Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, had hoped to spend Thursday morning rallying fundraisers in a midtown office building in Manhattan — but he also found himself fielding concerns about a spate of unsettling investigations into the Clinton family’s personal fundraising.
Podesta sought to energize and activate hundreds of longtime Hillary Clinton donors and bundlers for what could be the country’s first $2 billion presidential campaign.
But during a question-and-answer period, the most pointed query from donors to Podesta was, how do we respond to questions raised by a new book linking millions in Bill Clinton speaking fees to wealthy foreign donors angling for influence with the highest-ranking officials of the U.S. government — including his wife, the former secretary of state?
During the meeting, Podesta was asked whether supporters would be given potential responses to the allegations, including a Thursday report in The New York Times detailing $2.35 million in previously undisclosed contributions to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation by the owner of a Russian uranium mining company hoping to get federal approval for its U.S. operations.
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