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We call it Kultursmog, it being that collection of attitudes, ideas, tastes and personages that are polluted by the politics of the left and that predominate on both coasts. And who are we? We are the freethinkers who are immune to the Kultursmog by virtue of our natural skepticism and reliance on empiricism, which is to say, reliance on evidence. Thus, we understand and generally accept that Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. We also accept that Hillary Clinton, assisted by her hubby and their consultants, lost the election. In fact, she lost the election after outspending Donald two to one and turning many of her consultants into millionaires.

Now the question being asked by political wizards is why Hillary lost despite being the smartest candidate, the most virtuous candidate, and, oh yes, the candidate with the best sense of humor since W.C. Fields, though she is a lot prettier. And the question being asked by us that is to say, us skeptics is: Has the Kultursmog learned anything since Hillarys defeat, by which we mean her latest defeat? You will recall that in her 2016 race she was dubbed the inevitable one, at least until the clock struck 8 p.m. on Nov. 8, much as she was dubbed the inevitable one through the election cycle of 2008 until there emerged a little-known community organizer.

Incidentally, does anyone wonder how Candidate Trump would deal with Candidate Obama? That would be a campaign for the ages.

Now there has appeared from the hazy vapors of the smog a book attempting to explain the election, and all the smogs outlets are reviewing it. The book is titled Shattered: Inside Hillarys Clintons Doomed Campaign. The best thing about it is the title, Shattered. After that it is pretty uneven. There are a few glints of understanding, but from what I can tell from reading Shattered and its reviews, the Kultursmog remains securely in the dark. According to it, Hillary was the victim of plots by FBI Director James B. Comey, Russian hackers, errors made by her staff, the sinister doings of the deplorables, and misogyny. Six decades after the dawn of feminism, with the feminists fingerprints all over the republic, Hillary still cannot get a break. Though I am told by reliable sources that up there in the Kultursmog she is contemplating another suicidal run in 2020. She does not take no for an answer.

As I say, there are glints in Shattered that suggest the authors have learned a thing or two about the new political scene that we were being presented with in 2016, though there are few references to Donald Trump and the unique campaign he waged. He proved to be the finest campaigner in my adult life going all the way back to Bob Kennedy in 1968. And Hillary, after all the absurd laudations that the Kultursmog has basted her in, is about the worst. As the authors say, The campaign was an unholy mess, fraught with tangled lines of authority, petty jealousies, distorted priorities, and no sense of purpose. Hillary never could explain why she was running for president. The only other candidate who had trouble answering that question was, as I recall, Teddy Kennedy as he sat frozen before CBS Roger Mudd in 1980.

So Shattered does provide some answers as to why Hillary lost and what the Kultursmog has learned, which is very little. One learns this by noting what the smog neglects to mention. For instance, there is only a brief mention of why she nearly collapsed on a New York street and nothing about the dark glasses she wore, provoking her critics to question her health. Others get angry in this book and even use coarse language but not Hillary, despite years of witnesses quoting her foul mouth. There is no mention of her election night tantrum fueled by alcohol. Why not at least mention that her critics were leveling such charges that night?

Finally, there are people who ought to be mentioned, but are not. Why no David Brock, her controversial ally, or Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime adviser? The best chapter in this book is the chapter on Hillarys server and her failure to deal with it honestly and expeditiously. But by not mentioning Mr. Blumenthal and the 23 classified memos that the Daily Caller reported from his correspondence with her (they were classified as Confidential and Secret), knowledgeable readers will suspect a cover-up.

This is why when we skeptics come across some artifact fashioned by the Kultursmog, we sense that it will be in some way untrustworthy. We are rarely wrong. Just over the weekend, The Washington Post reported polls that suggest Donald Trumps days are numbered. It is not until readers get to the very end of the report that they discover Donald Trump still beats Hillary 43 percent to 40 percent an even wider margin than on election night.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc.

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A conservative former GOP staffer sounded off on President Trump's eldest daughter on Tuesday, commenting on Ivanka Trump's White House role and increasing likeness to former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Amanda Carpenter -- a CNN political commentator and former spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz and speechwriter for former Sen. Jim DeMint -- appeared on CNN with Erin Burnett on Tuesday commenting on Ivanka Trump's getting booed and hissed at during a women's panel at the W20 Summit in Berlin.

Carpenter put in her two cents, saying Ivanka Trump is "becoming like Hillary Clinton in the worst ways."

