Bill and Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
WASHINGTON – It started out with concern.
It may have been an effort at maintain the appearance of journalistic integrity.
But in the last 72 hours, media outlets from the left and the right – from the Huffington Post to the New York Post– seem to be in agreement with Donald Trump about one thing: The Clinton Family Foundation, once perceived by many as a shining example of a former president’s best work after leaving office, should now be shut down tout de suite.
Here are just a few of the news agencies, many of them seen as Hillary Clinton supporters, now demanding in blaring headlines the once-unthinkable:
• USA TODAY: “Mothball the Clinton Foundation”
• The Daily Beast: “Hey, Hillary, it’s past time to shut down the Clinton Foundation
• The New York Post: “The Clinton Foundation must shut down if Hillary wins”
• The Boston Globe: “Clinton Foundation should stop accepting funds”
And it may have all started with the most unlikely of media outlets – the ferociously “progressive” Huffington Post, which once proclaimed it would not even cover Trump’s campaign.
Huffington Post senior politics editor Sam Stein stated that the Clinton Foundation “definitely” needs to be shut down or transferred to another foundation because there’s too much “ethical murkiness.”
Stein said, “[T]hey definitely need to shut this thing down or transfer it to the — to some other foundation. … I mean, can you imagine, the people she’s going to have to meet with as president, assuming she wins, it’ just going overlap constantly. We’ll have stories like this nonstop. There’s too much ethical murkiness here.”
A banner headline topped the Huffington Post Wednesday: “SHUT IT DOWN.” The headline linked to a New York Times article that shined the spotlight on several major Clinton Foundation donors who saw their multi-million dollar donations coincide with favorable federal actions while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
The Washington Post editorial board wrote Wednesday that “should Ms. Clinton win, all of that work and all of the foundation’s assets should be spun off to an organization with no ties to the first family.”
In fact, it was just three months ago that the Clintons’ arch-nemesis, former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr heaped praise on Bill Clinton after reading a New York Times story about the great work done by the now-tarnished and, perhaps, doomed Clinton Foundation.
Chris Ruddy of Newsmax was also singing the praises of the foundation a year ago: “In fact, it may come as a surprise to some. In the 1990s I was described by both James Carville and George Stephanopoulos as the Clinton White House’s No. 1 press enemy. But after Bill Clinton left the White House, I came to admire him and his post-presidential work. I was drawn to him largely for the very same reason he and his wife are being criticized today: the Clinton Foundation. Over time, I was impressed enough with its work that I even became a donor.”
John McCain had nothing but admiration for it, as did Mitt Romney.
Before he ran for the presidency, even Donald Trump had donated at least $110,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
But, now, the centerpiece of all the Clintons’ “accomplishments” since leaving the White House in 2001 has become the focal point of scandal, ridicule, punch lines that provide the biggest challenge to Hillary’s bid to re-enter the White House in triumph in 2017.
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