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Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street Speeches Have Leaked. No Wonder She Didn’t Want Them to Get Out.
Slate's Moneybox ^ | October 7, 2016 | Jordan Weissmann

Posted on 10/08/2016 6:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Throughout the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders challenged Hillary Clinton to release excerpts of the paid, private speeches she delivered to Wall Street audiences following her time as secretary of state. She refused—which occasionally made things pretty awkward, since her resistance suggested the remarks could contain something explosive.

Now excerpts of the speech transcripts appear to be out. On Friday evening, WikiLeaks released a trove of hacked emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. These include a long missive from the candidate's research director, Tony Carrk, in which he flags portions of Clinton's remarks that could potentially trip up the campaign. “There is a lot of policy positions that we should give an extra scrub with Policy,” Carrk wrote to his colleagues.*

BuzzFeed reporter Ruby Cramer dug up the email, and Clinton's team declined to confirm to her whether the passages are authentic, adding that the Obama administration has “removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.” Assuming the excerpts are the real deal, however, it seems fairly obvious why Clinton would not want them to see the light of day in the primary—when she was trying to prove her progressive bona fides and was fighting the perception that she'd be soft on banks—or even the general election. In the excerpts, Clinton presents herself as a finance-friendly moderate who is willing to criticize the industry but who also believes it took an excessive amount of heat for the financial crisis. She also suggests politicians need to hide their true policy positions from the public—not great for a candidate voters already tend to distrust—and that her long-term “dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,” which Donald Trump is sure to pounce on....

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillary2016; leaks; trade; wallstreetvote; wikileaks

1 posted on 10/08/2016 6:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...the Obama administration has “removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.”

It's never "reasonable" to doubt the Clintons. Just ask FBI Director Comey. Everything he did was based on what is reasonable, and what is not.

This counry is officially ruled by Al F#####g Capone.

2 posted on 10/08/2016 6:22:47 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"BuzzFeed reporter Ruby Cramer dug up the email, and Clinton's team declined to confirm to her whether the passages are authentic, adding that the Obama administration has “removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.”


No Slate Obama has not. Assange stated that the email leaked "there is no proof whatsoever" they came from the Russians. Obama is trying to transfer blame and keep the explosive nature of those emails that shows Hillary is a traitorous criminal.

3 posted on 10/08/2016 6:28:51 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders
4 posted on 10/08/2016 6:32:57 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

her long-term “dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,”

So the Rats can flood the country with uneducated, unskilled, unscreened, welfare recipients who will vote DemocRat for the rest of their lives.


5 posted on 10/08/2016 6:36:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Red Steel

>>> Obama administration has “removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.”

Normally, facts remove doubt, not “the Obama administration.”

I took the quoted statement to mean that the whole story was planted by the Obama administration. Maybe that’s because I want to read it that way.


6 posted on 10/08/2016 6:37:42 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
that should be a little worrisome for financial-regulation advocates.

Nah. Fauxcohontas is not answering her smoke signals.

7 posted on 10/08/2016 6:39:59 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
BuzzFeed reporter Ruby Cramer dug up the email, and Clinton's team declined to confirm to her whether the passages are authentic, adding that the Obama administration has “removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy.”

Since the Obama admin with Hillary at the helm of the State Dept. negotiated away some of our nuclear capability to Russia (according to WikiLeaks in the current dump), it is doubtful that the Ruskies are meddling in the election.

8 posted on 10/08/2016 6:40:57 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Talisker
This counry is officially ruled by Al F#####g Capone.

Indeed. Comey served on the board of banking giant HSBC (‘international drug money clearing house’) which is tightly connected to the Clinton Foundation, before being installed by the Obama Administration as the head of the FBI in 2013. He's also implicated on giving a pass to Sandy Berger on behalf of the Clintons, among other shady dealings to favor the Clintons. Is it any wonder that he let Hillary off the hook this year? He's corrupt to the core, just like Hillary and Bill.

9 posted on 10/08/2016 6:42:06 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Talisker

If Trump gets attacked for being a Russian agent, he absolutely must bring up Hitlery’s involvement in the sale of western states uranium mining rights to the Russians as reported by the commie paper of record.


10 posted on 10/08/2016 6:47:29 PM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
While juicy red meat, this email isn't the worst revelation in this e-dump. What has Hillary really worried are the direct confirmations of her felonious arms sales to the very terrorists who slaughtered Jonathan Christopher "Chris" Stevens and three other American heroes... while Madame Secretary snored away like a TRAITOR.

These arms sales would put even Hillary in prison if they ever came to light...

...which is why her campaign and the complicit media scum will focus only on her "world without borders" comment. While repugnant, it ain't a felony.

Trump will be fine.

11 posted on 10/08/2016 6:57:39 PM PDT by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: roadcat

I wonder is Comey also directly linked to the activities of George Soros....


12 posted on 10/08/2016 7:05:30 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: ifinnegan

Hillary stated in a live TV (60 minutes or Larry King) interview while Bill was running for first term that “both she and Bill believe that 100% of all income in America rightly belongs to the government and Americans should be thankful the government allows us to keep as much as we currently keep”

This was right before she was removed from the campaign trail following her famous “if you elect Bill you get me too, we are a team!” Comment.

Interview disappeared and hasn’t been seen since.


13 posted on 10/08/2016 7:32:53 PM PDT by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2 or 3 of Hillary’s SS detail need to do America a HUGE favor.

Come on boys . Its not too late. Yet


14 posted on 10/08/2016 7:39:34 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Even more basic, it will provide our non-working rulers with people to work for them; they just want populations to dominate (preferably ones without historical/cultural attachments to individual rights and such). Red China and Islam are envied by Western governments for their lock on their populations; there is no moral justification for recognizing and trading with Red China.


15 posted on 10/08/2016 7:51:10 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Major Matt Mason
it is doubtful that the Ruskies are meddling in the election.

If the Russians are meddling, it's to benefit Hillary. It's in the Kremlin's interest to have someone in the White House whom they can blackmail with hacked e-mails.

To the extent Wikileaks steals the Russians' thunder, that undercuts the value of what the Russians have; therefore, it is not likely that the Russians are the source of Wikileaks materias.

16 posted on 10/08/2016 8:07:32 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: grumpygresh

You should bring it up regardless of what Clinton says. If you ask me, allowing the sale of 20% of our uranium Reserves to the Damned Russians is treason. I don’t think that most fair-minded people would disagree.


17 posted on 10/08/2016 8:08:53 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

where are they, please?


18 posted on 10/08/2016 8:55:29 PM PDT by MarMema
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