Donald Trump Makes the Clinton Foundation a Campaign Issue
Among the many other issues of the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation a key issue.
Monday, he hammered his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the issue. During an interview with FOX & Friends, Trump was asked to weigh in on several liberal media outlets’ demand that the Clinton Foundation be shut down.
“Well, number one, they should shut it down, and number two, they should give the money back to a lot of countries we shouldn’t be taking—and they shouldn’t be taking money from,” he said. “Countries that influenced her totally and also countries that discriminated against women and gays and everybody else. I mean, that money should be given back. They should not take that money.”
Host Steve Doocy then asked Trump to comment on an official statement the GOP candidate had made earlier in the day. That statement was:
“Hillary Clinton is the defender of the corrupt and rigged status quo. The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people. It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. What they were doing during Crooked Hillary’s time as secretary of state was wrong then, and it is wrong now. It must be shut down immediately.”
Trump reiterated his declaration that the Clinton Foundation should be shut down, noting the foundation’s impropriety was “really well-documented,” referring to the book Clinton Cash. He said the foundation allows the Clintons to engage in “pay for play” with donors.
“Look, these are very greedy people,” he said. “These are people that have skirted the law for a long time. Hard to believe that, you know, somebody like this has a good chance, you know—a fairly good chance of being president.
“Although if you look at the most recent polls I think things are turning. I think they’re turning rather rapidly. But it’s hard to believe she can even be running, to be honest with you. With the e-mails and the crimes she’s committed, she shouldn’t be allowed to run for president.”
