# Clinton charity quid pro quo **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 29, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369 "2016-08-29T04:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/161 "2016-09-21T17:09:56Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I never said she did - but I can guaranty Donald “Soon to be President” Trump did not participate in any State Department corruption. But what about Trump helping fund the KKK and the American Nazi party out of his Charitable foundation? People are talking about that. (I can make shit up too! This is fun!) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/162 "2016-09-21T17:11:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > But what about Trump helping fund the KKK and the American Nazi party out of his Charitable foundation? People are talking about that. > > (I can make shit up too! This is fun!) I don’t know whether or not to believe the things I’ve read about him making big donations to NAMBLA – I guess I’ll just have to treat it as an unconfirmed possibility unless and until he releases his tax returns… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/163 "2016-09-21T17:12:10Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I never said she did - but I can guaranty Donald “Soon to be President” Trump did not participate in any State Department corruption. So what? I can “guaranty” that Trump didn’t participate in illegal chinchilla smuggling…but nobody here is accusing him of that, either. Care to address what people are actually talking about here? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/164 "2016-09-21T20:08:24Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > So what? I can “guaranty” that Trump didn’t participate in illegal chinchilla smuggling…but nobody here is accusing him of that, either. Care to address what people are actually talking about here? For me, it started as a response to ElvisL1ves tu quoque retort > [@](#): > > But Clinton has a foundation too. So they both do it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/165 "2016-09-21T20:33:40Z")
Sarcasm. A swipe at the lazy both-sides-do-it faction. In case that wasn’t obvious, which it may not have been. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/166 "2016-09-21T20:35:10Z")
So someone made a post mocking the idea that someone would come along and post a false equivalence, and that prompted you to be that guy. Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/167 "2016-09-21T21:14:15Z")
Ain’t meta grand? The bothsidesers deserve all the contempt they can get. You got a problem with that? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369/168 "2016-09-21T21:22:49Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Ain’t meta grand? > > The bothsidesers deserve all the contempt they can get. You got a problem with that? Contempt for two reasons: 1. For the easily disprovable concept itself, and 2. The underlying message that any thought, word or deed can be excused if you claim to find an example of someone, somewhere doing roughly(sometimes _very_ roughly) the same thing-The message of “Two Wrongs Do _Too_ Make A Right!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-charity-quid-pro-quo/764369.md?page=8)