Bill Clinton Pushing for Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief After Fleecing Haitians
I just can't believe the nerve of the Clintons. This is beyond the pale of ok. After stealing hundreds of millions from them in aftermath of the earthquake, Bill is going for round 2 with Hurricane Matthew.
The failure of the Clinton Foundation to provide meaningful help to Haiti over the past years has been noticed by the Haitian diaspora in the United States. Politically, they are a crucial group, with large numbers in Florida, a critical swing state. They have already shown concern:
“The Clinton family’s charitable work in Haiti has been a mix of success, disappointment and controversy,” The Washington Post concluded when it looked into charges GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign had made. (Read reporter Jonathan Katz’s in-depth article on the roles of the Clintons and their foundation in Haiti here.)
That history mixes with former President Bill Clinton’s mixed record in Haiti, which included his destruction of domestic rice growing in the pursuit of free trade and a new market for American rice farmers. He apologized for the policy in 2010.
“It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake. It was a mistake that I was a party to,” he said in retrospect. “I am not pointing the finger at anybody. I did that. I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did. Nobody else.” (snip)
The bigger fear is that people will instead stay home, activists and leaders of the Haitian-American community say. While vocal, the population of Haitians in Florida isn’t overwhelming. The Census bureau puts the number at slightly under half a million, and only about half of those have the citizenship required to vote. More than half of those who are citizens are under 18, meaning that Trump and Clinton are fighting over a voting pool that could be as low as 100,000 people. Haitian attitudes, though, can influence perceptions among other Caribbean-Americans. There are around 1.5 million non-Cuban Caribbean-Americans in Florida. (Cuban-Americans are far more likely to vote Republican than other Caribbean-Americans.)
But surely this is all wrong. Because Hilary is the lesser evil here. That is what everyone says.
Surely doing this would put Hilary above Trump on the evil scale. After all, from what we know for sure about Trump his worst actions have been to say stupid or inflammatory things. Which surely isn't worse than what they did with Haiti.
Which is why it just can't be true, because surely people wouldn't just forget all about this merely because Trump calls women fat or something.