Hillary Clinton, call your office, because this stinks:
Clinton's charity confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept https://t.co/Qo8LQ50ghS pic.twitter.com/FOzSlsmVPR
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 4, 2016
Clinton’s ethics agreement with the Obama White House stated that she would tell the administration about such gifts, but she forgot about this one:
She had signed an ethics agreement promising to notify the State Dep't of such donations, but they weren't notified. https://t.co/0Fg0TldLw9
— Doug Pologe (@DougPologe) November 4, 2016
We also don’t know if Qatar got the meeting it wanted with Bill over the donation. From Reuters:
A Clinton Foundation spokesman, Brian Cookstra, confirmed this week that the foundation accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but said this did not amount to a “material increase” in the Gulf country’s support for the charity. Cookstra declined to say whether Qatari officials received their requested meeting with Bill Clinton.
Maybe there’s some wiggle room as we don’t know yet if Qatar’s gift was a “material increase” from a previous donor:
The agreement said the State Department would be notified if there was a "material increase" from a foreign government donor.
— Doug Pologe (@DougPologe) November 4, 2016
So, the question here is if the $1 million from Qatar fit the definition of a "material increase" from whatever they had given earlier.
— Doug Pologe (@DougPologe) November 4, 2016
Now let’s see if this moves any voters or if it’s too late.
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