The Clinton Foundation

The Trump campaign has accused the Clinton Foundation of being a conduit for wealthy business people seeking to influence the Clintons, particularly when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state.

The Clintons maintain that no special favors were done for foundation donors, and that no special access was given to the State Department.

But it’s easy to see how the appearance of a conflict of interest could arise, with foreign governments and business people making large donations to the foundation.

The Clinton Foundation Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton MAJOR DONOR FOUNDER MARRIED DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO SECRETARY CLINTON CHIEF ADVISOR TO BILL CLINTON WORKED FOR Huma Abedin Douglas Band Gilbert Chagoury FRIENDS DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO SECRETARY CLINTON Hillary Clinton Huma Abedin FRIENDS MARRIED CHIEF ADVISOR Douglas Band Bill Clinton FOUNDER The Clinton Foundation WORKED FOR MAJOR DONOR Gilbert Chagoury

During Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, Douglas J. Band, an adviser to Bill Clinton and then head of the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative, emailed her staff to ask for a diplomatic introduction for Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian industrialist and one of the foundation’s major donors, saying that he’s a “key guy there and to us.”