Rand Paul soliciting dirt on Clinton Foundation donations

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is soliciting information about the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of contributions from foreign governments in his latest move to cast doubt on the former secretary of state’s candidacy.

“Do you have additional information about the Clinton Foundation accepting foreign contributions?” a page on Paul’s campaign website reads. Users can then enter their first and last names, along with their ZIP code, email address and the information they have. The form shared by Paul on Sunday via Twitter did not appear to include a secure HTTPS protocol.


The Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly hinted that upcoming revelations will “ shock people” and make voters reconsider their support of Hillary Clinton for president.

“There’s going to be stuff coming out about the Clinton Foundation and their donations from different companies that get special approval from the secretary of state,” Paul said during a speech last week to the group the Susan B. Anthony List. “Coming out in the next couple of weeks.”

The remarks come as a book scheduled to be released May 5 will reportedly assert that donations made by foreign governments and citizens to the Clinton family’s foundation and former President Bill Clinton were made through hefty speaking fees, which were in turn met with reciprocal favors from Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

“We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favorable U.S. policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds,” author Peter Schweizer writes in “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” according to a report from The New York Times on Sunday.

The newspaper reported that it, The Washington Post and Fox News “have exclusive agreements with the author to pursue the story lines found in the book.”

Brian Fallon, a Clinton campaign spokesman, told the Times that the book is part of Republicans’ strategy of “twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories.”

“Rand Paul is so desperate to stay in the news and to distract voters from his own lack of substance that he’s blindly attacking a global philanthropy and making that the focus of his campaign” said Adrienne Watson, communications director for Correct the Record.