There's a basic problem with a politician promising to be ethical... if they win the White House. And that's what Hillary is doing. It's even worse when the politician has actually been in the White House and violated all the rules that anyone could think of.
Meanwhile the impact of Hillary's new proposed Clinton Foundation donations ethics rule is she wins the White House would be to render half her existing donors retroactively unethical.
More than half of the Clinton Foundation’s major donors would be prevented from contributing to the charity under the self-imposed ban on corporate and foreign donors the foundation said this week it would adopt if Hillary Clinton won the White House, according to a new Washington Post analysis of foundation donations.
The findings underscore the extent to which the Clintons’ sprawling global charity has come to rely on financial support from industries and overseas interests, a point that has drawn criticism from Republicans and some liberals who have said the donations represent conflicts of interest for a potential president.
Of course Hillary's proposed rule is beyond meaningless. A candidate who promises to stop taking dubious donations if he wins would be laughed at. Hillary deserves no better.
The Clinton Foundation is not a charity. It's just the Clinton agenda of careerism writ large.
The foundation’s announcement drew skepticism Friday from the right and the left as critics wondered why the Clintons have never before cut off corporate and overseas money to their charity — and why they would wait until after the election to do so.
Because the mission would be accomplished.
Others questioned why Clinton had now decided that the foundation should rule out donations that she apparently thought were acceptable during her tenure as the country’s top diplomat. “Is it ok to accept foreign and corporate money when Secretary of State but not when POTUS???” Donald Trump Jr., son of the Republican nominee, tweeted Thursday night.