Did the Clinton Foundation purchase
a newspaper endorsement for Hillary?
specific date Bill and Hillary Clinton contributed
$100,000 to the paper’s charity group in 2008,
but denies the donation played a role in its
coverage and endorsement of Clinton in the
Democratic primaries that year.
The Washington Free Beacon reported on
Sunday that the Clinton Family Foundation,
a little-known philanthropic organization
controlled by the Clintons, donated $100,000 to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund
in 2008. The charity is administered by the paper and run by top brass at the Times Company.
On Jan. 25, 2008, the Times endorsed Hillary Clinton over challengers Barack Obama and
John Edwards. At the time there were reports that the editorial board had been leaning toward
endorsing Obama but switched after then-publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. intervened in favor
of Clinton.
Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy told the Free Beacon on Monday that the Clinton donation
had no bearing on the editorial board’s decision.
Read more at the Washington Free Beacon. Source: Free Beacon
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