Oops! Hillary forgot to report $1 million donation
Hillary Clinton at the American Federation of Teachers Union on July 13, 2018 (Video screenshot)
If Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is the party's perpetual gaffe machine, is Hillary Clinton its scandal machine?
The latest is that she did not inform the State Department of a $1 million donation from Qatar while she was secretary of state.
Reuters reported the Clinton Foundation confirmed receiving the gift.
It was taken "without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments," the report said.
Clinton had signed an ethics agreement for the family's foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009.
The objective was to heighten transparency and avoid the appearance that U.S. foreign policy could be moved by wealthy donors, the report said.
"If a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to 'increase materially' its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department's ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns," the report said.
The State Department said it had no record of the gift being reported.
Reuters explained: "Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published last month by WikiLeaks."
The report said it was not the only donation that should have been reviewed, citing the $11.2 million from Algeria between 2009 and 2012.
Foundation spokesman Brian Cookstra said the Qatari donation was not really a "material increase" in support.
The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Departmenthttps://t.co/SNVhR6P4X5
— Sandy Schneider (@sandyaschneider) December 14, 2019
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