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Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump during the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump attends the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Chrystia Freeland, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Canada, Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump, Stephanie Bschorr, President Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Honorary Chair of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion at the family photo at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump speaks at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump, Stephanie Bschorr, President Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Honorary Chair of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion and Mona Kueppers, President National Council of German Women?s Organisations (Deutscher Frauenrat) at the family photo at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Honorary Chair of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion arrive for the family photo at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Honorary Chair of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Daughter of U.S. President Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Honorary Chair of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion arrive for the family photo at the W20 Summit under the motto "Inspiring women: scaling up women's entrepreneurship" in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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"She's sort of becoming increasingly unlikeable," Amanda Carpenter said during the CNN segment. "She keeps trying to get these jobs that she's not qualified for based on family connections, and every time when given the chance she's asked about President Trump's poor track record towards women, she defends the bad conduct that he has exhibited in the past."

Carpenter authored an op-ed for Cosmopolitan last month, in which she made the case that Ivanka Trump's White House role "is an insult to working women."

"Just remember she's only sitting in that seat because her daddy let her," Carpenter wrote. "That's not the case for the overwhelming majority of working women in America and we shouldn't celebrate anyone for whom that is."

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Carpenter has also been critical of Hillary Clinton in the past -- even publishing a book, "The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton," in 2006.

The former Capitol Hill staffer continued her criticism of Ivanka Trump during her Tuesday CNN appearance, saying the first daughter would be "much more well-suited" in a role within a non-government sector.

"It's a joke that our government is holding Ivanka Trump up as a symbol of female empowerment when she's gotten everything in her life because of her father," Carpenter said. "It's not smart for her to make herself like Hillary Clinton, to pretend that she's some international icon for women when on the national stage she defends terrible conduct that her father has demonstrated towards women."

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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: Ivanka Trump delivers remarks during an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building April 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump also delivered remarks and answered questions from the audience during a town hall event with CEO's on the American business climate. Also pictured are U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (L) and Reed Cordish (R), from the Office of American Innovation. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ivanka Trump joins her father U.S. President Donald Trump as he meets with women small business owners at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Ivanka Trump speaks during a visit to the Smithsonian?s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Ivanka Trump (R) joins her father U.S. President Donald Trump as he holds a meeting with experts on addressing human trafficking at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Schaeffler CEO Klaus Rosenfeld , Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ivanka Trump participate in a roundtable with U.S. President Donald Trump and German and U.S. business leaders at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (L), his wife Ivanka Trump and with chief economic advisor Gary Cohn depart a news conference by U.S. President Donald Trump and King Abdullah of Jordan at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Ivanka Trump and her husband White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner attend a news conference with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: (L to R) Senior adviser Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump enter before U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint press conference at the White House on February 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. The two answered questions from American and Japanese press. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

U.S. President Trump Addresses Joint Session of Congress - Washington, U.S. - 28/02/17 - Carryn Owens (L), widow of Senior Chief Petty Officer William "Ryan" Owens, reacts as Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner (R), applaud after Owens was mentioned by President Trump. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Ivanka Trump stands as U.S. President Donald Trump makes a toast during the Governor's Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Ivanka Trump looks at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) during U.S. President Donald Trump's roundtable discussion on the advancement of women entrepreneurs and business leaders at the White House in Washington February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

U.S. President Donald Trump points out his daughter Ivanka Trump (2nd R), flanked by Alveda King (2nd L) and U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) (R), during his remarks after visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. first lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump watch as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, U.S. February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (L) and his wife Ivanka Trump talk with Sara Netanyahu (front L) as she arrives for a joint press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Late-night hosts are having a ball with the Trump administration. Hes good for material, even better for ratings, and Samantha Bees Full Frontal has wholeheartedly participated in this sport. Bee has delighted in skewering the Golden Showers file and sarcastically saluting Kellyanne Conway, and on Saturday, she will host the Not The White House Correspondents Dinner event as counterprogramming for the real deal (which Trump is boycotting, so Nerd Prom should be an even more awkward endeavor than usual).

To promote her event, Bee sat down with the Hollywood Reporter in an interview conducted by Lena Dunham. The two women discussed how theres now an abundance of news to cover, and every time one switches off the phone, Something terrible happens in the world. Bee finds it challenging to satirize material that she finds potentially tragic, but thats how journalists and TV hosts must roll in 2017. She also reveals how she (like many people) anticipated that Hillary Clinton would be president, but Bee says she planned on calling out any sketchball Clinton policies and moves:

We looked forward to holding President Hillary Clintons feet to the fire. We were so excited about that. We thought, Well be able to tell a diverse range of stories. This will be so interesting. Were not going to let up on her. We want her to be president. But we dont see anyone as the messiah. Its not like she wouldnt have failures and make terrible mistakes and do things we wouldnt like.

Bee also admits that shes not really on Twitter right now, for she felt an immediate felt a geyser of hatred after the election. She simply went dark, although (obviously) her show continues to send out regular tweets. Speaking of which, the show tweeted that they arent able to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend the Not the White House Correspondents Dinner. Yet anyone who wishes to contribute to the chosen cause the Committee to Protect Journalists (from threats, imprisonment, and even death when it comes to those who cross Vladimir Putin) can visit the below link.

