"In light of recent events and allegations that Mr. Norman Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme, we have decided out of an abundance of caution to return the money he raised for our campaign," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement Monday night. "An estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign."
You know the only reason why she's even returning the money is because the spotlight is on her. She originally called for just donating $23,000 that she had gotten directly from Hsu, but when reporters started asking about the other money he had raised for her, she smelled trouble and thought the better of it and decided to return it all.
You'd think that'd be the end of the story. But alas, no, it's not.
Hillary Clinton's links to illegal fundraising by Asian-Americans in 1996 should have made her wary of accepting $850,000 from a fugitive Asian-American this year, a rival presidential campaign said Tuesday.
The criticism came from an adviser to former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, who chaired a Senate investigation into illegal contributions by Asian-Americans to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign and the couple's legal defense fund in the 1996 election cycle.
Hillary having the same illegal fundraising problems as her husband? That's unthinkable!
"You have to look at this with a great deal of skepticism that - having been through this sort of thing in '96 - that nobody thought to say, 'Hey, you know, we better take another look at this before we take all this money,' " he said.
Oh Hillary, you almost got away with it.
Travis
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