Donald Trump has blasted the Clinton Foundation as being "the most corrupt enterprise in political history," and now new reports are raising concerns about the relationship between one of the Foundation's senior executives and a top aide at the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Call logs reveal that Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff, received at least 148 phone messages from the Clinton Foundation's chief operating officer Laura Graham between 2010 and 2012, Fox News reports, noting that "no other individual or non-profit appears in the logs with anything like that frequency or volume."
Mills has come under particular scrutiny in recent days by critics as it was revealed she spent two days in New York in 2012 having "volunteered" to interview job applicants for the Clinton Foundation. Still, Fox News notes that there is no evidence of misconduct in the contact or calls between Graham and Mills; "Secretary Clinton's ethics agreement at the time [she assumed office] did not preclude other State Department officials from engaging with, or having contact with, the Clinton Foundation," said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.
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