Bill Clinton Defends Boeing Donations in CNN Interview
Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton embrace after the senator introduced her husband to the first session of the Democratic National Convention in Boston Monday July 26, 2004.
Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg NewsFormer President Bill Clinton defended contributions from Boeing Co. to his foundation while his wife was secretary of state, saying that the donations for efforts to rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake were not connected to any advocacy by President Barack Obama's administration.
Clinton told CNN in an interview that aired Thursday he did not know which companies had business before the State Department, and that his wife was probably unaware of who was giving to the Clinton Foundation. "She was pretty busy those years," he said. "I never saw her study a list of my contributors and I had no idea who was doing business before the State Department."