Hillary Clinton’s fund-raising games with the Democratic National Committee may not legally be the “money-laundering” Bernie Sanders charges, but the whole thing certainly reeks.
The Clinton camp and the DNC insisted their much-vaunted “joint” venture was designed to raise big money for state and local Democratic parties. Ha!
In fact, less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised ended up with state parties. The rest went to Hillary’s campaign and to the decidedly pro-Hillary DNC, Politico reports.
Indeed, 88 percent of the cash distributed to state parties was quickly — within 48 hours — transferred to the DNC.
The same DNC whose chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has long been all-in for Hillary, and whose treasurer is the Clinton campaign’s COO.
And the bulk of its outlays from these funds are Clinton-related, including advertising produced by Hillary’s ad people.
They barely even tried to hide the purpose: The fact that they named the fund-raising vehicle the Hillary Victory Fund was a pretty serious tip-off.
And, like every other Clinton fund-raising scheme, there’s a questionable gimmick involved: Giving to the Hillary Victory Fund allows well-heeled donors to give far more than they can legally donate to Clinton’s campaign directly.
For example, sitting with her at George Clooney’s recent Victory Fund dinner in Hollywood cost donors a whopping $353,400.
Which is why campaign-finance watchdogs are barking — and state party officials, along with Sanders’ people, are complaining that she’s using the lure of aiding down-ticket candidates to subsidize her own campaigns.
Actually, she’s effectively robbed those other candidates — who now can’t hit up these maxed-out donors.
All this from the candidate who constantly bemoans the influence of money in politics — except for the cash that goes straight to her, that is.



