Former president Bill Clinton veered into the orbit of his wife’s presidential race Monday — and caused some problems for her in the process.
In an interview with NBC News, a sometimes defensive Clinton said that his family and its foundation have never done anything “knowingly inappropriate” when accepting donations from foreign governments.
He also said he would continue to deliver speeches for which he is paid six figures during his wife’s presidential campaign because “I gotta pay our bills.” Clinton asserted that he had “taken almost no capital gains” over the past 15 years — a claim that does not jibe with public tax returns.
These and other remarks during the interview with NBC’s Cynthia McFadden raised concerns among Clinton associates from New York to Little Rock, who fear that the former president did his wife no favors with the performance. At some points in the interview, he came off sounding churlish and angry, while his remarks on the family’s finances risked making the Clintons seem out of touch, said these friends, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly.
In a statement Monday, the Republican National Committee said Clinton provided “deceptive responses” to questions about the foundation.
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