Emails released this year from Mrs. Clinton’s time at the State Department showed that foundation donors sought and in some cases obtained meetings with department officials. None showed that Mrs. Clinton made decisions based on contributions to the foundation, and the Clinton campaign has said she never did. But the appearance of special access was enough that the foundation announced this summer that if Mrs. Clinton is elected president, the foundation will cease accepting foreign donations. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySimilar concerns were in the air in 2009, when Mrs. Clinton took office as secretary of state. A State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner, said on Saturday, “We do not have a record of a submission” from the Clinton Foundation related to a 2012 donation from Qatar.

Source: New York Times October 16, 2016 03:12 UTC