WikiLeaks: You Can’t Get Much More ‘Pay-for-Play’ Than This

Remember how Hillary Clinton insisted there was no “pay-for-play” schemes underway while she was secretary of state?

Well, WikiLeaks has an email for that.

In an email dated Jan. 8, 2015, longtime aide Huma Abedin wrote to eventual campaign manager Robby Mook and eventual campaign chairman John Podesta about an upcoming meeting between Clinton—then a director of the Clinton Foundation following the end of her tenure as secretary of state—and Mohammed VI, king of Morocco. Apparently, Mook and Podesta had concerns about the meeting—likely because of human rights violations by the Moroccan government—and Clinton was getting “cold feet.”

“Came up on our call with HRC,” Mook wrote. “John flagged the same issues we discussed, Huma. HRC said she’s sitll [sic] considering.”

Abedin, apparently, wasn’t happy about it.

“Thank you for sharing,” she replied. “Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If [Clinton] was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter.

“[Clinton Global Initiative] also wasn’t pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn’t their first choice. This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request.

“The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting. It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months. She created this mess and she knows it.”

While the exchange and the event took place after Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, it establishes the lengths she is willing to go to profit the Clinton Foundation. Podesta, whose email inbox was hacked, leading to WikiLeaks’ “Podesta Email” dossier, likely wouldn’t have been privy to such conversations when Clinton was secretary of state.