Clinton Foundation Donations Have Fallen Nearly 75% Since 2016

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The Clinton Foundation is witnessing a rapid plummet in donations.

According to the group’s most recent financial report, contributions
fell from $29.6 million in 2019 to $16.3 million in 2020 — a 45%
decline amid COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession. In 2016, when
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ran for President, the group
raised $62.9 million, indicating an overall 74% donation decline in a
four-year period.

The Clinton Foundation works with “strategic partners to develop and
implement programs that create economic opportunity, improve public
health, and inspire civic engagement and service.” Its programs relate
to increasing crop yields, battling climate change, and providing
relief after natural disasters.

The organization, however, has often been accused of political motives
and pay-to-play schemes. Last year, President Trump’s Department of
Justice investigated how the FBI dealt with claims of such corruption
at the Clinton Foundation.

Mr. Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut assigned by Mr.
Barr to review the Russia inquiry, has sought documents and
interviews about how federal law enforcement officials handled
an investigation around the same time into allegations of
political corruption at the Clinton Foundation, according to
people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Durham’s team members have suggested to others that they
are comparing the two investigations as well as examining
whether investigators in the Russia inquiry flouted laws or
policies. It was not clear whether Mr. Durham’s investigators
were similarly looking for violations in the Clinton Foundation
investigation, nor whether the comparison would be included
or play a major role in the outcome of Mr. Durham’s inquiry.

“There was a clear double standard by the Department of Justice and FBI
when it came to the Trump and Clinton campaigns in 2016,” commented
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at the time. “[The] Bureau, as it is
supposed to do, required that Hillary Clinton be defensively briefed
about the matter so she could engage in corrective action. When it came
to the Trump campaign, there were four counterintelligence
investigations opened against Trump campaign associates. Not one time
was President Trump defensively briefed about the FBI’s concerns.”

The Clinton Foundation dismissed the investigation, stating that it
“has regularly been subjected to baseless, politically motivated
allegations, and time after time these allegations have been proven
false.”

More recently, an attorney who represented Clinton’s 2016 presidential
campaign was indicted for allegedly lying to federal law enforcement
officials.

“Michael Sussmann, a partner with Perkins Coie who also represented the
Democratic National Committee in connection with Russia’s hack of the
organization, is accused of making false statements during a Sept. 19,
2016 meeting with former FBI General Counsel James Baker,” Reuters
reported. “This marks the second criminal case Durham has filed so far
since former Attorney General William Barr tapped him in 2019 to
investigate U.S. officials who probed the Trump-Russia contacts.”

According to the indictment, Sussmann “stated falsely” that he was not
doing his work “for any client,” which led FBI counsel to believe that
Sussmann “was acting as a good citizen merely passing along
information, not as a paid advocate or political operative.” However,
“this statement was intentionally false and misleading” because Sussman
had been acting on the behalf of clients such as an American technology
industry executive, an American internet company, and the Clinton
campaign.

[Obviously, the Clinton Foundadtion was a money-luandering sceme for
the Clintons to get bribes and kickbacks. Why isn't Crooked Hillary in
the jail infirmary?]

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