Thursday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to release the full report from the internal investigation conducted on the Clinton Foundation.
The demand was made following numerous news reports about the Doug Band memo that outlined the convoluted relationship among the Clinton Foundation, the State Department and his Teneo Holdings company. Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said that as a matter of transparency, “all internal documents related to the investigation of the Foundation, including interview notes and other supporting documentation as well as all initial and preliminary reports” must be released.
Trump himself ripped the “unorthodox arrangement”—Band’s term—in a speech Thursday afternoon. He said:
The more emails Wikileaks releases, the more the lines between the Clinton Foundation, the Secretary of State’s office, and the Clintons’ personal finances are blurred. Just today we read about Clinton confidant Doug Band bragging that he had funneled tens of millions of dollars to ‘Bill Clinton, Inc.’ through the foundation donations, paid speeches and consulting contracts.
Mr. Band called the arrangement ‘unorthodox.’ The rest of us call it outright corruption. In fact, the Clinton Foundation even hired a law firm to find out if their pay to play scheme would jeopardize their charitable status with the IRS. If the Clintons were willing to play this fast and loose with their enterprise when they weren’t in the White House, just imagine what they will do if they are given the chance to control the Oval Office.
