I love Ryan, but this doesn't have anything to do with anything, morally speaking. Scummy people's $$ can do good.https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/767811188117925889 …
if they're so desperate to do good with their money, they can give it elsewhere
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Sure, but maybe that money to that place at that time does a lot of good--no cleans hands in philanthropy.
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People keep arguing this and I find it amazing. It wouldn't matter if the Foundation $$ came from the mob or terrorism?
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You can always find some limiting principal, but universities take $$ from Saudi sheiks--do they make the cut? Why?
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There's a pretty clear limiting principle here, whether the person is in the White House.
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But that's a separate issue. In general, is it ok to take $$ from the Saudis? Ok to work with Stalin to beat Hitler?
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Ok for Mandela to take $$ from Quadafi to defeat apartheid? It's not that easy to make these distinctions.
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The influence peddling/potential corruption issue is **different** than the moral clean source of the $$.
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I don't see how that's true at all. The corruption/conflict issues, real or perceived, *are* the moral issue.
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Ryan's point, I think, was to be skeptical that all of these donors were motivated by pure altruism.
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