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Horn exclusive
Hillary Clinton promised that she is coming clean about the Clinton Foundation’s big-money donors.
But as we’ve learned with the Clintons, that depends on what your definition of “IS” is!
They claimed the Clinton Foundation is being completely open about who gave what and when.
But one visit to the foundation’s website shows that while the donor list is online, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to use it without a magnifying glass and hours of spare time.
So much for coming clean!
You can see what The Horn News discovered for yourself right here – or try to, anyway.
To find a donor, first you have to know how much they contributed – because the list isn’t sorted alphabetically. It’s sorted by price range, and then in some cases broken up into dozens of separate pages.
Once you find the correct range, you have to read every name on every page… because the “SEARCH” function appears to have been deliberately disabled or maybe not even activated in the first place.
Type in a name, and nothing appears. Even when the name is right there. See the “No results” search below —
That alone might mislead people. Search for flamboyant Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, for example, and you might believe he didn’t contribute a penny to the foundation since nothing comes up.
In reality, his foundation gave between $10 million and $25 million… and it appears he was rewarded handsomely for it: Vox.com reports he had “about a dozen meetings” with top State Department officials while Clinton was Secretary of State.
Clinton backers will tell you Pinchuk is a philanthropist, and maybe he is.
But his steel company was among several accused of illegally dumping a type of steel on the U.S. market – a trade dispute that could have cost U.S. workers their jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to the New York Times.
Americans need to know about his relationship with the Clintons, but they’re trying their best to hide it, and this search engine needle-in-the-haystack is hardly the only example.
The Associated Press found that more than half of the people she met with who were not federal employees or representatives of foreign governments were big-time donors.
And the entry fee was sky-high: They paid a combined total of as much as $156 million for access to Clinton and her staff at the State Department.
It was a shady arrangement that has angered her own supporters and drawn the wrath of impartial ethicists – and the excuses coughed up by her allies don’t hold water.
When Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm – a top campaign surrogate – said on national television that Clinton “abided by the ethics agreement” between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama Administration, PolitiFact ripped the statement as “mostly false” and “misleading.”
Of course the Clintons have a long and storied history of this kind of thing. Today, it’s State Department favors for top donors. Some 20 years ago, it was overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House for top donors.
Does anyone really expect this to change should she be elected?
One politician on the campaign trail recently quoted Maya Angelou, who said: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
That politician? Hillary Clinton.
For once, she was right.
