Given their assets and business relations, questions of favoritism, self-dealing and compromised judgment would haunt either candidate's tenure in office. When most reporters write about Trump's and Clinton's conflicts, they usually have in mind a more narrow concept imported from the United States criminal code, as set forth in Title 18, Section 208. Clinton's conflicts are not much cleaner. Since its inception in 2001, the Clinton Foundation has raised more than $2 billion in donations to fund initiatives and programs on global health, climate change and economic development in the Third World. In the end, that is the single most critical conflict of interest the media, and everyone else, should be shouting about.

Source: Huffington Post August 22, 2016 16:41 UTC