Bush lawyer on Clinton Foundation: 'Laws were not broken'
By Ryan Lovelace (@LovelaceRyanD) • 8/31/16 12:33 PM
Laws were not broken by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or her staff in its dealings with the Clinton Foundation, said Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush.
Painter penned an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that Clinton has "successfully answered" the questions surrounding the Clinton Foundation.
"Was there favoritism? Probably, yes. But laws were not broken," Painter wrote. "White House political appointees and members of Congress show favoritism regularly, from how quickly they return campaign contributors' telephone calls to which meeting requests they honor to who gets what they want in the policy arena."
Clinton's opponent, GOP nominee Donald Trump, has accused Clinton of engaging in "pay-to-play" schemes regarding her interaction with the Clinton Foundation.
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