Henry Finer

Henry Finer

When is a Scandal Really a Scandal?

Scandals in politics is something that has always been around intertwined with politics. People see scandals has a danger to our government and it also serves as a source of entertainment for many people. However, when is a scandal really a scandal? In the case I was reading about the Clinton Foundation and it's connection to foreign leaders. This isn't the first time or even most prolific Clinton Scandal (Lewinsky and email scandals) but it still has generated conversation and has been making people ask if there's a conflict of interest in this matter. The Clinton Foundation has accumulated as much as 170 million from various different foreign governments. Questions have been raised about if many of these wealthy foreign donors have used their donations to gain favors from the state department with Hillary Clinton. Corporations and foreign leaders giving money to campaigns and foundations is nothing new even more so with the ban lifted from corporations in Citizens United v. FCE. Their are plenty of critics of Hillary and her foundation with Mr. Trump being one of them calling the Foundation "the most corrupt enterprise in political history." While others back the Foundation saying that there's no explicit contain saying that these favors happened and talking about all the good the foundation has done. The tricky thing about all this is how can we tell  "whether a donation is idealistic or transactional?" (Ted Shaffrey)