# Why Isn't the IRS Investigating the Clinton Foundation? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894 "2016-10-28T00:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/81 "2016-10-28T18:46:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Between Vince Foster, Benghazi, Clinton Foundation influence-peddling, the Wall Street speeches, and all the other non-stories that the GOP has been pushing for 20 years, it’s hardly any wonder nobody wants to sift through the bullshit to find the nugget of truth. If they spent as much time on the budget as they have on these bullshit investigations, the government might have stopped hemorrhaging money by now. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/82 "2016-10-28T19:50:32Z")
This is _outrage!_ Once Clinton is elected, she will have to face justice! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/83 "2016-10-28T20:23:28Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > Reverse Poe? Wait. Are you saying that UberArchetype is being sarcastic too. Whoa, you just blew my mind. I figured since he was an uber driver, he might have been one of those displaced disgruntled displaced white people that blamed everything on stuff has happened since the 1950s. But this was all just one long bit of sarcastic irony? Well done Uber. You got me. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/84 "2016-10-28T20:25:00Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > This is _outrage!_ > > Once Clinton is elected, she will have to face justice! That might be more likely than it preventing her from being elected. This actually has the possibility of being a best-case scenario. Hillary is elected, but the GOP retains control of the Senate and House. Felony-level evidence turns up, she spends the first six months of her administration resisting subpoena. She gets impeached in the GOP-controlled House, and is tried in the GOP-controlled Senate. Either enough Democrats break party ranks and vote to remove her, in which case Kane becomes President, or they don’t, in which case she is crippled politically for the next three years, and in 2020 the GOP gets even more of an advantage in the Senate. The worst candidate (Trump) is defeated, and the second-worst is either removed, or rendered irrelevant. Or it could be a worst-case scenario, in which she loses the fucking election. What the hell is wrong with the GOP? We picked the one candidate on earth who can’t beat Hillary, even with all of this shit. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/85 "2016-10-28T21:24:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > This actually has the possibility of being a best-case scenario. Hillary is elected, but the GOP retains control of the Senate and House. Felony-level evidence turns up, she spends the first six months of her administration resisting subpoena. She gets impeached in the GOP-controlled House, and is tried in the GOP-controlled Senate. Either enough Democrats break party ranks and vote to remove her, in which case Kane becomes President, or they don’t, in which case she is crippled politically for the next three years, and in 2020 the GOP gets even more of an advantage in the Senate. Do you need a Kleenex or a gym sock or something? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/86 "2016-10-28T21:37:03Z")
Could you please fetch him one once you’re done sucking Hillarys dick. ---
**Author:** ![Psychopants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Psychopants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psychopants)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/87 "2016-10-28T22:01:02Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Dammit, **Damuri** , I wanted to see how long it took before he got it. It might even be possible that some of the donors contributed to the foundation purely as a charitable contribution because \ they may have actually believed that their tax-deductible charitable contributions were going to a Good. Cause. I actually know people like that. Are we that jaded that it’s impossible to believe in pure altruism? Plus, tax deduction. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/88 "2016-10-28T22:31:33Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > As a Sovereign Citizen, I think you should make a Citizen’s Arrest! Or at the very least, take over her house 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/89 "2016-10-28T23:45:30Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Could you please fetch him one once you’re done sucking Hillarys dick. Eat your heart out. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/90 "2016-10-29T00:18:31Z")
> [@UberArchetype](#): > > It’s a little early early to assume anyone has “gotten away” with anything. > > Oh absolutely. I am TERRIFIED of that bitch. More specifically, afraid for the course of national well-being should she win the election. Please explain to me as best as you can what you are TERRIFIED of. Convince me why I should be TERRIFIED of Billary as president. Then explain to me why I shouln’t be TERRIFIED of Trump as president. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/91 "2016-10-29T00:33:51Z")
Is he coming back? DID someone cancel the ride? …we never got to give feedback… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/92 "2016-10-29T01:06:50Z")
The split between liberal optimists and cynics is always fun to watch. The Clintons may be corrupt in layman’s terms, probably without breaking many laws. They’re smart about skating around in gray zones. What’s the scandal in America is often what’s allowed. It’s less clear how their actions are unique or particularly threatening. Yeah, she supports the business elite who want to suck America dry until it’s a hollowed out husk that blows away in the wind, but who doesn’t? She probably did do some favors for some oil sheiks or sold arms as a favor for some back slapper. And? What are we even talking about? It’s bipartisan, official U.S. policy to be best pals with Saudi Arabia, the liberal version of ISIS. Go ahead, blow up Yemen, it’s all good. Jimmy Carter is up for sainthood and he sent arms to Indonesia so they could slaughter the people of East Timor. Reagan’s love of shady arms deals is also well known. It’s a proud American tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/93 "2016-10-29T02:10:13Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > What the hell is wrong with the GOP? We picked the one candidate on earth who can’t beat Hillary, even with all of this shit. I feel your pain. What the hell is wrong with the Democrat party? We picked the one candidate that Trump could have a fucking chance of beating. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/94 "2016-10-29T02:17:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I feel your pain. What the hell is wrong with the Democrat party? We picked the one candidate that Trump could have a fucking chance of beating. … and she’s gonna kick his loser ass. Bigly. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/95 "2016-10-29T02:43:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Clownhall isn’t known as a font of accuracy. Did you bother to read the part where they were quoting from the Wall Street Journal? Or did that just sail over your head? > [@](#): > > There is no “smoking gun” proof of an unethical quid pro quo arrangement in this **Wall Street Journal report,** ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/96 "2016-10-29T02:44:20Z")
Comey doesn’t know what’s in the e-mails, but Il Douche totally does! Said so, just this afternoon. So he not only knows more than the generals, but more than the friggin’ FBI! Maybe we should just forget election, and start negotiating our surrender. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/97 "2016-10-29T03:09:27Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > What the hell is wrong with the GOP? We picked the one candidate on earth who can’t beat Hillary, even with all of this shit. > > Regards, > Shodan That IS it, isn’t it? I don’t want Hillary to be President. I was actually toying with idea of voting for a Republican, but the gathering of stooges who were getting play in primaries left me …Trump? Cruz? Carson??? THESE are the people the conservative base is looking to? And then they pick a guy who EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY has considered a rich-boy _douchebag_ for the last 30 years? Kasich could beat her. Christie could beat her. Hell, Pence could beat her. Rubio could beat her. Well, maybe not Rubio. (I personally, would have voted for Christie. I don’t know, I think it would be fun) But Trump? TRUMP??? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/98 "2016-10-29T04:11:12Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I feel your pain. What the hell is wrong with the Democrat party? We picked the one candidate that Trump could have a fucking chance of beating. She’s only the “candidate that Trump has a chance of beating” because of how demonized she’s been by the Republicans. Pick another candidate and it would take very little time before they were just as demonized. Look what the Republicans did with Obama. And? She’s competent to do the job. That matters. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/99 "2016-10-29T04:30:04Z")
**Miller** , you’re an alleged Democrat, but you say “Democrat Party”? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894/100 "2016-10-29T04:41:06Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > [walter white]Tread lightly[/ww] He should be careful. According to this impeccable source Clinton’s reach is interdimensional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-the-irs-investigating-the-clinton-foundation/769894.md?page=6)