Which brings us to this Politico story Drip: When Hillary Clinton spoke to Goldman Sachs executives and technology titans at a summit in Arizona in October of 2013, she spoke glowingly of the work the bank was doing raising capital and helping create jobs, according to people who saw her remarks.
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The night before, she practically broke down when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked why she accepted $675,000 in fees for three Goldman speeches.
Contracts from two paid speeches – made public through records requests in 2014 – each include the same boilerplate language ensuring that Clinton alone owns the rights to the contents of her speech and any reproductions of her speech. Most likely, she just doesn’t want to be outed as having been kissy-kissy with the likes of Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein.
Clinton: “Well, I don’t know”. “These rules need to apply to everyone”.
Asked about them at a New Hampshire town hall meeting this week, her response started out merely vague – “Look, I made speeches to lots of groups” – before becoming reckless: “I’m out here every day saying I’m going to shut them down, I’m going after them”, she said. She spoke of how her husband was “such a natural politician”, and “how much more hard it often is for me to talk about myself than to talk about what I want to do for other people”. In fact, the chair of the Democratic National Committee recently said the Democratic Party chose Wisconsin for this week’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders because it’s a key battleground state.
“This is an effort by the Sanders’ campaign to basically say, anybody who’s ever taken a donation, not just from Wall Street, if you take it to the natural conclusion, from anybody, is bought and paid for”, she told Andrea Mitchell.
Clinton gave a shout-out to her “wonderful donors” in the audience, and asked the bankers to voluntarily suspend foreclosures and freeze interest rates on adjustable subprime mortgages. Referencing the average amount of money Clinton earned from these speaking engagements, Sanders states, “You got to be really, really good to get $250,000 for a speech”.
The problem is, if Clinton releases the transcripts, Sanders and other progressive candidates could take even seemingly innocuous comments and make them sound as though Clinton is in the tank for Wall Street.
Clinton does have the ability to release the transcripts if she chooses.
Under heavy fire for her cozy relations with Wall Street, she went on the attack in last week’s Democratic debate on MSNBC.
“It really makes her look like an ally of the firm, ‘ Politico’s source said”. Besides, she said, she urged Wall Street reforms before the Great Recession. Clitnon told Todd that he meant to look into releasing the transcripts.
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The study found that between 2001 and the formal announcement of Hillary Clinton’s campaign last May, the couple gave 729 speeches. “That is absolutely untrue”.
