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The former president revealed that his wife's injury "required six months of very serious work to get over," he said during a question-and-answer session at the Peterson Foundation in Washington.
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What Clinton said in her paid speeches
Recalled one attendee: 'She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.'
But the descriptions of Clinton’s remarks highlight the trap in which the Democratic presidential front-runner now finds herself. In a previous election cycle, no one would much care about the former secretary of state’s comments to Goldman. They represent the kind of boilerplate, happy talk that highly paid speakers generally offer to their hosts. Nobody pays nearly a quarter of a million dollars to have someone criticize their alleged misdeeds. But 2016 is different.
Clinton is under relentless attack from Vermont democratic socialist Bernie Sanders for her ties to Wall Street, including paid speeches and campaign fundraising events. And she is now under intense pressure from the media and some on the left to release transcripts of her remarks to Goldman and other banks.
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. And if she doesn’t, it makes her look like she has something very damaging to hide.
originally posted by: LifeMode
There are no speeches. I have been saying this all along. Maybe some old ones before they figured it out that they did not actually have to give the speeches. Just grant the favor and the money is yours.
I wouldn't hold my breath on this. I highly doubt she'll ever release the transcripts. First, because I think it would be her version of the "Mitt Romney/47%" debacle. And second, because I'm starting to doubt she even gave some of those speeches. The Machiavellian streak in me wonders if some of those "paid speeches" were really just donations that were labeled as "speeches" for accounting purposes. Kind of like the lucrative appearance fees many celebrities get for simply showing up to some heavily promoted events.
Actually they probably went like this -
"When I'm elected president I will remember how many times you hired me to speak. Laws don't matter, and I will make that evident by having the director of the CIA state publicly every crime I committed, and recommend not charging me for any of them. Thank you I am Hillary Clinton"
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: Vector99
Actually they probably went like this -
"When I'm elected president I will remember how many times you hired me to speak. Laws don't matter, and I will make that evident by having the director of the CIA state publicly every crime I committed, and recommend not charging me for any of them. Thank you I am Hillary Clinton"
You mean James Comey, director of the FBI.