The chairman of the Republican National Committee — joined by a former federal prosecutor Tuesday — rejected efforts by team Clinton to reform the practices of the Clinton Foundation and other related charities as meaningless distractions. “The conflicts of interests surrounding the Clinton Foundation have become now so egregious that she has been forced to pull off an election year gimmick to sweep these issues under the rug,” said Reince Priebus, who leads the Republican National Committee on a conference call with national political reporters. The chairman said: We have been hearing for years now that the Clinton Foundation posed no conflicts and that everything has been and everything will be above board–it’s all good stuff happening there–and that there would be no changes to the foundation’s policies. Well, if that’s true? Why make the changes now–two months before an election? Why not have them in place when she was running in 2008, when she was running for president or when she was the secretary of state or during the campaign? The GOP chairman was referring to the announcement by President William J. Clinton that if his wife, Hillary R. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee is elected president, the family would change