Saturday Morning Post: The Weekly View from Washington
In two weeks, Hillary Clinton makes her first foray out to Los Angeles since announcing her 2016 bid. It’s a fundraising swing, with the candidate rattling her tin cup for entertainment industry luminaries who largely abandoned her in favor of a fresher-faced upstart in 2008. But this weekend, as Hollywood heavies travel the other direction for the annual glitz parade known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, another category of Clinton money looms large. Specifically, revelations about the sums the Clinton Foundation received from foreign governments and corporations are generating new headaches for the Democrat’s campaign — and another round of questionsabout her ethical blind spots.
A New York Times report detailing a Canadian mining company’s donations to the Clinton nonprofit as it sought approval from Clinton’s State Department to sell its uranium business to Russia sent the Clinton camp intodamage control mode, an increasingly familiar gear for such a nascent operation. But the head-on engagement from Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters isn’t quieting critics. On Friday afternoon, the campaign finance watchdogs at Common Cause called for an outside audit of the foundation’s biggest contributors. Other good-government types are keeping up a drumbeat for the outfit to stop accepting all foreign money, instead of drawing arbitrary distinctions around certain countries. And on Sunday morning, Dinner guests nursing hangovers — and anyone else— tuning into Fox News Sunday and ABC’s This Week will hear from Peter Schweizer, a conservative journalist whose forthcoming book “Clinton Cash” provided the grist for the New York Times report, among other revelations about Clintonworld’s complex finances.
Clinton brass has taken pains to signal they won’t repeat the trench warfare that helped sink her 2008 campaign. So it’s odd to see them still brandishing shovels and bayonets, while foreign money continues pouring into foundation coffers and rewarding former President Bill Clinton’s speeches.
Is it any mystery where this is headed? To put it in Tinseltown terms, with an ending this obvious, Hillary needs to rewrite the script.
No hay comentarios.:
Publicar un comentario