Hillary Clinton has struggled to effectively answer questions about her paid speeches on Wall Street and all the support she receives from big banks. During a previous debate, she invoked the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to argue she was just doing her job as a senator for New York. Last night, during a New Hampshire town hall broadcast on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked the Democratic front-runner if she made “a bad error in judgment” by accepting $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for three speeches. She didn't hesitate to say no.
Her explanation sounded flip. "That's what they offered,” she said, adding that “every secretary of state that I know” has also given such high-priced speeches.
Cooper followed up by asking why she’d take the risk of making such appearances if she was going to run for president. Clinton said it was because she was not totally sure she would get in the race. "To be honest, I wasn't committed to running," she replied.
The most problematic part of her answer came when she insisted something that is demonstrably untrue: “They’re not giving me very much money now, I can tell you that much. Fine with me.”
-- The latest FEC reports reveal that Hillary reached a major milestone during the fourth quarter of 2015: Donors in the financial sector have now given more to support her campaigns than Bill’s. A deep dive into the numbers from Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy just posted: “Through the end of December, donors at hedge funds, banks, insurance companies and other financial-services firms had given at least $21.4 million to support Clinton’s 2016 presidential run — more than one of every 10 dollars of the $157.8 million contributed to back her bid, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...street-problem-worse/56b23083981b92a22df007c1
If her lips are moving she is lying....
Her explanation sounded flip. "That's what they offered,” she said, adding that “every secretary of state that I know” has also given such high-priced speeches.
Cooper followed up by asking why she’d take the risk of making such appearances if she was going to run for president. Clinton said it was because she was not totally sure she would get in the race. "To be honest, I wasn't committed to running," she replied.
The most problematic part of her answer came when she insisted something that is demonstrably untrue: “They’re not giving me very much money now, I can tell you that much. Fine with me.”
-- The latest FEC reports reveal that Hillary reached a major milestone during the fourth quarter of 2015: Donors in the financial sector have now given more to support her campaigns than Bill’s. A deep dive into the numbers from Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy just posted: “Through the end of December, donors at hedge funds, banks, insurance companies and other financial-services firms had given at least $21.4 million to support Clinton’s 2016 presidential run — more than one of every 10 dollars of the $157.8 million contributed to back her bid, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.”
- “In all, donors from Wall Street and other financial-services firms have given $44.1 million to support Hillary Clinton’s campaigns and allied super PACs, compared with $39.7 million in backing that former president Bill Clinton received from the industry."
- "Only about $75,000 of the $75 million Sanders has raised for his 2016 campaign has come from donors in the finance sector."
- “With the $21.4 million that Wall Street has given for her current White House bid, Clinton is on track to quickly exceed the nearly $23 million that she raised in her three previous campaigns combined from the PACs and employees of banks, hedge funds, securities firms and insurance companies." (Read the full story here.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...street-problem-worse/56b23083981b92a22df007c1
If her lips are moving she is lying....
