YOU SIMPLY CAN'T TRUST HILLARY CLINTON

USA Today editorial board: Man, this Clinton Foundation seems shady

How shady is it? That's the question that bedevils the editorial board of USA Today. It has some trouble coming fully to that conclusion that the conflicts of interest rise to the level of disqualification, so the board suggests another option - close it down for the campaign:

The foundation that Bill Clinton created after leaving the White House in 2001 has many things to commend it. It addresses AIDS, global poverty, childhood obesity and other areas that don't always get the attention they deserve. It also leverages Clinton's many contacts overseas.

Had Clinton been a typical former president, interested only in remaining active and cementing his legacy, the Clinton Foundation would be a big success.

Er...really? The opposite is actually true - if the Clinton name wasn't attached to it, it would be considered a borderline fraud. Its passthrough rates for actual programmatic grants only came to 15% of its revenues while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, and just 6.4% in the first year after it (2013). More than 60% of the revenues got spent on administration alone; in 2013, the foundation spent almost as much on just air travel as it did on grants.

It's so questionable that Charity Navigator has the Clinton Foundation on its "watch list" of "problematic charities," and the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison says it operates more like "a slush fund for the Clintons."

Hillary doesn't need to shut down the Clinton Foundation as much as American voters need to shut down the Clintons for good.

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