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This weekend, the New York Times scraped the fresh scabs off Democrats wounds from 2016. In an extended piece, the Times provided us with the best account so far of the deliberations inside the FBI as it investigated Hillary Clinton and debated how best to announce the results of that investigation to the public. It should surprise no one that there wasnt exactly a playbook for handling a serious criminal investigation of a major-party nominee for president, and neither the Department of Justice nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation observed standard operating procedures.

At the beginning, the DOJ toned down its public statements on the Clinton probe, calling it a matter rather than an investigation, even as the FBI possessed a document by a Democratic operative that implied that Attorney General Loretta Lynch wouldnt allow the investigation to derail Clintons campaign. When Bill Clinton turned up in Lynchs airplane, it caused understandable dismay inside the FBI, and Comey became convinced that he should announce the results of the investigation rather than the attorney general.

Later, when potentially relevant e-mails were unexpectedly discovered on Anthony Weiners laptop, the FBI faced an agonizing choice: Should it disclose that it had re-opened the investigation?

The question consumed hours of conference calls and meetings. Agents felt they had two options: Tell Congress about the search, which everyone acknowledged would create a political furor, or keep it quiet, which followed policy and tradition but carried its own risk, especially if the F.B.I. found new evidence in the emails.

In my mind at the time, Clinton is likely to win, Mr. Steinbach said. Its pretty apparent. So what happens after the election, in November or December? How do we say to the American public: Hey, we found some things that might be problematic. But we didnt tell you about it before you voted? The damage to our organization would have been irreparable.

Comey chose to disclose, and the rest is history. Heres FiveThirtyEights Nate Silver making the succinct case that Comeys letter to Congress could have turned the election:

In an election this close, it seems foolish to argue that the Comey letter didnt make some difference, but its equally foolish to pretend that lots of other things didnt make an equal or bigger difference. As for blame? Well, thats easy:

It was all Hillary Clintons fault. All of it.

She made the decision to flout standard practice, sound policy, good sense, and the law by setting up a homebrew server and using a private e-mail for official business, including the sending and receiving of classified information.

She made the decision to lie, repeatedly, about what shed done.

She made the decision to press forward with her campaign and pressure Democratic leaders (including superdelegates) to join her team while misleading them every step of the way.

She led the Democratic party off the 2016 cliff.

In all these things, of course, she was merely imitating the master manipulator, her own husband. Remember how skillfully Bill Clinton transformed the public debate over his own perjury? Remember how he and his team coaxed a sympathetic press into making the propriety of the investigation the main story, rather than the underlying tawdriness and corruption of his conduct?

This is the Clinton way. This is what they do. They do what they want, when they want, how they want, and then indignantly demand that everyone else conduct themselves with maximum restraint and with complete consideration of the Clinton familys political goals. In other words, they embrace vice while demanding compliance and cooperation from everyone else, including law enforcement.

In reality, vice tends to leave virtue with a dilemma. Hillary Clintons misconduct put the DOJ and the FBI in an impossible position: What do you do when a presidential candidate herself is under known criminal investigation, and when the public is broadly aware of extraordinarily damaging facts about the candidates conduct? Do you quietly close it with minimal comment, or do you address the facts? What do you do when you re-open an investigation you publicly closed? These are the choices Hillary forced on the FBI and the DOJ.

There may come a time to more fully evaluate the FBIs conduct toward the Trump team, but we dont have nearly enough facts to make the kind of judgments we can make regarding the investigation of Clintons e-mail scandal. Clinton evaded prosecution on the strength of her name and through the horrible precedent set by the DOJs deal with David Petraeus. She should be grateful that shes not in prison, not outraged that shes not president. She brought this all on herself.

David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.

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Hillary Clintons Department of State aides allegedly threatened a South Asian prime ministers sonwith an IRS audit in an attempt to stop a Bangladesh government investigation of a close friend and donor ofClintons, The Daily Caller News Foundations Investigative Group learned.

ABangladesh government commission was investigating multiple charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank, beginning in May 2012. Muhammad Yunus, a major Clinton Foundation donor, served as managing director of the bank.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and permanent U.S. resident, recalled the account of the threatened IRS audit to TheDCNF. The allegations mark the first known instance in the U.S. that Clintons Department of State used IRS power to intimidate a close relative of a friendly nations head of state on behalf of a Clinton Foundation donor.

Wazed told TheDCNF it was astounding and mind boggling that senior State Department officials between 2010 and 2012repeatedly pressured him to influence his mother to drop the commission investigation.

The commission report was released in early 2013.

