Report: Clinton Foundation Raised $26Mn in Sweden While Swedish government lobbied Hillary Clinton to Ditch Iran Sanctions

“The Clinton Foundation raised $26 million in Sweden even as the Swedish government was lobbying Hillary Clinton’s State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened business dealings with Iran, according to a newspaper report Wednesday. The Swedish organization, named the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelsem, wasn’t run by State Department ethics officials, according to the Washington…

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SALON: The Cash Donations Hillary Simply Has No Answer For

“Among all the rivers of money that have flowed to the Clinton family, one seems to raise the biggest national security questions of all: the stream of cash that came from 20 foreign governments who relied on weapons export approvals from Hillary Clinton’s State Department.”

George Stephanopoulos Has a Very Real Clinton Problem

“The journalist’s failure to disclose his hefty donations to the Clinton Foundation is particularly noteworthy given his aggressive questioning of Peter Schweizer, the conservative author behind Clinton Cash, which made the foundation front-page news in recent weeks. During an April interview on This Week, Stephanopoulos suggested Schweizer’s work for President George W. Bush was an indication of the author’s…

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The Stephanopoulos Verdict: Nothing Less Than Williams Got

“His blatantly partisan questioning when he interviewed Schweizer on ABC’s Sunday morning news program bore a striking resemblance to the content of the attack on Schweizer and his book launched by John Podesta, chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton for President Campaign, a few weeks earlier. With the looming presidential race and the subject of…

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Rieder: Why Stephanopoulos Flap Matters

Regardless, there is no way he should allow himself — or be allowed — to deal in any way with a contest in which Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming favorite to become the Democratic candidate for president. Exhibit A of why that is the case came on April 26, when Stephanopoulos aggressively grilled Peter Schweizer, author of the…

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Schweizer: Stephanopoulos, ABC Have Not Fully Disclosed Clinton Ties

Fact-driven, fair, aggressive journalism animates American politics. As an investigative journalist, I am accustomed to asking tough questions. When I publish, I expect tough questions in turn, That’s not what ABC News This Week host and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos delivered when he interviewed me about my new book on the Clinton Foundation last month. There’s a reason. Though Stephanopoulos belatedly disclosed$75,000 in…

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George Stephanopoulos Makes a Passive-Aggressive Non-Apology for Clinton Donation

“… It is hard to argue that asking tough questions of a charity’s critic on the air—as Stephanopoulos did last month with Schweizer, whose much-publicized book Clinton Cash has been the target of war room-level pushback from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign—without bothering to mention that you’ve donated to that charity, is anything other than a serious breach of…

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ABC Faces Credibility Crisis Over Stephanopoulos Donations

“… Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” a book that traces the public involvement of organizations that have donated to the Clinton Foundation, said Friday that Stephanopoulos’ donations “highlight precisely the lack of transparency and cronyism that I report on.” Stephanopoulos interviewed Schweizer recently on the Sunday public affairs program “This Week” without revealing the donations.…

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