OMG! Conflict of interest: Sanders assails Clinton over Foundation

[antigop]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/06/sanders-clinton-foundation-223915

Bernie Sanders has largely been silent in the debate about the Clinton Foundation’s ties to foreign governments – including some with poor human rights records. But in the final week of the primary season against Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator finally unleashed a few jabs on the issue.

“If you asked me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships … yeah I do,” Sanders said in an interview Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

[antigop]

1. He went there. He really went there. nt

[nc4bo]

8. So glad he did. the woman has some serious liabilities. Trumpy would have a field day in GE.

And Hill supporters for some odd reason don't think he wouldn't?

[hootinholler]

14. He was asked.

I'm glad the question was put to him.

[HerbChestnut]

2. He should have gone there months ago.

[cantbeserious]

3. When We Stand Together No Citizen Need Settle For The Lessor Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[grasswire]

4. I'll bet he knows the FBI is going there.

And I wonder if this will give the press license to start asking questions.

[Major Hogwash]

27. Yes. The old axiom from Nixon's Watergate investigation comes to mind:

Follow the money.

[pa28]

5. This needs vetting.

Sure looks like influence peddling.

[bkkyosemite]

6. Everyone else has been going there .....so I'm glad he did because it's the TRUTH!

[pangaia]

7. Sure, Bernie is running to win.

But he is running first and foremost, in my view, to expose the corruption in the US government-- and to show who really controls the country and the world.

They ALL know, but he, and to a degree Warren, are almost the only ones who have the courage to tell the truth.

(I am sure there are others----- )

[Melissa G]

9. So glad he went there. It needs to be said.

Pay to play. It might or might not be legal, but it is unethical.

[EdwardBernays]

10. I wish

he'd said this months and months ago...

[felix_numinous]

11. Another brick in the wall

of corruption separating the Clintons from the rest of society, where they expect laws not to apply to them but only to us on the other side.

[DI Freighter Watcher]

12. Go Bernie

I have a problem with that as well!

[NJCher]

13. There's a CNN clip of this, too, at Real Clear Politics

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/06/05/bernie_sanders_clinton_foundation_is_a_problem_took_money_from_dictatorships.html


Cher

[Equinox Moon]

15. Nice response Bernie

[dorkzilla]

17. K&R nt

[Plucketeer]

18. Poor Clintons..

feelin' the HEARTBERN!

[deepestblue]

19. In the same interview, regarding the convention,

Bernie also said something to the effect of, "the end of July is a long time from now and the world may look totally different by then." He is prepared to be the nominee I have zero doubt. I expect him to be the nom.

[hopemountain]

20. nice catch!

he will be the nominee - lots will happen. think i'll put that in my sig line

[deepestblue]

21. I just watched the clip again :)

Here's Bernie's quote,

"You don't know what the world is going to be like in 4 or 5 weeks from now. Let's not forget, the Democratic Convention is at the end of July, that's a long time from today."

ETA: The convention is 7 weeks from now! That's a very long time!

[hopemountain]

22. thank you!! i looked for the video and

looked on cnn - and was unable to find it. thank you, again

[deepestblue]

23. Here's the interview :)

[hopemountain]

24. much obliged.... deep bow... nt

[deepestblue]

25. yw :)

My paraphrase of
"the end of July is a long time from now and the world may look totally different by then."
fit better in your sig line than his actual quote which is getting cut short on the screen.
Just fyi

[highprincipleswork]

26. Man I like his straighforwardness. Takes my stress level right down. Versus lies and view changing.

[Babel_17]

28. It's coming down the pipe as a major scandal

More best selling books will be written, and there will be more official, and unofficial, investigations. This will be judged to have been eminently avoidable, imo, and the work here in America that needs to be done will have to share time with this scandal for the media's attention.