Bill Clinton is ready to resume its annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative – the gathering of A Listers from business, government and charities, which he closed during Hillary ClintonRussia’s presidential campaign amid questions about fundraising.
Clinton sent letters to supporters of his charity, Bloomberg news announced the return of the stellar annual conference on UN General Assembly policy.
“Just like the world we live in, the September meeting will probably look different from the ones we held before,” he wrote in a letter to CGI members. “But what will be no different is the spirit that has driven CGI from the beginning – the idea that we can achieve more together than individually.”
The Clinton Global Initiative hosted annual meetings from 2005 to 2016, but they closed in August 2016 as Hillary Clinton struggled Donald Trump for the presidency.
In 2016, questions were raised about donors to the former president’s charity and whether the Clinton Foundation has taken advantage of Clinton’s role as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Bill Clinton is ready to resume his annual meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative – he was seen above with Hillary Clinton waiting for her daughter Chelsea to run the marathon in New York in November 2021.
Clinton’s annual meeting brought together many participants – including Alicia Keys above at the September 2009 meeting.
Many brave names took part in the luxury gatherings, including Bill Gates, King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan, Richard Branson, Ashley Judd, Alicia Keys, Tony Bennett, Charlize Theron, Barbara Streisand, George Soros, Jamie, Damon and Damon. Rupert Murdoch.
Overall, funding for the Clinton Foundation, which includes the Clinton Development Initiative and the Little Rock Presidential Center in Arkansas, has declined since Clinton lost to Trump, Bloomberg News reported.
It reports $ 16.3 million in contributions in 2020, lower than the 2016 peak of $ 62.9 million, according to tax returns.
In January, it was rumored that Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted to return to politics, helping Democrats in the midterm elections this fall.
Another way Clinton could change her influence is by resurrecting the Clinton Global Initiative.
Clinton came to mind when a Washington Post investigation in November 2015, it revealed that the couple had set up a global network of donors to support their foundation beyond government work.
At that time, they had raised $ 3 billion.
The Post identified donations from about 336,000 individuals, corporations, unions and foreign governments, leading to questions about whether foreigners were trying to influence Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state by donating to her husband’s foundation.
Clinton denied any wrongdoing.
Bono was a regular at Clinton’s annual meeting – the last one in the 2016 campaign, when Hillary Clinton was fighting Donald Trump for the presidency.
John Bon Jovi Grand President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, Presidents Bill Clinton and Bill Austin during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2016.
Bill Clinton spoke with Brad Pitt at the 2009 meeting
Bill Clinton, 75, has been battling ill health for the past year. Last fall, he spent five days in a hospital in Southern California, where he was being treated for a urological infection.
The infection is caused by E. coli, which has developed into sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to infection.
Clinton, who had a quadruple heart bypass in 2004, was in Southern California for a “series of events” when she fell ill. He later returned to the Chapaqua couple’s residence to complete his recovery.