unsubstantiated charges emanating from the Right, and you are bringing them here and insisting they have substance.
Why would you do that?
None of the timelines hold up. None of the "charges" hold up.
All you have, frankly, is an international family-run charity using their influence to raise a ton of money from states that have a ton of money they can be persuaded to part with; and the charity spends that money doing works that benefit humanity.
Presidents used to spend their twilight years playing golf. Bush Sr seems to have spent his time massaging his money and power until senility took over. Dubya does amateur paintings of himself trying to wash off the blood, while the BFEE ticks right along, and yes he plays golf. Now another Bush brother is running for POTUS, and DU has been remarkably quiet about him and his family.
Why is that? The Bushes are demonstrably corrupt. The Bushes have a demonstrable record of quid pro quo benefiting themselves personally. Whatever good Bill and Bush Sr did together hardly begins to counterbalance the BFEE.
Yet what we get here is the smearing of the Clintons, all three of them, for taking donations from entities that can well afford to give donations, and then using that money creatively to benefit humanity. Charges don't hold up. Timelines don't hold up.
The Bush Family was so close to the Family of Saud that they helped members of that family to leave the U.S. quietly in the days after 9-11 when no one else was allowed to fly; there's at least one photo of Dubya walking hand in hand with Prince Bandar, who was so close in the Bush Family that Barbara calls him Bandar Bush.
Tell us some more about Jeb, why don't you? There is a deep deep pile of manure to dig through, and all of it true.