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Hillary Clinton downplayed criticisms about her use of a private email server as secretary of state and her connections to the financial industry in a Sunday interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.
But were Clinton’s statements true?
PolitiFact wanted to find out.
Wall Street connections
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd played Clinton a clip of Bernie Sanders joking on the campaign trail that her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs must have been written in Shakespearean prose, because they were rewarded with speaking fees of $225,000.
“I'm the only candidate in the Democratic primary, or actually on either side, who Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers are actually running ads against,” she responded. “So I find this, again, a kind of, you know, circuitous way to raise questions about my record.”
Is it true that Clinton is the sole target of Wall Street this cycle?
The Clinton campaign referred us to our own fact-check of an attack ad sponsored by the hedge fund-backed conservative super PAC, Future45. While this supports Clinton’s point that the financial sector has spent money against her, it doesn’t back the notion that Wall Street has only attacked her.
We consulted with Robert Maguire of the Center for Responsive Politics and Nancy Watzman of the Political TV Ad Archive. Their data shows that Clinton’s statement is inaccurate.
Clinton’s claim rates Pants on Fire!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/03/fact-checking-hillary-clinton-on-meet-the-press.html
