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> non-profit humanitarian organization

Which just happens to pay the Clintons' bills every time they feel like travelling anywhere, and direct money to whoever the Clintons want to do favours for.

The election is over, we can all admit that the Clinton Foundation is pretty stinky.

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They've also helped millions of people get affordable AIDS medication.

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2016/jun/15...

Don't want to get into Trump vs Hilary debate, but don't you think it is a bit strange that nearly every rich individual has their own foundation? A foundation that most people don't know what is responsible for. Most of the time you don't hear it doing much either.

Why for example some political entities donate large amount of money to these foundations instead of the ones that are proven to do something (like red cross).

It feels like perhaps those foundations are there just to exploit a tax loophole, and that they donate once in a while to specific cause to satisfy their legal requirements.

That's probably true, but there's very little evidence of donations to the foundation being used to elicit favors, and there's a smidge of evidence that such attempts failed. Example:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-donor-chag...

If you give money to a government official in return for a specific favour then you'll both wind up in prison.

But there are certainly a helluva lot of ways of for this transaction to occur without anyone ever directly saying "here is your bribe".

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