Comment on Hannah Groch-Begley: "Simply Wrong": Another Fact Checker Blows Up A Favorite Conservative Lie About The Clinton Foundation

Hannah Groch-Begley: "Simply Wrong": Another Fact Checker Blows Up A Favorite Conservative Lie About The Clinton Foundation

FactCheck.org called a common conservative myth -- that the Clinton Foundation spends only a small fraction of its money on charitable works -- "simply wrong." The flimsy statistic has made the rounds on conservative media, and was most recently repeated by Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. The fact-checking organization noted on June 19 that Fiorina had claimed that "'so little' of the charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation 'actually go to charitable works.'" When pressed for more details, her campaign claimed that only 6 percent of the foundation's revenue goes to charitable grants, and for the rest, "there really isn't anything that can be categorized as charitable." But as FactCheck.org explained, "That just isn't so.

 

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