Chelsea’s Excellent Advice

Buried in the WikiLeaks dumps is at least one important lesson for Hillary Clinton: If she wins the White House, her family needs to freeze out Doug Band.

Band got his start as a humble aide in the Bill Clinton White House, then went on to head the Clinton Foundation before cofounding “fixer” firm Teneo Holdings LLC.

A previous Wikidump showed Band complaining about interference from “spoiled brat” Chelsea Clinton, and last week’s release confirms that Chelsea was right.

In an e-mail during his days at the foundation, Band whines that he’s banned from pocketing cash and expensive gifts from Clinton Global Initiative donors, while Bill Clinton gets to do it all the time. No, he’s not criticizing Bill — he’s complaining that he

himself doesn’t get to cash in while serving on the board of a non-profit.

Hah: Band used contacts made in that job to form the core of Teneo’s business — he’s doing quite well now, all thanks to the Clintons.

Now consider the “interference” from Chelsea that annoyed Band — for example, an e-mail warning she’d heard Band had used Bill’s name with members of the British Parliament in order to advance Teneo clients. She was worried such sleaze might cause trouble for her mom’s presidential run.

Note, too, that Band was the guy most often e-mailing Hillary’s State Department aides demanding favors for foundation donors.

If she’s president, Hillary Clinton doesn’t need endless influence-peddling scandals. That means not only closing the Clinton Foundation, but making Doug Band(it) per

sona non grata for her whole administration.