Former President Bill Clinton suggested he’s unlikely to continue giving paid speeches if his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is elected president.
“No, I don’t think so,” he said when asked at a Clinton Global Initiative event this week, Politico reported.
The finances of the Clinton Foundation have come under heavy scrutiny as Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign has gotten off the ground, and The Washington Times reported this week that Mrs. Clinton’s influence on issues related to foundation donors dated back to her time in the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Clinton had said recently that he might step down from the foundation if Mrs. Clinton is elected as president but suggested he’d continue to give paid speeches, saying, “I gotta pay our bills,” and that he gives a lot to the foundation every year.
Mr. Clinton has vigorously defended the work of the foundation in light of reports on foreign donations that flowed during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
“Has anybody proved that we did anything objectionable? No,” he said in the interview with Bloomberg Television at the event. “Have we done a lot of good things with this money? Yes.”
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• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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