No one paid Hillary for speeches because
she was a good public speaker.
They paid for her speeches, and her husband's speeches, and gave money to her
campaign, PACs and Clinton Foundation, because they expect her to be the next
President … and when she is President they want to be treated well, even if
during the campaign she seems to be running "against" Wall
Street and big business.
It's almost certain, in my opinion, that no
Hillary speech transcripts will be released if Bernie Sanders has any chance of
being nominated … or ever.
Hillary has every right to keep the
transcripts private.
She can keep her medical records secret.
She could have kept her income tax return secret too.
She can keep her medical records secret.
She could have kept her income tax return secret too.
But Hillary had no right to take possession
all her State Department e-Mails, and then decide by herself that she didn't
feel like turning over more than half of them in response to a Freedom of
Information Act Request.
Reminds me how she "lost" the Rose Law Firm
Whitewater billing records until just after the statute of limitations for
prosecution was up ... and then they were suddenly "discovered" in the White
House. Crooked Hillary !
I love the new Trump term: "Crooked
Hillary".
No other word describes
her lifestyle, from the $100,000 cattle futures bribe in the 1970s to stealing
furniture and other public property from the White House when she left in 2001.
Donald Trump apparently wanted to practice
ridiculing fellow Republicans and the Republican National Committee to
fine-tune his skills for attacking Hillary.
What Trump did will haunt him on Election Day
if he's nominated, and later wants votes of all "Low Energy Jeb",
"Little Marco" and "Lyin' Ted" supporters. The only word
for Trump's strategy is "counterproductive".
I sure hope Trump and Hillary are not
nominated: Just the thought of two old white people, Loudmouth Donald and
Shrill Hillary, getting angry, and bellowing at each other on a stage, is enough
to make me ill.
Here's
what I could find out about Hillary Clinton’s infamous $225,000 speeches to
Goldman Sachs in late 2013.
Hillary says she will release a transcript
if Republicans release their speech transcripts, assuming they made any paid
speeches.
That's a weird excuse -- what do Republicans have to do with
this?
Meanwhile, we've been waiting over two months, and I think we'll be
waiting forever.
No wonder millions of voters doubt her
honesty.
Bernie Sanders says Clinton got so much
money because it was intended to buy influence, and/or Wall Streeters enjoyed
hearing a defense of Wall Street coming from the top Democrat.
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Former Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey:
“Making the transcripts of the Goldman
speeches public would have been devastating….[and] when the GOP gets done
telling the Clinton Global Initiative fund-raising and expense story, Bernie
supporters will wonder why he didn’t do the same….[As for] the email story,
it’s not about emails. It is about [Hillary] wanting to avoid the reach of
citizens using the Freedom of Information Act to find out what their government
is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did.”
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From Politico:
"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."
"Clinton, who received $225,000 for her
appearance, praised the diversity of Goldman’s workforce and the prominent
roles played by women at the blue-chip investment bank and the tech firms
present at the event. She spent no time criticizing Goldman or Wall Street more
broadly for its role in the 2008 financial crisis."
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From Goldman Sachs Employee #1 (present
at one speech):
“[The speech] was pretty glowing about
[Goldman Sachs]. It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It
was like a ‘rah-rah’ speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing
director.”
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From Goldman Sachs Employee #2 (present
at one speech):
“In this environment, [what she said to us
at Goldman Sachs] could be made to look really bad.”
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From Goldman Sachs Employee #3 (present
at one speech):
“It was like, ‘Here’s someone who doesn’t
want to vilify us but wants to get business back in the game. Like, maybe
here’s someone who can lead us out of the wilderness.’”
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From Goldman Sachs Executive or Client
(present at one speech):
“Mrs. Clinton didn’t single out bankers or
any other group for causing the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, she effectively
said, ‘We’re all in this together, we’ve got to find our way out of it
together.’”
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Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From Wall Street Journal:
“She didn’t often talk about the financial
crisis, but when she did, she almost always struck an amicable tone. In some
cases, she thanked the audience for what they had done for the country. One
attendee said the warmth with which Mrs. Clinton greeted guests bordered on
‘gushy.’ She spoke sympathetically about the financial industry.”
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Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From Politico:
“Clinton offered a message that the
collected plutocrats found reassuring, declaring that the banker-bashing so
popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish.
Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience,
‘We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work
together to get out of it.’”
The quotes above strongly suggest Hillary
is fond of Wall Street speculators but unwilling to blame them for the last
recession.
I don't blame Wall Street either -- but the bond rating companies were so inept with their ratings of mortgage backed bonds that it bordered on fraud.
I don't blame Wall Street either -- but the bond rating companies were so inept with their ratings of mortgage backed bonds that it bordered on fraud.
When campaigning Mrs. Clinton said, “I did
stand up to the banks.”
No attendee at her quarter-of-a-million-dollar speeches can recall anything like that.
No attendee at her quarter-of-a-million-dollar speeches can recall anything like that.
As a New York Senator in 2008, Hillary said
this about the TARP bank bailout: “I
think that the banks of New York and our other financial institutions are
probably the biggest winners in this, which is one of the reasons why, at the
end, despite my serious questions about it, I supported it.”
A person
who saw Clinton’s Arizona remarks to Goldman said they thought there was
no chance the campaign would ever release them.
“It would bury her against Sanders,” this person said. “It really makes her look like an ally of the firm.”
“It would bury her against Sanders,” this person said. “It really makes her look like an ally of the firm.”
Hillary's comment that she took the
$675,000 from Goldman for speeches because: “that’s what they offered”, demonstrates her
questionable political skills.