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Rumors are circulating that Hillary Clinton may attempt a comeback in 2024.
The Clinton Foundation announced a new “Clinton Global Initiative” (CGI). Many people are wondering if this means the two-time failed presidential candidate will make another run for the White House in 2024.
A letter from former President Bill Clinton confirmed that the foundation’s donors are behind the Clinton reboot, according to the Associated Press.
Although the letter claims the foundation will focus on COVID, democracy, and climate change, critics note that these issues have existed for years. “So why the sudden decision to get involved now?” BizPac Review’s Vivek Saxena asks.
A more sinister theory is that Hillary needs to raise enough money for another run at the White House. CGI conveniently shut down nearly five years ago after Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 US election.
In the letter, the Clintons say the reboot is meant to initiate “cooperation and coordination.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community,” the letter reportedly read.
“The existential threat of climate change grows every day. Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger.”
Take a look at the responses across social media:
Bill Clinton just announced the Clinton Global Initiative is coming back online and that is all the confirmation we need that Hillary is running
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 5, 2022
News flash … she’s firing up Clinton Inc, pay for play, and running for President. Someone must have told her she’s not going to see one day in jail.
— JPGuess (@JPGuess) March 6, 2022
Hillary’s thinking of running again in 2024 because Biden is doing so poorly
— Jeff Martin (@JeffMartinGSD) March 5, 2022
Clinton’s are running out of money & Hillary is trying to run for President in 2024, just saying!
— Linda (@LiLadyMagic) March 6, 2022
BizPac notes that the “second most-common theory” is simply that the Clintons need more cash for themselves.
“And indeed, the record shows that their top donors prior to falling off the map had come from Ukraine,” the report adds. Take a look:
Yup pic.twitter.com/JaERTeIpPz
— TeacherTwitting V GETTR TeacherTwit (@teachertwit2) March 5, 2022
If you're wondering about the timing here, the Clintons know how huge the Ukraine donations tap is going to be. Grifting and money laundering vehicles like the Clinton Foundation are designed to funnel that money back to DC elites, to favored NGOs, etc. https://t.co/YwFbNbNx4v
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 5, 2022
What a coincidence pic.twitter.com/uQ1tXEw0th
— James Poulos (@jamespoulos) March 5, 2022
Take advantage of a crisis huh? The #ClintonGlobalInitiative #ClintonFoundation
We Are Back Baby! pic.twitter.com/v643YUMnaS— Grace Vasquez (@itsYourGrace) March 6, 2022
More on this story via BizPac Review:
Meanwhile, former longtime CGI co-chair Steve Bachar was arrested last year on charges of felony theft and securities fraud.
According to the criminal complaint filed against him, he was accused of stealing up to $1 million, then lying to an investor “in connection with the offer, sale or purchase of a security.” The alleged crimes reportedly occurred between October 2017 and August 2018.
The Clinton Foundation itself has faced a spate of accusations.
“Clinton Foundation officials repeatedly skirted or ignored federal laws and regulations while converting the controversial non-profit from its tax-exempt purpose of building a presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas, into a $2 billion global machine selling political influence and access on an unprecedented scale,” BPR Wire reported in 2016.
“It was during the foundation’s first six full years of existence from 1998 to 2004 when the tight-knit circle of Clinton insiders progressively mis-represented in annual tax filings the non-profit’s activities and compliance with its exempt purpose.”
Whistleblowers testify Clinton Foundation operated as a ‘foreign agent,’ not a charitable organization https://t.co/l89veCAK3e pic.twitter.com/BDmwMDuLzd
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) December 14, 2018
Major Clinton Foundation donor denied entry to US on terrorism-related charges https://t.co/Uqc0Z9r5sT pic.twitter.com/TReq7XHFZp
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) August 29, 2016