The speeches were all irrelevant. The bankers were not paying her for her words, they were paying her for her influence.
You make a very good point.
But really. There comes a time when 100% dishonesty turns into 100% liability.
Wake up everyone.
It is true that the bankers were not paying her for words but rather influence.
However, in these speeches she outlined a point of view, an ideology, that to my knowledge has never been stated by a public figure.
Hillary’s view of banking regulation-in private—is that the bankers are the smartest people in the room, know more about the industry than anyone else, and therefore should be allowed to regulate themselves.
Please read that last paragraph again, and then take the time to read her words on that topic.
I should not need to explain to the smart folks here that banks are a monopoly—if you don’t believe me try to create one tomorrow and watch what happens next—you will be able to reflect on Hillary’s political philosophy from your jail cell.
So Hillary is proposing an economic theory so radical and so crazy that no economist in the history of the universe has ever proposed it—that the banking monopoly should regulate the banking monopoly.
One final thought—her view is reflected in the group of bankers that founded the Federal Reserve in 1913—but they kept that their dirty little secret.
So after everyone gets over the latest Trump crises we are then left with Hillary’s Philosophy For Plutocrats—must reading!