How AP published the biggest lie ever about the Clinton Foundation

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Let me tell you a little story about how the Associated Press outright lied about the Clinton Foundation in order to smear Hillary Clinton.

AP claimed, falsely, that half the people Hillary met as Secretary of State were donors to the Clinton Foundation. An incredible number! Except it’s not true.

And AP continues to refuse to correct the story.

Now, I’m actually a fan of AP. They have a reputation for having the highest standards of journalism. So their ongoing defense of this egregiously wrong story is distressing.

I tweeted about this yesterday, and my tweets caused quite a (good) uproar, so I thought I’d immortalize them here, so that it’s easier for everyone to refer to them in the future.

Before posting the Twitter storm below, I want to make a quick plug for the YUGE fundraising drive I launched yesterday to support my work between now and the election. Ad revenues for the blog cover at best 20% of my monthly expenses, so I rely on your donations to keep my work doing. My recent twitter storm about Hillary and the Clinton Foundation is a good example of the work I do, and what I excel at. I take stories and find the perfect angle to defuse them (if they’re negative stories), and then make them go viral. It’s been an incredibly effective apporach to progressive advocacy, particularly LGBT rights work.

You can read more about my work, my history, and what I plan to do over the next few months to ensure that Trump loses BADLY, Hillary wins, and that a progressive majority takes back the Congress here.

Now back to the Clinton Foundation. First my tweets, then I have a Facebook Live broadcast I did last night that walks you through the issue, if you’re someone who prefers videos. Thanks so much for your support, and please do share this story.

1) Clinton campaign is rightfully slamming AP for refusing to correct an outright lie about the Clinton foundation. https://t.co/Iv665DU8Pz

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

2) AP claimed in blockbuster story that HALF of Hillary’s meeting while secretary were w/ Clinton foundation donors. http://pic.twitter.com/s7zIwEzRR4

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

3) AP then gave numbers: 85 of 154 people who met or talked by phone with Hillary were donors. More than half! http://pic.twitter.com/zmYlQT3JT3

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

4) Then you think about it. In 4 years as Sec of State, Hillary only met or talked to 154 people? Really?

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

5) AP would like us to believe that Hillary has fewer than one meeting or phone call per week as Sec of State? Uh, no.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

6) In fact, Hillary met over 1,700 people as Secretary. And if only 85 were donors to foundation, that’s pretty lousy rate of pay-for-play.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

7) Oh but it gets worse for AP. AP devoted 1/3 of the story to Muhammad Yunus. He’s their big smoking gun.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

8) probably because the AP reporters had no idea who Yunus actually is. He’s huge. Done more than anyone alive to alleviate poverty.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

9) Yunus won the Nobel peace prize for founding the Grameen bank and pioneering concept of microlending to women in LDCs.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

10) no shit the Secretary of State met with Yunus. He’s global poverty’s Mother Teresa. That’s AP’s big smoking gun.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

11) AP could find no actual examples of any pay-for-play, of any Clinton foundation donors who got anything special from the Secretary.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

12) And AP’s reporters outright lied about how many phone calls and meetings Hillary had as secretary, in order to inflate their story.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

13) and a final word to those out there arguing that the Clinton foundation should be closed.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

14) Clinton foundation provides AIDS meds to 11.5m people worldwide. More than half the adults & 3/4 of the kids getting treated worldwide.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

15) and you think we should just close the Clinton foundation, just like that, and take AIDS drugs away from 11.5m people? Seriously?

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

16) as a gay man, I’ve been particularly intrigued that every single voice calling for the Clinton foundation to close has been straight.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

17) I’ve watched straight cnn hosts and straight cnn guests ask why the Clinton foundation doesn’t just close up shop now.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

18) because 11.5m people with AIDS, including 800,000 children, could die, if the Clinton foundation closes.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

19) so the next time someone brings up the Clinton fondation, you’ve now got the real facts. Use them.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 24, 2016

20) and another thing: GHW Bush created and promoted the Points of Light Foundation while president. Not a peep of concern out of anyone.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

21) Elizabeth Dole ran the Red Cross, accepting donations, while husband Bob ran for president in 1996. Not a peep of concern from anyone.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

22) and Alma Powell, Colin’s wife, was chair of America’s Promise, accepting huge corporate donations while Powell was Bush’s Sec of State.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

23) and not a peep about Mrs. Powell’s “corruption” either.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

24) it’s only corruption when you’re a Democrat. It’s only corruption when you’re a Clinton.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

25) And you what other incredibly corrupt pay-for-player donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary was Secretary? Donald Trump.

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) August 25, 2016

Here’s a few other points about the Clinton Foundation, and then my Facebook Live discussion of the Clinton Foundation and the AP story.

Charity Watch gives the Clinton Foundation an A-rating.

And Factcheck.org confirms that 88%-89% of the Clinton Foundation’s money is spent on “programs,” aka charity.

Now you know the rest of the story.

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