NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Plays Defense for Clinton Foundation

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 24, 2016
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After an Associated Press report that exposed how numerous Clinton Foundation donors were able to set up meetings with Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State, NBC correspondent and resident Clinton fangirl, Andrea Mitchell rushed to defend her on NBC Nightly News Tuesday. Mitchell seemed to be annoyed by the persistent scandal, calling it, “A headache for the Clinton campaign that could last until the election and beyond.

According to the AP, “At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs.” And in addition, “Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.”

Mitchell parroted the Clinton campaign reporting that, “Tonight the Clinton campaign responding saying the story relies on, “Utterly flawed data. It cherry-picked a limited subset of Secretary Clinton’s schedule.”” Even though the AP reported that their findings come from the “calendars released so far” to them.

Although, Mitchell did admit that the Crown Price of Bahrain and “good friend” used his special relationship with the foundation to set up a meeting with Clinton. “Abedin arranges a meeting after he goes through diplomatic channels,” Mitchell claims. She continued to try to downplay the pay-for-play accusations by writing off Clinton’s actions, explaining, “This would not necessarily violate laws or ethical agreements the Clintons signed.

She even interviewed John Heilemann of Bloomberg to back her up. In the report Heilemann refers to the accusations as merely, “a huge new target for the Trump campaign to dive on top 

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