Sanders released the tax return on Friday, a day after being challenged to do so by Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s debate in Brooklyn, which came after Clinton was questioned about releasing transcripts of her paid speeches, NBC News reported.
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George Clooney is an avowed supporter of Hillary Clinton but concedes Bernie Sanders is right about the state of U.S. political campaigns.
The first three lines from the 1933 song commonly known as “We’re in the Money” could be heard on speakers at a nearby house where a pro-Sanders counter-fundraiser was being held Saturday as the motorcade drove by. Saturday night’s event at Clooney’s Studio City home was even bigger, with some guests pledging more than $300,000 to support the former secretary of state.
“We have done it very differently”, he said, adding he has received seven million individual campaign contributions.
Clooney himself agreed with Sanders’ criticism of the high dollar amounts being raised. “We will get them out”, Mr. Sanders said. But that likely won’t mean much to angry Bernie supporters, one of whom told Clooney that he was a “corporate shill” and “sucked” as Batman. Sanders has been vocal about the large amounts of donations behind Clinton and others’ campaigns.
Single tickets for the event – the second consecutive fundraiser that Mr Clooney held at the weekend – were sold for $33,400.
Users of the social media smartphone application Yik Yak gave Clinton her lowest approval rating of this election cycle, 4.6 percent, according to data from the app’s press unit. I could never, you know, this makes me nervous. “All sorts of different people with different political views who don’t believe or agree with Hillary Clinton or Hillary Clinton’s views”.
“No matter how often he’s asked by family members of those who have been murdered, he sticks to his talking points”, Clinton said.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign had no comment, a spokesman told CNN. Protesters were wrong, however, to lump attendees with the likes of Republican benefactors the Koch brothers, Clooney said. And I was like, ‘Well, you kind of got me on that one’.
