Bill Clinton: ‘Clinton Cash’ donor allegations ‘won’t fly’

Bill Clinton says allegations in a new book, Clinton Cash, that Hillary Clinton favored Clinton Foundation donors while serving as secretary of State “won’t fly.”

“Even the guy that wrote the book apparently had to admit under questioning that we didn’t have a shred of evidence for this, we just thought we would throw it out there and see if it flies, and it won’t fly,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

Clinton echoed his previous remarks that 90 percent of the foundation’s 300,000 donors give $100 or less and said people donate because they are proud of the foundation’s accomplishments and stand by its mission.

{mosads}“They understand that an enormous percentage of health and development work around the world is funded by governments and multinational organizations,” he said.

“They fund us because they think we are good at solving problems and taking advantage of other opportunities.”

Clinton’s comments come one day after the release of Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer. The book alleges that Clinton rewarded donors with favorable decisions she made while at the State Department. While Schweizer has said he doesn’t have a “smoking gun” that shows a quid pro quo for donors, he suggests the totality of his accusations might yet warrant a deeper look into her conduct at the agency.

Schweizer gave some of his allegations to a number of news organizations that later reported on them, including a New York Times story about Clinton’s role in a deal to sell American uranium mines to a Russian nuclear agency that allegedly benefitted a foundation donor.

But the Clinton camp has hit back hard on Schweizer and his claims, most recently with a new website called “The Briefing” that the campaign is using as a rapid-response platform.

Clinton national press secretary Brian Fallon called the uranium accusation a conspiracy theory in a video posted to the website Tuesday.