Ethan Hawker

Earlier this week, allegations arose against the Clinton family, more specifically their foundation. The foundation takes in millions of dollars every year, and in turn funds programs in developing countries for girls education, sexual assault survivors and female and child poverty. But accusations have came up that the organization has accepted large sums of money from leaders of other countries, in return for political favors, in the event of her becoming president. In one of the recent emails to be uncovered, there is evidence from a few years back that the prince of Bahrain donated almost $100,000 to the foundation, in return for meetings with Hillary, who was secretary of state at the time. Another email showed that a Nigerian billionaire  donated close the same amount, asking instead for political favors and meetings with U.S. ambassadors.

This is a serious issue to absorb right now because this questions Hillary’s ethics and morals. For one, Bahrain has had serious gender equality issues in the past, having only allowed women to vote since 2002 and having no women in government until 2004. It also brings up the question of whether Hillary will accept and allow bribes from foreign leader and CEO’s. Will she take their money, which is tax deductible, and give them political favors. This not to say that the Clinton foundation has done nothing good, as tens of thousands of people have benefited from the foundations help.

This has to do with media framing because we will see very different opinions depending on the t.v. network. CNN will most likely defend her in some way, while FOX news will totally bash her and try and play it off as much worse than it actually is.  The other networks will most likely stay neutral and only tell the facts.

 Question- Will this in any way affect her campaign and will this expand the investigation against her?