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>>The Clinton Foundation has nothing to do with this. It was started after Bill's term in the White House. Besides that, the Clintons don't make any money from it. It's not a holding; it's a charitable foundation.
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>Making contributions to a favored charity is a time-honored way to influence people.
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>In my CFO days, it was common for me to write checks to charities suggested by representatives of large customers. We contributed because we wanted to ingratiate ourselves with those people for business reasons.
>Had Joe Blow asked us to make a similar contribution, we would not have.
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>When a foreign goverment makes a contribution to a foundation bearing the name of the secretary of state of the US, do you really think it's doing it to better mankind?

Of course not, but there's been no evidence of actual favors. And, in the meantime, those folks did better mankind through those contributions.

Tamar