Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has faced a lot of scrutiny over the years about the actions of the Clinton Foundation. As anyone who worked on her 2016 campaign for President will admit, a day never passed without her opposition hurling innuendo about Clinton Foundation donors and alleged influence peddling.
Maybe that’s why Clinton, no longer running for office, now takes such obvious pleasure in boasting about the Foundation’s accomplishments.
2022 was a big year for the @ClintonFdn. Huge thank you to our partners, supporters, staff, and everyone who keeps the focus on building a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. https://t.co/njfnEwEKcj
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 20, 2023
In a political environment where MAGA GOP members are working to ban books from school libraries, it’s hardly a surprise that the Clinton Foundation chose to lead its boast about its work benefitting children with a statistic on books it has given away.
In sharing the Clinton Foundation 2022 impact report, Clinton reveals that the Foundation has provided 1.4 million books to families across the U.S.
[Note: The 1.4 million books considers all books distributed since the Foundation’s founding in 2001 — that’s nearly 64,000 books a year for two decades.]
The Clinton Foundation’s children and family-focused program is called ‘Too Small To Fail’ — a play on the words the Federal Reserve considers when it bails out giant banking institutions to save the economy from systemic failure. That familiar, less happy, phrase is “too big to fail.” Kids are at least as important as banks, the name asserts.
