{"id":1172031,"date":"2021-12-30T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172031"},"modified":"2021-12-30T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:50:02","slug":"hillary-clinton-asked-twitter-for-donations-to-the-clinton-foundation-it-didnt-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-asked-twitter-for-donations-to-the-clinton-foundation-it-didnt-go-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Asked Twitter For Donations To The Clinton Foundation. It Didn\u2019t Go Well."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillary-clinton-asked-twitter-for-donations-to-the-clinton-foundation-it-didnt-go-well%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went online Wednesday to ask her followers to make a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation. Within seconds, social media users had torn her solicitation into sarcasm-laden shreds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re able to give, I hope you\u2019ll consider supporting the life-changing work of the @ClintonFdn,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hillaryclinton\/status\/1476253118799269894\">tweeted<\/a> the failed 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee. She retweeted a social media message from her eponymous foundation that read:<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for being part of our community in 2021. Together, we\u2019re working to: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Confront the climate crisis <\/em><em>Improve public health <\/em><em>Expand economic opportunity <\/em><em>Inspire citizen engagement &amp; service <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Join us and the Clinton family will triple your impact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re able to give, I hope you\u2019ll consider supporting the life-changing work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClintonFdn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClintonFdn<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUZHJS2AOH\">https:\/\/t.co\/DUZHJS2AOH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/1476253118799269894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter users appeared to have little generosity left for the Clintons\u2019 foundation, which has long operated under an ethical cloud that it served as an influence-peddling organization shaking down foreign powers in a pay-to-play scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this a joke?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blonde_Bunnie\/status\/1476286230052708352\">demanded<\/a> one reader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCattle futures not what they used to be?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJustesen\/status\/1476289098226692096\">asked<\/a> one Twitter user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Chelsea need a new house or something?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samdell5555\/status\/1476298622815903747\">queried<\/a> another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly if it goes to the families of those lost in Benghazi,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fucktard_5\/status\/1476287356714037260\">stipulated<\/a> another online commenter.<\/p>\n<p>Others echoed some of Clinton\u2019s more controversial statements. \u201cDonate? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/clinton-takes-on-critics-over-benghazi-at-tense-hill-hearings\">What difference \u2014 at this point \u2014 would it make?<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutAverage\/status\/1476289235594350593\">asked<\/a> one. \u201cDonate? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/liberal-media-not-buying-hillary-clintons-email-excuses\">Like with a cloth?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One user simply tweeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xTonyMaroni\/status\/1476259855166054400\">side-by-side photo<\/a> contrasting a starving Haitian girl with Chelsea Clinton at her tony wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9CXQi6M4u\">pic.twitter.com\/D9CXQi6M4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 To\u0e01\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49\u0e49y Maroni (@xTonyMaroni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xTonyMaroni\/status\/1476259855166054400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clinton Foundation appears in dire need of funds, as donations dried up following Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss to President Donald Trump in 2016. As The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Zeisloft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/clinton-foundation-donations-have-fallen-nearly-75-since-2016\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>According to the group\u2019s most recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clintonfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/clinton_foundation_report_public_2020.pdf\">financial report<\/a><\/em><em>, contributions fell from $29.6 million in 2019 to $16.3 million in 2020 \u2014 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The foundation\u2019s 2020 haul represents a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/04\/clinton-foundation-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-decrease-donations-corruption\/\">93% drop<\/a> in overall donations to the Clinton Foundation from its high of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2018\/12\/clinton-foundation-revenue-low\/\">$249 million<\/a> in 2009, when President Barack Obama named Hillary Clinton as secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney was pouring in when Hillary Clinton was a senior official and a candidate for president. The fact that foundation donors received special access to the Secretary of State isn\u2019t surprising,\u201d Scott Amey of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/about\/people\/scott-amey\/\">Project on Government Oversight<\/a> (POGO) told The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Many observers considered the foundation\u2019s opaque, non-traditional structure an ethics concern \u2014 particularly after Clinton belatedly shed light on the foundation\u2019s activities. \u201cUnder scrutiny as the 2016 presidential election heated up, the foundation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/11\/16\/clinton-foundation-amends-four-years-worth-of-tax-returns\/\">amended<\/a> six years of tax returns for the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 fiscal years,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2018\/12\/clinton-foundation-revenue-low\/\">reported<\/a> OpenSecrets.org. \u201cChanges included reporting previously undisclosed contributions and grants from foreign governments, updating reporting for revenue from speeches, listing related entities and changing the donors reported in the Form 990 Schedule B.\u201d The foundation\u2019s questionable financial actions reportedly elicited a federal investigation in 2020, as Hank Berrien <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/doj-investigating-how-fbi-handled-allegations-of-clinton-foundation-corruption-report-says\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was assigned to lead the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, \u201chas sought documents and interviews about how federal law enforcement officials handled an investigation around the same time&nbsp;into allegations of political corruption at the Clinton Foundation, according to people familiar with the matter,\u201d the [New York] Times reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Expenses have outpaced donations for years: The Clinton Foundation operated at a net loss of more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21119396-clinton-foundation-2020-990-and-audit\">$4.3 million<\/a> in 2020. But Clinton\u2019s Twitter followers seem content to let the foundation\u2019s finances continue to dwindle.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went online Wednesday to ask her followers to make a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation. Within seconds, social media users had torn her solicitation into sarcasm-laden shreds. \u201cIf you\u2019re able to give, I hope you\u2019ll consider supporting the life-changing work of the @ClintonFdn,\u201d tweeted the failed 2016 Democratic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}