{"id":372293,"date":"2025-03-27T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372293"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:26:18","slug":"yunuss-ties-to-clintons-put-bangladesh-reform-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372293","title":{"rendered":"Yunus\u2019s ties to Clintons put Bangladesh reform at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Duggan Flanakin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the US sends money, show a little thanks. Leaders, like Bangladesh\u2019s interim ruler Muhammad Yunus, would do wise to take note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just this past February, Trump detailed<\/a> how a two-person outfit in Bangladesh had, incredulously, received $29 million from USAID. In response, Yunus\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs shot back<\/a> and dismissed Trump\u2019s claim as \u201cnot true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fairness, Yunus is a newcomer to politics on the global stage. In January \u2013 when Trump returned to the White House for his second term as President \u2013 a student-led uprising had, five months before, installed Yunus as Bangladesh\u2019s new leader after a violent end<\/a> to the 15-year rule of the country\u2019s former Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A darling of the liberal elite, Yunus is a softly spoken, previously apolitical, grandfatherly and quickly aging banker. He won a\u00a0Nobel Prize<\/a>\u00a0in 2006, joined Nelson Mandela and his group of global \u2018Elders<\/a>\u2019 in 2007, and rose to prominence on the adoration of progressive intelligentsia,\u00a0earning<\/a>\u00a0a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing his elite connections may now work to hinder rather than help, Yunus offered<\/a> feeble congratulations following Trump\u2019s monumental comeback. He has since continued to endear himself to the administration via continued overtures<\/a> to Elon Musk whose telecommunication company Starlink, he has eagerly invited to set up in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just how successful Yunus will be in earning the goodwill of Trump\u2019s administration is up for debate. If his history is any indication however, he faces a steep uphill battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A longtime friend<\/a> and ally of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Yunus first met the Clintons back when Bill was Governor of Arkansas. Over the years, the threesome\u2019s relationship blossomed under an extremely lucrative \u2018quid pro quo\u2019 dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, the Clintons got to parade<\/a> Yunus around as the pinnacle of moral and philanthropic excellence (despite the high interest rates Yunus\u2019s micro-finance bank foists<\/a> on the poor, often without their knowledge) to their rich pals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In return, Yunus used the funds donated to his Grameen Bank enterprise to funnel<\/a> somewhere between $125,000 and $300,000 back to the Clinton Global Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By way of thanks, Hillary seems to have used her position as Secretary of State to advocate for $164.2 million of USAID taxpayer funds to be sent directly to Yunus\u2019s enterprises. The pair were drawn even closer together when, in 2011 Yunus ran afoul of Hasina; he called Hillary for help and she sent her aids scurrying to find ways to support him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, as Yunus\u2019s local and international reputation grew (he describes that the first time he made a loan to local villagers, they \u201clooked at me as if I was an angel from heaven\u201d) he became an ideal ally for the Clintons\u2019 foundation\u2019s work which sought to address issues like \u201ceconomic opportunity and growth\u201d for the world\u2019s poor. And their support for Yunus did not end there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not one to forget a favor, indeed Yunus used the funds donated to his Grameen Bank enterprise back to the Clinton Foundation in advance of Hillary\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, snubbing Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To add insult to injury, Yunus gave a public speech where he described Trump\u2019s first win as an \u201ceclipse<\/a>\u201d which brought on a depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Trump though, Yunus is known<\/a> simply as \u201cthe microfinance guy from Dhaka\u201d who \u201cdonated to see me lose\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most disturbing however, are Yunus\u2019s links to serial and unrepentant child sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While direct links to Epstein cannot be confirmed, Yunus claims<\/a> Isabel Maxwell among his advisors, sister of Epstein conspirator and manipulator extraordinaire Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s alarming to think that had a connection between Yunus and Epstein been facilitated, just what Yunus would have asked for \u2013 certainly money, perhaps more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the people of Bangladesh first took to the streets in June 2024, it was students and young people who were at the helm of the movement. They were demanding an end to nepotism and the introduction of real democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven months later, Bangladesh has been left stagnant, with an interim government led by a couple of geriatric financiers with deep links<\/a> to Democratic shills in the US, none of whom seem to know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economy is facing greater instability than ever before and whilst Yunus may hope<\/a> for positive relations with the new leader of the free world to help alleviate his problems at home, Trump would be wise to see things differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Town Hall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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