MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Thursday mocked the Clinton campaign’s “pathetic” defense of the Clinton Foundation, specifically the notion that it must stay open if Hillary Clinton becomes president in order to fight the AIDS epidemic.
Scarborough’s comments were a response to Brian Fallon, Hillary Clinton’s press secretary, who on Wednesday defended the Clinton Foundation by saying it’s the key to finding a cure for AIDS.
“So no, the Clinton Foundation will not be completely shuttering its work even if Clinton wins the presidency and for good reason, they want to continue this work,” Fallon said. “If any American voter is troubled by the idea that the Clintons want to keep working to solve the AIDS crisis on the side while Hillary Clinton is president, then don’t vote for her.”
But Scarborough was having none of it.
“That is so pathetic. You all are not really that pathetic, are you? Are you really that pathetic? Are you really that pathetic?” he asked Thursday morning. “You’re going to say if Bill Clinton doesn’t have the opportunity to shake down billionaires, that AIDS will not be cured?”
Scarborough said it’s a typical move of Democrats, and noted that when Barack Obama was running for president, voters were essentially told that Obama was “Moses and has the ability to stop the tides from rising in our time.”
“And Bill Clinton, shaking down billionaires in Kazakhstan, while doing deals on the side and getting paid $550,000 for a one-hour speech, that’s our only path forward to curing AIDS,” Scarborough said.
“You’re not really that pathetic, are you? Because if that’s the best line of attack you have, you need to go back to middle school and start all over again,” Scarborough said.
Chelsea Clinton is reportedly planning to stay on the board of the Clinton Foundation even if her mother wins the election in November. Some initiatives within the foundation are also set to make exceptions when it comes to raising funds from organizations and foreign countries.
