Let's examine what are the actual facts in that piece.
If you are a large donator to the Clinton foundation, by contacting a co-founder of the Clinton foundation Doug Band you might get your email forwarded to Huma Abedin, Clintons chief-of-staff at the White House. No information if even this is guaranteed, but let's just consider this for a second. Should a person who works for the Clinton foundation refuse to do this? I don't think so. Part of Doug Bands job is to keep the donators to that foundation happy.
We also get a quote of a discussion between Band and Abedin.
Quote:
“Makes me nervous to get involved but I’ll ask,” Abedin wrote to Band in May 2009 after he forwarded to her an email from Wasserman.
Band responded: “then dont.”
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I am at a loss as to why are they quoting that here, because all this quote does is cut the legs from under their story.
They are quoting a conversation where Clintons closest aid is showing hesitation at helping a millionaire donor, and a person working at the Clinton foundation doing the literal opposite of helping their donators get their requests through to Clinton. So not only is donation of millions of dollars to Clinton foundation NOT guaranteed to get you access to Clinton, it might not even get your request for access all the way to Clinton herself. (Or at least that's the clear implication of that quote.)
I wonder how common that is? That donating millions of dollars to a charity might not even get you a meeting with one of the heads of that charity?
We are also told that a superfamous millionaire rockstar who is "a regular at foundation events" got "dismissive" responses to his requests.
From the material in that article you'd have a better case to suggest that Hillary Clinton does not care to keep up contacts with major donators to her very own charity.
There are two examples on who Clinton does meet. One is Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, who is heir apparent to the throne of Bahrain, a deputy commander in the Bahrain defense force and a deputy prime minister of Bahrain. Bahrain is a US ally in the Middle-East. Refusing to meet with people like these might actually have gotten her fired.
The other person is S. Daniel Abraham, one of the richest people in America and "a major Democratic donor". So a major democratic politician meets with a major democratic donor. Oo, shocking news!
When I read the quotes and facts from that article, the biggest question it leaves me is why does it go to such lengths to provide so much evidence that there is nothing to see here? This is the Washington Post, a media mostly known for building mountains out of molehills in their relentless anti-Clinton campaign.
The only reason I can think of is that the journalists who wrote this piece are actually good journalists given a dirty job, and they tried to make the best of it. If I was a US voter, that article would make it much easier for me to vote for Hillary Clinton.