“In its first week, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign managed to remain relatively scandal-free (unless you count the Chipotle incident), but supposedly that’s about to change. Earlier this month, Senator Rand Paul claimed that a forthcoming book contained bombshell accusations about donations to the Clinton Foundation by foreign groups, and now the New York Times is backing him up. The book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, is due out on May 5, and the paper reports it’s “proving the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy.”
So far, questions about the foundation’s financial dealings have yet to become a full-fledged scandal, but Clinton Cash is said to allege that foreign entities regularly made donations to the foundation, or paid Bill Clinton high speaking fees, and were treated more favorably by Hillary Clinton’s State Department in return. Its author, Peter Schweizer, is a former speech-writing consultant to George W. Bush who’s written for conservative media, but the Times says his tone is neutral and the book is meticulously researched.”
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