People are tired of these TRUMPED up “scandals.”
They recognize the crying wolf garbage.
The AP has seriously damaged its credibility with this series of questionable statements about the Clinton Foundation and Hillary.
One would almost think that they’ve rehired Ron “Right-Wing” Fournier to run the Washington Bureau.
Also:
This reporting was done by the same AP investigative team that discovered Mrs. Clinton’s private email server and traced it to her basement in Chappaqua, New York, and whose reporting last week resulted in the resignation of Donald Trump’s top campaign strategist. AP has been examining issues facing the presidential candidates and will continue to do so.
When it comes to false equivalency, they just cannot help themselves.
The AP’s defense of its bad Clinton Foundation story is also bad
Thank you again, Yglesias.
Maybe stupid Twitter isn’t a good vehicle for the AP to break their news.
There’s a good piece in Vox about what an awful job the AP did on this story. Hackery at its worst.
He’s really hitting a home run with these. Thank be to Glob that him and some other rational media members are actually reporting facts.
“We focused on Mrs. Clinton’s meetings and calls involving those people outside her duties as secretary of state whom she chose to include in her busy schedule," he also said. (Some AP official)
So, did you also include the meetings she surely had with her dentist? The maid? The groundskeeper at her home? Her friend from college with whom she must have had a bite to eat from time to time? Those people don’t work for the government – how dare Secretary Clinton meet with them! And I’ll bet at least one of them donated to the Clinton Foundation.
Very good point, also daughter husband former employees etc. the question also is where is their evidence that meeting with these people (people who may be in her social circle) received favorites from these visits?
All of the people she talked to, and the topics they talked about, all seem to be in line with her duties as SoS
Pardon me if I yawn about this whole issue. And go completely narcoleptic on anything to do with emails.
Anything the GOP’ers are flinging at HRC pales by comparison to the unending scandals swirling around orange hot-air buffoon.
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump donated $100,000 to Clinton Foundation, Pay to Play with Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Ok ill bite AP
What were the meetings about?
Donations that lead to meetings that lead to nothing is a story that won’t taste right between two wheat slices.
Yes appearance is everything, but if there is no evidence of ‘pay to play’, then what?
Okay, AP, we get it. Explaining what your article actually reports takes more than 140 characters. Explaining what it doesn’t report would doubtless also take more than 140 characters. Essentially your tweet reports meaningless statistics. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
I was more surprised to hear that AP was still in existence? Thought they went the way of the telegraph, and at about the same time.
I have to wonder how the Clinton Foundation is expected to raise money, if not by leveraging the considerable star power of the Clintons themselves. Their star power is well earned by helping people and doing good, as opposed to the far more lucrative notoriety which Trump as earned as an asshole among assholes.
This word “transparent.” I do not think it means what they think it means.
“Transparent” would have been disclose each of the “private parties” you say had a “meeting or phone call” with her, tell us what it is you contend is a “meeting” (because apparently it includes things like "attend a breakfast event with a some of them) and also, for good measure tell us who made the contribution being linked to the “meeting” and what it was for.
Because when your three best examples are the ones they printed, it kinda reeks.
But hey, what if this had been a Republican Secretary of State whose Republican spouse was running a massive charity doing things like delivering AIDS drugs to impoverished people in Africa and assisting women rescued from sex slavery and . . . yeah, sorry, I can’t even keep a straight face.
The reporters put a good deal of work into their investigation of the emails, but they could not quite carry themselves to the obvious conclusion that there is no there there. Matt Yglesias at Vox critiques the article nicely.