Lay off the Clinton Foundation: Second Look

Letter to the editor:

The Clinton Foundation has saved thousands of lives through its good work. Unless your Paste BN’s “Mothball the Clinton Foundation: Our view” suggestion that its good works are taken over by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and there is no drop in funding, the Clinton Foundation needs to continue.

Republicans are suspicious of anybody who genuinely wants to help the poor because they do so little in that area themselves. A party that wanted to cut $40 billion out of food stamps over the next 10 years doesn’t understand charity. Republican accusations of pay-for-play and, the implication that the Clintons are somehow profiting from their foundation, are only believed by themselves. If somebody gets an audience with a high-ranking official by donating millions to fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, so what? The truth of the matter is the Clintons have saved the lives of tens of thousands of poor people, many of whom are non-whites, while Donald Trump was busted by federal agents in the ‘70s of racial bias in his apartment rental policies.

I’m sure Republicans will continue to call for a special prosecutor in the matter of Clinton Foundation emails, even if the foundation is disbanded today. And I’m sure if that happens without an immediate switch over to equal services through another agency, lots of people will die needlessly.

M. W. Schwartzwalder; Walden, N.Y.