Monday on Morning Joe, details emerged that a Clinton Foundation donor, who gave between $1 and $5 million, was appointed to advise then Secretary Clinton on the International Security Advisory Board. According to ABC News, Chicago commodities trader Raj Fernando was appointed to the board to advise Clinton on “nuclear security and other classified arms control matters” at the behest of the Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. According to the Clinton campaign, Fernando was appointed to “reflect a balance of backgrounds and points of view.”
As co-host Joe Scarborough accurately pointed out, “[Fernando] knows absolutely nothing about nuclear security.” Host of Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin, insisted that while every administration puts “donors to various causes in jobs,” this one “went over the line.”