They threatened me with the possibility of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service, he said. I have been here legally for 17 years and never had a problem. But they said, well, you know, you might get audited.'

They would say over and over again, Yunus has powerful friends and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs. Clinton, Wazed told TheDCNF.

The Prime Minister originally disclosed in general terms the pressure exerted on her son at a February reception in Munich.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy had to face pressure from the US State Department to keep Muhammad Yunus as the Grameen Bank managing director, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

Hillary Clinton phoned me and exerted the same pressure. Even the U.S. State Department summoned my son Joy three times and told him that we would face trouble, Hasina added.

Hasina said State Department officials told Joy that Clinton would not take the matter lightly.

Convince your mother, she recalled Joy quoting officials.

However, Hasina never provided details of the ordeal her son faced until his interview with TheDCNF.

The World Bank alsodecidedto rescind a $1.2 billion loan to Bangladesh while the IRS was pressuring Joy in 2012. The money was requested in order to build a key bridge near the capital city of Dhaka. The World Bank leveled bribery charges against two Canadian officials, but a Canadian court later acquitted both individuals.

Former Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, who twice met with then-Secretary of State Clinton, told TheDCNF it was apparent there were links between the World Bank loan cancellation and Yunus. Moni now is chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs.

Whether there was any abuse by the U.S. Government or the secretary of state, that I cannot say, Moni said. I can only say we saw two facts: One was the communications from the State Department, and then the other one was the withdrawal of World Banks loan.

But she was more direct about Yunusrole in the World Bank cancellation.

Professor Yunus obviously tried to punish or tried to retaliate and punish the government of Bangladesh, especially [Prime Minister] Sheikh Hasina, she said.He knew how important the Padma [bridge] was for our economy, for our peoples government, and it would revive the whole of south of Bangladesh.

Obviously, he tried to use that to get out of the situation he was in, and he wanted to punish the government, she said.

Wade claimed he received threats from all levels of the State Department.

The threats came from all levels. It came from the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh to pretty senior officials within the State Department.

Wade regularly met many State Department officials as he lived near the nations capital. He considered many to be friends and colleagues, but the tone and substance of the discussions radically changed beginning in 2010.

Previously, we pretty much discussed many issues, things like trade, finance or national security. But then, the only thing they would be harping on was Yunus. They had one obsession, to save Muhammad Yunus.

Clinton met with Yunus three times as secretary of state while the Bangladesh government investigation was underway, according to an August 2016 Associated Pressreporton Clinton Foundation donors.

Throughout the Bangladesh governments investigation, He (Yunus) pleaded for help in messages routed to Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him, AP reported.

Nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch obtained Clinton emails thatshowed her aide Melanne Verveer regularly updated Clinton on Yunus ongoing plight.

Clinton also supported Yunus in other ways. The U.S. Agency for International Development, part of State Department, partnered with the Grameen Foundation for a $162 million micro-finance project in 2009. The agency separately awarded $2.2 million to the foundation.

Yunus first ran into trouble when a 2010 Norwegian documentary chargedthat he diverted nearly $100 million of Grameen Bank funds to finance his private enterprises.Yunus presently owns more than 50 private and nonprofit companies, ranging from Grameen Telecom to firms in the fashion industry and even a yogurt company.

Wazed said word of the $100 million diversion did not sit well with many Bangladeshis who earn an annual per-capita income of $1,314.

The whole Grameen Bank embezzlement issue was important for us, Wazed said. You know, he took $100 million from Grameen bank and transferred to his private trust to create 57 personal, private sector projects.

Wazed added that Yunus eventually paid it back, but thats not the point. He took the money, and the bank is a state-bank not authorized to provide big business loans.

After the Bangladesh government commission report came out in 2013, officials removed Yunus as managing director. They invoked a rule stating bank executives can only work up to the age of 60. Yunus was 70 at the time.

Prior to the scandal, Yunus was a high-flying bank executive who championed micro-credits, small loans to try to lift the poor out of poverty.

He won the admiration and later financial and political assistance of the Clintons when the former president was governor of Arkansas.

The Clintons also frequently hostedYunusat their foundations annual Clinton Global Initiative galas in New York. He was a heavily promoted as a CGI speaker nearly every year from 2008 to 2016, according to the foundations website.

Yunus was awarded the 2006 Noble Peace Prize, reportedly with backroom lobbying by Bill Clinton.

As a New York Senator, Clintonsuccessfully pushed Congress to award him the Congressional Gold Medal. Then-President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian award, in 2010.

Yunus, in turn, was a donor to the Clinton Foundation. Grameen America, one of Yunus major American organizations, gave between $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation, according to the Clinton Foundation website. His Grameen Research group donated $25,000 to $50,000.

TheDCNF contacted both Grameen America and the Clinton Foundation seeking comment but received responses from neither.

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