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Clinton Foundation and United Way: Is the Charity Giant a Slow-Moving Aramony Scandal?
It’s no secret that I think America’s biggest abuse problems aren’t opioids, alcohol, or tobacco, they’re power and money. Like any other addiction, this illness is killing us all.
Any pushback I get on criticism of Clinton Foundation or Trump-era excesses sounds as familiar to me as the crow who greets his mates every morning at 5:00 outside my window. It’s the inchoate guilt and rage of the alcoholic told he’s sucking up too much of the sauce or the 4 pack-a-day smoker informed their coffin nails are killing them.
This morning I realized: we’ve been trapped in this slow-mo trainwreck on the Clinton Express for a quarter of a century.
The 1992 United Way scandal that nearly took down the nationwide charity network should have led to lasting change. Unfortunately, William Aramony’s massive ego, teenage mistresses and a taste for yachts, champagne, and lobster dinners, were nearly forgotten by the time the New York Times wrote a wistful obit for the old stinker in 2011. In 1995, Aramony was convicted of a measly $600,000 in fraud and the sordid details of his sexual and romantic adventures with three Florida sisters were splashed all over PEOPLE. Then they were cast aside. An isolated incident. Senate Majority “Leader” Mitch McConnell’s WIFE, former…